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News Archive for March 2009
31 Mar 2009
- Conficker caught out at eleventh hour?
- Guardian wants Government to look at Google News
- China rejects cyber-spook charges
- Spotify starts delivering downloads
- Adobe promises to make Facebook Flashier
- Honda revs up thought-controlled robots
- Wikipedia brings end of Encarta
- Microsoft reveals mobile store line-up
- Only 8% of British broadband connections above 5Mbits/sec
- Linux defiance as TomTom capitulates to Microsoft
30 Mar 2009
- Intel's "Nehalem" Xeon CPUs set new speed records
- Security guru: don't surf the web with Firefox
- Google offers free music downloads
- Ebay supercharges IE8 - but forgets about UK
- Asus brings DVD drive to netbooks
- Fujitsu aims to double server sales
- Taskfox: commanding the future of Firefox
- Massive cyber-spook network uncovered
- Google follows job cuts with new appointments
- NEC abandons overseas PC market
- Skype arrives on iPhone
27 Mar 2009
- The Week in Your Words: bring on the Facespooks
- Apple set to shuffle iTunes prices
- Conficker clobbers The Commons' computers
- Twitter brings back UK text message updates
- Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope springs to beta
- Geolocation finds its way to Opera
- Nvidia countersues Intel in row over graphics patents
- Firefox bugs set off fire alarms
- New Microsoft ads attack Apple prices
26 Mar 2009
- Leak suggests Windows 7 on course for July release
- Facebook uproar forces redesign rethink
- MIT plots 1,000GHz graphene chip
- Smartphones survive hacking competition
- iPhone dominates mobile internet use
- EU caps data roaming charges
- UK businesses wasting £300m powering PCs overnight
- Mozilla and Google back 3D web
- Twitter confirms "paid-for" accounts on way
- Red Hat boss dismisses desktop fight
25 Mar 2009
- Satnav leads driver to 100ft drop
- Primary school children to be taught to Twitter
- Canon brings movies to 500D
- Google lauds smarter search
- Last.fm to charge foreign listeners
- Samsung unrolls Papyrus eBook reader details
- Dell drops strongest smartphone hint yet
- Dell goes for "value" in business server drive
- The Government is... watching you on Facebook
24 Mar 2009
- Virgin may open 150Mbits/sec network to other ISPs
- Worm invades routers to build botnet
- Google designer quits over (41 shades of) the blues
- Samsung introduces trio of netbooks
- Stallman warns of "Javascript trap"
- Seagate turns lasers loose on magnetic drives
- Dell claims Sun takeover is good for business
- Major websites urged to boycott Phorm
- Privacy group calls for Street View shut down
23 Mar 2009
- TomTom joins Linux-defence group
- Why is BT laying fibre on Virgin's cable territory?
- Quarter of Government databases "illegal"
- Vodafone and O2 to share networks
- Asus folding laptop set for October launch
- Sony Ericsson sales tumble by 50%
- BT reveals which towns will get fibre first
- Skype to take over business phones
20 Mar 2009
- The Week in You Words: Ballmer takes bite of Apple
- Robo-carp cleans up the seas
- Mobile broadband "won't solve rural divide by itself"
- Vodafone admits over-egging mobile broadband speeds
- Google pulls Street View images
- Researchers pluck keystrokes out of thin air
- Honeycomb not so sweet for Microsoft
- Ballmer on Macs: why pay $500 more for a logo?
- Samsung announces movies to mobiles service
- Palm Pre "needs more polishing"
- Gmail offers to "undo" sent email
- TomTom hits back at Microsoft
19 Mar 2009
- Cisco slaps down $590 million for Pure Digital
- Acer recalls melting PCs
- Google Street View hits UK maps
- Microsoft steams ahead with Silverlight 3
- Android-powered netbooks all the rage in 2009
- Safari falls in 10 seconds at hacking contest
- Google flexes Chrome's muscle with amazing experiments
- Sony teams up with Google for eBook giveaway
18 Mar 2009
- Survey reveals woeful service from broadband big boys
- Tweets trash US trials
- UK parents oblivious to children's internet habits
- Mobile Firefox hits first beta
- Fujitsu launches world's first colour eBook reader
- AMD: Intel "wants us dead"
- Discovery slaps Kindle with lawsuit
- IBM eyes $6.5 billion Sun acquisition
- Chrome brings back beta
17 Mar 2009
- Cut and paste finally arrives on iPhone
- Firefox 3.5 "two to three months away"
- Play-before-you-download service launches
- Phorm: opt-out is good enough
- Nokia confirms 1,700 job losses
- Ericsson touts 500Mbits/sec broadband over copper
- Opera Turbo hits first alpha
- IWF staff "threatened" following Wikipedia scandal
- Watch out Kate Moss: here comes HRP-4C
- Dell's MacBook Air rival launched
16 Mar 2009
- Intel threatens to yank AMD licensing pact
- Palm Pre to hit UK courtesy of O2?
