The infamous Klez tops April virus chart

Sophos has reported its list of top ten viruses for the month of April. And familiar faces dominate the charts. Klez-H leads the way, featuring in 12. ...more

IT contractor sacked from key UK e-government project

The British government has terminated an ?83 million contract with ITNet for the Datacentre Housing Project which was awarded less than a year ago. The project is seen as a cornerstone for the development of e-government. ITNet was responsible for providing the migration of the Government Gateway, an authentication and routing service; the Knowledge Network, a government information sharing facility; and DotP, a pan-government content management system, from the existing arrangements to a single, secure managed service. ...more

Western Digital takes hard drives to triple figures

Disk drive manufacturer Western Digital is to ship a drive spinning at a blistering 7,200rpm and offering an astounding 100Gb of storage space. The three-platter EIDE WD Caviar is expected to start shipping this month and adds another 20Gb to the top end of the Caviar range, which also comes in 30, 40, 60 and 80Gb flavours. It's yours for a princely ?212 ex VAT (that's around ?2. ...more

Demon and Virgin drop broadband set up fees till April

Demon Internet and Virgin.net are the latest ISPs to take advantage of temporary BT price cuts and waived their set up fees for broadband installation until March 31st. The move follows BT's decision in December to halve the broadband installation costs from ?50 to ?25 between January 10th and the end of March. ...more

IBM reads the last rites over OS/2

IBM has read the rites to OS/2, the operating system it co-wrote with Microsoft at the height of its dominance of the PC market in the 1980's. Although Big Blue has not put any serious development into the operating system since the early 1990s, the company has now issued a road map that signals the final withdrawal of support. It has announced that it will discontinue selling the operating system by 23 December of this year. ...more