Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.

Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store

The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.

Reports say a blown transformer knocked out power to the Fisher Plaza data center, which is home to the Bing Travel servers, among others.

What soccer team would your company be?

Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.

Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.

q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.

Week in review: A speedier new Firefox

Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.

At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.

Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it

Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but it's likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance.

Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along.

Sites that help you lodge complaints

If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.

A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.

iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing

Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.

Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.

Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds

The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.

Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.

Fisker's good Karma

At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma.

Vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone, or turn phone into botnet zombie.

TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan

TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month.

A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern

LHC restart pushed back again

Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected

Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has produced a system that uses sophisticated algorithms to differentiate facial features

IBM probe detects an atom's charge

Researchers have come up with a probe that can tell whether a gold atom has a positive, negative or neutral charge, which could lead to new computing devices

In a large-scale study at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University, physicists and IBM will churn gigabytes a second to learn the sun's dangerous secrets

Flexible memory developed for chips

Researchers at US National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a flexible memristor, which can be bent or twisted and remain functional

The London 2012 Games may pioneer smart tickets that can also be used as contactless payment and Oyster travel cards

Revived LHC could run through the winter

Cern's particle accelerator, currently undergoing repairs, could have its operation extended beyond its schedule despite high energy

Researchers at the University of St Andrews see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops

Wolfram Alpha boosted by super-fast HPC

The machine, built out of Dell hardware by a company called R Systems, can sustain performance of 39.6 trillion mathematical operations per second

Ministers from the Department of Health and Cabinet Office are implementing and progressing plans to reduce carbon emissions, outlined in the Greening Government ICT Strategy

Smart meters promised for UK homes by 2020

Enabling the real-time transmission of gas and electricity meter readings to the utility means companies can save on manual checks and customers can manage consumption

A six-month trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaptation tech will start this summer, with the aim of exploring ways of reducing road deaths

SAP acquires carbon management firm

The enterprise software giant has bought Clear Standards, a software business with tools for tracking and reporting a corporation's environmental impact

In a recent conference keynote, Qualcomm's Andrew Gilbert shared his insights on the mobile industry's future, including TV, banking and the 'internet of things'

Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair

The last of the replacement magnets has been installed for a section of the LHC that suffered an electrical fault and helium leak last September

A London School of Economics report suggests that a £15bn investment in broadband, smart grid and intelligent transport technology could create 700,000 jobs

Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment

In his budget speech, chancellor Alistair Darling promised more funding for emerging technologies, but the CBI has questioned the funding allocation

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a system that can authenticate your identity by eliciting and listening to specific sounds emitted by your ear

'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers

Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets

The hardware maker has announced a series of partnerships in a bid to be a bigger player in the digitisation of medical records

Microsoft aims to improve multitouch gestures

At a conference this week, Microsoft is presenting ideas on how 'more natural' gestures could be used on multitouch devices

Researchers have used a genetically modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars

Robot scientist makes gene discovery

UK researchers have created a robot, 'Adam', that they believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings

Five robot fish will swim the Spanish seas as part of an EC-funded project to pinpoint sources of pollution, such as leaks from ships or underwater pipelines

Gartner predicts ray of light for solar tech

Long-term prospects for the photovoltaic market are encouraging, says the analyst house, although the market will have to weather the current economic gloom

The Commission calls for a large increase in tech R&D funding over the next decade, and has reiterated its call for a single European patent system

Using the iPhone and Wii remote for health

ZDNet UK spoke to scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute to see how communications technology is combining with gaming gadgetry to keep people healthy

Markus Klippstein, head of the 3D display company Visumotion, tells ZDNet UK how the technology has developed in recent years, and what it is for

The best bits from CeBIT 2009

ZDNet UK visited Hanover in Germany to see what was on offer at this year's CeBIT technology fair

The tabletop technology, now available for purchase in the UK, has applications for business, Microsoft told ZDNet UK at CeBIT 2009

Microsoft TechFest video points to utopian future

Microsoft imagines how a number of its current research technologies will work together in a decade's time

