News Archive for May 2009
30 May 2009
29 May 2009
- Obama to appoint cybersecurity chief
- Q&A: Getting Things Done
- Q&A: Firefox's future
- Seven million illegal downloaders in UK, claims report
- Dell watches profits decline 63%
- Google unveils new Wave of communication
- Palm Pre "eats iPhones for breakfast"
- Silverlight 3 coming in July
- HP axes Scottish production plant
- Sky Player arrives on Xbox
- EU to investigate Google's book deal
28 May 2009
- Microsoft overhauls search with Bing
- AOL and Time Warner file for divorce
- Adobe launches online presentation software
- MySpace: "we need to innovate more rapidly"
- Skype drops screen sharing into new beta
- Is Google finally ready to take beta tag off Gmail?
- Spotify unveils Android mobile app
- Yahoo: search partner will need "boatloads of money"
27 May 2009
- Apple calls for EU-wide iTunes pricing
- Netbooks 'not murdering' laptop sales
- Netbooks not murdering laptop sales, claims Intel
- Champions League final bad news for tech support
- Amstrad helps eBay win counterfeit suit
- Android apps arrive on Ubuntu
- Microsoft unveils Zune HD - but will we ever get one?
- Russians pump $200m into Facebook
- Three million UK homes in broadband wilderness
26 May 2009
- Streaming royalties slashed - or are they?
- Vista SP2 available for download
- Asus plans to leapfrog Dell into PC top three
- Museum of Computing back in business
- Red Hat sues Switzerland
- Ion to supercharge Lenovo's S12 netbook
- Google Earth tribute to Iraq and Afghanistan dead
- Windows 7 Starter gets strict specification list
- Amazon Web Services: "ship us your drive"
- Nokia opens doors on Ovi apps store
25 May 2009
22 May 2009
- Air Force denies GPS danger
- The Week in Your Words: the iPod don't touch
- Jonathan Ross's Twitter Book club sends sales soaring
- YouTube suffers from porn movie blues
- Microsoft withdraws from EU antitrust hearing
- Lenovo posts further losses
- Dell plotting acquisitions amid slowdown
- Gates: tech will lift world out of recession
- Key decision due on DVD copying software
- Google puts its foot on the accelerator with Chrome 2
21 May 2009
- Phorm to launch "consumer service"
- Intel toolkit unleashes multi-core potential **EMBARGO 26/5 at 3pm**
- Mozilla straps on Jetpack
- Pirate Bay victors appeal verdict
- Sat navs could fail by 2010
- Adobe muscles in on Patch Tuesday
- Facebook under fire for not removing photos
- Craigslist goes gunning for prosecutors
- Researchers tout 10 terabyte discs
- Acer Android phone coming 2009
- Microsoft handed $200 million patent fine
20 May 2009
- Microsoft: we won't take cloud data out of EU
- Mobile phone sales set to suffer into 2010
- Intel previews next-gen Atoms
- Government rebuffs calls for Bletchley Park funding
- Flash memory prices doubled in 2009
- Moblin scrubs up for beta
- HP suffers as PC sales slump
- Apple: apply handcream to avoid iPod shocks
- Microsoft's Kumo search engine "coming next week"`
- Phorm "no worse than Tesco"
19 May 2009
- Dell launches netbook for schools
- June launch for Palm Pre - but what about the UK?
- NEC readies first USB 3 chips
- Street View Trike takes to streets
- DisplayLink arrives on Linux
- Craigslist: "we're being publicly condemned"
- Fennec alpha arrives on Windows Mobile
- Intel licensing threat "doesn't concern" AMD
- AMD aims to turn a profit by year's end
- Twitter boss rules out ads
18 May 2009
- BBC not sure whether to block Phorm
- Nokia delivers cheapest ever 3G handset
- Reaction: Wolfram Alpha splits opinion
- £1m research project aims for 10Gbits/sec broadband
- Have you won one of our £250 PCs?
- Controversial child database goes live
- Smart-meter figures "don't add up"
- Mozilla preparing to scrap tabbed browsing?
