Toshiba makes 100GB laptop drive breakthrough
News Toshiba has increased the capacity of its latest notebook drive by bumping up the amount of data each platter can hold to 80 gigabits per square inch.
Lead-free motherboard kinder to environment
News VIA has stripped lead out of its manufacturing process to comply with new laws on the recycling of IT equipment
Internet telephony rides back into fashion
Q&A Linksys chief executive Victor Tsao unfolds the networking-gear firm's expansion plans
Staffware bought by Tibco
News The British software company has been valued at $217m in the cash and stock transaction
Who Shot Darl McBride?
Comment The SCO saga has all the elements of soap opera but like the best drama, it's teaching us some unexpected lessons about the future
Putting DVDs on paper
Comment A great idea, perhaps, but will its execution be up to scratch?
Gmail: a first look
Preview Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
BayStar wants management changes at SCO
News The investor says its attempt to get back $20m invested in SCO was designed to prompt major changes at the company, which claims legal rights over Linux
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
News Update: The European Competition Commission report on the Microsoft case has been published in full and quotes Microsoft internal emails attributing its customers' loyalty to the high cost of...
Intel: Death to all wires
Q&A Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger says every computer-related wire, except the power cord, should be done away with
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
News UK IT workers are ignoring best practice and could do more to be professional, a study claims
Build your own Linux server
Tech Guide Want to give an old PC a new lease of life? Why not transform it into a Linux server for your home/small business network?
IBM sells supercomputer to GM
News A supercomputer, constructed from 2,000 processors and able to perform 9 trillion calculations a second, is a strong contender for 'most powerful system of any industrial company', according to IBM
Embattled SCO picks new financial head
News SCO has reassigned its chief financial officer to corporate development and hired a new CFO from another firm, the week after a major investor said it wanted its $20m back
Threat from TCP hole 'small' - researcher
News A flawed communications protocol would not have caused the entire Internet to collapse, says the security specialist who discovered the problem
Yahoo corrects email flaw
News A flaw in its Web-based email system could have let attackers control victims' Yahoo accounts
Pro-Intel purchasing under fire in Europe
News Regulators are concerned by government procurement processes that favour Intel chips
Cisco squashes one bug
News A fix for a critical TCP flaw has been released by Cisco
Microsoft hits back at EU
News Punitive antitrust sanctions against Microsoft will hamstring major firms both inside and outside the software world, the company claims
