All your updates are belong to Cupertino The W3C, custodians of web standards, have launched an appeal for prior art to contest an Apple patent that appears to cover any kind of automated updating procedure, including the Widget standard on which the group is working.… Full published article at: Read More »

A desktop virtualisation project in line with government targets to mobilise the police force allows more officers to patrol the streets. Full published article at: Read More »

Both office and mobile workers within Surrey County Council are to benefit from a new Citrix desktop strategy. Full published article at: Read More »

We look at why the top web brands have won a spot in the hearts of UK surfers – and what they need to watch for in the future. Full published article at: Read More »

The risk of hacking is growing as more people blog and create websites, a US security firm has warned. Full published article at: Read More »

Twitter says its decision to delay maintenance to keep network up for Iranians was independent of government requests. Full published article at: Read More »

After all the uproar when Street View went live in the UK, Google's change of heart with its privacy settings will be a relief to the more conservative readers here.   Acknowledging the problems raised with Street View, Peter Fleischer, the Global Privacy Counsel at Google, said "we pre-empted many of the different requirements and concerns and proactively introduced privacy enhancing technologies, namely industry-leading face and license plate blurring, and made it easy to flag inappropriate images for removal".   However, the Article 29 Working Party, an independent advisory group, has requested Google make a few slight additions to Street View, to ensure it...Read More »

Vampires don't just inhabit the night and your AC power strips. They come in USB flavors, too, and so far only Buffalo seems to be doing anything about them and their wasteful ways, introducing the charmingly-named BSH4A02 four-port USB hub. It sports one switch per plug, making it easy for you to put a stake in your smartphone's battery maintenance cycle, comes in three colors, hits Japan this October for ¥3,885 (about $40), and includes an AC adapter to power itself -- making us wonder if this thing doesn't have a bit of the undead in...Read More »

When the Jasper motherboards started showing up in Xbox 360 consoles late last year there was reason for excitement -- quieter fans, more efficient design, and 256MB of internal storage to set gamers free of overpriced memory cards. Now the systems are receiving an unannounced storage boost, with an XboxHacker forum member braza noticing that his Japanese Arcade model sported a 4GB Samsung NAND chip. That's twice the size of the old one, giving the equivalent of a 512MB internal memory unit. That first system was manufactured in April, and they're starting to hit US Arcade...Read More »

Amazon is selling a load of full albums on its MP3 store at a fraction of their normal cost in what looks distinctly like a major pricing cockup. Over 30 albums from artists including Metallica, MGMT, Abba, Coldplay, Madness, Fleetwood Mac, Placebo, Bruce Springsteen, Massive Attack and a load more are now selling on the store for just 29p each.   In case you need that put in perspective, that’s as much as 50p off the price of an individual track download. Beats the hell out of its 29p per track deal from earlier in the year. So, err, what...Read More »