Price Check: Photo printers under ?200

As ever digital cameras were one of the must-have gifts this Christmas, but if you're stuck with an ageing inkjet then your prints will do your photographic skills no favours. Still, there are plenty of dedicated photo printers out there to take up the task. For example, for as little as ?38. ...more

Firefox 1.1 delayed until June

The next point release of the open source browser Firefox is now dated for June. However the developers insist that the delay is 'normal' and has nothing to do with the recent movement of programmers to Google. According to Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger - in the news recently by taking a job with Google - the anticipated March release of version 1. ...more

Yahoo follows Motorola - announcing losses, cutting jobs

Yahoo! met analysts' low expectations with its announcement of first quarter earnings, but followed up with plans to lay off over 3,500 workers. The company reported a loss of $11.5 million for this quarter, which is 2 cents a share, when this time a year ago it was announcing a net income of $67. ...more

Blackberry maker faces new lawsuit

The makers of the Blackberry are being sued over an alleged infringement of a patent on text input. Specifically, US company Eatoni Ergonomics claims that the Blackberry 7100's predictive texting technology, SureType, infringes the patent that it registered to protect its own predictive technologies: LetterWise and WordWise. The patent, Eatoni claims, covers the deployment of predictive text using a keyboard on a mobile device although the wording is not quite so precise. ...more

Cash for votes

$74,000 was spent per voter by the Pentagon on giving overseas soldiers the ability to vote online in the last Presidential elections. $6.2m was poured into the experiment, but that age-old problem that has haunted the US elections for decades reared its ugly head: apathy. ...more