Previous DayMicrosoft scores deals for Live Search
Analysis Microsoft has struck deals with Dell and Verizon Wireless in an effort to get more people to use its Live Search product
Lenovo restructures, cuts 11pc of workforce
News Chinese PC maker Lenovo has confirmed it is carrying out a restructuring exercise that involves the company letting go of 2,500 employees
Nokia abandons N810 WiMax tablet
Blog Reports abound that Finland's phone behemoth has ditched the WiMax version of its N810 Linux tablet. Is this a surprise? Not really, for three reasons. Firstly, the N810, while doubtlessly...
EC smartcard cartel raid companies named
Blog The semiconductor companies raided by European Commission anti-competition inspectors in October were STMicroelectronics, NXP, Infineon, and Renesas, according to a Reuters article. Inspectors...
FSA asks for billion-pound fix in financial IT
News The Financial Services Authority has set out its report on the cost of fixing the financial-services sector and the IT structures to run it
Security vendors: We would block police hacking
News Kaspersky and Sophos say that for security reasons they would block any software used in police attempts to break into customers' systems without a warrant
Business users left out of BT's 0845, 0870 bonanza
News The telecoms provider will no longer charge consumers extra for calling numbers beginning with 0845 or 0870, but business customers will still have to pay extra
Sony launches P-series ultraportable PC
News Weighing just 638g and bearing an eight-inch screen, Sony's Vaio P is one of the smallest fully functioning Vista PCs on the market
Ofcom: UK broadband speeds lower than promised
News On average, the maximum speeds achievable by UK consumer broadband connections are just half of those advertised by ISPs, and actual speeds delivered are even lower
Sony's 'not-netbook'
Blog The announcement of Sony's tasty-looking 638g, 8in. VAIO P (below), which launches over here in February, has sparked a debate in the ZDNet UK office about what is, and what isn't, a 'netbook' (we...
Programming Is Childs Play, I KODU you not!.
Blog Unlike Mr.Bridgewater, who seems to get invited to every envelope being opened in the world, I had to make do with watching Steve Ballmers CES keynote via the Microsoft Site. This was Steve's...
Can Palm crack it ?
Blog For some reason I am excited to hear what Palm have up their sleeve for later today. As long as they don't do an apple and announce nothing then we may have a new OS and a new phone from them....
Creative's Zii chip - more questions than answers
Blog Over in Las Vegas, Creative is gearing up to launch its Zii. Or perhaps StemCell Computing, or ZiiLABS, or the ZiiLABS ZMS-05 - or all of the above. And they're talking about billion-dollar...
Latest SD card format to reach 2TB of storage
News The SDXC format, which offers high speeds as well as large-capacity storage, is being touted as ideal for phones and cameras
Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability
Talkback Can Microsoft write ANY secure code? Seems like they are in a hurry to get the product, "on the the shelf", and let the user be the beta tester. One would expect a better product, considering how...
Windows 7 no certainty for 2009, warns Microsoft
News Top Windows executive Bill Veghte has said he's telling PC makers the OS might ship in time for Christmas 2009, and it might not
17-inch unibody MacBook Pro unveiled
Video At Macworld Expo 2009, Phi Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a MacBook Pro that features a non-removable battery designed to last about eight hours between charges
Dell cuts 1,900 Irish jobs in production switch
News The company has announced re-structuring that will see the loss of 1,900 jobs at the company's manufacturing facility in Limerick
Microsoft server worm can spread via USB
News A Windows Server worm that is attacking business systems also propagates via USB, says F-Secure
Whiteboard: Deploying desktop virtualisation
Video John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding virtualised desktops and says organisations need to think about management, offline use, cost and user experience
OQO goes for 'world' record
Blog OQO, maker of UMPCs, or MIDs (or whatever the latest name for even-smaller-than-netbook PCs is) has surpassed itself with the press release announcing its Model 2+ device. The hardware...
Bangalore, Mumbai lose their outsourcing lustre
News Companies are increasingly looking outside India's traditional outsourcing centres when choosing new offshoring services bases, according to recent research
Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of SaaS users
News The software-as-a-service vendor's datacentres were out of action for almost an hour when a core network device failed
EMC announces 2,400 job losses
News The storage giant plans a seven percent workforce reduction, despite preliminary record fourth-quarter revenues
OLPC cuts workforce in half, reduces salaries
News Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the project tasked with giving laptops to children in developing nations, blames tough economic times for restructuring
Microsoft releases Windows 7 beta
News Microsoft spoke to ZDNet UK about the new operating system's potential appeal for enterprise users
