Previous DayMOD: Military spending to favour tech
News The Ministry of Defence has unveiled plans to spearhead new technologies, denying claims the plans are designed to hide spending cuts
Education, not legislation will reduce e-crimes
News In order to fight electronic criminals, new laws will be of no use on their own, according to an ecommerce lobby group
There's no silver bullet for security
Comment There are no easy solutions to the problems of spam and email-borne malicious code - no matter what the vendors might say
Museum visitors hear tour via Bluetooth
News Streaming MP3 audio over Bluetooth lets visitors wander the Melbourne Museum at will, always able to access relevant commentary
Red Hat flagship backs Linux standard
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 has achieved the broadest yet Linux Standards Base certification, guiding Linux away from Unix's path of fragmentation
Toshiba unveils mini microdrive
News The electronics firm has developed a hard drive that is less than an inch wide
AMD makes grand plans for China
News AMD has announced plans to set up a development lab that will create devices for Chinese consumers' homes
IBM and Akamai expand on-demand deal
News The two companies are enlarging a deal that lets customers run business applications on Akamai's hosted Web network
Linux lab draws more big names
News Novell and Network Appliance have signed up to the Open Source Development Labs
Cranking up corporate clock speeds
Feature Concepts such as utility computing, Web services and business process management shouldn't be considered in isolation but rather as components of the real-time enterprise (RTE)
Hitachi squeezes fuel cell into PDA
News The electronics giant is teaming up with a maker of disposable cigarette lighters to make methanol fuel cartridges for handheld computers
EMC nears final stage of Documentum purchase
News The storage giant says it expects to complete its acquisition of the content-management specialist Documentum next week
Microsoft and SAP square up for business applications battle
Analysis A recent win for Microsoft in the business applications market has highlighted the growing battle for customers - and the importance of cost in the calculations
Quantum contemplates rebound
Q&A Chief executive Rick Belluzzo produces fighting talk on the storage firm's future
Fuel-cell breakthrough could boost portable power
News Fuel-cell technology could be cheaper to run, following a breakthrough that may prolong the life of the proton exchange membrane
Combo chips to upsize Wi-Fi
News Integrating functions like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth into a single chip could boost the technology's uptake, according to manufacturers
Netgear WGT624
Review Netgear's WGT624 108Mbps wireless firewall router is a good choice for advanced users, but may be too complicated for networking newcomers.
Securities law may speed Google's IPO
Feature A regulation that forces US companies of a certain size to disclose financial data may push Google towards a public offering
Aussie agencies forced to consider open source
News An Australian state has passed legislation encouraging government departments to adopt open-source software
Mystery patch contradicts intentions
News Microsoft issued an automatic patch on Wednesday; the same day that it announced that December would see no fixes released
Attackers take down SCO site again
News A denial-of-service attack has rendered SCO's Web site inaccessible for the third time this year
No 'huge fast router' in sight from Cisco
News Analysts' expectations that Cisco would unveil its next-generation product this year have been foiled
IE bug masks spoofed sites
News A bug in Microsoft's browser could trick people into thinking spoofed Web addresses are genuine, aiding malicious hackers
