OMG ur a qt 2 In brief Nokia-owned Qt Software (formerly Trolltech) today released a tech preview of its cross-platform environment for creating embedded applications on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines.… Full published article at: Read More »

Zettabyte goes root Sun Microsystems came in just under the wire with its Solaris 10 10/08 update, squeezing it out on the last day of the month. The company had intended to do the launch a few days ago, but pushed it out to the other side of its Q1 financial results.… Full published article at: Read More »

Must flog some assets The US Justice Department has approved Verizon's takeover of Alltel, to create the largest mobile operator in the USA, as long as the company sells off assets in 22 states.… Full published article at: Read More »

Billing for 'services not rendered' Police have arrested a former marketing exec at anti-virus firm McAfee on suspicion of scammming millions of dollars out of the security software firm.… Full published article at: Read More »

iSuppli's gloomy forecast Worldwide NAND flash revenue will fall for the first time on an annual basis in 2008 and is predicted to fall in 2009 as well.… Full published article at: Read More »

300K bank accounts compromised by backdoor code Security researchers at RSA have uncovered how a banking Trojan may have stolen the login credentials of as many as 300,000 online bank accounts.… Full published article at: Read More »

Big Blue phones lawyers Mark Papermaster, one of the top Power chip gurus at IBM and its current vice president in charge of its blade server development unit, wants to take a job at Apple as a technology adviser to Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive officer.… Full published article at: Read More »

Bryan Glick, Computing, Friday 31 October 2008 at 11:54:00 Earlier news of disappointing performance leads chief executive to stand down The chief executive of BT Global Services has resigned following the announcement of a profit warning in his division earlier today. Francois Barrault had only been in the role since April last year. He is also leaving the BT Group board. He has been replaced by Hanif Lalani, previously group finance director, “BT Global Services, led by François, has achieved recognition around the world for the quality of the services it delivers, and will remain...Read More »

Tom Young, Computing, Friday 31 October 2008 at 11:43:00 Global financial crisis has knock-on effect on server supplier Sun Microsystems has posted a first quarter net loss of $1.68bn (£1.04bn), compared to an $89m (£54.8m) profit in the same period last year, as the supplier feels the bite of the global financial crisis Revenue fell 7.1 per cent to $2.99bn (£1.84bn) compared with $3.2bn (£1.97bn) for the first quarter of the previous year. Profit was hit by a $1.45bn write-down of goodwill - believed to be due to a fall in the valuation of...Read More »

Storm to blow in on 11 November Vodafone has priced up Research in Motion's touchscreen BlackBerry, the Storm 9500, and it's going to giving it away.… Full published article at: Read More »