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Headlines week ending - Monday 12 May 2008

RIM slaps new phone and $150 mil on the table

Here's some cash, go write some software for our new phone, eh?

Mon, 12 May 2008, 12:19

Indian tech companies give up on the US

Richer pickings elsewhere

Mon, 12 May 2008, 11:43

Apple collars Iphone clone

Cheapo Chinese knock-offs chased

Mon, 12 May 2008, 9:48

Intel sends Google into solid state - report

Quick on the serve

Mon, 12 May 2008, 8:59

EA drops draconian DRM

Will now only be mildly annoying

Mon, 12 May 2008, 8:13

Wackypedia gets professor's blessing

Who is the Everywhere Girl?

Mon, 12 May 2008, 7:54

Microsoft flogs its two millionth Zune

Celebrating a piddling market share

Mon, 12 May 2008, 7:40

Tomtom revamps sat-nav range

Tomtom clubbed

Sat, 10 May 2008, 23:19

Video games don't turn teenagers into psycho killers

Blame the parents instead

Fri, 09 May 2008, 16:54

Blizzard abuses copyright law

We own your software, not you

Fri, 09 May 2008, 15:09

Apple Interweb service could threaten Exchange

Dotmac rumours good for business

Fri, 09 May 2008, 13:55

UK pledges £1 billion tech fund

Like for like, like

Fri, 09 May 2008, 11:46

GTA4 causes mass manslaughter

Online hotbed of car crime

Fri, 09 May 2008, 11:00

Xbox Jasper 65nm chips all lined up

Between IBM and the Taiwanese

Fri, 09 May 2008, 9:26

Torrent Spy appeals

Judge ignored case

Fri, 09 May 2008, 8:16

GPL prevails again

Skype withdraws appeal

Fri, 09 May 2008, 7:57

Google to fight human rights proposals

"Do no evil" doesn't mean we can't ignore evil if we want to

Thu, 08 May 2008, 23:53

MSI takes it to Asus with desktop tiddler

Wee Titan

Thu, 08 May 2008, 18:10

Rock Group gets the administrators in

Laptop shifter shuts up shop

Thu, 08 May 2008, 16:38

State Department says 400 stray laptops turned up

Knew they were around here somewhere

Thu, 08 May 2008, 15:16

Best Buy buys half of Carphone Warehouse

Shops across Europe

Thu, 08 May 2008, 12:46

Weather scientists demand more power

To the lab, Igor

Thu, 08 May 2008, 12:12

Intel blasts into space

To infinity... and beyond

Thu, 08 May 2008, 11:18

Gigabyte pushes quad-LAN motherboard

Forget quad-graphics, it's all about the network

Thu, 08 May 2008, 6:39

Transistor inventor dies

Sparks goes out

Thu, 08 May 2008, 5:18

Microsoft pokes Facebook

Wanna be in my gang?

Thu, 08 May 2008, 5:18

Good things come in two-by-twos

First INQpressions Mushkin XP2-6400

Wed, 07 May 2008, 22:21

AMD revamps server roadmap

Twelve cores and a new socket

Wed, 07 May 2008, 19:30

Government begins to ponder how to keep our ID data safe

Don't wait up

Wed, 07 May 2008, 16:59

Sprint and Clearwire pool WiMax resources

Intel plays matchmaker

Wed, 07 May 2008, 14:27

XP SP3, Vista SP1 finally arrive

Life in the old dogs yet

Wed, 07 May 2008, 12:05

Data fear haunts ID card scheme

Delays inevitable

Wed, 07 May 2008, 11:34

Player X puts Saturday Night Fever on mobile phones

Jive talking

Wed, 07 May 2008, 11:22

Microsoft's spends $280 million on an R&D facility in China

Eastern promise

Wed, 07 May 2008, 9:47

MySQL remains Open Sauce

Puts off closed source plans

Wed, 07 May 2008, 8:38

Dell gets hip to the sound of the underground

Laptop lids for funky kids

Wed, 07 May 2008, 8:05

Yahoo faces shareholder mutiny

AGM blood bath

Wed, 07 May 2008, 6:38

US State Department loses a lot of laptops

Including 400 anti-terrorism kits

Tue, 06 May 2008, 21:10

HTC's Touch Diamond finally arrives

Sports fancy 3D touch UI

Tue, 06 May 2008, 16:09

The Cloud simplifies Wi-fi logins

Hey, you gerroff on mycloud

Tue, 06 May 2008, 14:00

Wii to get pole dancing game

Punters expected to lap it up

Tue, 06 May 2008, 10:45

Microsoft denies Xbox 360 optical upgrade

Blu-ray not coming. Officially. Until it does.

Tue, 06 May 2008, 10:06

Yahoo boss looks fondly at Microsoft

Help! The shareholders are revolting

Tue, 06 May 2008, 9:19

US border police copy visitors' laptop data

File sharing

Tue, 06 May 2008, 8:49

Valve launches Steamworks SDK

Indie devs get free ride on the Steam train

Tue, 06 May 2008, 8:01

Semantic start-up takes aim at Google search

Know what I mean?

