News Archive | May 2010

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May 28th
- Acer to take on iPad with Android tablet
- Week in Review: The iPad cometh
- Server discovered hosting millions of stolen gaming accounts
- Number of data breaches reported to ICO passes 1,000 mark
- Today in tech: iPad arrives, scammers make Antarctic calls
- Symantec unveils mobile security for iPad, iPhone and Android
- Microsoft ready to kill off IE6
- Pensioner given £150,000 broadband quote from BT
- Information commissioner’s name exploited in scam email
- EU warns internet giants on privacy
- Adobe patches 'critical' Photoshop CS4 vulnerability
May 27th
- Email security still top issue for business
- Hotel lets travellers unlock rooms with a smartphone
- Today in tech: Pakistan eases Facebook ban, e-readers need to catch up with iPad
- Q&A: Policy head says 'no reason to leave Facebook'
- Intel ditches Larrabee processor
- Online security threats rise in May
- Q&A: Janis Sharp speaks out about her son Gary McKinnon
- Cisco admits numerous network vulnerabilities
- Researchers use nanotech to create 50TB tapes
- UK listed a lowly 33rd in world broadband speed pecking order
- The future of work is orange (and lime green)
- Google misses German deadline for handing over Street View data
- Reports of another suicide at iPhone-making Chinese factory
May 26th
- Miliband questions coalition IT cuts
- Facebook fights back with new privacy controls
- Browsing for a tablet PC to run Flash
- Security researcher slams human malware 'infection'
- BT strike ballot announced by CWU
- Today in tech: BBC adds Facebook to iPlayer, SMEs not scared of cloud
- McAfee goes mobile with Trust Digital buy
- HP snatches server market share lead from IBM
- Orange preparing cut-price smartphone assault
- iPad will not hurt netbook sales in 2010, Gartner says
- Berners-Lee: Open data a ‘crucial tool’ during tough times
- Google Chrome for Mac and Linux leaves beta
- Nick Clegg backtracks over McKinnon extradition
May 25th
- UNIX still a hit for mission-critical systems
- HP: Public cloud still not secure enough for business
- Europe has a single digital market - and it's illegal
- OFT says behavioural advertisers can regulate themselves
- HP loses ground to Acer again
- The Times unveils new site ahead of paywall
- Google's VP8 codec 'not open source', says OSI
- Today in tech: Currys' iPad exclusive, Happy Towel Day
- Boffins create world's smallest transistor
- Intel unveils ULV Core processors for ultra-portable laptops
- IBM acquires Sterling Commerce
- O2 to sell Dell Streak tablet in June
- Currys to sell Apple iPad, Jobs to speak at WWDC
May 24th
- Nokia and Yahoo team up on mobile email, maps and IM
- Cyber criminals charge just £6 for access to a botnet
- BT chief's rumoured £1 million bonus may anger union
- Government to cut £95 million from public sector IT
- Samsung Wave available to pre-order from Vodafone
- Zuckerberg promises to improve Facebook privacy
- IBM hands out malware laden USBs
- Today in tech: Google satnav confused, Ireland takes on pirates
- Unite leader Twitter posts infuriate BA
- HP recalls 54,000 laptop batteries over fire risk
- Google rolls out SSL search
- The Cloud draws up Wi-Fi plan to cover London by 2012
May 21st
- Week in Review: Government tech plans
- IOD 2010: Facebook limited for business use?
- Broadband minister says Digital Economy Act won’t be repealed
- Today in tech: iPad tops Mac on sales, Google TV unveiled
- Photos: The go-anywhere cyber cafe in a shipping container
- Oracle acquires Secerno
- Crime-supporting ISP shut down
May 20th
- Today in tech: Pakistan blocks Facebook and YouTube
- Apple hopes to sell 24 million iPhone 4Gs by year end
- Symantec confirms VeriSign deal
- IOD 2010: IBM taking on Oracle et al with new DB2 feature
- IOD 2010: All the news
- IOD 2010: IBM introduces advanced case management
- Tech leaders call on EU to cut hazardous materials
- Gary McKinnon wins reprieve from new government
- Google opens up Wave, adds it to Apps
- IDC: Tablets will sell well, laptops will sell better
- Google keeping face recognition under wraps over privacy criticisms
- IOD 2010: Looking for patterns for business benefits
- CA World: All the news from the show
May 19th
- Palm Pixi Plus and Palm Pre Plus UK release date announced
- Today in tech: Britons spend a day online each month, Palm Pre Plus on O2
- How angry social network rants could get you fired
- IOD 2010: Social and risk are top trends for analytics
- IOD 2010: IBM simplifies predictive analytics for firms
- IOD 2010: IBM heralds the 'Decade of Smart'
- Smartphone sales jump, Android and Apple pick up speed
- Britons name iPhone one of top 10 inventions of all time
- Security flaw hits Windows 7 graphics
- Microsoft sues Salesforce.com over patent infringements
- Could cow manure power your data centre?
- Facebook unveils 'zero' charge mobile version
- Motion Computing unveils first Core i7 tablet
- CA World 2010: CA unveils new mainframe management tools
May 18th
- Microsoft to update Hotmail in July
- Small ISPs exempt from filesharing laws
- Today in tech: Hotmail gets an upgrade, Spotify tweaks price plan
- USB top method to spread malware
- Google acquires Global IP Solutions
- Data explosion a top concern for UK chief execs
- Vodafone beats growth expectations
- Seagate confirms 3TB hard drive for 2010
- Researchers step closer to stopping laptop battery fires
- Acer ranks number one for PC shipments
- CA World 2010: The cloud will change IT
- CA World 2010: CA unveils cloud management tools
May 17th
- UK surfers get savvier with security
- Today in tech: Site reveals Facebook statuses, HTC unveils Wildfire
- HTC announces Wildfire smartphone
- Eight jailed in £750,000 iTunes fraud
- O2 to get exclusive on Dell tablet?
