Identity theft remains a growing problem
News ID theft almost doubled in the US over the past year. The UK government estimates this crime has cost more than £1bn over the same period here
The state of Web services
Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Some of the key technologies underpinning Web services have not lived up to their original promise. We take a look at just how far they have come, and how far they...
Amazon takes a razor to its homepage
Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Amazon.com's latest strategy could see it evolve from an amorphous shopping portal to a collection of lucrative Web services managed by a growing army of external...
Everything you need to know about Web services
Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Vendors have purposefully muddied the water when it comes to defining Web services but it is actually easily explained
Tesco.com cuts development costs with Web services
Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Tesco.com claims the write-once, use-on-multiple-platforms nature of Web services has allowed it to cut development costs and avoid redundant code
Evesham targets students with PC price cuts
News Heading off to university this autumn? An offer from Evesham Technology could help you cope with next term's bar bill
Harvard to steward popular blog tool
News The specification for a widely used Web log tool has transferred to Harvard Law School
Grids halt hardware overspending - IBM
News Adopting a grid computing model would allow businesses to stop spending too much on processing power, says IBM, which is launching grid additions to its server software
Analyst urges caution on Madison
News IT managers need to evaluate carefully the costs of moving to Intel's new, powerful 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, according to the Meta Group
Oftel ruling will not mean cheaper Internet
News Oftel has ruled that BT has been overcharging for its wholesale unmetered Internet-access product, but ISPs may find better things to do with their savings than passing them on to customers
Intel's top brass celebrate 35th anniversary
Video Intel's top executives and founders gather with hundreds of employees at the company's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters to celebrate 35 years in the chipmaking business.
Amazon casts its net wider
News The e-commerce giant wants customers to pay other online retailers via their Amazon accounts
A remote control for the digital home
Video ZDNet's Patrick Houston looks at the Linux-based iPronto digital display, which acts as a remote control and an Internet browser.
Eliminate EDI by migrating to the Web
Feature Shifting the exchange of purchase orders to the Internet can cut out EDI's layers of complexity
Europe to push open source for e-government
News A European Commission initiative is promoting open standards and open-source software for government services, which could mean trouble for proprietary software vendors
ISP caching tool muddies copyright waters
News A Swedish company has launched software that lets Internet service providers store popular files from song-swapping sites
Dell vetoes eight-processor server
News Dell has severed a partnership with Intel built around creating an eight-processor server
'Another four years of software gloom' ahead
News There are still too many companies selling too much software to too few people; a situation that will continue till 2007, according to Ovum
Palm OS looks to voice
News Palm's operating-system subsidiary sees converged devices as the answer to falling handheld sales
Dell drops 'computer'
News Dell has changed its name to reflect better its growing range of products
Infineon awards Accenture $48m outsourcing deal
News The German semiconductor company will pay Accenture to run its SAP software support for seven years, in a boost to the outsourcing market
Siebel tries again to rent out CRM
News Siebel has revived a plan to rent a scaled-down customer relationship management package over the Internet, this time teaming up with IBM
Linux lawsuit raises questions for customers
Comment Charles Cooper: The SCO-IBM lawsuit has opened up the debate on open-source software, and customers need to consider their own liabilities.
Business Objects buys rival
News The $820m acquisition joins a wave of consolidation reshaping the business-software market
HP LaserJet 2300dtn
Review HP's LaserJet 2300dtn fits an impressive number of high-end features into a printer that's priced for budget-minded small offices.
Cisco flaw exploit posted online
News Code taking advantage of a security hole in Cisco routers is freely available on the Internet
Microsoft set to refund $1bn
News Microsoft is edging towards a settlement under which it will pay back $1.1bn to California buyers of Windows 95 and 98

