World's smallest scanner on display
News CeBIT Digital Living: The Docupen R700 scanner weighs no more than your average pen
Notebook fuel cell a reality this year?
News CeBIT: Another fuel cell prototype has been launched but this time it comes with a firm commitment to launching a finished product this year
Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability
News CeBIT: Companies who choose open source software over Windows for their enterprise resource planning tend to be surprised by the absence of crashes, according to users and vendors
PalmSource pushes on with Linux plans
News The makers of the Palm OS moved a little closer to the open source community this week
Virus writers wreak havoc by the hour
News CeBIT: Kaspersky Labs recently found itself in a 12-hour battle against the creator of the Bagle worm, as virus writers up their game
Fujitsu Siemens lays out nanotech roadmap
News CeBIT: With silicon being pushed its limits, Fujitsu Siemens is backing carbon nanotubes as the future of chips
Contactless payment system crash probed
News Investigations are underway to determine the problem that rendered London Transport's smartcard payment system unusable for much of Thursday morning
Mobiles to get virus protection
News CeBIT: Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky is developing a service to shield some mobile phone users from viruses
Gates: Business technology is 'lagging behind'
News Technological advances move through the consumer space much more quickly than the enterprise space, leaving a lot of room for improvement in current business software, according to the Microsoft...
UK banks in talks to tighten security
News CeBIT: IT security is a major issue at the world's biggest trade show, with RSA revealing it is in high-level discussions with all the big UK banks
Wanadoo reveals VoIP service
News The ISP is to offer cheap voice calls to all of its customers with broadband, with video callling and video-on-demand services to follow
Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call
News CeBIT: SAP's chief executive has called on Europe to break its technological dependency on America through greater investment and innovation
Europe gets CeBIT between its teeth
Leader CeBIT: If technology trade shows are heading for extinction, why is CeBIT 2005 twice as big as Comdex in its heyday?
Proxim ORiNOCO AP-700
Review Tri-band wireless, Power over Ethernet and extensive security and management features make the AP-700 stand out as an affordable, enterprise-grade, wireless access point.
BT fights back against break-up calls
News Chief executive Ben Verwaayen claims that it would be disastrous if Ofcom took the plunge and began the process of splitting BT
Microsoft: Coming from behind
Q&A The software giant is working hard to turn around several battles it's not currently winning. Business software is one, and software piracy in the developing world is another. We spoke to Bill...
SCO was the 'best thing that ever happened' to Linux
News SCO's litigation over Linux was hugely unpopular but there was a big upside, says the chief executive of Open Source Development Labs
Mozilla's future under debate
News Builder: Development problems concerning the Mozilla Suite have led to some soul-searching in the Foundation, with some calling for Firefox to be spun off
Moore has trouble seeing past silicon
News Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel whose eponymous law will celebrate its fortieth anniversary next week, has expressed scepticism over the technologies being lined up to replace silicon
RFID certification plans approved
News CompTIA has given the green light to a training and certification scheme to aid adoption of the wireless tagging technology
Salesforce.com launches on-demand subscription service
News The maker of hosted CRM software is moving away from the client-server-software approach and traditional application development. Its rivals aren't impressed
AMD preps Turion for takeoff
News The chipmaker will launch its Turion notebook processor on Thursday. It is thought that it will probably run faster than its Intel equivalent, but use more power



