IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker is predicting a drop in PC shipments of 8 percent in the first half of 2009, after a 1.9 percent drop in the last quarter of 2008.
The SDHC flash memory format is seeing stiff competition from newcomer SDXC, with solid state specialist Pretec announcing a 32GB card based around the new standard.
Amazon expands its Kindle Ebook program beyond its own hardware with a reader app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Unfortunately, like the Kindle, it's currently US only.
Flash memory manufacturer Spansion has filed for bankruptcy protection in both the US and Japan as it faces mounting debts in a slowing market.
Ultra-wideband specialist Wisair has crowed that its single-chip wireless USB implementation has been picked by Fujitsu and Olidata for adaptor dongles.
A new technology developed by researchers in the field of nanotechnology holds the promise of storage densities fifteen times higher than currently possible.
Cooler Master has built a 20-core system housed in a single tower chassis and powered by one of its Real Power M1000W PSUs as a product demo for CeBIT.
A clever hacker has developed a full IRC client in a tiny hardware device that lets you idle with a fraction of the power usage of a desktop PC.
An engineer on the Windows 7 team has detailed some of the major changes made as a result of feedback from Windows 7 beta testers.
Marvell has announced an entire PC built into an outsized power brick, dubbed the SheevaPlug, with a 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM.
Amazon has added additional datasets to its EC2 cloud computing system, surpassing 1TB of easily-accessible data from various public sources.
The next version of Microsoft's office suite, version 14, has been officially pushed back to next year - possibly to coincide with the launch of Windows 7.
An issue over at Google left Gmail unavailable for around two and a half hours yesterday - leaving many e-mail addicts to go cold turkey.
The X11 graphical user interface platform has been successfully installed on the Android-based T-Mobile G1, allowing for a fully-fledged desktop environment.
A Polish hacker has successfully installed a copy of Windows 3.1 on the Nokia N95 Symbian-based handset - complete with emulated mouse support.
Adobe's Acrobat and Acrobat Reader packages are currently under attack from a JavaScript-based exploit, similar to one which afflicted the software back in June.
Microsoft has sent out a series of letters to employees it has recently laid off, coughing to a mistake which resulted in overpayment of severance money - and demanding it back.
A hacker at the Black Hat conference has demonstrated a tool dubbed SSLstrip, which is capable of fooling browsers into giving up SSL encrypted data.
Apple has ranked highest in a survey of customer's satisfaction with recently purchased products, beating all PC-centric rivals to the punch.
Canonical has announced a partnership with HP which will see the company's popular Ubuntu Linux distribution officially certified for use on Proliant servers.
Facebook has reverted its Terms of Use back to an earlier version following public outcry over a clause which gave it perpetual rights over hosted content.
Nokia has announced a partnership with eBay-owned VoIP specialist Skype to preload its software onto selected smartphone handsets.
Toshiba has announced a memorandum of understanding which will see it purchasing rival Fujitsu's entire hard drive operations - including manufacturing and R&D.
October 14 2021 | 15:04