News Archive
Friday 25th July 2008
- Google offers Gmail encryption
- The week in your words: Vista, file sharing and open source
- Microsoft planning spherical touchscreen display
- Sony opens up eBook Reader
- DNS flaw response "not good enough"
- Microsoft: Chances of Yahoo takeover "negligible"
- Oyster card system crashes again
- ISP threatens to walk out of illegal file-sharing pact
- Hasbro finally sues Scrabulous
- Juniper confirms Johnson as boss
- Microsoft signs Facebook search deal
- Ballmer defends web losses
Thursday 24th July 2008
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- Nine out of ten users love Windows "Mojave"
- ISPs yet to decide on file-sharer punishment
- Scientists issue Bletchley Park rallying call
- Fake Facebook profile leads to £22,000 court judgement
- Security hole leaves iPhone users vulnerable
- Windows boss jumps ship for Juniper
- Amazon doubles profits
- Shuttleworth wants beautiful Ubuntu
- VMware sets hypervisor free
- Google opens its Wiki-rival, Knol
- Zuckerburg unveils Facebook Connect
- Big six ISPs capitulate to music industry
Wednesday 23rd July 2008
- Microsoft touts rival LCD technology
- 100Mb/sec broadband rollout begins
- Tiscali takes legal action over BT customer poaching
- Snooping requests soar to half million
- Microsoft announces DirectX 11
- Google Blogger "hosts 2% of world's malware"
- Redten caught red-handed over broadband claims
- MySpace joins OpenID alliance
- Take your iPhone underwater with new coating
- Yahoo "pretty pleased" despite profit drop
Tuesday 22nd July 2008
- Sky to launch iTunes rival
- SanDisk slams Vista's solid-state disk performance
- Cheap chargers could electrocute
- Fujitsu joins netbook naysayers
- Government admits data losses far higher than claimed
- £950 keyboard receives facelift
- Vodafone scales back sales outlook
- Microsoft releases Home Server Power Pack 1
- Apple smashes revenue records
Monday 21st July 2008
- Facebook revamp "in coming days"
- Icahn wins place on Yahoo board
- Open source should be treated with "great caution"
- Hardware blamed for tax-return fiasco
- Bluetooth meets big brother in Bath
- Google beats Microsoft to top brand title
- Dell refreshes and expands Ubuntu range
- Yahoo shareholders propose "plan B"
- O2 plugs MMS picture leak
Friday 18th July 2008
- Win a laptop in this year's PC Pro Awards
- Live video streaming over BitTorrent
- New interactive car magazine launched
- Video streaming up 170% in UK since iPlayer launch
- BBC hands iPlayer to ex-Microsoft man
- Google and Microsoft earnings send jitters through market
- Google Gears up to take Gmail offline
- Tiscali fumes as BT carpet-bombs its customers
- Tough love from the iPhone 3G crowd
- AMD loses $1.2 billion and its CEO
Thursday 17th July 2008
- Yahoo warns of Microsoft "smoke and mirrors"
- Torvalds rages at Linux security zealots
- Wuala announces open beta for P2P storage service
- Microsoft sued over Silverlight
- Live Mesh beta extended
- Apple begins clone war
- New beta of Opera Mobile launched
- Amazon launches video streaming store
- Dell gains on HP as PC market shows strong growth
- Apple drops Mobile Me "push" claim
Wednesday 16th July 2008
- Toshiba raises hard disk density bar
- BlackBerry plans worldwide expansion
- True cost of iPhone revealed
- Orange rapped for comparing apples to pears
- Google angers Android masses
- What's happened to Fasthosts' Office 2007 rental?
