Previous DayGPL 3 may tackle Web loophole
News Web companies may be forced to publish the source code of any GPL-licensed software that they are using for commercial services
Asset sale brings some hope to Tiny customers
News Watford Electronics has bought the assets of Tiny Computers, bringing some hope for customers, but there's no word yet on Granville Technology's other assets
Affordable voice-ID software 'here within a year'
News Affordable biometric authentication software using voice-print identification could be available in 2006 from 192.com's business-services arm
JBoss-Microsoft partnership announced
News Web Services standards and federated identity management are at the heart of the alliance that crosses the companies' philosophical boundaries
Government 'must engage frontline workers' in reform
News The people who will actually be using new public sector IT systems are often the last to be asked about them, if they're asked at all
100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots by the end of 2005
News Want to check your email on the move? You'll have 100,000 places to choose from by the end of the year
BT poaches C&W exec to drive openreach
News One of BT's long-time critics has been lured to the telco's new access division
Sun launches StarOffice 8
News StarOffice 8 is thought to be the first commercial office suite to use the OpenDocument format, which was recently adopted by the commonwealth of Massachusetts
Building a better Borland
Q&A Life seems interesting at Borland, with IBM on one side, Microsoft on the other and a new chief executive in the middle
Business Objects makes business intelligence 'easy'
News The latest release of Business Objects' XI aims to offer structured business intelligence that is intuitive to use
Matalan checks out Linux tills
News Capgemini advised the UK retailer to run thousands of tills on Linux rather than Windows, as it is more secure and easier to support
UK staff in the dark on blogs
News Survey: Despite the potential for high-profile fallout, 94 percent of UK staff have no idea of their firm's policy on blogging
Clock ticking for ISP VoIP-tapping
News The FCC admits it's on shaky legal ground, but is pressing ahead with a plan to force all providers of Internet access to allow monitoring of Internet telephony
Online ad spend rises
News As consumers spend more and more time online, marketers are spending more and more money trying to reach them there
SWsoft turns in Virtuozzo 64-bit performance
News The virtualisation software can now take full advantage of 64-bit x86 chips, but the firm is still charging licence fees per core
Google trumps Yahoo in the index stakes
News The search giant claims to index three times as many unique pages as anyone else but admits the exact number is very debatable
Microsoft and Intel join next-gen DVD fray
News The two tech heavyweights have split from some of their largest customers and thrown their weight behind the HD-DVD
Itanium wins limited support
News Though Intel has a number of tech heavyweights toeing the Itanium line, many leading server makers have snubbed the newly formed Itanium Solutions Alliance
