Previous DayGates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application
News Builder: Developers will be able to create collaborative applications based on Office products, which Bill Gates claims will make them easier and more familiar for end users
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
News The IT industry and KPMG are aghast that Gordon Brown has withdrawn a tax break that helped companies to bridge the digital divide
Windows Live beta
Preview Windows Live beta provides you with a handy personal login page featuring all the news you choose, as well as instant messaging, email and other tools.
Inside Windows Live beta
Photo A screenshot gallery of Windows Live beta, with images of its newsfeeds, image search and other features.
Don't write off the fax just yet
News No-one uses a fax these days, do they? Efax specialist j2 Global thinks differently, as it continues its European expansion with new sites that are helping to fuel fast growth
OSDL reaches out to Linux coders
News Closer ties with kernel developers are a key plank of the industry-funded groups attempt to keep itself close to the community
E-commerce remains Brown's budgetary blind spot
Leader Everyone else is doing it, so why can't we?
Home Secretary admonishes Lords over ID cards
News The government has attacked peers for holding up its ID card legislation
UK's network of cables to get mapped
News A new attempt to create a 3D map of the cables under Britain's roads will have to overcome some serious technical issues
Photos: Tracking people with VoIP and RFID
Photo IBM has opened an RFID facility in Dublin specialising in asset management. Some of the applications on show include a VoIP-enabled RFID device that could supersede the pager, so we went to take a...
Samsung unveils 32GB Flash hard drive
News Samsung pushes on with a hard drive made of flash memory chips, but it won't be replacing hard disks just yet
Orange push email trial nearly complete
News Newham Council has been testing Windows Mobile 5.0, and it says it's happy with the results
Linux gets PlayStation 3 chip support
News Version 2.6.16 of the Linux Kernel is out, and includes features to help it run on multicore processors like Cell and Niagara
ViewSonic VA1912w
Review Although the 19in. wide-screen ViewSonic VA1912w looks modest, it packs a punch, with above-average performance, full-sounding built-in speakers and a very sweet price.
SunGrid finally ready for launch
News US users will be able to tap into Sun's processing-power-on-demand service within days
Firefox 2.0 reaches alpha
News Mozilla wants developers to help test the bookmarking and history features of its next browser
Fedora 5 released
News The latest version of Red Hat's non-commercial Linux distribution includes better graphics support and tools to support Xen virtualisation
Vista launch pushed back to 2007
News Microsoft has been forced to postpone the launch of its next operating system until next year, missing the crucial Christmas period
