Nortel: Video will drive telcos towards 20Mbps broadband
News ADSL providers will have to provide much faster speeds in the battle to keep cable at bay, according to Nortel Networks
Nortel puts intelligent networking on the edge
News The networking equipment vendor has claimed a breakthrough in converged communications that could improve reliability and service quality for end users
Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?
News Microsoft is claiming that its $250,000 reward was responsible for the Sasser author's arrest, but experts say money alone will not stop the virus and spam problem
Sony reveals VAIO makeover
News The consumer-electronics firm has added a raft of new products to its VAIO computer line, in an attempt to claw back market share
Intel's Dothan finally makes its debut
News The chipmaker today launched the first Pentium chips to be known by a series of numbers rather than by clock speeds
Check Point hit by VPN vulnerability
News Brief: Firms who use one of Check Point's virtual private networking products need to patch now to prevent a possible security problem
BayStar buys more of SCO
News The investment firm has snapped up two-thirds of a Canadian bank's holding in SCO, giving it more leverage to force changes at the company
Rambus starts licensing designs to use disputed memory
News At the same time as suing manufacturers over DDR memory, Rambus is marketing technology to help them adopt it
New public-sector IT head to manage £3bn budget
News The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed a new chief of IT
IBM ThinkPad T42 range: a first look
Preview IBM's ThinkPad T42 range will be among the first business-orientated Dothan notebooks to hit the market. We have the preliminary details.
RFID Realities
Special Report There exists a lot of hype and confusion about RFID. An overview of what some of the main retail and technology companies are doing with the technology helps to create a clearer picture of development
RFID: Old technology, new possibilities
Special Report From animal husbandry to space exploration, radio-frequency identification technology has seemingly limitless potential
RFID: Proceed with caution
Special Report RFID has the potential to revolutionise supply chains of retailers the world over. However, for a 20-year-old technology, it still has significant teething problems
RFID: Setting the standards
Special Report Tom Laffey, vice president at integration software maker Tibco, details how the RFID standards process is progressing
Media Center to hit another five countries
News Microsoft's entertainment-oriented operating system will be launched in five new markets by the end of the year
RFID: Barcode replacement comes in from cold
Special Report The tracking technology is progressing beyond buzzword status, despite companies' reluctance to reveal their plans
Microsoft announces new IT chief
News The software giant's new chief information officer has been promoted from within its ranks
Intel's roadmap quickly reworked
News After abandoning Tejas and Jayhawk, Intel has announced that dual-core chips for desktops will appear next year rather than in 2006.
IBM challenges Microsoft's Office
News Big Blue has developed a suite of software, including email, word processing and data-handling applications, that will be accessed through a Web server
Sasser suspect snared by Microsoft reward
News The arrest of a German man on suspicion of writing the Sasser virus was prompted by informants who claimed a six-figure reward from Microsoft
Inside Intel's Dothan
Tech Guide The latest Pentium M processor from Intel improves on the Banias core by shrinking the fabrication process to 90nm, doubling the cache and boosting the clock speed. All this while keeping the die...



