Gareth Halfacree

Transistor celebrates its 60th birthday

Yesterday saw the transistor celebrate its 60th birthday. It's regarded as one of those inventions that truly revolutionised the world and things have come a long way since its inception.

December 17, 2007 | 11:59

Intel débuts three-in-one radio chip

Intel has rolled WiMAX, WiFi and DVB-H into a single chip. WiMAX? Is this just Intel pushing more of its own unused technology?

December 14, 2007 | 15:48

KDE 4 to use much less RAM

KDE 4 will use far less memory and will run its "Aero" equivalent on older hardware than you'd expect. Another excuse to switch to away from Microsoft?

December 14, 2007 | 13:25

HP laptops have remote vulnerability

HP's "helpful" Info Centre can turn nasty thanks to its ActiveX security flaw, that can allow malicious code to overtake your system.

December 13, 2007 | 13:51

Ubuntu now available for Eee PCs

Got yourself a spangly new Eee PC? Well there's already an alternative OS out there if you want to be a little different to everyone else.

December 13, 2007 | 12:01

Ask.com introduces anonymous-ish searching

Ask.com now offers an Eraser option that nukes the logs of your search. Great, but you have to use Ask..

December 12, 2007 | 13:10

Get Vista free, sacrifice privacy

Microsoft is offering Vista Ultimate, Office 2007 and Encarta 2008 for free, so long as you let it nose around your PC for three months. Is that incentive enough for you?

December 12, 2007 | 12:13

Rogers forces own content onto users

A Canadian ISP is trialling a new invasive service that currently lets users know about their current bandwidth use, however the possibilities this service could provide are a little more sinister.

December 11, 2007 | 12:59

IBM says light will drive future PCs

IBM is developing a technology that will use light to replace some of the electrical circuits in CPUs.

December 11, 2007 | 09:34

WD MyBook locks your media files

Western Digital 1TB MyBook NAS adds overly restrictive DRM to deny access to the video and music you legally own, when you try and play it from outside your home network.

December 10, 2007 | 14:33

Eee PC warranty still intact

It seems everyone can't get enough of Asus' cheap little sub-laptop, and things have just got better as Asus will now honour warranty claims for home upgrades.

December 10, 2007 | 13:05

PlusNet sympathetic to file sharers

As an ISP, Plus.net finds itself as the middleman in arguments between law enforcement and accused file sharers. In an unusually down to earth blog post, a Plus.net employee lays it straight.

December 7, 2007 | 16:21

3D CPUs to speed computing

The Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore and flash memory maker, Fujio Masouka, are claiming huge increases in processing power by making processors in 3D.

December 7, 2007 | 14:16

Microsoft goes Service Pack crazy

We're heading for service pack city as Vista, XP and Office 2007 all get a tune up and a bit of spit 'n' polish.

December 7, 2007 | 10:23

Latest Flash Player streams HD video

The latest update of Adobe's Flash player introduces H.264 1080p HD support but More importantly it also reduces CPU usage for all flash!

December 6, 2007 | 10:18

Assassin's Creed glitchy on PS3?

Owners of the PS3 version of Assassin's Creed are finding bugs galore, according to reports.

December 5, 2007 | 14:40

Solid-state disk capacities set to soar

American memory manufacturer, STEC, has launched a massive 512GB SSD drive after it developed a novel new memory controller.

December 5, 2007 | 12:19

Do parents have a say in the games children play?

Microsoft has released an 'independent' survey about parents' attitudes to their children playing video games.

December 4, 2007 | 10:46

TVersity 0.9.11.3 released

TVersity has released the latest update of its free software and will now stream a greater variety of video and music from your PC to your 360 or PS3 without the need for transcoding.

December 4, 2007 | 09:28