Privacy-friendly RFID?
Comment In a recent speech to the European Commission, Humberto Moran, chief executive of UK not-for-profit organisation Open Source Innovation, argued it is possible to create RFID systems that don't...
EU states failing to drive IT
News Member countries have been warned that their digital economic growth is being outstripped by the US, China and Japan
Microsoft pushes pay-as-you-go computing
News No, they don't mean "pay as you go to another operating system" -- Microsoft wants to offer PCs in emerging markets that work like prepaid mobile phones, with the user eventually owning the computer
It's time for the Government Misuse Act
Leader The ill-thought-out addition to the Computer Misuse Act could make criminals of large swathes of the IT industry. But it is the lawmakers who should really be on trial
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
Q&A Q&A: Michala Alexander, Microsoft's head of anti-piracy, claims that far from punishing users of counterfeit software the software giant just wants to help and educate them
Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab
Photo The scanning tunnelling microscope is one of the Nobel prize-winning technical breakthroughs to come out of IBM's Zurich laboratory. ZDNet UK went to have a peek at what the lab is working on now,...
.XXX porn domain may rise again
News The company whose plan for the adult suffix was rejected by ICANN has come back fighting with an armful of documents showing how far-right conservatives and Christians all the way up to the White...
Skype update hangs up on hackers
News Users of the Internet phone software should upgrade because of a weakness that could allow cyber crooks to siphon off their data
New security hole found in MS Word
News Microsoft is yet to patch a vulnerability that can open a backdoor for hackers to take over PCs



