Articles Posted on 03 June 2008
Mobile Internet access on a plane - coming soon
News Security
It looks as though all investment that airlines are making to allow mobile punters to use their phones in the air is going to pay off in terms of giving laptop users access to the Net whilst in flight.Intelsat has announced...
Voice over WiFi over Mobile Broadband - yay!
News Security
Now that founder members of Truphone are no longer able to call landlines in the UK and 40-odd other countries over home, office and outside free-to-use WiFi connections for nuffink, I've started using a SIP client on my Symbian...
Asus, MSI and Others Conspire to Kill The PC Desktop in 2008
News Hardware
The buzz created by the Asus EEE PC could be the best thing that happened to the computer market for quite some time; the glut of beige box has now subsided and instead, we are facing the prospect of using slim, energy efficient,...
Sony Prepares Mini Laptop to Compete With EEE, Wind, Aspire One
News Software
There's a scramble going on as to what company is going to launch the successor to the widely popular Asus EEE PC Laptop; Sony is also reluctantly joining in with an unnamed sub-laptop which is said to be based on the Via...
Asrock X48TurboTwins-WiFi
News Mobile & Telco
After reviewing so many we will find a gem amongst them that makes it a bit better from the rest of the Asrock offering. Today, we have just that board. The introduction of the Intel X48 got great reviews with motherboard that...
Report Urges Small Businesses To Demand For Better Broadband Services
News Business & Government
Although Small and Medium Businesses are relying on broadband connectivity to make their business work, a mind-boggling 90 percent of them would not consider moving to another service provider even when they have connectivity...
Windows Live Messenger to Offer Facebook Services
News Security
Microsoft in a new sign of its increasing closeness with Facebook has added a Facebook Updates tab to its Windows Live Messenger service.With this integration, Live Messenger users in the UK will be able to log into their...
Nvidia Announces Power-Efficient Tegra Chips For MIDs
News Hardware
Graphics chipmaker, Nvidia, announced a series of chips targeting the small, fast devices. With this announcement, the company has joined the ranks of Intel and VIA.The company spokesperson said that the company’s new...
BT Acquires Conferencing Specialists Wire One
News Hardware
BT Conferencing has finally acquired Wire One Holdings from the Gores Group; this acquisition will help increase the customer base of the company and significantly enhance the company’s video conferencing capabilities and...
IBM Rational To Jazz Up Its Products
News Hardware
On June 2, the Rational Software unit of IBM presented 20 products at its IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando that would use the company’s new collaboration technology, Jazz, for development teams having...
Toshiba Plans To Upscale Its DVD Players
News Hardware
Japanese news site, Yomiuri has reported that sources at Toshiba say that the company plans to launch a DVD player that would be able to upscale the SD DVDs to 1080p HD.Although upscaling a standard-definition image to a...
US Pay-TV wars exposed in the news
News Security
Fascinating to read an interview with pay-TV guru and uber-tech-mensch Chris Tarnovsky on the Net following his effective acquittal of being involved in a hacking case against DirecTV.Tarnovsky was accused around five years ago...
DDOS blackmail on the rise in Japan
News Security
According to the Japanese daily paper, the Yomiuri Shimbun - blackmail involving distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are on the rise in Japan.The weekend edition of the paper reports that, once a DDOS attack - usually...
Rising Price of Raw Materials Could Kill Traditional Photography
News Consumer
Kodak's CEO, Antonio Perez, warns that the company might have to raise the price of its photographic paper and chemicals by as much as 20 percent over the forthcoming weeks as the demand for raw materials cause the costs to soar....
Vista Codec Package x64 Components 1.5.0
News Security
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented. It does not contain a media player. It does not associates filetypes. With this...
Mac Pro 8-core 2.8GHz Intel Xeon, only £1499 delivered
News Hardware
Mac Pro completes Apple's transition to Intel processors and offers a system that is up to twice as fast as previous G5 desktop products; and one of the fastest desktop computers on the market. This refurbished Mac Pro is...
SysTools Export Notes 6.5 Build 1508
News Security
SysTools Export Notes is a conversion tool to convert email, address books, calendars, journals, to do list folders of Lotus Notes d`atabase to MS Outlook PST file. Advance NSF to PST tool that supports complete mailbox migration...
Broadband Speeds in London Twice As Fast Than In Northern Ireland
News Mobile & Telco
A survey released by Independent Broadband website Thinkbroadband.com provided with a rare map of Broadband UK; 138,000 speedtests from registered users, representing 6,000 postcodes, were collected over a period of 18 weeks. It...
Google's cash cow may get grilling in European Court of Justice
News Security
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been asked to judge whether a part of the system which offers advertising buyers alternative choices of keywords breaches trade mark laws.A court in France has referred crucial questions...
Google needs link to privacy policy on homepage, say privacy groups
News Security
Google's global privacy chief told OUT-LAW last year that he does not see a need for a link on the search engine's homepage. Today a spokesman for the company maintained that the company's privacy policy is easy to find.The...
virtual storage area network
News Hardware
Ports within a single switch can be partitioned into multiple VSANs, despite sharing hardware resources. Conversely, multiple switches can join a number of ports to form a single VSAN.VSANs were designed by Cisco, modelled after...
XPS One, Dell's answer to the iMac - £1150.33 delivered
News Hardware
Introducing the XPS One. High-def entertainment, XPS performance and simple set-up. A gorgeous machine with abundant possibilities. The Intel Core 2 Duo that powers it is optimised for processor-intensive multimedia and...
