News Archive for March 2010
31 Mar 2010
- Intel reveals new top-of-the-range Xeon 7500
- Acer unveils new Timeline X laptops
- Government revamps Digital Economy Bill
- Conservatives could scrap IR35
- Digital radio "doesn't get perfect reception"
- Jury confirms SCO doesn't own Unix
- Internet TV firms to get cut-price Sky Sports
- Google backtracks on Chinese search block
- Flash folded into Chrome
30 Mar 2010
- Google: China blocking our mobile services
- Lib Dems "won't support Digital Economy Bill"
- Digital Economy opponents raise £13k in hours
- Apple fixes 69 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X
- BT adds 300 locations to fibre roll-out
- Website banned from linking to film downloads
- Greenpeace warns of coal-powered cloud
- Facebook burrows deeper into Yahoo Mail
- Google to break Android into pieces
- Microsoft breaks patch cycle for surprise IE fix
29 Mar 2010
- Warner Bros: £17.5K to hunt internet pirates
- BBC iPhone apps put on hold
- Universities blocked from Hotmail after spam blunder
- Pensioner targeted by fake virus phone scam
- Adobe Acrobat unveils online workspace
- ISPs ignore Ofcom's broadband code of conduct
- Geolocation prompts Facebook privacy revamp
- Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk split
- Apple delays iPad orders
26 Mar 2010
- Spotify to launch in US by autumn
- Nokia acquires mobile browser firm
- Phorm back in business... in Brazil
- Tesco cans VoIP service
- Times websites to start charging from June
- YouTube, Facebook and Twitter "redirected to China"
- Wikipedia readies interface revamp
- Microsoft refuses to buckle to China pressure
25 Mar 2010
- Commodore 64 rises from the 80s
- Google's Brin attacks Microsoft's China stance
- Why hasn't Argos told customers of credit-card fiasco?
- Google tech woes continue as YouTube goes down
- Internet cafés asked to snoop on customers
- Bletchley Park given £250k Government funding
- Man arrested for stealing Obama's Twitter password
- Gmail to sound alarm if account's been hacked
24 Mar 2010
23 Mar 2010
- Mozilla pulls Firefox for Windows Mobile
- Government body provides free loans for low-carbon PCs
- Google wins battle over "counterfeit" Ad Words
- Pirate Party: file-sharing is good for the record labels
- Pirate Party calls for file-sharing to be legalised
- BT "not being forced" to open fibre broadband network
- The 32GB SD card that costs 12 times its weight in gold
- Google stops Chinese search censorship
22 Mar 2010
- QuantumFilm "to boost cameraphone quality"
- Novell rejects “inadequate” takeover bid
- Russia arrests $9 million cash machine hackers
- BitDefender update wipes out Windows PCs
- Browser ballot hurts Internet Explorer
- Amazon to launch first UK iPad eBook store?
- Government promises "super-fast broadband" for all
- Chinese media attack moves Google closer to the brink
- Twitter hit by new phishing scam
19 Mar 2010
- Can Palm stay alive?
- Security expert breaks into TV star's Facebook account
- Government puts biologist in charge of broadband
- HP censured over faulty laptops
- Viacom accused of polluting YouTube
- Palm "deeply disappointed" by financial results
- Facebook draws line under Beacon debacle
- Windows 7 SP1 to deliver "minor tweaks"
18 Mar 2010
- Windows 7 XP Mode now runs on all processors
- Browser ballot "boosts Opera downloads by 85%"
- Lords: UK internet would survive cyberwar
- Kindle for Mac finally makes an appearance
- Watchdog tears into Google's privacy record
- HTC: We'll see off Apple lawsuit
- Campaign launched to kill Digital Economy Bill
17 Mar 2010
- ISPs forced to advertise average speeds in US
- Canon extends 'try before you buy' printer scheme
- PayPal lets iPhone users ‘bump’ money away
- Microsoft's botnet beheading frees 90,000 zombies
- Jury piles further patent misery on Microsoft
- Google expects Android to "flourish" in China
- Mozilla prepares to extinguish Firefox 3.0
- Cut and paste dropped from Windows Phone 7 Series
- Google told to come clean on China pull-out plans
- Spotify: we've got 320,000 paying users
16 Mar 2010
- Internet Explorer 9: faster, nicer, better?
