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LiMo targets the business mobile

News However, he was not yet prepared to name the companies, as they are still in talks. The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News RIM president Mike Lazaridis said: "The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smart phones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design.

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News The original Storm worm code, which appeared on 19 January 2007, derived its name from the fact the first spam linking to the malware coincided with a severe winter storm in Europe. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in

News This relies on a centralised passenger name record database, a system joining up Virgin Atlantic's cargo system and their revenue management program and a touchscreen information system, which allows passengers rapid entry into the Upper Class...

Tags: planes, virgin, heathrow

[29 Apr 2008]

Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer

News Big-name computer makers are still scheduled to have to stop selling models with Windows XP installed by the end of June. While Microsoft ponders yet another stay of execution for Windows XP, it's readying a new version of Windows, being developed...

Tags: vista, xp, windows, microsoft

[24 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News According to Facebook's "platform application terms of use", when a user adds an application, that application gets access to a long list of different types of "Facebook site information", which could include political views, relationship...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News The US Department of Justice said in a statement last year: "However well-intentioned, regulatory restraints can inefficiently skew investment, delay innovation and diminish consumer welfare, and there is reason to believe that the kinds of broad...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News And searching the name of a friend could provide links to the social-networking sites the friend uses. announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more...

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T

News As for those early buyers, Thompson said Microsoft does have other unannounced customers for the Surface, though he declined to name names. Microsoft has announced it has its first customer ready to put Surface computers into public use.

Tags: at&t, surface, microsoft

[02 Apr 2008]

Google Docs get an offline edit

News The technology already works within Google's news feed reader, Google Reader, and applications from independent web developers such as task-management service 'Remember the Milk', from an Australian-based company of the same name.

Tags: offline, docs, google

[01 Apr 2008]

Wipo wipes web of record number of 'cybersquatters'

News Last year's domain name disputes involved a wide range of products, events and people, including Airbus's A380 jet, the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Harvard Business School, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and...

Tags: un, wipo, trademark, domain names

[28 Mar 2008]

AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m

News The Bebo acquisition comes at a time when AOL is still struggling to make the transition to a leader in online advertising after amassing nearly $1bn in acquisitions - Tacoda, Buy.at, Quigo, and AdTech, to name a few - into its Platform-A ad...

Tags: bebo, acquisition, social networks, aol

[13 Mar 2008]

Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch

News Oracle chief Larry Ellison makes it to number 14 on the list, with a cool $25bn to his name. Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn bid to take over Yahoo! not only led to the ignominy of public rejection when the search giant snubbed the offer, the...

Tags: microsoft, zuckerberg , yahoo, rich list

[06 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Intel: Say hello to the Atom family…

News Intel has announced it has chosen the name "Atom" for a new family of ultra-small chips. The Atom moniker will be applied to a family of chips with two members that are expected to be released later this quarter.

Tags: intel, atom, chips, family

[03 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News So if you want to find out what happens, 419 style, then read on… silicon.com's new columnist on the block has also been drawing plenty of eyeballs - perhaps partly because the name of said columnist is 'The Naked CIO'.

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

BlackBerry gets voicemail-to-text plug-in

News The emails link up to the user's address book so the caller's name is displayed. BlackBerry lovers can now turn their voicemails into text and have them emailed direct to their handset after voice-to-text company SpinVox launched a plug-in for the...

Tags: spinvox, voicemail, rim, blackberry

[27 Feb 2008]

Open source Ubuntu announces 'need for an adventurous mountain goat'

News Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the name of the version of Ubuntu, due in October: 'Intrepid Ibex'. A-Zs… Security from A-Z… Biometrics from A-Z… Broadband from A-Z… Wireless from A-Z…

Tags: open source, os, ubuntu, interaction

[22 Feb 2008]

Biometrics the future for flying bliss?

News Semaphore - which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk - and Iris - which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports - have been used as part...

Tags: biometrics, travel, airport, automated

[21 Feb 2008]

What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?

News The weeks leading up to MWC have seen some big-name players such as Cisco flirting with femtocell vendors - something the vendors are shouting about very loudly indeed. The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday 11 February and...

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[07 Feb 2008]

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