Gareth Halfacree

Worldwide PC sales to slump 8 percent

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.

March 6, 2009 | 09:57

SDHC to be replaced by SDXC

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.

March 6, 2009 | 09:56

Amazon launches Kindle for iPhone

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.

March 5, 2009 | 16:12

Spansion files for Chapter 11

Flash memory manufacturer Spansion has filed for bankruptcy protection in both the US and Japan as it faces mounting debts in a slowing market.

March 3, 2009 | 13:33

Wisair plans wireless USB dongles

Ultra-wideband specialist Wisair has crowed that its single-chip wireless USB implementation has been picked by Fujitsu and Olidata for adaptor dongles.

March 3, 2009 | 10:03

New tech boasts massive storage boost

A new technology developed by researchers in the field of nanotechnology holds the promise of storage densities fifteen times higher than currently possible.

March 2, 2009 | 14:09

Cooler Master builds 20-core PC

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.

March 2, 2009 | 11:43

The PropIRC low-power chat box

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.

February 27, 2009 | 12:28

MS details Windows 7 RC changes

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.

February 27, 2009 | 08:43

Marvell announces plug computer

Marvell has announced an entire PC built into an outsized power brick, dubbed the SheevaPlug, with a 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM.

February 26, 2009 | 13:51

Amazon's EC2 offers 1TB of public data

Amazon has added additional datasets to its EC2 cloud computing system, surpassing 1TB of easily-accessible data from various public sources.

February 26, 2009 | 12:21

Office 14 delayed until 2010

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.

February 25, 2009 | 13:30

Outage downs Gmail

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.

February 25, 2009 | 11:39

X11 GUI installed on G1

The X11 graphical user interface platform has been successfully installed on the Android-based T-Mobile G1, allowing for a fully-fledged desktop environment.

February 24, 2009 | 13:13

Hacker loads Win 3.1 on N95

A Polish hacker has successfully installed a copy of Windows 3.1 on the Nokia N95 Symbian-based handset - complete with emulated mouse support.

February 24, 2009 | 10:09

Adobe Acrobat suffers JavaScript flaw

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.

February 23, 2009 | 12:37

Microsoft overpays severance

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.

February 23, 2009 | 09:54

Hacker creates SSLstrip package

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.

February 20, 2009 | 13:49

Apple ranked highest for satisfaction

Apple has ranked highest in a survey of customer's satisfaction with recently purchased products, beating all PC-centric rivals to the punch.

February 20, 2009 | 09:56

HP to certify Ubuntu Linux

Canonical has announced a partnership with HP which will see the company's popular Ubuntu Linux distribution officially certified for use on Proliant servers.

February 19, 2009 | 12:06

Facebook Terms of Use furore

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.

February 19, 2009 | 08:43

Nokia teams up with Skype

Nokia has announced a partnership with eBay-owned VoIP specialist Skype to preload its software onto selected smartphone handsets.

February 18, 2009 | 10:52

Toshiba to buy Fujitsu HDD division

Toshiba has announced a memorandum of understanding which will see it purchasing rival Fujitsu's entire hard drive operations - including manufacturing and R&D.

February 18, 2009 | 09:55