- Google Nexus One vs iPhone sales? No contest
- Intel claims new processors boost security
- Facebook clamps down on stalker apps
- US pumps billions into broadband plan
- Whitewash: Digital Economy Bill to be rushed through
- Hands on with Windows Phone 7 Series
- Android new boy blasts iPhone's "Disney-fied" browsing
- Twitter burrows deeper into web with @Anywhere
15 Mar 2010
- Lords snub last chance to help broadband customers
- Wikileaks targeted by US Government
- Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 SDK
- Core Tory voters "the last to get super-fast broadband"
- Tiny domain names to be released in UK
- Dell accuses Toshiba and co of LCD price fixing
- Digg removes logins and brings back leaderboards
- Cook gets $22m bonus for keeping Jobs' seat warm
- Google ready to shut down Chinese search
- iPad got a dead battery? Have a new one
12 Mar 2010
- Twitter adds ‘locational’ tweets
- BT brings ADSL2+ to 150 more towns
- China warns of "consequences" if Google stops censoring
- Website-blocking law was "copied" from BPI
- Small businesses "need a minimum of 8 meg broadband"
- Google takes aim at Digg and Fark with Reader Play
- Security is "priority number 20 or 30 for Microsoft"
- Thunderbird 3.1 hobbles into beta
- Tories: next Google should be British
11 Mar 2010
- Virgin to deliver rural broadband via telegraph poles
- Kaspersky: Apple is blocking iPhone security software
- Facebook: Daily Mail should name child abuse network
- Daily Mail backtracks on Facebook paedophiles
- Google claims China action coming soon
- Microsoft loses again in Word patent suit
- Mozilla redrafts open-source licence
10 Mar 2010
- Online banking fraud on the rise
- Google Street View goes national
- Child net protection plans dropped in the Lords
- Apple and Microsoft "threatened to sue Sun"
- Vodafone axes 375 UK jobs
- MySpace rolls dice with site overhaul
- Net giants rail against law to block file-sharing sites
- US mulls legal challenge to China's web censors
- Google launches bolt-ons for web apps
9 Mar 2010
- How a missing full stop ends with a dot con
- Sun reshuffle continues as another exec jumps ship
- Opera acknowledges security flaw
- Dell unveils monstrously powerful Precision M4500
- BBC blocks third-party iPlayer apps
- Android to become new Sky+?
- Fake Core i7 processors are not demo chips, says Intel
- Browser ballot rejigged after complaints
- US lifts web sanctions on Iran
- Microsoft accelerating Windows 7 SP1?
8 Mar 2010
- Ink cartridge recycling to raise £5 million for schools
- TalkTalk blasts BPI's £200 million "business advice"
- Energizer bunny in hacker scare
- The world says "net is a human right"
- Acer "to launch frameless laptop"
- Free Office 2010 upgrade scheme launched
- Changing netbook screen "like changing a lightbulb"
- Microsoft warns users off 64-bit Office 2010
- Firefox relegates plugins to sandbox
- Google to steal Office Web Apps' thunder?
- Microsoft hops games from PCs to smartphones
5 Mar 2010
- Smaller browser makers urge Microsoft ballot rethink
- IT workers "love their jobs" - but a third want out
- Apple iPad arrives 3 April... but not in the UK
- Google Chrome knows where you are
- Sony gears up to challenge iTunes
- FBI: cyber attack could have as much impact as a bomb
- Text 2.0: the book that knows it's being read
- Microsoft promises lightweight Patch Tuesday
- Lib Dems split over copyright clampdown
- Ubuntu bins brown UI and sees the Light
- EBay conman gets four years
- BT: Not getting broadband is like deprivation
4 Mar 2010
- Countryside demands broadband speeds too
- Microsoft breaks ranks with Android app
- Can robo-Rooneys win the 2050 World Cup?
- Argos credit-card scandal worsens
- Network provider admits customers still don't trust the cloud
- Ashes to ashes, byte to byte – the funeral of IE6
- Skype: we're not a threat to networks
- Ofcom to investigate ISPs' traffic management
- Lords defeat clause 17, but cause chaos of their own
- Opera downloads "tripled" since launch of browser ballot
3 Mar 2010
- XML3D: the 3D web's new champion?
- Apple planning iTunes movie streaming?
- Ballmer: we could beat Google
- Twitter earned Dell $9 million
- Peers push for file-sharing sites to be blocked
- Google backs HTC in Apple patent row
- Q&A: How Asus plans to topple the Kindle
- Microsoft: ISPs should quarantine infected PCs
- Butterfly botnet's wings clipped, after infecting 13m PCs
- Argos exposes customers' credit-card numbers in emails
2 Mar 2010
- BT loses UK airport Wi-Fi deal
- Apple: HTC has "stolen our technology"
- TomTom shrugs off free apps threat with new iPhone app
- Social networking hits GPS with Aura
- New Classmate PC unveiled
- Intel shows off 48-core PC
- Amazon cloud "doesn't come down at Christmas"
- Government shamed by Australian broadband pledge
- BT: we won't need Gigabit broadband for a long time
- Google: "people with no data aren't worth listening to"
- New Chrome beta pushes privacy into overdrive
- Lords push for Ofcom to deal with broadband faults
- Intel chip chief suffers stroke
- Google snacks on Picnik
1 Mar 2010
- New chip will "slash cost" of eBook readers
- Apple acknowledges iMac’s yellow fever
- Microsoft pays charity for Bing searches... as long as you use Internet Explorer
- Google Chrome edges up as IE slips
- New IE security issue exposed in Windows XP
- Murdoch "ready to sue" Google
- Microsoft calls for Google competition probe
- Is Microsoft's browser ballot really random?
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