Previous DayUK set for Europe's ICT spending top spot
News Spending on IT and telecoms in Great Britain is tipped to overtake that of Germany by 2005, according to new research
Online communities turn twenty-five
Comment Rupert Goodwins: The online world owes a great debt to two Chicago hackers who got stuck in a snowstorm in 1978.
Symbian backers lure developers
News 3GSM: Two of Symbian's biggest backers, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, will unify their development tools to speed the rollout of new software
Inland Revenue 'loses' 500 PCs
News After spending months reminding us to file our tax returns on time, the IR admits it has lost 500 computers because of 'auditing problems'
UK gets 'virtually' free wireless hot spots
News If you're looking for free wireless access on the move, the answer could be to pop into a sandwich bar. New hot spots support both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
ZigBee keeps wireless network buzzing
News An offspring of HomeRF, ZigBee will create a low-cost, low-power network to control everything from light fixtures to home security
IBM pumps up 'on demand' power
News At its PartnerWorld conference in New Orleans, IBM is focussing on supplying customers with computing power as and when they need it
The future of call centres
News UK call centres are forecast to have the largest reductions in percentage terms in the North-East, Wales and the Midlands
Creative Labs Inspire 5.1 5100
Review A fine budget surround-sound speaker system for people who don't want or need frills.
'Selfish' routers slow the Net
News Routers are designed to find the fastest possible path for their data packets, but this 'selfish' behaviour could be responsible for creating bottlenecks
Dell OptiPlex SX260
Review Taking the small-footprint desktop PC to its logical extreme, Dell's OptiPlex SX260 is a study in compactness that should fit most offices, but doesn't ignore centralised management issues.
IBM, NetApp take aim at midrange storage
News As corporate budgets continue to shrink, IBM and NetApp are offering greater functionality on their mid-range systems
Web search finds local angle
News A new service will help users find local businesses with a GPS-enabled wireless device
Blade server pioneer RLX boosts power
News New 'blade' servers will favour processing muscle over low power consumption, as RLX battles IBM, HP and Dell
Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan
News The US government is rolling out a new plan to secure the Internet, but many find it toothless
Intel, Red Hat cure open-source hiccup
News A licensing conflict threatened to stop Red Hat from contributing to a key Intel open-source project
IE flaw may be not so critical
Feature Microsoft's latest patch fixes a "critical" flaw in Internet Explorer, but it is not as dangeraous as all that. Evaluate the side effects before applying the patch
Rambus speeds up chip connections
News The chip designer claims a new technology far outstrips industry standards at moving data between semiconductors
