Upgraders to XP SP3 warned over IE downgrades
News Microsoft has said XP users who install Service Pack 3 will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer [17:03 BST]
ICANN attacks 'fat and happy' IPv4 users
News Businesses need to begin thinking now beyond having IPv4 address space, says ICANN's president, or risk losing online customers [13:16 BST]
ICANN: Start planning for IPv6 
Video Paul Twomey, president and chief executive of ICANN, advises chief executives to start discussions with ISPs on moving to systems compatible with IPv6 [17:29 BST]
Digging into the underground datacentre 
Photos 'The Bunker', a concrete structure under the Kent countryside, is a major datacentre and backup facility for some of the UK's leading companies [17:19 BST]
MWg takes on HTC's Windows Mobile phones
News The Singapore-based, would-be HTC rival has launched its latest smartphone and promised its devices will make Windows Mobile more usable [16:50 BST]
Skype agrees to obey GPL
News The company has abandoned its appeal against a German ruling that it must supply source code with Linux-based VoIP phones, in compliance with GPLv2 [14:36 BST]
Details emerge on Bournemouth fibre scheme
News H2O Networks' sewer-based deployment is the UK's largest fibre scheme and will bring next-gen connectivity to the town, the company says [11:39 BST]
Gartner: IT bosses must prepare for cloud computing
News The analyst says IT managers must start planning now if they want to avoid implementing tech from Google and closing down their own datacentres [10:08 BST]
MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
News The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops with BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline after a number of recent data losses [09:25 BST]
Government to launch 'Green IT Strategy'
News The national initiative is aimed at reducing IT-related carbon emissions and will focus on examples of best practice [09:21 BST]
BT bundles smartphone with home broadband
News The company's consumer Total Broadband Anywhere package will come with a choice of two HTC smartphones [09:11 BST]
OpenOffice 3 enters beta stage
News Sun has released the first beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, adding features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard [08 May 2008]
Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will 'change the consciousness of the industry' to do it [08 May 2008]
Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
News Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems [08 May 2008]
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
News Sun's MySQL database unit has reversed on plans to release important backup features under a proprietary licence, following criticism from the open-source community [08 May 2008]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News The British-North American Committee and chief executive of ICANN claim business leaders are not taking data breaches seriously enough [08 May 2008]
WiMax to 'cover the UK' within two years
News Intel Capital EMEA's managing director claims WiMax will soon be widely available for users of portable devices [08 May 2008]
Sun previews JavaFX-powered game
Video Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to members of the JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moontank using the JavaFX environment [08 May 2008]
Corporate Express reaps rewards of virtualisation
Case Study The business-supply giant has saved £867,000 and ditched over 90 percent of its server hardware thanks to server virtualisation [08 May 2008]
Sun execs show off JavaFX widgets
Video At JavaOne, Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how JavaFX-powered applets can be deployed within a web browser or dragged over to the desktop [08 May 2008]
RSA: Security as an afterthought hobbles business
Video Art Coviello, president of RSA, explains why IT security is like the brakes on a car and how it can be an enabler of business initiatives [08 May 2008]
MPs attack 'flimsy' gov't sums on shared services
News The Public Accounts Committee has called for greater analysis of government shared corporate services to ensure value for money [08 May 2008]
Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform
News The collaboration aims to provide developers with web-presentation capabilities for GlassFish, Sun's open-source Java Platform Enterprise Edition application server [08 May 2008]
NHS rolls out infection-resistant keyboards
News Keyboards with cleanliness sensors and a germ-resistant coating are being introduced in a bid to make hospitals cleaner and safer [08 May 2008]
ID cards: Cost of scheme set-up rises 37 percent
News The Identity and Passport Service says the cost of setting up the National Identity Scheme for the decade from October 2007 has risen from £245m to £335m [08 May 2008]
