Previous DayStarOffice 6.0
Review StarOffice 6.0 remains one of the best low-cost office suites, especially as an alternative to the monolithic Office XP.
Decryptathon rallies 75,000 PCs
News French scientists harnessed the power of 10 million computing hours by hooking up 75,000 PCs across the Internet. Their work may help find a cure for muscular dystrophy
Police swoop on Internet paedophiles
News Thirty people have been arrested as British police take action against those suspected of buying child pornography from US-based servers
3Com unveils Bluetooth printing kit
News Networking vendor 3Com aims to unleash the humble printer with a Bluetooth kit that will replace those cables
Gartner European CRM summit to focus on finding value
News Gartner's CRM conference in Paris this week will promote an eight step plan to ensure return on investment from relationship management IT projects
Compaq products will rule HP's mid-range storage
News While HP will continue to resell HDS storage systems, the company plans to phase out several mid-range storage products in favour of Compaq's StorageWorks EVA
Hutchison performs successful 3G test
News Hutchison 3G looks on track to launch its third-generation services later this year, and has just teamed up with nine mobile games developers
'Internet family' moves into shop window
News The 'family' will spend a week surrounded by Internet-connected gadgets under the gaze of shoppers and Web cams
Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers
News Scientists are combining blade servers based on Transmeta processors and Linux Beowulf clustering to drastically cut the cost of supercomputing
Telematics left in dot-com dust
News The automotive industry is blaming technology companies for leading them astray during the boom, but many are also critical of their own willingness to adopt unproved metrics
Worm crawls into Kazaa network
News Kazaa is the latest file-swapping network to be hit by a worm. The Benjamin worm spreads by masquerading as other files on the network
Xerox Phaser 6200DP
Review The Phaser 6200DP's fast colour print speeds and useful features would appeal to any busy office, but its print quality falters at anything more complex than presentation graphics.
TI to outsource chip production
News Texas Instruments is to shift processor manufacturing to outsourced companies, but Sun says its chips will be unaffected
Why I'm glad to see Napster go
Comment The company built on copyright violations is headed for bankruptcy - and not a minute too soon. Now I'm just waiting for all those other companies that hoped to profit from content theft to face...
Is mainframe Linux toast?
Comment There's no future in big iron for Linux, says META Group. But other experts say that this analysis is overly negative.
Klez worm refuses to die
News A month after it started spreading, the Klez.h worm isn't slowing down - plus it's creating a flood of warnings from gateway antivirus software telling the wrong people they're infected
Naspter is back in business
News Bertlsmann pays $8m to buy the legendary file-sharing service. Chief executive Konrad Hilbers and Shawn Fanning, Napster's creator, will return after resigning last week
Paid content comes to Kazaa
News The file-swapping network will activate the controversial Altnet service from Brilliant Digital Entertainment, installed on 20 million PCs
IBM reaches nano-computing breakthrough
News Big Blue says it has built high-performance transistors out of carbon nanotubes, raising the possibility that carbon could become the basis for computing
DeCSS banned again
News Free speech advocates will be disappointed by an appeal court ruling that continues the ban on posting DVD-cracking code
Five years ago: Researchers discover, help fix bug in Java
News While the Java development language may be one of the most secure languages, minor holes continue to surface that could pose problems for users
