Previous DayConway to get $16m from PeopleSoft
News The details of the ex-CEO's severance package have been revealed, and it's worth over $16m in cash, as well as two years worth of stock options to add to his $100m stake
LG Philips claims largest organic LED display
News A 20.1 inch active matrix OLED display was shown in Japan on Tuesday
Firefox fans take fight to the papers
News Open-source supporters are being asked to open their wallets and advertise Firefox in the mainstream media
Enhancements for Istanbul announced
News Microsoft has announced plans to increase the integration of its new corporate IM client, codenamed Istanbul, with other applications such as Outlook
Throwing money at technology
Feature A lack of checks and balances in American homeland security projects have led to accusations of waste, amid what could be said to be little real progress
IM photos could turn nasty
News IM profile photos could allow hackers to penetrate otherwise secure computer networks, say experts
Sun exec joins Red Hat's desktop Linux team
News Karen Tegan-Padir, who was a VP of engineering at Sun, has moved to Red Hat to head up its effort to get Linux onto the desktop
McAfee gives content filter a hardware boost
News Rising levels of spam have caused McAfee to upgrade the hardware of its WebShield appliance
Apple event fuels iPod rumours
News Invitations to a 'special event' featuring U2 have added to the speculation that Apple is planning to launch an updated iPod
IT write-off costs Sainsbury's £290m
News A billion-pound outsourcing deal is being renegotiated and the company is to take a substantial hit writing off IT investment as it seeks to go 'back to basics'
London considers e-voting options
News Technology vendors have been invited to discuss what they could do for the GLA in terms of e-voting - and the systems could be used before the 2008 London elections
Dell cements global domination
News Two studies released this week show that Dell's position as global market leader for PCs has been re-affirmed by its recent sales figures, which show roughly 20 percent year-on-year growth
BlackBerry gets a taste of Wi-Fi
News The latest BlackBerry device supports Voice-over-IP and can connect to a Wi-Fi network, although experts are divided over how long it will take such technology to become mainstream
Acer TravelMate 4501WLMi
Review This is a fully featured desktop replacement notebook that's not too heavy to take on the road. It performs well, delivers impressive battery life and is reasonably priced.
JibJabbing at US politics
Q&A JibJab Media is one of many companies to be exploiting the Web's potential for getting as wide an audience as possible for creative work, and it's co-founder recently spoke to us about it
Picking the right storage vendor
Feature Storage vendors still fall into two distinct tiers - storage solution vendors and service providers. Which one is best for you?
Intel In Slide
Leader Intel is looking increasingly fragile. Tough times call for tough choices
Viruses Zipped into clever disguises
News American security firm iDEFENSE has discovered a loophole in most popular antivirus software that would let viruses in cleverly written ZIP files slip under their radar
Norton AV flaw opens door to hackers
News A vulnerability in Symantec's popular antivirus product could allow its auto-protect feature to be disabled, a security group has warned
ZigBee gets middleware boost
News A Linux-powered network gateway has been designed to help companies integrate ZigBee-powered wireless mesh networks into their enterprise
Intel cuts mobile chip prices
News Intel has announced large cuts to its top-end mobile chip prices, and this should result in lower laptop prices for the Christmas season
Google adds Yahoo's anti-spam standard to Gmail
News Google has integrated the anti-spam standard first introduced by Yahoo, that of Domain Keys, into the test of its Gmail service
Microsoft and Sun integrating slower than expected
News Gates and Papadopoulos are said to be 'stalling, but not in a negative sense' by Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun
Redmond announces free multi-core support
News Microsoft has announced that it will not charge more for software licences for machines with multi-core processors than it will for those with one core
Dual-core Xeon set for 2006 release
News Intel has pushed back the release of its dual-core Xeons until the first quarter of 2006, several months after AMD plans to have its dual-core Opterons on the market
