Playing silly buffers: How bad programming lets viruses in
Feature The buffer overflow is the mechanism of choice for the discerning malware merchant. So what is it and why does it overflow?
BT finally gets on board with 1Mbps broadband
News Better late than never, Britain's largest ADSL provider is offering new and existing customers a faster broadband product
Carphone Warehouse to resell 3G service
News The mobile phone retailer will be the exclusive seller of Nokia's 7600 handset, which will use 3's 3G network - but don't expect video calling
Poor performance 'cost e-tailers £300m' over Christmas
News Downtime and slow downloads cost UK e-tailers valuable business over the festive period, says a monitoring company
It's time vendors ate their own penguin food
Comment How long till a vendor commits to a wholesale internal rollout of destkop Linux?
PS2 sales surpass 70 million
News Sony has passed a sales milestone for its games console, though pre-Christmas sales were down
BT: Broadband coverage no longer the big issue
News Telcos and the public sector must stimulate demand for broadband, rather than worry about the number of people able to access the service, says the UK's incumbent telco
Intel scores revenue record
News The chip giant made a profit of $2.2bn last quarter, despite being hit by a $611m charge
Wi-Fi market marches ahead
News Spending on Wi-Fi equipment surged dramatically last year, as the technology headed into the mainstream
Welcome to the world of RFID
Comment Imagine going through the supermarket checkout in 30 seconds or remotely ascertaining the contents of your cupboards
Cyberstamps get a delivery date
News Businesses will be able to design their own stamps as part of a new scheme from the Royal Mail
Intel forms nanotech alliance to improve memory
News The chipmaker has signed a deal with start-up Nanosys to work on memory chips' technological stumbling blocks
Desktop PC popularity 'to plummet' by 2007
News In three years, less than half of corporate users will be reliant on a desktop PC, according to the Meta Group
Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'
News The increasing reliance on IP networks in critical infrastructure organisations such as banks and power stations could mean trouble, Gartner claims
Poor telecoms regulation 'costing UK £20bn'
News Britain's BT-dominated telecoms industry needs a regulatory overhaul if it is to compete in the world market, argues a Cable and Wireless-sponsored study
ISS scales up spam filtering
News Internet Security Systems has spent $32.8m acquiring security-software firm Cobion
Salesforce ties up with Office
News A new feature in the CRM vendor's software lets customers create documents with Microsoft's Office suite
Remote working heightens security
Feature The advance of SSL has boosted corporate adoption of VPNs
IDC predicts utility computing boom
News Spending on utility computing will double this year, according to the analyst firm
Linux developers warned to watch their backs
News An Australian lawyer has cautioned open-source developers to protect themselves or face being enmeshed in the web of Linux lawsuits
How to migrate data from an old PC to a new one
Tech Guide Bought a new PC recently? Then you’ll want to read our step-by-step guide to data migration.
HP grabs PC crown
News Hewlett-Packard snatched the PC market-leader crown back from Dell in 2003's fourth quarter
Yahoo dumps Google as search war intensifies
News Yahoo has developed its own algorithmic search technology so that it can drop search partner Google
IBM packs 64 Xeons into a single server
News Big Blue is betting on the future of high-end servers, packing 64 of Intel's Xeon chips into a product due out next year
Intel delays next-generation notebook chip
News The chipmaker says its Dothan chip will not be ready to launch next month
Judge upholds patent ruling against Microsoft
News Microsoft's Internet Explorer infringes a patent held by small developer Eolas, according to a US judge
HP earns $2.5bn from Linux
News Selling Linux-related products is proving lucrative for Hewlett-Packard



