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News Archive for February 2009
27 Feb 2009
- IT workers do a month's unpaid overtime every year
- The Week in Your Words: Google fashionably late for Opera
- Researchers touch-up flexible displays
- Sony shakes up leadership as record losses loom
- Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux
- Cheap laptops damage Dell's profits
- Yahoo boss dismantles "notorious silos"
- "Overheating" BlackBerry Bold pulled from sale
- Facebook opens Ts & Cs to users
- 36 new features for Windows 7
26 Feb 2009
- Windows 7 generates record feedback
- O2 rings in strong results
- McKinnon avoids UK prosecution
- ARM hungry for low-power chip crown
- Cisco doesn't have eyes for RIM
- Vodafone to sell Microsoft services
- Council staff breach national ID system
- Server sales slump amid crisis
- US spy masters seek network security role
- Sponsored search click-through rates called into question
- Nokia considers laptop launch
25 Feb 2009
- Government embraces open source
- 90% of UK "to have 32Mb/sec broadband by 2019"
- UK prefers Amazon over iTunes
- HP "doesn't want to drive" netbook market
- Intel accuses Psion of netbook "fail"
- Microsoft eyes threats to desktop dominance
- Asus at work on Android Eee PC
- Dell wrists slapped for refurbed laptop ads
- Gmail blackout blamed on "data centre overload"
- Google weighs into EU case against Microsoft
24 Feb 2009
- Ballmer rules out Office 14 launch this year
- Safari 4 adds a touch of flair
- Microsoft toughens up browser with Gazelle
- Gmail goes down
- Conficker gets new lease of life
- Study reveals iPhone apps are instantly forgettable
- Developers want TraceMonkey off Firefox's back
- Jobs to skip shareholder meeting
- Microsoft drops redundancy payment demands
23 Feb 2009
- Mini 10 arrives in Dell's netbook line-up
- Charity: child abuse filters save men from themselves
- UPDATE: Vodafone cuts 500 jobs
- 700,000 Brits "still exposed to child abuse"
- Google drowns Atlantis discovery hopes
- Terror-law watchdog throws weight behind McKinnon
- Nvidia signs up VIA for netbook push
- Yahoo boss readies revamp
- Windows 7 Release Candidate coming 10 April?
- Ubuntu gets "new look" for Karmic Koala
20 Feb 2009
- Orange pipped in coverage court case
- Vista SP2 Release Candidate delivered to testers
- Trend Micro router security pricing descends into farce
- Atom-sized transistors shatter miniaturisation barrier
- HP claims it must slash wages to save jobs
- AMD spin off gets go-ahead
- 1p a flight, but £1.77 per email on Ryanair
- Microsoft to fire Windows 7 blanks
- E Ink newspapers ready to roll
19 Feb 2009
- Gateway's back in the UK... and it means business
- Pirate Bay founder pleads for hacker ceasefire
- Trend Micro reverses router security rip-off
- Pirate Bay drags King Kong into its defence
- Office subscription service scrapped after only five months
- Microsoft handed advantage in Vista Capable case
- Dell accuses Psion of "fraud" over netbook claims
- Offline Gmail coming to iPhone
- Intel sues Nvidia over chipset licences
18 Feb 2009
- Is the bar of soap tomorrow's smarterphone?
- EU bid to slash mobile phone bills fails
- Mobile Firefox is "basically useless"
- ICANN delays domain name revolution
- Samsung plots trio of Android phones
- Has AT&T outed Dell's smartphone?
- Has Facebook really backed down in privacy row?
- Chip firms pin their hopes on mobiles
- Trend Micro launches security software for routers
17 Feb 2009
- Opening day blues for Dell's download shop
- Second Google phone dispenses with the keyboard
- Netbooks account for 30% of consumer laptop sales
- All phones to share common charger by 2012
- Skype to be bundled on Nokia phones
- Ballmer: economy is rebooting
- ARM reveals first 32nm processor
- Mozilla pushes code editing to cloud
- Acer assaults smartphone market
16 Feb 2009
- Mobile projectors "will be as big as cameraphones"
- Microsoft sued for Vista downgrade fees
- Labs update: DGM 22in TFT
- Email revamped on Nokia's new E-series duo
- UPDATE: Windows Mobile 6.5 smartens up for debut
- Nokia unveils Ovi apps store
- Pirate Bay creators defiant as trial begins
- Fully-fledged Flash coming to smartphones
- HP and Orange team up on mobile broadband
- Intel revives mobile internet devices
13 Feb 2009
- YouTube completes Sony content deal
- Chrome for Mac has "very long way to go"
- Cameron apologises for Wikipedia edits
- Cuba plumps for state-sponsored Linux
- Windows 7 leaks again
- Outlook webmail to finally support Firefox
- End of an era as Palm OS is abandoned
- Hackers hit third security firm
- Android-powered eBook readers on the horizon?
