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  • 23 July 2007

  • News: Gov't child database costs spiral

    The government has revealed that a database containing information and carers' contact details for every child in England will cost £41m a year to run on top of its £224 million implementation costs.

  • News: Microsoft & Ask put pressure on Google privacy

    Microsoft is joining Ask.com in offering web surfers a way to use its search engines anonymously, and the two companies are now calling on the search and online advertising industry to develop a common set of privacy practices.

  • News: Google plans $4.6bn wireless investment

    Google said it would bid at least $4.6bn in an upcoming auction of 700MHz wireless spectrum in the US if certain conditions were met. They include letting consumers buy any phone, use it on any network, and download any applications, services or content they want. Google also wants the auction winner to have to sell access wholesale to other service providers.

  • News: Google invests in UK 'Femtocells' firm

    Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google Inc.

  • News: New Harry Potter film on Google Video

    A non-profit group has accused Google’s Google Video service of hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies, concerts, as well as broadcast and cable TV programmes.

  • News: $5m lawsuit targets Xbox 360 failures

    Xbox 360 customers have filed a second lawsuit against Microsoft complaining about the Xbox 360 console scratching and ruining video game discs.

  • News: Sony plans big PS3 & PSP announcements

    European PlayStation boss David Reeves said big news for the PS3 and PlayStation Portable (PSP) would be announced at the Leipzig game conference in Germany next month.

  • News: Researchers find first iPhone hack

    Security researchers claim to have found a flaw in Apple's iPhone handset that can be used by hackers to access private data stored on it.

  • 21 July 2007

  • News: Laptops: solid-state vs hard-disk drives

    Manufacturers love to tell us that solid-state drives are the future. Apparently, they use less power, are impossible to damage and are quick off the mark. Ever sceptical, PC Advisor headed to the Test Center to find out the truth.

  • News: Interview: Apple's Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak may not be as famous as his Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, but "Woz" invented the Apple I in 1976 and the Apple II in 1977. Which should matter - as the Apple II was one of the best-selling PCs of that time.

  • News: The web's top 20 open-source downloads

    The very earliest days of the PC revolution were soaked in idealism. People shared their knowledge with one another freely; the very idea of charging for software was an anathema. The early days of the internet had a similar rosy view of the world.

  • 20 July 2007

  • News: 'Free' Dell laptop at Carphone Warehouse

    AOL has become the second ISP in two days to offer a free laptop with a broadband subscription.

  • News: Vista SP1 muddle blamed on Microsoft typo

    Rumours of an imminent Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) roll out have been blamed on a typo in an official Microsoft email.

  • News: 20 Windows features we love to hate

    Windows Vista is great, right? Well, we all use it. But we'd like to ditch UAC (user access controls) - and what's with Aero? And as you'll see, it's not a new thing. Here then, is our loving tribute to Microsoft's OS' biggest flops and flaws, from Windows 95's Active Desktop onwards.

  • News: Tomy to sell world's smallest humanoid robot

    Toy robots have been in the dog house since Sony killed the Aibo, but another Japanese company, Tomy, hopes to change all that. In October it will start selling what it says is the world's smallest humanoid robot.

  • News: Nintendo Wii boost for rechargable battery

    Shipments of Sanyo's Eneloop rechargeable battery will soon hit 30 million thanks in part to the popularity of Nintendo's Wii games console.

  • News: Firefox and IE continue fight over zero-day flaws

    Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox executives are both adamant that the other's application is at fault for a recent speight of multiple Windows zero-day vulnerabilities.

  • News: Vodafone 'concerned' over iPhone 3G omission

    Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said "virtually every mobile company" is in discussion with Apple about the iPhone, but has refused to discuss details about the handsets distribution in Europe.

  • News: Nintendo Wii to overtake Xbox 360

    Global Nintendo Wii unit sales are less than 1 million away from total Xbox 360 worldwide sales of 10 million, according to recent estimates. At its current rate, the Wii could surpass Xbox 360 sales as soon as September.

  • News: Facebook planning web-based operating system?

    Facebook has bought a web-based operating system developer from the co-founders of the Firefox open-source browser project.

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