News Archive for July 2009
31 Jul 2009
- Microsoft's outrageous Windows 7 upgrade rip-off
- No Windows 7 Family Pack until 2010 for UK
- Dell fined $30,000 for refusing to sell £9 monitors
- Windows Mobile "better than iPhone at web browsing"
- GMail makes itself disappear
- McKinnon loses crucial judicial review
- Twitter lands sports stars in trouble
- Chrome adds support for Themes
- Student sues Amazon over lost Kindle homework
- Windows 7 free to Technical Beta testers
- Lawsuit places Skype's future in doubt
- Ballmer: Yahoo deal baffles investors
30 Jul 2009
- Mozilla launches beta of Firefox sync service
- Intel: "netbooks aren't the real deal"
- Hackers hit MI5 website
- Greenpeace vandalises HP headquarters
- Intel gives Windows 7 the thumbs up
- BT results offer glimmer of hope
- Microsoft launches iPlayer rival
- Jobs to deliver CES speech?
- Nikon launches entry-level and high-end DSLRs
29 Jul 2009
- O2's £200 per GB data fee "a deterrent"
- David Cameron attacks Twitter "twats"
- Apple free to flout Apps Store superiority
- Buffalo: 802.11n saga is far from over
- Microsoft's browser ballot hits Vista and XP owners
- Pirate Bay faces fresh legal challenge
- Google begins open-sourcing Wave
- IBM splashes $1.2 billion on business analytics firm
- Updated: Microsoft seals Yahoo search deal
28 Jul 2009
- Woman sued for $50,000 over single tweet
- Q&A: Why we've already lost the war of the web
- Q&A: Overthrowing Intel’s netbook dominance
- 30% of homes fail to hit Digital Britain broadband target
- Microsoft invites apps store submissions
- ITV facing £160m loss on Friends Reunited?
- Google Android plays with Donut
- Government departments told to Twitter
- EBay to slash fees for top-rated sellers
- ISPs won't be forced to reveal true speeds
27 Jul 2009
- Britain's fastest ADSL provider? Ofcom still doesn't know
- RIM skips 3G with new entry-level BlackBerry
- Palm reports Apple over iTunes lockout
- Spotify hitting iPhone "within weeks"
- Windows to run on ARM processors by 2013
- Microsoft caves to Apple complaint on ads
- Twitter begins business pitch
- Apple to reinvent the album?
- Internet Explorer to receive emergency patch
- Microsoft to offer browser choice with Windows 7
24 Jul 2009
- Palm restores iTune sync to Pre
- Why you're not as popular on Twitter as you thought
- Adobe promises Flash fix next week
- Google bringing 3D acceleration to Chrome
- MySpace turns to videogames for recovery
- Swine Flu fears crash diagnosis website
- Amazon pays £40 to netbook owner who didn't want Windows
- Microsoft reports worrying sales slump
- Amazon boss sorry for "stupidly" wiping Kindle eBooks
23 Jul 2009
- Virgin to monitor next-gen broadband
- iPhone salvages Carphone Warehouse sales
- Canonical open-sources Launchpad
- Voicemail-to-text software not so clever after all...
- Microsoft's YouTube rival, Soapbox, is washed away
- Yahoo snaps up photo-sharing firm Xoopit
- EBay promises better days ahead
- Microsoft finishes Windows 7
22 Jul 2009
- Google Wave beta opens September
- Intel lodges appeal against massive EU fine
- Doubts over Windows 7 Family Pack in UK
- Exposed: the PC repair shops that rifle through your photos and passwords
- AMD records eleventh straight loss
- Pirate Bay buyout hits troubled waters
- Yahoo finally records rise in profits
- Revamped Firefox adds a touch of glass
- Apple: we're years ahead of smartphone rivals
- IT professionals to get Windows 7 on 6 August
21 Jul 2009
- Intel slashes cost of SSDs with new 34nm drives
- iPhone internet access down
- Teachers to get £5.6 million for tech training
- Google maps the moon
- Samsung makes $4.2 billion environment pledge
- Google wins landmark defamation suit
- Sugar not so sweet for Negroponte
- Yahoo plans "radical" homepage overhaul
- Flexible eBook reader company folds
- "Hell freezes over" as Microsoft submits Linux code
20 Jul 2009
- Palm gets its Mojo going
- EC sets hearing date over Google book deal
- Firefox add-on developers put their hands out
- The £650 flash drive!
- Microsoft backs down over IE8's default domination
- Government writes off £24m on another failed IT project
- Amazon sparks Kindle uproar by wiping 1984
- Icahn urges Yahoo to seal Microsoft deal
- Investors brush off concern over Microsoft sales dip
- Home Server spruced up for Windows 7
17 Jul 2009
- IBM shrugs off economy as profits rise
- Google to give Docs a makeover
- 10 reasons to buy this month's PC Pro
- Nokia and Sony Ericsson watch profits tumble
- Facebook earns ire of privacy watchdog
- Yahoo and Microsoft close to deal?
- Symbian looks to Horizon to tackle Apple
- Apple locks Palm Pre out of iTunes
- "A very good quarter" for Google
16 Jul 2009
- Kindle coming to UK for Christmas?
- Tell us what you think about tech firms and win a PC!
