Spam causes Virgin email outage
News Virgin Media email supplier Tucows expressed 'deep sorrow' after a suspected spam attack cut off Virgin DSL customers for 48 hours [14:07 BST]
Symbian wins software-patent ruling
News The company has won the right to patent a piece of accelerator code in the UK, after a High Court ruling found the application did not contravene the UK Patents Act [17:06 BST]
Sun and Fujitsu unveil T5440 server
News Sun claims the product has an 'aggressive' price point in the market for high-end servers with improved power management [16:55 BST]
Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
News Opera 9.6 is a bit of an eyesore, especially on Apple, says Opera. Expect better in version 10 [16:36 BST]
OpenOffice 3.0 release hit by server crash
News The new version of the free office productivity suite can read OOXML and work natively on the Mac, but demand appeared to have crashed the OpenOffice.org servers on its release day [15:33 BST]
HDS upgrades mid-range with SAS option
News The modular storage system is Hitachi Data Systems's first mid-range offering with dynamic load balancing and SAS backplane, the company has said [14:58 BST]
Microsoft exec: Tough times play to our strengths
News The software maker's Business Division president says it is trying to get the message out that it can help its customers save money in challenging times [13:29 BST]
Orange halts BlackBerry Bold sales
News The operator has stopped selling RIM's first HSDPA handset while it works with the manufacturer on a software fix for unspecified '3G-related concerns' [11:46 BST]
World Bank hit by cyberattacks, claims report
News Up to 40 servers have been penetrated in a series of attacks that have been under investigation by the FBI since last year, according to a report by Fox News [10:00 BST]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News The network is the result of more than four years of work, with organisations from 12 countries working to integrate quantum cryptography into a modern business network [09:42 BST]
Microsoft set to announce Silverlight 2.0
News The software maker plans to announce the completion of Silverlight 2.0 on Monday, according to a source familiar with the matter [09:19 BST]
Apple to repair MacBooks with faulty Nvidia graphics
News The computer maker has determined some MacBook Pros may be affected by a Nvidia graphics chip glitch, and said it will repair those notebooks at no charge [08:45 BST]
Oracle's Ellison forges ahead with spending plan
News Despite the economic downturn, Oracle's chief plans to stick to his acquisition game-plan, claiming the company is 'better positioned than its peers to do well in tough times' [08:32 BST]
Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit
Q&A Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, talks about the effect of the credit crunch on development, and how an individual programmer's weekend project can turn into something much bigger [10 Oct 2008]
Infosys Q2 results buck economic downturn
News The outsourcing company's revenues grew 19 percent year on year, with second-quarter revenues of $1.2bn [10 Oct 2008]
IBM invests in business partners' training
News A business-development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around datacentres [10 Oct 2008]
EDS loses unencrypted armed-forces data
News The IT contractor has lost a hard disk containing Ministry of Defence data from its facility in Hampshire [10 Oct 2008]
HP: EDS job cuts won't affect service delivery
News HP has said it is too early to tell where the cuts will fall, but insists services won't be affected as redundancies will focus on those working in duplicate roles [10 Oct 2008]
Microsoft to issue 11 Patch Tuesday fixes
News Starting next week, the company is expected to also provide an 'exploitability index' to help system administrators prioritise the patches [10 Oct 2008]
- Patch It, Patch It, Patch It Right Now - lumension
Google Maps gets search-related text ads
News The internet giant has begun opening another search-related ad revenue source: text ads that show up when people search at Google Maps [10 Oct 2008]
Yahoo investor proposes new Microsoft deal
News As Yahoo's stock reaches new lows, a private-equity fund that owns a percentage of the internet company's stock has suggested a deal to sell to Microsoft for $22 a share [10 Oct 2008]
Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
News The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market [09 Oct 2008]
Home Office publishes data-sharing guidance
News The government department has published a code of practice for data sharing between anti-fraud and public-sector organisations, but a security expert has criticised the code for being 'too vague' [09 Oct 2008]
Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
News Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical [09 Oct 2008]
- Lots of Possible Explanations... - J.A. Watson
- Wind's Suse Linux Implementation - Moley
- Too Right - J.A. Watson
- Linux-based netbooks returned - tdess31
- MacLinux - Telic
Sharing malware lists: Pros vs perils
Analysis While browser makers keep blacklists of phishing sites that are blocked from public access, industry watchers are divided over the potential benefits of sharing this information [09 Oct 2008]
