Previous DayPCCW says wireless broadband plans are in place
News The company that recently gained control of much of Britain's 3.4GHz spectrum says it is planning a 'soft launch' of a wireless broadband service
FreeBSD gets Java Development Kit
News The FreeBSD Foundation has added native Java support to its Unix operating system with the release of a Java development kit
Apple sued over trademark
News Tibco Software and Apple are due to Rendezvous in court over an alleged trademark infringement
Conway to Ellison: It's over
Q&A Craig Conway refutes rumours of a personality battle with Larry Ellison and says Oracle's hostile takeover bid no longer carries any threat
Auntie opens her drawers
Comment The BBC is putting seventy years of programming online: is the past the thing of the future?
Developers and mimes protest software patents
News In Brussels, hundreds of demonstrators gathered to march - and mime - against a proposed directive they say could disrupt Europe's software industry
IPWireless widens broadband reach
Video ZDNet's Patrick Houston talks with IPWireless CEO Chris Gilbert and tries out new technology that serves up seamless wide area wireless broadband and promises to keep users connected anywhere
Serious admins don't ignore security patches
Comment Microsoft-blaming whiners irritate the competent but silent majority of systems adminstrators
Why did MSBlast fail to take down Microsoft?
Analysis Despite its rapid spread throughout the world, the worm did little damage to its supposed target
Faster broadband divide will hit millions
News Broadband Britain is already hamstrung because a significant proportion of the population cannot get 512Kbps broadband. Now, a 1Mbps service is on the way, but even fewer will be able to access it
Small Webcasters take on RIAA
News The Webcaster Alliance charges the Recording Industry Association of America with attempting to force independent music stations offline
Samsung's DVR stores hours of TV
News Samsung has launched its first digital video recorder, highlighting its 100-hour capacity
LG Electronics GSA-4040B
Review LG Electronics’ GSA-4040B is the first drive on the market to support all five DVD formats -- and it's a good performer to boot.
Nokia handset stripped down for emerging markets
News Nokia has developed a lightweight, durable mobile phone aimed at low-spending customers in India, China and Russia
RIAA hits back at 'Nycfashiongirl'
News The RIAA has turned up the heat on the lone Kazaa user fighting its subpoena
RFID blocker may ease privacy fears
News RSA Security will develop technology that jams the signals emitted by radio frequency identification tags
New Apple has trouble emulating Windows
News Apple's G5 cannot run the leading emulation program for Windows on a Mac
EarthLink takes action against 'Alabama Spammers'
News The Internet service provider has filed a lawsuit against a group that used its network to relay massive amounts of spam
Ring-tone piracy latest trend in Asia
News Downloaded ring tones are proving popular worldwide, sparking an Asian piracy boom
SGI slashes another 600 jobs
News A new round of redundancies means the graphics-computing specialist will have laid off a quarter of its staff this year
Biometric tech gets small town trial
News An unnamed small town will host a trial of the biometric technology that will be embedded in UK passports from 2006
Network monitoring reveals hidden P2P traffic
Analysis Businesses investigating network speed problems are turning to monitoring software, which often unearths surprise applications
Microsoft cuts prices for small business
News Microsoft is planning to release a cheap server operating system and email management package targeted at smaller companies
Malaysia reaffirms 'strategic role' of open source
News The Malaysia government has expressed support for open-source software as a way of boosting developing economies
'The saga is over' - PeopleSoft chief
News PeopleSoft's chief executive says Oracle's hostile bid for his company is no longer a concern
Contribute 2.0
Review Macromedia’s Contribute 2.0 makes it easy for non-programmers to work on Web pages, but beware of sluggish performance and limited editing features.
