Google Reader Beta
Preview Google's elegant newsfeed manager for Gmail users is friendly for newcomers to RSS.
Consortium launched to support OpenDocument
News The Open Document Fellowship has been created to give the OASIS Open Document Format added momentum, as the war of words between Sun and Microsoft gets bitter
IT 'key to productivity'
News Three government reports can't be wrong - UK firms need to embrace technology if they want to keep pace with their rivals overseas
Web domains hit new high
News Small businesses and bloggers get credit for pushing the number of domain names recognised by Netcraft to nearly 75 million - but spammers figure in there too
EU readies itself for .eu sunrise
News Companies and individuals desperate for a .eu domain have only a few more weeks to wait
US Congress wades into Internet control row
News With America and Europe locked in conflict over the future of Internet governance, the House of Representatives has urged President Bush to stand firm
GNOME to fish in embedded Linux pond
News The team developing the open source desktop environment claims to have made 'very significant improvements' in performance and memory usage, as they target the embedded market with future versions
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
News TalkBack: A poll of over 1,000 ZDNet UK readers found that the vast majority of you believe that a judge was wrong to convict Daniel Cuthbert. But other readers are less sympathetic
Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication
News Weak user authentication may be worse than none at all, claims one security expert; others are backing SPF to make a difference
Windows Client Protection: What is it, and should you care?
FAQ We answer your questions about Microsoft's recently announced security software
Time is not on SCO's side
Leader For everybody outside of SCO it is business as usual, but we still need a speedy end to the lawsuits
Three men arrested in botnet probe
News Dutch police investigating a Trojan horse which commandeered 100,000 computers have made three arrests, and more are expected
IBM to offer small firms more
News Over 20 new products aimed at SMEs will be launched by IBM this week
Ericsson 'in talks to buy Marconi'
News Having lost out to Ericsson in the race to build BT's new network, Marconi could now be taken over by the Swedish firm
Intel leads 400Mbps wireless charge
News Several Wi-Fi manufacturers plan to push for standardisation of MIMO, which could support speeds of over 400Mbps
IBM drops claims to speed case against SCO
News IBM is dropping three claims of patent infringement against SCO, as it looks to speed up the long-running legal clash
Google reveals its 300-year plan
News Chief executive Eric Schmidt estimates that Google won't manage to index all the world's information until around the 24th century
Say goodbye to choice
Buyer's Guide Most of the independent security companies have been bought by one of five super-companies. Is this a good thing? Perhaps not.



