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Articles Posted on 22 August 2008

American Airlines gets ready for in-flight WiFi

American Airlines gets ready for in-flight WiFi

News Security

After a stack of trials, it seems we're about to get a commercial WiFi service on board a plane, as American Airlines has announced it is has launched its first service on 15 of its domestic US fleet.The service is being offered...


British law firms revs up for file-sharing prosecutions

British law firms revs up for file-sharing prosecutions

News Security

Although most of the newswires seem to have overlooked it, it seems that a group of gaming software firms, including Atari, Codemasters and Topware Interactive, have hired Davenport Lyons, a UK law firm, to start proceedings...


Apple Unleashed Its White iPhone For UK Users

Apple Unleashed Its White iPhone For UK Users

News Consumer

The style quotient of iPhone just went a step further with Apple rolling out its White iPhone for UK users today.Apple authorised dealer Carphone Warehouse will be selling the white iPhone from the 22nd August. The...


Apple Claims That It’s Recent Updates Improve Reception Strength

Apple Claims That It’s Recent Updates Improve Reception Strength

News Consumer

Apple’s new update, iPhone OS 2.0.2 3G Fix, which is said to deliver “improved communication with 3G networks”, has received mixed responses from the users.The iPhone is facing 3G connection irregularities since...


Apple Agrees To Replace Defective iPod Nano Batteries

Apple Agrees To Replace Defective iPod Nano Batteries

News Hardware

Apple has agreed to replace the defective batteries of its Nano iPod in Japan, after the government’s proclamation about potential hazards due to faulty iPod batteries. Prior to this, Japanese government had already noticed...


Microsoft’s Photosynth Collapses Due To Huge Traffic

Microsoft’s Photosynth Collapses Due To Huge Traffic

News Security

Microsoft’s 3D photo stitching website, Photosynth, has received a mammoth response on its very day of launch.The website has remained offline for most of the time on its launch day, owing to massive traffic hitting the...


Robots Will Overtake Human Intelligence By 2050, Says Intel

Robots Will Overtake Human Intelligence By 2050, Says Intel

News Hardware

The recent Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, has exhibited some of the astonishing frontier technologies to the world, including wireless power transfer and internet on TV, and now Intel’s researchers have...


Intel Displays Wireless Transfer Of Electric Power

Intel Displays Wireless Transfer Of Electric Power

News Hardware

Intel has demonstrated its capability of transferring power wirelessly, in its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco.The chip giant has showed the glimpse of future, when we need not to get entangled into plexus of wires for...


American Airlines Introduces In Flight Broadband Service

American Airlines Introduces In Flight Broadband Service

News Mobile & Telco

Flying transcontinental in the US has just got better with American Airlines launching broadband services in their Boeing 767-200, a fleet of 15 airplanes.The users would be able to access the broadband services as soon as their...


Apple Faces Legal Action Over iPhone 3G Reception Anomalies

Apple Faces Legal Action Over iPhone 3G Reception Anomalies

News Hardware

A woman from Alabama has filed a lawsuit against Apple, for not keeping the promise of delivering high speed data transfer.Apple’s 3G iPhone advertisement depicts that the device deliver ‘twice as much’ the...


Palm Treo Pro Looks Heavy On Pocket?

Palm Treo Pro Looks Heavy On Pocket?

News Mobile & Telco

Palm has introduced its new version of smartphone, Palm Treo Pro, to lure the business segment.Although the device is fully loaded with several advanced features, there are some issues that may impede the sales of the device in...


Jerry Seinfeld To Join Microsoft’s USD300 Million Ad Campaign

Jerry Seinfeld To Join Microsoft’s USD300 Million Ad Campaign

News Software

It seems that Microsoft has finally got the right man to counter the Apple’s famous “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” advert, in the guise of renowned comic star Jerry Seinfeld.Seinfeld would become a part of...


Seen in the wild: Spam using swf files to avoid detection

Seen in the wild: Spam using swf files to avoid detection

News Security

Dissasembled, the output is actually this movie 'spammed.swf' compressed // flash 6, total frames: 136, frame rate: 12 fps, 1x1 px // unknown tag 88 length 78 frame 14 getURL hxxp://moyapodruzhka....


Isn't this kind of click fraud?

Isn't this kind of click fraud?

News Security

Marketing uber-guru Seth Godin blogs:Ads are the new online tip jar"I never click on ads."It's almost a badge of honor to say that. The subtext is, "I'm too smart/busy to waste my time doing that," or perhaps,...


Document Management: Know your way out of the maze

Document Management: Know your way out of the maze

News Hardware

The vendor community should consider how to differentiate their document management technology and service provision for the channel. There are a core set of functions that each and every vendor has to have within their offering...


Gold'en Rant : Don't Let The Cashback Monster Eat Your Cookies

Gold'en Rant : Don't Let The Cashback Monster Eat Your Cookies

News Security

Cashback sites. Easy money. These are sites like Cashback Kings and Quidco which `introduce' you to third-party Web sites for mundane items such as car and home insurance - just about anything you buy on the Web, in fact. And in...


Remote Server Monitoring : The key to Service Resilience

Remote Server Monitoring : The key to Service Resilience

News Hardware

“The servers down!” These dreaded words have spelt doom and despair for many organisations, no e-mail, no data, no-one can work! The entire business can grind to a complete halt in a matter of minutes, and then it can...

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