FontGear, the developer of FontDoctor, FontXChange and FontVista, has released its first tool for font identification. Designers are often faced with printed or digital images containing text in an unknown font, so being able to identify these could eliminate hours

Growth, but only justSAN vendor Compellent recorded its 15th consecutive quarter of growth, but only just, with revenues up 2.3 per cent sequentially for its second 2009 quarter....

Your input invited for audacious upper-atmosphere missionIt's official: We here at the Vulture Central Science Bureau have had enough of writing about space shuttles, orbiting Japanese laboratories and Chinese taikonauts, when the best the UK's space programme can offer is

Recovery threatened by red tapeThe British Chamber of Commerce has written to Lord Mandelson, asking him to delay changes to temporary workers' rights which they fear will cost the UK economy as much as £1.5bn a year....

High Court threat for 'recklessly' publishing addressExclusive A woman who passed national security information to UK authorities spent six months in fear for her life, after Tiscali published her phone number and address in public directories, despite repeated requests to

Shipments in the second half of the year', claims execIntel has rejected recent reports that the launch of its next-generation Pine Trail chips will be delayed....

Diligently developing DiligentIBM is adding replication to its ProtecTIER deduplication product, which it acquired by buying Diligent in April 2008....

Set bug panic meters to 'important'Intel has warned that some of its motherboards contain a flaw in their BIOS setup that creates a privilege escalation vulnerability....

Silverligtht a no-showUpdated Microsoft plans to launch an online TV player in the UK next week, which serves up telly shows long after they've aired on the box....

Hi-res display netbook, anyone?Review Dell's cheap and cheerful is a firm favourite here at Vulture Central but some potential customers are doubtless more interested in capability and functionality rather than absolute economy. So, with that in mind, we thought it

For those about to NamorokaMozilla is instructing developers to go back to school in readiness for the changes that will come in Firefox 3.6, and helpfully it's published a new guide detailing the latest tweaks....

Everything is fine! Even when it's notO2 seems to have picked up more than the iPhone from Apple - the operator has also been taking lessons in how to ignore press enquires and stonewall its customers....

419ers go back to the telexThe lads from Lagos, and lots of other more deserving folk, have lost all internet access, thanks to the failure of a submarine cable linking West Africa to Spain and Portugal....

Nintendo's profits slip as Sony drops into the redSales of Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 have experienced sharp declines during the last three months, both firms' first quarter financial reports have revealed....

Bloody British, they all look the sameHome Secretary Alan Johnson has shown off the design for the national ID card for British citizens....

Team Elite: Mission ImplausibleHackers have uncovered information security shortcomings involving MI5's website, even though the problem is nowhere near as severe as one tabloid paper claims....

It's not Wayne's World, it's mineGlobal Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) has broken its silence about the planned acquisition of notorious BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, by saying it expects the deal to complete on 27 August....

Taking the business view of metricsIT has undergone a major development in the last few years, namely the acknowledgment that end users have little or no interest in how the application or service is delivered to them - so long

It's all a question of synchronicity, darlingMozilla Labs has pushed out a new version of a prototype app that syncs up the "Firefox experience" across multiple browsers....

Sky confirms 2010 launch for 3D TVBroadcaster Sky has confirmed plans to launch the UK's first 3D TV channel in 2010....