Previous DayHazardous tech threatens recycling workers
News Greenpeace has condemned IT manufacturers for endangering the health of workers employed in breaking down old kit
Google plans massive stock offering
News The planned offering looks likely to raise the firm almost three times as much money as its IPO last year
Users confuse spyware with Star Wars
News Survey: IT directors are worried that most of the population have no idea what spyware is, with a sizeable minority believing it is something they have seen in a movie
Qualcomm makes UK acquisition
News Mobile content delivery firm Elata has been swallowed up by the US firm's Internet services division
The CIO 'born and bred' in the IT department
Interview The IT Leader Interview: Peter Dew, CIO of multinational gas company BOC claims he is one of the few people to have risen to the position from inside the IT organisation
Blog search engines try to block fakes
News Fake blogs created for advertising purposes are causing headaches for search engines, with Google's Blogger accused of being the most common source of splogs
No break for BT broadband
Leader Following the departure of BT's chief broadband officer, it will be down to the access services division to create competition in the market - there will be no holidays for anyone involved
Explorer's Office links cause security alert
News IE's close integration with other Microsoft applications is at the root of a recently revealed security flaw in the browser and exploit code is already in the wild
Free Zotob removal tool offered
News A free download is available from Microsoft to remove the host of warring Windows 2000 worms
Microsoft lines up BlackBerry challenge
News The first previews of the latest major update to Exchange 2003 are almost here, and it will include new technology to push email to mobile devices as well as increase allowable storage space for email
£250m outsourcing deal ends nine years early
News Heading off a protracted legal battle Bedfordshire county council has dropped allegations of breach of contract with its outsourcing supplier, but has still ended their 12-year agreement
Adobe warns of Acrobat flaw
News All users of Adobe's PDF-reading software, irrespective of their operating system, are advised to patch their copies as a buffer-overflow problem is reported
Intel details mobile chip plans
News New low-power x86 chips that are under development in Intel's labs should make their debut at IDF next week
Apple security patch takes out 64-bit apps
News One software maker has warned that the latest OS X security patch breaks support for native 64-bit applications
Worm warfare rages on
News The vast array of worms that emerged this week to exploit a Windows 2000 flaw seem to be in competition with each other, but experts can't agree on why
