Previous DayDriver shortage could derail 64-bit
News Microsoft, Intel and Dell are all worried that users who embrace 64-bit computing may not realise how many drivers they need to update
Sun to buy Tarantella
News £13m acquisition is Sun's latest attempt to boost sales
Mac emulator canned
News CherryOS has bitten the dust, but claims that the emulator included code lifted from other products still linger on
More jobs for public sector IT contractors
News Brief: SQL, Oracle and Unix contractors are highly sought after by the government, according to latest research
Trend Micro snaps up anti-spyware firm
News InterMute is being bought for an estimated $15m
Local authorities keen on open source
News Roughly half of the UK's local authorities are planning to increase their use of open source software over the next three years, according to a Socitm survey
Government IT briefs still up in the air
News The UK government's new ministers are in discussions over their areas of responsibility, which will include control of the government's major IT programmes
Via brings the £100 PC closer
News The Taiwanese chipmaker will show off prototypes of the Terra PC at next month's Computex show. Finished products should ship in the autumn
Dell founder invests in Red Hat
News Michael Dell has put around $100m into Red Hat, which an analyst says vindicates the Linux distribution's business model
One million Telewest users blacklisted
News The IP addresses of a million blueyonder customers have been added to a major spam blacklist, after allegations that users' machines were sending out more than 90 million spam emails per day
Why should you outsource?
Help/HowTo Outsourcing is not a one-size-fits-all solution to your company's IT woes. We look at the rationale behind letting someone else deal with your critical business systems
Bridging the digital divide in Mumbai
Feature In rural India, where electricity is a luxury, the digital divide is still a yawning chasm. We look at how people are trying to bridge it
PalmOne LifeDrive
Preview PalmOne's LifeDrive promises productivity, connectivity and entertainment in one sleek package.
Everyone needs stronger Java
Leader A choice of Java desktop software will encourage a greater level of adoption. That has to be good for us all
VMware Workstation 5
Review Just about any task involving multiple operating systems on a single computer can be accomplished using VMware Workstation 5, which adds valuable new features and also delivers performance...
Online banking booming
News Just under half of the UK's online population now bank online, but there will always be a place for the high-street branch, according to latest research
Start-up promotes 'unlimited' AMD clusters
News Liquid computing has developed a modular rack-based system, running Linux on dual-core Opterons, which will be available with up to 960 processors as standard
Microsoft expands BI plans
News Continuing its push into the enterprise software market, the software leviathan is testing a new business-intelligence tool called Maestro
Apache to brew its own pot of Java
News Builder: The open source foundation is going to create, from scratch, an open source implementation of J2SE, and has Sun's approval to do so
