Previous DayTaking sides in the open source community
Comment Debate over the latest draft of the GPL is driving a wedge between open source and free software advocates
ICANN refuses to crush Spamhaus
News No can do says the top-level domain regulator, as the future of spamhaus.org remains uncertain
NHS IT debacle causes an irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. If...
BP lets staff manage their own IT
Blog While its environmental credentials may not be greener than green, the oil giant is doing some innovative things around managing its tech according to Silicon.com: "Oil giant BP is pioneering a...
Lower power for a brighter future
Leader IT used to be about the hows and whys. Now it's time for the watts
IBM targets data centre power crisis
News New services are being rolled out to target corporate energy waste
Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK - but what does it mean for the users?
Blog It'll be very interesting to see how this story plays out. There have been significant rumblings in the blogosphere over problems with migrating Talk Talk's existing customers onto unbundled...
Haxdoor Trojan claims thousands of UK victims
News Metropolitan Police have revealed that the Trojan responsible for infecting thousands of users is Haxdoor, a particularly 'nasty' piece of malware. The FBI is working with the Met to catch the...
Opera finds that small is sweet
Q&A CTO Håkon Wium Lie explains how the company is making strides on the tech front, and moving faster than much larger rival Microsoft
Virtual appliances
Blog I first heard of virtual appliances a couple of years ago during a trip to Sweden to hear about Intel's AMT technology. I didn't hear about them from Intel, but from Gartner analyst Brian Gammage,...
McAfee sheds top execs over earnings probe
News Following a preliminary review of the company's stock options probe, CEO George Samenuk resigns and president Kevin Weiss is fired
Wireless intelligence sent back to the edge
News WLAN pioneer Trapeze Networks is reversing its move to centralisation of wireless network intelligence as it seeks to better support voice over wireless
Swiss Government tests VoIP wiretap software
News The Swiss have developed software that allows VoIP conversations to be covertly monitored
Skype lands deal with Wi-Fi operator
News Commercial tie-up will let Skype users access VoIP whenever they're in range of a Cloud hot spot
Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK
News Carphone Warehouse has triumphed in the bidding war for AOL UK's access business, and also admitted losing millions of pounds through its 'free broadband' campaign
AMD: Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualisation
News The 'Barcelona' processor includes features to improve the efficiency of sharing multiple operating systems
Microsoft suffers patch problems
News The software maker has encountered difficulties issuing 'critical' fixes, because of distribution glitches
Sun and Fujitsu to boost Sparc speed
News The chip designers promise greatly improved performance with two new Sparc models
Oracle settles false pricing suit
News The US Government will receive $98.5m to resolve charges that federal agencies overpaid for PeopleSoft products
Power costs 'buying priority' for IT execs
News A study commissioned by Sun has found that data centres are increasingly considering energy efficiency when making purchasing decisions
