Gareth Halfacree

Google Gears moving to HTML 5

Google Gears, the search giant's offline caching technology, is being redeveloped using the HTML 5 specification - potentially making it easier for third parties to implement.

February 22, 2010 | 11:00

Kaspersky patents hardware-based AV

Kaspersky has been granted a US patent on its latest creation - a hardware-based anti-virus system designed to sit between the motherboard and the storage device.

February 19, 2010 | 11:01

Apple, RIM accused of patent infringement

Apple and Research in Motion - creators of the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones - are under investigation by the US Trade Commission for alleged patent infringement.

February 19, 2010 | 10:48

CPU, RAM, Android - all on one SIM card

Korean mobile provider SK Telecom has unveiled its latest creation - a SIM card which contains CPU, RAM, 1GB of flash storage, and a copy of Google's Android.

February 18, 2010 | 12:27

NEC triples USB 3.0 speed

NEC has come up with a new technique for increasing the speed of data transfer on a USB 3.0 bus - getting more than three times the throughput of conventional controllers.

February 18, 2010 | 10:56

Pwn2Own 2010 aims at smartphones

Pwn2Own - long a staple of the CanSecWest security conference - is putting more than half of its prize fund towards exploits in popular smartphone platforms.

February 17, 2010 | 11:14

AMD's 12-core Magny-Cours leaked on eBay

AMD's latest Opteron processor - the 12-core 2.2GHz Magny-Cours - has appeared on eBay ahead of its official release.

February 17, 2010 | 10:14

iPhone hackers banned from App store

iPhone hackers - those who find and post the exploits that allow handsets to be unlocked or jailbroken - are finding themselves locked out of App Store by Apple.

February 16, 2010 | 13:09

Acer launches Ion 2 netbook

Acer has announced the first netbook to use Nvidia's Ion 2 platform, and uses Optimus to switch between integrated Intel graphics and a GeForce G310M chip.

February 16, 2010 | 10:51

Barbie becomes Computer Engineer

Toting laptop, smartphone, Bluetooth headset, and a sudden case of myopia, Mattel's Barbie is set to storm the science as a Computer Engineer. No, really.

February 15, 2010 | 12:04

Google netbooks set to hit market

Manufacturers are lining up to create netbooks running Google's operating systems, but the market is split as to which to support: Chrome or Android.

February 15, 2010 | 10:36

Marvell announces new processor

Chip manufacturer Marvell has announced a new 1GHz ARM-based processor, aimed at the smartphone market, which it claims is significantly faster than Qualcomm's Snapdragon.

February 12, 2010 | 13:59

Google buys Aardvark social search

Google has confirmed its purchase of the Aardvark social search engine - founded by ex-Google employees - for $50 million, giving its Buzz service a boost.

February 12, 2010 | 10:13

Google moves into ISP realm

Google has announced plans to launch a trial fibre-to-the-home service which will see the search and advertising giant offering 1Gb/s Internet connections to home users.

February 11, 2010 | 13:35

Google's Buzz causes privacy concerns

Google's Buzz status update system - launched earlier this week - has journalists in a flap following the discovery that it automatically publishes a list of most common contacts.

February 11, 2010 | 10:15

TPM security cracked wide open

California-based security consultant Christopher Tarnovsky wowed audiences at the Black Hat 2010 conference with a presentation on how he broke the Trusted Platform Module.

February 10, 2010 | 13:59

Microsoft denies Win 7 battery bug

Microsoft's Windows Group president Steven Sinofsky has commented on reports of Windows 7 killing certain laptop batteries, and claims that it's doing nothing of the sort.

February 10, 2010 | 10:06

Sony TransferJet devices coming soon

Devices implementing Sony's TransferJet short-range wireless technology are already available in Japan, and are coming to Western shores some time in the spring.

February 9, 2010 | 14:29

The PrePeat reusable printer

Japanese tech manufacturer Sanwa Newtec has come up with a tonerless, inkless printer which prints images on to plastic sheets - and then erases them for re-use.

February 9, 2010 | 10:06

Benchmarks show eSATA still king

Benchmarks carried out on external storage devices show that USB 3.0 offers impressive speed gains over its predecessor - but that eSATA is still the speed king.

February 8, 2010 | 13:07

Supercapacitor promises end to batteries

Work at Imperial College London on plastic supercapacitor material holds the potential to rid the world of batteries once and for all, turning a device's case into the power source.

February 8, 2010 | 10:07

Patch Tuesday brings 13 fixes

Tuesday is set to bring a whopping 13 patches for Microsoft Windows and Office products, eleven of which are marked Critical - and which fix twenty-six bugs in total.

February 5, 2010 | 16:28