- Dell: Windows 7 is too expensive
17 May 2009
15 May 2009
- The Week in Your Words: Another fine mess for Intel
- Gartner tells businesses: forget about Vista
- Firefox 3.5 RC to land "first week of June"
- Government hires Twitter tsar
- Wolfram Alpha to screen launch live
- Amazon lets conmen cash-in on other people's blogs
- Karmic Koala Ubuntu makes first appearance
- Google builds extensions for Chrome
- "Flames and fire" risk prompts HP battery recall
- "Traffic jam" glitch brings Google grinding to a halt
14 May 2009
- Gmail throws open doors to Hotmail users
- Sony warns "worse to come" as it loses $1 billion
- Orange charts 500% boost in mobile broadband dongles
- Vodafone scraps roaming charges
- Intel's "business" store flogs DRM strippers and radio recorders
- BT takes axe to 15,000 jobs
- Jobs to miss Apple technology fest
- Craigslist closes "internet brothel"
13 May 2009
- Seagate slashes 1,100 jobs
- Office 2010 hitting testers in July
- Outcry as Twitter turns off replies from strangers
- Intel boss takes "strong exception" to EU ruling
- Which PC makers took Intel's kickbacks?
- Nokia's Comes with Music finally hits UK
- Intel fined $1.5bn for "harming millions" of PC buyers
- Did Oracle really want Sun's hardware business?
- Mobile firms face spectrum caps
- Google turns searches into spreadsheets
12 May 2009
- Ballmer squashes SAP takeover rumours
- Canonical unveils Live Mesh challenger
- Samsung brings E Ink to smartphones
- Dell to ship encrypted SSDs with laptops
- Creative industry renews calls to "disconnect file sharers"
- EU clears Toshiba to buy Fujitsu's hard disk business
- 1&1 launches "website for your business in minutes"
- Cheeseburger powers 15,000 Google searches
- Microsoft: it costs $30,000 to fill an iPod
- Robo-teacher invades classroom
- Software piracy hits new highs
- Windows 7 "ready by August"
11 May 2009
- Prism beta brings web apps to desktop
- Shoppers still afraid of online stores
- IT glitch shuts Tesco stores
- Google hoping Chrome glitters on television
- Will Google save Microsoft from EU charges?
- 10 fake updates for Windows 7
- Lenovo: Windows will dominate netbooks
- EU to throw book at Intel for anti-AMD tactics
- Baby monitors killing urban Wi-Fi
8 May 2009
- The Week in Your Words: Craigslist considers celibacy
- Cast your votes for the PC Pro Awards 2009
- PowerPoint singled out for Patch Tuesday action
- Net neutrality clause stalls telecoms reform
- Microsoft fits humans with blackbox recorders
- Carphone Warehouse buys cut-price Tiscali
- Google: newspapers need to learn from Wikipedia
- Oracle "won't sell off Sun hardware"
- Nvidia seeks salvation in Windows 7
- Google boss won't sever Apple ties
7 May 2009
- Post-it notes come of age with Wayve
- Microsoft delivers PCs that "talk in their sleep"
- Mozilla takes swipe at Windows 7
- BT to offer 20Mbits/sec broadband to 40% of UK this year
- The £250 challenge: and the winner is...
- T-Mobile delivers dozens of new features to G1 owners
- Microsoft reveals list of banned mobile apps
- AMD finally digests ATI
- EBay wants over $2 billion for Skype
- Stone not moving on Twitter sale
6 May 2009
- Google: we do pay newspapers
- Nokia claims 23-day standby for E52
- Amazon unveils Kindle DX
- Virgin trials 200Mbit/sec broadband
- Carphone closes in on Tiscali
- Parallels offers alternative to Windows 7 XP Mode
- 75% of new Virgin customers on 10Mbits/sec or faster
- Craigslist facing ban on "erotic" ads
- Hackers expose holes in McAfee website
5 May 2009
- Microsoft won't rule out more job cuts
- Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits
- GCHQ: "we do not spy at will"
- Video exclusive: Palm Pre in action
- EU calls for ICANN independence
- Microsoft receives hearing date in antitrust case
- Will supersized Kindle save newspapers?
- Mozilla steps in to stop Firefox extension war
- Apple and Google face antitrust probe
- Can Microsoft cope as Windows 7 RC goes live?
1 May 2009
- Palm "bolsters webOS ranks with Eos"
- 70% of Kindle owners are over 40
- Privacy International: we're not hypocrites over Phorm
- Yang gets $1 golden handshake from Yahoo
- Google goes indie for Chrome campaign
- Oracle to expand range of web apps
- October 23 release for Windows 7?
- Celebrity Twitter accounts hacked
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