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December 30
- Nuance acquires SpinVox for $102.5 million
December 24
- IT PRO's Year in Review
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 review: first look
- Year in Review: Public Sector in 2009
- Year in Review: Security in 2009
- Year in Review: Servers, storage and networking in 2009
- Year in Review: Software and desktops in 2009
- Year in Review: Industry and the economy in 2009
- Year in Review: Tech mergers and acquisitions in 2009
- Year in Review: Mobile in 2009
- Netbook revenues shoot up by 72 per cent
- Six months free broadband from Sky
December 23
- Dell Adamo XPS review: first look
- Red Hat's revenues rocket
- Packard Bell unveils multi-touch swivel laptop
- BT breaks five million broadband customers landmark
- Q&A: Vodafone’s Peter Kelly on the iPhone for business
December 22
- Mozilla Firefox mobile browser only days from release
- Google reckons open systems win
- Nokia celebrates mobile app innovation
- Illegal music downloads on the rise
- Obama set to announce cyber security czar?
December 21
- O2’s network crashes again
- Visual Studio 2010 delayed by performance issues
- Avaya completes Nortel asset acquisition
- Microsoft sued over Bing trademark
- Intel unveils Pine Trail for netbooks
- MPs accuse Google of tax dodge
- iPhone arrives on Vodafone on 14 January
- Firefox 3.5 tops IE7 as most popular browser
December 18
- MPs say e-borders system illegal under EU treaty
- Reviews round-up: Budget routers, N97 Mini and N900
- Mark Shuttleworth to step down as Canonical head
- Nokia Booklet 3G will cost £650
- Privacy groups take legal action against Facebook
- Week in Review: Windows Mobile 7 delayed again
- iPhone overtakes Windows Mobile handsets in the US
- Top 5 Android, BlackBerry and iPhone apps
- Oracle boasts quarterly rise in earnings
- T-Mobile and Orange resist UK competition inquiry
- Intel to unveil 17 new processors in January
- Twitter hit by 'Iranian Cyber Army' attack
December 17
- 'Sex' makes list of top search terms for children
- Channel 4 and TalkTalk join Project Canvas
- Ofcom delivers mixed verdict on UK broadband
- Orange maps UK's future connectivity hotspots
- Mobile coverage a concern for Ofcom
- Adobe zero-day patch won't arrive until 12 January
December 16
- Toshiba launches largest NAND flash module
- Green Grid: Companies aren't monitoring data centre energy
- Brand-Rex severs relationship with Mayflex
- Facebook and Google are most wanted on our mobiles
- EU formally approves Microsoft's browser plan
- Carphone Warehouse first to sell N900
- ID cards spread across North West
- MPs join protesters to show support for McKinnon
- You Tube considers charging subscription fees
- US scientists using Twitter to identify earthquakes
- Q&A: Tony Sale, the man who rebuilt Colossus
- Android App Market reaches 20,000 app milestone
December 15
- Nortel and Verizon launch 100Gbps network
- Motorola planning own app store?
- Sun wins trademark case in UK
- Amazon opens EC2 up to auction-style payments
- Vodafone to sell N900 from next month
- O2 trials LTE in the UK
- New zero-day flaw hits Adobe Acrobat and Reader
- Google counting down the seconds till the new year
- Windows Mobile 7 delayed to late 2010
- Google unveils URL shrinking service
- Dell goes multi-touch with Inspiron One 19, Studio 17
- 'Free Gary' protest hits Home Office at noon
December 14
- Amazon brings its Kindle iPhone app to the UK
- Industry giants combat malaria with tech
- Guardian app for iPhone makes its debut
- EC wants MP3 player volume limit
- Wales wins £44 million for high performance computing
- Google Nexus One phone coming next month?
December 11
- Reviews round-up: Palm's Pixi and SAN tech
- Buyers' guide to Christmas gadgets
- UK ranked third for green IT
- Vodafone tweaks overseas business call rates
- O2 invests £2 million into channel ecosystem
- Fujitsu Services workers vote to strike
- Drivers still using mobiles at the wheel
- Week in Review: Danish cops love Apple
- UK gets new space agency
- Fifth of businesses not happy with their broadband
- Mozilla says Bing's privacy better than Google's
December 10
- Liverpool council votes against ID cards
- EU adds new characters to domain names
- McKinnon files another appeal as extradition looms
- SecureWorks expands UK footprint with dns acquisition
- Samsung unveils bada smartphone platform
- iPhone coming to Tesco next week
- ICO knew about T-Mobile data breach for a year
- Packard Bell recalls laptop batteries over fire fears
December 9
- Broadband tax to be put into Financial Bill
- Emerging markets to push mobile internet users past billion mark
- One in 10 bring own laptop to the office
- Ericsson slashes 946 jobs
- Dell claims to have made $6.5 million from Twitter
- Microsoft already planning Office 15
- Orange launches mobile app shop
- Microsoft releases last patches of the decade
- MultiSense awarded healthcare specialisation by Polycom
December 8
- Google Chrome browser hits Mac and Linux
- Seagate releases its first SSD
- Brown wants most public services offered online only
- Online safety to be taught in schools
- Companies need to deal with social media threat
- Security needs to be a part of innovation
- Botnets to get more intelligent in 2010
- Public libraries to get speedy new networks
- Amazon denies plans to open high street stores
- Google Goggles offer search by sight for Android users
- Facebook users can 'opt out' of Beacon settlement
- Dell unveils cheap ultra-portable Vostro V13
- Google goes real-time with search
December 7
- Twitter previews new mobile web client
- HTC 2010 portfolio leaked online
- Researchers break into Windows encryption feature
- BT grabs multi-million contract for BBC’s new base
- Q&A: Computer Aid founder Tony Roberts
- New tech art exhibition hits the V&A
- Copenhagen police turn to Macs
- Google fears government internet snooping
- Shoppers look to spend big on Cyber Monday
- Government considering cutting NHS IT project
December 4
- Computing museum celebrates history of the internet
- Novell steps up efforts to win back channel
- Retailers geared up for ‘Mega Monday’
- Reviews round-up: Motorola goes Android
- Britons feel 'cut off from the world' without internet
- Adobe software hit again by hackers
- IE flaw fixed for Microsoft’s last patches of 2009
- Week in Review: Google backs off... a bit
- Northern Ireland promises 10Mbps broadband
- Met Police takes down Xmas scam websites
- Google builds its own DNS system
December 3
- Satio patch out but Carphone still not selling
- Nortel deals get court approval
- Businesses warned on mobile call hacking
- BP outsources telecoms to T-Systems
- New code makes Windows 7 vulnerable to hackers
- ECB disk storage market in decline
- BT gives in to planning regs and moves FTTC cabinets
- US government says virtual private networks vulnerable
December 2
- Digital Economy Bill clause riles internet companies and Lords
- Irish websites are safest in Europe
- Search giants unveil top terms of 2009
- BlackBerrys at risk from malicious PDFs
- Google to limit free news on publishers' behalf
- Mobile web surge for Argos on Black Friday
- Facebook drops regions to boost privacy
- Government services should be online-only to up web use
- Darlington appoints Twitterer in residence
- Capital markets finding joy with open source tech
December 1
- No change as MPs debate McKinnon case
- Virgin Media doubles mobile broadband speed
- Competitors could pay for BT’s pension deficit
- Canon unveils PartnerNet portal
- Partnership secures Twitter spam threats
- Extreme Networks honours Westcon
- Microsoft denies 'black screen' accusations
- Government to create own private cloud, app store
- Facebook and YouTube dominate business networks
- Londoners lose 10,000 mobiles in cabs a month