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  • 22 August 2006

  • News: Novell and Red Hat wage bitter war of words

    Linux' two main distributors, Novell and Red Hat, have embarked on a bitter war of words, trading insults over one another's virtualisation strategies.

  • News: Shareholders hit Apple with lawsuit

    Apple shareholders have filed suit against the company, in the latest development of the options furore.

  • News: Samsung launches 8GB music phone

    Samsung has developed a music-player mobile phone with 8GB of built-in flash memory – that's double the amount of memory in Apple's hit iPod nano.

  • Opinion: MSN messenger gets child-safety features

    Microsoft has teamed up with a government organisation focused on tackling child sex abuse to help youngsters report IM (instant messaging) buddies they think are up to no good. Young people in the UK who use Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger to chat online with friends will be able to use a single click to send a report to police if they are concerned an online buddy is a sex offender.

  • Opinion: USB flash drives continue evolution

    It's fun to watch the continuing evolution of the USB flash drive from just a storage device to a must-have system that could eventually replace a notebook.

  • Opinion: Time to splash that strong pound?

    Sterling is currrently at a 15-month high against the dollar, after the Bank of England's recent decision to gently hike interest rates. The mighty pound is, indeed, getting close to the two dollar mark. So there's never been a better time to get online and take advantage of pound-hungry yanks – to get more bang for your quid, if you like.

  • Opinion: Tips: use Gmail to the max

    Google's free, feature-laden, and still-evolving Gmail (sorry, Googlemail in the UK) service does more than just email. These tips and tweaks let you customise Gmail to manage and organise your files from any browser.

  • News: Better quality promised for mobile Skype calls

    Software in the Skype PC client that enhances call quality is now coming to dedicated devices such as mobile phones that use the peer-to-peer voice service.

  • News: IBM Turbo charges storage

    If turbocharging makes cars faster, IBM believes turbocharging its storage products will help it pass rival EMC. IBM introduced new storage products today offering faster performance, improved system management and lower cost of ownership than previous IBM models or its competitors’.

  • News: Next-gen Wi-Fi kit makes its mark

    Fast wireless LAN gear based on a draft version of the next industry standard is making inroads into the small-office and home market – despite costing more than twice as much as other products.

  • News: Two-thirds of all email is spam, plus other facts

    The latest edition of a book of global digital facts has exposed spam as an even more massive problem than previously imagined. Two-thirds of all email sent in March was spam, while only 20 per cent of it was legitimate, according to the 2006 edition of the 'Digital Economy Fact Book', released Monday by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), a conservative think-tank based in Washington, DC. PFF researchers gathered data from a variety of public and private sources in the fact book.

  • News: 'Demon Wave' worm disrupts broadband in China

    Chinese government officials have warned ADSL users to install a recent Microsoft security patch after Worm.Mocbot.A - called "Demon Wave" in Chinese - caused massive system failures and disrupted broadband Internet access across the city of Shanghai.

  • News: Next-gen security software on its way

    A new generation of security software embodying a holistic vision of PC health is right around the corner. Besides offering updated security features, new software from AOL, McAfee, Microsoft, and Symantec promises backup services and PC-tuning utilities, with a different, yearly service type of pricing.

  • News: Dell stays with Sony, for now

    Despite all the negative publicity Dell has encountered over its battery recall, the biggest in consumer electronics history, the company's CEO and founder, Michael Dell has stressed he retains his trust in Sony, the company's battery supplier.

  • News: AOL reviews privacy policy, sheds staff

    AOL has announced that it's taking steps to prevent a similar security breach to the recent occasion in which subscriber search query results were posted online. The company has also accepted the resignation of its chief technology officer, and two other members of staff have been sacked.

  • Opinion: Dylan album leak dampens iTunes deal

    A hard rain is indeed gonna fall. A week before its official release on 29 August, 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan has been leaked in full on various BitTorrent websites and forums.

  • News: Music downloads still booming in Japan

    The number of legal album and song downloads in Japan continued to climb in the second quarter of this year. But the rate of expansion has slowed dramatically from a year earlier, according to figures published today.

  • News: Next Lamborghini laptop due early next year

    Asus will release the next generation of its Lamborghini notebook system available at the start of 2007, but the company would not say if it will carry an Intel microprocessor.

  • 21 August 2006

  • News: SanDisk declares war on iPods

    SanDisk cut prices on its mid-range, handheld MP3 music players today as it released a higher capacity 8GB player.

  • News: Cheap holiday website scammers nicked

    A man and a woman suspected of running a holiday website scam that duped thousands of UK citizens have been arrested.

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