Previous DayKPNQwest funding deadline looms
News Administrators give KPNQwest customers until midday on Tuesday to attempt to keep Europe's largest fibre-optic network running - but analysts advise caution before companies pay their bills
KPNQwest could face Enron-style investigation
News KPNQwest management should face a grilling over their 'lies', say analysts
Via extends mini-PC support
News The Taiwan chipmaker has signed up a number of companies to its Mini-ITX form factor, bringing tiny, inexpensive PCs closer to reality
Novell to buy Web services company
News Novell is continuing its push into the Web services market by purchasing application maker SilverStream Software
O2 xda
Review The xda is a superb example of how to integrate communications functionality into a handheld device. However, it will be costly to use and one or two features are missing from the specification.
The struggle within: Sales vs tech
News Working for a sales-dominated company can make a techie's life difficult - check the mission statement before you begin
IBM hopes to eclipse software rivals
News Competition in the business software market is fierce, and IBM is launching a three-pronged drive to increase its customer base
UK Web traffic drops as England triumph
News Internet traffic lost out as Britons turned to their televisions to watch England's progress in the World Cup
German company bids for KPNQwest datacentre
News 1&1 Internet says it will bid for a major KPNQwest data centre in Karlsruhe, which, incidentally, houses a competitor's servers
Chip designers voyage to voltage island
News Power consumption is one of the biggest current issues for chip designers, and IBM is hoping that 'voltage islands' are the solution
Dell ditches IBM server design for Intel
News Dell is to jointly develop a chipset with Intel after deciding that IBM's terms for Summit technology weren't favourable
Hackers earn their place in history
News After the death of the only person to know the password to a historical database in Norway, hackers are called in to break the encryption locks
Red Hat: Sun 'took the Microsoft approach'
News Relations between Sun and Red Hat appear increasingly strained as Sun begins to charge for StarOffice and change its deals with OEMs
HP boosts Unix for Itanium
News The new version of HP-UX 11i is said to be a big advance over its predecessor, as Intel gets ready to roll with Itanium 2
The very real limitations of open source
Comment Yes, open-source software benefits society. However, enthusiasm for the benefits of open source should not be allowed to paper over the drawbacks.
Old code in Windows is security threat
News Microsoft will retire old code from Windows more quickly, to plug security holes that are years old
AMD, Intel trot out new chips
News AMD's new 'Thoroughbred' and Intel's latest Celerons arrive amid a new slump in PC demand
Palm counts on beefed-up OS
News The leading handheld maker has begun shipping OS 5 to developers, as it seeks to give its devices more power and fend off the Microsoft threat
Layoff whispers get louder at Oracle
News Larry Ellison continues to deny that Oracle is to announce additional layoffs, but the rumours are not going away
