The collected thoughts of Mark Hurd
Blog Mark Hurd went from running NCR to running what is now, arguably, the largest IT company in the world, HP. He must be doing something right so here are some collected thoughts of the great man...
AMD looks for fix during rough year
Analysis The coming weeks could dictate whether significant changes are required to get the company back on track and well positioned against Intel
Gateway, Toshiba return to battery hell
Blog Just as we thought all those battery scares were over, Gateway and Toshiba have found more problems. It was just eight months ago that Gateway recalled 35,000 batteries and Toshiba many thousand...
Brown promises police more technology
News The future prime minister has pledged to help police fight crime and reduce paperwork by supplying them with new technology
Samsung and Seagate release hard drives
News Trio of products from Samsung includes various sizes and capacities, while rival Seagate introduces a hard drive for harsh environments
Google acquires PowerPoint software firm
News Purchase of Zenter will let users import presentations and other content from the web, and view and share that content in a browser
BEA to deliver business Web 2.0 apps
News Wikis, RSS and mashups are the focus of software tools about to be released by the software company
Linux-based websites 'perform better'
News Server-monitoring firm's research claims Apache-based websites benefit from faster load time and greater uptime than those based on Windows
Google boss shows off iPhone
News Apple board member and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt claims the iPhone will be the perfect mobile platform for web-based applications
Wi-Fi Alliance defends early certification
News Organisation's managing director claims there is broad support for the decision to start certifying 802.11n equipment before the standard is finalised
Microsoft sets date for Vista SP1 beta
Blog The Service Pack 1 set of fixes and enhancements for WIndows Vista will arrive by the end of this year, Microsoft said in a US antitrust-related court filing yesterday. While it's not a firm date,...
Schmidt: Enterprises key to Google's future
News Company's CEO, Eric Schmidt, says providing services to small businesses will become increasingly important for future growth
HP reveals green storage technology
News Company claims that it can half power and cooling costs in data centres as it announces a raft of products at its Las Vegas conferences
Google to go carbon neutral by 2008
News Search giant has paired up with The Climate Group in a bid to reduce its impact on the environment
Online shopping still causes security fears
News Web users' worries about privacy and security online are limiting the growth of the sector, according to a report by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
VMware Workstation 6
Review Already hugely popular with developers and system testers, this latest version of VMWare Workstation has even more to appeal to the professional market.
Microsoft U-turn on Vista virtualisation
News Company reverses plan to expand rights to allow home versions of the operating system to run inside virtual machines
British life 'unthinkable' without ID cards
News Home Office minister Liam Byrne has described the National ID Scheme as an 'essential defence' that will become a British institution
Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search
News Software giant will make changes aim to address Google's antitrust concerns, plus it talks for first time about when service pack will arrive



