Previous DayMicrosoft offers 32 bits free as consolation for delays
News Customers who buy a 64-bit server with 32-bit Windows Server OS can upgrade free to 64-bit Windows when it arrives, says Microsoft
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 30/7/2004 High summer has arrived, and the sun is glittering enticingly on the water below the office. Outside my window, a small flotilla of identikit yachts is queuing up to leave St...
FreeBSD milestone nears release
News The most significant update in years of the FreeBSD operating system is due to enter beta testing mid-August. It will boost performance on multi-processor systems and allow the use of Windows...
Sys admins get their day in the sun
News Today is Systems Administrator Appreciation Day, when the people who keep our IT systems running get some credit
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Mobiles may be killing the gadget industry, but the iPod can still help the CID with their enquiries. Meanwhile, BT gets an education and Rupert gets the sea in his blood...
Broadband prices crash around the globe
News The cost of subscribing to a broadband Internet service is falling all over the world and the price difference between cable and DSL services has almost disappeared
UK Web use shoots up
News Survey: The number of British adults online has jumped sharply, thanks to 'silver surfers' and the broadband boom
Hynix edges up memory makers' rankings
News Samsung held on to the top spot for dynamic random access memory during the second quarter, while Micron Technologies dropped to third place
Intel puts 4GHz chip back till 2005
News In another delay for the chip giant, a 4GHz version of the Pentium 4 will not ship will the first quarter of next year
E-voting harbours 'major security problems'
News Hackers should attempt to expose e-voting's weaknesses, a critic of the technology has told security researchers
MPs slam UK ID card proposal
News The government's proposed national ID card scheme makes identity verification a 'subsidiary issue' and so misses the point, say critics
Broadband unbundler targets public sector
News Up to 100 UK local telephone exchanges will be upgraded to offer symmetrical broadband services by the end of the year by Updata, a new entrant to the UK telecoms sector
PayPal to pay out on problem accounts
News Certain customers can apply for a share of a $9.25m settlement
IT contractor wins key IR35 battle
News BAE contractor Mike Ansell has won his IR35 case based on five crucial points that other contractors will now be able to use in a fight with the Inland Revenue
Cyber-extortionists 'cost UK bookmakers £40m'
News Russian police have accused a gang of suspected hackers of hitting nine companies with distributed denial-of-service attacks
Gates wants more patents for 'important' work
News Microsoft will file 3,000 patent applications this year, says the company's chairman
Red Hat sells Java subscription
News The Linux firm will start selling support for an open-source Java application server
Cray supercomputer goes dual-core
News The Red Storm computer will be upgraded next year with Opteron processors from AMD
Microsoft Money shuts out users
News Some customers have been locked out of their files since Monday
Chip glitch hampers latest Xeon launch
News An obscure flaw can cripple computers, leading Intel to recommend against using certain adapter cards
Ballmer forecasts $6bn profit jump
News Microsoft can grow its profits by $6bn in the next four years, says its chief executive
Intel's flagship in short supply
News The 3.6GHZ Pentium 4 560 is becoming increasingly scarce, with few PC makers offering it as an option
Microsoft shows off search tool
News Software that can search both the Internet and a PC's hard drive has been unveiled by Microsoft
Hackers harness Google to hunt for weaknesses
News A security expert says the search engine can be used by hackers to pinpoint sites with weak security
