Archive - 03 May 2001
Microsoft goes open source - ish
Who'd have thought it. We'd be less surprised to read a report that Larry Ellison had eaten a humble...
SMEs come careering into the 21st century
Internet connections from small and medium sized enterprises are continuing to rise according to an ...
Dial-up modems bleeding the UK dry
UK business is wasting £10m a week connecting to the internet with dial-up phones while they wait fo...
Microsoft reacts to fear of Linux
Speaking in New York today, Craig Mundie senior VP at Microsoft, explained to an audience at the Ste...
Out of tune
Raised blood pressure, tutting, swearing, throwing the phone against the wall... all typical reactio...
'Big step forward' for software developers
An internet standards body has this week come one step closer to ironing out the age-old problem of ...
Salesmen can't turn a computer on: Official
Desktop support staff get more hassle from sales and marketing than any other department, a survey h...
The best of Reader Comments: Sex, drugs, riches, scandal and Armageddon - it's all here
Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers, and this week some of you re...
'Get your hands off our PCs' say US bosses
American CTOs are unwilling to give thin clients or mobile terminals the opportunity to replace the ...
Microsoft lets users break its Windows
Microsoft is to respond to the demands of customers and software developers by giving greater access...
Orange sweetens France Telecom's results
Orange has defied the gloomy climate surrounding the mobile telecoms business, turning in a strong p...
'End to dot-com doom' was just the eye of the storm
Hopes that the worst of the dot-com fallout may be over have been quashed by news of an increase in ...
No smoke without wire as Dell laptops go up in flames
Dell is recalling a range of notebook computers after a battery fault caused them to catch fire.
IT no benefit to fraudsters
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office has given badly needed praise to the heavily criti...
Slow demand for PKI prompts interoperability review
The Public Key Infrastructure Forum announced an interoperability initiative today to combat slow ta...
Tech stocks tumbling
Vodafone took a tumble on the FTSE this morning, after yesterdays sell off of £3.5bn worth of shares...