Previous DayTech investment grows after years of decline
News Venture capitalists are once again having faith in technology companies, with security companies achieving particularly large rounds of funding
Maxell toughens up DVDs
News Scratches and dust should no longer be DVD-destroyers, says Maxell as it launches a new line of toughened-up products
Wi-Fi overtakes Ethernet for home networks
News Wi-Fi networks are becoming increasingly common in the home - outstripping Ethernet for the first time, according to a US survey
Linux adds InfiniBand support
News Brief: The latest Linux kernel will include support for the high-speed networking technology
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 21/1/2005 Someone at the European Union has been listening to Tubthumping, the Chumbawamba hymn to non-stop erotic drinking with the chorus "I get knocked down, and I get up again. Ain't...
Microsoft appoints new UK public service chief
News Microsoft has appointed a government 'tsar' for the UK to help develop and promote the software giant's software in the public sector
Broadband growth sees incumbent telcos under fire
News High-speed Internet connections are rolling out all over Europe, and newer providers are providing a challenge to previously dominant telcos
Sony cooperates on convergence
Q&A Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony USA, has faced his fair share of challenges in the job - not least the task of getting different branches of Sony to work together. That changed when the iPod came...
MySQL and Firebird battle for database top spot
News Brief: Database developers are favouring Firebird and MySQL over PostgreSQL, according to new research
Crowt.A virus preys on news junkies
News A virus that grabs the latest CNN headlines and uses them to entice email users to fall victim to a keystroke logger is starting to do the rounds
Patent directive 'back on EU agenda'
News Update: Opponents of software patenting fear that the European Computer Implemented Inventions Directive is about to be adopted, but the EC is denying the claim
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Leader Patent officers and politicians simply do not speak the language of developers - preferring their own brand of Newspeak
UN body promotes open source in education
News An official UN report has praised the high quality and reliability of free and open source software
Sonoma shows off for the cameras
Video As the first laptops which include Intel's latest mobile offering start to emerge, we give you a closer look at Sonoma
IBM ThinkPad T43: a first look
Preview IBM has unveiled its first Sonoma-based notebook, an upgrade to the successful thin-and-light T42 model.
Intel accelerates virtualisation plans
News Plans from the chipmaker to make it easier to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same PC have been speeded up
Spammers' goods go on sale on eBay
News The auction site has been hosting the sale of email lists and mass-mailing tools
Researchers uncover Office encryption flaw
News A vulnerability that could allow access to password-protected files has been called a 'kindegarten crypto mistake' - Microsoft is set to investigate the issue
Banks still top targets for phishing scams
News Rather than targeting the retail sector in the run-up to Christmas, online fraudsters kept their attention on the financial sector
Microsoft does DRM flaw u-turn
News Despite having said that a Windows Media Player vulnerability was not a software flaw, Redmond is now issuing a patch to deal with the problem
ZoneAlarm Security Suite 5.5
Review ZoneAlarm Security Suite puts Norton Internet Security and McAfee Internet Security to shame with its easy-to-use features.
