Previous DayBusiness process firms must work with Web
News Web services could bring more business activities into XML coding; forms management companies will have to adjust to keep up
Music industry seriously off-key
Comment Is the music industry really silly enough to provide downloadable music that can't be played on an MP3 player? It looks that way...
E-commerce chief leaves Bertelsmann
News In a surprise move, Andreas Schmidt is to leave the company as the e-commerce arm is folded into a new unit
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News Sophisticated face-mapping software has been developed to identify children depicted in online paedophilic images
HP Labs eyes up Compaq's clusters
News Compaq's expertise in areas like clustered computing will be welcomed by their HP colleagues if the merger goes ahead
UK suspects arrested in Internet paedophile crackdown
News Police forces across four continents raided the homes of 130 suspected Internet paedophiles throughout the night
IBM expands database software
News IBM continues its database fight with Oracle and Microsoft with an updated release, coming in December
IBM computers picked for cancer research
News A computing grid will be used to link up cancer information and try to identify people at risk
Apple joins critics of Microsoft deal
News The current leader in the education market hits out at Microsoft's 'punishment' of donating free software and training to schools
Compaq gets fix for Itanium servers
News New Intel software should resolve the problem that held up the release of Compaq's first Itanium servers
IBM gets $100,000 fine for 'Peace, Love and Linux' campaign
News Spray-painting logos on pavements and streets of San Francisco for a Linux advertising campaign was not the smartest move IBM ever made
Hard disk makers collaborate for more speed
News Compaq, IBM and the biggest hard-drive manufacturers plan to improve the ATA connection standard and unblock a key data-transfer bottleneck
Dell Inspiron 4100
Review With a cutting-edge processor and a high-resolution 14.1in. screen, the Inspiron 4100 is a straightforward two-spindle notebook that will appeal mainly to business users.