- Second-generation Surface "two to three years" away
- AMD admits industry "not entirely honest" about battery life
- EU calls for tech research splurge
- O2 to slash iPhone prices?
- Cybersquatting hits record heights
- Windows 7 improvements keep coming
13 Mar 2009
- The Week in Your Words: Big Brother true to Phorm
- ISPs forced to retain user data
- Bletchley Park gets £600,000 boost
- Mitsubishi demonstrates 3D touchscreen
- OLPC to flex ARM in next-gen laptop
- Firefox 3.1 beta 3 finally sees release
- BBC botnet "broke the law"
- Russian youth confesses to cyber-attack on Estonia
- Apple poised to unveil iPhone 3.0
12 Mar 2009
- Microsoft gets antitrust extension
- ASA wavering over "unlimited" speed stance
- Scientists develop battery that charges in 20 seconds
- Vodafone ditches DRM
- Paid-for Android apps arrive in UK
- Google finds its Voice
- Mr Big Brother leaps to Phorm's defence
- New iPod Shuffle does the talking
- BBC buys its own botnet
11 Mar 2009
- Google joins behavioural advertising brigade
- Amazon glitch led to unlimited free MP3 downloads
- Why wouldn't BT stand up for Phorm?
- Berners-Lee: Phorm is like a "TV camera in your room"
- Nokia loosens smartphone stranglehold
- Palm slaps down board member over iPhone comments
- Nvidia kickstarts GPU investment
- Apple touchscreen netbook rumours build
- Microsoft fights "evil" kernel bug
- Symantec apologises for patch havoc
10 Mar 2009
- Police need private-sector help on cybercrime, says McAfee
- Unlocked Google phone receives first patch
- Dell playing rough with new toughbook
- Guardian frees up its data
- Yahoo dilutes "poison pill" severance package
- Google Docs shares more than it should
- Mozilla bumps Firefox from 3.1 to 3.5
- Seagate shows off 6Gbits/sec hard drive
- YouTube blocks music videos in UK
9 Mar 2009
- Google pays out for visual voicemail
- BeBook 2 bites back at Kindle
- Tiscali's future in doubt after Sky deal collapses
- Telegraph thanks hackers for site breach
- Cisco readying Pure Digital bid?
- Conficker confounds Microsoft cabal
- Wink as good as a prod for next-gen iPods?
- Trio of fixes arriving on Patch Tuesday
- Ofcom to produce broadband league table by April
6 Mar 2009
- Media Center and Player added to Windows 7 kill list
- RIM puts hefty premium on BlackBerry apps
- The Week in Your Words: Kindle 2 gagged at birth
- Seagate takes axe to executives
- Zoho dresses up Writer with a ribbon
- Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't "the full release we wanted"
- Company sells employee secrets for £2.20
- Firefox buggier than Internet Explorer
- Facebook throws down Twitter challenge
5 Mar 2009
- Vista SP2 released for public consumption
- YouTube partners with Universal for new music site
- Firefox 3.1 delayed for fourth beta
- Norton 360 gains new web ratings
- Privacy group blasts behavioural advertising guidelines
- Spotify breach opens passwords to hackers
- Internet Explorer can be yanked from Windows 7
- Google stockpiles cash - but is Twitter on the shopping list?
- Would you juggle your family life with a Joggler?
4 Mar 2009
- Microsoft escapes antitrust spotlight
- Office 14 beta coming "relatively soon"
- "World's first biodegradable flash drive" on show
- ITV falls out with Friends Reunited
- Palm report reveals Pre is matter of life or death
- Asus kills 7in Eee PC
- Pirate Bay defence pulls down sails
- Google to give away netbooks?
- Yahoo wants a piece of social networking
- Amazon turns iPhone into a Kindle
3 Mar 2009
- Flying robots to provide Wi-Fi in disaster zones
- Fujitsu Siemens's zero-watt PC not all it seems
- ATI launches world's first 40nm GPU
- Mac Mini updated at last
- BT attacked for "cynical" broadband contract renewals
- Police aim to take cash out of child porn
- Dennis Technology launches Channel Pro
- Surface finally touches UK
- Asus unveils dual-screen laptop that does everything
- Nokia hints at DRM-free future
- Ofcom offers BT free rein on fibre pricing
- Pirate Bay prosecutors call for jail time
- Microsoft ready to ditch Live Search?
2 Mar 2009
- New Skittles Twitter homepage not so sweet
- £10 a month for hosted Exchange and Sharepoint
- Record sales plunge predicted for PC market
- AVG rolls out free upgrade
- iPhone has "commanding lead" of mobile web
- Intel outsources Atom manufacturing
- Vista Capable plaintiffs target "class action renewal"
- Yahoo spent $79 million to say "no" to Microsoft
- Amazon to fit Kindle 2 with silencer
- Psion: Intel is "deceiving" the public over netbooks
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