- Consumers turn to internet to save cash
- Apple cuts price-cut plans
- Intel faces new European antitrust charges
Tuesday 15th July 2008
- Four new VAIO ranges launched: full details
- Sony redefines the meaning of VAIO
- Lenovo launches Centrino 2 X200
- BT wants access to Virgin's cable network
- Toshiba launches Cell-based laptop
- Microsoft: kids are prolific pirates
- Lenovo brings 3G to ThinkPad as standard
- Stolen credit card details - yours for a fiver online
- Dell brings multitouch to Latitude
- Google wins agreement to anonymise YouTube logs
- Adobe blunder puts £240 premium on CS3 downloads
- BT announces fibre rollout
Monday 14th July 2008
- London lawyers boast of game-sharing crackdown
- BT dishes out new Home Hub
- Icahn steps up campaign to remove Yahoo board
- Viacom "wants to know what Google staff are YouTubing"
- Apple sells one million 3G iPhones
- Mobile phone growth slumps
- Acer Aspire One "to be given away" with 3G deals
- First 21CN services start to appear
- Oyster card crash leaves cards corrupted
Sunday 13th July 2008
Friday 11th July 2008
- The week in your words: iPhone, Wi-Fi and dial-up
- OOXML appeals "processed no further"
- Researchers teleport avatar outside Second Life
- iPhone software version 2.0 cracked
- Apple has more than enough 3G iPhones
- Jobs off the hook in share probe
- Seagate launches 1.5TB hard disk
- Murdoch: Microsoft won't get Yahoo
- Apple fluffs MobileMe switch
- Ofcom: wait eight weeks to sort out your broadband
Thursday 10th July 2008
- Rackspace threatens rivals with legal action over "rackspace"
- One in eight missing out on wireless internet
- Nokia adds nine more members to Symbian pact
- XP Service Pack 3 hits Automatic Update today
- Getty to pay Flickr photographers
- iTunes update turns iPhone into remote control
- Google releases code for Browser Sync
- Yahoo launches build-your-own search engine
- Eee PC sales fall short
Wednesday 9th July 2008
- Microsoft: we've woken up and we're ready for a fight
- Apple at fault for major security breach
- Giants club together to fix major DNS flaw
- New Vista compatiblity site launched... and pulled again
- Microsoft update hits Zone Alarm users
- Has HP got a problem with its laptop screens?
- Google launches online virtual world
- UK demands internet at the beach and in the pub
- 3G iPhone in "very short supply"
Tuesday 8th July 2008
- Microsoft rolls out $15-a-month web apps suite
- Oyster card maker sues security researchers
- Tiny URL adds custom addresses
- Internet cable-laying boom
- Google succumbs to privacy advocates
- Lords demand banks foot the bill for online fraud
- Facebook overvalued claims court documents
- Millions paying extra in rural "broadband blackspots"
- Microsoft: EU fine was "excessive and disproportionate"
Monday 7th July 2008
- Microsoft and Icahn plot Yahoo coup
- Eight out of ten city workers take BlackBerry to the beach
- Ofcom "could hand BT new broadband monopoly"
- Fire sale as .info domains go on sale for 99p
- Nick Hornby writes off eBooks
- Pay-as-you-go iPhone customers face long wait
- Businesses: British broadband not fast enough
- AVG scanner to stop flooding sites with traffic
- Mobile customer receives £31,000 bill
Friday 4th July 2008
- Nothing on the critical list for Patch Tuesday
- Regulator ready to weigh in on net piracy debate
- Ofcom dangles carrot for BT fibre investment
- Browsers need best-before date
- 12,000 laptops left in airports every week
- Museum of Computing evicted from University
- Google brings Street View to UK
- Apple slices price of MacBook Air
- Ask.com spells out deal for Dictionary.com
- Microsoft boosts IE8 security
Thursday 3rd July 2008
- Google forced to divulge YouTube viewers
- Windows market share slipping away
- Old iPhones have second life as an "iPod touch"
- PDF becomes ISO standard
- Dial-up users "don't want broadband"
- Chip problems erode Nvidia profit
- Dell buys more of Dell
- Firefox breaks download record
- Nokia settles 3G patent dispute
Wednesday 2nd July 2008
- Supermarket sweeps most reliable email award
- Lords to hit Government with new net security report
- Google and Yahoo face DoJ probe
- Government launches mashup competition
- London election "lost up to 41,000 votes"
- Microsoft buys semantic search engine
- Microsoft rounds up gang to buy Yahoo
- Employees struggle with stingy inbox quotas
- Virgin censured over broadband ads again
- BT's broadband-boosting iPlate goes on sale
Tuesday 1st July 2008
- Brits a prime target for Nigerian and adult spam
- Bedtime reading? Microsoft releases 5,000 pages of Office specs
- Can accused file sharers ignore demands for £600?
- T-Mobile rolls out high-speed uploads
- NHS loses yet more unencrypted patient data
- Fiji wants nothing to do with Microsoft
- Dell offers "Vista bonus" discs
- Adobe helps search engines crawl Flash sites
- Nokia signs Warner to music service
- Firefox 3.1 expected this month
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