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News Archive for June 2009
30 Jun 2009
- Cisco considering foray into office apps
- Garfield snared by Chinese censorship software
- EU gives Tiscali buyout go-ahead
- Orange joins race for T-Mobile
- Zen Internet pledges to join child porn watchdog
- China delays censorship deadline
- MPs to probe Digital Britain's broadband tax
- iPhone 3GS customers complain of overheating
- Blind teenager hacker jailed
- Pirate Bay sold and on way to legality
- Video streaming for Pirate Bay
- Jobs to "work from home" as he returns to Apple
- Dell "developing Android gadget"
29 Jun 2009
- Hip-hop site hosts child porn
- Phone makers sign standardised-charger pact
- Beware vendors selling Windows 7 early
- TV star busts AT&T bill with Twitter
- Firefox 3.5 set for release tomorrow
- Vodafone in takeover talks with T-Mobile
- Pirate Bay founders lose retrial appeal
- China censorship deadline looms
- Google sees green shoots
26 Jun 2009
- Commons tech committee back in business
- Microsoft charging "way too much" for Windows 7
- Microsoft to offer Windows 7 on USB thumb drives?
- Pre stems losses at Palm
- Google sends out invites for Voice service
- PC sales to "pick up by end of year"
- China: Google is spreading filth over the internet
- Is Facebook turning into Twitter?
25 Jun 2009
- Cable and Wireless promises network upgrade
- MoJ launches prison Facebook investigation
- Government launches cyber security strategy
- Windows 7 prices slashed - but Brits are hit hard again
- Google launches AdSense for iPhone
- Microsoft responds to Outlook criticism
- PC World sales slump as Dixons reports heavy losses
- XO OS comes on 1GB flash drive
- Ballmer still open to Yahoo deal
24 Jun 2009
- Students buy military secrets for $40
- Personal questions undermine webmail security
- IT professionals fail to protect smartphones
- Google patches Chrome security bug
- Designers criticise Outlook 2010
- Firefly mobile aimed at toddlers
- US creates Cyber Command to defend against hackers
- HP pitches new netbook at professionals
- Plug-sized PCs arrive in UK
- Jobs has "excellent prognosis", say doctors
- Microsoft to pull Windows 7 Release Candidate in August
23 Jun 2009
- Nokia gets Intel inside - but where are the phones?
- Why the way you touch reveals where you live
- Council warned by ICO over laptop losses
- MySpace announces yet more lay-offs
- Vodafone boosts mobile reception with UK's first femtocell
- Wikipedia to add video-editing tool
- Web-enabled printer needs no PC
- IBM serves up smartphone treat for tennis fans
- Apple ditches iPhone 3G S
- iPhone vigilantes retrieve stolen handset
- Spotify doubles sound quality
- Steve Jobs back at Apple
22 Jun 2009
- TV satnav worries accident watchdog
- Futurologist: It's time to join forces with machines
- Emergency control system will miss Olympics
- Chinese surfers call for web boycott
- BT turns cash machines into Wi-Fi hotspots
- ARM to help make televisions smarter
- City stops Facebook snooping
- Streaming "bound to" count towards Top 40
- Novell "not for sale"
- Labels making more money from iTunes
- Broadband tax backlash begins
21 Jun 2009
19 Jun 2009
- Almost one in ten stealing video online
- Mobile phone directory broken at launch
- Parcelforce fault leaks customer details
- Firefox 3.5 RC ready for download
- City demands Facebook passwords from job applicants
- Phorm loses $1m a week
- Woman faces $1.9 million file-sharing fine
- Guardian ropes in readers to uncover expenses scandal
- Microsoft pledges huge investment in search
- LG launches virtualisation monitor
18 Jun 2009
- ISPA reveals heroes and villains of the web
- Apple charges touch users for security fixes
- Amazon slashes albums to 29p
- Man jailed for internally smuggling mobile phone
- Facebook loses design theft lawsuit
- Intel launches Core i3 and Core i5
- 75,000 energy customer details lost on laptop
- EC privacy concerns could threaten Facebook
- UK coder helps Iranians fight government
- Palm and Apple square up over Pre iTunes sync
- Apple releases 45 iPhone patches
- Microsoft accuses Google of breaking Windows search
17 Jun 2009
- Amazon opens Kindle DX source code
- Nine Ball infects over 40,000 websites
- Pre selling well as rivals ready to launch
- Do Digital Britain broadband sums add up?
- Firefox 3.5 to arrive by end of June
- Chief constable returns child-abuse disks
- China admits censorship software is flawed
- Virgin tells customer: we've dropped Phorm
- Professors gang up on Google over security
- LSE attacks Government's snooping plans
- MySpace cuts 30% of jobs
16 Jun 2009
- Digital Britain threatens to throttle file sharers
- Government announces "broadband tax"
- High Court flushes out anonymous police blogger
- Dell launches customised laptops in UK
- China backs down on censorship software
- Microsoft files click fraud lawsuit
- YouTube gives viewers choice over ads
- Sun cancels Rock processor
- Has Opera Unite really reinvented the web?
