Amazon ups the ante for digitisation
Q&A Q&A: Jeff Bezos gives details of the next steps in his firm's book digitisation project
Are these the Sony rootkit CDs?
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found 19 Sony CDs that consumers should avoid if they are concerned about the company's rootkit-like digital rights management
Sony faces multiple lawsuits over DRM rootkit
News A number of American and Italian organisations are considering suing Sony over its use of copy-restriction software
Trojan horses targeting Sony DRM rootkit found
News Two Trojan horses have been discovered that exploit Sony's copy-restriction software, as F-Secure tries not to say 'I told you so'
Broadband campaigners: the job's not finished
News Pressure group is forced to auction its keynote speaker on eBay, and accuses government and industry of taking their eyes off the ball
A very British cyborg
Leader If we want to be a world leader in the future robot industry, we have to decide what law to live by
UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences
News Microsoft’s authorised resellers are shocked to learn that a trade in used Microsoft licences is legal. Could this be the start of a new business model?
US tech research faces crisis
Feature Slashes in US govenment funding in recent decades mean innovation is thin on the ground, claim experts
ODF Summit joins open source activists
News As government customers begin to get behind open standards, major companies meet to discuss stepping up their commitment to the OpenDocument format
UK developer hits Atari with massive lawsuit
News Atari faces court over the alleged non-payment of royalties, with a British judge accusing it of playing 'tactical games'
Chizen talks on major moves
Q&A Adobe's chief executive Bruce Chizen discusses the purchase of Macromedia, business in China and explains why he's not losing any sleep
O2 runs off with Orange award
News Awards ceremonies often feature irony but the National Business Awards raised it to an art form by handing the top Business Leader of the Year award to O2, the rival of lead sponsor Orange
Apple patents secure code
News Apple has filed a patent that describes a method for securely running Mac OS X on specific hardware
Google used as bait in phishing scam
News Phishers are trying to part users and their credit card details by way of the search giant
Robots: Our plastic pals who are fun to be with?
Feature Japan is still the clear leader in robot manufacture, especially when it comes to humanoid forms which are increasingly being seen as potential home helpers for an ageing population
IBM's Web analyser gives image boost
News IBM develops new search software to analyse blogs and other Web sites, alleviating the impact on companies of negative press
Ofcom confirms licence-free RFID
News Companies wanting to use the radio-tagging technology will be able to do so without the need for radio-spectrum licences, which could save UK firms £200m over 10 years
IBM calls for global identity management solution
News International standards backed up by a UN body are needed to clear up the international identity-verification mess, according to a senior IBM Global Services executive
SuSE founder walks out of Novell
News The long-time maintainer of SuSE's kernel has left Novell, just days after the firm announced a renewed focus on Linux
O2 reprimanded for 'best network' claims
News The ASA has upheld Vodafone's complaint about O2's network performance claims



