What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2009
Analysis On 16 February, the majority of the mobile industry will gather in Barcelona — expect announcements about netbooks, Android, Windows Mobile, widgets and web standards [13 Feb 2009]
How private lives are being redefined online 
Video At the Digital Lives conference, web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall explains how technology has affected how and why people share information about themselves [13 Feb 2009]
Tech coalition launches sweatshop probe
News The EICC, a tech-industry watchdog, will investigate a human-rights group's allegations of 'dehumanising' conditions in a Chinese keyboard factory that supplies members IBM, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Lenovo [13 Feb 2009]
Rackable's revenue hit by falling sales
News The server maker has reported a fourth-quarter and full-year loss, but says it will invest millions in products and buying back its own stock [13 Feb 2009]
Tech companies submit crypto standard to Oasis
News Seven technology companies have developed a specification that the group hopes will improve encryption-key management interoperability [13 Feb 2009]
Microsoft offers $250k bounty for Downadup arrest
News The software giant is offering a reward for arrest and conviction related to the internet worm that spreads via Windows hole, USB drives and network shares [13 Feb 2009]
Gordon Bell on life through a digital lens
Video 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 [13 Feb 2009]
Researcher warns of Android phone vulnerability
News A researcher has warned users to avoid browsing the web on their Android handsets until a patch is installed [13 Feb 2009]
Apple plugs multiple holes with OS X update
News The company has released the first OS X security update of the year, closing holes that could disclose sensitive information and arbitrarily execute code [13 Feb 2009]
Microsoft to open its own retail stores
News The company says it will open its own line of retail stores and that it has hired a Wal-Mart veteran to lead the effort [13 Feb 2009]
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Home Office expands scope of compulsory ID cards
News More categories of foreign nationals in the UK will be required to provide biometrics and personal details for cards in the scheme [12 Feb 2009]
- Minority Report - Andrew Meredith
- re: compulsory ID cards - azonei
HP's LeftHand aims SAN at smaller firms
News The storage-virtualisation arm of HP is pitching its new storage area network as a lower cost, entry-level system [12 Feb 2009]
EC orders BT to hand over £16.6m
News BT must put money into the UK's pension-protection fund, after the European Commission finds a legacy exemption is 'partially unlawful' [12 Feb 2009]
Hacker site claims third security-firm website breach
News HackersBlog claims to have breached the website of F-Secure, in the latest of a string of attacks on security-firm sites including Kaspersky and BitDefender [12 Feb 2009]
EC warns gov't over Phorm foot-dragging
News The European Commission has said it will take formal action against the UK government unless answers are given to the Commission Phorm probe [12 Feb 2009]
Microsoft researcher stores digital life
Q&A; Senior Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been recording his life for a decade. He talks to ZDnet about the ideas behind the project, what the future holds, and why he wants a database [12 Feb 2009]
Linux Silverlight implementation goes live
News Lead developer Miguel de Icaza has announced the full release of Moonlight 1.0 [12 Feb 2009]
Sun steps up phone ambitions with JavaFX Mobile
News The software and server maker is angling to rejuvenate the mobile-phone version of its Java technology with the release of JavaFX Mobile [12 Feb 2009]
Airlines fear delays from e-Borders surveillance tech
News Plans to begin electronic tracking of every journey into the UK during one of the busiest holiday periods of the year are causing alarm over the possiblity of disruption [12 Feb 2009]
IBM joins with Amazon to further cloud push
News The company has announced plans to deliver its software in the cloud via Amazon's hosted web services [12 Feb 2009]
Windows 7 buzz may stymie Vista adoption
Analysis Plaudits for Windows 7 combined with a weakening economy have made it harder for Microsoft to convince businesses to move to Vista [12 Feb 2009]
Recession will see boom in open source, cloud tech
News Traditional tech vendors may find it hard to stay relevant as companies increasingly turn to alternative technologies during the economic downturn [12 Feb 2009]
DPP McKinnon decision may be delayed
Blog The decision as to whether to prosecute Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK may be pushed back further. On 15 January McKinnon's solicitor, Karen Todner, told me that she had received a fax from... [11 Feb 2009]
EC tackles social networking safety
Blog The European Commission says it has brokered a deal between various social networks, including Facebook, Bebo, YouTube, MySpace and many others, to keep children safer while surfing. This sort... [11 Feb 2009]
Qualcomm builds NFC into mobile chipsets
News The manufacturer is to support the contactless, short-range wireless technology, but analysts warn that near-field communications may struggle to take off soon [11 Feb 2009]
