Previous DayReturn of the chess-playing supercomputer
News Grand master Michael Adams is taking on the Hydra, a 64-computer cluster, across the 64 squares of the chess board
EP: 'Patent directive is flawed'
News A group of intellectual-property lawyers have agreed that the software patent directive needs tightening up
CA reveals 'high risk' flaw
News Many of Computer Associates' antivirus products are affected by a major vulnerability, according to an advisory from the firm
Remote working 'will be the death of the middle manager'
News Flexible working will be a boon for IT managers but the death knell for others, according to recent research
FSF works on 'fully free' OpenOffice
News Concerns that OpenOffice will be trapped into using Sun's proprietary implementation of Java have lead the Free Software Foundation to improve its own version
Skype's affiliate scheme goes live
News The popular VoIP service provider has taken the wraps off its new community programme, with incentives to try and get more people signed up to its paid-for services
Infineon and IBM in Ovonic collaboration
News Phase-change memory is to form the focus of their latest joint project, which will look at potential materials for next-generation storage technology
Diskeeper 9.0 Professional
Review Diskeeper 9.0 Professional is a quick, easy to use and effective disk defragmenter, and comes with scheduling and boot-time options. If you want to keep your systems running as fast as they did...
Locking, logging and linking: What's coming in Office 12
Feature The next version of Microsoft's productivity suite looks set to have server-based features that log users' actions and lock down what they can do with documents, to fit in with the 'new world of work'
BT's visions lack focus
Leader BT's dreams of a future perfect leave the present tense
PalmOne spends $30m to drop the 'One'
News A couple of years after Palm became PalmOne, the company seems to have had a $30m change of heart
PalmSource CEO steps down
News David Nagel has left the mobile-OS company, seemingly in response to the company's underperformance in the marketplace and on Wall Street
Futurologist predicts need for 'digital bubble'
News Personal 'force field' needed to save us from gathering wireless advert storm, says BT's ball gazer
Battle of the Web browsers
Buyer's Guide Thinking of ditching Internet Explorer for something else? We take a look at five alternative browsers.
Samsung promotes flash drives for PCs
News The maker of flash memory is trying to push its drives into new markets by promoting a flash drive with hard-drive connectors, while touting solid-state storage's benefits
Longhorn developer tools released
News Builder: Microsoft has released the Beta 1 Release Candidate of tools that should allow developers to start writing software for the next-generation version of Windows
OSDL in programmer cull
News Linus Torvalds' employer has laid off almost a sixth of its staff as it prepares to increase its presence Europe and Asia
Windows Genuine Advantage circumvented
News A researcher has posted what looks to be a simple workaround for Microsoft's latest attempt to crack down on those using unlicensed versions of Windows
Deepnet Explorer
Review Deepnet Explorer may not have the institutional support of Internet Explorer, but it offers more built-in features than Microsoft provides.
