Gareth Halfacree

Moskowitz to leave Facebook

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskowitz is to leave the company to set up a new joint venture with fellow Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein.

October 6, 2008 | 13:49

Court orders RealDVD halt

A court has ordered a temporary suspension in the distribution of RealNetworks' DVD ripping software RealDVD, pending a hearing on Tuesday.

October 6, 2008 | 09:04

Thomson and Leadtek prep Cell graphics

Thomson and Leadtek have announced the production of discrete graphics cards based around Toshiba's Cell-based SpursEngine, aimed at high-definition video acceleration.

October 3, 2008 | 11:37

Western Digital to buy Fujitsu Storage

Western Digital is set to buy rival Fujitsu's entire hard-drive division in a £500 million deal, leaving the company second in the storage market with a 30 percent share.

October 3, 2008 | 08:59

The wall-mounted render farm

Designer Frederik Perman and Michael Stabile show off their zero-footprint wall-mounted six-PC server farm located in the offices of Pacific Design & Manufacturing.

October 2, 2008 | 13:01

Motorola working on Android products

Motorola has confirmed that it has a range of handsets based around Google's open-source Android platform in the pipeline, and may be boosting staff to accomodate.

October 2, 2008 | 08:52

ARM preps Common Platform SoC

ARM, in conjunction with Common Platform founders IBM, Chartered Semiconductor, and Samsung, is developing 32- and 28nm based System on Chip devices for the mobile market.

October 1, 2008 | 14:44

MI6 camera sold on eBay

A camera previously belonging to the Intelligence Services and containing top secret photographs and documentation regarding MI6 field agents was sold on eBay.

October 1, 2008 | 13:52

Yahoo's Zimbra exposes passwords

Yahoo's Zimbra client - part of Yahoo Desktop - exposes the password uses to access your e-mail via IMAP in plain text, allowing an eavesdropper to gain access.

September 30, 2008 | 13:07

G1 Android pre-orders unavailable

T-Mobile has suspended pre-orders of the new G1, a.k.a. HTC Dream, handset running Google's Android platform due to "overwhelming popularity."

September 30, 2008 | 08:59

Japan to get 1Gb/s in the home

Japanese telecoms provider KDDI is due to launch a 1Gb/s internet service aimed at home users - with equal upstream and downstream bandwidth.

September 29, 2008 | 12:48

Blu-ray 8 percent of home video market

The high-definition video disc Blu-ray accounts for just eight percent of home video sales and rentals in the US, trailing far behind predictions.

September 29, 2008 | 08:57

MessageLabs names UK spam capital

MessageLabs has published the results of a study into the amount of spam received by business across the UK, and has compiled a list of the top-ten most spammed locations.

September 26, 2008 | 15:03

China Mobile requests slower iPhone

China Mobile is hoping to convince Apple to create a custom iPhone with 3G and WiFi radios removed, to prevent customers unlocking the handsets for use on rival networks.

September 26, 2008 | 14:00

Chrome spinoff released by SRWare

German software house SRWare has released a version of Google's Chrome, dubbed Iron, which removes some of Google's user tracking capabilities from the open-source browser.

September 25, 2008 | 12:48

µTorrent Mac alpha leaked

A pre-alpha, though largely functional, copy of µTorrent for Mac OS X - based on the popular Windows software - has been leaked, ironically via BitTorrent.

September 25, 2008 | 09:02

Nokia planning Indoor Positioning

Finnish mobile giant Nokia is working on an indoor analogue to the Global Positioning System dubbed Indoor Positioning.

September 24, 2008 | 12:46

Windows 7 removes e-mail, photo tools

The next Windows release is due to have the e-mail, photo editing, and movie editing packages included in XP and Vista removed and replaced with optional web-based versions.

September 24, 2008 | 10:36

MediaDefender e-mails show porn profits

Anti-P2P company MediaDefender has been supplementing its income with spammed adverts for Internet pornography on P2P systems, according to leaked e-mails.

September 23, 2008 | 14:55

Apple recalls iPhone power adaptors

Apple has initiated a product recall for compact mains-USB adaptors provided with the iPhone 3G in the US, Japan, and other countries due to risk of electric shock.

September 23, 2008 | 09:03

iTunes & QuickTime security alert

A major security flaw has been discovered in the latest versions of Apple's iTunes and QuickTime, and thus far there is neither a patch nor a workaround available.

September 19, 2008 | 13:57

Asus ships software crack, internal docs

Asus has accidentally shipped private files on recovery discs with several of its laptop ranges - including a CV, internal source code and documentation, and a pirated key generator.

September 19, 2008 | 10:31

SanDisk rejects Samsung takeover bid

SanDisk has rejected a hostile takeover bid worth nearly $6 billion from Samsung, claiming the company is trying to take advantage of a temporary lowering in stock value.

September 18, 2008 | 13:42