Thousands fall victim to data theft
News Metropolitan police are struggling to contact UK citizens whose passwords and credit card details have been stolen
Kalido offers fix for info management woes
News Former Shell start-up Kalido wants to make information management active and efficient with new software applications
Academics demand NHS IT review
News Experts are worried that the NHS National Programme for IT will fail, and are demanding an independent technical review
Changes to user security in Vista
Feature The release of Microsoft's latest operating system is approaching, so familiarise yourself with some of the security enhancements
ID card critic trashes government report
News Professor Ian Angell, a long-standing critic of the ID card scheme, claims that the £5.4bn estimated cost of the programme shows 'politics has taken over from reality'
Symantec launches e-commerce shield
News Norton Confidential offers protection against phishing sites and keystroke loggers
Behind SCO's open source challenge
Leader That which does not kill me, makes me stronger
More Microsoft SCO links emerge
News A BayStar founder claims he met with three Microsoft senior executives before investing in SCO, and the software maker isn't denying the charge
Spamhaus domain name may be suspended
News After losing a court case against a mass-mailing firm, anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus may have its domain name suspended by ICANN
Action demanded over BT unbundling problems
News Quality control problems are hampering local loop unbundling, and the telecoms adjudicator wants to see improvements made quickly
Broadband take-up set to double
News Over the next three years, the number of households with broadband is predicted to almost double across the UK
Salesforce chief hails customisation capability
News Marc Benioff says the company's Apex technology will enable customers to diverge further from a one-size-fits-all hosted applications approach
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
News Deal sees search giant leap ahead of competitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft in taking control of online video



