Gareth Halfacree

iPhone patch fixes security holes

All iPhone and iPod Touch users are advised to apply Apple's latest update - 3.1.3 - as soon as possible, as it addresses three remotely-exploitable security flaws.

February 4, 2010 | 15:13

Rumour: Amazon buys Touchco

The word on the street is that Amazon has bought New York-based Touchco, a small start-up specialising in multi-touch display technology - possibly indicating future Kindle features.

February 4, 2010 | 10:15

Hotmail attack deletes contacts, emails

An attack against Microsoft's Hotmail site - which the company is blaming on account-harvesting malware - is resulting in the mass-deletion of users' contact lists and sent e-mails.

February 3, 2010 | 14:04

Win 7 bug may kill batteries

A bug in the ACPI power management in Windows 7 is being blamed by affected users for destroying their laptop batteries - with reports of capacity dropping permanently.

February 3, 2010 | 10:07

Samsung plans touch-integrated AMOLED

Samsung has announced plans to mass produce a 3.3" WVGA AMOLED display for mobile handsets which features capacitive touch elements integrated directly on to the panel.

February 2, 2010 | 15:13

Google plans new research funding

Google has announced a series of grants for twelve outside research projects in the areas of machine learning, data collection on mobile handsets, energy efficient computing, and privacy.

February 2, 2010 | 10:09

AMD confirms grey-screen crash

AMD has confirmed a driver bug resulting in crashes for "a small number" of ATI Radeon HD 5700 and 5800 users, and promises that a fix is on the way.

February 1, 2010 | 14:00

Google to pay for Chrome bugs

Google has announced that it is to pay security researchers $500 per bug found in the Chrome or Chromium codebase - rising to $1,337 if the bug is particularly vexing.

February 1, 2010 | 10:16

Google Social Search goes beta

Google's Social Search features - which pulls in content from users' social networking contacts - has official entered the mainstream, albeit in beta form.

January 29, 2010 | 11:57

Windows Home Server 'Vail' preview leaked

A preview version of the next edition of WHS - codenamed 'Vail' - has been leaked to file sharing sites, giving users a glimpse of the future.

January 29, 2010 | 09:53

Canonical signs Yahoo! ad deal

Canonical - the corporation behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution - has signed a deal with Yahoo! that sees the search company becoming the default destination in Ubuntu's Firefox.

January 28, 2010 | 13:53

First Vintage Computer Festival hits Britain

The National Museum of Computing is set to become the venue for the first British Vintage Computer Festival for two days in June.

January 28, 2010 | 10:06

Seagate announces PCIe SSDs

Seagate has announced a continuation of its partnership with controller specialist LSI, and the plans for the companies to release a range of PCI Express-connected SSDs.

January 27, 2010 | 14:02

LED backlighting to dominate 2010

DisplaySearch claims that LED backlight tech will account for the vast majority of notebook sales in 2010 - with the rest of the display sector catching up by 2013.

January 27, 2010 | 10:13

First commercial LTE network underwhelming

Tests of the first commercial Long Term Evolution mobile network have proved underwhelming.

January 26, 2010 | 14:06

Kaspersky blocks Google's Adsense

An update to Kaspersky's anti-virus software left many users unable to browse the most innocuous of websites after the company mistakenly added Google's Adsense to its detection.

January 26, 2010 | 10:11

N900 hacked to boot Android

Nokia's flagship N900 smartphone - built around the Maemo 5 operating system - has been hacked and made to boot Google's rival Android platform.

January 25, 2010 | 09:53

Asus DR-950 eReader pictured

Asus has released images of its up-coming DR-950 eReader device, and it's looking gorgeous - although the 'in-the-wild' shots appear to be of a non-functional prototype.

January 25, 2010 | 09:49

Firefox 3.6 released

The Mozilla Foundation has officially released Firefox 3.6, and there are some impressive new features both in the front-end and under the hood.

January 22, 2010 | 14:12

WGA lawsuit fails Class Action bid

A lawsuit brought against Microsoft for its Windows Genuine Advantage technology - described in the claims as "spyware" - has failed in its bid to be granted Class Action status.

January 22, 2010 | 10:12

Disney open-sources 3D code

Walt Disney Animation Studios has released the full source code for its Ptex 3D texture mapping library under a BSD licence, freeing it for use in open-source projects.

January 21, 2010 | 14:06

Cisco trials Internet in Space

Cisco has successfully completed preliminary tests of its DoD-sponsored Internet Routing in Space device, offering direct IP routing between satellites.

January 21, 2010 | 10:18