Nov
26

Xbox Live Gold free this weekend

Starting today and for the whole weekend, Microsoft is making the Xbox Live Gold service available to all gamers on its console. It’ll give silver members a chance to see what.. more
Nov
26

BT lowers fibre broadband minimum to 5Mbps

BT Wholesale has announced that it is to lower the minimum threshold at which ISPs can resell its fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband lines. Previously, the minimum speed which an ISP could provide a.. more
Nov
26

Virgin prepares to launch iPad magazine

Earlier this week we heard about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to launch The Daily, an iPad only daily tabloid with a broadsheet tone. And now it seems Sir Richard Branson also wants.. more
Nov
25

TalkTalk begins trialling anti-malware system

TalkTalk is to officially begin testing an anti-malware system designed to protect its customers from dodgy virus-laden websites. And this time, the company has actually asked the limited amount of customers taking part in the first official trials whether they want to take part. Previously,.. more
Nov
25

Salesforce.com recruits ex-BT Chief Scientist

Salesforce.com has created a new Chief Scientist position, hiring the fellow who held the post at BT until very recently. JP Rangaswami, who left BT last month, will come on board with Salesforce.com, the company which produces Chatter, essentially the business version of Facebook, a.. more
Nov
25

Student email hacker gets suspended sentence

A Bulgarian man who pretended to be a student, and when on campus installed key logging malware to grab email passwords, was sentenced yesterday. Daniel Woo was arrested back in November 2006 when he was caught in the act of installing the password capturing software.. more
Nov
25

European researchers create 3D invisibility technology

European researchers are the first to create an invisibility cloak with the power to make a hidden object invisible in 3 dimensions. Previous invisibility technology only worked in two dimensions, meaning a hidden object was invisible when viewed head on but was visible when viewed.. more
Nov
25

OpenStreetMap founder off to work for Bing Maps

Microsoft has hired Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap, for its own Bing Maps project. Coast will be Principal Architect for Bing Mobile, tasked with improving the search engine’s map experience, and leading initiatives to engage with open source mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap.. more
Nov
25

Android 2.2.1 coming to Motorola Droid

Apparently the Motorola Droid smartphone – the Milestone over here – is to get an Android update. Not to Gingerbread, Gadget Venue reports, but just a minor update to version 2.2.1 of the Android operating system. The word from Motorola is that it will be.. more
Nov
25

NHS site allows Facebook and Google tracking

If you use the NHS Choices website, then you should be aware that if you’re logged into Facebook, the site shares information on what topics you’re viewing. Indeed, according to online identity gurus Garlik, Facebook, Google and other third parties have been allowed to track.. more