Gareth Halfacree

Flaw in AVG 8 fixed

A mis-implemented feature in the anti-virus package AVG 8, which caused massive amounts of spurious Internet traffic, has been fixed today.

July 8, 2008 | 11:47

Body found in Reiser case

Abandoning his claims of innocence, open-source programmer Hans Reiser has lead police to his murdered wife's body in exchange for a lighter sentence.

July 8, 2008 | 09:52

SSDs may increase battery life

Laptop Magazine has published the results of a real-world test in into laptop battery life with and without SSDs, and it directly contradicts results gained by Tom's Hardware recently.

July 7, 2008 | 10:06

Nvidia warns of high failure rates

Graphics card manufacturer has filed a profits warning with the SEC due to "higher than normal" failure rates of certain previous-generation mobile products.

July 7, 2008 | 09:01

LCDs cause greenhouse gas worries

Scientists have released a paper detailing their concerns over the use of nitrogen trifluoride in LCD production - a greenhouse gas 17,000 times more potent than CO2.

July 4, 2008 | 09:24

Firefox sets world record

The Mozilla Foundation has officially announced the results of the Firefox Download Day - a Guinness World Record for most downloads of a software product in 24 hours.

July 4, 2008 | 08:17

Xandros buys Linspire

Linux vendor Xandros - best known for creating the Eee PC operating system for Asus - has purchased rival vendor Linspire for an undisclosed sum.

July 3, 2008 | 12:08

Sony site offers up malware

An SQL injection attack on a range of websites left Sony offering malware-laden downloads to PlayStation 3 fans according to anti-virus vendor Sophos.

July 3, 2008 | 10:17

OCZ launches sub-£250 128GB SSD

OCZ technologies has announced the general availability of series of solid state drives which includes a 128GB model for under £250.

July 2, 2008 | 09:24

Intel: "code for thousands of cores"

Chip manufacturer Intel is advising developers to concentrate on coding for scalability, believing the future of computing lies in hundreds and thousands of processing cores.

July 2, 2008 | 08:21

ZDNet makes Mac overclock tool

ZDNet Germany has released a software-based overclocker for Mac Pro and Xserve systems, allowing for free performance gains for MacOS users.

July 1, 2008 | 09:37

Rhapsody goes DRM-free

Music subscription service Rhapsody has launched a digital music shop, offering five million songs in standard MP3 format with no DRM whatsoever.

July 1, 2008 | 08:45

Netgear launches open source router

Netgear has taken the wraps off its 'open source' router, a wireless device which can officially run any of a number of Linux-based open source firmware packages.

June 30, 2008 | 09:15

Dell ships 80 PLUS Gold server

Dell has announced the worlds' first range of servers to come equipped with 80 PLUS Gold certified power supplies, capable of efficiency in excess of 92 percent.

June 30, 2008 | 08:23

XP support extended to 2014

Microsoft has decided to continue supporting Windows XP until 2014, and will actively encourage business users to 'downgrade' from Vista.

June 27, 2008 | 09:17

Chrysler announces in-car Internet

Chrysler - the company behind the Jeep and Dodge brands - has announced that its 2009 range will have the option of in-car Internet connectivity.

June 27, 2008 | 08:20

Hacking eyeballs - the Fulgurator

Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck has unveiled his Image Fulgurator - a device for planting hidden messages in photographs.

June 26, 2008 | 09:18

Nokia makes Symbian open source

Finnish mobile giant Nokia has announced plans to purchase all remaining rights to the Symbian mobile platform in order to release it under an open source licence.

June 26, 2008 | 08:27

Acrobat suffers security flaw

A flaw in the Javascript engine in Adobe's popular Acrobat series of programs has left users vulnerable to cracker attack - but the company has issued a patch to block the hole.

June 25, 2008 | 11:28

45% of all traffic is P2P, say Sandvine

Figures released by network equipment vendor Sandvine yesterday show peer-to-peer networking accounting for almost half of overall US Internet traffic.

June 25, 2008 | 08:27

HP donates AdvFS code to Linux

HP has announced the donation of its Advanced File System to the open source community under the GNU General Public License, making it suitable for inclusion into Linux.

June 24, 2008 | 09:44

UN discusses electronics disposal

Delegates from the United Nations are to meet in Indonesia this week to discuss the thorny problem of waste electronics - with the safe disposal of mobile 'phones top of the agenda.

June 24, 2008 | 08:32

Cancer research goes open

Medical giant GlaxoSmithKline has donated a huge quantity of data to the National Cancer Institute, in the hope that researchers around the world can make use of it.

June 23, 2008 | 09:43