Ellison extends support promise in PeopleSoft bid
News Oracle AppsWorld: In his keynote, Larry Ellison slammed Web services and CRM software hype - and promised extended support for PeopleSoft products if Oracle's takeover bid is successful
Welsh spurn Windows to create own Linux
News Linux User Expo: Wales-based computer users, tired of waiting for a Welsh-language version of Windows, are doing it themselves with open-source KDE desktop software
Use IP and BGP to troubleshoot Internet connectivity
Feature When your chief financial officer can't access a partner site, and wants to know why, you need to find out what's going on. Here are some ways to get the facts you need
Europe's online gender divide slow to close
News America remains the only country where the view that the Internet is a boy's toy has been properly sunk
Cygwin smuggles Unix shell commands into Windows
Feature Red Hat's Cygwin software lets administrators emulate Linux and Unix functions
Japanese group wants more human faces scanned
News A new industry consortium will promote widespread use of facial-recognition software
'No danger' of Internet-address shortage
News The rumour that Internet addresses will soon run out is untrue, says the man responsible for allocating them in the Asia Pacific region
Symantec expands security arsenal
News Symantec will lay electronic 'honey pots' for hackers and beef up its intrustion-detection software
Winamp pioneer makes peace with AOL
News Nullsoft's founder rescinds threat to leave AOL - for now
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News The latest research urges the government to provide broadband vouchers for doctors and nurses, as other MPs warn there is a shortage of broadband champions within Westminster
Jon Hall: Open source should be protected from 'looters'
News Linux User Expo: A well-known open-source advocate compares SCO's Linux lawsuit to the theft of Iraq's national treasures
IBM puts Opteron on the rack
News A high-performance clustered server system based around the Opteron processor is to be unveiled at the ClusterWorld conference
Apple and Microsoft: Can this divorce be saved?
Comment David Coursey: Recent announcements by both companies indicate deep divisions between Apple and Microsoft - here is my view of what that means
HP hopes to serve up storage ace
News Storage-services spending is set to rise, say analysts, and Hewlett-Packard is hoping to cash in with five new packages
Microsoft puts handhelds in the Wi-Fi hot seat
News Microsoft is bundling a month's free Wi-Fi access with Pocket PCs, in a bid to boost use of hot spots
J.D. Edwards users speak out against Oracle
News J.D. Edwards customers fear being left out in the cold, if Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft succeeds
Jobs: G5 Power Macs will outperform any Windows PC
News The latest Apple hardware can take on any PC on the market, says Jobs as he unveils the new Power Macs and announces new software, including an iChat beta
Broadband's swept-up features fail to fire
News Broadband households use their bandwidth for faster email and Net surfing, rather than flashy multimedia services
Professor reveals EverQuest's 'inherent sexism'
News Research by an economics professor reveals female characters make less money than equally skilled males
Dutch PC maker sues Dell
News Dell stands accused of infringing the patent for a motherboard design owned by Netherlands-based Tulip Computers
Cheap Linux PCs targeted at home users
News A US start-up is selling PCs running the Linux operating system to consumers at bargain-basement prices
Apple unleashes Panther OS
News Apple will begin selling the latest version of its operating system, which it claims has 100 new features, later this year
'Walkie-talkie' mobile phones face testing time
News 'Push to talk' services that transform mobile phones into walkie-talkies are attracting investment from carriers
IBM signals Unix-server boost
News IBM is to release a dual-processor Unix workstation running a 1.45GHz processor
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Preview Apple's Mac OS X 10.3, also known as Panther, promises a range of improvements -- particularly to the user interface. We take an early look.
Intel and universities team to create super-Internet
News Industrial and academic heavyweights have launched an experimental network running on top of the Internet that will allow applications to span the globe
Apple Power Mac G5
News Apple has unveiled its fast, sleek 64-bit Power Mac G5. Get our early impressions of this hot new desktop PC.
