Previous DayHandling firewalls
Feature Firewalls have become as common as Internet connections. Regardless of the size of your business, if you are connected to the Internet, then you'll want to know the best way to manage your firewall
Gateway CEO: Defender of downloads
News Q&A: Ted Waitt, chief executive of Gateway, talks about why his company is defending consumers' rights to digital downloads
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 10/05/2002 News that AOL is about to provide secure, encrypted chat over IM for corporations can't come too soon here. Companies that use one of the various forms of IM to keep their...
Linux vendors to unify efforts
News SuSE, Caldera and Turbolinux are to join their Linux efforts in an effort to combat the fragmentation of the operating system and the dominant market share of Red Hat
Stephen Timms is new e-commerce minister
News Douglas Alexander has left his post as the UK's e-commerce minister in a government reshuffle. Stephen Timms MP, formerly of Ovum and Logica, is his replacement
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Segway in accident shocker, Sony loosens up on Aibo rules and BT gets away with it again.
StreamCast offers IM to Morpheus users
News Customers who use the Morpheus file-swapping service will be able to send instant messages for free, with a video option available to those who upgrade
Xbox mod chip delivers 'homebrew software'
News Microsoft is looking into legal avenues to block the sale of chips that allow the Xbox to play copy-protected software, but the technology may be beyond the average gamer
Virtual Storage -- is it there yet?
Feature With corporate data increasing exponentially, hard disk sizes swelling to match and networking becoming ever more capable, the mechanics of storage have never been more important
Sainsbury's online 'far from profitability'
News Despite spending £50m on its Internet shopping operations, Sainsbury's is a long way behind rival Tesco in the online grocery stakes
Is piracy as bad as it sounds?
Comment Copying software is a crime in the eyes of big business - but is using your own software on your own PC really the same as murder on the high seas?
Liberty Alliance expands membership
News The rival to Microsoft's Passport online identification system now has more than 40 members, despite not yet releasing its technology spec
Handspring Treo 270
Review If you've been holding out for the colour version of the Treo cellphone/handheld, your wait is over.
Eight CV tips for the experienced IT pro
News You're an experienced IT professional. Any employer should take one look at your CV and hire you on the spot, right?
IT contractors face big rate cuts
News Barclays Bank and GlaxoSmithKline are among the big companies who are cutting costs at the expense of IT contractors
Two utilities to provide dual OS support
Feature Support professionals migrating from Windows to Linux will need a way to easily support both OS desktops during the transition
Yahoo! fills in Messenger hole
News A security hole in Yahoo!'s instant messaging software has now been fixed, and users are encouraged to download the latest version
Will the real Eminem CD please stand up?
News A measurement of what CDs people are listening to has put Eminem's latest record near the top of the charts - well before it was out in the shops
Document management to the rescue
Feature Start small and build on your success -- that's textbook best practice for deploying new technology, one that Frenkel & Co. chose to apply last summer to its rollout of a document management system
Documents reveal Carnivore failures
News Problems with a controversial email and Internet monitoring system may have kept the FBI from gathering information on Osama bin Laden
Intel's new chip doubles Itanium performance
News Itanium 2 will achieve as much as twice the processing power of Intel's first 64-bit effort, potentially making it a contender against Sun and IBM chips
'New' HP unveils hardware lineup
News Hewlett-Packard announces its first new products since merging with Compaq Computer, including a supercomputer and a small desktop PC. All the new products are former Compaq brands
Sun's bundling move: is it enough?
Comment Taking a page from Microsoft's manual, Sun will bundle a free app server with its Solaris OS. But it's the company's low-end version -- and that might not be enough.
