Accenture UK job cuts to hit IT workers
News Up to 400 jobs are to be cut in the consulting group's UK operations, with the focus of the redundancies being on systems integration and technology [16:47 BST]
Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher 
Photos The computer centre at Cern in Geneva will process some of the data generated by the LHC experiment, and will act as the point of transfer for the grid-computing project that will handle the rest [16:23 BST]
IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon
News The company will challenge internet-centric 'cloud' pioneers by promoting a mix of cloud-based and on-premises services [17:16 BST]
Getting the upside on the downturn
Leader Don't smart over hard times — get smart and beat them [16:43 BST]
Microsoft launches cheap-laptop software in Portugal
News The software giant has launched a package to go with the ultra-cheap 'Magellan' laptop, which is being rolled out to schoolchildren by the Portuguese government [15:57 BST]
Lords to debate gov't progress on internet security
News While the government has taken steps to establish an e-crime unit, the Lords will debate whether it has done enough to encourage software developer liability for insecure code [15:16 BST]
Business Software Alliance tackles online scams
News In the first half of this year, the BSA trade group served 48,000 peer-to-peer-related takedown warnings and asked sites to shut down 18,000 auctions [14:57 BST]
T-Mobile and 3 build up mobile-broadband resources
News The mobile operators, which are in the process of combining their networks of base stations, will get high-speed broadband backhaul from BT for the next five years [13:58 BST]
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
News The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack [13:23 BST]
Yahoo web tool speeds up image shrinking
News Smush It helps web programmers automate the process of trimming image size without sacrificing visual quality [12:00 BST]
Skype denies knowledge of China security issues
News The company's president has said it was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China [10:06 BST]
Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday [09:51 BST]
Ask.com goes back to its roots
News The search engine's latest update now displays answers to questions directly on its results pages [09:26 BST]
Antitrust scrutiny holds up Yahoo-Google deal
News The search-ad deal was set to go into effect shortly, but the companies have postponed it to give antitrust investigators more time [09:18 BST]
Microsoft throws another lifeline to Windows XP
News The software giant has again extendeed the timeframe in which PC makers can sell Vista machines that come with its older operating system in the box [08:42 BST]
- Surreal... - J.A. Watson
Microsoft plans European search R&D centre
News The centre, with branches in Paris, London and Munich, will add to Microsoft's existing annual $600m research spend in Europe, as Microsoft Live Search struggles to catch up with Yahoo and Google [03 Oct 2008]
Search company Splunk launches in UK
News The US enterprise-search company has announced it is opening its first European office in the UK as it continues to expand [03 Oct 2008]
Hacked iPlayer for Symbian Series 60 in action 
Video ZDNet.co.uk demonstrates how a little hacking can get the BBC's video-on-demand widget to run on a handset it shouldn't support, over a 3G connection that's supposed to be blocked [03 Oct 2008]
Skype on taking care of customers
Video In an interview with ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins, Skype's COO says the company is making focused moves to improve the customer experience and service [03 Oct 2008]
BT starts reselling Salesforce CRM
News BT Business has signed its latest software-as-a-service distribution deal, following similar pacts with NetSuite and SugarCRM [03 Oct 2008]
IBM to open Scottish datacentre for SMEs
News The £2m datacentre is being built in line with IBM's 'green' datacentre standards, and will offer co-location and other services [03 Oct 2008]
Skype puts video front and centre
Video ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins talks to Skype's COO about what to expect in the next update, as net-based calling moves beyond VoIP [03 Oct 2008]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News The Linux leader aims to make more of a dent in the high-performance-computing market with a platform it claims can be up and running in under an hour [03 Oct 2008]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator, built to test fundamental physics theories and to search for the Higgs Boson, will be ready to resume in April [03 Oct 2008]
Freedom4 launches combined 3G, Wi-Fi dongle
News The company says mobile WiMax could also end up as part of the package, which connects to Wi-Fi or a cellular data service, depending on which connection is best at the time [03 Oct 2008]
