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  • 08 May 2007

  • News: Flickr to close Yahoo Photos

    Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos service in favour of photo-sharing site Flickr. Yahoo bought Flickr just over two years ago. Flickr is considered by many experts to be a pioneer of Web 2.0.

  • News: Slow-loading websites Britain's top web gripe

    Slow-loading websites are the biggest internet complaint for Great Britain's web users, according to research from 1&1 Internet. The average UK and Northern Ireland internet user wastes 2.5 days per year waiting for slow websites to load. Waiting for sites to load elicits a 'negative emotional response' from more than 52 percent of Britons. Such grumpy responses range from 'short temperedness' (35 percent) to 'physical aggression' (7 percent).

  • News: IBM 'to lay off 150,000 workers this year'

    A report by Robert Cringely on the PBS website says IBM is planning to lay off 150,000 US workers by the end of this calendar year.

  • News: Microsoft fully releases upgraded Hotmail

    Microsoft has officially closed the public-testing period for Windows Live Hotmail. Now begins the lengthy process of migrating users to this major upgrade of Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service, Microsoft will announce today.

  • News: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may hurt Google ad sales

    A potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger probably doesn't have rivals at Google panicking just yet, but if a deal comes off Google may have to worry about its hold on the consumer search and online-advertising markets.

  • News: Ubuntu, Intel plan mobile Linux

    Ubuntu Linux developers will develop a mobile version of their Debian-based Linux operating system in collaboration with Intel, in order to extend the open-source software's development to handheld internet-enabled devices.

  • News: Symantec and Sophos attack Microsoft OneCare

    Microsoft’s new business security product, Forefront, isn't up to the job, according to Microsoft rivals Symantec and Sophos.

  • News: Internet Explorer 7.0 uptake stagnates

    Interest in Microsoft's IE 7.0 (Internet Explorer 7.0) has stagnated, according to a pair of metrics vendors that track browser usage.

  • News: DRAM chips now cost less than £1

    The contract price of the most widely used DRAM chips, 512Mb, 667MHz DDR2 (double data rate, second generation), slid below £1 for the first time in the first half of May. Those looking to add more DRAM (dynamic RAM) to their PCs can therefore pick up a bargain throughout May and June, as memory chip prices continue to crash.

  • News: RIM to offer BlackBerry plug-in for Visual Studio

    RIM (Research in Motion) is to allow developers to create applications for BlackBerry phones using Microsoft's .Net programming environment. RIM's move forms part of its efforts to broaden the capabilities of BlackBerry devices.

  • News: Russian court fines pirate headmaster £97

    Alexander Ponosov, 40, the Russian headmaster accused of software piracy, was found guilty and fined 5,000 rubles (£97) by a Russian court.

  • News: Samsung launches Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC

    Samsung Electronics has announced full details of the reduced price and upgraded performance for its Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC, first announced at CeBit in March this year.

  • News: Pink iPod cases fund breast-cancer research

    Belkin has introduced pink versions of its iPod nano cases, the Sport Armband and Remix Metal. Available from BestBuy the iPod nano cases each cost $30 (around £16); they went on sale on Sunday. A portion of the proceeds go to a breast cancer charity.

  • 07 May 2007

  • News: Google starts paying YouTube contributors

    YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post.

  • News: Dell to flog Microsoft Suse Linux certificates

    Dell is throwing its weight behind the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers not already using Linux, Dell said today.

  • 04 May 2007

  • News: Top 10 Firefox add-ons to avoid

    A couple of months ago, we helped you get started on your journey to browser perfection with our list of 20 must-have Firefox extensions. But the ability to tweak your browser is a double-edged sword. There are extensions best avoided – including some of the most popular.

  • News: Cracking Google's Pagerank secrets

    Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a website to rank high in a Google search. But even he, president of an SEO (search-engine optimisation) firm, was blown away by a proposal he received when he was a panellist at an SEO conference in London, February 2007.

  • News: Tech glitch creates UK election chaos

    The results of Scotland's elections have been thrown into chaos and results delayed by technical problems with the newly introduced electronic counting system.

  • News: The top 8 Second Life virtual businesses

    I was standing in a spacious entryway, chatting with the chief science officer at Sun Microsystems. His short-cropped hair, V-neck sweater and glasses were a sure sign of technical prowess.

  • News: Microsoft in talks to buy Yahoo

    Having lost out to Google in a bid to acquire internet advertising company DoubleClick, Microsoft has initiated a new round of talks to acquire Yahoo, according to published reports Friday.

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