Gareth Halfacree

MySpace slashes 30 percent of jobs

MySpace is cutting headcount in its US offices by a whopping 30 percent - although senior management is allegedly dodging the axe for now.

June 17, 2009 | 10:40

Toshiba claims 16nm breakthrough

Toshiba believes it has answered one of the major problems with using strontium germanide in the production of 16nm process size chips.

June 16, 2009 | 14:47

Adobe's cloud services go paid

Adobe has finally brought its collaborative cloud-based office products out of beta - and is starting to offer paid subscriptions aimed at small business users.

June 16, 2009 | 10:14

New MacBooks have SATA downgrade

A pair of new MacBook Pro models introduced earlier this month seem to be equipped with a last-generation 1.5Gb/s SATA interface - a drop from earlier models' 3.0Gb/s.

June 15, 2009 | 14:36

Blu-ray to allow legal copying

The next revision of the Blu-ray specification, due in the first quarter of 2010, will allow a single full-resolution copy of a film to be made and burned to disc.

June 15, 2009 | 13:43

Symantec, McAfee fined over renewals

Anti-virus vendors Symantec and McAfee have been find $375,000 each after New York's attorney general found they had mislead customers over subscription renewals.

June 12, 2009 | 13:05

Salford Uni launches Facebook degree

The University of Salford is offering a Masters Degree in Social Media, covering such topics as "Defining the Digital" and "Engaging the Community."

June 12, 2009 | 09:57

Lithium sulphur triples battery life

Researchers at the University of Washington in Canada have come up with a new material for batteries - lithium sulphur - which promises to triple their capacity.

June 11, 2009 | 14:00

T-Mobile denies database crack

T-Mobile has issued a denial that it has suffered any breach of its data security after claims of illegitimate access were posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list.

June 11, 2009 | 09:46

Novell to launch app store

Novell is set to launch an application store much like Apple's, with one major difference: all the software is open-source and free of charge.

June 10, 2009 | 14:37

Mozilla offers Build Your Own Browser

Mozilla is to offer corporate users of its popular Firefox web browser a system for the customisation of its appearance, bookmarks, and settings.

June 10, 2009 | 10:11

T-Mobile investigates database crack

T-Mobile US is currently investigating claims from a cracker on the Full Disclosure mailing list that he has copies of vast swathes of the company's data.

June 9, 2009 | 14:06

Sony planning Android Walkman?

Rumour has it that Sony is looking towards Google's Android platform for its next revision of the Walkman range of MP3/MP4 players.

June 9, 2009 | 13:16

Freescale unveils smartbook concepts

Freescale has unveiled a range of concept designs for "smartbook" systems - devices based on the company's ARM processors that sit between smartphones and netbooks.

June 8, 2009 | 14:10

Intel's MID sales poor

Sales of Mobile Internet Devices based on Intel's Menlow platform have been significantly lower than the company has predicted - but Intel claims it's nothing to worry about.

June 8, 2009 | 10:03

Moblin to offer Android Market

The Intel-funded netbook-oriented Linux distribution Moblin is due to take a leaf from Ubuntu's book and offer support for Android applications.

June 5, 2009 | 09:49

Web-based malware hits 40,000 sites

A new strain of malware - which attempts to exploit Internet Explorer and Firefox flaws to infect passing visitors - has latched itself on to more than 40,000 websites.

June 4, 2009 | 12:40

Opera retakes mobile browser market

Opera has managed to claw back the lion's share of the mobile browser market, after losing the lead to Apple's iPhone-bundled Safari in February.

June 4, 2009 | 10:16

RealNetworks signs Linux deal

RealNetworks has signed a deal with Canonical, Xandros, Phoenix, and DeviceVM to bring its RealPlayer package to Linux.

June 3, 2009 | 13:36

Google Docs adds Office 2007 support

Google has added support for the .docx and .xlsx formats used by Microsoft's Word 2007 and Excel 2007 to Google Docs - although PowerPoint 2007 support is still lacking.

June 3, 2009 | 09:49

Dell drops Mini 9 range

Dell has dropped its popular Mini 9 range of 8.9" netbooks, ostensibly to concentrate on the Mini 10 and Mini 10v 10" models.

June 2, 2009 | 13:53

Sharp announces five-colour display

Sharp has created a prototype full-HD 60.5" display which uses five primary colours to render its palette - allowing for 99 percent of the Pointer colour space to be reproduced.

June 2, 2009 | 09:45

Wave hello to Google's latest project

Google has announced a limited developer preview of its new unified communications platform, Google Wave - which is set to be released as open-source soon.

June 1, 2009 | 12:37