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  • 05 August 2009

  • News: Microsoft finally admits Linux is a threat to Windows

    Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • 04 August 2009

  • News: Tutorial: Master blogging guide

    Dale Carnegie’s bestselling self-help book How To Win Friends and Influence People could have been written with blogging in mind. A well-designed blog can be an effective way to reach out to the world, strike up friendships and sway opinion.

  • News: Tutorial: Set up Ubuntu Linux on a Windows PC

    With the average netbook struggling to run Vista, we reckon Ubuntu Linux is a more suitable operating system. Here, we explain how to install it on your Windows machine.

  • News: Amazon: Mac OS X 10.6 sells faster than Windows 7

    Pre-orders for Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system topped Amazon.com's bestseller list yesterday, just days after the online retail giant put Mac OS X 10.6 on its site.

  • News: Schmidt exit won't stop FTC Google, Apple probe

    The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed it will continue its investigation into whether Apple and Google violated antitrust laws by sharing two directors, despite the fact that Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's Board of Directors yesterday.

  • 03 August 2009

  • News: Chrome may overtake Safari in browser popularity

    Google's Chrome is hot on the heels Apple's Safari when it comes to claiming the position as the third most popular web browser, says Net Applications.

  • News: Windows 7 upgrade rip-off for UK customers

    Windows 7 users upgrading to a more powerful version of the operating system will be charged more than twice as much in Britain as in the US in some cases, Microsoft has revealed.

  • 02 August 2009

  • News: Microsoft ditches plans for Windows 7 E editions

    Betting that European antitrust regulators will okay its proposal for a web browser 'ballot screen', Microsoft has abandoned plans to ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer

  • 01 August 2009

  • News: 50 low-cost upgrades to recharge your PC

    PC Advisor outlines 50 low-cost upgrades that will boost your PC, from raw speed and graphics performance to wireless, printing and multimedia.

  • 31 July 2009

  • News: Half of businesses want greater IT understanding

    Over half of business owners are trying to gain a greater understanding of the IT services they use in a bid to slash costs, says Fasthosts.

  • News: Free Windows 7 Ultimate for beta testers

    Microsoft made a U-turn today and announced that it would hand out free copies of Windows 7 Ultimate to the initiation-only testers who received the very earliest builds of the OS last year.

  • 30 July 2009

  • News: Semantic search engine Yebol takes on Google, Bing

    Following the recent launch of Microsoft's Bing, along with products such as Wolfram Alpha, another search engine has entered the market, hoping to take on Google by delivering 'human-like' results. Yebol.com launched yesterday, and uses semantic-search technology to deliver categorised results.

  • 29 July 2009

  • News: Microsoft, Yahoo ink Bing deal

    Microsoft and Yahoo have reached agreement on an online search and advertising deal.

  • News: Acer dumps Google Android netbook

    Acer's plans to launch an Aspire One netbook running Google's Android operating system have been shelved.

  • News: FAQ: Microsoft's browser 'ballot screen'

    Microsoft's decision last week to give Windows' users in Europe a so-called 'ballot screen' so they can decide which web browser they want to use, rather than being forced to use Internet Explorer, which previously came bundled with the OS, stunned tech fans across the world.

  • News: UK government offers advice on Twitter

    UK government officials are encouraging departments and employees to fire up their computers and get Twittering.

  • News: More than 90% of email now spam

    Spam now constitutes 92 percent of all email, according to McAfee's "Threat Reports Second Quarter 2009". Spam-fighting firm MX Logic, sees that figure as even higher: a whopping 94.6 percent of all email sent.

  • 27 July 2009

  • News: Opera: Microsoft should offer 'ballot screen' worldwide

    Opera Software, the web browser manufacturer which sparked the EU's antitrust investigation against Microsoft, has revealed it wants the firm to offer its browser 'ballot screen' to web users worldwide.

  • News: Windows 7 vs Windows Vista

    Windows 7 will be available in October, but how does it compare with its unpopular predecessor? We compared every major feature of the two operating systems

  • 25 July 2009

  • News: Google's five worst attacks on Microsoft

    There's no doubt that Google is on a quest for world domination, but all of its endeavours seem to be aimed at trouncing Microsoft. It started off in the search engine market, then Google moved into the world of web browsers challenging Microsoft's Internet Explorer with Chrome. Now, its latest project - the Chrome Operating System - is designed to rival Windows.

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