Email gateway products get smart with spam
News As spammers get smarter, email security companies Network Associates and Mirapoint have updated their filtering techniques to try and keep pace
UK turns to Accenture for head of e-government
News Can Ian Watmore improve the delivery of key services online, and put an end to the litany of failed government IT projects?
Dell Axim X30 (64MB, 624MHz processor)
Review Hold on to your handheld: the Axim X30's fast processor runs away with strong performance and the latest OS to make for a powerful Pocket PC.
Cingular purchase severs T-Mobile tie
News Cingular's $41bn acquisition of AT&T Wireless will mean the end of its joint venture with T-Mobile USA
Plucky start-up adds tools to IE
News One of the developers of the Mosaic browsers and the creator of Lotus SameTime have released a product for adding tools to Microsoft's browser
Big Blue founds RFID lab in Japan
News IBM's second RFID research facility will target manufacturers and retailers, with other labs set to open in France and Texas by the end of next month
Open season for phishing as attacks soar
News Phishing activity has been growing at the rate of 75 percent a month since December, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group
Government confirms ID partner
News The Home Secretary has announced that it has selected a private-sector development partner for its ID card programme
Wacom PenPartner
Review The PenPartner is a mini-graphics tablet that provides a portable and ergonomic alternative to a notebook's touchpad or pointing stick.
Open source vs proprietary: Both have advantages
Comment Part two: Why the upgrade treadmill is not necessarily a bad thing, and how marketing demands can actually be useful
AMD embeds Athlon in new Geode
News AMD has extended its Geode embedded chip line with a low-power Athlon core and a new benchmark-led naming scheme
Lindows-Microsoft battle cleared for trial
News The rejection of an appeal by Microsoft means the two companies' trademark dispute will have its day in court later this year
Supercomputers to run Windows
Feature Microsoft is working on a version of its operating system for high-performance computers, encroaching on a Linux stronghold
IBM welcomes all SCSI devices to the SAN
News IBM has formally launched an upgrade to its SAN server software that allows the 'virtualisation' of all storage devices that support SCSI
Big Blue and Dell reap server growth while others fall
News Sun and Hewlett-Packard are suffering revenue declines in the server market while other vendors leap ahead
Ballmer unpacks new developer tools
News Microsoft's chief executive made only brief mention of Longhorn during an address at its annual developer conference
CA opens up Ingres
News Computer Associates will makes its Ingres database on Linux freely available and is developing a new open-source licence
Microsoft extends ID management
News The next edition of Windows Server will allow a Web site's customers to sign in and then remain authenticated as they browse to other allied sites
IBM Power blade postponed till June
News A memory glitch means a delay in launching the JS20, which is a key plank in IBM's server group strategy
Software firm slots Unix and Linux into Windows
News A US company that creates software to link disparate applications and operating systems says business is brisk

