Children's charities call for end to 'anarchic Internet'
News Microsoft's decision to shut its chatrooms should be just the beginning, say the NCH and the NSPCC
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks
Tech Guide AMD’s Athlon 64 launch marks the dawn of the 64-bit desktop PC era. We evaluate the efficiency of the new CPU using over 100 benchmark tests.
Closing the lid on the laptop
Q&A PalmSource chief David Nagel says the days of mobile devices that require 20 IT staff to manage them are over
Citrix password manager secures single sign-on
News Citrix has launched a single sign-on application designed to take the headache out of password management
AMD's chief scientist on smoke and mirrors
Q&A As AMD rolls out its 100-million transistor Athlon 64, chief scientist Bill Siegle talks to ZDNet UK about how mirror optics will help future processor plans
Opera updates smartphone browser
News The new software, released first for the P800 smartphone, adds usability features for Web browsing on the move
Flash beams out of browser
News Macromedia is setting its Flash animation format free of the Internet
Who writes viruses?
Feature This year's deluge of worms may be the prelude to something more sinister
Amstrad still losing money on the e-m@iler
News Sir Alan Sugar's target of putting his Internet phones into a million UK homes still looks a long way off, but a third version of the e-m@iler could help
W3C investigates threat to HTML
News A strategy group will evaluate the danger posed to HTML by the Eolas plug-in patent
Sophos enlists spam fighter
News The antivirus firm has bought ActiveState, which supplies anti-spam technology
Linux's commercial destiny in doubt
Feature How the popularity of Linux works against those trying to reserve their place on the value chain
Google clocks up advertiser milestone
News The Internet search firm has notched up 150,000 advertisers and now operates in 21 countries
Hardware spending shows 'sporadic growth'
News A modest recovery has begun in the hardware sector, according to a report from Standard & Poors
Intel puts $450m into Micron
News The chip giant has invested in the memory-chip maker to closer ally their development work
VeriSign settles FTC complaint
News VeriSign and the US Federal Trade Commission have reached a settlement over allegations of deceptive marketing practices involving domain-name renewals
Intel to construct giant computing grid for China
News A network will combine the computing power of 100 Chinese universities to create a shared supercomputer
RIAA pulls file-swap suit against pensioner
News The RIAA has withdrawn legal action alleging a Boston grandmother shared Busta Rhymes songs online
GSM group declares victory in standards war
News The next GSM standard will dominate 3G telephony, according to its backers
US quarantines visa system after virus attack
News An attack of the Welchia worm lead the US Department of State to shut down its system for filtering visa applications in search of potential terrorists