- High street beckons for Microsoft
- Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on Conficker coder
12 Feb 2009
- Is the old boys' club choking Britain's broadband?
- Vista buyers "to qualify for Windows 7 upgrades"
- Scientists resurrect classic digital content
- Garmin unveils next smartphone
- Opera browsers to "turbo boost" mobile broadband
- Palm shrugs off Apple patent threat
- Silverlight shines on Linux
- Tories caught fiddling Wikipedia entry
- BT profits slump as broadband numbers hit new heights
11 Feb 2009
- BlackBerry maker dials down profit expectations
- Virgin throttles Preston, but says it's for its own good
- Microsoft and Google warm to energy monitors
- Four-year-old Kylie stars in new Microsoft ad
- Now Gmail reveals your whereabouts
- Administrators hammer final nail into Evesham's coffin
- Nvidia sales "drop off a cliff"
- Twitter considers charging businesses
- Intel launches $7 billion fightback
- Spotify throws open doors
- Windows 7 beta slams shut
10 Feb 2009
- Phorm and BT ready to go live by end of year
- Banner ads infiltrate the inbox
- Social-networking sites pledge to make web safer
- Google boss helps Tories search for way out of recession
- MIT gadget turns everything into a touchscreen
- Mozilla reveals plans for Firefox 3.2
- Fedora 11 alpha makes appearance
- Kaspersky confirms "embarrassing" website attack
- Microsoft crows over Google technology pact
9 Feb 2009
- Firefox exec: we don't want to be bundled with Windows
- Mozilla "worried" about becoming Microsoft
- Symbian apps store coming soon?
- UPDATE: Kindle 2 stokes eBook fires
- Apple rethinks battery approach
- HP warns LaserJet owners to patch their printers
- AMD bolsters Phenom II range
- Microsoft syncs mobile data with My Phone
- Kaspersky website hacked
- Windows 7 a non-Starter on netbooks
6 Feb 2009
- Facebook surprises with OpenID membership
- Two critical fixes for Patch Tuesday
- Google Latitude "fundamentally flawed"
- Kindle under threat from Google Mobile Book service
- Next-gen Atom offers new dawn for netbooks
- Contrite Microsoft to beef up Windows 7 security
- Microsoft turns handyman with "Fix it" button
- NEC plots retreat from European PC market
- HP dumps Linux in UK
5 Feb 2009
- HP spruces up Ubuntu for netbooks
- MacBook Pro running late
- Intel bringing HD video to netbooks
- Lenovo boss walks as losses mount
- Yahoo fills gap left by Google Notebook
- Google ready to offload AOL stake
- “£7 laptop” turns out to be nothing of the sort
- Nine-year-old writes hit iPhone app
- Netbook version of Windows 7 will be "much cheaper"
4 Feb 2009
- Stephen Fry: People will tell snotty music labels to f*** off
- Virgin rebuked for trashing ADSL broadband
- Cybercrime victims are not "thick, stupid or greedy"
- Asus delivers Eee PC with "all-day battery"
- Amazon shifts 500,000 Kindles
- Google launches mobile tracking service
- Project Kangaroo dead in its tracks
- £7 laptop announced
- Garmin smartphone gets Asus boost
- MySpace banned 90,000 sex offenders
3 Feb 2009
- Honeyball on Microsoft's Windows 7 climbdown
- Windows 7 to come in six flavours
- Toshiba tames Snapdragon with new smartphone
- Skype 4 rings the changes
- Windows Service Pack blocker set to expire
- Torvalds rejects one-size-fits-all Linux
- Chip sales struggling globally
- Microsoft rejects Windows 7 "security flaw"
- Netbook sales defy downturn
- The 20 petaflop supercomputer that's the size of a house
- Internet Explorer in freefall
- Google Earth 5 splashes into the sea
2 Feb 2009
- Firefox toolbar clones Chrome
- Koreans to get 1Gbit/sec broadband - as Brits hit 2Mbit/sec
- TomTom tracks 32-mile snow traffic jam
- Not so Flash for iPhone
- Espionage employee slams "shameful" Microsoft
- Mac OS surges towards 10% market share
- Woolworths offered online lifeline
- NEC culls 20,000 jobs
- No more betas for Windows 7
- Google blacklists entire internet
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