Previous DayNTL users wrathful over email woe
News After a week of disruption, NTL customers are venting their fury over the company's service, and the amount of information they're being supplied with
Nano-nose sniffs out smallest scents
News Tiny vibrating bars catch scent of passing molecules, promising a world of computerised noses
Lastminute.com inks Sky Digital deal
News Sky Digital subscribers will now be able to purchase goods from Lastminute.com with their television remote control
Fujitsu Siemens: PC boom days are over
News Adrian von Hammerstein, head of Europe's largest PC maker, says the PC industry is maturing and will not return to its high-growth days anytime soon. However, there is a silver lining
Trident leaves PC graphics chip market
News Trident, a maker of graphics chips, is leaving the PC business to concentrate on digital television, set-top boxes and PDAs
Software licensing is a serious business
Feature The twin pressures of cost control and software piracy are bringing software licence management into the spotlight. Here is what to look for in a software licence
Smart seats get to bottom of in-flight woes
News Your airline seat may know more about you than you think if new technology takes off
PeopleSoft: Oracle's bid is not enough
News PeopleSoft officially rejected Oracle's takeover bid and confirmed its intention to acquire J.D. Edwards
Ballmer: We have to think differently
News Q&A: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talks about sharing source code, the threat from Linux and where Microsoft is going
Verbal fisticuffs break out at JavaOne
Analysis News Analysis: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt-mongering is the name of the game in San Francisco as vendors argue over the access, flexibility, and portability of Java
Seeing the error of our ways: A modest proposal
Comment Rupert Goodwins: Errors are the bane of computer life. Yet Microsoft has harnessed them to improve software quality, and we should take this to its logical conclusion
MindGenius Brainbloom for Tablet PC
Review Brainstorming productivity could be enhanced with MindGenius Brainbloom, but it's awkward for large groups and you need further mind-mapping tools to make the most of it.
Thai hackers ordered to work for victim
News University students who broke into a Thai government Web site are to work on the same site as punishment
Myths of Moore's Law
Comment Michael Kanellos: Most folks among the computer cognoscenti think they know Moore's Law, but the 11 words in the dictum make for one of the most misunderstood statements in all of technology
One trillion reasons to take corporate IM seriously
News Analysts are confident that the take-up of instant messaging by businesses is poised to boom
Intel captains stable platforms for corporate computing
Feature Innovation often disguises the irritation of too many updates with too little consistency. Intel plans to calm things down with a guarantee of stability
HP and Dell to ship Java with all PCs
News JavaOne: Following Microsoft's decision to stop shipping Java with Windows, PC manufacturers have started licensing the product directly from Sun
SAP swoops during PeopleSoft chaos
News SAP is hoping the uncertainty faced by PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards' customers will drive them to a 'safer' product
Microsoft adds wireless to Pocket PC
News Microsoft will soon unveil the next version of its handheld operating system, as hardware partners new and old line up with devices
AMD strains for processor improvements
News The chipmaker is examining a wide variety of cutting-edge concepts, including strained silicon and multi-gate transistors, for chips that will hit the market in the second half of the decade
Apple in court over Unix trademark
News The Mac maker is in an ongoing legal imbroglio with The Open Group, which argues Apple is illegally using its Unix trademark without a licence
Intel notebook chip passes 3GHz
News A new mobile processor from Intel clocks in at 3.06GHz, but includes power-saving features allowing it to run as slow as 1.6GHz
Did SCO open Unix code?
News Linux pundits are arguing that by selling its own version of the open-source operating system, SCO Group undermined its Unix intellectual-property case
