Previous DayDutch government's Microsoft talks collapse
News Brief: The Dutch government has abandoned a €147m scheme to employ Microsoft for a massive systems upgrade
Poor IT hindering crime fighting
News Most of Britain's police forces have come under fire in a recent Home Office report for poor use of IT systems, with London's Metropolitan Police coming in for particularly heavy criticism
How your old mobile could make a difference
News If Santa brings you a new mobile phone this year, it's worth thinking carefully about what to do with your old one
GPL to get a makeover
Feature The General Public License hasn't had a proper update for 13 years, and it's starting to show its age. It looks set to be updated though, to ensure it's more in tune with today's software models...
Opera hints at version 8 with latest beta
News With voice commands, shrinking Web pages and improved RSS tools, Opera is confident that the beta of its new browser has enough new features to merit a jump to version 8.0
NTT invests $3m in Linux company
News Brief: Linux company MontaVista has received a $3m equity stake from telecoms giant NTT DoCoMo
BT, Lycos, EU and Vorderman vie for villainy crown
News The shortlist for the Internet Heroes and Villains of 2005 is out - and there is the odd surprise
Randex youths made botnets for gaming
News The youths who were sentenced for writing the Randex worm built a 30,000 strong botnet to win at online gaming
Easynet lands broadband blow against BT
News The first ISP to buy Easynet's 8Mbps LLUStream product has been named
Notebooks plan a thinner 2005
News The future is thinner and lighter for notebooks - although the industry admits the 'desknote' still has a place in the market
Packeteer picks up satellite firm
News The bandwidth-management company has announced the purchase of a firm that specialises in optimising satellite-network-based Net connections
Nanotech merger creates patent powerhouse
News Carbon Nanotechnologies and C Sixty have merged, forming a company that owns patents vital to nanotube development
IBM M400
Review This is a highly portable projector with plenty of features for business users and for occasionally running entertainment applications.
Win five copies of VMWare Workstation
News Day six of ZDNet UK's Twelve Days of Christmas mega competition gives you a chance to win one of five copies of VMWare Workstation
SGI counts in Montecito
News Silicon Graphics is going to integrate Intel's planned dual-core Itanium chips into its top-end machines next year
Wal-Mart provides RFID boost
News The world's largest retailer's insistence on suppliers' use of RFID has played a major part in the growth of the technology
Linux holds out against attackers
News A recent 'honeynet' experiment showed that unpatched Linux systems held up for an average of three months before succumbing to Internet-based attacks
Will Mozilla's Lightning strike Outlook?
News The Mozilla stable has produced yet another rival to a Microsoft product in the shape of a project to integrate a calendar function into its Thunderbird email application
Microsoft prepares scaled-down Windows for Europe
News Windows XP Reduced Media Edition will be released only in Europe after the recent EU ruling - but it is unlikely to be a bargain for purchasers
