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News Archive for December 2008
31 Dec 2008
30 Dec 2008
29 Dec 2008
27 Dec 2008
24 Dec 2008
23 Dec 2008
- Top 10 battlegrounds of 2009
- Red Hat profits as economy suffers
- Smartphones under siege come 2009
- Top 10 tech quotes of 2008
- European online library back in action
- Intel matches Apple in Imagination stakes
- Palm receives $100m stocking filler
- Online retailers prepare for Christmas Day sales blitz
- Transparent memory "will lead to see-through devices"
- Google's phoney Christmas bonus
- iPhone Nano case leaks online
22 Dec 2008
- CDs spinning on borrowed time
- XP dodges another death sentence
- Severed cables lead to internet blackout
- Mozilla: Chrome has "complicated" relations with Google
- Microsoft refines the reverse touchscreen
- Sky "drops bid for Tiscali"
- Details emerge on Samsung's NC10 successor
- Warner silences music on YouTube
19 Dec 2008
- Major Android update due in January
- "Black dot" bug hits Canon D-SLR
- Ecofont puts a hole in ink usage
- Dell spruces up Studio range
- Dell to launch MacBook Air rival
- Is YouTube starting to earn its keep?
- ThinkPad grows second screen
- Researchers unveil graphite memory
- iPlayer finally arrives on Macs and Linux
- Ecofont aims to save the world
18 Dec 2008
- Second Life wife strife brought to big screen
- AIR for Linux drifts out of beta
- LinkedIn founder retakes top spot
- More boardroom upheaval at Phorm
- Free laptop tactic boosts mobile broadband uptake
- Lenovo drops bid for PC maker
- Work hours are peak time for watching video
- Solid-state drives hit half a terabyte
17 Dec 2008
- EU to crank up cost of smartphones with new tax
- Nvidia to supercharge netbooks
- Western Digital slashes 2,500 jobs
- Yahoo puts "stake in the ground" over data retention
- Jumpcut ditches uploads
- Novell delivers OpenSUSE 11.1 details
- Epson builds clocks the size of grain of rice
- Communications snooping act under review
- Steve Jobs to skip MacWorld
- Microsoft pushes emergency patch for Internet Explorer
16 Dec 2008
- ADSL to catch up with Virgin's 50Mb/sec broadband
- Former Vodafone boss dismisses Yahoo link
- Pipex ticked off for failing to dish out MAC codes
- Intel's touchscreen netbook arriving January
- Palm to unveil Android rival at CES
- Google reaffirms net neutrality stance
- HeliOS and Linux-hating teacher kiss and make up
- PC sales up while Macs flatline
- BT "expects" to roll out Phorm
15 Dec 2008
- Microsoft sees "huge increase" in IE attacks
- Virgin launches 50Mb/sec broadband
- Amazon staff work seven-day week without sick leave
- Chrome displaces Firefox in Google Pack
- Google wants "fast track" for services
- Microsoft brings deep zoom to iPhone
- Sony to take on iPod touch?
- Election to be decided by mobile phone
- Asus bolsters Eee Box line with Celeron
13 Dec 2008
12 Dec 2008
- The week in your words: deep Fryed Vista
- Lawyers attack Which? over file-sharing "bullying" claims
- Former staff offer support for stranded Evesham customers
- Windows Mobile and S60 get Google StreetView
- UK's software leadership under threat
- Nokia to produce own 3G dongles
- A fifth of teens send naked photos over web
- IBM, Dell and Intel praised for green thinking
- Why has Google rushed Chrome out of beta?
11 Dec 2008
- Teacher threatens to call the cops over Linux
- Microsoft continues to cash-in on axed OneCare
- iPlayer to be built into set-top boxes
- Intel on track for 32nm release
- Microsoft Thumbtack dabbles with social bookmarking
- HP adds Linux desktop alternative
- Intel pushes laptop tracking
- Yahoo swallows "poison pill"
- HP unimpressed by cloud "hype"
10 Dec 2008
- Ballmer "to unveil Zune Phone at CES"
- iPlayer is UK's favourite search term
- Shareholders urge Yahoo sale
- File-sharing "bullies" reported to legal watchdog
- HP to offer long-life laptop batteries
- Yahoo braced for job losses
- Happy Mondays for British web retailers
- Google adds magazines to book search
- Android gets backing from mobile heavyweights
- IWF lifts Wikipedia ban
9 Dec 2008
- LG hits 60Mb/sec on a smartphone
- Sony axes 8,000 jobs as Samsung sees trouble ahead
- Wikipedia boss blasts IWF censorship
- Primary schools "failing to keep pace" with kids' IT skills
- Mozilla launches Firefox 3.1 beta 2
- Yahoo eyes ex-Vodafone boss for top job
- Microsoft predicts mass switch to online Sharepoint
- Humble mouse hits 40
- Google unlocks G1 shackles
8 Dec 2008
- Pupils failed after wrong format fiasco
- Wikipedia censorship backfires
- Carphone co-founder quits in share scandal
- Intel roadmaps 32nm Atom
- Vista triggers Stephen Fry Twitter meltdown
- Ballmer wants Yahoo deal "done quickly"
- Web braced for biggest shopping day of the year
- Are staff "hiding" Google OS?
- Brits blocked from Wikipedia over child porn photo
6 Dec 2008
5 Dec 2008
- The week in your words: Microsoft's double standards
- Toshiba shuts flash plants as demand plummets
- More earnings woe for AMD
- Modest haul for final Patch Tuesday of year
- Google brings social networking to all websites
- Nokia surprised by sales slowdown
- Facebook looking to Connect
- 30Mb/sec Bluetooth breaking cover in 2009
- IE8 ready to name and shame non-compliant websites
4 Dec 2008
- Microsoft begins auction crackdown
- DNA ruling casts doubt on database
- Phones charged by voice
- Ofcom: A quarter of UK dissatisfied with broadband speed
- Opera 10 aces Acid test
- Icahn opposes Yahoo carve up
- TomTom launches free web route planner
- Apple "unfairly" blocking rival music stores
- IBM and Ubuntu team up for "Microsoft-free" desktops
3 Dec 2008
- Analysts slash PC sales forecasts
- Windows 7 beta arriving January
- Mobile broadband to hit 42Mb/sec in 2009
- No fanfare for Amazon MP3 unveiling
- Vista SP2 beta arrives tomorrow
- Apple pulls "inaccurate" antivirus warning
- Kangaroo hit by competition ruling
- Android not for Nokia
- Surprise Yahoo bidder emerges
2 Dec 2008
- Government establishes £30m fund for tech businesses
- Wi-Fi usage "doubled in last year"
- Zavvi online struck by Woolworths' demise
- Google outlines Chrome extension plans
- Intel getting flash with Hitachi
- Pownce shuts down
- Palm earnings hammered
- Nokia launches slide-out N97
- Apple recommends security software for Mac owners
1 Dec 2008
- Nintendo enters eBook reader fray
- Lamont and ex-Ofcom exec join Phorm board
- O2 offers prepay mobile broadband for £2 per day
- Yahoo lands Virgin Mobile search deal
- One in three hit by email stress
- VAT down, but prices up at Amazon
- US invests in ethical warbots
- Broadband divide narrows in EU
- Linux lands on iPhone
- Yahoo offer a "total fiction"
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