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  • 12 January 2010

  • News: Mac OS X boffin to work with old Apple pals

    Avadis "Avie" Tevanian, a former Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, has joined a bunch of former Steve Jobs apostles at private equity firm Elevation Partners, where he will be a Managing Director.

  • News: Google and Microsoft war over $5 billion cloud

    An evolving IT supply chain, business adoption of cloud platforms for IT services, and greater business use of handsets and smartphones are creating new revenue streams for both IT and mobile suppliers serving businesses.

  • News: Survey: Steve Jobs unknown to most Brits

    A new voxpop survey suggests that the majority of people have little idea about technical language or the people involved in the IT industry. One in ten people on the streets of London apparently believe that Steve Jobs is a trade union leader rather than the CEO and co-founder of Apple.

  • News: AOL forced to make 1,4000 staff redundant

    AOL has started making employees redundant after a voluntary layoff program fell short of its goal late last year.

  • News: 'Internet privacy is dead' says Facebook CEO

    Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested that internet privacy is a thing of the past. The Facebook founder's comments were part of an interview with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington during last week's Crunchie awards presentation.

  • News: ISP owner charged with cyberfraud

    The owner of a Dallas-based internet service provider that was raided last April has been charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud more than $15 million from companies such as Verizon, AT&T and XO Communications.

  • 11 January 2010

  • News: 4G to power mobile Web 3.0 services

    Internet access service will be the "killer 4G service" - no surprise considering 4G networks are data-only. However, a suite of premium services will collectively drive significant consumer adoption, revenues and profits.

  • News: 802.11n in 87% of Wi-Fi smartphones by 2014

    Although 802.11n Wi-Fi technology was found in less than 1 percent of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones last year, in 2014 at least 87 percent of Wi-Fi-capable smartphones will feature this latest of the 802.11 protocols.

  • News: TalkTalk: Home Access Scheme shows government's "muddled thinking"

    UK ISP TalkTalk has labelled plans to provide 270,000 disadvantage families with free broadband and laptops as "muddled thinking".

  • News: Microsoft patch strips XML technology from Word for Mac

    Microsoft has revealed it will also patch Word on the Mac to comply with a federal court's ruling requiring it to remove custom XML technology from its popular word processing software.

  • News: Chartered Institute for IT urges IT workers to get fit

    IT workers are bieng urged to get fit by BCS - the Chartered Institute for IT - after it was revealed they were the unhealthiest employees in the UK .

  • News: Microsoft appeals against damages in Word 2007 case

    Microsoft has asked the US appeal court to reconsider ruling that will see the software giant fork out $290 million in damages.

  • 10 January 2010

  • News: 12 tech firms that have lost their way

    Google, Apple and even Microsoft are some of the most respected tech brands of the decade. However, sadly, no brand is guaranteed eternal health.

  • 09 January 2010

  • News: 10 years on from the Millennium Bug

    It's more than a decade since the wave of panic over the Millennium Bug - the flaw in modern PCs which was expected to create massive system failures and even worries about errant missile launches thanks to computers confused about what century we were in.

  • 08 January 2010

  • News: French consider tax on Google, Facebook, Yahoo

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy has added his support to a proposal to tax Google and other online advertising networks in order to compensate the creators of artistic and other works who lose out to digital piracy.

  • News: PC Advisor Awards 2010 winners announced

    The winners of the PC Advisor Awards 2010 have been announced, with gongs going out to the likes of Acer, Adobe, Apple, Canon, Google, Microsoft, Symantec and Western Digital.

  • News: Blade Runner family sues Google over Nexus One, Android

    The family of Blade Runner author Philip K. Dick is to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights over the name of its recently announced Nexus One smartphone.

  • 07 January 2010

  • News: O2 wins PC Advisor Best Broadband ISP 2009

    O2 won the PC Advisor Awards - Readers Best Broadband ISP 2009 award, in a survey voted for by over 6,500 PC Advisor readers.

  • News: Google to be sued over Nexus One?

    Google could be sued by the family of author Philip K Dick - the man behind the book Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep, which Blade Runner was based.

  • News: 5 reasons why IE is doomed

    IE seems to be on the ropes. In the last five years, it's lost nearly a third of its market share as the once-dead browser space has been reinvigorated with faster, smaller and more flexible rivals. It looks like the trend will be tough, very tough for Microsoft to turn around.

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