Are your disaster-recovery plans licensed?
Help/HowTo Ensuring compliance with legislation and software licensing is often over looked when planning disaster recovery. We give you some hints to help keep your plan legal
IBM takes aim at spam
News Update: Spammers could soon be thwarted by an anti-junk email tool developed by IBM
Bank customers 'becoming more phishing-savvy'
News The association that represents British banks is confident that consumers are becoming more clued-up about online fraud, which cost its members £12m last year
Lampposts to provide location-based services?
News Last Mile Communications wants to use lampposts to create a wireless broadband network that would support location-based services
RealNetworks cries foul over Microsoft antitrust case
News Microsoft has been accused of dragging its feet over the introduction of a version of Windows that doesn't include Media Player
Sun plans eight-way Opteron servers this year
News Sun has big-iron plans for Opteron, but users say they need more guidance on just where SPARC fits into the plans
Find it fast: desktop search programs
Group Test Need to find a specific email message or file on your hard drive? You're not alone. Fortunately, eight new desktop search programs let you search your local hard drive. Read on to find out more.
Microsoft criticised for IP address configuration patent
News Update :The software giant has come under fire for 'yet another example of how patents can kill or inhibit standards'
IBM promotes virtualisation on blades
News A six-month evaluation version of VMware's ESX Server - which allows one machine to run multiple operating systems simultaneously - will come with IBM's latest blade servers
Faster Web services on the horizon?
Analysis Web services have become a victim of their own success, according to some. Do they need speeding up, and if so how can it be done?
Benchmarks don't measure up for new platforms
Leader Modern server designs are powerful and complex. Old benchmarking ideas are not up to the task of measuring what matters
EFF appeals Apple trade secret decision
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said the decision's 'sweeping terms threaten every journalist, whether publishing in print, radio, television or on the Internet'
Yahoo email storage reaches 1GB
News Almost a year after Google's Gmail service started public testing, Yahoo has matched the 1GB of storage it offers for free email accounts
Intel invests in electronic ink firm
News Brief: The chipmaker has invested an undisclosed sum into a firm that is developing and marketing electronic paper screen technology
Firefox security claims rubbished
News Mozilla's president has dismissed claims that more flaws will emerge in Firefox just because its market share is increasing
iTunes DRM-free backdoor reopened
News Less than a day after Apple closed the loophole that allowed users of a third party program to download DRM-free songs from its online store, another has been found
Eolas case rehearing demanded
News Microsoft has called for a wider examination of issues surrounding alleged patent infringement in Internet Explorer
Cybercrime 'must be taken seriously'
News EURIM has said that crimes committed online need to be taken as seriously as they would be offline, in a call for an overhaul of laws relating to computer-related crime
MP demands more cash for tech start-ups
News An MP has presented a private members bill to encourage more investment in new tech firms
Microsoft tests new patch program
News The software behemoth is rolling out a new patch program to help users of Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 manage their Windows updates
Yahoo Desktop Search (beta)
Preview Although it's still in public beta, we have great expectations for Yahoo Desktop Search, and we like the features we've seen so far.
MSN Desktop Search
Review MSN Desktop Search delivers fast local searches and is simple to use, but we'd like to see an integrated viewer and a media player. It's a good first try, though.



