Previous DayMicrosoft helps fuel Sourceforge growth
News Sourceforge has racked up 100,000 projects, thanks in part to the visibility of projects posted by 'leading organisations such as Microsoft'
Security: The never-ending battle
Q&A We sat down with Mark Stevens of WatchGuard to talk about the security benefits of the open source model, why spyware is a growing menace and why IT managers need not resort to scaremongering to...
VeriSign spreads the DNS risk
News The Internet firm is planning to increase the number of DNS servers drastically, and spread the new ones everywhere from São Paulo to Warsaw
Get your hands off our grids
Leader Now that grid computing has grown up, left college and got sexy, the marketing guys at the big vendors need to stop drooling over it
Benchmarking boost for e-government
News The London borough of Havering is leading the way in identifying how well councils are performing online
Vonage rolls out full UK VoIP service
News Aiming itself squarely at BT's small-business customers, the US Internet-telephony firm has finished training its staff on British 'peculiarities' and launched its service this side of the Atlantic
HP makes SME security move
News For just over £10 per user per month, HP is now offering a combined backup, patch management and anti-malware service
High-speed Wi-Fi standards debate stalls
News The latest proposal for 802.11n, the next-generation Wi-Fi standard, has been sent back to the drawing board after a second failure to be approved by the IEEE
Venture capital directed at open source
News Simula Labs has secured a multi-million-pound war chest for funding open source infrastructure software projects, and turning them into viable businesses
Row over report praising Windows patching
News A Microsoft-commissioned study has concluded that Windows databases are cheaper to patch than open source alternatives, but some are understandably sceptical
SAP and Microsoft unveil fruits of collaboration
News A customised version of Outlook that is tightly integrated with the ERP software maker's applications was being shown off on Thursday
Gates dismisses information overload
News The Microsoft chairman has used his speech at his firm's annual CEO forum to try to debunk the myth that workers are being overloaded with information
Netscape 8.0
Review We like Netscape 8's customisation features and its emphasis on security; however, we wish this new version included the native RSS support found in Apple's Safari RSS.
