Domain registrar quits under court action
News Domain Registrar Services Ltd and its sister company UK Names won't be selling any more domain names after a successful court action by Nominet
Community broadband gets royal approval
News Could broadband's killer application be the ability to let a duke surf wirelessly from a pub?
Windows iTunes passes one million mark
News Over a million Windows users have downloaded iTunes since its introduction, and sent Apple's song sales skyrocketing
Broadband prices tumble worldwide
News Good news for customers, but Europe is still the most expensive market for entry-level high-speed Internet access
Silicon's successor lurks in the lab
Feature Touted as a miracle material, nanotubes have a long way to go before realising their commercial potential
Broadband alliance takes aim at BT
News Six British telecoms operators have banded together and are pushing for changes in wholesale broadband pricing, but BT denies there's a problem
CRM rivalry heats up
News Siebel's acquisition of rival UpShot has spawned campaigns by two other competitors to grab market share
Lexmark tops estimates for third quarter
News The printer manufacturer reported strong sales, surpassing analysts' estimates for its profits
UK government IT spend to top £12bn
News The government's investment in technology must take its social impact into consideration, warns Gartner
Text messages aim to cut bus delays
News Orange and Metroline have announced a deal that will see London bus drivers receiving text messages aimed at keeping the service running to a timetable
IBM brings speed to the low end
News IBM's lowest-end p615 Unix server will acquire a faster processor
Putting the pressure on outside suppliers
Feature How to go about cutting costs from external supplier relationships
HP's AlphaServer reaches end of line
News The final model in HP's long-serving series features 64 EV7 processors
Storage newcomers target niches
News Two companies are entering the crowded storage market - with network-attached storage devices tightly focused on specific sectors
Consumer electronics 'needs standards'
News Japanese firms should be promoting the standardisation of home technology rather than competing with each other, according to a Japanese government official
Face to face: Larry Weinbach of Unisys
Video In an exclusive face to face interview, Unisys chairman and CEO Larry Weinbach tells ZDNet.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about how he has moved the company away from selling mainframes and PCs and...
IBM targets smaller firms with flat database fee
News IBM has set a flat fee for DB2 Express, with an eye to the small and medium business market
Windows iTunes debut draws mixed reviews
News Apple's version of iTunes for Windows has proved extremely popular, the company says
OpenOffice.org 1.1
Review This feature-rich, flexible and, above all, free office suite is much more than a refuge for the anti-Microsoft tendency. It works, it's reliable and it's useful.
Scientists investigate water power for mobiles
News Electricity generated from small amounts of water could be the future of powering small devices such as mobile phones or calculators
Sony slashes jobs worldwide
News The consumer electronics giant says it will cut 20,000 jobs in a reform programme
Desktop and server security pull together
News Network Associates will launch an integrated software security system that covers desktop and server systems
Bug-hunting becomes mass effort
News US researchers have tweaked open-source techniques to gather better bug reports from software users
HP holds patent for ink-refill device
News Hewlett-Packard has patents for a cartridge-refilling device stashed away, though says there are no plans to manufacture it at present
Symantec releases new patch-management Ghost
News The company is launching a new version of a program that allows software patches to be applied en masse



