Veritas adds file system to Oracle clusters
News Companies running Oracle9i Real Application Clusters should be able to replace their raw disk partitions with a file system, easing management, says Veritas
UK notebook market booms
News Aggressive pricing for notebooks, fuelled by keen competition among vendors as their margins get squeezed, has resulted in soaring sales
Security issues prolong PayHound .Net migration
Special Report IT Priorities: Online payment provider PayHound was keen to adopt .Net from the word go but its security auditor advised letting the platform mature
P2P seeks refuge on West Bank
News In the Jenin refugee camp, a file-swapping service openly flouts international copyright and claims to have attracted millions of users from around the world
Google raises bar with new browser tool
News The first major update to Google's popular Internet Explorer toolbar kills pop-ups and adds a feature for bloggers
HP Colour LaserJet 1500L
Review The HP Colour LaserJet 1500L's low price puts good colour laser printing within the grasp of budget-strapped small offices. But if you need high volume or room to grow, get a more expandable model.
ATI elbows Nvidia aside to win Xbox deal
News ATI will produce components for the next version of the Xbox games console, severing Microsoft's troubled relationship with Nvidia
Microsoft defeat stirs patent concerns
News Web browser companies are looking nervously over their shoulders, after a tiny company won $521m in a patent-infringement suit against Microsoft
Anarchy in the USA
Q&A Sherman Austin is looking forward to a year in federal prison with the kind of equanimity that most people reserve for a trip to the doctor's office
Fake bank email tries to con customers
News In Australia, an email purporting to be from a bank attempts to trick people into revealing their account details
IBM revamps Java tool
News IBM is about to release the latest version of its WebSphere Studio Java programming tool
Free Software servers breached
News A key server housing software used in Linux and other projects was open to an attacker for four months, creating fears that source code was compromised
Apple G3 owners win OS X refund
News Apple has offered to settle a lawsuit alleging it did not fully support OS X on some G3 Macs
'Phone number' Internet addressing gains support
News A simpler Internet-addressing system proposes allocating every individual one number to use for their mobile phone, email address, instant messaging and faxes
Aussie govt to see Windows source code
News Australia's government has signed an agreement with Microsoft granting access to the code that underlies the Windows operating system
New standard fires up Wi-Fi
News The 802.11g standard is driving strong growth in wireless networking, according to a research report
Windows song site debuts in UK
News The Web store will offer pay-per-song purchasing, with Microsoft replicating Apple's successful iTunes model
'We have a lot more work to do' - Microsoft
News Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing chief says he was disappointed when the MSBlast worm reared its head
MSBlast spawns variants as users race to patch
News The worm, which is infecting 2,500 PCs every hour, could notch up 2 million victims by the end of next week
Microsoft gears up for worm's blast
News The software giant says it is ready to counter the MSBlast worm's attack, scheduled to start from midnight on Friday

