Nexus One update switches on multitouch
News The update will provide a general fix to 3G connectivity issues and bring multitouch capabilities and support for Google Goggles [03 Feb 2010]
How Windows 8 will take on Chrome and Android
Q&A Windows chief Steve Sinofsky talks about whether the rise of netbooks and lighter-weight operating systems is having any impact on Microsoft's strategy [01 Feb 2010]
- Great interview - MSFT_AlexT
- Really? - Fat Pop Do Wop
- What people want and need? - ator1940
Delayed Visual Studio 2010 hits RC
News Following December's decision to delay the suite by several weeks, Microsoft says it has eliminated most major performance and memory problems [16:42 GMT]
Microsoft: No battery problem in Windows 7
News The software maker says an error message warning users that their batteries may need replacing appears to be working as intended [09:01 GMT]
Mozilla drops Mac OS X 'Tiger' support
News Firefox 3.6 will be the last to work with Mac OS X 10.4, as supporting the older OS is a drag on the browser's competitiveness, Mozilla says [08 Feb 2010]
Open-source repository hits 2,000 apps
News The EU's Osor resource project now provides access to more than 2,000 open-source applications for use by public-sector bodies [08 Feb 2010]
IBM releases Lotus Symphony 3 beta
News The company has rolled out the beta of its free office productivity suite built on the OpenOffice.org code base [05 Feb 2010]
Citrix, OK Labs turn smartphone into thin client
News The companies have released their 'Nirvana Phone' reference architecture, which would make it possible to access virtual desktops from smartphones [03 Feb 2010]
Office 2010 release candidate rolled out to testers
News Microsoft has given selected testers a release candidate version of Office 2010, as it works to make the suite broadly available in June [03 Feb 2010]
Greasemonkey slides into Chrome
News Google's web browser will natively support JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts in version 4 and later [02 Feb 2010]
Denmark adopts ODF and PDF/A
News The Danish parliament has mandated the use of open-standards formats for central government bodies [02 Feb 2010]
Windows Azure moves into paid mode
News Following a month of free usage, Azure customers must start paying for Microsoft's cloud-computing service or risk having data deleted [02 Feb 2010]
Novell: Not all servers should be virtualised
News Novell cloud chief, Moiz Kohari, says virtualisation is not the right choice in cases where businesses need to ensure as little latency as possible [29 Jan 2010]
Ubuntu tries Mozilla's search-ad revenue plan for size
News Canonical has signed a deal to share search-ad revenue with Yahoo in its next version of Linux [28 Jan 2010]
Open source makes inroads into education 
Video Sirius chief executive Mark Taylor tells ZDNet UK about efforts to help open source get a foothold in schools [27 Jan 2010]
Government awards £1bn software framework
News Nineteen vendors have won a place on a two-year pan-government applications framework deal worth up to £1bn [25 Jan 2010]
Getting open source into councils
Video ZDNet UK learns about a Creative Commons project being used by schools, and an effort to help with large-scale open-source projects [25 Jan 2010]
Judge: Nvidia violated three Rambus patents
News A US International Trade Commission judge has ruled that three of five Rambus patents being examined were infringed on by the graphics chipmaker [25 Jan 2010]
Government aims to buy Data.gov.uk mashups
News The project plans to license back applications that tap into public data, but some developers are cautious about the legal terms [22 Jan 2010]
Open source underpins document bank for schools
Video The National Digital Resource Bank pulls together a range of free teaching materials into a central location so teachers can find them easily [22 Jan 2010]
Amazon releases Kindle SDK, app store to come
News Less than a week before Apple is expected to announce a tablet, Amazon takes its first steps towards letting developers build apps for its e-reader [22 Jan 2010]
VMware delivers vCloud developer tools
News New SDKs for Python and Java are designed to make it easier for developers to take advantage of VMware's 'virtual datacentre' [21 Jan 2010]
Berners-Lee launches public-data mashup site
News Data.gov.uk offers access to public data from across government, allowing developers and businesses to create mashups [21 Jan 2010]
New Zealand gov't agencies to begin Linux pilot
News Three government departments will replace their Windows desktops with machines running Linux and other open-source software [21 Jan 2010]
YouTube introduces HTML 5 support
News YouTube has begun rolling out support for HTML 5 video, a spec that will let users view its videos in most browsers without Adobe's Flash [21 Jan 2010]
