Palm aims to break China market
News The handheld maker has moved into the potentially lucrative Chinese market, but it faces stiff competition from established rivals
Security policy - making it palatable
Comment Peter Judge: Someone needs to grasp the security policy nettle. Will GAISP and IS17799 do it, or will they just be another consultants' gravy-train?
ThinkPad notebook goes desktop
News IBM's latest ThinkPad notebooks are designed for businesses that are thinking of moving over from desktops to more mobile PCs
Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 9.1
Review Mandrake Linux 9.1 is in virtual lockstep with Red Hat and SuSE, but offers cleaner fonts and support for partitioning NTFS drives.
Opteron launches amidst benchmark fanfare
News AMD has released its Opteron processor, and several companies have also announced products based on the chip
Opteron strikes up a Quartet
News AMD and Newisys have a four-processor server based on the Opteron processor set to hit the market later this year
HP server slims down with Pentium M
News Hewlett-Packard is planning a blade server that features the Pentium M processor, which it says will boost performance
Office 2000 users hit by flaw
News A security setting that keeps administrative privileges safe is causing a registration-request bug to surface in the latest Office 2000 update
NEC unveils multitasking set-top chip
News The all-in-one uPD61171 chip can perform digital decoding and compression tasks, and power devices that record to a DVD or hard disk
Air2Web helps IM get along
News A package from wireless specialists Air2Web aims to help instant messaging users to communicate with buddies on different programs using their PDAs
Sun plans Opteron software support
News While stopping short of supporting the AMD chip's 64-bit capabilities as yet, Sun's software will be Opteron-compatible
Don't rely on cookies
Feature Cookieless data persistence is possible using these viable strategies. Check out which option could work best for you
Apple tunes up for music service
News The Mac maker may be planning to launch its music download service in a few days' time, at an event which may also include news of the iPod
Linux lab revamps supercomputer plans
News The Open Source Development Lab is getting a new chief executive, along with more ambitious plans for corporate sponsorship
Intel fixes delayed 3GHz Pentium 4
News The 3GHz chip, paired with a new chipset for added performance, is now shipping in volume after the addition of a BIOS patch
AMD bets all its chips on Opteron
News The company's new server processor, debuting on Tuesday, is a make-or-break proposition for Intel's competitor
Learn the basics of Apache's Cocoon
Feature Understand Cocoon as a way to capture, render, and deliver Web-based content for a variety of purposes



