Previous DayMotorola Q: a first look
Preview The Motorola Q packs a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone in a Razr-like form factor.
Why Grokster isn't the end of the world
Comment The decision went against innovation in the short term, but it might just have left the technologists with the upper hand in the long run
Universities launch e-book experiment
Feature Eight universities in the US are launching an e-book programme in September in part to see how many restrictions students are willing to put up with
Recycling legislation delayed six months - again
News The UK government won't implement a directive forcing technology manufacturers to take responsibility for recycling and disposal until June 2006, despite being threatened by the EC
Administrators still baffled over Time ownership
News Two weeks after the collapse of Granville Technology Group, the administrators still haven't establish who owned the company, and the DTI admits it can't help either
Cisco rubbishes Nokia merger rumours
News Finland's mobile giant doesn't come close to matching Cisco's idea of a tempting takeover target
Prejudiced against the thin
Q&A Thin clients supposedly have higher reliability, lower costs and allow you more control than normal PCs... so why aren't we all using them?
PalmSource acts on Linux ambitions
News An alliance with embedded-Linux specialist Montavista should 'further accelerate the development of next-generation Linux-based mobile phones'
RFID in double licensing boost
News Two pieces of good news for the RFID market have emerged, from Ofcom and a major vendor group
Government backs grid computing with £1m
News The DTI wants to raise awareness of the benefits of grid computing and overcome board-level ignorance
Oracle talks up Linux prospects
News Oracle's co-president says that half his firm's corporate customers will be using Linux within five years, attracted by its predictability and adherence to standards
Gentoo releases Live CD
News An experimental Live CD for the Gentoo Linux distribution is now available
Save the last dance for SCO
Leader SCO now says its products are more important than its court cases. It may not have the luxury of making that change
Open source patent library launched
News The OSDL is to collate information on patents that have been donated to the open source community, but not everyone thinks it will be useful
Netscape gets up-to-date on security
News A patch has been released to bring Netscape's code into line with the current version of Firefox, fixing a number of security flaws
IBM brings Workplace to Firefox
News In its latest move to support the open source browser, IBM has modified its hosted productivity suite to work in Firefox
GPL 3 draft 'by early 2006'
News The first draft of the next version of the most widely used open source licence is likely to be in circulation by the start of next year
Microsoft moves goalposts in Google battle
News The software leviathan has got its battle with the search giant moved to a federal court from a Californian one
August Windows patches arrive
News There are six patches in the latest batch from Microsoft; three of them are 'critical', including one for the previously reported JPEG flaw
