BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News The second stage of BT's £1.5bn rollout of high-speed fibre broadband will kick off in 69 towns and cities around the UK [09 Jul 2009]
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
News Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory have created a new hurdle for the adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive [09 Jul 2009]
Orange to exclusively sell Toshiba's 1GHz phone
News The TG01 Windows Mobile handset will be on sale by the weekend, Orange has said [09 Jul 2009]
Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualisation
News Citrix's Xen technology will be combined with Fujitsu's servers and workplace virtualisation portfolio to provide an integrated bundle for setting up VDIs [09 Jul 2009]
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News Small European businesses need Europe-hosted cloud computing services within five years, according to telecoms and media commissioner Viviane Reding [09 Jul 2009]
First open-source Symbian software released
News The launch of the OS Security Package is the first step in the Symbian Foundation's plan to eventually open source its entire Symbian mobile operating system [09 Jul 2009]
Apple patches two critical Safari bugs
News The update fixes two bugs that put Mac and Windows systems at risk of cross-site scripting attacks or of being taken over [09 Jul 2009]
XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest
News It was meant to set standards, but from its beginning, XHTML 2 was due a slow demise [09 Jul 2009]
Google names Chrome OS hardware partners
News The search and advertising giant has named the companies it will work with to develop hardware to support its Chrome operating system [09 Jul 2009]
How Google will continue its watch over you
Analysis The company's all-or-nothing approach of tracking user activity means its new OS could leave your privacy compromised [09 Jul 2009]
Microsoft pilot offers schools 'fairer' software deal
News Under the Subscription Enrolment Schools Pilot, schools will not be required to pay licence fees for systems not being used for educational needs [09 Jul 2009]
Sinofsky named as Windows division president
News The former Office executive has been leading engineering efforts in the post-Vista era and will now assume business responsibility as well [09 Jul 2009]
Google reveals winners of Native Client bug contest
News A researcher who won a bug-finding contest says Google Native Client technology is architecturally sound [09 Jul 2009]
TalkTalk drops Phorm
News The UK internet service provider will not use behavioural advertising technology from Phorm, the companies announced on Wednesday [09 Jul 2009]
Gartner finds lukewarm response to SaaS
News The research firm's findings contradict the general impression that SaaS could help alleviate costs in the economic downturn [08 Jul 2009]
Fujitsu introduces entry-level Primergy server
News The Primergy TX100 S1 is aimed at small businesses that have not yet upgraded from external hard drives to servers for their storage [08 Jul 2009]
Mozilla calls on coders to build web-tool index
News Mozilla Labs is asking programmers to help build an Open Web Tools Directory, in a bid create a comprehensive index of all the open-source developer tools available [08 Jul 2009]
IBM plans to end final-salary pensions
News The company is to launch a consultation with staff about stopping its final-salary pension scheme, while the plans have been criticised by the Unite union [08 Jul 2009]
Android on PC gets new input
News A new alpha version of LiveAndroid has been released, adding mouse-controlled cursor and keyboard functionality to the PC port of Google's mobile operating system [08 Jul 2009]
Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle
Analysis Helen Wang, the researcher behind Microsoft's Gazelle browser, talks to Ina Fried about making the browser more like an operating system [08 Jul 2009]
Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows
Leader The Chrome OS is perfectly pitched at Microsoft's weaknesses. Addressing those will be Redmond's biggest challenge [08 Jul 2009]
EMC bundles IT tools for virtualisation
News The company has integrated its existing and acquired IT management technologies into a package, named Ionix, that it says will speed the move to virtualisation in the datacentre [08 Jul 2009]
Maps compare 3G coverage across UK 
Photos Regulator Ofcom has published maps that reveal the extent of each operator's 3G coverage across the UK [08 Jul 2009]
Google Apps come out of beta
News The search giant has taken Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk out of beta, and announced new disaster recovery measures, in a push to attract business users [08 Jul 2009]
Major spike in spam containing shortened URLs
News MessageLabs has warned that email spam which includes truncated web addresses has seen a dramatic increase [08 Jul 2009]
Former ICO head urges data-protection 'step change'
