Software

Border Releases Own Kobo E-Reader

Borders plans on joining the e-reader wars with its Kobo device, which will be priced at around £70

15 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker Guilty Of ‘Menacing’ Tweet

A man has been fined £1000 after posting a joke on Twitter about blowing up a snow-bound airport

15 years ago

Facebook Hacker Jailed Amid Rape Claims

The case of a woman misusing Faceboook to back up rape charges should prompt people to protect their passwords, say…

15 years ago

Pirate Party All At Sea After First Election

Despite only winning 0.34 percent of the vote, the UK Pirate Party believes it could benefit from a hung parliament…

15 years ago

Facebook Users Could Get Cheaper McDonald’s Burgers

AdAge is reporting that Facebook is expected to challenge popular startup Foursquare by offering location-based status updates

15 years ago

IBM Promises Greater Efficiency With Software

IBM continues to bang the 'business agility' drum, after it unveiled new software designed to cut costs

15 years ago

The Biggest Security Threats Now

Web 2.0 and the recession have prompted CIOs to invest in anti-malware protection, patch management, data loss prevention and safer…

15 years ago

US Government Weighs In On Facebook Privacy

Privacy groups have complained to the US FTC, while others fear proposed privacy rules will hurt online commerce

15 years ago

SMBs Struggle To Understand Social Media

Blogs, Facebook and Twitter are now used by most small to medium businesses in the US, although many remain unsure…

15 years ago

Facebook Fixes Flaw That Exposed User Chats

Facebook has plugged a security hole that exposed users' live chat sessions and pending friend requests

15 years ago

Skype Launching Group Videoconferencing

Skype plans to introduce a group video chat feature that will help it better compete with the likes of Cisco,…

15 years ago

Microsoft Launches Social Aggregation Site

Microsoft revealed a technical preview of Spindex, a new Web service designed to aggregate users' social-networking feeds

15 years ago

Microsoft announces Dates For Kin Launch

Microsoft formally announced that its Kin One and Kin Two phones would be available for online pre-order starting on 6…

15 years ago

Tech Workers Believe Economy Is Improving

Over a third of technology workers believe the economy is improving, and confidence levels are starting to firm up

15 years ago

Google Touts Speedy Chrome 5.0

The Google Chrome team are claiming that the new beta of the Chrome 5.0 web browser is up to 35…

15 years ago

Microsoft Releases Free UC Client For Nokia Handsets

Microsoft has released a free unified communications (UC) client that will allow workers to access their business communication system via…

15 years ago

Intel Labs Builds Routers From Clustered Servers

Intel researchers have used an open source software package called Click Router to tie unused servers together to create routers

15 years ago

Google Launching Electronic Book Service

Google will begin selling electronic books online as early as June through Google Editions

15 years ago

Apple Facing Antitrust Over iAd Platform

Apple could face an investigation over iAd, a feature of its upcoming iPhone OS 4

15 years ago

Chrome Gains As IE Slips Below 60 Percent

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has slipped below the 60 percent mark market share for the first time in years, as Chrome…

15 years ago

Google Makes Startup Investment Pledge

Google Ventures has pledged to invest £66 million per year into “best-of-breed” startups, as the search engine giant looks to…

15 years ago

Twitter Adds Embedding Option For Tweets

Twitter is to launch embeddable tweets so that people can easily insert tweets into their blog and news stories

15 years ago

Google Brings Gmail Back To Britain

Users of Google's email service in the UK will be able to use @gmail.com domain names from this week

15 years ago

Microsoft Kin Mobiles Available For Pre-sale

Microsoft will make its Kin One and Kin Two social-networking phones available on 6 May

15 years ago

IBM Planning Green Sim City Game For Sustainability Training

The systems giant has created what it calls a "serious game" to help individuals recognise the importance of solving problems…

15 years ago

Apple Facing Anti-Trust Threat Over App Store

Apple could find itself the target of either a Department of Justice or Federal Trade Commission, according to an unnamed…

15 years ago

Conviction For Sarah Palin Email Hack

A federal jury has convicted the son of a prominent Tennessee Democrat of illegally accessing the e-mail account of former…

15 years ago

Twitter To Open Source Android App

Twitter has released the Twitter for Android application to the Android Market

15 years ago

Apple Says Bye Bye To LaLa Music Service

Apple's plans to shut down Lala, the online music service it acquired in December 2009

15 years ago

HP To Use WebOS To Compete On Tablets

Hewlett-Packard, following its acquisition of Palm, is expected to use WebOS to gain new leverage in the tablet market

15 years ago