Previous DayLinux a picture of health at CeBIT
News CeBIT: Crowds, product launches, debates, giant penguins…when it came to open source the CeBIT show had it all, and we have the pictures to prove it
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 11/3/2005 "It's started," said my Californian friend as she IM'd me this linkfrom the Bangalore Craigslist. I was going to ask her what she was doing looking for writing jobs in India,...
Do we need the Semantic Web?
Feature For years the Semantic Web has been a much-deride pipe dream. Now it's starting to come together and is being championed by the W3C we ask the question: do we need it?
Debian bangs drum for mission critical apps
News CeBIT: Free Linux distribution Debian doesn't have the support of a company behind it but that isn't a brake on quality, according to one developer
Mobile phone headsets for crash helmets
News CeBIT Digital Living: Commuters will be able to tell their loved ones that 'I'm on the motorbike' with less risk of being pulled over
Mobiles push storage and imaging boundaries
News CeBIT Digital Living: Samsung draws envious glances with a phone that takes 7-megapixel images, and another with a built-in 3GB hard drive
Microsoft's Groove move makes solid sense
Leader Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks is good news for both companies, promising for users and a wake-up call for the open source industry
Fujitsu's biometric scanner reads palms
News CeBIT: Never mind fingerprint and iris recognition. In the future we could be identifying ourselves with the veins in our hands
Choosing a Web conferencing solution
Buyer's Guide Small businesses looking to save money can reduce the number of offsite meetings by using Web conferencing services. We look at six, including Microsoft's updated Live Meeting service.
SuSE goes live
News CeBIT: Novell has announced it is to bundle Xen's 'hypervisor' software with the next version of SuSE Linux Professional, which users will be able to run from a Live DVD
Microsoft boosts Irish workforce
News The software giant has marked its twentieth anniversary in Ireland by announcing a new R&D centre that will create 100 jobs
Visual Basic developers revolting
News Builder: Microsoft's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic
Convoq ASAP Pro 2.0
Review ASAP Pro 2.0 is an aggressively priced and well-designed conferencing program -- not perfect, but a solid buy for cost-conscious small businesses.
Microsoft launches biometric access peripherals
News The software giant has admitted the products are for convenience and not security
Apple leaps onto the Blu-ray bandwagon
News The Mac maker has finally chosen sides in the high-definition DVD war. It has come down on the same side as Sony, Dell and HP
Intel and SAP announce RFID alliance
News CeBIT: The German software maker is to work with the chipmaker to encourage wider take-up of the wireless tagging and tracking technology
IBM offers supercomputers for hire
News If you can't spare the £1m needed to buy one of the hardware and services giant's latest supercomputers, you can now rent one for a mere £5,000 per week
Microsoft gets with the Groove
News The software giant is acquiring Groove Networks, and will integrate its 'virtual office' collaboration software into Office. Software pioneer Ray Ozzie gets a senior technical job at Microsoft