At its annual TechFest event, Microsoft gives its researchers the opportunity to show off what they have cooking in the lab

US researchers claim vast data-density increase

A breakthrough by US researchers could lead to significant increases in data-storage capacity

People are now able to make, store and share a digital record of their daily lives. Web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall talks about the consequences and uses of having every detail to hand

How private lives are being redefined online

At the Digital Lives conference, web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall explains how technology has affected how and why people share information about themselves

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell talked to ZDNet UK recently about his project to document his entire life. This video shows him demonstrating part of this in 2007

LHC restart now on hold until September

The latest postponement means the world's largest particle accelerator will be back online a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown

The company has outlined a plan to bring its European research together but has not given details on investment in the changes

EU supercomputers to be used for fusion modelling

Nuclear-fusion researchers will be given access to distributed supercomputer processing power to aid their sustainable energy quest, the European Commission has announced

A report into the European Union's research and development investment as a proportion of GDP has noted 'stagnation', particularly when compared with the US, Japan and Korea

The Macintosh at 50

Apple's Macintosh has been one of the defining features of the past quarter century. How about the next?

New microscope can show images with 100 million times greater resolution than those generated by an MRI scanner today, company said

Keyboards, DRM, 9-to-5 to grow scarce, says survey

A survey of more than 1,000 internet activists, journalists and technologists about tech life in 2020 has found expectations of haptic and voice interfaces

Cern has released pictures of the impact of a liquid helium leak in September

The future of mobile-device chargers

Kinetic energy technology can charge mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet

At the Palo Alto Research Center, scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing paper to be used dozens of times

LHC restart pushed back further

The world's most powerful particle accelerator now looks likely to be operational again in late summer 2009, rather than June

The initiative is the first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency

Nasa uses spacecraft to test interplanetary network

Nasa is using a comet-watching spacecraft to test new interplanetary networking protocols, while the concepts are also being applied to networks closer to home

The servers are intended for small to medium-sized businesses and are 'up to three times faster' than their predecessors, according to Lenovo

Microsoft opens mega datacentre in Dublin

The first Microsoft mega datacentre outside the US will take advantage of the 'cool climate' and will power Azure and Bing, the company says

Dell is developing a pocket-size internet device to take on Apple's iPod Touch, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal

Sony PSP could get phone functions

The company is considering developing a mobile phone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple's iPod and iPhone

The chipmaker is calling on businesses to avoid lengthening their PC refresh cycles as a cost-cutting measure, as security-risk and maintenance bills could prove more costly

Gartner: PC sales show signs of revival

Revising an earlier prediction, the research firm predicts a rebound in the fourth quarter that will lift sales for the year and continue momentum into next year

Palm has posted a narrower-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter loss, and highlighted strong demand for its recently launched Pre smartphone

UK chip company launches £3 processor

Cheap, reconfigurable consumer electronics are promised by Xmos's powerful hardware-emulating chip

Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson predicts fraud detection and other secure elements for mobile phones

Adobe brings Flash to HTC's latest Android phone

HTC's new Android-based Hero smartphone will feature built-in Flash support, putting it ahead of the iPhone

The Hero uses an HTC-customised user interface skin called Sense, and is the first Android handset from the manufacturer not to carry Google branding

Water-cooled IBM supercomputer to heat buildings

Surplus heat from the warm-water-cooled supercomputer will heat university buildings at research partner ETH's Zurich campus

IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar retain top two positions on latest Top500 supercomputer list, which also saw four new systems in the top 10

Netgear to deliver 24TB NAS system

The ReadyNAS rack-mounted appliance, aimed at the SMB market, will eventually hold up to 24TB as new drives become available

The company has upgraded software and hardware in its Constellation System supercomputer platform, in part to provide better support for cloud computing

Over 1m iPhone 3G S sold in first three days

Apple says it has sold more than one million of its newest iPhone in the first three days of launch, beating analysts' expectations for the 3G S smartphone's debut

The chipmaker has provided insights into a number of research projects that extend beyond its processor business

