Previous DayMicrosoft stands firm on SP2 downloads
News Twenty million copies of SP2 have been downloaded, but Microsoft is still adamant it will reach the 100 million target next month
VIA secures mesh networking with on-chip encryption
News Wireless networks running the open-source MeshAP will be able to handle encrypted traffic at unprecedented speeds
'Green' IT: A feasible proposition?
Feature An environmentally friendly data centre aims to prove that there is money to be made in IT businesses that don't drain the planet
Dell tackles IT waste in recycling push
News The PC manufacturer is beefing up its business and consumer reuse and disposal schemes ahead of new EU legislation, but is vague about the pricing
Microsoft marches on Moscow to do battle with Linux
News Microsoft has announced that Windows XP Starter Edition is to be made available in Russia, in an effort to combat piracy and the rise of Linux
Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future
News New technology promises DVDs 100 times more capacious than the current generation
How to clean up in IT security: A basic guide
Comment Want to get rich quick? Know about Internet security? Then read on...
Internet governance - unpalatable, but necessary
Leader Our elected leaders want to govern the Internet. If spam and cybercrime are ever to be repelled, we may have to let them
Avecho tempts fate with £10,000 hacking challenge
News Come and have a go - if you think you're hard enough. A small antivirus firm is offering £10,000 to anyone who can break its product
IBM releases source code of speech software
News Builder: Big Blue is releasing code to the Apache and Eclipse Foundations, but disabled users will need to buy a proprietary speech-recognition system to take advantage of this
Moreover opens its RSS feeds to the public
News Moreover Technologies has reintroduced its free RSS feeds, having added contextual ads
Google admits omitting Chinese news links
News Google News China has been accused of censorship, but the company maintains there's little value in linking to sites which the government has rendered inaccesible
Time and money shortage hits disaster recovery
News Survey: European firms aren't confident that they could recover their data after a disaster, mainly because of a lack of time and investment
HP gives Itanium the boot
News Despite being one of the co-developers of the chip's architecture, Hewlett-Packard is to stop producing Itanium workstations
Symantec announces firewall fixes
News The antivirus company has released patches for security vulnerabilities in its products
Layoffs continue at business software firms
News In another blow to the business software industry, Commerce One and Manugistics have both announced more job cuts
Hotmail cuts back free export tool
News As part of its fight against spam, Microsoft is removing the DAV function from the free Hotmail service so users cannot export mail to another client
Why you should switch to Firefox now
Tech Guide Recent flaws in the way Microsoft processes common Internet image files, and a decision to offer IE updates only to Windows XP users, lead to just one logical conclusion: ditch Internet Explorer.
