Ballmer declares war on Yahoo! and Google

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has promised a wave of new product innovation in the coming months. He also promised to deliver a new range of subscription-based services and 'Win on the web' in the same way Microsoft has won on the desktop. Ballmer made the remarks in a speech to a meeting of financial analysts. ...more

Cybercrime massively under-reported warn law agencies

Law enforcement agencies are only equipped to tackle the tip of the cybercrime iceberg, according to a panel of experts speaking at the InfoSecurity conference in London today. The panel agreed that electronic crime was only at the bottom of an exponential curve and that many such crimes go unreported and unprosecuted because there is no agreed protocol for doing so. The reasons are manifold. ...more

Gates to step down from Microsoft

Bill Gates is quitting his post as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft to concentrate on his charitable work. He has announced that he plans to 'transition out' of his role by July 2008 although he will remain as the non-executive Chairman of the company he founded in 1975. Gates, the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of around $50 billion, is to turn his attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is estimated to give around $1 billion a year to charity projects that include educational scholarships and computer donations to schools in the United States. ...more

Broadband for ?19

A no-frills service from fairADSL will get you a broadband connection for ?18.99 a month. No Web space, no newsgroups, engineers or other frippery, just a self-installed 512Kbits/sec (256 uplink speed) connection on a BT line - which involves the standard set-up fee of ?58. ...more

Self-healing WebSphere released

IBM updates its e-business software environment, WebSphere. Version 5 of WebSphere Application Server provides new auto-configuration features to help lower administrative costs. A 'self-healing' feature involves WebSphere analysing problematic patterns that could indicate future glitches. ...more