LG announces thin-client monitor range

The Smartvine N-series monitors will have thin clients built into them, allowing up to six people to use virtualised desktops running off a single PC

The enterprise is ready for a 'disruptive' approach to innovation when it comes to adopting green technology, according to Samsung Semiconductor's Jim Elliott

Toshiba plans restructure of system chip unit

Toshiba, Japan's largest chipmaker, plans to mass produce 28nm system chips in the coming business year

Intel is planning to phase out some of its brands, including Centrino PCs, to focus on fewer top names as the chipmaker expands into new markets

Dell boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio

The company has unveiled pre-configured packages for deploying and managing virtualised infrastructures, new storage products and a consulting service called ProConsult

The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers

Report: Sun abandons high-end chip project

The company has killed off a project to develop an advanced server chip dubbed 'Rock', which it had hoped would leapfrog its technology past rivals, according to reports

New ProLiants are at the centre of HP's push into the 'scale-out' market, where datacentres with thousands of servers deal with cloud, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing

Apple's WWDC keynote in photos

Apple execs go onstage in San Francisco to show off the new iPhone 3G S and a new MacBook, plus updates to Mac OS X, Safari and QuickTime

Global revenue in the chip-foundry market is expected to post a rise in the second quarter, but 2009 will remain challenging for foundries, says the researcher

Apple launches summer product push

Apple fulfilled rumours in the WWDC keynote with major upgrades to its portable computers and operating system. Oh, and a new iPhone

At the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a technology called Grand Central Dispatch to better tap into multicore chip power

Apple reveals updates to iPhone, MacBook, OS X

At WWDC, the company showed off a faster version of the iPhone, faster notebooks, plus the upcoming Snow Leopard software, iPhone OS 3.0 and more

The company plans to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its 'unified computing' push

Future of netbooks revealed at Computex

For a peek into the crystal ball of mobile computing, we take a look at what has been announced at Computex in Taiwan this week

The device would detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs, and police want it to be as easy to use as a breathalyser

HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers

The seven ProLiants built on AMD's new six-core Opteron chip come with heat- and power-management functions designed to drive down energy consumption

The PC manufacturer has tailored its Aspire One netbook for the corporate crowd, adding greater storage and XP Professional

PC World pulls Linux netbooks from stores

Microsoft has praised the retail giant's decision, but Ubuntu backer Canonical says the battle is not over yet

The flash memory firm has revealed two solid-state drives and a range of memory cards that are specifically tailored for use in small, cheap subnotebooks

AMD launches dual-core Phenom, Athlon CPUs

The chipmaker has unveiled its first dual-core Phenom and a dual-core Athlon that can work with the faster memory standard DDR3

Nvidia's system-on-a-chip has shown up in a dozen netbooks and mobile internet devices at the Computex event in Taiwan

Freescale shows off 'smartbook' prototypes

The chipmaker has worked alongside a US design school to come up with new concepts for ARM-based, Linux-driven mobile internet devices

The SU2700 is designed for notebook computers that are larger and more powerful than netbooks, but still much thinner than traditional laptops

AMD launches 'Istanbul' six-core processors

The new Opteron processors are aimed at the high-performance computing and virtualisation markets

The PDA manufacturer has settled its suit against Intel over the use of the word 'netbook', and will no longer object to use of the term

Qualcomm lines up 30 Snapdragon gadgets

More than 30 products using the chipmaker's next-generation Snapdragon chipset are already in the pipeline

First-quarter figures for server revenue and shipments are the worst seen by the research firm for years, as buyers pull back on spending

HP refreshes small-business portfolio

The manufacturer's new SME line-up includes new server, storage, virtualisation and client devices, as well as new printers

In a new wave of job cuts, the company is to lay off thousands of employees, including 710 who will be laid off in the closure of a factory in Erskine

HDS storage controller gets failover clustering

High Availability Manager adds clustering capabilities to Universal Storage Platform V controller, with the promise of no downtime for applications or servers