- Q&A: Why it's time to put our faith in the robots
- Windows 7 jumps up to £80
- Q&A: Microsoft's hunt for a HIV cure
- Internet kills Teletext
- E-crime cops make 21 convictions in three years
- Apple calls in lawyers over Microsoft's Laptop Hunter ads
- Kindle cover stokes another lawsuit
- McKinnon motion defeated in Commons
- Microsoft moving next door to Apple
- Twitter's secrets exposed by hacker
15 Jul 2009
- Critical flaw found in Firefox 3.5
- Korean cyber attacks traced back to UK
- Government admits no IE6 upgrade until 2011
- Virgin drops 50Mbits/sec broadband to £28
- EU fine knocks $2 billion off Intel's income
- Patch Tuesday tackles ActiveX exploit
- Windows 7 pre-orders melt Microsoft's store
- Angry child demands BlackBerry for kids
- Gates and Ballmer launch tag-team attack on Chrome OS
14 Jul 2009
- Q&A: Why the Guardian wants Google to pay up
- Microsoft prices up Azure
- Recession "could fuel computer crime"
- Dell claims computer sales are "stabilising"
- IBM facing court date over patent infringement
- McKinnon's judicial review looms
- Businesses to get Windows 7 on 1 September
- Microsoft readies Spotify rival
- Philips and LG hit with EU price-fixing probe
- Is Facebook really worth $6.5 billion?
13 Jul 2009
- Two thirds of businesses don't support iPhone
- Everything you need to know about Microsoft Office 2010
- Fry vents file-sharing fury at music industry
- Facebook sued over user data
- Orange ditches DRM
- LG to open Apps Store
- 15-year-old analyst sparks storm after trashing Twitter
- Mobile phone directory downed by technical glitches
- Six out of ten firms have no plans to roll out Windows 7
10 Jul 2009
- Royal Family turns to Twitter
- Chrome OS is the "anti-operating system"
- Google adds licence filter to image search
- Microsoft readies Internet Explorer fix
- Windows 7 Family Pack prices leak
- Silverlight 3 speeds into view
- EU: "internet piracy is a wake-up call"
- Google boss to rethink Apple role
- Bebo safe in AOL shakeup
9 Jul 2009
- Apple to "recall iPod Nanos" over battery problems
- VeryPC turns to facial detection for energy savings
- Mesh pays users to upgrade to Windows 7
- BT names another 69 fibre towns
- Google outs Chrome OS cohorts
- Governments braced for further cyber attacks
- Murdoch rules out bid for Twitter
- Microsoft promotes Windows 7 supremo
8 Jul 2009
- Ofcom reveals 3G notspots
- TalkTalk kills contract with Phorm
- Revealed: the cost of cancelling your broadband
- 100Mbits/sec broadband coming to Sheffield's sewers
- BT's broadband protest falls on deaf ears
- Microsoft and EU aiming for antitrust amnesty
- File sharer appeals $1.9 million verdict
- South Korea hit by massive cyber attack
- Google aiming to shatter Windows with Chrome OS
7 Jul 2009
- VLC hits version one eight years after launch
- Rub your eyes... GMail comes out of beta at last!
- Yahoo hopes Search Pad can steal Google's thunder
- Palm: Apps will give Pre the edge
- TalkTalk: no Phorm without BT
- Palm Pre hitting UK "in time for Christmas"
- TalkTalk: no Phorm rollout without BT
- Microsoft warns of live Internet Explorer exploit
- Dell delves into digital detective work
- Sony finally surrenders to netbook craze with VAIO W-Series
6 Jul 2009
- Online video views rocket by 47% in UK
- BT begins fibre broadband pilot
- World's oldest bible reconstructed online
- Cameron plans to take knife to Ofcom
- Firefox 3.5 gets first patch
- Nokia blasts Android rumours as "absurd"
- HTML 5 ditches native video support
- Phorm shares plummet as BT puts Webwise on ice
- Spy chief "compromised" by Facebook
3 Jul 2009
- MySpace bully escapes suicide conviction
- UK left waiting for 150Mbits/sec mobile broadband
- Video: iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 3G
- BT charges £25 just to leave broadband!
- Audiobooks arrive on Spotify
- Microsoft gets queasy over IE8 vomit advert
- Daily Mail campaigns to try McKinnon in UK
- Is Microsoft planning a Windows 7 Family Pack?
- Virtual bank raid used to pay off real-world debts
- Operation Ore convictions to be challenged in appeal court
2 Jul 2009
- File-sharing sweep hits 20 "innocent" people
- iPhone app caught distributing child porn
- BT to guarantee 15Mbits/sec with fibre
- Hulu: "UK is number one priority"
- BT says broadband tax won't stretch far enough
- Chinese not backing down on censorship software
- Greenpeace blasts PC makers over failed promises
- Dell forced to sell 140,000 monitors for only £9 each
- Facebook prepares to offer content to all
- Twitter posts hit Bing
- Internet Explorer 8 begins business rollout next month
1 Jul 2009
- IT spending figures range from "bad to ghastly"
- Elonex enters the eBook market
- 11% of Brits never make calls on their mobile
- Bing gains on Google... but only just
- Windows 7 Beta set to start shutdowns tonight
- £900 for an unlocked iPhone 3GS
- Online video service runs out of Joost
- Mobile roaming charges slashed from today
- Now O2 mulls bid for T-Mobile
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