Previous DayWorking in IT: Where has all the fun gone?
News A couple of years ago, the clock struck midnight on the IT industry and computer geeks, who had been hailed as heroes, turned back into being, well, just geeks again
BTopenworld resets the meter on unmetered Web access
News Beginning in November, the ISP will place new limits on Anytime and Surftime users. The service will still be 'virtually' unmetered, the telco says
US firms fight Euro data protection laws
News Companies such as IBM, Oracle and VeriSign are asking for EU laws on data protection to be relaxed, to aid global business
Liquid Audio sells download know-how to Microsoft
News Liquid Audio finds the extra cash it needs by selling its music download technology to its rival
Survey: Cisco must earn storage stripes
News The odds of Cisco making a splash in the storage market are fair to middling, according to a report from Merrill Lynch
Toshiba puts DVD-RW into notebooks
News Toshiba has produced the first DVD-RW drive for notebooks
Epiphany helps Microsoft shine .Net light
News Microsoft and CRM software company Epiphany aim to show how open Web services standards can lead to fruitful collaboration
Who's the boss? Tips for managing friends and former peers
News If a promotion placed you above your current peers, would you be composed enough to maintain both your new title and your workplace friendships? Here are some tips for successfully making this...
Handhelds connect with USB On-the-Go
News A variation of USB will enable handhelds and other devices to connect directly to printers or to each other
Hackers make Xbox into a Windows PC
News The Xbox has been made to run Microsoft's own operating system, turning it into an ordinary desktop workstation, courtesy of some Linux trickery. The accomplishment is a comment on the insecurity...
Red Hat smoothes out Linux
News Bluecurve will erase the differences between the KDE and Gnome interfaces, making Linux a more attractive prospect for PCs, hopes Red Hat
IBM brings nanotube revolution closer
News Silicon rather than metal is the key to a new nanotube manufacturing process that could speed up the technology's adoption
Apple extends .Mac sign-up deadline
News The new deadline for transferring iTools info to a paid-for .Mac account is 14 October, so get moving before you lose all your data
Google does the business with new search hardware
News Google continues to build up its business services with a search tailored to company intranets and sites
Copyright bill slurs are lies, say US senators
News Those speaking out against the proposed P2P Piracy Prevention Act have been branded as scaremongers by the bill's proposers
IBM plays 'tag 'n' seek' to speed desktops
News A server technology for speeding information processing makes its way into the desktop world
Sony beefs up its Clie handheld with Palm OS 5
News The high-end, camera-equipped device is to be one of the first to get a next-generation processor and and Palm's new operating system
Apple's new iSync puts bite on Bluetooth
News The Mac synchronisation software - a key part of Apple's 'digital hub' strategy - is one of the first significant uses of Bluetooth
Lasting impression - downloading is illegal
Comment Gary Shapiro: In the battle to control Internet piracy, Hollywood, labels and now the DOJ have adopted a new 'copyspeak' that equates the downloading of files from the Internet with 'shoplifting'
New Wi-Fi challenges 3G
News New wireless networking gear lets users log on to their service provider from 12 miles away. But the service may mean bad news for 3G, and it is here today
