Previous DayRupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An unorthodox diary this week, due mostly to me not being around for most of it. So take it as read that all the events below happened, just not necessarily in a stately order of days. Before...
BPI wins landmark file-sharing case
News The British Phonographic Industry has won two landmark cases against unauthorised file-sharers
VoIP outage affects thousands
News BT's Broadband Voice product suffered unscheduled downtime this week
Jobcentre IT systems hit problems
News The computer systems used to handle benefits payments is struggling to cope
Aramiska satellite broadband collapses
News Customers are furious that Aramiska chose to pull the plug on its high-speed satellite service today, giving them just a few hours notice
Gaming is more than child's play
Leader The government should get behind the UK games industry. It's leading to some interesting places
Government acts over high-tech VAT fraud
News The UK government is stepping up its fight against criminals who commit VAT fraud by moving IT products between European countries
AJAX arms race underway
Feature Builder: Interactive Web site developement tools are on the up, but is there consolidation ahead in the market?
Sharp's MX-series MFPs: a first look
Preview Sharp's new MX-series colour multifunctional printers could become a document management hub for your business, combining the duties of colour copier, network scanner and printer.
IBM gives business apps hardware speed boost
News The new zIIP mainframe module will be 'a major kick in the pants' for DB2 and business software that taps into it
Suspected phisher arrested
News A man suspected of stealing card details from AOL users has been arrested in California
Google porn probe gets court date
News The US Department of Justice is continuing its battle to get hold of search and index information from Google, and will be in court on 27 February to do so
Itanium's allies get their wallets out
Newsletter Will $10bn be enough to save Intel's troubled chip?
Trusted Computing comes under attack
News Technologies touted as providing a more secure computing experience are actually more likely to reinforce monopolies and lock customers in, security and free software experts have warned
Torvalds rules out GPL3 for Linux
News The latest version of the free licence has got too political for Linus Torvalds, who says simply: 'Conversion isn't going to happen.'
