Previous DayStarOffice 8 goes beta
News But is Sun's productivity suite slowing down the development of OpenOffice.org?
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 18/02/2005 A joyful story from Cambridge, where a chav burglar made the mistake of breaking into a geek house. These two tribes are not natural friends, and as the geek had previously...
Broadband to be metered in 8Mbps future
News UK ISP PlusNet plans to charge customers on the basis of the amount of data downloaded, irrespective of the maximum line speed
Patent nonsense: the case for unfettered development
Feature Anti-software patent campaigners unpick the implications of a proposed EU directive to strengthen existing patent legislation
HP lands £320m government deal
News The Foreign Office has announced an international seven-year deal outsourcing deal with HP, based on a 'joint delivery model'
Trouble forming at the W3C
Analysis Apple, Mozilla and Opera are at the heart of a group within the World Wide Web consortium which is threatening revolt over Web forms standards
Gmail moves to next stage
News Social networking is out and straight invitations are in at Google's free email service, but the official line is that it does not signal an end to the beta programme
Microsoft's security complex
Leader Microsoft's security strategy is hard to understand. This may be because it doesn't exist
Patent activists protest in Brussels
News Opponents of software patents gathered in Brussels on Thursday to accuse the European Council of turning Europe into a banana republic
Should software be regulated?
Video RSA Conference: Security experts and industry luminaries debate the role of government in regualtion of the software industry
Nokia 9300 Smartphone
Review If you don't need a camera or Wi-Fi, Nokia's 9300 Smartphone makes a very capable data-centric mobile companion.
OSI targets licence cull
News The Open Source Initiative is looking into ways of cutting down the vast number of open source licences, amid criticism it is on 'a path towards irrelevance'
More woe for SCO
News Having failed to provide its annual report 'in a timely fashion' SCO faces market delisting
CSOs stress the need for business sense
News RSA Conference: Chief security officers have stressed the importance of being able to talk to business leaders 'in their own language' to get security plans implemented properly
Lexus denies in-car virus claims
News The car maker has denied that smartphone viruses can affect its cars' navigation systems
Sun's Galaxy schedule slips
News The company's has said that its latest line of Opteron-based servers won't ship until this summer, but has promised that the products will be better for the delay
IBM's $100m Linux plan
News Big Blue is to invest heavily in supporting Workplace applications on Linux, due to customer demand
Microsoft's security strategy pilloried
News The software giant should be concentrating on securing Windows instead of trying to squeeze security firms out of the market, according to Gartner
