Companies brace Wall Street for Q4 results
News Amid the troubled economic climate, companies such as SAP and Netflix are revising investors' expectations for the current quarter before they even report third-quarter results [08:47 BST]
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The move has been prompted by concerns ODF was not being properly maintained by its creator Oasis, says an ISO committee member, rejecting claims of a pro-Microsoft takeover [08:34 BST]
- ISO or Microsoft ? - Luc Bollen
eBay to lay off 10pc of its workforce
News The online auction giant has also announced plans to acquire online payments business Bill Me Later, and warned Q3 results will come in at the low end of expectations [10:11 BST]
October Yahoo-AOL deal possible, claims report
News A deal between the two internet pioneers could close in October, TechCrunch reported on Monday, citing sources close to negotiations [09:52 BST]
'Geode' plug-in brings geographic edge to Firefox
News The plug-in will help the Firefox web browser better comprehend and use geographic information [09:35 BST]
Microsoft to offer Surface developer tools
News The software giant has promised that developers who attend this month's Professional Developer Conference will get the tools needed to write apps for the company's tabletop PC [09:20 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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
Getting the upside on the downturn
Leader Don't smart over hard times — get smart and beat them [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
Yahoo web tool speeds up image shrinking
News Smush It helps web programmers automate the process of trimming image size without sacrificing visual quality [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
Ask.com goes back to its roots
News The search engine's latest update now displays answers to questions directly on its results pages [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
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 [06 Oct 2008]
- 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]
