Previous DayMcAfee accepts Network Associates offer
News Network Associates has finally suceeded in its bid to buy up the remaining shares in McAfee.com
Friday
Blog Friday 23/08/2002I'm up in Edinburgh, taking a break and trying like a hyperactive haggis to get tickets to anything worth seeing in the Festivals. As always, it's a scramble to find out what's any...
Apple may cut original iMac shipments
News Is the market big enough for two models of iMac? Apple may not think so, as a report suggests it may be stopping shipments of 15-inch models in the autumn
Is the new Mac OS X worth the price tag?
News Jaguar - Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X operating system - is a worthwhile upgrade for networked Macs, but it's not for everyone
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment BT has its hyperlink patent claim thrown out of court, News Corp. takes a stand on the immorality of the Internet and Metafilter is back!
Governments should switch to open source - study
News A new study from the University of Maastricht finds that open source is a better fit for the public sector than proprietary software
Name your top tech heroes
News Do you think that Babbage, Turing and Berners-Lee rank as some of the greatest individuals in computing history, or would you make different choices?
Borland takes on Microsoft with developer tools
News Borland is set to release developer tools for building software for Windows and .Net, putting it head-to-head with Microsoft
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Review Take a good, hard look at Mac OS X 10.2 if you're adding a Mac to a Windows network -- Jaguar's new tools can't be beaten. But home users, beware the £99 upgrade price if you're not looking for...
Web services: Is it CORBA redux?
Comment Gordon Van Huizen: The future of Web services is in real jeopardy - though not for the reasons many might initially think.
BT loses hyperlink patent case
News BT has lost its lawsuit against Prodigy, in which it claimed that the entire Internet infringed on its 'hyperlink patent'. If BT had won, every ISP could have been forced to pay royalties
Printers still jewel in HP's crown
News Hewlett-Packard's reign over the printer market continues, according to a report from research firm IDC
Internet addicts surf on work time
News A new survey finds that some employees are spending up to an entire workday each week surfing the Web - but not for work purposes
IM client vulnerable to attack
News A security analyst has warned that the messenger client Trillian is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow attack that would let a malicious hacker run any program on the computer
Tracking down the laptop thieves
News Notebook computers are a popular target for criminals, and PC makers are turning to tracking technology to help the police find stolen units
Apher worm: From Russia with problems
News The worm poses as an email from Microsoft announcing a security update from a Russian vendor. It also includes a nasty Trojan horse
Day of reckoning for Xbox Live applicants
News The odds of getting hit by lightning may be better than those for getting picked to test Xbox Live. Still, users aren't pleased with the way the process was carried out
Microsoft warns of Office, IE security risks
News An attacker can use Office to run programs and wipe out a hard drive, putting millions of users at risk
Integration is key for digital video recorders
News Consumers who use DVRs have given them good reviews, but for the technology to take off, it needs to be integrated into other devices
