Security industry doesn't want a cybersecurity tsar
News How would a security supremo and a national agency have more effect than existing measures, asks vendors and hi-tech police
Bright future for Linux in business intelligence
News Deal with Red Hat makes Business Objects the latest industry player to come out in support of open source
Open standards push Mannheim to Linux
Feature The German city's Linux migration is going to take a while, but those responsible are confident in its success
Digital rights group hits support milestone
News The Open Rights Group has found 1,000 contributing individuals to help protect civil liberties in the electronic age
Microsoft exposes serious IE vulnerability
Feature Microsoft announced the critical threat this week, but admitted to knowing about it six months ago
Christmas.co.uk put up for sale
News A UK entrepreneur hopes to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds through the domain name sale, but retailers may not profit from it this year
Saving the world one file format at a time
Comment Making sure matters of public record are readable by everyone isn't just about democracy
UK 'lagging on VoIP usage'
News The poor rate of broadband adoption in Britain at the start of the decade has been blamed for slow adoption of Internet telephony today
From boom to bust and back again
Feature Renewed vigour for the dot-com industry suggests the trend may have come full circle
MEP: Media industry must not infiltrate data retention laws
News Baroness Sarah Ludford has accused the film and music industry of opportunism over its attempts to extend data storage rules to cover copyright infringement
IT specialists 'a dying breed'
News Budgets for new tech initiatives will be eaten up by compliance demands and IT specialist numbers will drop by 40 percent by 2006, according to Gartner
Sober worm impersonates high-tech cops
News Don't be fooled by an email that claims to come from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
Feature Amid the hype surrounding new high-definition DVD technology, at least one studio wants to stick with what it knows
Photos: Inside Sophos Labs
Photo Behind the gleaming glass of an Oxfordshire building lurks the UK headquarters of Sophos, the anti-malware company. Join ZDNet UK as we walk the corridors of The Pentagon...
Jonas and the identity kit
Q&A From the gaming industry to government agencies, IBM's Jeff Jonas cracks identity analysis
Predictions are high for Google
Analysis Analysis: The figures are in Google's favour but can it hold on to its momentum?
Final countdown for Firefox 1.5 release
News Brief: Will things ever be the same again?
Microsoft and Skype at loggerheads over patents
News Patent protection is hindering innovation according to Skype, as the battle threatens to involve China
eBay buys hundreds of Galaxy servers
News The auction site buys into the new line of servers to power its search technology
Flexible LCD unveiled by Samsung
News A 7-inch, 640×480 pixel full-colour display that can be bent without ill effects has been launched
Symantec kills off free Sygate firewall
News Sygate's free Personal Firewall product is being killed off by Symantec, to avoid overlap with its paid-for Norton-branded offering
Windows exploit code made public
News Code that exploits a Windows problem which people have had trouble patching has hit the Web
What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs?
Tech Guide Botnets -- invisible webs connecting unrelated, random 'zombie' computers -- have been around since the late 1990s but have only recently become worth owning, selling or trading. So what good are...



