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News Archive for January 2009
22 Nov 2009
- Intel takes on Windows with netbook OS
- Microsoft builds desktop around smartphone
- Monkey mischief delays Firefox 3.1 beta
- Microsoft gets cosy with Firefox
- Digital Britain: the industry reacts
- Kindle helps Amazon duck downturn
- Government to sacrifice net neutrality to pay for fibre
- Chrome pretends it's Safari to hoodwink Hotmail
- Dell smartphone "coming next month"
29 Jan 2009
- Dell puts his foot in it with Putin
- BlackBerry hits pay-as-you-go
- No Government money for fibre broadband... yet
- Government wants ISPs to collar illegal file sharers
- Wikipedia built into Yahoo search results
- Spotify forced to strip songs from service
- Dixons stores panned in best shops survey
- The future of phones: Bluetooth 3 and mini-projectors
- Google exposes ISPs' dirty tricks
28 Jan 2009
- Boris blasts "brutal" bid to extradite McKinnon
- Acer enters smartphone market
- TalkTalk throws net lifeline to credit-crunch victims
- Apple made to wait for IBM man
- Carbonite caught posting five-star Amazon reviews
- Troubled BT still plans to pay for fibre broadband
- New search engine keeps film lovers on straight and narrow
- New boss won't "feed Yahoo to the chickens"
- Gmail goes offline
27 Jan 2009
- Ebay to hang up on Skype?
- Mac trojan lurks in hacked Photoshop
- Satellite broadband promises "no more notspots"
- Open-source software could save Government £600m
- China censured over pirated software
- Mozilla's web revolution hits video
- Military hands out secrets on MP3 player
- Microsoft unveils IE8 Release Candidate
- Tesco apologises for Mini 10 mix up
26 Jan 2009
- Time to dive into Google Ocean?
- Philips staunches losses with job cuts
- Zune loses Microsoft $100m
- EU could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with Windows
- Flexible Kindle killer coming 2010
- Torvalds: Windows 7 could make "angels sing again"
- Plan to ban Wikipedia edits sparks bitter row
- Intel legend Barrett steps down
- Windows 7 deadline extended
23 Jan 2009
- Acer announces £299 10in netbook
- AMD accuses Intel of spin-off scaremongering
- McKinnon wins judical review
- Hoaxers give Steve Jobs a heart attack
- Home Basic "didn't deserve Vista tag"
- Obama BlackBerry fuss finally at an end
- Google defies gloom with strong results
- Website offers £10,000 bounty for internet crooks
22 Jan 2009
- ISPs and police at odds over child abuse data costs
- Q&A: Microsoft defends return to DRM
- Sony braced for $2.9 billion loss
- Microsoft to axe up to 5,000 jobs
- Credit crunch bites Ebay
- Dell's Mini 10 turns up at Tesco
- Apple rides out credit crunch with more record results
- Flexible screens to be printed with "negative" ink
- Intel shuts five factories
21 Jan 2009
- Psion takes on big guns over netbooks
- iGoogle falls out of love with iPhone
- Microsoft mobile music store starts on a bum note
- IBM beats the big economic blues
- McKinnon a "suicide risk"
- Atom to shrink by 60%
- IT job vacancies slump by a quarter
- Google kills print ads business
- Seagate bug fix bricks Barracudas
20 Jan 2009
19 Jan 2009
16 Jan 2009
- IBM shatters patent record
- Navy torpedoed by virus
- Snitch on pirates to win prizes
- Screen size blunder halts launch of Android phone
- Music industry renews calls for ISPs to act on file-sharing
- Email guru: BlackBerries are irrelevant
- Online legal wizards to cut cost of wills by 30%
- Intel endures 90% profit plunge
- Invisibility cloaks make mobile phone static disappear
- 19 million reasons why new Yahoo boss took the job
- Vodafone hits 16Mb/sec in mobile broadband trials
15 Jan 2009
- New Yahoo boss wants to keep search
- Bugs setback for Firefox 3.1
- Seagate deepens job cuts
- Google culls underperforming projects
- Minister drops fresh hint about Government fibre money
- Dixons suffers at hands of bargain hunters
- Samsung NC20 details leak online
- Toshiba close to Fujitsu hard disk deal
- Jobs takes six months' sick leave
14 Jan 2009
- Rural advocacy group calls for broadband horror stories
- Report suggests online threats to children overblown
- New Digital Cre8or "GCSE" gets go-ahead
- Google launches reseller scheme for apps
- Archos announces uninspired netbook
- Sony braced for $1.1 billion loss
- iPhone nano in June?
