Previous DayCIA looks online for WMDs
News The CIA has turned to the Internet for help in its search for weapons of mass destruction
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 13/02/2004I'm off tomorrow to sunny California, for the Intel Developer Forum Extravaganza. Lots more gadgets to keep me company this time, so watch the site for the odd review between...
Internet pioneer charged under RIP Act
News The founder of Demon Internet denies intercepting emails sent by Redbus chairman John Porter
Legal questions surround Windows code leak
Analysis Besides creating bad press for Microsoft, the Windows 2000 source code leak could mean a legal headache for developers
Printer firms see camera-phone niche
News The big printer firms are working together to develop standards for printing from camera phones
Google's IPO risks another bubble
Comment Overvaluing the search engine will do it no favours
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News Next week's Solid State Circuits conference will showcase the latest in semiconductor technology
Why did Microsoft take so long?
Feature Security experts are divided on whether the 200 days that Microsoft took to create its latest patch was reasonable
Windows code leak 'not a security threat'
News Security experts say Microsoft's embarrassing Windows 2000 source code leak is unlikely to have given hackers more ammunition
Sun adds Grid to N1 name
News The server maker is contemplating a new payment system for utility-computing software
ISP staff face MP3 lawsuit
News The music industry has successfully added a director and an employee of an Australian Internet service provider to a court case
Vodafone Power Handheld
Review The Power Handheld makes a good stab at being the ultimate portable connected device, but it's a bit awkward to use, especially when handling voice calls and entering significant amounts of data.
The commoditising of software
Feature Wrestling with open source's profit model has become compulsory sport for software firms
Attacks puzzle open-source community
News A spate of hacking attacks on Macromedia Flash developer sites has uncovered a security hole in a PHP script
'Big Mac' broken up and sold
News More than 1,000 high-end Macs that till recently made up the world's No. 3 supercomputer are being sold off as surplus
Novell evangelises Linux in Europe
News Novell is making Linux central to its efforts in Europe, and is considering other open-source projects, according to the company's new European president
Indian adoption of Linux surges
News Key state and private organisations in India are planning to use the open-source operating system to run Oracle applications, the company says
Bandwidth: Is stealing always wrong?
Comment A recent article highlighted the dilemma of finding an open wireless network. Should a good neighbour confess to taking a free ride?
IBM powers up 90-nanometre process
News Big Blue has started to mass produce PowerPC chips using a manufacturing method designed to boost speed and energy efficiency
New Nachi hides political attack
News A variant of the Nachi worm appears to target computers running Japanese versions of Windows
Novell gives IBM absolution over Linux
News Angering SCO, Novell has said its rights over Linux allow it to clear IBM of contract violations
Windows 2000 source code posted online
News Microsoft is outraged that portions of its source code have been widely published on the Internet
