Previous DayRSA backs Liberty Alliance with 'Nexus' strategy
News RSA: The security company is pulling its identity and access management products into a single framework
Laws and sausages
Comment Rupert Goodwins: The combination of law and commercially dictated security measures is accelerating us towards a dangerously closed world
Oftel to reinvestigate BT broadband
News The Competition Appeals Tribunal has granted Freeserve's appeal against an earlier Oftel decision, meaning a new inquiry into BT's alleged 'predatory pricing' of ADSL products
Software tunnels through great Firewall of China
News The Voice of America will be heard in China if a US government agency's initiative to promote anti-censorship software succeeds in getting into the country, where Internet access is often restricted
Start-up gives PDAs a multimedia boost
News MediaQ has licensed technology from ARM to power its new line of chips for multimedia handheld computers and mobile phones
Will patents pillage open source?
Comment Steven J. Frank: Open-source software is indeed vulnerable to claims of patent infringement. But that doesn't mean the legal floodgates are about to open.
Network Box - SOHO
Review This innovative solution provides a bridge between outsourced and in-house network security, and could appeal to many an SME.
Next generation enterprise wireless
Feature Proper buttoned-down enterprise wireless is almost ready to play, but there's still work to do
Tech staff need better sales pitch
News Research shows that IT managers would benefit from being more forceful in communicating to their executives the value of the work that they and their staff do
Split threatens Web services standards
News IBM, Microsoft and BEA are moving away from the W3C with their latest Web services proposal, a move that some fear could result in fragmentation
Afghanistan tech training programme produces first graduates
News A recently created course in computer networks is attempting to address the global digital divide and give women new opportunities
O2 to offer video downloads
News A select 350 users will begin trialling O2's video download and video messaging services next month, with a commercial version to follow this year
SGI's midrange Unix server gets an update
News Aimed at broadcasting or military customers, the Origin 350 can accomodate up to 64GB of memory
Novell emphasises open-source commitment
News Networking-software company Novell has given details of plans to tighten its products' ties with open-source software
Liberty Alliance demos technology
News RSA: The online indentity project held its first public interoperability demonstration at the RSA Conference
Hiptop comes to the UK
Preview Following its success in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Danger's Hiptop mobile phone/handheld is coming to the UK -- in a new colour-screen version. But will it fare any better than the ill-fated...
Australian government may act on spam
News A government report has recommended that the Australian government acts against junk email, although it is pessimistic about whether the measures can succeed
IPv4 versus IPv6
Feature IPv6 has been loitering on the sidelines for some time, so now could be the time to find out the reasons for this version of TCP/IP and some information on its merits
RSA: Split passwords make secrets safer
News RSA Security's Nightingale could keep passwords more secure by storing them in two places. The process was formerly used only in high-end systems, but could now help make consumer e-commerce sites...
Dell preaches what it practises
News Dell's chief information officer talks about Linux, clustering and the price of outsourcing
Microsoft earnings steam ahead
News The software company is continuing to beat expectations and ride out tough economic conditions, partly buoyed by its lucrative new licensing programme
Tablet PCs get a makeover
News PC makers, encouraged by early success with their first tablet PC designs, are now searching for a hit with more offbeat form factors
Linux powers Panasonic broadband TV set-top box
News MontaVista's embedded Linux is driving the first of a new series of Internet-television devices from the Japanese electronics maker
SCO Group unveils Linux for Itanium
News SCO's operating system for Intel's 64-bit chip is the successor to the aborted Project Monterey
ITunes music sharing app goes online
News A program that allows Mac users to share music playlists over the Internet has been published again, after Apple shut down the original version
