AOL Planning Further Job Cuts

AOL says 1,100 people took voluntary job elimination packages in December 2009, not the 2,500 people the company had hoped…

15 years ago

Nexus One Manufacturing Costs Revealed

The beancounters over at iSuppli have taken Google's Nexus One smartphone apart and calculated it costs approximately £107.85 to make

15 years ago

Spammers Flocking To Free Web Hosting Sites

Security vendor McAfee has warned in a new report that spammers are increasingly turning to free-hosting websites to provide spam…

15 years ago

Alcatel Lucent Vows To Boost Network Efficiency 1000-Fold

The Green Touch consortium, led by Alcatel Lucent's Bell Labs, promises it can cut the energy used by the world's…

15 years ago

Acer Recalls Thousands Of Notebooks Over Burn Concerns

Acer has issued a recall for 22,000 notebooks after admitting that some of them may pose a "burn hazard”

15 years ago

Twitter Hiring Push Focuses On Security And Products

In a sign of Twitter's increasing commercial focus, the micro-blogging site has announced it is to hire 27 new employees…

15 years ago

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Questions Privacy Expectations

Privacy is no longer a social norm, according to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg commenting on the rise of…

15 years ago

Poor Families To Get Government Laptops

The government has announced plans to provide 270,000 low-income families with free laptops and broadband access, as part of its…

15 years ago

Vodafone Drops Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X2

Vodafone has abandoned plans to stock Sony Ericsson's Windows Mobile-based Xperia X2 - while Orange has dropped Nokia's N97 Mini

15 years ago

MOD Dragon’s Den Funds Intelligent Networking Tech

The MOD's military technology fund has invested in a new product called Bubblephone, which could be used to help troops…

15 years ago

Government Hails Recession-Busting European GPS-Rival Contracts

A UK company has won the contract to create a European rival to GPS, but the satellites themselves are to…

15 years ago

US FCC Questioned Over Net Neutrality Decision

The FCC faces tough questions about its legal authority to penalise Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent

15 years ago

Visa Receives £37m Over Data Breach Incident

Heartland Payment Systems agrees to pay as much as $60 million (£37m) to Visa to address losses by credit and…

15 years ago

Microsoft Requests Judicial Review Of Word-Ban Case

Microsoft requests that all 11 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit review a long-running case…

15 years ago

Google Planning Tablets, Netbooks After Nexus One Say Analysts

Google wants to build big mobile hardware margins from the Nexus One smartphone and future Android-based devices, such as netbooks…

15 years ago

Green IT Investments Return Despite Uncertain Recovery

In its quarterly look at green IT, Forrester found that as the global recession begins to ebb, businesses are starting…

15 years ago

Nvidia Looks To Tablets With New Tegra Chip

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation Tegra processor which it is targeting at the tablet PC and low-cost notebook space

15 years ago

Fujitsu Shows Off New LifeBook Range

Fujitsu has been busy after it introduced eight new Lifebook notebooks at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

15 years ago

Cisco Teams Up With Verizon To Showcase Mobility Portfolio

Cisco has teamed up with Verizon to demonstrate the potential of LTE, following its acquisition of Starent Networks

15 years ago

French President Pushes For ‘Google Tax’

President Nicolas Sarkozy has added his support for a proposal that could see foreign Internet firms such as Google, Facebook…

15 years ago

Software Auditors Crack Down As Recession Bites

Software auditors risk becoming "revenue-generating" traffic cops as the recession put pressure on vendors to collect every penny of revenue

15 years ago

HSBC Customers Hit By Mainframe Failure

HSBC customers were unable to use ATM cash machines, as well as online banking this Friday, after the bank suffered…

15 years ago

Lenovo To Launch Android Smartphone In China

Lenovo's LePhone, which runs on Google's Android operating system, is expected to go on sale in China in mid-2010, but currently…

15 years ago

Microsoft Issues First Security Patch Of 2010

Microsoft is planning to plug a Windows security hole rated critical for Windows 2000 systems, in the company's first Patch…

15 years ago

Dell Exhibits Products For 2010 at CES Event

Dell officials talked up mobility at the CES event, with a host of new and enhanced laptops, as well as…

15 years ago

Intel’s Otellini Launches Netbook Appstore In 3D

Intel CEO Paul Otellini talked about an Atom-based smartphone and an online app store for netbooks in a 3D-enhanced CES…

15 years ago

Palm Invites Developers To Join WebOS Programme

Palm has opened its webOS developer programme to all developers, and has also announced new phones and operator support.

15 years ago

Google Pushes Nexus One On Search Homepage

Google is using its search homepage to push its newly released Nexus One smartphone, as well as its Chrome web…

15 years ago

Motorola Shows Off Backflip Smartphone

Motorola has added to its Android portfolio after introducing the Backflip phone that slides open and back, revealing a QWERTY…

15 years ago

Sony Updates VAIO Notebook Range

Sony is the latest manufacturer to unveil new laptops, including a green machine that has a plastic chassis made up…

15 years ago