Mon, 12 May 2008, 12:19

The Iphone is dead... long live the Iphone

No more stock and Oz airtime shock

Mon, 12 May 2008, 10:31

Nvidia talks chops - again

DAAMIT, Chipzilla both square up in the firing line

Mon, 12 May 2008, 9:13

BSD UNIX finally fixes a 25-year old software bug

Lurking in there forever

Mon, 12 May 2008, 8:44

Apple settles Ipod lawsuit

Battery life, what is that?

Mon, 12 May 2008, 8:07

Sun makes users sick

Virus problems

Mon, 12 May 2008, 7:53

Jen-Hsun Huang berates 'monopolistic' Intel - again

Larabee delayed just to wind up Huang core, blimey

Sat, 10 May 2008, 23:38

Microsoft mulls printing up medication

Inkjet junkies gather round

Fri, 09 May 2008, 19:06

Intel plays games with USB3.0

Comment Forks and knives

Fri, 09 May 2008, 16:07

Toshiba wants half of SSD market

Solid statement

Fri, 09 May 2008, 15:05

Boffins integrate nanowire devices directly onto silicon

Tiddly blighters

Fri, 09 May 2008, 13:48

XP SP3 crashes AMD machines

Here we go loop de loo

Fri, 09 May 2008, 11:23

US warns China about standards war

Follow us or risk isolation

Fri, 09 May 2008, 10:55

Firefox fights Trojan

Rogue code went out with language pack

Fri, 09 May 2008, 8:31

Gadgets kill the Internet

Boffin bemoans lack of tinkering

Fri, 09 May 2008, 8:13

Asus Eee PC cheaper with Windows

For punters Down Under

Fri, 09 May 2008, 0:39

Intel re-affirms commitment to Middle East

Intel of Arabia

Thu, 08 May 2008, 23:23

Bank loses server stuffed with customer records

Having a rummidge around the sofa

Thu, 08 May 2008, 17:56

AMD's Hector keeps us waiting

Rabbit still stuck in hat

Thu, 08 May 2008, 15:58

UK stores run out of Iphones

3G whizz

Thu, 08 May 2008, 13:44

3G phone unlocking made easy

Just drill a hole in your SIM card

Thu, 08 May 2008, 12:46

Parents' evenings could be replaced by the Interweb

Reduces fist-fights

Thu, 08 May 2008, 12:03

TorrentSpy ordered to pay the MPAA $110 million

Copyright, wrong

Thu, 08 May 2008, 10:10

Vvikoo card sports full copper jacket 9600GT Turbo

First INQpressions Vvikoo 9600GT Turbo

Thu, 08 May 2008, 6:02

Comcast mulls capping punters

If the cap fits you will just have to wear it

Thu, 08 May 2008, 5:18

Apple takes Jesus phone to South America

Conquistadors

Thu, 08 May 2008, 5:18

The new AMD roadmap restores a bit of confidence

Analysis Still a long way to go

Wed, 07 May 2008, 20:14

Not using Paypal is akin to buying heroin on the street

According to Ebay

Wed, 07 May 2008, 18:07

Nanotubes as a supermaterial

Electrifying

Wed, 07 May 2008, 16:30

Bournemouth boggers get faster connection

Brings a whole new meaning to logging on

Wed, 07 May 2008, 13:46

Gates signs ICE deal with car maker

Hyundai and Microsoft collaborate on in car entertainment

Wed, 07 May 2008, 11:58

Laptop HDs get speed bump

Hitachi spins out 7,200 rpm devices

Wed, 07 May 2008, 11:26

Map fetishist goes round the world and back

Speakers' Corner Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design

Wed, 07 May 2008, 10:54

Apparatchiks seek to cut costs of UK ID scheme

Cheap at half the price

Wed, 07 May 2008, 9:30

Gates says Interweb faces big changes

Second generation of the digital age

Wed, 07 May 2008, 8:30

Mass Effect DRM goes too far

M.E. phone home (every ten days)

Wed, 07 May 2008, 7:44

Twenty games tested on two budget graphics cards

Daily Roundup Sensible gaming shoes won't hurt wallet

Tue, 06 May 2008, 21:30

Super Talent does SSDs for laptops

Flashing them about

Tue, 06 May 2008, 20:45

Plod presses for CCTV 2.0

More cameras, more definition, more watching

Tue, 06 May 2008, 15:59

Google in border dispute over Chinese mapping

Stop spying on us

Tue, 06 May 2008, 13:18

CoreCodec makes apology

It wasn't our fault, really

Tue, 06 May 2008, 10:45

Xbox 360 to get integrated Blu-ray

Console round-up Plus: Wii pole dancing

Tue, 06 May 2008, 9:57

Game Browser helps you find PC titles...

...That are endorsed by Nvidia.

