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Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Windows Phone 7: Too Much Like the iPhone?

Ian Paul, www.pcworld.com

Microsoft's willingness to cut out cut-and-paste functionality shows that it may not have learned from Apple's mistakes

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Flash-free iPad-ready site from Wall Street Journal

Zoe Smith

The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio have announced plans to create Flash-free versions of their websites for iPad users.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Apple projector systems patent granted

Zoe Smith

Apple has been granted a patent for "new projection systems and methods"

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Apple asks developers to test new Mac OS X 10.6.3 beta

Zoe Smith

The developer community have been asked by Apple to test certain areas in Mac OS X 10.6.3 beta software

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Apple offers drivers for Samsung, Brother printers

Philip Michaels, www.macworld.com

Owners of Samsung and Brother printers will doubtlessly want to download Samsung Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 and Brother Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6, respectively.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Twitter's @anywhere could prove risky for users

Sharon Gaudin, www.computerworld.com

Twitter's new @anywhere framework could help companies quickly gain a Web 2.0 presence, but could also let their Web sites host tweets that are critical of their products or people.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Google's China ad partners wait in 'incomparable pain'

Owen Fletcher

A group of ad resellers for Google in China have asked the company to explain what will happen to them if Google shuts its China-based search engine, saying they have waited in "incomparable pain" since Google announced the possible move.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Google Developer takes on Apple

Zoe Smith

Google Android developer slates Apple and the iPhone

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

TalkTalk switch staff from PCs to Apple laptops

Anh Nguyen, ComputerworldUK

Broadband provider TalkTalk is planning to scrap desktop PCs for all its office staff and bring in MacBook Pro laptops from Apple.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

One-letter '.co.uk' domain names on the way

Carrie-Ann Skinner, www.pcadvisor.co.uk

Domain names comprising just one or two letters will be made available in the UK from June, Nominet has revealed.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Mac sales jump nearly 40 per cent

Gregg Keizer, www.computerworld.com

Retail sales of Apple's Mac computers jumped 43 per cent last month compared with the same month in 2009, research company NPD Group said.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Happy 25th Birthday 'Dot Com': A Look Back

Ian Paul, www.pcworld.com

The Internet was filled with nostalgia on Monday as geeks all over the world celebrate the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first dot-com domain.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

New Mac Pro may feature Intel's just-launched Xeon 5600 chips

Agam Shah

Intel introduced a line of Xeon server chips that operate up to 60 percent faster than previous server processors, the company said on Tuesday.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Dell sues five LCD makers for alleged price-fixing

James Niccolai, www.pcworld.com

Dell has filed a lawsuit against five LCD makers that charges them with colluding to fix prices for products, a Dell spokesman said Monday.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Five Features the iPad Needs for Business

Tony Bradley, www.pcworld.com

Only a few weeks left until the Apple iPad--the Wi-Fi version at least--will actually ship and be available in US stores. Reports suggest that Apple sold more than 120,000 iPads when pre-orders began last Friday, and it seems safe to assume that the early adopters are not looking to revolutionize business computing.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

10,000 Microsoft staff buy iPhones

John E. Dunn, www.techworld.co.uk

Steve Ballmer doesn't use one but apparently as many as 10,000 Microsoft employees do. Embarrassingly, the device in question is Apple's iPhone.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

Pirate Bay legal action dropped in Norway

Mikael Ricknäs, www.computerworld.com

Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

Apple loses PA Semi chip executive

Zoe Smith

PA Semi founder and CEO Dan Dobberpuhl who joined Apple two years ago when it bought the semiconductor company, is reported to have left Apple, to undergo a new start.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

Apple practices 'legal alchemy' to mask IP theft, claims Nokia

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Nokia last week asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's antitrust claims, saying the iPhone maker indulged in "legal alchemy" when it tried to divert attention from its "free-riding" of Nokia's intellectual property.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

NorthernNet opens ultra-fast file transfer hubs in North of England

Mark Hattersley

The UK's first Pay and Go high speed digital pipeline opens in the North of England, enabling digital producers to transfer files between 17 hubs via fibre optic broadband.

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