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  • 22 February 2007

  • News: Firefox loses share to Mac's Safari

    Mozilla's Firefox browser lost market share last month, according to web metrics company Net Applications. But Apple's Safari continued to gain ground, an indicator of a slow but sure uplift in Mac sales.

  • News: Internet could provide disaster relief

    Researchers from the University of Maryland have proposed the development of the social-networking equivalent of a 9/11 call centre, where users could post information during a disaster and respond offline to the needs of their neighbours during a flood, heat wave or other emergency event.

  • Opinion: Vista PCs: buying advice

    For the uninitiated, buying a high-end Vista PC can be a daunting experience. Here's PC Advisor's plain English guide to what you should look out for, regardless of your budget.

  • Opinion: Security: helpful downloads

    Make your computing experience more secure with these downloadable tools.

  • 21 February 2007

  • News: Famed ID thief coming to London

    He posed as a doctor, a pilot and a lawyer without any training and got away with it. But he'll appear simply as himself to keynote an upcoming security conference.

  • News: Mobile roaming free cuts are a smokescreen

    While mobile operators claim to be cutting the cost of roaming, their efforts are just a smoke screen and have no appreciable effect on charges overall, a European consumer rights group has said.

  • News: IBM scientist wins Turing Award

    The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize.

  • Opinion: Remote control co-inventor dies at 93

    Today, I'm mourning the passing of a pioneer. I just discovered that Robert Adler, one of the two men credited with the creation of the remote control while at Zenith, has died of heart failure. He was 93. Adler's remote, called the Zenith Space Command, made its appearance in 1956.

  • Opinion: Join the Vista price gap protest

    Some of PC Advisor's 200,000+ forum members have created and signed up to a petition, asking the UK government to pressure Microsoft into reducing the UK price of Windows Vista.

  • News: Next-gen Sony cameras leaked in UK

    They're not due to be officially announced until next week, but details of Sony Corp.'s new line-up of digital still cameras hit numerous websites yesterday.

  • News: Bug delays Firefox update

    Mozilla will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions.

  • News: Raketu combines 'YouTube' & 'MySpace'

    A new application from Raketu Communications aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the internet's hip technologies.

  • Opinion: TrueCrypt: combat local crime

    Increasingly, we live our lives through our PCs. Which makes it all the more important to protect all that data. Here's how to do it using a useful tool called TrueCrypt.

  • News: Microsoft lifts lid on Messenger 'scareware'

    Microsoft said it moved quickly to remove a banner advertisement that appeared on its instant-messaging program for a software application that falsely hypes security threats on a user's computer.

  • News: Google-killer provides expert search results

    Jyve has launched a new search engine that hopes to take on Google by linking users directly with people who can answer their questions.

  • News: Dell launches social-networking service

    Dell has launched a social network that allows customers to vote for the best ideas for new Dell products and services - as submitted by fellow users.

  • News: New device answers your doorbell remotely

    A Dutch firm plans to start selling a device that will allow you to answer the doorbell from nearly anywhere in the world with your mobile phone.

  • News: First $150 laptops arrive in Africa

    African countries will be among the first to roll out $150 laptops, after officials announced they would start receiving products from the One Laptop Per Child initiative

  • News: Jobs & Gates to share stage

    Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates have shared the spotlight for much of the past three decades. Later this year, the two tech heavyweights will share the stage during a joint appearance at an industry conference.

  • Opinion: Dual-boot Vista and XP

    To upgrade or not to upgrade. That is the question. But perhaps the answer is to grab Vista, but retain your old OS.

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