Tue, 06 May 2008, 9:11

Sprint-Nextel wants to lose Nextel

Waste of money

Tue, 06 May 2008, 8:45

DRAM price increases by 10 per cent

Spring time for chips

Tue, 06 May 2008, 5:45

'Back to My Mac' snaps a thief

Alert owner gets lucky

Mon, 12 May 2008, 11:54

AMD's asset-light hype boosts Chartered Semi

Making waves by standing still

Mon, 12 May 2008, 10:27

Microsoft rants at Sony's broken promises

Console round-up GTA IV compared

Mon, 12 May 2008, 9:05

AMD cuts quad core power

Opteron drops to 55W

Mon, 12 May 2008, 8:24

Microsoft blocks YouTube links

Use MSN Video instead

Mon, 12 May 2008, 7:56

Apple pays out on sparking power adapters

It just works

Mon, 12 May 2008, 7:44

It’s all about the cooling

Hardware Doc Keep your heads and CPUs cool

Sat, 10 May 2008, 23:27

Gates offers free software in Asia

Pulls Intel trump card for digital have-nots

Fri, 09 May 2008, 17:31

Boffins measure hotness of chillies using nanotubes

Hot to trot

Fri, 09 May 2008, 15:50

Sun open sources Mac OS X virtualisation tool

Sun, see and open sauce

Fri, 09 May 2008, 14:04

Mafiaa demands $15 million from Pirate Bay

Pirate Bay principals scoff

Fri, 09 May 2008, 11:50

Graphzilla posts marginal losses

G92 yield yields cost hike

Fri, 09 May 2008, 11:04

Poisonous Apples hit bottom of eco barrel

Cupertino not going green enough

Fri, 09 May 2008, 10:45

DRM alive and kicking

MAFIAA wants to bring it back from the dead

Fri, 09 May 2008, 8:24

IBM predicts the weather

Big Blue skies

Fri, 09 May 2008, 8:07

125W o’Phenom on 780G made possible

Daily Rounduppery Sapphire does it

Fri, 09 May 2008, 0:04

Taiwanese semiconductor firms prepare to storm China

Lower-profit production

Thu, 08 May 2008, 18:38

Geek Olympics to be held in Scotland

Bill Gates has got a note from his mum

Thu, 08 May 2008, 17:16

Samsung claims i200 is world's slimmest Smartphone

Fin as thuck

Thu, 08 May 2008, 15:33

Nvidia kicks Windows Mobile into shape

APX 2500 packs a low-powered punch

Thu, 08 May 2008, 13:10

Chinese bird goes mobile

Entrepreneur moves from cars to phones

Thu, 08 May 2008, 12:16

BT to go nowhere with Togo

Smartphone lure for broadband customers

Thu, 08 May 2008, 11:27

Nvidia needs to simplify GeForce range

Admits people just don't get it

Thu, 08 May 2008, 6:39

Social Notworking site for the dead

Monster man creates site for zombies

Thu, 08 May 2008, 5:18

Doom 4 on its way

Chainsaws at the ready

Thu, 08 May 2008, 5:18

Hybrid SLI day comes and goes

Hardwired You can stop holding your breath now

Wed, 07 May 2008, 23:45

Asustek washes hands of exploding non-certified batteries

Boom and bust

Wed, 07 May 2008, 19:37

Lie detectors extend their reach to social security helplines

No they're not, yes they are, no they're not....

Wed, 07 May 2008, 17:49

Samsung blasts into top ten foundries list

Fab growths of 2007

Wed, 07 May 2008, 15:23

SMIC won't jump on the 450mm bandwagon

Let the bigger boys sort it out

Wed, 07 May 2008, 12:47

AMD's "asset-light" plans hotly anticipated

Shares, axe raised

Wed, 07 May 2008, 11:39

Green sheen puts Tesco Mobile on top

Uptown top ranking amongst pre-pay customers

Wed, 07 May 2008, 11:25

Vodafone gets deal to distribute Iphone in 10 countries

Eye, eye

Wed, 07 May 2008, 10:00

Peter Gabriel's servers nicked

Grabbed my data and came to take it home

Wed, 07 May 2008, 8:41

Murdoch firm hired hackers

News Corp exec confirms

Wed, 07 May 2008, 8:18

Cuba denies visa to award-winning blogger

Missive crisis

Wed, 07 May 2008, 6:38

VMware claims the virtual world is greener

Use less more

Tue, 06 May 2008, 21:17

Gigabyte shows off Intel P45 offering

Extreme cooling system

Tue, 06 May 2008, 16:15

AMD and Intel fling more legal briefs

David v. Goliath lawsuit slogs on

Tue, 06 May 2008, 14:40

NTT invents fairy security interface

Tinkerbell's aura

Tue, 06 May 2008, 13:12

450mm wafer coming in 2012

Large portion of chips

Tue, 06 May 2008, 10:45

Velociraptor logs achievements

Hardware Roundup The Professor is in

Tue, 06 May 2008, 9:50

EVGA drops USB monitor boxes

Cheap and cheerful real estate

Tue, 06 May 2008, 9:01

Nvidia buys 3DFX

Do not adjust your sets

Tue, 06 May 2008, 8:31

Swedish court convicts file sharer

Pirate Bay next

Tue, 06 May 2008, 5:45

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