Previous DayRupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Blog Thursday 18/09/2003My favourite day -- the corporate bluster about sales projections, product rollouts and enterprise issues fades down and the R&D elements take over. Gelsinger's keynote...
Lack of urgency plays into cyberterrorists' hands
Comment Inadequate countermeasures mean the prospect of a digital 11 September is far from science fiction
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Comment At the Intel Developer forum, the technology might be high but it keeps serving low blows to Rupert Goodwins
Swen worm tops virus charts
News The Swen mass-mailing worm is being taken more seriously as it begins a rapid spread, posing convincingly as a Microsoft security update
Adobe facing e-document competition
Analysis Companies such as Macromedia and Autodesk are agressively pursuing Adobe's PDF e-document market share
Government backs anti-spam mission to US
News The government says it is taking the issue of spam seriously, but campaigners have condemned Britain's new anti-spam laws as a 'cock-up'
BlackBerry gets server link
News IBM's Web server software is set to be integrated onto the handheld BlackBerry device
Palm posts lower loss
News The handheld-device maker reported a smaller than expected loss for its first fiscal quarter, as its acquisition of rival Handspring approaches
Small businesses oppose software patents
News Proposed software-patents legislation would put thousands of jobs at risk, according to an alliance of European small-business groups
Security appliances benefit from scares
News Security-server sales were up by 10 per cent in the second quarter, with a spate of viruses forcing firms to become more security conscious
Swen prevention and cure
Help/HowTo The Swen virus masquerades as a new Microsoft patch - find out how to avoid it, and what to do in the case of infection
AMD unveils triple-gate transistor
News The quest for increased chip performance with less energy use contines, with AMD revealing an experimental new transistor
Dell sets date for European printer launch
News Dell has set release dates and prices for the European launch of its own-brand printer range - and is hoping customers will warm to its new method of selling cartridges
Logitech CEO: No worries about mouse's staying power
Video As Logitech celebrates the shipment of its 500 millionth unit, CEO Guerrino de Luca isn't worried about the continued success of the mouse, despite the proliferation of competing devices
Fiorina resigns from Cisco board
News HP's chief is to step down from the network-gear maker's board of directors
Fiorina at OracleWorld: Getting fit for grid computing
Video At OracleWorld in San Francisco, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina lists the five challenges of grid computing and what HP is doing to meet them
Ellison touts 10G at OracleWorld
Video At OracleWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says the monitoring and control tools of the upcoming grid computing product line, 10G, are powerful enough to simplify IT management...
Phones 4U bans staff from email
News The boss of the mobile phone retailer has insisted that staff talk rather than email, and says there have been instant benefits
Red Hat tops revenue forecast
News The Linux seller reported net income of $3.3m for the quarter ending 31 August, with sales up 36 percent
Aussie agencies accused of locking out open source
News An Australian senator has hit out at commonwealth purchasing agencies for favouring proprietary software
Gates and Ballmer gain small raises
News Microsoft's executive elite won only minimal pay increases last year
