HP agrees to pay US$105m to Canadian govt
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay the Canadian government US$105 million to settle a dispute stemming from a criminal investigation of a Defense Department outsourcing contract. More...

Intel's Prescott to close off widely used hacker route
Later this year, Intel will turn on a security feature within its newest Pentium 4 processors -- dubbed "Prescott" after the code name of the chip family -- that will block buffer overflows, one of the most widely used hacker attack avenues. More...

Yahoo boosts mail storage to answer Google
Yahoo has indicated that it plans to boost the storage allowance for its email service to compete with the announced, but not-yet-final, Gmail from rival Google. More...

Poor data quality dooms many IT projects: Gartner
Corporations routinely make decisions based on remarkably inaccurate or incomplete data, a bad habit that's a leading cause of the failure of high-profile and high-cost IT projects such as business intelligence and customer relationship management deployments, a research firm says. More...