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News Archive for October 2009
30 Oct 2009
- Asus to launch smartbook in 2010
- Now Microsoft drops Office Accounting
- Facebook wins hollow victory against Spam King
- ATI cards "struggling" with HD channels in Windows 7
- HTC stands by Windows Mobile
- Latin script loses hold on internet
- Carol Bartz blasts "boring Yahoo"
- Ubuntu 9.10 takes fight to Windows 7
- EU threatens Government over Phorm trials
29 Oct 2009
28 Oct 2009
- Vodafone shows off 360 on Linux-based smartphone
- Government to disconnect file-sharers from 2011
- Vodafone rebuked for "abolishing" roaming charges
- Former AMD chief exec linked to insider trading scandal
- Google launches PowerMeter in UK
- Google's Similar Images feature hits big time
- Windows 7 upgrades "crippling" PCs
- Google unleashes Android 2
27 Oct 2009
- Dell plays rough with XT2 XFR rugged tablet
- More than 10% of PCPro.co.uk visitors on Windows 7
- Seagate hard disks suffer from "click of death"
- Home Secretary "stops the clock" on McKinnon extradition
- Mark Shuttleworth praises "excellent" Windows 7
- Google rolls out Social Search
- Facebook to preserve accounts of the dead
- Microsoft to open up Outlook's .pst format
26 Oct 2009
- Mobile broadband at breaking point
- Canonical limits free Ubuntu CDs
- Belkin recalls in-car iPod kit over "fire risk"
- Google embarrassed by Blogger outage
- "Activist" Icahn stands down from Yahoo board
- US regulators ready Intel complaint
- Sony under antitrust spotlight
- Orange iPhone coming 10 November
- UPDATE: Guardian Jobs website hacked
23 Oct 2009
- Microsoft bets on Windows 7 as sales fall
- $1,300 per month broadband crippling developing nations
- Government: cutting off file-sharers requires court order
- Microsoft offers Windows 7 USB installer - but not in UK
- Mozilla mashes up messaging with Raindrop
- Amazon launches Kindle reader for PCs
- Universal phone charger given go-ahead
- Macs to support Windows 7 "by end of 2009"
22 Oct 2009
21 Oct 2009
20 Oct 2009
- Apple boosts iMac screen size to 27in
- BNP membership list leaked again
- U2 to play concert live on YouTube
- Kaspersky calls for countries to be cut off the internet
- Toshiba won't ship Windows 7 upgrades until December
- Windows 7 ships early to avoid postal strike
- eBook reader gets dual screens and Android
- Apple announces record profits
19 Oct 2009
- Office 2010 hitting public beta in November
- Can invasive services survive Britain's privacy backlash?
- Plastic Logic readies Que eBook reader for CES launch
- Home Office delays McKinnon extradition
- Couple allegedly scam Cisco for $23 million
- Broadband speedtest snoops on the neighbours
- Google begins major UK ad push
- Mozilla blocks Microsoft Firefox plugin
16 Oct 2009
- Tories to campaign on Spotify
- Windows 7 most popular OS for Microsoft security software
- Facebook accounts for a seventh of UK web traffic
- YouTube to screen Channel 4 shows
- Oracle: Sun deal will double revenue
- Delayed Firefox 3.6 buffs up Windows 7 support
- Skype founders turn to radio after running out of Joost
- Apple: Windows 7 will help us sell more Macs
15 Oct 2009
14 Oct 2009
- GMail spares wrong recipient blushes
- Nikon D3S: hands-on first look
- Acer unveils dual Android and Windows 7 netbook
- Adobe mimics Microsoft's monster patch Tuesday
- Acer: 3G and Chrome will revolutionise laptops in 2010
- Opera 10.10 beta brings Unite
- Intel profits continue to climb
- Bias "mars mobile phone cancer research"
- Dell: netbook fad wears off within hours
13 Oct 2009
- Twitter subverts Trafigura gagging order
- Philips Rationalizer tells the stressed to chill out
- Google Docs adds folder sharing
- Firefox 3.6 knows which way your PC's facing
- Plastic Logic denies colour eBook reader reports
- Apple Snow Leopard snacks on people's data
- Acer paints rosy picture of PC market
- Google Squared smoothed out
12 Oct 2009
9 Oct 2009
- UK Kindle owners will be charged 40% more for eBooks
- McKinnon loses final UK extradition bid
- BT extends 100Mbits/sec fibre rollout
- Twitter in search talks with Microsoft and Google
- Colour eBook readers coming by Spring
- Microsoft warns of Patch Tuesday from hell
- Spotify: we will not become "a digital music graveyard"
- Microsoft confirms free Office 2010 Starter Edition
8 Oct 2009
7 Oct 2009
- November deadline set for Google book deal
- Windows 7 browser ballot gets green light from EU
- Edwyn Collins banned from sharing his own songs
- Microsoft brought to book by ads watchdog
- Eolas targets tech giants with patent suit
- 12345 most popular stolen Hotmail password
- Amazon Kindle hitting UK on 19 October
6 Oct 2009
5 Oct 2009
- Ballmer signs limited editions of Windows 7
- "Thousands" of Hotmail accounts leaked online
- IT budgets "won't come back" to pre-recession levels
- Microsoft's mobile apps store goes live
- Windows 7 will save up to £100 per PC, says Ballmer
- Google Wave invites fetch £55 on eBay
- Ballmer feels backlash over Microsoft's myriad licences
- "We are not an iPhone house" says O2
- Adobe brings full-fat Flash to mobile devices
- 1984 blunder costs Amazon $150,000
- Palm Pre back in sync with iTunes
2 Oct 2009
- Nvidia dismisses Atom as “generations behind” Tegra
- VeryPC launches "the most sustainable PCs on the planet"
- Google expunges The Pirate Bay from search results
- Internet Explorer suffers sharp drop in September
- High Court writ issued via Twitter
- Gates sees $7 billion go up in smoke
- Windows 7 XP Mode done and dusted
- IBM to launch GMail rival
1 Oct 2009
- New Nvidia GPUs will support “real C++”
- Ion will grow with new Atom CPUs, promises Nvidia
- Cisco splashes out on Tandberg
- Spotify launches offline mode for PCs
- BT laying high-speed fibre in copper areas
- EU improves GPS with sat-nav network
- PC Pro Award winners 2009
- PC Pro Editorial Award winners 2009
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