Offshoring giants see rapid growth
News Wipro, Tata Consulting and Infosys have all reported buoyant financial results, thanks to the growth of the offshoring market
ISPs demand radio spectrum
News Ofcom must provide proper support for wireless broadband through its upcoming spectrum review, say ISPs. Failure to do so could stymie WiMax
Wi-Fi-proof sheet gets government approval
News Wireless hackers could be thwarted by a sheet of film that blocks Wi-Fi and IR signals. But MI5 is watching who buys it…
Spamhaus hits out at ISPs, praises Microsoft
News ISPs pay more attention to erecting firewalls around their customer support than around their customers, says the CTO of Spamhaus
Don't leave alternative browsers all at sea
Leader As Opera demonstrates, there are sea changes underway in the browser market. Ignoring these will be costly for everyone
Schneier slates misuse of 'cyberterrorism'
News We should save 'terror' for the things that deserve it, not things that piss us off, says the security guru
GCC 4.0 boosts code performance
News Builder: The popular free software compiler suite promises to make everyone's programs run faster
Hybrid drive to extend notebook battery life
News Samsung and Microsoft have been showing off a prototype low-power drive that could be a boon for mobile workers
Fortinet settles GPL violation suit
News Fortinet has decided that complying with the GPL is a relatively small price to pay for using the Linux kernel in its products
Computer Associates losing out as storage software market grows
News Network Appliance almost doubled its share of the £3bn market over the course of 2004, but other firms were less fortunate
Grid survives nuclear test
News The first parts of a computing grid spanning Europe and North America that will back up the world's largest nuclear physics experiment has successfully handled 500TB of data over 10 days
Microsoft throws IE7 standards bone to developers
News Builder: The development team behind the next version of Internet Explorer have promised improved CSS and PNG support, as well as security-related enhancements
Unpatched machines 'Net's biggest threat'
News Most Internet-connected computers don't have up-to-date software with the latest security holes patched, and this is fuelling a rise in cybercrime, according to McAfee
SAP boosts British presence
News New offices in Reading are part of a wider plan to up the pressure on Oracle, and help the German firm maintain its market dominance
Itanium workstation on the way from SGI
News Silicon Graphics are launching a system based on Intel's beleaguered Itanium processor. It will run Linux as standard and can take up to 24GB of RAM
SAP strengthens ties with Office
News The business-software maker is strengthening its ties with Microsoft with a plan to integrate its products more closely with the software leviathan's productivity suite
Microsoft offers peek at Longhorn
News Bill Gates offered the briefest of glimpses at the next iteration of Windows on Monday, but hardware makers were unimpressed
InDesign CS2
Review InDesign CS2 speeds the creation of complex pages, further challenging market leader QuarkXPress. Translating a print page design directly to a Web format is always problematic, but InDesign CS2...
Illustrator CS2
Review Vector graphics buffs will find this Illustrator upgrade worthwhile, especially to work with SVG-t art for mobile devices.



