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Data losses in Snow Leopard bug

Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses when logging into their machines under a guest account. The problem appears to affect those who had a guest account enabled before upgrading to Snow Leopard. Users have in some cases lost their entire main profile, including sites, pictures, videos and [...]

Oct 13 2009 | Posted in Computing,Internet,Open Source,Software,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Google hits back at book critics

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics of the company’s plans to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. Writing in the New York Times, Mr Brin said he wanted to “dispel some myths” surrounding the project. He said the plan would make millions of “out-of-print” books available to the public [...]

Oct 11 2009 | Posted in Internet,Search Tech,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

One billion a day turn to YouTube

YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website. Chad Hurley’s blog marks the third anniversary of YouTube’s controversial acquisition by Google. The site was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65bn – a price it later described as “a premium”. Earlier [...]

Oct 9 2009 | Posted in Home Tech,Internet,Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Amazon’s Kindle to launch in UK

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is going on sale in more than 100 countries around the world, including the UK. The reader has been confined to the US since its launch in November 2007; Amazon expects to have sold a million of the devices by the end of the year. The global version will run on [...]

Oct 7 2009 | Posted in Home Tech,Mobile Tech,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Thousands of Hotmail users hacked

Microsoft has confirmed that thousands of Hotmail accounts have been compromised in a phishing attack. BBC News has seen a list of more than 10,000 e-mail accounts and passwords which had been posted online. The software giant, which owns the web-based e-mail system, said that it “had launched an investigation”. Phishing involves using fake websites [...]

Oct 5 2009 | Posted in Cybersecurity,Hosting,Internet,Privacy,Security,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Court order served over Twitter

The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. The order is to be served against an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger. The order demands the anonymous Twitter user reveal their identity and stop posing [...]

Oct 1 2009 | Posted in Blogging,Internet,Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Google invites users to join Wave

Google Wave, which combines e-mail, instant messaging and wiki-style editing will go on public trial today. The search giant hopes the tool, described as “how e-mail would look if it were invented today”, will transform how people communicate online. It will be open to 100,000 invitees from 1600BST, each of whom can nominate five further [...]

Sep 30 2009 | Posted in Internet,Search Tech,Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Microsoft launches free security

Microsoft has released its free computer security package to the public. From 1700 BST on 29 September, Windows users will be able to download the software from Microsoft’s Security Essentials website. The free software gives basic protection against viruses, trojans, rootkits, and spyware. The Essentials software is Microsoft’s second try at making an own-brand security [...]

Sep 29 2009 | Posted in Cybersecurity,Internet,Operating Systems,Security,Software,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Nintendo drops Wii console price

Nintendo is cutting the price of its popular Wii games console by 20% in the US and Japan. The company has also confirmed to BBC News that the trade price will drop in the UK and Republic of Ireland. However, the firm said the the ultimate cost for UK customers would be “determined by retailers [...]

Sep 24 2009 | Posted in Gaming,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Broadband tax ‘to be made law’

A controversial broadband tax should be law before the next election, according to Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms. The 50 pence a month tax will apply to everyone with a fixed line telephone. Speaking at a debate in London, Mr Timms said the tax will be presented to parliament as part of the Finance [...]

Sep 23 2009 | Posted in Communications,Hosting,Internet,Tech News,Technology | Read More »