Gareth Halfacree

Portable dual-core Atom chip due?

Industry sources have hinted that Intel is set to release a portable, low-power version of its desktop dual-core Atom processors designed to bring multiprocessing to netbooks.

March 10, 2010 | 10:16

Hackers resurrect NCSA Mosaic

A small band of hackers on the GitHub code sharing site have resurrected an early release of NCSA Mosaic, the first graphical web browser ever released.

March 9, 2010 | 12:51

Energizer charger spreads Trojan

The Windows software which was bundled with a model of USB-powered battery charger from Energizer has been found to install a Trojan horse program on host systems.

March 9, 2010 | 10:02

AMD launches Magny-Cours competition

AMD has announced the launch of a competition, looking for suggestions on how to make best use of a 48-core server - with the winner getting a quartet of Magny-Cours chips.

March 8, 2010 | 10:04

Quake shuts down Taiwan LCD plants

Two major LCD panel manufacturers have been forced to temporarily suspend work following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in southern Taiwan.

March 5, 2010 | 14:37

Apple tops Fortune admiration list

Apple has topped the Fortune list of 'World's Most Admired Companies" for the third year running, leaving rival Microsoft languishing in eleventh place.

March 5, 2010 | 10:14

Thermaltake announces Tt eSPORTS brand

Thermaltake has announced the launch of a new brand - Tt eSPORTS - with a trio of gaming peripherals.

March 4, 2010 | 13:28

Logitech launches budget Harmony remotes

Logitech has launched a pair of Harmony programmable remotes at CeBIT, both aimed at the budget end of the market.

March 4, 2010 | 10:23

Microsoft moots digital healthcare tax

Microsoft's Scott Charney has suggested that the problem of malware-infected PCs could be solved through general taxation - offering a free 'digital healthcare' service.

March 3, 2010 | 13:16

Apple sues HTC over Android

Apple has sued smartphone manufacturer HTC over alleged patent infringement regarding the company's Android-based handsets - and could be looking for a ban.

March 3, 2010 | 10:10

Intel launches Atom Development Fund

Intel is putting its money where its mouth is with the launch of the Atom Million Dollar Development Fund, which aims to tempt devs into producing software for the Atom platform.

March 2, 2010 | 15:20

Firefox to get JavaScript boost

Firefox is set to get a significant performance boost to its JavaScript engine, marrying the TraceMonkey native-code compiler to a faster JIT compiler.

March 2, 2010 | 09:48

Street View goes user-generated

Google's Street View service is now equipped to accept photographs taken by third parties and map them onto a 3D space - although the fact that faces aren't blurred could cause concern.

March 1, 2010 | 12:48

Bill signals end of free WiFi

The Digital Economy Bill - designed to curtail copyright infringement online - could have a nasty side effect: preventing businesses from offering their customers free WiFi.

March 1, 2010 | 09:59

Apple patent details signet system

A newly published patent from Apple reveals a touch screen system for recognising shapes - allowing for physical objects to be used to gain access to systems.

February 26, 2010 | 10:36

Consumers ignoring 'green' products

A new survey published by consumer electronics site Retrevo shows that purchasers are routinely ignoring eco-friendly hardware.

February 26, 2010 | 10:31

ARM unveils 28nm SoC chips

ARM has announced a partnership with AMD's fab spin-off Globalfoundries that will see the companies mass produce system-on-chip devices based around a 28nm process.

February 25, 2010 | 12:26

Google employees convicted by Italian court

Google employees have been found guilty by an Italian court over a video uploaded by a third party to the Google Video service.

February 25, 2010 | 10:33

Xerox sues Google, Yahoo!

Xerox has filed suit against search giants Google and Yahoo!, alleging infringement of patents held on knowledge management and automatic query generation.

February 24, 2010 | 14:27

Google sounds death knell for IE 6

Google has announced it is to officially drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 in its YouTube video streaming service from March this year.

February 24, 2010 | 10:04

CompactFlash grows to 144PB

The CompactFlash Association has unveiled the latest version of the memory card standard, which increases the addressable storage space to 144 petabytes.

February 23, 2010 | 14:24

Wal-Mart buys Vudu

American retail giant Wal-Mart has announced its acquisition of video on demand service Vudu, with its first planned project being to delete all the porn.

February 23, 2010 | 13:06

Acer's Ion 2 532g benchmarked

An early version of Acer's Aspire One 532g netbook - powered by Nvidia's Ion 2 graphics - has been put through its paces, and the results are somewhat underwhelming.

February 22, 2010 | 13:14