Previous DayMesh brings broadband to rural Bucks
News High-speed wireless networking means students at a rural college can now enjoy a 'hot campus'
Microsoft details enhancements to Great Plains 8.0
News The next version of Microsoft's accounting software will include a new interface, closer ties to Office and a revamped business portal
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 23/04/2004 When you're working at the cutting edge of antiterrorist technology, discretion is required. This sits awkwardly with the natural desire of high-tech companies to tell the world...
JPEG patent suit targets 31 major firms
News A who's who of the hardware business are being sued by Forgent Networks, a software company that claims rights over the compression technology behind the image format
HP tops chip-purchasing table
News Hewlett-Packard was the world's biggest chip buyer last year, according to market data
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Giant sheep, alcoholic robots, secret Greeks and moist laptops? Five days that didn't shake the world but did bemuse Rupert
Mobile player takes aim at Office
News Germany's SoftMaker hopes that users of its productivity applications for handheld computers will be lured to the PC versions as well
Autonomy to power Olympic surveillance
News Software from Autonomy will be helping Greek security forces to look for terrorists at this summer's games
Microsoft needs some open-source fairy dust
Comment Novell, Sun, IBM and HP have all managed to appropriate some of the positive kudos generated by the open-source community, leaving Microsoft looking cold and out of touch
Mobile-chip firm rides IPO wave
News SiRF Technology's shares jumped 25 percent on its first day of trading
Three UK arrests in global piracy crackdown
News Britain's high-tech cops swept on three locations on Thursday, recovering a large amount of pirated software and 100 CD copiers
Sony CLIE PEG-TH55
Review Despite a few design quirks, Sony's sleek CLIE PEG-TH55 offers a long list of features that will appeal both to business users and those with more playful natures.
Jobs spurns offer of iPod partnership
News Apple's chief executive says opening up the iPod to RealNetworks would not make commercial sense
Network Associates adopts new name
News The security firm will change its name to reflect its most prominent product line
Microsoft stands firm in the 'great Linux debate'
Feature The software giant ventured into hostile territory on Wednesday to argue its case during a live debate over the future of the Linux desktop
Code exists to exploit TCP flaw
News Symantec has confirmed that malicious code that can take advantage of the Transmission Control Protocol flaw reported this week exists but says that the risk of real problems is remote
Gmail under attack in California
News Scanning the text of email should be illegal, according to legislation introduced this week
Legal costs depress Microsoft's bottom line
News The software giant has reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations but were significantly down on the same period last year, due to ongoing court battles
Global piracy purge nets 200 PCs
News Searches coordinated by the US Department of Justice have been carried out in 10 countries, with thousands of illegal copies seized
