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  • 22 February 2006

  • News: Fully featured beta of Vista due this week

    Microsoft is expected this week to release another build of its Windows Vista OS, one that should be feature-complete, according to a plan laid out by Jim Allchin, co-president of the firm's platforms, products and services division, in January.

  • News: Google faces injunction over image search

    A federal judge said yesterday that an adult-entertainment company is likely to prevail in at least one aspect of a copyright-infringement suit against Google, and he ordered the companies to work out the wording of a possible preliminary injunction.

  • News: Wikipedia expects block to be lifted in China

    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, expects Chinese censors to eventually end their effort to block access to the online encyclopedia.

  • 21 February 2006

  • News: Phishing attacks on the increase

    Phishing attacks are on the rise, with more than one in five PC users receiving at least five phishing emails every day, according to a web poll conducted by security firm Sophos.

  • Opinion: Like flies in the web?

    I spend a fair amount of time travelling on business. That's been the case for a long time, and when I first started wandering the airways back in the 1980s the business world was still very much a telephone and letter driven thing.

  • News: Gervais podcast goes fee-based

    The second series of the world's most popular podcast, the Ricky Gervais Show, will be one of the world's first to charge for transmission.

  • News: Virus-writers enjoy successful January

    An unusual number of virus attacks succeeded on a large scale in January, many of them wreaking havoc before antivirus vendors could respond, according to figures released last week.

  • News: AOL developing workplace version of AIM

    AOL is developing a version of its instant messaging service for workplace use, in an attempt to give the consumer-oriented AIM the security, collaboration and IT management features businesses require.

  • News: Sony shows smallest HD camcorder yet

    Sony will soon start selling a new consumer high-definition camcorder, its smallest and lightest to date, and a model it considers the 'trump card' in its envisaged world of high-definition content creation, editing and sharing, the company said today.

  • News: 'Nothing unusual' about Google borrowing licence

    There's nothing untoward about Google using an internet licence that belongs to another company for its recently launched Google.cn search engine, according to an analyst in Beijing.

  • Opinion: Ricky Gervais podcast no longer free

    After 12 episodes and three million downloads, the Ricky Gervais podcast on the Guardian has come to an end. But fear not; it's soon to be replaced by the Ricky Gervais podcast on Audible at the end of the month. The only difference is that you'll have to pay for it this time.

  • Opinion: Who's most charitable in the tech industry?

    Bill Gates, by a long way. Valleywag has picked out the technology companies from the 2005 Slate 60 charitable contributions of the year.

  • News: Windows Vista to be available in six flavours

    Over the weekend, Microsoft revealed the six editions into which it plans to package Windows Vista – only to remove the information from its website a day later, and deny that it has yet made a final decision.

  • 20 February 2006

  • News: Trial mobile project planned in Bath

    A group of companies and three universities in the UK will conduct a research project that delivers and studies cutting-edge mobile applications, the University of Bath said today.

  • News: Legal battle looming over World Cup network

    Prospects of a legal battle between the German government and the EC over a new network for online access to World Cup matches moved a step closer today.

  • News: City of London to get Wi-Fi coverage

    London's financial district – known as the City – will have saturated Wi-Fi access within six months, officials announced today.

  • News: Apple systems hit by second worm

    A second Mac security threat has appeared.

  • News: Microsoft faces another antitrust suit

    A computer services and hardware retailer has filed a US federal civil suit accusing Microsoft of continuing to violate antitrust laws.

  • News: Google argues against disclosing search results

    Google has argued that turning over more than a million of its search records to the US government would undermine users' trust in its service and compromise its trade secrets.

  • News: Microsoft redesigns MSN Search page

    Microsoft this week redesigned the home page for MSN Search to give it a similar look other services under its "Live" brand.

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