- Google ditches online sales of Nexus One
- YouTube hits two billion downloads a day
- Microsoft calls IE6 'spoiled milk'
- CA World 2010: CA launches ratings site for cloud services
- CA World 2010: CA rebrands as CA Technologies
May 14th
- Week in Review: Office 2010 released, Adobe vs Apple continues
- Google claims 65,000 Android phones shipping daily
- Twitter botnet creation made simple
- iPad faces further UK delays
- Mobile phones not welcome in Cameron's Cabinet
- DDoS attack turns servers into bots
- LimeWire found guilty of inducing copyright theft
- Today in tech: Acer planning Chrome netbook, Adobe loves Apple - really
- New Facebook tool targets unauthorised logins
- BT working on iPad rival?
- Single group blamed for two thirds of all phishing attacks
- Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008 R2
- US trade body looks into Apple's complaint against Kodak
May 13th
- Adobe attacks Apple for threatening web openness
- Citrix: Digital generation to force IT laggards to catch up
- Firms warned of server market growth problems
- Is Google Android to be integrated into GM cars?
- Sony slashes losses, predicts sales recovery
- Facebook emerging as major target for phishing attacks
- SAP picks up Sybase for $5.8 billion
- BT adds £1 billion to fibre rollout to cover two-thirds of UK
- Verizon says working with Google on tablet
- CRM will be dead in 10 years
May 12th
- Today in tech: Tech makes us happy, the laser turns 50
- Microsoft bullish as it unveils Office and SharePoint 2010
- Tibco Tibbr takes the witter out of Twitter
- Apple preparing iPad patch to tackle ongoing Wi-Fi woes
- Mozilla chief executive Lilly to step down
- Concern over lack of IPv6 uptake as IP address D-Day looms
- Acer focuses on AMD with launch of new netbooks and laptops
- Microsoft and Adobe issue pair of patches each
- Fulham FC: Sticking IT in the goal
- Hard drives better than cloud for small businesses?
- RSA: 2009 saw 'pandemic increase' in hack attacks
May 11th
- Tibco puts a Silver lining on the cloud
- EMC brings private clouds to midrange customers
- Cloud market to top $12 billion by 2014
- DD Boost to speed up deduplication for EMC
- Ofcom gives away radio spectrum for free
- Lenovo launches ThinkPad Edge for SMBs
- Today in tech: Orange and T-Mobile become Everything Everywhere, iPad data deals
- 'Highly critical' bug found in latest version of Safari
- HP looks to help with ‘innovation gridlock’
- Orange and T-Mobile name joint venture 'Everything Everywhere'
- Follower bug hits Twitter
- UK has sixth lowest pirated software rate
- Mozilla reveals Firefox 4 plans
- Brit fined £1,000 for angry airport tweet
May 10th
- EMC: Virtual world safer than physical
- Tucci: PC market to go mobile
- Android tops iPhone sales in the US
- EMC World 2010 Round-up
- Canonical unveils Ubuntu Light, Unity for fast web access
- EMC looks to move data around the world
- Facebook hires ex-Bush heavyweight, following privacy row
- European Parliament calls for superfast broadband
- Researchers find way to bypass all Windows security software
- O2 unveils Apple iPad data plans
May 7th
- Week in Review: The election, the iPad and internet history
- Today in tech: Pirate Party sails slowly in election, UK iPad priced
- Pirate Party celebrates 1,340-vote election result
- Vodafone sets charges for exceeding data caps
- Man sent down for counterfeit Cisco hardware offences
- Study: iPad devouring netbook market and hurting Apple's other products
- Yahoo Messenger malicious worm identified
- Twitter gains election coverage vote
May 6th
- Non-Latin web addresses go live for first time
- Google gives search results a new look
- Microsoft KIN smartphones launched in US today
- Hospital USB stick found in car park
- Google finds China news agency distributed malware
- Facebook loophole left private chats exposed
- Adobe: Apple wants “walled garden” around the web
May 5th
- Google Chrome gets 30 per cent turbo boost
- BT actively seeking iPad deal
- Orange animals migrate to mobile broadband
- Internet co-creator handed Lifetime Achievement Award
- Samsung prioritising Android over Bada
- US Treasury branch confirms hack attack
- Microsoft researches low latency operating system for multicores
- Apple gives fleeting glimpse at next iPhone in latest OS beta
- Will the cloud bring supercomputing to the masses?
- Intel targets smartphones, tablets with new Atom processors
- Top 10 malware list shows rise of fake anti-virus
- Google launches ‘how to hack’ course
- Microsoft and Nokia team up for mobile office software
- LOVEFiLM’s love affair with open source
May 4th
- US names and shames worst IP protectors
- Tablets won't threaten the netbook market, claims Asus
- Today in tech: Apple’s millions, HP’s Palm and Google’s wind
- UK to get @gmail.com addresses
- IDC: Data explosion goes into the Zettabytes
- Internet Explorer browser dominance in decline
- Twitter launches official Android app
- Is Google going to create Android 3D?
- Analysis: The rise of financial analytics
- Sophos in $830m deal with Apax