Previous DayGovernment joins push for IT professionalism
News Whitehall officials are backing a new industry body which aims to raise standards across the IT profession
EC demands Microsoft compliance 'within weeks'
News The European Commission is talking tough as it waits for Microsoft to comply with last year's antitrust ruling
Swedish teenager quizzed over NASA hack
News Brief: Last year's theft of Cisco source code could be linked to hacking attacks on NASA and the US Army, the FBI believes
Tarantella is a good catch for Sun
Leader Tarantella is currently no match for Citrix, but Sun's acquisition could point the way to a higher profile
Linux brings hope to Spain's poorest region
Feature The rural Spanish region of Extremadura has seized on the potential of open source software to improve the lot of its citizens and kick start the local economy
Firms keep silent over child pornography
News Most companies probably won't call in the police if they find an employee has child pornography on their PC, says a 'shocked' Internet Watch Foundation
Web Services standards battle begins
News Builder: IBM, Microsoft, Tibco and BEA have provided a new standard for guaranteed Web Services messaging, despite the existence of the OASIS-certified WS-R standard
OASIS looks to make peace in reliable-messaging standards battle
News Builder: The backers of rival Web services standards have agreed to sit down and work together, under the auspices of the standards body
Google slams the brakes on Accelerator
News Google has stopped downloads of Accelerator, blaming capacity problems, after some users complained their privacy had been invaded
Novell in Linux security buy
News Brief: Novell has bought Immunix, a Linux server security specialist, for an undisclosed sum
Google Mini drives into Europe
News Google's entry-level search appliance is now available this side of the Atlantic
Buyers turn up the heat on server makers
News Buyers are getting hot under the collar over rising temperatures in the datacentre, and server makers are increasingly deflecting the heat onto Intel
IBM targets SMEs with open source Java buy
News Builder: In what one analyst is calling its most important acquisition in ten years, the computing giant's purchase of Gluecode should let it move into the SME middleware market
Longhorn to get Red Screen of Death
News Microsoft has taken a novel approach to ensuring users see the hated Blue Screen of Death less often: it has created a red version for Longhorn to indicate more serious problems
Intel launches open source group
News The chipmaker has created a new Open Source Program Office, increasing its commitment to boosting Linux
Major Windows flaw patched
News Microsoft has issued its patches for May, with important fixes for some older versions of Windows
Firefox keeps growing
News The latest Web usage stats from WebSideStory suggest that the open-source browser's market share is still growing, but at a much slower rate than it was a few months ago
Microsoft ships Windows Mobile 5.0
Preview Microsoft has released an upgrade to its operating system for handhelds and smartphones. Stand by for better business productivity, snappier multimedia and a wider range of device form factors.
Microsoft meets Red Hat
News Steve Ballmer has held a meeting with the Linux firm's chief executive, Matthew Szulik, in New York
