News Archive for April 2009
30 Apr 2009
- Will Tooway satellite broadband really help Digital Britain?
- Budget BeBook eBook reader on way
- Facebook funding talks cause friction
- Windows 7 free for a year
- AutoRun neutered in Windows 7
- Microsoft answers EU antitrust allegations
- Google maps Swine Flu's grip on Mexico
- Apple to design its own chips?
29 Apr 2009
- Child abuse images "getting worse"
- Six out of ten Twitter users quit within a month
- XO's learning software goes walkabout
- Linux groups aim to undermine Microsoft patents
- Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
- US authorities probe Google's digital books "monopoly"
- MessageLabs: No law will stop spam
- Vista Service Pack 2 ready to roll
28 Apr 2009
- Don't let workers use own phones, warns RIM
- Kaspersky: Government snooping doesn't go far enough
- Google bids to extend Book Search settlement
- Blunkett: businesses are blasé over security
- EU calls for cyber-security tsar
- IBM signs up supercomputer for quiz show
- Phorm "edited and approved" Home Office advice
- GE crams 500GB onto holographic disc
- Samsung pencils in June for Android smartphone launch
- Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta
27 Apr 2009
24 Apr 2009
- Apple peels off 1,600 staff
- The Week in Your Words: not so broadband
- Tiny turnout undermines Facebook vote
- Windows 7 RC leaks on to net
- Amazon sales soar despite downturn
- Eizo fits monitors with motion sensors
- Google patches "severe" Chrome bug
- $4 billion goes up in smoke as Yahoo closes GeoCities
- Microsoft's growth stunted for the first time ever
23 Apr 2009
- AMD announces 16-core processors
- Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope hits final release
- Essential maintenance on PC Pro forums
- Pirate Bay defence pushes for retrial
- Intel punishment could push up PC prices
- Profits still sliding at eBay
- MySpace co-founder quits company
- Roll-up eBook reader hits money troubles
- Now Parliament promises to poke into Phorm
- Apple trashes netbooks
22 Apr 2009
- Chumby lands in the UK
- Universal broadband pledge gets budget boost
- EBay draws advertising watchdog's ire
- Phorm denies BT and Virgin are bailing out
- AMD: PC market's not hit bottom yet
- Virgin hammered over broadband small print
- Mozilla patches Firefox's dirty dozen
- US Government gears up for cyberwar
- Yahoo swings axe as profit plunges
- Google unleashes 3D web
21 Apr 2009
- VMware lets companies build their own clouds
- iPod touch goes to war
- IBM reports quarterly blues
- BT blocks off Pirate Bay
- Researchers probe skin-based smartphones
- Oracle analyst predicts 10,000 job cuts
- Bendy phone to edit music on the fly
- Hackers break into jet fighter weapons project
- Google revamps image search
20 Apr 2009
- Dell pummelled in UK PC sales figures
- Oracle pays $7.4 billion for Sun
- Spotify to match ads to your music
- Ask resurrects Jeeves
- Windows Mobile 6.5 gets release date
- Sony Ericsson predicts long wait for Android phone
- Tyre maker treads on competition with ePaper display
- OLPC spruces up XO
- Windows 7 RC coming 5 May
17 Apr 2009
16 Apr 2009
15 Apr 2009
- McAfee: spam destroying the planet
- Patch Tuesday: Microsoft offers five critical patches
- Street View survives shut down demand
- Amazon opts out of Phorm
- Yahoo gears up for more job cuts
- Microsoft unveils Exchange Server 2010 beta
- Intel: "PC sales have hit bottom"
- Ebay bids not-so-fond farewell to Skype
14 Apr 2009
9 Apr 2009
- Canonical: Linux isn't dead on netbooks
- French kill three-strikes-and-you're-out law
- Google: not all Street View users are burglars
- Is Apple stockpiling flash for new iPhone?
- Twitter growth tops 1,000%
- Sims creator quits EA
- Conficker finally wakes up
- Microsoft begs Windows 7 testers to start from scratch
8 Apr 2009
- Microsoft hit with $11.9m price-fixing fine
- Chinese and Russians hack US electricity grid
- Microsoft: third-party apps are biggest security threat
- Google goes local for all searches
- Intel bumps Atom to 2GHz
- Virgin takes another hit from ASA
- Google boss warns newspapers not to pi** readers off
- Yahoo aims to become giant social network
- Phorm considers paying users
7 Apr 2009
6 Apr 2009
- T-Mobile prepares Android push
- ISPs start storing browsing data
- Amazon cuts MP3 prices to 29p, as Apple hits 99p
- O2 has iPhone "clearout" ahead of new summer launch
- Spotify plans open API
- IBM watches Sun deal turn sour
- London broadband blackout after undergound cable is cut
- Murdoch working on newspaper-sized eReader
- Server 2008 R2 set to launch alongside Windows 7
3 Apr 2009
- The Week in Your Words: Putting the ogle in Google
- Google peps up Gmail search
- IT departments still "hiring rather than firing"
- BBC broadcasts live TV to mobiles
- £15bn for Government snoop network? Just use Facebook
- Google in “late stage” Twitter talks
- Google "closing in on Twitter"
- RIM surprises with strong results
- Dawn of the robo-scientist
- Viruses build next-gen batteries
2 Apr 2009
- Nokia rolls out Point & Find beta
- Angry villagers run Google Street View out of town
- Staff work harder after stint on social networks
- Microsoft has Windows 7 surprises up its sleeve
- Intel sets Moblin OS free
- Fedora 11 battles into beta
- Judge delays Vista Capable ruling
- Palm unveils WebOS developer kit for Pre
- All quiet on Conficker front, but boomtime for security firms
1 Apr 2009
- Is Firefox really the biggest browser in Europe?
- Small firms offered "substantially cheaper" Windows Server
- Welcome back spam
- Christmas come-uppance comes late for Currys
- Mozilla finds new ways to skin a Firefox
- BT and Carphone Warehouse put up line rental prices
- RIM throws open doors to apps store
- HP ponders Android netbook
- Wales kills off Wikia Search
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