Gareth Halfacree

Purple Labs launches Linux phone

Purple Labs is to launch a Linux-based 3G handset aimed at 'developing markets' that it hopes will do for mobile takeup what the OLPC might do for computing.

February 4, 2008 | 09:07

Lite-On developing malleable mouse

Lite-On Corporation is working on a 'moldable mouse' which can be adjusted by the user to fit perfectly within the contours of their hand. Or to make a penis with buttons.

February 4, 2008 | 07:22

MacBook Air-alikes on the way

Notebook manufacturers Lenovo and Fujitsu-Siemens are rumoured to be snagging the custom-built Core 2 Duo chip in the Air to build their own ultra-portables.

February 1, 2008 | 10:54

RealPlayer categorised as 'badware'

Anti-malware site StopBadware is warning users that recent versions of media playback software RealPlayer are 'badware' and best avoided.

February 1, 2008 | 07:28

Nikon designs camera for Eye-Fi

Camera manufacturer Nikon has announced a new model of digital SLR designed with the Eye-Fi WiFi SD card in mind, marking the first partnership for the new technology.

January 31, 2008 | 08:53

MySpace to launch developer platform

MySpace has announced plans for a development platform allowing programmers the chance to develop new ways to drive people to MySpace. Oh, and you get some ad revenue, too.

January 31, 2008 | 07:29

O2 discounts iPhone tariffs

UK mobile operator O2 has announced plans to 'simplify' the monthly contracts associated with owning an iPhone, and the good news is that you're getting more for less.

January 30, 2008 | 12:21

Firefox market share rises

Figures published by web monitoring firm XiTi Monitor yesterday reveal the open-source Firefox web browser steadily gaining ground throughout Europe.

January 30, 2008 | 07:32

Woolworths to ditch HD DVD

High-street retailer Woolworths has announced that its stores are to go Blu-Ray only in a surprising show of support for the Sony-backed HD disc format.

January 29, 2008 | 09:19

QTrax announcement 'premature'

The brave new digital download start-up QTrax we reported on yesterday seems to have been a little economical with the truth, and the promised launch never happened. Why?

January 29, 2008 | 07:23

Firefox Mobile previewed

Early design screenshots posted to the Mozilla Wiki offer a sneak peek at how the mobile phone-oriented version of popular open-source browser Firefox might look.

January 28, 2008 | 09:20

QTrax offers free music, legally

QTrax has announced deals with major music industry types to offer a 25 million song catalogue for free download, with no risk of being sued? Has the music industry finally woken up?

January 28, 2008 | 07:31

Dell offers high-end Ubuntu laptop

PC maker Dell has quietly started offering Ubuntu Linux as an option on its high-end XPS M1330 laptop. A sign that the company is taking desktop Linux seriously?

January 25, 2008 | 10:04

YouTube launches mobile site

No, it's not a website that moves around: YouTube has launched a version of its popular web-streamery for mobile phones.

January 25, 2008 | 07:34

W3C announces HTML 5

The World-Wide Web Consortium has released the first working draft for the next version of the HyperText Markup Language, and it's got some pretty nifty new features.

January 24, 2008 | 08:54

MPAA gets its sums wrong

The Motion Picture Association of America has released a statement coughing to 'human error' in a 2005 report almost tripling the claimed losses caused by file-sharing students.

January 24, 2008 | 07:30

SymbianOS worm in the wild

Anti-virus vendor Fortinet has issued a warning about a worm that spreads via MMS to phones running the Symbian S60 handset operating system.

January 23, 2008 | 09:23

Windows 7 build leaked?

A poster to Neowin's Windows Beta forum claims to have a pre-release build of Microsoft's next-generation operating system installed on his laptop, and offers a mini-review.

January 23, 2008 | 07:33

Rear-projection down but not out?

Texas Instruments has announced a new line of Digital Light Processor chips for rear-projection TVs which it hopes will revitalise a technology many companies have abandoned.

January 22, 2008 | 09:19

RIAA website wiped by hackers

The RIAA's web presence became somewhat light on content over the weekend thanks to exploitation by parties unknown of an SQL injection vulnerability.

January 22, 2008 | 07:36

Seitz launches 160MP camera

Seitz Phototechnik is now taking orders for its 160 megapixel digital camera, but you'd better start buttering your bank manager up: it's hardly a budget-range option.

January 21, 2008 | 12:10