Symantec warns of 'parasitic storage'
News Businesses are being warned over the increasing trend for criminals to store sensitive or illegal data on networks of compromised systems
Dialogue Box - grand launch...
Blog Some of the glamour has gone from the media, y'know. Time was when a new TV show would be greeted by parties, champagne, perhaps a small note from Buckingham Palace... Now, all that happens is...
US military warns of China electronic warfare capability
Blog The US Department of Defence has warned of China's increasingly complex electronic warfare capabilities. In its 2007 report to congress entitled "Military Power of the People’s Republic of...
Photos: Big Blue shows its green side
Photo Saving the environment or driving business? IBM claims its energy-efficient data centre technology can do both
Kill the patents, kill the problem
Leader Novell may have made some mistakes, but the open-source community should rally around its smart decision to go after software patents
Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Review Lenovo's 14.1in. ThinkPad T61 shaves a few millimeters off the company's more mainstream R-series notebooks, but still boasts the same, solid ThinkPad DNA along with IT-friendly features by way of...
Photos: When Bill Gates met Steve Jobs
Photo With the two titans of tech due to share the stage at the D: All Things Digital conference this week, we look back at other occasions when they have appeared together
Industry split over ITIL v3 predictions
News Some market watchers say take-up of the latest IT Infrastructure Library will be slow, but vendors and training companies are rushing to develop courses that cover the new version
Put Linux in the ring vs. Windows Home Server
Blog Veteran programmer Xwindowsjunkie has issued a call to arms to other ZDNet members: Help come up with a Linux-based rival to Windows Home Server. Xwindowsjunkie has challenged Linux experts to...
Revealing the future of robotics
Q&A Rodney Brooks, professor of robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot, discusses AI, key robotic research areas and the coming robot revolution
FTC to probe Google's DoubleClick purchase
News US Federal Trade Commission is to investigate Google's potential acquisition, a move likely to please privacy advocates and competitors
Intel: Multicore chips outstripping software
News Software makers face making big changes to the way they write applications in order to keep pace with advances in multicore chip technology
Carphone Warehouse rapped over 'two-tier pricing'
News Owner of AOL's UK broadband business has been sharply criticised for charging customers more if they are not connected to an unbundled exchange
Germany passes 'anti-hacking tools' law
Blog Germany has toughened up its cybercrime laws in an effort to close up loop-holes, including those dealing with denial of service attacks. However, the law, passed on Friday, has drawn criticism...
Google: 'Personalised search does raise privacy issues'
Blog Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has said that Google's personalised search plan does raise privacy issues. Writing in the Financial Times on Friday, Fleischer said: ...
Dell Latitude D630
Review Corporate users can't go wrong with the Dell Latitude D630, which integrates Intel's latest mobile platform with a business-friendly feature set and a long-lived extended battery.
That
Talkback Quoting: "It depends where you come from on intellectual property really. As someone who is also a writer, I'm always quite intrigued by the idea that, if I write something, I shouldn't have some...
Europe questions Google's privacy policy
News A European Commission advisory group has expressed concerns over how the search giant handles user data
GPLv3 may threaten Microsoft-Novell pact
News In a filing to the SEC, Novell has expressed concerns that the GPLv3 could see Microsoft halting the distribution of Suse Linux
Microsoft can no longer innovate effectively.
Talkback This attack of fear, uncertainty and doubt over IP issues is a sad state of affairs for Microsoft. It is an admission that they cannot keep up with pace and innovation of open source development,...

