- MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth
Reuters UK | 11:00 PM March 12
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year. ...
- U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case
Reuters UK | 08:00 PM March 12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, bu ...
- Apple fixes 'highly critical' Safari bugs
ZDNet | 06:00 PM March 12
The update, affecting both Windows and Mac OS X, includes patches for 12 flaws that could let an attacker take over a user's system ...
- SpringSource revamps Java app server
ZDNet | 05:00 PM March 12
SpringSource TC Server Spring Edition adds new tools for streamlining the development and deployment of Java applications ...
- HSBC admits Swiss data breach
ZDNet | 05:00 PM March 12
Banking giant HSBC has said that 15,000 Private Bank customers may have been affected by a data breach that occured approximately three years ago. The data was stolen by a trusted ...
- HSBC admits huge Swiss data theft
BBC News | 05:00 PM March 12
About 24,000 clients of HSBC's private banking operation in Switzerland had personal details stolen, the bank admits. ...
- Japan aims its home fuel cells at Europe
BBC News | 05:00 PM March 12
Japan is embracing fuel cell to provide electricity and heat in the home. Now it wants to export the systems to the UK and the rest of Europe. ...
- Hertford to get public Wi-Fi network
ZDNet | 04:30 PM March 12
Vtesse, a fibre provider that is gearing up for national contracts, is establishing the network to gauge the level of demand for such services ...
- Enhancing tech inside Intel's photonics lab
ZDNet | 03:30 PM March 12
The company is working to enhance the reliability of optical data transfer and seeking a diverse set of applications including supercomputing ...
- BT bundles voice, broadband and TV for first time
ZDNet | 03:30 PM March 12
The telecoms incumbent, which was previously barred from bundling services due to competition concerns, has launched its first triple-play offerings ...
- China's stern warning to Google
BBC News | 03:30 PM March 12
China's top internet official warns that Google will "pay the consequences" if it does not comply with censorship laws. ...
- Symbian^3 will do resistive multitouch, says Nokia
ZDNet | 03:00 PM March 12
The next wave of Symbian handsets will feature multitouch interactivity on both capacitive and resistive screens, according to a demo video featuring Nokia's David Rivas. In the Ph ...
- Zeus botnet shaken by ISP cutoffs
ZDNet | 03:00 PM March 12
The repeated disconnection of an ISP linked to Zeus command-and-control servers has had some effect on the botnet's ability to spread banking Trojans ...
- Tweets 'fundamental to democracy'
BBC News | 02:30 PM March 12
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams believes social networks will be the fundamental way the public communicates with government. ...
- Tories promise to break up big gov't IT contracts
ZDNet | 01:00 PM March 12
The Conservative Party's technology manifesto pledges a huge increase in the use of open standards and modular contracts, among other changes ...
- NFL signs mobile phone deal with Verizon Wireless
Reuters UK | 01:00 PM March 12
MIAMI (Reuters) - The NFL has signed a four-year agreement with Verizon Wireless to show live games and highlights on mobile phones in a deal U.S. media reported was worth $720 mil ...
- dot.Rory
BBC News | 01:00 PM March 12
The digital election: Should we prepare to be spammed? ...
- CA moves to acquire Nimsoft
ZDNet | 12:00 PM March 12
The acquisition of monitoring software company is part of CA's plan to add new customers in emerging enterprises ...
- Cisco leapfrogs rivals with faster router
Reuters UK | 12:00 PM March 12
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than riv ...
- Net clash for web police projects
BBC News | 12:00 PM March 12
A row is brewing over separate projects to use the web to bring people closer to their local police forces. ...
- Final Fantasy
BBC News | 12:00 PM March 12
Costumed fans queue for launch ...
- Verizon 4G handsets may launch in mid-2011
ZDNet | 11:30 AM March 12
The company's chief technology officer said he expects a launch of mobile handsets with 4G capability within three to six months after launching its 4G network ...
- U.S. considers some free wireless broadband service
Reuters UK | 11:30 AM March 12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal C ...
- Microsoft rebuffed in Word appeal
BBC News | 11:30 AM March 12
Microsoft has lost a second appeal in a case that will see it pay $240m (£160m) in damages to software firm i4i. ...
- Internet Explorer zero-day exploit published
ZDNet | 11:00 AM March 12
A security researcher in Israel has produced an exploit code that could increase the changes of a zero-day hole in the IE6 and IE7 ...
- Opera Mini 5 for Android released
ZDNet | 10:30 AM March 12
The mobile-phone browser, which offers tabbed browsing and Speed Dial features, now works on Google's smartphone platform ...
- Microsoft settles in IM spam suit
ZDNet | 10:30 AM March 12
Funmobile, accused in a Microsoft suit of sending IM spam, has been ordered to stop grabbing Windows Live users' personal information ...
- XenApp 6 gets Microsoft support
ZDNet | 10:00 AM March 12
The update to Citrix's application virtualisation platform adds support for Microsoft technology, and can now let workers access apps via Macs and iPhones ...
- UK digital dividend broadband comes closer
ZDNet | 10:00 AM March 12
According to spectrum plans passed by the BIS to Ofcom, the digital dividend spectrum may be auctioned by the end of the year, with services to start by 2012 ...
