ZDNet UK News

Large Hadron Collider up and running again

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:03:36 GMT

The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a...

Climate research centre compromised

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:12:27 GMT

One of the UK's leading climate change research centres has had a security breach. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suffered a compromise of information, a UEA...

Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:02 GMT

ISPs are fiercely contesting government claims that they support the Digital Economy Bill's anti-copyright-infringement measures, while Telnic has warned of official threats to Icann's authority

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:02 GMT

Organisations should be wary of vendor lock-in, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency

eBay finalises $2.75bn sale of Skype

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:02 GMT

The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders

Dell sees earnings drop 54 percent

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:02 GMT

Declining shipments had a negative effect on the company's third-quarter earnings, while the company also reported that revenue was down 15 percent compared with last year

Digital Economy Bill gets tough on file-sharers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:38:02 GMT

The government has ruled out jail terms for copyright infringement, but the Digital Economy Bill opens the way for disconnecting repeat infringers

Cisco targets security professionals with iPhone app

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:49:02 GMT

The company's new App Store entry features customised alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device

Adobe's Acrobat.com adds organiser, mobile app

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:04:02 GMT

The company is improving its Acrobat service with a new organiser and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go

Ballmer touts speed of Windows 7 sales

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:51:01 GMT

At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, the CEO said the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows

Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue of $79m

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:23:02 GMT

The revenue growth rate tapered off to five percent from 12 percent the previous year, while a search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money

Google shows Chrome OS, promises 2010 launch

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:18:02 GMT

Google's long-awaited Chrome OS aims at security, speed and simplicity in netbook cloud computing

Intel Labs Europe takes on large-scale computing

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:12:02 GMT

Intel Labs Europe has formed an alliance with three French institutions to investigate the challenges of large-scale computing

Reports: Mandelson to create file-sharing offence

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:01:31 GMT

The government intends to create a new offence of downloading copyrighted material without consent, according to reports that refer to a letter sent by business secretary Lord Mandelson to the...

HP engineers vote to strike

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:43:02 GMT

Members of the Unite union at HP will take industrial action over the potential loss of pension benefits and pay reductions

Union asks Mandelson to stop Ericsson closure

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:04:01 GMT

Unite calls on the government to intervene in Ericsson's closure of a Coventry R&D plant and probe foreign tax credits

UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:01 GMT

Two people were arrested in Manchester earlier this month on suspicion of distributing the Zeus banking Trojan

IE9, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 in the PDC spotlight

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:46:01 GMT

Day two of Microsoft's PDC saw clients take centre stage, with browsers, rich internet applications and productivity tools in the spotlight

Sony Ericsson releases cross-platform app tool

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:02 GMT

WebSDK is a toolkit that allows developers to create software for Sony Ericsson's Android and Symbian-based handsets

Ion-toting Eee 1201N to hit UK in January

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:55:36 GMT

Asus has confirmed its long-rumoured Eee PC 1201N, the first in the company's line of netbooks to use Nvidia's Ion graphics platform. The 1201N will also be one of the first netbooks to include...

Microsoft, Acer team up on Windows 7 laptop

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:58:02 GMT

The software giant has formed an alliance with Acer that will see it deliver Windows 7 laptops to rival Apple's proposed tablet

YouTube UK launches full-length TV shows

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:44:09 GMT

YouTube, Google's main online video repository, has made full-length episodes of shows such as The IT Crowd and Who's Line Is It Anyway? available to UK viewers. YouTube's Shows section was...

HP contractors at DWP vote on strike action

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:51:01 GMT

HP contractors have become increasingly angry at the government department after the announcement of further job cuts and pay freezes

Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:57:01 GMT

The cloud-computing specialist has announced its Salesforce Chatter service to build social-networking services into its customers' business operations starting in 2010

Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:54:02 GMT

The third beta imposes a new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it, while a feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7