News In the ICO's annual report, prepared just before he stood down from the information commissioner's job in June, Richard Thomas argues for greater resources for the privacy watchdog [08 Jul 2009]
Google announces Chrome operating system
News The Google Chrome Operating System project aims to build a Linux-based OS available for purchase on netbooks in the second half of 2010 [08 Jul 2009]
Microsoft, EC 'in talks' to settle antitrust issues
News Bloomberg has reported that Microsoft is looking to settle several pending issues before EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes steps down at the end of the year [08 Jul 2009]
Labour MP takes gov't to task over ID scheme
News The government has faced fresh calls for the £5bn scheme to be scrapped, this time from within the Labour party [07 Jul 2009]
Microsoft promise lets Mono off the hook
News The software maker is to extend its Community Promise to cover standards that underpin the .NET framework, thus clearing up some of the uncertainty surrounding the Mono project [07 Jul 2009]
Sony shows off its Vaio W-Series netbook
Photos The manufacturer has taken the wraps off its first true netbook, despite having said in December that it would not produce one [07 Jul 2009]
Symantec backup gets client dedupe
News The next update of NetBackup will add deduplication at the client, which should allow users to cut both storage and network bandwidth needs, according to Symantec [07 Jul 2009]
O2 lands exclusive deal for Palm Pre
News Parent company Telefónica has scored Europe-wide exclusivity on the Palm Pre, which will appear in the UK before Christmas [07 Jul 2009]
IT graduate jobs hit hardest by recession
News A new report reveals that graduate jobs in the IT sector have been affected far worse than other industries, with vacancies dropping 44.5 percent this year [07 Jul 2009]
Doctors call for independent NPfIT review
News At its annual representative meeting, members of the British Medical Association supported a motion calling for a review of the entire programme led by Connecting for Health [07 Jul 2009]
Microsoft warns of flaw in Video ActiveX control
News The software maker says limited attacks have exploited a hole in the ActiveX control, a component of Windows Media Center used for recording and playing television video [07 Jul 2009]
SAP user benchmark tests get underway
News Under a deal with user groups, SAP must meet criteria measured by benchmarks before it can introduce price increases for support [06 Jul 2009]
BT's fibre-to-the-cabinet pilot goes live
News The north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch are the first locations for the rollout of BT's next-generation broadband access [06 Jul 2009]
BT puts Phorm plans on hold
News The company has shelved plans to deploy Phorm's Webwise ad-serving technology, which has been the target of privacy concerns [06 Jul 2009]
Microsoft extends public-sector discount deal
News The software maker has delayed the deadline for an introductory offer on its recently introduced PSA09 licensing deal [06 Jul 2009]
Public shows caution over online services
News People are reserving judgement on the idea of taking crucial public services online, according to a newly published survey [06 Jul 2009]
Phishing attacks hit record high in June
News June marked an increase in malware attacks and the 'highest rate of phishing attacks to date' on the web, according to a Fortinet report [06 Jul 2009]
Nokia to bridge Maemo and Symbian with Qt
News An upcoming version of Maemo will use Qt rather than GTK+ as its main application development framework, a move Nokia says will make life easier for developers [06 Jul 2009]
Mobile apps changing the future of air travel
Analysis Airline passengers could one day use their mobile phone as a holiday concierge, with context-aware apps delivering reminders to check in for a flight or book a taxi on landing [06 Jul 2009]
How outage triggered mayhem for hospital datacentre
Analysis When a brief electricity failure struck a datacentre at a hospital in Australia, it started a chain of incidents that resulted in the serious outages of over 20 health applications [06 Jul 2009]
Satyam 'bullish' under new governance model
News Rebranded Mahindra Satyam, and having tweaked its model of governance, the Indian IT services firm is gunning for new contract and client wins in the Asia-Pacific [06 Jul 2009]
Net neutrality gets a boost from the US gov't
News The Obama administration has included net-neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package [06 Jul 2009]
Johnson urges haste on foreigner ID cards
News Home secretary Alan Johnson has asked the UK Border Agency to look at speeding up the issuing of identity cards to foreign nationals [06 Jul 2009]
Expert: In-flight entertainment needs iPod-era revamp
News Airlines should scrap in-flight entertainment systems as they are being outstripped by advances in storage and functionality on modern media players, according to an aviation expert [06 Jul 2009]
