6th Aug 2009 Apple's iPhone is responsible for an impressive 32 percent of overall profits in the smartphone sector - despite accounting for a mere 8 percent turnover. [15]
5th Aug 2009 The non-profit Khronos Group has given out a few details of its up-coming royalty-free WebGL standard, which promises plugin-free 3D acceleration within your browser. [30]
4th Aug 2009 A hacker attending the DefCon convention at the Riviera Hotel Casino foiled a plot to skim credit card details from attendees after spotting something 'funny' about an ATM. [15]
3rd Aug 2009 A bug in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages which can lead to remote code execution - first spotted by security pro Charlie Miller - has been patched by Apple. [6]
31st Jul 2009 A fault in an undersea cable has left most of West Africa disconnected from the Internet - and a repair vessel may take up to two weeks to reach the affected area. [31]
31st Jul 2009 The leader of the CentOS project - a Linux fork based on the Red Hat distribution - has disappeared, prompting an open letter asking for him to get in touch on the project website. [16]
31st Jul 2009 Sky is planning on launching a 3D TV channel next year, which is compatible with its current range of Sky+ HD boxes - although dorky glasses will be required. [11]
29th Jul 2009 Before it's even officially launched, Google has release 40,000 lines of code for its Wave collaborative communications platform under the Apache 2.0 licence. [5]
29th Jul 2009 In an attempt to drum up interest in its up-coming Windows Mobile Marketplace, Microsoft is giving away four Surface devices to developers. [6]
28th Jul 2009 A crack which installed code on servers at Network Solutions has leaked over 570,000 credit card details. [13]
28th Jul 2009 Asus, bit-tech and Custom PC combine their powers to host an event where you can try new Asus hardware, quiz the engineers and take the kit home at the end [19]
28th Jul 2009 HP workers have created a 'darknet' system for anonymous communications which operates entirely within the browser. [21]
27th Jul 2009 An update for Grisoft's AVG anti-virus package misdiagnosed iTunes libraries as being Trojan Horse applications, panicking users and disabling iTunes, iTunesRegistry.dll, iTunes.dll, small.bog, trojan [45]
27th Jul 2009 Microsoft has unveiled plans for a 'ballot screen' in Windows 7 E which will allow users to choose their Web browser, and is just waiting for approval from the EC. [54]
26th Jul 2009 A pair of flaws in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader are being exploited by ne'er-do-wells to drop a Trojan horse onto Windows boxes. [11]
24th Jul 2009 Mobile communications giant Qualcomm has been hit with a record fine by South Korean antitrust authorities over claims of anticompetitive behaviour. [8]
23rd Jul 2009 Microsoft detailed plans for the rollout of Windows 7 RTM and confirmed the Family Pack's existence, but later said that it may not come to the Europe. [25]
23rd Jul 2009 Synaptics has introduced a new range of capacitive touchscreens capable of scaling to display sizes of 8" inches and tracking ten individual points of contact. [17]
23rd Jul 2009 A sting operation carried out by Sky News showed five out of six computer repair shops overcharging for a simple fault - and attempting to access the customer's bank account. [38]
22nd Jul 2009 Adobe has released the source code for two of its Flash-based frameworks - the Open Source Media Framework and the Text Layer Framework - via the Mozilla Public Licence. [0]
22nd Jul 2009 The Taiwanese government has pledged at least NT$30 billion (£557 million) to help out its ailing DRAM manufacturing industry. [2]
21st Jul 2009 O2 UK has launched a competition for the best O2-themed iPhone application - with a £10,000 prize - ahead of its exclusivity deal with Apple ending in September. [5]
21st Jul 2009 Microsoft has surprised many in the industry by releasing kernel drivers which allow Linux to play nicely with its Hyper-V technology under the GPL open source licence. [13]
20th Jul 2009 The Symbian Foundation has admitted to a failure of its digital signing process which lead to a botnet-creating malware package being signed as safe for install. [9]
20th Jul 2009 A flaw in the way Firefox 3.5 handles Unicode text can lead to remote code execution - the second such bug to hit the browser in less than a week. [14]
16th Jul 2009 A flaw in the just-in-time compiler introduced in Firefox 3.5's new JavaScript engine can lead to code execution, with Mozilla calling the un-patched hole "critical." [21]