- BlackBerry goes on Tour
- Amazon attacks Google books deal
15 Jun 2009
- Jobs drying up in technology sector
- Downtime bedevils Demon Internet customers
- Google’s Brin gunning for Bing
- Virgin launches music service and takes aim at file sharers
- Flash drives fingered for virus spread
- Nokia unveils E72 smartphone
- 3 offers "free calls forever" on £0 contract
- Adobe starts charging for Acrobat.com
- Orthodox Jews told Koogle is kosher
- Has Bing got Google rattled?
12 Jun 2009
- Opera: Microsoft hasn't gone far enough
- Linux first to support USB 3
- Dell makes $3 million from Twitter sales
- Zen blames BT for 20 meg broadband delay
- Firefox update squashes 11 bugs
- Carter ready to quit as Digital Britain report looms
- Obama draws up cybersecurity tsar shortlist
- MySpace preparing massive job cuts
- Windows 7 to ship without Internet Explorer
11 Jun 2009
10 Jun 2009
- Security firms "renewed subs without permission"
- Berners-Lee to help free Government data
- Phorm "talking to other UK ISPs"
- Nokia smartphone saps power from thin air
- Microsoft confident of escaping Russian monopoly probe
- Monster Patch Tuesday breaks records
- Google targets Exchange with new Outlook Sync
- IT staff snooping on the rise
- Warning letters "won't put off pirates"
9 Jun 2009
- Fedora 11 roars into public release
- Enterprises offered build-their-own Firefox
- Mozilla "previews" Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate
- Novell ponders "open-source apps store"
- Windows 7 no elixir for struggling PC sales
- O2 under fire over iPhone upgrades
- Safari 4 cruises out of beta
- Web host loses data of 100,000 websites after hack
- New Home Secretary not good news for McKinnon
- Web domain changes passing beneath the radar
8 Jun 2009
- Apple unveils iPhone 3GS
- Apple WWDC: key announcements at-a-glance
- Channel 4 puts TV archive online for free
- IT budgets slashed in 2009
- Pirates capture Euro seat
- Pirates sweep to victory in Euro elections
- What's going to happen at Apple's WWDC?
- Yahoo builds PayPal and Picnik into Mail
- China steps up web-filtering efforts
- Opera presses Turbo on Mobile 9.7 beta
- Bing sneaks past Yahoo in search wars
5 Jun 2009
- Windows 7: not just "a Vista that works"
- The Week in Your Words: Russia takes on Microsoftski
- Broadband speed humps won't work, says TalkTalk boss
- 10% of Twitter users generate 90% of the tweets
- Microsoft prepares monster Patch Tuesday
- Acer's Android netbook to dual boot XP
- Carphone Warehouse to split businesses
- Government threatens file sharers with "technical measures"
- Jobs "ready to return" by end of the month
- Chrome arrives on Mac and Linux - but don't download it!
4 Jun 2009
- Russians accuse Microsoft of choking supply of XP
- Microsoft dismisses Android threat
- LG's phone watch hitting shelves in July
- Digg lets members fine advertisers
- Sony Ericsson goes green with new handsets
- Adobe opens browser-comparison site
- Google Squared goes live
- Yahoo won't be forced into Microsoft deal
3 Jun 2009
- ATI demonstrates first DirectX 11 GPU
- Asus distances itself from Android netbook
- Music streaming "to overtake downloads"
- BT offers 20Mbits/sec broadband boost
- Phorm launches consumer service - but where are the ISPs?
- Dailymotion adopts open-source video format
- Oracle wants "netbooks based on Java"
- Improved tabs bolster Opera 10 beta
- Google revamps Search Appliance
- It's official: Windows 7 coming 22 October
2 Jun 2009
- Dell scraps Mini 9 netbook
- Army begins tweeting from frontlines
- TalkTalk: we're not just cheap and cheerful
- Google Docs accommodates Office 2007 file formats
- AMD introduces first dual-core Phenom
- Nokia N97 sliding out on 19 June
- SanDisk debuts next-gen solid-state drives
- GPU acceleration coming to Flash
- Acer's Android netbook coming this summer
- Intel promises ultra-thin laptops for all
1 Jun 2009
- Chip sales rise as tech gloom lifts
- Adobe hikes UK prices by 10%
- New Snapdragon heralds start of "smartbook" era
- Film industry wants "speed bumps" for file sharers
- E Ink snapped up for $215 million
- Psion drops netbook lawsuit
- Bing goes live in Britain
- Components shortages threaten tech bounce back
- Google "to start selling eBooks"
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