Twitter hack targets Obama, Britney
News The popular microblogging site says its support tools were hacked and 33 high-profile user accounts compromised on Monday [12:52 GMT]
Logitech to slash 15 percent of workforce
News The Swiss manufacturer of computer peripherals such as webcams and mice cites the economic downturn as the reason for the job cuts [14:18 GMT]
Android becomes an accessibility testbed
Blog There is much kerfuffling going on right now about the news that, shock horror, paid-for apps will soon appear in the Android Marketplace. Um, isn't that what marketplaces are for? Far more... [12:46 GMT]
PM's spending plans may pave way for fibre rollout
News Gordon Brown looks to have given the go-ahead to a recession-busting programme of investment that could see super-fast broadband rolled out across the UK [12:28 GMT]
Toshiba moves into solar-power business
News The company has created a unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels [09:52 GMT]
Skype 2.8 for Mac set for release
News Mac users will be the first to see new features such as screen sharing and an integrated Wi-Fi hotspot connector [09:14 GMT]
Conservatives promise help for green tech start-ups
News David Cameron has revealed a set of measures that could see green technology companies get a helping hand from any future Tory government [09:03 GMT]
Google readies Picasa beta for Mac
News A long-awaited version of Google's software for editing, cataloguing and uploading photos is set to arrive in beta form [08:37 GMT]
Microsoft boosts server unit with Muglia promotion
News Longtime Server and Tools unit head Bob Muglia is now president of the company's server unit [08:22 GMT]
Steve Jobs's letter about his health
Blog The following is a letter posted Monday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs to tell the company's customers about his health problems and the situation with his employment at the Mac maker. After Apple... [05 Jan 2009]
Freescale and ARM promise £140 netbooks
News Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation [05 Jan 2009]
PM includes fibre in FDR-esque spending plan
Blog How, as a nation, do you spend your way out of an economic crisis? According to the Observer's interview yesterday with Gordon Brown, high-speed broadband could form part of the solution. From... [05 Jan 2009]
Wikipedia campaign raises over $6.2m
News A fundraising drive launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has led to over 125,000 people making donations to the online community-generated encyclopaedia [05 Jan 2009]
EMC buys some parts of SourceLabs
News The storage giant EMC has acquired some parts of SourceLabs but is not specifying exactly which parts of the open-source software business it now owns [05 Jan 2009]
Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
News The Home Office is working with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to remotely search PCs without a warrant [05 Jan 2009]
Apple: Health concerns keeping Jobs from Macworld
News Two weeks after pointing to political reasons for the chief executive's absence, Apple admits health concerns are behind his decision to skip the keynote [05 Jan 2009]
Adobe to tailor Flash for Intel's web TV processor
News As part of its Open Screen Project, Adobe is working with Intel on optimising Flash and AIR for the chipmaker's new media processor system-on-a-chip [05 Jan 2009]
Macworld retreat marks new era for Apple
Analysis A Jobs-less Macworld might take some of the fire away from January 2009's event, but it could be a sign Apple wants to shift the leadership burden across more of its team [05 Jan 2009]
Mobile-software developer UIQ files for bankruptcy
News Left without a viable business model after the launch of the Symbian Foundation, UIQ has been shut down by its owners, Sony Ericsson and Motorola [05 Jan 2009]
Prof Dame Wendy Hall's reaction to her honour
Blog When we learned of the New Year's honour bestowed upon web sciences pioneer Prof Wendy Hall, of the University of Southampton, we naturally approached her for her reaction. It didn't make it in... [05 Jan 2009]
Alan Cox moves to Intel
Blog Just as we were all closing down before Christmas, Linux kernel developer Alan Cox announced he is moving from Red Hat to Intel this month. The move is important. According to most accounts,... [05 Jan 2009]
Samsung: No decision yet on chip investment plan
News The world's largest maker of memory chips has denied a report saying it may cut its 2009 investment in semiconductors by more than half from last year amid the downturn [05 Jan 2009]
'Bricks and clicks' retailers win battle for web traffic
News High-street retailers with a web shopfront had 68 percent more internet traffic than their online-only rivals during the Christmas period, according to research by Experian [05 Jan 2009]
Shared services boost savings for Somerset
News Somerset County Council has said its use of Southwest One, the shared-services firm majority owned by IBM, will save more than expected on procurement [05 Jan 2009]
FreeBSD platform adds Sun's DTrace tool
News The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its Unix operating system incorporating Sun's flagship DTrace performance-analysis and debugging tool [05 Jan 2009]
