Previous DayRupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 12/10/2004 So, farewell then, Winamp. Goodbye forever, Audion. This week has seen the final gasp from both -- the two MP3 players that got the ball rolling on PCs and Macs respectively...
JBoss and Apache clash on shared code
News Builder: Developers of the two open-source application servers are clashing publicly, claiming that the other is in breach of copyright
'10 new XP SP2 flaws' revealed
News A security company has warned that hackers can 'silently and remotely take over any SP2 machine', but Microsoft has rubbished the claims
Email security appliances
Group Test Security appliances to protect mail servers against viruses and spam are all the rage. We look at what four of the leading vendors have to offer the medium-sized business.
Mirapoint RazorGate 100
Review Unique MailHurdle technology makes the RazorGate 100 stand out, but it's a little on the expensive side.
Straight talking on terrorism
Q&A Counter-terrorism advisor to four US presidents Richard Clarke talks to ZDNet UK about cybersecurity, and its importance
FSA: Cybercriminals are infiltrating companies
News The Financial Services Authority has warned that criminal gangs are increasingly placing people in companies to steal data and aid cybercrime attacks
CRM right here - RightNow
Q&A On-demand CRM provider RightNow Technologies claims it is the only true believer when it comes to hosted software
Leaner, meaner Linux makes savings for Bergen
News The Norwegian City of Bergen is expecting to make savings on software, hardware, licensing and support costs by moving its servers to Linux
Mobiles rise to the iPod challenge
Feature With competition from other mobile devices, cellphones are taking on functionality such as music downloads
Linspire embeds search capability
News The company formerly known as Lindows has picked up Microsoft's 'Smart Tags' idea and integrated something similiar into its latest release
Is Ballmer's $100 PC possible?
Comment Microsoft's chief executive may well think that a $100 PC will solve the problem of software piracy - but it's a question of who is willing to bear the cost
KPMG hit by email outage
News Brief: Technicians at KPMG battled through the night to get email servers up and running after a global outage hit the company's systems
3G sales to be weak 'until 2006'
News Analysts expect 3G demand to remain strong in Japan and South Korea, but sales will only start to pick up for the rest of the world in 2006
Cyberterrorism is not a universal excuse
Leader Cyberterrorism is being used as a reason for unfettered government action. Evidence, please
Dell buoyant in Q3
News Dell has posted strong Q3 results, and is said to be looking for a location for a new manufacturing plant in Europe
MSN Search beta
Preview Microsoft hustles to catch up with search engine giants Google and Yahoo, but the beta version of MSN Search still leaves plenty of room for improvement.
Companies warned on IM dangers
News Meta Group research indicates that IM is still used more for chat than work, and represents a growing security threat
ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5
Review ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5 is the best software firewall available to PC users today.
HP takes open-source route into software market
News An expanded partnership with JBoss sees Hewlett-Packard moving back into the software arena - access to the source code means it can provide 'deeper' support, says the company
Microsoft Excels itself with late trademark application
News The spreadsheet application may have been around for 19 years, but Microsoft has only just got round to registering a trademark for it - and it is taking on other firms who use the word in their...
Firefox strengthens ties to Google
News Mozilla's latest browser, downloaded 2.5 million times in two days, gives increased prominence to the search giant, leading to speculation of more convergence between their products in future
