Previous DayBorland develops more interest in Eclipse
News A founder member of the Eclipse consortium has taken a board-level position, adding to the momentum behind the project
Spamming tool goes on the run
News Months of pressure from anti-spam campaigners have paid off. Send-Safe.com is no longer being hosted by MCI, and didn't get a warm welcome when it pitched up at Lycos
Browser wars: Episode II
Feature Will the increasing popularity of the Firefox open source browser propel it into mainstream businesses or will Microsoft up its game to compensate?
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
News In the latest twist, it looks like the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive now will not now be revised by the EC. Campaigners say they are furious
Business owners losing 'a day a week' to email
News Business owners worldwide are spending up to 10 hours - or a full working day - dealing with email each week
Royal Mail to make £2m RFID investment
News The Post Office's parent company is looking at spending several million pounds using RFID to improve tracking and supply-chain efficiency
Microsoft suing Israeli spammer
News Israel's most prolific mass emailer has found himself on the end of a legal attack from Microsoft, which claims it wants to put a halt to high-profile spammers
Google keeping the wolf from Firefox' door
News FOSDEM: The Mozilla Foundation's partnership with Google has kept it afloat for the past few months, and is now allowing it to hire more staff
US tops phishing league
News When it comes to hosting fraudsters' Web sites, America is the runaway leader, hosting two-and-a-half times as many as any other country
E-commerce needs a new hero
Leader If the UK's e-commerce minister wants to avoid being next year's Internet Villain, he should start emulating his predecessor's good work
Spam Kings
Review Who is behind the seemingly unstoppable tide of spam that besets our email inboxes? And who is fighting to stem that tide? In Spam Kings, Brian McWilliams seeks to illuminate these topics by...
Bank loses a million records
News Data relating to 1.2 million SmartPay cards has been 'lost' by the Bank of America, which mislaid a number of backup tapes
EDS to land £4bn military deal?
News The much-maligned IT outsourcing giant is leading a consortium that looks set to land a massive deal with the MoD
Server sales figures signal market shift
News Higher per-unit prices and an increase in shipments indicate that firms are starting to build up their computing resources strategically, rather than just keeping their current systems working
Mac pioneer dead at 61
News Jef Raskin, who launched the Macintosh project for Apple but left the company amid rumours of a split with Steve Jobs, died on Saturday
F5 FirePass 4100
Review This SSL-based VPN appliance will appeal to enterprises with large numbers of remote users to manage, where the scalability and clustering facilities help it stand out from the crowd.
SP2 to be forced out
News Service Pack Two for Windows XP is to be forced out via Windows' Automatic Update service, whether users want it or not, from 12 April
Microsoft secure IM product expected
News Gates will unveil Microsoft's 'new and revolutionary' collaboration software - thought to be code-named Istanbul - on 8 March
Australian Cabir infestation reported
News Shortly after first appearing in the North America, the first case of Cabir has been officially noted in Australasia
Opera fixes IDN 'vulnerability'
News A patch has been issued by Opera software that addresses the potential problems surrounding internationalised domain names in its browser
Itanium dealt another blow
News IBM is to drop Itanium servers from its product line altogether, sources familiar with the situation said
