Nov 12th, 2007 - Firefox ticks many boxes, but the one big cross it has had to bear over the years is the memory leakage problem that many users have experienced. Here's how it works: user has Firefox browser open and visits websites, Firefox slurps up some system resources, user continues to keep Firefox running,... (Read More)

Oct 23rd, 2007 - According to figures relating to the audited financial statements and tax form for 2006, posted at Mozillazine by Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker, the project is doing pretty well with revenue up and outpacing rising expenses. "Mozilla remains financially healthy: we're able to hire more people, build... (Read More)

Sep 11th, 2007 - Mozilla has hit the 400 million downloads mark for the Firefox web browser client since it was officially launched in November 2004, a rise of 56 percent in the last 12 months alone. Of course, updates, reinstalls and trials are all included in download figures which have little real world impact... (Read More)

Nov 10th, 2007 - So the Apple iPhone has finally gone on sale in the UK, with hundreds of fans queuing at the Apple store in London's Regent Street to be one of the first customers for what has become known here as God's Own Phone as it does everything, according to the fanboys including much of the media which... (Read More)

Oct 9th, 2007 - According to a report at The Inquirer an Atlanta airport worker was a little surprised to discover, upon looking down to see where the smell of burning was coming from, that it was him. Well, it was his trousers to be precise. Apparently the chap, one Danny Williams, had an 18 month old iPod... (Read More)

Sep 18th, 2007 - Everyone was excited about the launch of a new range of iPods, everyone apart from Linux users of course. In its wisdom, Apple decided to prevent media players other than iTunes from syncing with the MP3 devices, and in so doing locked out Linux users for whom there is no compatible iTunes version.... (Read More)

Nov 8th, 2007 - Ahead of its unveiling and hands-on demonstration at the TechEd: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain next week, Microsoft has announced that Centro will be officially known as the Windows Essential Business Server. With something in the region of 1.4 million mid-sized businesses around the globe, it... (Read More)

Nov 6th, 2007 - Radiohead are a band which does not need to prove anything to anyone. Their seminal album 'OK Computer' is consistently voted one of the greatest recordings of all time, be it the critics or mere mortal music fans putting the crosses in the boxes. Which is perhaps why the latest Radiohead album 'In... (Read More)

Nov 4th, 2007 - Every now and then The Register publishes a really funny news piece, and the one entitled 'Confused BBC tech chief' is a perfect example. According to the report, in an interview with UK based web design magazine .net, the Director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC, one Ashley Highfield,... (Read More)

Oct 27th, 2007 - According to the latest IDC Quarterly Server Tracker report the growth of Linux as far as the US x86 server market is concerned has started to slow. In fact, it is has done more than just slow, when compared to Windows-based server growth it has slipped backwards. In 2005 Windows Server growth was... (Read More)

Oct 16th, 2007 - For anyone outside the UK, news about the BBC iPlayer is hardly going to be earth shattering I agree. Indeed, for most people inside the UK and who are not part of the Beta trial there is no access to the BBC TV content via streaming video across an IP connection either. But there will be at... (Read More)

Oct 11th, 2007 - Red Hat has opened a dedicated online resource for its partners around the globe, giving them access to the product, program, pricing and training information on both Red Hat and JBoss solutions and services from one single location which is localized in the Chinese, English, French, German,... (Read More)

Oct 3rd, 2007 - Some devices set the world on fire, just ask Apple for details. Others, do not. The UMPC seems to be falling into the luke warm gadget category at the moment, and despite the best efforts of the usual suspects sales of the Ultra Mobile PC remain disappointing. Maybe because nobody knows what the... (Read More)

Sep 15th, 2007 - On the 11th September a customer of the PC World computer superstore in Colliers Wood, London took his laptop back for an under warranty repair. The computer was only a few months old, and a crack had appeared near the left hinge which is indicative of an internal joint failing. Whatever, it is... (Read More)

Sep 9th, 2007 - Simon Willcocks is a man on a mission, albeit an unusual one that no doubt many developers will recognise as being something of a geek driven dream. The mission in question to deliver native RISC OS desktop applications under Linux. This dream is fast becoming a reality, however, with the news that... (Read More)

Sep 8th, 2007 - According to a report at The Register it would appear that Dell is making life difficult for UK customers who want to buy a Dell PC running Linux. Being a snooping journalist myself, I went to have a look for myself and indeed it is a lot harder to buy a Linux powered Dell than all the hype,... (Read More)

Nov 2nd, 2007 - All is not well for Apple, in a week when it should be flag waving the release of Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' the firm finds itself, and its users, under attack instead. The culprit being a new Trojan which, once installed, changes the Mac's domain name system server. This kind of DNSChanger Trojan is... (Read More)

Oct 28th, 2007 - According to a legal document published at the Electronic Frontier Foundation site, the copyright Nazis at Universal Music Group might have bitten off more than they can chew when they ordered the removal of a Dancing baby clip from YouTube. Stephanie Lenz posted a video clip on YouTube of her... (Read More)

Sep 22nd, 2007 - The UK government has started a concerted campaign to stop what Schools Secretary, Ed Balls MP, refers to as a "particularly insidious type of bullying." According to government figures more than one third of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15 have fallen victim to cyber bullies. Perhaps more... (Read More)

