Grid computing to combat global warming
News Academics are investigating the potential of distributed computing to increase the efficiency of renewable forms of energy
Business Objects: Open source a distant threat
News Bernard Liautaud, the head man at Business Objects, sees little chance of open source vendors emerging as a threat to his company
Bugzilla 2.18 includes Windows support
News Builder: The popular open source bug tracking system gets improved Enterprise features and is easier to run on Windows
Student seeks legal help in Apple case
News Nicholas Ciarelli, the Harvard student behind ThinkSecret.com, may need the assistance of a generous lawyer now that he has to deal with a lawsuit from Apple
Red Hat reaches out with Fedora
Feature The Linux company wants to make better use of the open source community by promoting wider involvement in the development of its free Linux package
HP's OpenVMS throws Itanium lifeline
News HP looks set to breath new life into both Intel's beleaguered Itanium processor and one of its own operating systems with the announcement of OpenVMS 8.2
UK beefs up IT code of practice
News Suppliers of IT to the government will now need to live up to 'Ten Commitments' designed to help meet compliance targets
EU sees potential in e-government
News A survey has found that while users are satisfied with the e-government services they have tried, but that it can be hard to find the service you need
Winners: VMWare competition
News If your name's not on the list, or you forgot to enter, then don't worry as you could still win one of the other cool prizes on offer
United users should call security tune
Leader The Jericho Forum seems set to revitalise computer security. It's time for more users to take control
Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4
News Red Hat is taking on rivals such as Novell with the latest version of its Linux distribution for businesses
The business of intelligence
Q&A Bernard Liautaud, the chief executive of Business Objects, is gunning to make his firm the biggest name in Business Intelligence - despite increasing competition from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft
MSN search beta builds momentum
News Microsoft is slowly increasing the proportion of search results it returns from its own service compared to those it returns from Yahoo
Firm offers free 10GB online storage
News Streamload is offering a free online storage service as well as its paid-for options - upping the ante for rival services such as AOL
Slammer worm claims victim Down Under
News An Australian telco has admitted that its co-location customers were affected by a Slammer worm infection - nearly two years after the original virus was released
HP boosts RFID investment
News Hewlett-Packard is going from 'zero to a million chips' in its RFID usage this year
Microsoft opens access to Avalon
News A beta version of Microsoft's upcoming graphics engine is now being released to the public
Oracle announces thousands of PeopleSoft layoffs
News At least 5,000 jobs are set to go at PeopleSoft - but Oracle has yet to make public how many of its own staff will lose their positions
New Year, old flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer
Tech Guide Even with Windows XP SP2 installed, there are new attacks aimed at your PC.
ISP Panix over domain hijack
News A US-based ISP is struggling to recover after its domain ownership and email services were redirected abroad without its consent



