Broadband lures small firms to hosted services
News Survey: Small companies want to use the same kind of applications as the big boys, and now they have the bandwidth to do it
Trolltech gets funding boost
News Venture capitalists see a profitable future in embedded Linux
Security guru backs writing down passwords
News Banning employees from making a note of their passwords can lead to lax security as some will stick with the same word for many systems, says a Microsoft security expert
Canterbury trials WiMax ahead of summer launch
News Commercial WiMax is on track to reach Kent in June
Outsourced IT doesn't cut it for councils
News Survey: User satisfaction at local authorities who have handed over the running of their IT departments seems to be lower than at those who still run things in-house
HP: Waiting for the axe to fall
Leader Impending job cuts have some experts questioning whether HP's new chief executive can provide the necessary technical leadership to compliment his renowned restructuring talent
Bluephone continues despite standards group's demise
News The UMA group is being wrapped up, but its standards for converged mobile communciations will live on within 3G
Microsoft UK turns to FBI for security advisor
News Update: A former FBI special agent with a history of battling organised crime has been chosen to head up Microsoft's UK security team
Governance, guidance and how to get your IT project done
Help/HowTo Tighter regulations in the wake of corporate accounting scandals can make life tricky in the IT department. We look at some alternatives that let you get your job done
Sustaining you in the Windows wasteland
Help/HowTo If you miss your Linux apps when forced onto a Windows machine, all is not lost. Cygwin can save you, and is just a free download away
Google's upcoming identity crisis
Analysis With its new personalised home pages and its email service, the Internet firm is clearly moving away from search, but it's anyone's guess where it's going
T-Mobile MDA Compact
Review We like T-Mobile's MDA Compact as much as we liked the similar i-mate JAM. The only drawbacks -- of both devices -- are limited memory and lack of built-in Wi-Fi.
BitTorrent drops its trackers
News Faced with the growing threat of legal action from copyright holders, the creater of the BitTorrent P2P application has dispensed with the need for centralised file-hosting
Netscape's brand new browser gets patched
News Just a day after being released, Netscape 8 has notched up its first security patch
IBM and Nortel form research alliance
News Joint venture will look to create a new class of blade servers
Safety scare over G4 batteries
News Apple has warned customers that the batteries in its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops are at risk of overheating
Huge HP job cuts feared
News Analysts are predicting that many thousands of HP workers could be axed following latest financial results

