Vodafone announces iPhone release date
News Customers will be able to buy the Apple handset from Vodafone in January, the company has announced [21 Dec 2009]
Next-gen Atom chips available in January
News The next iteration of Atom processors combine memory controllers and graphics, reducing heat generation, cost and power consumption, according to Intel [21 Dec 2009]
Twitter hack was DNS redirect
Blog Twitter has said an attack on Thursday which took the site offline for many users was the result of a DNS redirect. A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army redirected users to a defacement... [21 Dec 2009]
e-Borders may be illegal, select committee warns
News Government plans to collect data on all travellers coming to the UK could be illegal under EU law, according to the Commons Home Affairs Committee [21 Dec 2009]
O2 eyes VoIP start-up Jajah, says report
News The mobile arm of Telefonica Europe has apparently won a bidding war for the internet telephone company with a $200m offer, according to published reports [21 Dec 2009]
Chartered Semiconductor bought by Abu Dhabi firm
News Advanced Technology Investment Company has completed its purchase of Chartered, and will now turn its focus on merging the Singapore chipmaker with Globalfoundries [21 Dec 2009]
Visual Studio launch delayed by 'a few weeks'
News Microsoft says it is still working to resolve some performance issues related to the Visual Studio 2010 developer tool suite, which was slated for a March release [21 Dec 2009]
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 heading for April release
News The updated email software, code-named Lanikai, could include the ability to show useful information about folders and other email activity [21 Dec 2009]
A look inside Orange's Paris labs 
Photos A behind-the-scenes tour of the robotics and machine-to-machine technology Orange is working on at its Paris-based Innovation Gardens [18 Dec 2009]
Strong quarter for Oracle as it nears Sun buy
News In the wake of reporting its best second-quarter operating margin ever, Oracle says it expects the EU to approve its purchase of Sun [18 Dec 2009]
Firefox, Adobe lead list of buggiest software
News The Mozilla browser is first and Adobe software knocks Microsoft out of second place on the list of products with the most reported flaws [18 Dec 2009]
- Flaws - Shibley R
Palm sees smaller quarterly loss
News The smartphone maker reports a loss of £48.6m, less than last year and in the previous quarter, but far worse than Wall Street analysts expected [18 Dec 2009]
Bluetooth 4.0 goes low-power for sensors
News A new version of Bluetooth is targeting healthcare and fitness products that need minimal energy consumption rather than high speed [18 Dec 2009]
Orange steps into cloud services
News From 2010, Orange Business services will offer its large corporate customers a software-as-a-service app store, as well as hosted storage and unified communication suites [18 Dec 2009]
IBM buys BPM software provider Lombardi
News The buyout is meant to add a department-level approach that was lacking in IBM's lineup of business process management tools [18 Dec 2009]
Chip revenue falls 11.4 percent in 2009
News Worldwide semiconductor revenue dropped by $29bn compared with 2008, according to Gartner, the first time the industry has seen two declines in a row [18 Dec 2009]
Microsoft may face legal action over copied code
News Microblogging site Plurk says that Microsoft's apology over code a contractor copied for its MSN China site is not enough to settle the matter [18 Dec 2009]
- Poor Plurk - Shibley R
Strong BlackBerry sales bolster RIM earnings
News The Canadian smartphone company does better than analysts predicted with earnings approaching double what they were in the same quarter last year [18 Dec 2009]
Shuttleworth quits CEO post at Ubuntu backer
News Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu backer Canonical, will be replaced as CEO by Jane Silber, in a move that could see the company's operations change [18 Dec 2009]
- Ubuntu to change? - Fat Pop Do Wop
- Refocused Distribution - Xwindowsjunkie
Win top prizes in our Christmas giveaway
News Tis the season to give ZDNet UK's readers a chance to win great prizes in our seasonal competition. Just answer a simple multiple-choice question to enter [17 Dec 2009]
Intel: FTC antitrust lawsuit is 'misguided'
News The chipmaker has responded to a suit filed by the FTC, which alleges that Intel carried out 'unfair' competitive practices in the GPU market [17 Dec 2009]
YouTube may add paid-for TV shows and films
News The Google-owned video site is looking at subscriptions to view full-length TV shows and movies as an alternative revenue stream [17 Dec 2009]
Citrix aims to save Hyper-V from disasters
News A new edition of Citrix Essentials adds continuity services for Microsoft's Hyper-V, ahead of a similar offering for Citrix's own virtualisation product [17 Dec 2009]
Watchdog attacks 'cumbersome' Whitehall IT systems
News The £350m systems used by the Rural Payments Agency are too complex and 'soak up large amounts of money', according to the Public Accounts Committee [17 Dec 2009]
Adobe to plug zero-day Reader, Acrobat hole
News The company will release the patch on 12 January, allowing it to stick to its quarterly security update schedule. In the meantime, users can disable JavaScript [17 Dec 2009]