The hardware giant will reportedly move its manufacturing of storage devices and servers from its Erskine plant to the Czech Republic

Sata 3.0 paves way for slimmer notebooks

The new version of the Serial ATA specification, released on Wednesday, also promises smoother video playback from storage drives using the interface

The company has also made it possible for enterprise and education users of Google Apps to share templates for documents, spreadsheets and presentations internally

Windows 7 may offer a 'Family Pack'

Enthusiasts have spotted wording in a leaked test build of the operating system that suggests Microsoft may offer a three-PC deal with the new Windows

Red Hat has released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualisation based on Qumranet's KVM

PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins

After months of work, the open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring

Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions

Windows 7 could be a touch too much

A lack of apps and users having to buy additional monitors to support the technology may hold back the rate of touchscreen take-up

At the same time, Microsoft's open-source software licence, MS-PL, is gaining in popularity, according to a study by Black Duck

Unisys puts Stealth into the cloud

The company's new Secure Cloud managed service aims to shield sensitive information from other users of a cloud by scattering the data across different storage sites

The GNU project founder has urged developers to drop use of the open-source toolset, saying it could expose their work to legal action from Microsoft

Dell delivers SaaS package to Europe

The company's first cloud-based services package enables European businesses to outsource email, software licence management and other functions to Dell

Sugar Labs has released the One Laptop per Child XO-1 interface online for loading onto any USB flash drive greater than 1GB, and will allow it to be used on 'any PC or netbook'

USB could be answer to Windows 7 netbook dilemma

The software maker is considering offering Windows 7 on a USB flash drive for owners of netbooks and other machines without CD or DVD drives

The software giant has introduced a free web application to show people how much electricity and gas they are using, marking its entry into the energy-monitoring market

Red Hat profits rise amid rivals' earnings losses

The world's leading open-source technology solutions provider is weathering the recession with its subscriptions-based model

Microsoft has announced retail pricing for Windows 7, due to launch in October, and confirmed that European users must buy the full versions

US asks China to drop filtered software

The US trade representative says China's software filtering requirement for PCs poses a serious barrier to trade

The company has posted a beta of its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials, for testers in the US, China, Israel, and Brazil

Police expert calls for open-source data tools

The emergency services should be using open-source software to ease the exchange of data, according to ACPO data expert Ian Readhead

Veteran grid company Platform Computing has released cloud-management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider

Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support

IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organisations to drop Office altogether

Google will update it App Sync software to work with Microsoft Outlook plug-ins

Will new browsers really upgrade the web?

It could take a while for the reality of better browsing to catch up with the vision

The Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip

Apple highlights Snow Leopard features

Apple's senior vice president of Mac OS engineering, Craig Federighi, demos the Snow Leopard version of the operating system

The W3C is seeking prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium's work to standardise web apps

Red Hat begins testing virtualisation line-up

Beta tests begin on the new line of virtualisation products based on Qumranet's KVM, which put Red Hat into direct competition with the likes of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware

The software maker has said it plans to double Russian sales in the next three years as the country's IT market has yet to catch up with more developed peers

Citrix releases major XenServer upgrade

People can now download version 5.5 of both XenServer and Citrix Essentials, the first significant new releases since XenServer became a free product in February

An update to Centrix's browser-based application integration tool promises to help IT departments improve accuracy in charging business units for usage

IBM targets developers in cloud push

The company has launched a set of cloud-computing products and services, with an initial focus on cloud development and testing

The company next month will share financial details on the cloud OS and tell how partners can help sell it, according to a Microsoft exec

Salesforce Sites lets businesses build in the cloud

The new Sites technology uses the Force.com cloud platform to support customer websites and online applications

Linux 2.6.30 has been released with support for new file systems, alongside performance improvements and new hardware drivers

Adobe launches competitor to Google Docs

Acrobat.com, an online collaboration tool designed to rival Google Docs, provides meetings and PDF creation at different levels of pricing

The business software maker, which has struggled to adapt to software-as-a-service, says it will allow customers to mix traditional applications with its online services

