Previous DayBiometrics council wants to fill standards gap
News An international advisory council has been created following calls for global cooperation on biometric standards
Microsoft business applications to get updated
News December will see 170 new features for the software formerly known as Great Plains
Prioritising patches will help keep bad guys at bay
News Although patching practices have improved in the last year, nearly 70 percent of systems are still currently at risk
Taking the eco-tech challenge
Comment Companies are urged to look at their IT equipment's energy consumption, significantly reducing wastage is well within reach
NetSuite beefs up for battle with Microsoft
News With Microsoft gearing up to launch its new applications for SMEs, hosted application vendor NetSuite is getting itself ready with new payment options and multi-language versions
$100 laptop scheme insists on open source
News Apple's free Mac OS X offer to the developing world project was shunned on the grounds that it's proprietary
Apple gets shirty about open source podcasting tool
News After Hours: The coders behind a handy tool for handling podcasts have been paid a little visit by Apple's legal team
Red Hat Desktop 4
Review Businesses that need to support a reasonable number (>10) of Linux PCs may find that Red Hat Desktop 4 delivers an attractive total cost of ownership (TCO).
The basics of backup
Feature DR Special: A well-organised, complete business continuity plan will mean huge time and money savings if disaster strikes
Microsoft Live may be a dangerous move
Leader Microsoft Live has little room for alternative lifestyles, a point the company makes with disturbing frankness
MPs launch DRM consultation
News A UK inquiry into the implications of what has become 'a big issue for consumers' is underway
Responding to Level 2 disasters
Feature DR Special: How to deal with virus attacks and network intruders
MP slams mobile operators for 'profiteering' prices
News Roaming Rip-Offs: Norman Lamb is demanding more transparency from the mobile industry about the true cost of using phones and datacards overseas
Holographic storage: Virtual reality?
Feature A single holographic disk will be able to store 1.6 million high-resolution colour photos or over 240 hours of TV broadcast
Access finalises PalmSource purchase
News PalmSource is no longer a publicly traded company, but instead a wholly-owned subsidiary of Access
Cabling nightmares and their solutions
Photo A server room should be a neat and tidy place, but so often is not. We take a look at how to turn your nightmare of wires into something vaguely sensible
Microsoft rejects IBM strategy and open source 'dorks'
News IBM's on-demand model is crazy and the open source movement is just people dorking around with source code. So says Microsoft's Charles Fitzgerald
Vista grants added user privileges
Feature Administrative access gets opened up for the home user and business network, but has User Account Protection gone too far?
Encrypted bots could be the next threat
News The cybercriminals hijacking our computers are likely to turn to encryption to thwart efforts to repel them
Itanium loses out in supercomputing rankings
News Just when it was doing so well, too...
O2 burns bright with latest financials
News Telefónica must be pleased -- its newly acquired UK mobile operator is growing its profits and its userbase
IBM to tame wild data
News One thousand IBM employees have been told to find a better way of organising and integrating a company's data
Violence breaks out before Internet summit
News Human rights groups are reporting that violent clashes have broken out before the UN conference that is set to debate the future governance of the Internet in Tunisia
VPNs at risk from security glitch
News Using an IPsec VPN? Then you could be at risk, irrespective of who supplied your product or which platform you're on
Mission Impossible system destroys itself rather than reveal secrets
News NetApp's purchase of Decru has yielded its first dedicated security device for storage networks, with military-grade encryption and the ability to self-destruct if attacked
Microsoft muses on free desktop apps
Analysis Ad-supported versions of Windows and Office could be in the works, according to internal documents from the software maker
Rootkits: a tech guide
Tech Guide In the race to detect and remove malicious code from your computer, the bad guys unfortunately still maintain a slight lead. Rootkits are one way for malicious code to go undetected.
