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  • News: Boost to Yahoo's social search efforts

    Yahoo has hired a high-level researcher to bolster its social search projects, it said yesterday.

  • News: Two HD camcorders unveiled by Canon

    Hot on the heels of high-definition models from Sony and Sanyo, Canon today unveiled two HD camcorders.

  • News: Microsoft needs to clarify spending

    Analysts are looking for Microsoft to this week shed more light on how it expects its fiscal 2007 spending to pay off for the company and its shareholders.

  • News: IBM to base software price on performance

    IBM plans one day to charge for its software based on how fast it runs, not the number of processor cores on which it's running.

  • News: PSP coming to Japan's bullet trains

    Passengers on Japan's high-speed 'bullet' trains will soon be able to play video games thanks to a service to be offered by Sony and train-operator East Japan Railway.

  • News: Samsung makes 4GB flash drive for Vista

    A flash memory-based drive that will help users take advantage of features in Windows Vista to increase PC performance is being developed by Samsung.

  • Opinion: How to protect children from mobile phones

    It’s something of a national sport to sneer at the antics of our respected representatives in Europe. But there can be little doubt that the EU's plan to tackle the dangers our children face when using mobile phones is a useful one. (It certainly beats forcibly straightening bananas, indulging in corruption and gaoling metric martyrs [any more lazy tabloid nonsense we can crowbar in here?].)

  • News: EU investigates mobile phone dangers

    The EC has launched a consultation into the dangers mobile phones pose to children.

  • Opinion: Straight out of a Kinky Friedman novel

    To anyone familiar with the written works of country singer and candidate for the post of Governor of Texas Kinky Friedman, this bit of news might feel like déjà vu all over again.

  • News: Symantec and Yahoo offer security bundle

    Yahoo, in partnership with Symantec, has launched an internet security software suite, Norton Internet Security, that is designed to protect online users from threats such as viruses and spyware, the companies said today.

  • Opinion: Naive romantic crushed, mocked

    Get ready to laugh: someone else has let their emotional guard down and been torn to pieces via the medium of email. Hooray!

  • News: Ransomware becoming 'uncrackable'

    Trojans that encrypt users' files are becoming so complicated that security vendors will not be able to do anything about them, a report from Kaspersky Lab says.

  • How-Tos: How to optimise your wi-fi connection

    If you’re looking to improve the signal of your wireless network, try out some of the following tips that we’ve listed and with our help, you can extend your range and improve your network’s performance.

  • News: Traffic info in mobile Google Maps app

    Google has enhanced its Google Maps mobile application by adding traffic information and the ability to save routes, the company will announce today.

  • News: Dell feeling Apple's pressure

    If recent remarks made by Michael Dell are anything to go by, his company is feeling the pressure caused by Apple's gathering momentum in the PC market.

  • Opinion: Super HD screen shows 200ft of horse flesh

    Good news: the world's biggest high-def screen is a full 218ft long and 37ft tall. Bad news: if you want to see it you'll have to spend an afternoon with some of the smelliest, most obnoxious people in the universe.

  • News: Nigeria supporting $100 laptop concept

    The One Laptop per Child initiative for the developing world, the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, is gaining ground in Africa, with Nigeria announcing the acquisition of one million laptops.

  • News: Google click-fraud settlement attacked

    A judge is hearing arguments for and against the settlement of a click-fraud lawsuit that critics say lets Google off the hook too easily.

  • News: Motorola to extend Razr lineup

    Motorola, high on the success of its Razr clamshell phones, unveiled several more devices last night as it kicked off its annual analyst conference in Chicago.

  • News: Flexible WiMax chipset readied by Intel

    Intel's next-generation chipset for WiMax devices will support either fixed or mobile versions of the wireless broadband technology, the firm said yesterday.