Is wasted time really wasted?
Feature A happy worker is a productive worker, but does that justify time spent on personal matters at work? Bill Coleman thinks so
Cricket could turn IT networks to ashes
News IT managers have been warned to take action to avoid their networks being hit for six by cricket-mad users
GNOME 2.12 improves hardware integration
News The Linux desktop environment is closer to its goal of offering hardware support that 'just works'
E-voting 'must be dropped'
News The Conservative Party wants the government to abandon any plans to introduce e-voting, because of the dangers of fraud
Software Freedom Day struggling in Europe
News Many events are planned for this Saturday's Software Freedom Day in the developing world, but one of the founders is disappointed about the lack of activity in Western countries
Firms wake up to sensor networks
News Brief: Networks that can detect tiny environmental changes are growing in popularity in the business space
SuSE Linux 10 imminent
News Brief: The latest version of Novell's Linux distro will be out next month
Laplink Everywhere 4
Review Laplink Everywhere 4 remote-desktop software offers multiplatform support and flexible file transfers, but lacks true-colour support and single-use passwords.
Skype silent on eBay takeover rumour
News Is eBay the latest suitor to come courting at the popular VoIP service?
Microsoft: Chinese Linux companies struggling
News ...and Bill Gates is apparently a big hit with the Chinese youth
HP's chief hints at the future
News Mark Hurd has laid out some of his plans for HP, but skimped on detail: more is promised in December
Wanadoo unbundles local-loop plans
News The ISP wants to have over half its customers using its own network within three years
AMD's saviour flies the coop
News The chipmaker's CTO has left to focus on start-ups; the split is amicable
Tax credit IT system condemned
News The EDS-designed system that was meant to cut fraud and increase efficiency has done no such thing, according to MPs
Symantec 'expecting Net attack'
News The security firm has raised its Internet threat level after a flaw was exposed in Cisco's router operating system
CA brings more patents to the open source party
News Announcing a technology-sharing agreement with IBM, CA promised to offer 14 of its patents for free use to open source coders
Google Desktop 2.0: screenshot gallery
Preview Google plans to add more features when it finalises this desktop search tool and content portal. Here's what it looks like so far.

