Fedora takes off as Red Hat declines
News Latest statistics for the Web server market show that Fedora, Red Hat's free Linux operating system, is growing in popularity. But the picture isn't quite so rosy for its enterprise offering
UK gets tough on music swappers
News The UK music industry has compared the fight against illegal online file sharing with curbing drink driving
Microsoft reaches settlement with Burst
News The software giant has provisionally agreed to a $60m patent-licensing agreement with Burst.com to settle allegations of theft of media-streaming technology
SuSE takeover 'pushed customers to Debian'
News CeBIT: The word in Hannover is that some German government agencies have switched their allegiance away from SuSE Linux, because following Novell's takeover it is no longer a German company
3G phones taking market share
News The new technology is gaining a growing foothold in the market, but business users are still less than keen
GNOME 2.10 ups multimedia support
News The team behind the GNOME Linux desktop environment say they are catching up with the major operating systems
RIM announces Yahoo alliance
News The BlackBerry maker is to embed the Web firm's IM software into its devices, and is looking into doing the same with AIM and ICQ
A criminal lack of interest
Leader Cybercrime law needs strengthening. We know what to do, we know how to do it. Why isn't it happening?
IBM's Millipede storage marches over Hannover
News CeBIT: A prototype storage technology nicknamed the Millipede works like a punch card machine and can fit huge amounts of data into a tiny space
UK ISPs join fight against spammers
News A worldwide push to turn up the heat on spam has got the backing of the London Internet Exchange
New front opened in the search wars
Feature Google's AdSense programme is finally going to get some competition. What does Yahoo's move into lower-traffic site advertising mean for the Web?
Microsoft gets into the groupware Groove
Q&A Ray Ozzie is set to become chief technology officer at the software giant after agreeing to sell his company to Bill Gates and co
Tiko Classic 340
Review It’s hard to see much value in the iSCSI facilities, but as an NAS appliance the Tiko Classic 340 is competitively priced, easy to manage and works well.
Seamonkey put on ice
News Work on new versions of its eponymous application Suite has been halted by the Mozilla Foundation, but the project lives on
Apple wins victory against fan site
News A US judge has ruled that the computer maker has the right to subpoena email records in search of the identity of employees who leaked details of an upcoming product
Microsoft demands patent reform
News The software giant wants the US patent system to be overhauled to cut down on the $100m it spends each year defending patent lawsuits
MP to propose tougher cybercrime laws
News Derek Wyatt will urge the government to update the Computer Misuse Act to cover denial-of-service attacks, and to raise the penalties for hacking