- Google welcome to expand its China market share: Minister
Reuters UK | 09:30 AM March 12
BEIJING (Reuters) - Google, the world's largest search engine, is welcome to expand its market share in China, the country's Minister of Industry and Information Technology said on ...
- Motorola cuts 3,000 jobs and delays spin-off
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
Motorola is cutting 3,000 jobs and delaying the spin-off of its loss-making mobile phone business after suffering a $397m loss in the third quarter amid a dramatic fall in handset ...
- Chipmaker warns of global sales decline
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
TSMC chief executive says industry revenues in 2009 will fall by up to 10% in 'an unusually challenging environment' amid the financial crisis ...
- Mobile makers braced for painful 2009
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
The world's leading mobile phone makers are braced for a painful 2009 after warnings that sales of handsets could fall sharply for the first time in eight years ...
- Sony slashes forecast on strong yen
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
Sony blamed an economic change "defying imagination" as it slashed its profit forecasts, raising fears that it could even slide into losses in the second half of this year unless t ...
- Google Russian purchase blocked
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
Moscow antitrust body steps in to $140m pursuit of Russian advertising business that would have raised search company's profile ...
- AT&T profits dented by iPhone subsidies
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group, is paying the price for the success of Apple's 3G iPhone launched on July 11 with a substantial subsidy from its mobile network unit ...
- Amazon forecast highlights holiday fears
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
Amazon underlined the uncertainty facing retail sales this Christmas, forecasting fourth-quarter sales in the broad range of $6bn to $7bn
- Yahoo to axe 10% of workforce
Ft.com | 03:30 AM March 12
Yahoo announced a cut of at least 10 per cent in its workforce by the end of the year as it reported a disappointing third quarter caused by weakening display advertising sales ...
- FCC releases Internet speed test tool
Reuters UK | 03:00 AM March 12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. ...
- Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook
Reuters UK | 08:00 PM March 11
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Googl ...
- British Conservatives promise superfast Internet
Reuters UK | 06:30 PM March 11
LONDON (Reuters) - Investing in a high-speed Internet network would open up a new global trade route for Britain, boosting economic recovery and creating thousands of jobs, the opp ...
- Web censure 'curbs human rights'
BBC News | 06:30 PM March 11
Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report. ...
- New Manchester hub to spur e-Borders push
ZDNet | 06:00 PM March 11
The high-tech Manchester centre for performing checks on passenger data replaces the JBOC, a smaller UK Border Agency at Heathrow ...
- Telegraph poles to take broadband
BBC News | 06:00 PM March 11
Virgin Media has begun trials of technology to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles in the UK. ...
- Web-blocking amendment matches BPI proposal
ZDNet | 05:00 PM March 11
Part of Amendment 120A mirrors a BPI lobbying proposal, but the peer who tabled the amendment says there was a "mixture of influences" ...
- Mozilla to update open-source licence
ZDNet | 05:00 PM March 11
The open-source licence, used to govern use of software from Firefox and Thunderbird, is getting an overhaul after 10 years of use ...
- Tories pledge 'fastest broadband'
BBC News | 02:00 PM March 11
The Conservatives say they will make Britain the first country in Europe to have widespread super-fast broadband. ...
- Microsoft loses second Word patent appeal
ZDNet | 01:30 PM March 11
A US appeals panel has upheld a ruling that the software maker infringed on i4i's custom XML patent in Word 2003 and 2007 ...
- ID card advertising tops £1.3m
ZDNet | 01:30 PM March 11
Statistics from the Identity and Passport Service cover online and offline advertising used to communicate with businesses and consumers ...
- ARM exec predicts 50 tablet PCs on the way
ZDNet | 01:00 PM March 11
Mobile computing ODM manager Roy Chen said at a press event that new tablets will be arriving around the middle of the year ...
- Mobile clinic
BBC News | 12:30 PM March 11
Phones transform healthcare in the developing world ...
- BMA cites 'serious concern' over patient records
ZDNet | 12:00 PM March 11
The British Medical Association has expressed the need for more evaluation of Summary Care Records and calls for more research into the program ...
- Twitter to add phishing filter service
ZDNet | 11:30 AM March 11
The social media site is launching a service to keep users safe from having their login details stolen through scams ...
- Online banking fraud costs rise to £60m
ZDNet | 11:30 AM March 11
According to the UK Cards Association, losses were up 14 percent, due partially to criminals gaining access to customer online details ...
- Farming future
BBC News | 11:30 AM March 11
The dawning age of the agricultural automatons ...
- European Parliament votes down Acta treaty
ZDNet | 11:00 AM March 11
In a vote of 633 to 13, the Parliament voted down the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which aimed to regulate intellectual property ...
- dot.Rory
BBC News | 11:00 AM March 11
New skirmishes in war of Daily Mail v the internet ...
- dot.Maggie
BBC News | 11:00 AM March 11
Gaming pioneers finds the old magic returning ...
- Google chief says China decision coming 'soon'
ZDNet | 10:30 AM March 11
While 'there is no specific time table', Eric Schmidt said that he expects a decision over the company's presence in China to be made ...
- iPhone developer agreement comes under fire
ZDNet | 10:00 AM March 11
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published the terms all iPhone OS app developers must agree to, calling some terms 'troubling' ...