Asus unveils world's 'fastest' smartphone 
Photos The business-oriented Asus P565 uses an 800MHz processor, although UK availability for the Windows Mobile 6.1 handset is not yet a certainty [13:38 GMT]
LHC restart date now June at earliest
News Repairs to Cern's Large Hadron Collider, which suffered a serious malfunction shortly after being turned on in September, could cost as much as £11m [15:44 GMT]
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
Analysis OpenSocial's growth as a development platform for social-networking apps means it has to work out where it stands with rivals and programmers [18:17 GMT]
Nasa turns to open-source problem-tracking tool
News The space agency plans to use new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyse problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs [17:59 GMT]
Yang's departure could open door to Microsoft
Analysis Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo may set the stage for another Microsoft offer, shareholders and analysts have said [17:42 GMT]
Telcos warned: Join Google's cloud
News Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned [17:34 GMT]
OLPC 'Give One, Get One' set to launch in UK
News According to a listing on Amazon, UK customers will get the opportunity to take part in the OLPC scheme just in time for Christmas [17:25 GMT]
Amazon launches content-delivery service
News The web company is pushing CloudFront as a high-speed, low-latency alternative to content-delivery-network rivals such as Akamai, while emphasising the service's lack of upfront costs [17:19 GMT]
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
News The unspecified computer virus has resulted in the indefinite shutting down of non-essential IT systems at Barts, the Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital [17:07 GMT]
BT fibre-rollout on track despite financial crisis
News Plans to roll out next-generation super-fast broadband across the UK won't be affected by the economic situation, despite concern from some shareholders [15:33 GMT]
Lords questions viability of £12bn comms database
News Questions have been asked in the House of Lords about how effective the database would be in tackling terrorism, and whether it could handle the three billion emails and 57 billion texts sent each year [13:40 GMT]
Mobile IE6 to hit Chinese handset first
News China Mobile will be the first operator worldwide to sell a smartphone with Microsoft's latest mobile browser [13:10 GMT]
Novell delivers GroupWise 8
News Novell has released a new version of GroupWise, its answer to Microsoft's popular Outlook/Exchange collaboration suite [13:03 GMT]
Mobile industry in RFID payment push
News The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year [12:42 GMT]
HP quadruples network virtualisation option
News The Virtual Connect Flex-10 module allows a single network connection to be split into four virtual connections, which HP promises will cut networking-infrastructure costs [12:25 GMT]
Mozilla Ubiquity to bring mashups to the desktop
News Mozilla has put out a road-map proposal for version 0.2 of Ubiquity that could bring its shortcut features outside the browser and onto the desktop [11:05 GMT]
Sun's StarOffice adds native Mac support
News The latest version of Sun's cut-rate productivity suite can also read — but not write — to the latest Office file formats. [10:50 GMT]
Symantec chief Thompson to retire
News John Thompson will retire in April, but will remain chairman of the board, while company COO Enrique T Salem will take the helm [10:25 GMT]
Office Web Apps won't have offline ability
News Users will need a desktop version of Office to edit documents without an internet connection,Microsoft senior vice president Chris Capossela has said [10:13 GMT]
Transmeta sold to video-chipmaker Novafora
News The struggling chipmaker agrees to be sold to video chipmaker Novafora for $255.6m in cash [10:01 GMT]
Microsoft puts Exchange, SharePoint online
News To target Lotus Notes and protect its turf against Google, the software giant has officially launched Microsoft Online, the hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint [09:45 GMT]
Adobe to bring full Flash to smartphones
News Powerful new mobile phones will get full-on Flash Player 10, not just the lightweight version, although Flash on the iPhone remains on the wish list [09:15 GMT]
Yahoo CEO Yang to step down
News Jerry Yang will step back to his chief Yahoo role as soon as a successor is found for the CEO role, the company has announced [08:29 GMT]
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Defra running 13 projects worth £289m
News The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has revealed a complex, late-running and expensive programme of large IT projects [17 Nov 2008]
Adobe seeks to bridge gap between PCs, cloud
Analysis While Microsoft's business is tethered to the PC and Google is trying to conquer the cloud, Adobe plans to show AIR and Flash technology that draws from both approaches [17 Nov 2008]
