Previous DayHow to configure a notebook
Buyer's Guide With many hundreds of notebooks on the market, choosing the right one is no easy task. Here, we take a close look at eight different ways to set up your system.
HelpFirefox site goes down
News A fundraising site for Mozilla's Firefox browser has proved too popular, and has been knocked offline
EC pushes on with Europe-wide patents
News The European Commission is again trying to get the Community Patent adopted, but an Appeals Court judge claims the original proposal 'fell flat on its face for very good reasons'
Windows Wi-Fi attack discovered
News A Windows Wi-Fi feature containing a potential vulnerability should not be a problem for mobile workers if their machines are configured correctly, say experts
UK lagging on innovation
News The EU has slated a 'major failure of UK innovation policy' after publishing a Europe-wide league table
Galileo gives Europe a superior location
Leader The successful launch of the Galileo pathfinder satellite puts Europe in a strong position. Taking advantage will need imagination, not rocket science
Learning how to interface with Vista
Feature If you're familiar with Windows XP, Vista may take some getting used to
Plan for BlackBerry outages
Help/HowTo RIM's patent problems in the US could see the service shut down
BT ditches Web kiosk rollout
News Poor take-up has forced BT to abandon plans to install multimedia phone boxes across the UK
Tales of the rising Sun
Feature Who would have guessed meetings held in the parking lot of the local McDonald's formed an integral part of the founding of one of computing's giants?
21st century toe tags
Q&A RFID chips are finding new applications in all manner of situations
IT security industry 'to be professionalised'
News An organisation is being set up to ensure that IT security officers are competent, but it won't have the power to stop people working if they make mistakes
HP loses exec to Linux firm
News Pauline Nist has left to join Penguin computing, which sells Linux servers and clustered systems
Unofficial Firefox for Intel Macs released
News Official support for Apple's new hardware will come to Firefox in March
WMF flaw: Malice or incompetence?
News One security researcher has suggested that the recently patched image processing flaw in Windows was so bizarre that it must have been intentional
