Archive for January, 2010

Pull down the walled gardens

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Internet law professor Michael Geist says the walled gardens of social networks should be pulled down.

India now Nokia’s second market

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

India has overtaken the US to become mobile phone giant Nokia’s second largest sales market after China.

Man arrested over wi-fi ‘theft’

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

A man is arrested in connection with using someone else’s wi-fi broadband connection without permission.

Playing to win friends

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Former Edge magazine editor Margaret Robertson on why gamer stereotypes are not such a bad thing

Big names sign up to iTunes rival

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.

Microsoft cuts Europe Xbox price

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Microsoft cuts the price of its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe, weeks after doing the same in the US.

Skype issues apology for ‘outage’

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Net phone firm Skype says its service is up and running again after days of “unprecedented” disruption.

Monster attack steals user data

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.

US bridge 'design issue' detected

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

US officials find a possible design issue in the collapsed Minneapolis bridge as divers find two more bodies.

Forensic data stolen in burglary

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Equipment is stolen from a firm that provides police with telephone evidence linked to their investigations.