Previous DayApple lifts lid on iWork software
News Macworld: The rumours were true - Apple has created a suite of productivity software to take on Microsoft Office
Winners: Plextor DivX PVR competition
News If your name's not on the list, or you forgot to enter, then don't worry as you could still win one of the other cool prizes on offer
Worm spreads Happy Nude Year greeting
News An emailed New Year photo of naked people contains a nasty shock - a worm that will turn off security protection and harvest email addresses
Two million Thunderbirds are go
News The Mozilla Foundation's email client has been downloaded two million times, but one analyst is sceptical about its chances - and has also downplayed the excitement around Firefox
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
News Campaigners say IBM is wrong to be lobbying in favour of software patents in Europe, and claim it's just trying to win friends by opening up 500 patents
Oracle updates mobile database
News Brief: An update to the management tools of Oracle Database Lite 10g aims to allow admins to fix problems remotely
DTI to give SMEs help online
News The government says that it is trying to make it easier for SMEs to tender for public service contracts, and has issued a tender for an online system to help with this goal
Nokia opens mobile VPN gateways
News The Mighty Finn has lauched four new appliances targeting the security-conscious mobile worker
IBM's open patents are just the first step
Leader IBM's patent move proves open source's capitalist credentials. Gates' denial of this will hurt Microsoft more than most
Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta): a first look
Tech Guide Following its December purchase of anti-spyware specialist Giant, Microsoft has produced a tool designed to protect Windows against spyware. We take a first look at the beta version.
Blogger axed by Waterstone's
News A Waterstone's employee has been sacked after they wrote a blog referring to his boss as 'evil' and his employer as 'Bastardstone's'
Security researcher faces jail for finding bugs
News A researcher who demonstrated how to exploit bugs in the code of an antivirus application faces prosecution under French copyright law
Yahoo desktop search beta goes live
News Yahoo has launched a beta version of its desktop search software, which is now available for download
Wales becomes supercomputing player
News Swansea University has collaborated with IBM to build a supercomputer that it claims will be one of the fastest in the world dedicated to life sciences research
Cisco to resell EMC storage kit
News Cisco is increasing its interest in the remote access storage market as it begins to resell and support EMC equipment
Software pirate jailed
News Brief: A US court has sentenced a man to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to software piracy
Boingo, said Apple
News Mac users on can now access Boingo's global network of Wi-Fi hot spots
Microsoft sets its sights on PeopleSoft customers
News Redmond wants to win over PeopleSoft customers to its SME and enterprise products - but analysts warn that companies may not want to move away from systems they have already paid for
IBM makes a patent offering to open source
News Big Blue has made a collaborative move by allowing developers to freely use 500 of its 10,000 US software patents
Mobile phone virus doubles the danger
News The Lasco.A virus spreads in two different ways - increasing the chances that it can pose a danger to mobile handsets
University suffers massive ID data theft
News The records of more than 30,000 people have been stolen from George Mason University in Virginia, opening up the possibility of ID theft for staff and students
Google hacking tool looks for security gaps
News McAfee's SiteDigger 2.0 aims to help make Webmasters aware of potential security holes in their sites - but it could open them up to attacks
