No iPhone buzz for fans at Apple's last Macworld show

First among equals

Bob Muglia's New-Year ascension from "vice" to full "president" of Microsoft's server and tools business is an important milestone in the company's online transition.…

Apple has announced at Macworld that music on its iTunes store will now be DRM free.

Sales of videogame software and hardware in the UK hit an all time high, figures from the industry trade body show.

Banking on Nehalem

Motherboard and server maker Super Micro Computer said today it was not going to make its expected numbers for its fiscal second quarter ended December 31. The economic meltdown is the culprit - of course. But the good news is that Super Micro says that business picked up in December - just not enough to offset a bad November.…

Software as a (dis)service

Exposing the dark side of cloud computing, Salesforce.com suffered an outage that locked more than 900,000 subscribers out of crucial applications and data needed to transact business with customers.…

Jobs-free keynote fails to inspire

Macworld Expo In one of the least eventful keynote speeches in recent memory, Apple's SVP Phil Schiller, filling in for the ailing Steve Jobs, announced upgrades to iLife and iWork, an upgraded 17-inch MacBook, and iTunes Store pricing-structure changes and DRM-removal plans.…

Sanity check 09?

Besides providing some of the biggest technical innovation of 2008, the cloud also wins the award for most amorphous product definition. Few people define "the cloud" or "cloud computing" the same way, leading to market noise and a wealth of misinformation.…

Answers AT&T, Wal-Mart

Following in the footsteps of AT&T, US electronics retailer Best Buy is now selling resurrected Jesus Phones at a discount.…

The perils of open source

One of the side effects of Adobe Systems releasing code under open-source, the company said last year, has been to let competitors into its Rich Internet Applications (RIA) back yard.…

Macs to join PCs in the cloud

Macworld Expo Microsoft has announced two products designed to provide users of Office 2008 for Mac with improved access to existing server-based Microsoft services.…

Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms

Chipmaker joins HP in Atom challenge

AMD has mushed out its new 'Yukon' mobile platform today, which is set to indirectly compete with Intel's Atom platform in slim, low-cost portable PCs.…

Tipping point approaches?

SanDisk has announced new netbook and USB thumb drive flash products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.…

Stars align for services buy

Comment Back in December 2007, a confident GlassHouse Technologies, sensing good prospects in its services and consulting area, filed for an IPO. In the spring of 2008, it entered a strategic partnership with Dell, made another acquisition - and then the recession happened. The company has started firing people as it cuts costs and drives towards profitability in the words of Curtis Preston, one of the world's most influential bloggers about backup technologies and procedures. What is going on?…

Watch films whilst typing emails

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes. But are two laptop screens better than one? Well, if you want to find out then your pockets had better be deep because the price of Lenovo’s dual-screen ThinkPad has now been confirmed.…

I'll be your email mirror

Silicon Valley startup Xobni, which develops MS Outlook plug-ins, has raised a $7m series B round of funding led by network giant Cisco.…

Hello? I'm on the trolley

England is catching up with Scotland and Wales in liberalising mobile phone use in hospitals, a mere five years after it was established that such use didn't present a significant risk to medical equipment.…

A man appears in court charged with the murder of his wife at their home in Hull on Christmas Day.

Cameron to do what civil servants decide

David Cameron has pledged that a Conservative government would seek connections to high speed broadband networks for all parts of the country within ten years.…

Had to happen Soonr or latr

2009 will finally see Microsoft Office documents arrive on the iPhone, it seems, with Soonr allowing access to documents stored in the cloud while QuickOffice makes good on its promise of local editing.…