Aug 29th, 2007 - It may surprise you to learn that of the 400 million airline tickets issued by members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), only 64 million of them are actually printed on paper. It seems that most of the world has already been bitten by the e-ticketing bug, which is a good thing.... (Read More)

Oct 24th, 2007 - According to the Inside AdSense blog better management tools for AdSense users are on the way. The new tools will allow you to manage your ad units from within your AdSense account, meaning that settings such as colors and channels will be saved in your AdSense account every time you generate ad... (Read More)

Oct 24th, 2007 - Google has added IMAP support to its free webmail service Gmail. Users can now access email from client applications using the Internet Message Access Protocol, and at the same time automatically update the message status within Gmail itself. This is something that many people who access Gmail... (Read More)

Oct 20th, 2007 - Many of the world's leading Internet and media companies, including CBS Corp., Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh Networks Inc., Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Company, have pledged their support to a set of collaborative principles that are... (Read More)

Oct 18th, 2007 - There was a kind of cult of C-list celebrity surrounding Adam Lyons a few years back, but only amongst teenage boys who asked him for help with cheat codes on the UK Sky One TV video gamers show Gamezville. Back then he was known simply as the Games Guru, but since leaving the show he has been... (Read More)

Sep 15th, 2007 - Boffins from the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in developing new algorithms to map the Internet. While mapping any network topology can be complex and demanding, mapping the Internet takes the task to a whole new level. Yet Priya Mahadevan and Amin Vahdat think they have... (Read More)

Oct 17th, 2007 - There can be no denying that Social Networking has been the Internet phenomena to watch over the last couple of years, displaying explosive growth around the world. In fact just about anywhere that people have an Internet connection, people have embraced social networking. It is true to say that... (Read More)

Oct 15th, 2007 - A study of some 800 workers in the UK, conducted by HP with the help of The Mind Lab, compared working environments to see what impact it made upon productivity and health. The experiment was headed up by cognitive neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis, and involved the creation of a 'battery office'... (Read More)

Oct 13th, 2007 - Rob Siemborski, Gmail Engineer, wrote in the official Gmail blog on Friday that "a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage." I have just checked my... (Read More)

Oct 7th, 2007 - If you have ever spent a few minutes looking for an email that the sender swears they sent the week before, but seems to have vanished into the ether now, then you are not alone. A new report by e-Media for Mimecast suggests that IT managers in the UK alone are wasting 5 Million man hours every... (Read More)

Sep 29th, 2007 - Not one to sit back and reflect quietly upon its moments of glory, Microsoft has been making quite a fuss over the record breaking Halo 3 launch. It is, Microsoft insists, the "biggest entertainment launch in history." Sales in the first 24 hours, in the US alone, topped $170 million. More,... (Read More)

Sep 26th, 2007 - IBM researchers have unveiled prototype 3D visualisation software that will enable doctors to interact with their medical data in pretty much the same way they interact with their patients. The technology, known as the Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), uses an avatar representation of the... (Read More)

Sep 20th, 2007 - Beyond 3D recently reported that id Software, you know the people behind such games as Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, was not going to be making the next big release available on the Linux platform. Quoting an interview in a German publication with the id Software CEO, Todd Hollenshead, the article... (Read More)

Sep 17th, 2007 - Internet security giant Symantec has just published the latest Internet Security Threat Report, based on an in-depth analysis of global Internet traffic and email during the last six months. Beyond all the usual who is hosting what and where, how much malware is contained in spam and which threats... (Read More)

Sep 7th, 2007 - In the UK last year there were a staggering 3,237,500 cybercrimes committed according to a new report from online identity specialists Garlik in collaboration with leading criminologists. Do the math and that works out to one cybercrime committed every ten seconds in the UK alone. Of these, some... (Read More)

Sep 4th, 2007 - A survey by secure data specialists Cyber-Ark Software has revealed that the least trustworthy members of staff include temps, cleaners, security guards and the board of directors. PR, marketing and sales staff were also low on the list. At the other end of the trust scale, the personnel and legal... (Read More)

Sep 3rd, 2007 - According to a report in the Financial Times of all publications, the Chinese military has hacked the Pentagon in what it describes as the most successful cyber attack on the US defense department to date. Although the Pentagon has acknowledged that a computer system which serves the office... (Read More)

Sep 3rd, 2007 - The number crunchers at security specialists Sophos have published the figures revealing which bits of malware have been spreading the fastest during August. While the fact that infected spam attachments have dropped from one in 322 for the first six months of the year to one in every 1000 for... (Read More)

Sep 10th, 2007 - Qualcomm is best known for two things: making mobile phone chips and owning the once hugely popular Eudora email client software. Or perhaps I should say once owning the once hugely popular Eudora email client software as Qualcomm stopped selling it back in May and handed over the codebase to the... (Read More)

Sep 1st, 2007 - Controversial media company and alleged spreader of adware Zango, formerly 180solutions, has been forced to back down from its legal attempts to get both Kaspersky Lab and PC Tools to reclassify its applications as non-threatening and prevent security software from blocking them. Kaspersky Lab... (Read More)

Aug 31st, 2007 - Microsoft has been keen to get me to take a look at a new experimental site launched to showcase the potential of its Silverlight technology. Tafiti, which apparently means 'do research' in Swahili, is the site in question. An exploration of two trends: search specialization and the Web 2.0 rich... (Read More)