Mobility

The fact that the Auditor General has recently reported is hardly news in itself. What remains obscure for many is the focus of her first chapter, the first ever audit of the federal initiative Government On-line (GOL).

European users haven't exactly warmed to the idea of wood-cased computer peripherals, according to a Swedish vendor of the distinctive-looking products.

In the drive for efficiency and cost reduction, data centres have been centralized and servers consolidated. And now attention is increasingly focusing on the PC. There

Spam sent via instant messaging (IM) is set to become a major nuisance in 2004, with the number of IM spam messages tripling from 400 million to 1.2 billion, according to research firm the Radicati Group.

A group of computer scientists at the University of San Francisco plan to make a mega calculating machine out of a bunch of strangers' PCs.

Nokia Corp. says its upcoming mobile communication device helps the enterprise ease wireless into the IT infrastructure. But one industry observer says the vendor faces a challenge, an ingrained mentality among corporations that cell phone management is the end user's responsibility, not IT's.

Oracle Corp. plans to deliver a major update to its Collaboration Suite before the end of this year, adding instant messaging capabilities, improving integration with enterprise applications and enhancing other features, company executives said Tuesday.

Feel free to drop this notebook on the floor, or leave it out in the rain overnight. Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) first ruggedized notebook and Tablet PC are able to withstand those types of abuse by workers in demanding environments and military personnel.