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  • 11 September 2007

  • News: Firefox hits four million downloads

    Mozilla Firefox reached it four millionth download last week, three years after it was first released.

  • News: Ericsson, UN to give mobile phones to third world

    Ericsson is to contribute to the UN Millennium Villages project. The UN project aims to bring mobile communication to nearly half a million people in some of the world’s poorest countries.

  • News: Eudora email client released as Thunderbird add-on

    The Eudora email client is now available for open-source download, three months after Qualcomm stopped selling it commercially.

  • News: Malware supermarkets boost cybercriminals

    With special offers and volume discounts, the global market for criminal malware now operates like a supermarket.

  • News: One million Apple iPhones sold

    Apple yesterday said that it had sold its one millionth iPhone, well ahead of its previously stated end of September timeframe.

  • News: IBM finally joins OpenOffice.org community

    IBM yesterday joined the OpenOffice.org open-source community, in a move that could see IBM have a real go at cracking the productivity software market dominated by Microsoft, and desired by Google, among others. After years of holding out, IBM will now contribute code to the OpenOffice suite that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Office 2007 (reviewed here).

  • News: iPhone unlock software available for £25

    Vendors yesterday started taking orders for the first commercial software to unlock the Apple iPhone (reviewed here).

  • News: Google Earth, Amazon help hunt for Steve Fossett

    Google Earth and Amazon.com tools are being utilised in the search for Richard Branson's fellow aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett. Fossett, who was the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and also the first person to fly around the world in a balloon, has been missing since taking off in a private plane in Nevada last week.

  • News: Vodafone mobile phones get MusicStation

    In addition to launching more than 25 handsets later this year, Vodafone plans to offer MusicStation with its phones.

  • News: Vodafone to announce Apple iPhone rival

    Vodafone Group PLC plans to launch a high-end, touchscreen rival to Apple's iPhone. Vodaphone is launching several phones for holiday shoppers in Europe.

  • News: Embassies criticised for lax PC security

    A security researcher has collected thousands of sensitive emails and passwords from the embassies of countries such as Russia and India. He today blamed the systems administrators responsible for not using encryption to shield their traffic from snooping.

  • News: L'Oreal takes on eBay over counterfeits

    Concerned over the sale of counterfeit good, L'Oreal has reported eBay to the police in the UK, as well as in France, Belgium, Germany and Spain.

  • 10 September 2007

  • News: Skype users under attack from Windows worm

    Skype users are being warned about a new worm. The Skype malware spreads through the peer-to-peer internet phone-application's chat feature.

  • News: Mobile phones not to blame for bee decline

    Recent claims that mobile phone signals may be responsible for the decline in honeybee numbers have been quashed by research.

  • News: Software glitch shuts down BlackBerry service

    Some BlackBerry users in North America experienced problems on Friday when a software issue meant that the email service shut down, leaving the handheld device's email capabilities disabled.

  • News: UK Government tells BBC to open up iPlayer

    The BBC's iPlayer online TV download service should be made available to users of all operating systems "as soon as possible", says the UK Government.

  • News: SanDisk launches 16GB video MP3 player

    SanDisk is set to launch a slimline MP3 player with a flash memory capacity of 16GB. The SanDisk SansaView will play video, display photos and pick up FM radio stations. Its 16GB storage can be boosted to 24GB via an 8GB microSDHC (Secure Digital high capacity) removable memory card. The pencil-thin player is likely to compete directly with Apple's newly video-enabled nano.

  • News: BBC iPlayer as popular as Apple iTunes

    Despite teething troubles, and restrictions on the operating system required to use it, the BBC iPlayer TV download service is as popular with PC Advisor readers as Apple's iTunes.

  • News: Google Apps gets IT support

    Google has partnered with Capgemini SA, which will provide IT services to large businesses that adopt the Google Apps Premier Edition hosted suite of collaboration and communication software.

  • News: Dell blames laptop delays on poor forecasts

    Dell CEO Michael Dell this week blamed downbeat sales forecasting for the long delays in getting new notebooks to consumers. Dell said nothing about problems in painting the laptops, the main reason other executives have been giving customers.

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