Previous DayMet Office hails supercomputing success
News An upgrade to its supercomputing system has cut the error rates for weather forecasts by 11 percent over the past year
Brazil to mandate open source use
News The Brazilian government will force public departments to migrate to open source software, but Linux vendor Conectiva says the move is unlikely to work
Gartner highlights outsourcing problems
News Survey: The failure by organisations to realise that their needs will change over time leads to nearly 80 percent of outsourcing contracts being re-negotiated
UK government promotes open source in schools
News A report due out after the general election is expected to highlight the lower support, hardware and software costs associated with open source software
Security bosses want encryption bans overturned
News The Jericho Forum, whose ambition is to revolutionise security by making data totally secure, wants certain countries to stop banning encryption tools
Labour peer bangs cyberterrorism drum
News Lord Harris of Haringey has claimed that the UK's could face an 'electronic 9/11', a position that puts him at odds with security experts
Don't cry wolf over cyberterror
Leader Despite all the the talk of cyberterrorism, we've still to see a single conviction under terrorism legislation
Trend Micro aims at corporate spyware
News The latest beta version of Trend's InterScan Web Security Suite aims to block spyware and Rbot worms
Election 2005: Time for MPs to get behind tech
Analysis The IT and communications lobby group EURIM is urging MPs from all parties to take a more cohesive approach to technology
Generic cartridges leave mark on Lexmark profits
News The printer maker has seen a slowdown in revenue growth as consumers vote with their feet and buy cheaper ink cartridges from other suppliers
Offshoring: Is the dream over?
Feature There are some who think that the recent theft of nearly £200,000 by call centre workers in India will be the death knell of BPO in the country. Others are much less concerned
Samsung SGH-Z107 & O2 3G
Review The Samsung SGH-Z107's lack of Bluetooth and limited memory may deter some business users, but video call quality is excellent, the twin batteries are useful and the phone itself is compact.
Corel targets SMEs with WordPerfect release
News Companies with less than 50 users are being targeted with the latest version of the productivity suite, which includes an email program co-developed with Yahoo
Juniper goes shopping
News The networking firm is turning up the heat on Cisco with its plans to spend $469m on two smaller firms
Highly critical Netscape flaw revealed
News Secunia's advice for dealing with the buffer-overflow problem is simple: 'Use another product'
Windows to get 'flight data recorder'
News Microsoft wants much more information about what users were doing when their PC crashes, which could have serious privacy implications
