Category Archives: Technology News
Mozilla Firefox 4 released
Mozilla has released version 4.0 of its popular browser to its official download page after two Release Candidates found their way to testers earlier this month. Mozilla will be hoping to top their previous Guinness World Record of 8,002,530 downloads … Continue reading
Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 now RTM
The Windows Team Blog the other day has announced that Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 has finally reached RTM. On February 16th, both will be available to current customers of the Windows Volume Licensing program, as … Continue reading
Apple iOS 4.21 released and MobileMe’s Find My iPhone now free
Yesterday Apple released iOS 4.21 for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, the iPod Touch 2nd, 3rd and 4th Generations and the iPad. Get the update now though iTunes. The battery life once again seems to be better on … Continue reading
25 years of Microsoft Windows
Computer World has created a nice article for the 25th birthday of Microsoft Windows. On November 20th 1985 Microsoft released Windows 1.0 and didn’t catch on as well as Microsoft had hoped. It was not until Windows 3.1 which started … Continue reading
Office 2010 now Released to Manufacturing
On Thursday the Microsoft Office blog reported that Office 2010 has reached the RTM milestone. The RTM build will be made available for download on the MSDN and TechNet Subscription download sites on Thursday 22nd. Volume Licence customers with SA … Continue reading
Google Street view UK imagery now complete
I’m not sure when this was completed but I‘ve been made aware that Google’s Street view imagery of the UK has been completed and appears to covers pretty much all of the UK road network. Have a look for your … Continue reading
Windows 7: More than 90 Million Copies Sold
Over on the Windows Team Blog, they have reported that over 90 Million copies of Widows 7 has been sold making Windows 7 the fastest selling Operating System in history.
Virgin Media to offer 100Mbps cable broadband by end of year.
Virgin Media, the UK’s leading internet service provider, today announced it would begin the roll-out of a 100Mb broadband service, the fastest available commercial product in the UK, by the end of 2010. Virgin Media customers will be the first … Continue reading
Microsoft plans to roll out browser ballot screen for Europe
Over the next few weeks starting from next week. Microsoft will be offering a web browser choice ballot screen to Internet Explorer users in Europe. External testing of the choice screen will begin next week in three countries: the United … Continue reading
Windows 7 RC expiration coming soon
Just a heads up that Windows 7 RC will start displaying expiration notices in two weeks and users should reinstall with the RTM release or reinstall a previous version of Windows. Effective February 15, 2010, the expiration notification process begins: … Continue reading