Knuth: England is home of literate programming

On a visit to London, Professor Donald Knuth gives a rare video interview to ZDNet UK about the past, present and future of computing

Novell is to release a product allowing Microsoft management tools to monitor Novell's Suse Linux, as part of the companies' interoperability alliance

EC responds to Microsoft's browser move

The European Commission has said that while the move to strip IE from Windows is bad for retail software buyers, it could have some positive effects in the new PC market

NHS Connecting for Health is using open source to collaborate with other countries' health services in building specialist informatics software

Europe to get Windows 7 without browser

Aiming to appease regulators, Microsoft plans to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer, though computer makers will have the option to add it back in

Fedora 11 comes with new virtualisation features, support for fingerprint readers and the promised ability for any email client to tap into Microsoft Exchange

EC software law could divide open source

Experts have warned that a law proposing software companies be held liable for the security and efficacy of their products could divide the world of open-source development

The software maker, which already licenses out its product-activation and licensing technology to other firms, is now creating a separate company to handle the task

Google Apps gets Outlook-sync plug-in

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook will let enterprises move users from Microsoft's back-end to Google Apps while keeping an Outlook front-end

Tripwire's vWire virtualisation management software is designed to cut downtime and reduce risk

Safari and QuickTime get a refresh

QuickTime 10 is touted as 'super-efficient', while Safari 4 comes out of beta with promises of faster JavaScript and resistance to crashes caused by plug-ins

Apple is ensuring its OS X Snow Leopard operating system can gain smooth access to enterprise email, just as Outlook can

Windows 7 unlikely to cause leap in PC sales

Top Windows business executive Bill Veghte says history suggests any bump to the PC market from a new OS will be a modest one

The project, which aims to provide developers with a set of sample SOA apps that work across languages and platforms, has seen its first key release

Wind River gives Intel a shot in the software arm

Adding a serious software portfolio dramatically changes Intel's approach to embedded computing

The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers

Yahoo's Delicious is added to Chrome

Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service

Canonical will provide services to support companies building 'private cloud' infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls

China puts brakes on internet-filter rollout

Hours before the policy was due to start, China has delayed indefinitely a plan to force manufacturers to bundle internet-filtering software with PCs sold in the country

The major upgrade to the popular open-source browser provides private surfing, location awareness and support for HTML 5 features such as open-standards video

Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay

Global Gaming Factory, which develops distribution software for use in internet cafes, has announced it will buy the file-sharing site for £4.7m

The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so 'volcanic' that it triggered an anti-malware mechanism at Google, the company says

UK drops in ICT league table

The US and the UK have fallen in an 'e-readiness' ranking list, as the downturn harms the ability of many countries to use ICT for social and economic development

Microsoft is willing to invest up to 10 percent of its operating income in its internet search business for up to five years, according to chief executive Steve Ballmer

Google's censorship struggles continue in China

At some point before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Google changed its method for censoring search results, yet it will not discuss the new method

Following a request from 38 security experts, Google says it is considering offering encryption by default for Gmail and other apps if it doesn't slow down performance too much

Firefox 3.5 to 'upgrade the web', says Mozilla

The latest version of Firefox, on track for release at the end of the month, promises features such as faster performance, built-in video and new graphics technology

The Opera Unite alpha lets people invite others to use a browser to see content on their PC, but security experts have called its reliance on simple passwords an 'avenue to disaster'

Opera: Microsoft's browser move not enough

The software maker's move to strip IE from Windows 7 in Europe will not restore competition in the browser market, says Opera chief technology officer Håkon Wium Lie

Satisfied with its security approach, Google has begun broader development of its technology for more powerful web applications

French court curbs internet piracy legislation

A law aimed at punishing internet pirates, backed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, is ruled undemocratic by France's top constitutional court

Experts weigh up the impact of cloud computing on open-source software and Linux

HP, Intel, Yahoo team up on the cloud

The tech giants have announced that three new research organisations will join their Open Cirrus cloud-computing research effort

Two-thirds of businesses don't know they will be able to use their own name in place of extensions such as .com when internet domains are liberalised next year, a survey has found

Experts highlight barriers to cloud adoption

Cloud-computing pundits spell out the issues that are holding back the technology

The latest partners in the Open Strategy offer ways to help you make payments from your email inbox, offering users yet more to do from within Yahoo

Who is really moving to the cloud?

