Drops 60s psychedelia API Mozilla has released a fifth Firefox 4 beta, offering graphics hardware acceleration on Windows and a new API that lets site developers code pages that visually display audio data inside the browser.…

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Firefox 4 beta gets hard on Windows

‘We don’t want him. But you can’t have him’ Hewlett-Packard has sued disgraced former chief executive Mark Hurd in an effort to stop him from joining Oracle.…

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HP sues Hurd to keep secrets from Ellison

We keep Highfield, you can have Danker The cross-pollination of Microsoft and the BBC’s iPlayer continued yesterday, with Auntie confirming it had hired Redmond’s IPTV platform Mediaroom and Zune wonk.…

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Microsoft bod scoots over to BBC iPlayer job

Hotspot finder available to Total Broadband customers BT has launched an iPhone and Android app for its Total Broadband customers that seeks out and connects to BT Wi-Fi hotspots.

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BT gives iPhone & Android users free hotspot access

What a balls-up Google’s latest animated logo on its search homepage has caused a kerfuffle among many surfers whose CPU has been besieged by the ballsy doodle .…

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Google’s fancy-pants doodle sucks up CPU

Skywriter goes Javascript Mozilla’s Bespin project – an open source effort to build a web-based code editor – has been rechristened Skywriter, and its official repository has been moved to GitHub so that developers can more easily fork the project.…

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Mozilla ‘cloud’ code editor breaks with Lando Calrissian

URL shortening shenanigans Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.…

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MS probes mystery IE bug

What can be done better in the cloud and can it really be safer than hosting on-site?

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Security think tank: Value added cloud security services

From your HDTV to your smartphone, PC and more These days, most of your electronics have miniature computers built-in. Whether it’s home-theatre systems, handheld devices and phones, or even any appliance that has a microprocessor, memory, and software. And just like computer software, firmware – the software that runs on your gadgets – needs periodic updating.

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How to update firmware on PCs and peripherals

From productivity tools to games Apple’s iTunes Store has thousands of apps. But you don’t need to spend hours looking for the best productivity tools, utilities, and games for your iPhone.

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The 18 Best iPhone Apps