- Apple puts price on MacBook Pro battery replacement
- Advertising watchdog: 250MB is unlimited
- Ya-who? New Yahoo boss fails to impress Wall Street
13 Jan 2009
- McKinnon's mum wades into debate
- IT spend to fall for first time in eight years
- Intel's Classmate tablet hits UK
- 1911 census goes online
- Storm worm facing extinction
- Experts reveal top 25 programming blunders
- Microsoft to blitz businesses with new ads
- LG inks display deal with Apple
- Health trust loses 6,000 records
- Scientist slams Google carbon claims
12 Jan 2009
- China shuts down 91 sites as porn crackdown continues
- "Social notworking" heads for the dictionary
- Dixons' websites take a day off
- McKinnon could face UK prosecution
- Chrome gets Mac deadline
- CES video: The PC case that's built like a boat
- CES video: the mother of all motherboards
- Malware developers target Google Code
- Google: boiling kettle claims are hot air
- Windows 7 free-for-all after Friday's false start
11 Jan 2009
10 Jan 2009
9 Jan 2009
- CES video: Cameras that choose the best shooting mode
- Greenpeace tells mobile phone makers: be greener
- VIA readies Atom assault
- Dell tantalises with ultraslim Adamo
- Windows 7's interface demonstrated
- CES video: Samsung demonstrates LED TVs
- Windows 7's business features
- CES video: Hands on with Sony's P-Series
- CES video: Samsung's motion tracking cameras
- Four million Brits went online shopping on Christmas Day
- Google rushes out Chrome 2
- Only one fix due for January's Patch Tuesday
- Yahoo wows with widgets
- Eee keyboard anybody?
- CES video: The future of internet television
- CES Video: Kodu - programming for kids
- CES Video: Windows 7 in action
- CES Video: Surface - a sign of things to come in Windows 7?
- Samsung unwraps monitor range
- Asus folds up laptops
- Android gadgets invade CES
8 Jan 2009
- Palm announces killer phone
- Sony lays out its vision for future
- Can Server 2008 keep pace with Windows 7?
- British broadband running at half the headline speed
- Dell halts production in Ireland
- $2bn wiped off Intel's expected revenue
- OLPC cuts workforce in half
- Windows 7 beta due Friday
- Samsung unveils 64GB SSD camcorder
- Sony attacks netbooks with ultra-stylish rival
- Cisco targets Sonos with consumer "blitz"
7 Jan 2009
- Powermat joins wireless power charge
- Netgear banks on internet television
- Toshiba makes on-demand TV a reality
- Tories told to back fibre broadband pledge with cash
- LG demos watch phone at CES
- Phorm: we don't need to pay users
- Chinese net firms "sorry" for failing to purge smut
- Credit crunch hits IT salaries up North
- Sony netbook spotted at CES
- Motorola's new mobile has a lotta bottle
- Apple charges 20p a track for DRM-free upgrades
- Laptops fight back at CES
6 Jan 2009
- Apple's farewell keynote: No Jobs, no shocks, no last hurrah
- Apple keynote live: It's all about the Macs
- "Extended downturn" forces Logitech to slash jobs
- Hospitals told to allow mobile phones
- New AMD ultrathin platform debuts in HP laptop
- Microsoft promotes server chief to president
- Google takes aim at iPhoto with Picasa for Mac
- Teens "at risk" on MySpace
- HP launches business-class netbook
- Apple strikes DRM-free deal with big four music labels
5 Jan 2009
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