Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News Regulator's chief Ed Richards has dismissed the idea of public money being used to fund competition to BT's next-generation network
Email monitoring may contravene European laws
News Concerns are growing over the monitoring by employers of communications, as one worker wins damages from the European Court of Human Rights
So that's what viruses look like
Blog Viruses, eh? We hate 'em, yet frustratingly we just can't put a face to them. Well, Sophos can. The security firm has helpfully issued a range of pictures illustrating various types of malware,...
Seagate shrinks results forecast
News As the market moves to smaller formats, the disk-drive vendor has found that 3.5-inch drives are losing their appeal
AOL's incredible disappearing emails
Blog Pity poor Jacqueline Fleming, who has seen thousands of her AOL-stored emails go bye-bye. As Which? points out, AOL's stance was something along the lines of "tough luck, lady", which can't be...
How does your office rate?
Blog We have finally moved into our new offices behind London's Tate Modern - and we're very chuffed with the results Aside from the need for more space, the new building in Lavington Street was...
Palm touts stability of Linux-based Treos
News Open-source operating system will appear on Palm Treo handsets by the end of the year
The KISS-off for virtualisation
Blog Roberto Maietta has posted an interesting Talkback outlining what he sees as the pitfalls of virtualisation . "I look at this in terms of security updates, in fact any kind of updates, and it...
Photos: Microsoft veteran blasts into orbit
Photo Billionaire software mogul Charles Simonyi has become the world's fifth space tourist after embarking on a flight aboard a Russian spaceship on Saturday
Nokia-Qualcomm licence deal expires
News Dispute over patents continues as a key licensing agreement between the two companies runs out
Office flaws scupper Patch Tuesday
News Trio of zero-day bugs in Microsoft Office has surfaced just as the software maker releases its monthly security updates
Oracle to release 37 security patches
News Company's quarterly patch cycle will include fixes for seven vulnerabilities that could be exploited remotely
AMD announces drastic price cuts
News Chipmaker has reduced semiconductor prices by up to 48 percent and is expected to report revenues that fall well below analysts' predictions
Licence nearly up on Apple's Boot Camp beta
News Windows partitions won't disappear after the commercial release, but users may encounter some headaches



