Previous DayHow to outsmart the silver-tongued hacker
Feature Hackers will try to trick your users into revealing their passwords. They call it "social engineering", we call it a security risk. Here's how to fight it.
Symbian goes for the suits
News At its annual developer conference on Tuesday, Symbian will unveil its plans for challenging Microsoft for the enterprise market
Analysts torn over IT spending plans
News IDC says companies will spend more on IT this year, but Goldman Sachs expects spending to fall
Worldwide chip demand up, but not in US
News The Semiconductor Industry Association says that in March, revenue from chip sales increased everywhere except the US
Second Celeron price cut in a fortnight
News Intel has once again slashed the price of its Celeron processors. The company is expected to introduce a new Pentium 4 chip in the near future
MSN, Yahoo! and AOL join to fight spam
News The top three email service providers have pooled their resources and technical expertise to try and reduce spam
Server sales grow 10 percent in 2003
News Server sales caught analysts by surprise when they increased by more than 10 percent in Q1. This means the high-end market is growing faster than the low-end PC market
Why I'll boycott e-voting in the May elections
Comment Munir Kotadia: E-voting will not only compromise our privacy, it will ruin the fun of election night
BT presses on with broadband price cuts
News Despite an Oftel investigation looming large over the horizon, BT isn't backing down over its plans to reduce the cost of its wholesale ADSL products
Netgear WG602
Review With its outstanding performance and compatibility with 802.11b kit, Netgear's WG602 delivers on the promise of the upcoming 802.11g standard.
Scientists protest EU software patents
News A new petition signed by senior EU scientists says the European software patents proposal would wipe out small developers
Unix will reign over Windows for years
News Analyst firm IDC believes Unix will remain the first choice for mission critical applications for at least another three years
Microsoft offers server security guide
News Following the launch of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has published a guide to help system administrators secure the new OS
The length of your cable does count
News The lengths of cable that connect your various PC parts together have an influence on your overall productivity, according to a recent survey
Ruling means dark days for P2P users?
News A US judge has ruled that file swapping software is legal, but this means the music and film industries will be targeting individual file traders
Linux PDA has Wi-Fi, camera and phone
News Japanese firm PalmNet will soon launch a Linux-based PDA with built in mobile phone, digital camera and WLAN card
Thai Airways online sales in legal mess
News Thai Airways has refused to honour bookings made on its Web site after incorrectly pricing some flights, despite sending out confirmation letters
IBM helps accelerate commercial grid
News Traditionally an academic technology, grid computing is being brought into the commercial realm by IBM and others
Webby Awards cancelled
News Travel fears and a glum economy played a part in the decision not to hold this year's event. The awards will be presented online instead
Dell targets gamers with new PC line
News The Dimension XPS is Dell's attempt to appeal to a lucrative consumer base with high-performance specifications and unusual industrial design
Iiyama ProLite E430S
Review The ProLite is compact even by flat panel standards, and offers a good set of features. Viewing angles are a little limited, but on the whole, this is a competent and reasonably priced display.
Monster.com thinks again on CV purge
News The jobs site has partly relented on its policy of deleting references to such US-sanctioned nations as Cuba, Iran and North Korea
Red Hat eyes 32-bit Itanium software
News The top Linux seller may take advantage of upcoming technology that allows Intel's 64-bit chip to run 32-bit software with greater performance
Judge rules file-sharing tools are legal
News A US federal judge has reversed many of the recording industry's previous victories over peer-to-peer services, comparing Morpheus and Grokster software to VCRs and photocopy machines
Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?
Feature If the security-focussed open-source project can make a dent in the biggest source of risks, then administrators and other developers should take notice
