Previous DayNetscape 7 Preview Release 1
Review If Preview Release 1 is any indication, Netscape 7 will be the best non-Microsoft browser around -- and may be the best browser, period.
Gartner European CRM summit roundup
Feature ZDNet reports from Gartner's conference in Paris this week
CRM - bad, and dangerous to know
Feature Customer relationship management has a bad reputation in the corporate world and getting involved in a CRM project could be detrimental to your career
Nokia takes stake in Redback Networks
News Redback's stock rose after it was announced that the mobile giant was to buy a stake in its communications-equipment business
Eight building blocks of CRM
Feature Gartner offers three examples of European companies using these essential foundations
AOL unveils Mozilla-based Netscape 7.0
News A preview version of Netscape's latest browser is now available for download, as AOL continues its campaign to win over Web users
Via pushes performance on cheaper PCs
News A new chipset for Pentium 4 will mean better performance for low-cost Pentium 4 and Celeron systems
Microsoft taps execs to test tablet PCs
News Chief executives will get a chance to test-drive Microsoft's latest technology at its CEO Summit
Passwords are the weakest link
News Special Report: Despite all the warnings about the need for tight security, passwords that are easily guessed are still the biggest vulnerability for networks around the world
Hard disk upgrades
Buyer's Guide Sooner or later, you always need more storage. Check out our eight-product group test to see which internal and external hard disks we recommend.
Employers: Find out your workers' World Cup rights
News The World Cup is likely to be disruptive to the working day in many firms. Law firm Olswang offers advice to employers
Dell cuts 150 jobs in Ireland
News An ongoing efficiency drive has led to yet more job losses in Ireland as Dell consolidates its manufacturing operations
Seagate Barracuda 180
Review By all means put this drive in your server, but it's just too costly to put in your average desktop PC.
Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
Review At lower capacities, it's a close run thing between the Barracuda ATA IV and IBM's Deskstar 120GXP. Both are competitively priced -- shop around for a bargain.
Tom Siebel: Paid to be paranoid
Feature Earlier this year, fortune's winds began to shift for Tom Siebel
Sony works with Palm on multimedia
News The Clie handheld maker is hoping to build its multimedia technology into Palm's next operating system, potentially creating an early market for Palm OS entertainment applications
IBM Deskstar 120GXP
Review Unless you're after the biggest hard drive possible, IBM's Deskstar 120GXP provides an excellent combination of storage capacity and performance at a reasonable price.
Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LE
Review If you need the extra desk space this compact case design gives you, choose this drive. Otherwise you'll probably get better value for money elsewhere.
Next-gen Palms promise double battery life
News Palm OS 5 running on Motorola's Dragonball MX1 processor will be able to squeeze out twice the battery life found in Pocket PCs, despite sharing a similar hardware architecture
Maxtor 1394 External Storage
Review This 80GB drive needs updating to a larger capacity to make it competitive with comparable products from other manufacturers.
Storage networking fans move ahead
News Deals and chips aim to promote interoperability within data-transfer networks
LaCie Desktop USB Hard Drive
Review An inexpensive and straightforward way of adding lots of external storage capacity to your system.
LaCie Desktop FireWire Hard Drive
Review This 160GB drive offers high capacity at a reasonable price, although it's not particularly fast. If IEEE 1394 is your interface of choice, it represents very good value for money.
Fujitsu storage brand confuses strategy
News The Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has made a bid for the lucrative storage market - but can the Eternus brand mask strategic issues with other Fujitsu businesses?
Dual boot to support desktops
Feature Running Linux instead of Windows on company desktops is becoming increasingly attractive. Installing both operating systems on support machines and dual booting can banish some of the...
Spida bites Microsoft SQL servers
News An Internet-based worm is targeting Microsoft SQL Server systems where the password is left on default
Why the traditional CTO is history
Comment In a more sophisticated market, the Chief Technology Officer's role is shifting to include a broader business and financial focus.
When open source forks
Comment By its very nature, open source software projects are liable to split -- or rather fork, as the process is known in the trade.
IBM's mainframe makeover
News Big Blue is shifting its mainframe line to use technology from its servers, such as Power processors
MS licensing: Pay now or pay more later
News A Gartner study warns that companies could pay 45 percent more for their next software upgrades if they fail to sign up for Microsoft's new licensing programme by the 31 July deadline
Google ushers Web surfers into its labs
News Google Labs lets users peek at experimental technologies that may never make it onto the main site - and raises questions about Google's future direction
Sun mimics Microsoft in Solaris release
News Sun will build its e-business application server and other higher-level features into Solaris, but the additions aren't coming for free
Sony: Game wars are over - we win
News Sony's president boasts there's no game war as his company has already slain the competition. He says the gap between the rivals is about as wide as the Grand Canyon
IBM hits a chip milestone
News Big Blue's silicon germanium plant in Burlington is still going strong and turning out chips for mobiles and wireless devices
Five years ago: Compaq top in UK workstations, Sun goes down
News Compaq this afternoon vaulted to first place in the UK workstation market