A panel of experts offer their take on what types of organisation are taking up cloud-computing services

Google has started taking Chrome beyond Windows with new versions for Mac OS X and Linux, but the company warns they are works in progress

Microsoft tightens up Bing search settings

Following criticism of Bing's video-preview feature, which allowed viewing of adult content in the browser, Microsoft has come up with 'a short-term workaround'

Google Squared, now available for public evaluation, is a Labs project that presents results in a new, spreadsheet-like format

Verizon rolls out computing-as-a-service

The telecommunications company is offering cloud-based computing resources to enterprises and government agencies

The technology allows web developers to compare how a site looks in Firefox, IE and Safari

Google appliance now searching by the billion

Google Search Appliance 6.0 can now retrieve billions of documents within a corporate customer's network, leaving no spreadsheet behind

Microsoft says it is investigating why Bing is being forced as the default search engine on machines running Internet Explorer 6

Antitrust probe targets tech giants over recruitment

Apple, Google and Yahoo are being investigated for possible antitrust violations over negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, the Washington Post reports

Release Candidate 1 for Firefox 3.5 could still be weeks away, but a widespread testing day to debug the updated browser was held on Friday

Developers embrace Google Wave

The search giant's ambitious Google Wave project has developers at Google I/O mulling the possibilities, and even comparing it to the iPhone

The search giant has shown a version of its technology for making web apps perform at similar levels to those associated with native desktop applications

Google Chrome adds HTML video support

Chrome joins Firefox, Safari and Opera with the ability to display video without a plug-in such as Adobe's Flash

The company shows off a rebranded, enhanced service designed to provide decision support

Force.com improves link to Google's cloud

The new version of Force.com lets Google App Engine developers use Java to communicate between the two cloud platforms

Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said during a conference that the company continues to discuss a search deal with Microsoft and indicated a willingness to sell

Google: The browser is the computer

HTML 5 technologies will let web developers build apps almost as cool as anything found on the desktop, according to Google execs and engineers

Mozilla's Jetpack project will let users install and turn extensions on and off, all without them having to restart their browsers

Microsoft's Ozzie touts cloud-computing potential

During a speech in Boston, the company's chief software architect talked about the influence of cloud computing on the enterprise IT environment

People who only view BBC programming through the iPlayer video-on-demand service are getting a "free ride", according to Future Media and Technology director Erik Huggers

Google trikes poised to map Britain's footpaths

This summer, the search giant is set to deploy bikes mounted with 360-degree cameras to map areas of the UK inaccessible by its Street View cars

Some of the design changes that are part of the upcoming search-engine revamp are now in limited public testing, the software giant has confirmed

MP: Internet 'too fast for legislation'

Community action as well as international law enforcement is necessary to police the internet, MP Alun Michael told ZDNet UK at the Infosecurity Europe 2009 event in London

OS OpenSpace has been opened to companies, charities and other organisations and a professional licence will be available this summer for larger commercial users

France passes controversial antipiracy bill

The 'three-strikes' bill ignores a measure passed by the European Parliament that prohibits EU countries from blocking internet access without a court order

Google Search Options, Google Squared and Rich Snippets will give web searchers new ways to filter results and to add new types of data to the search results themselves

BBC's iPlayer numbers revealed

iPlayer boss Anthony Rose offers a detailed look at the sheer numbers needed for the popular service's hardware, infrastructure and operation

Facebook users have been hit by a second phase of phishing attacks from last week, but this time the spam link leads to a site hosting malware instead of stealing passwords

Microsoft's chief aims to 'disrupt' search race

The company's chief executive Steve Ballmer says that while the company has limited funds to chase rival Google, it can bolster its search with new content creators