Previous DaySteve Jobs's letter about his health
Blog The following is a letter posted Monday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs to tell the company's customers about his health problems and the situation with his employment at the Mac maker. After Apple...
Freescale and ARM promise £140 netbooks
News Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation
PM includes fibre in FDR-esque spending plan
Blog How, as a nation, do you spend your way out of an economic crisis? According to the Observer's interview yesterday with Gordon Brown, high-speed broadband could form part of the solution. From...
Wikipedia campaign raises over $6.2m
News A fundraising drive launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has led to over 125,000 people making donations to the online community-generated encyclopaedia
EMC buys some parts of SourceLabs
News The storage giant EMC has acquired some parts of SourceLabs but is not specifying exactly which parts of the open-source software business it now owns
Win Diskeeper performance and recovery software
Competition Need to sort out your PC for the new year? We have six bundles of Diskeeper Pro Premier and Undelete Professional up for grabs on Day 10 of our competition
Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
News The Home Office is working with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to remotely search PCs without a warrant
Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet
Review Although it lacks an optical drive and a touchpad, and battery life could be better, this is a typically well-built ThinkPad. If you're a Tablet PC fan, it's a very good (if somewhat pricey) choice.
Apple: Health concerns keeping Jobs from Macworld
News Two weeks after pointing to political reasons for the chief executive's absence, Apple admits health concerns are behind his decision to skip the keynote
Adobe to tailor Flash for Intel's web TV processor
News As part of its Open Screen Project, Adobe is working with Intel on optimising Flash and AIR for the chipmaker's new media processor system-on-a-chip
openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
Blog Over the holidays I put a larger disk drive in my Lifebook S2110 (AMD/ATI) laptop, and reinstalled everything from scratch. I added several more Linux distributions (it now multi-boots Windows XP...
Macworld retreat marks new era for Apple
Analysis A Jobs-less Macworld might take some of the fire away from January 2009's event, but it could be a sign Apple wants to shift the leadership burden across more of its team
RE:Alan Cox moves to Intel
Blog Comment While wondering about Microsoft, Intel and the Vista debacle, it might also be worth keeping in mind that, intentionally or not, Intel was made to look like "the bad guy" in the Vista Home / Vista...
Steve Jobs has a hormone imbalance and is being treated for weight loss
Blog More intrigue on the eve of Macworld with Apple citing hormone imbalance as the cause of more weight loss for Steve Jobs. In a public letter Job states he is already receiving treatment and will...
Six new AMD processors for business due Q3
Blog AMD is reported to have announced six new 45nm processors to be launched in the third quarter of this year and aimed at business users. The announcement follows AMD's launch of its first 45nm...
Mobile-software developer UIQ files for bankruptcy
News Left without a viable business model after the launch of the Symbian Foundation, UIQ has been shut down by its owners, Sony Ericsson and Motorola
Prof Dame Wendy Hall's reaction to her honour
Blog When we learned of the New Year's honour bestowed upon web sciences pioneer Prof Wendy Hall, of the University of Southampton, we naturally approached her for her reaction. It didn't make it in...
Alan Cox moves to Intel
Blog Just as we were all closing down before Christmas, Linux kernel developer Alan Cox announced he is moving from Red Hat to Intel this month. The move is important. According to most accounts,...
Apple's answer to the netbook is a large screen ipod touch ?
Blog With the rumour mill cranking up to tomorrow's keynote I really hope Apple have given Mr Schiller something of interest to WOW the crowds with, and apart from the updated Mac Mini and maybe a...
'Bricks and clicks' retailers win battle for web traffic
News High-street retailers with a web shopfront had 68 percent more internet traffic than their online-only rivals during the Christmas period, according to research by Experian
Shared services boost savings for Somerset
News Somerset County Council has said its use of Southwest One, the shared-services firm majority owned by IBM, will save more than expected on procurement
FreeBSD platform adds Sun's DTrace tool
News The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its Unix operating system incorporating Sun's flagship DTrace performance-analysis and debugging tool
Online retailers enjoy Boxing Day sales boost
News Online retailers enjoyed a sharp rise in traffic on 26 December, with eBay being the most popular retail site in terms of Boxing Day visits
IDC Study: Boom Time for Data Warehouse Vendors
Blog IDC provided one of the better tech reads this weekend to fill the gap between New Year and Monday morning. Analyst Stephen Swoyer was part of the team that reportedly takes up to half the year...
