Articles Posted on 23 September 2008
PICS : T-Mobile, Google and HTC Unleash Android G1 Smartphone; Free on £40+ contracts
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile has finally unveiled the G1 (Google One?), the first Google Android smartphone, built by HTC and available exclusively in the UK through T-Mobile from this forthcoming November. The phone - which will be on sale in the...
T-Mobile G1 Android Smartphone - G for Geek?
News Mobile & Telco
It may be just me, but the launch by T-Mobile of the G1, the first consumer Android handset, was surprisingly downbeat. Perhaps this was down to the number of blog posts who predicted the form factor, look and abilities of this...
Blackberry Bold Unboxed And Handled
News Mobile & Telco
We received our first shipment of the Blackberry Bold Smartphones yesterday and I must admit right out of the box I was impressed. In the past i've found Research In Motion devices to be a little bulky (minus the Pearl series),...
Mayor Boris Wants London To Become Wi-Fi Capital
News Hardware
Boris Johnson wants London to become a Wi-Fi city where internet would be available anywhere; the jibe was apparently in response to today's announcement from Prime Minister Gordon Brown who plans to earmark more than GBP 300...
PC World Jumps On Environment Friendly Bandwagon With Advent Eco PC
News Business & Government
PC World has just released a computer that consumes only 25w, which far less than the average desktop computer and only a fraction of what a traditional filament 60w bulb consumes. Intriguingly, the computer can apparently save...
£599.99 Advent Eco PC complete with Free Delivery
News Hardware
The Advent Eco PC features a unique self cooling design, meaning there's no need for noisy, power-draining fans to regulate the temperature. The Advent Eco PC uses 78% less energy when compared to a standard desktop PC's power...
£340.36 HP 6715s AMD Sempron 3800+ Notebook PC With Windows XP Pro
News Hardware
Save £50 with HP Cash Back Offer when you buy qualifying PCs and accessories. Full promotion details, qualifying products and individual cash back amounts below. Affordably Impressive. Buy Smart. Work Smart. The latest AMD...
UK's Top 5 Mobile Networks Appoint IAB As Trade Body For Mobile Advertising
News Hardware
Coincidence? Just on the day that Google's Android is supposed to be launched, the top five mobile companies in UK have assigned the task of measuring their advertising performance to the Internet Advertising Bureau through a new...
Making Sense of Data : When Context and Relevance Matter Most
News Hardware
Search Engines or, more relevantly, Information Retrieval Engines, both on the web and within internal systems, have proved that they can deliver data– the challenge now is to move from quantity to quality of information...
Comment : Public Sector organisations admit to poor attitudes towards treatment of confidential data
News Security
62% of public sector IT decision-makers are unaware of the possible introduction of data breach notification legislation according to research by Clearswift The security firm has found that public sector organisations are not...
Gordon Brown Wants To Give Free PCs and Broadband To UK's Poorest Families
News Mobile & Telco
In an effort to reduce the existing digital divide prevalent in the country, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched an ambitious bid to provide computer equipment and broadband services to the poorest of the families in UK. ...
Adobe Pushes Creative Suite 4 Out
News Mobile & Telco
Adobe has announced the launch of its popular design software collection, Creative Suite 4 (CS4) which will be available in as many as six different versions. Adobe intends to focus more closely on workflow and integration...
10 Good Reasons Why Android Will Beat Apple's iPhone by Christmas 2009
News Mobile & Telco
While today's launch of T-Mobile's dream is significant, it is only the first handset to come out of the Open Handset Alliance mould and although it gives a good idea of what Android can do, it barely scratches the surface of its...
iPhone Boost With World's First iPhone Games Developer Course
News Security
In what is termed as the first ever iPhone Games Developer course, the Australian multimedia college Qantm plans to offer courses in game design that aim to help students design games specifically tailored towards the iPhone....
Softbank Launches 3G Femtocells In Japan, Brings Superfast Wireless Broadband to Market
News Hardware
SoftBank, a leading telecom operator from Japan, is expected to become the first company in the world to commercially launch 3G femtocells when it starts offering the service from January 2009. Femtocells are essentially wireless...
Comment : Adobe crackers' approach on Clickjacking is positive
News Security
Security Firm Fortify Software says that an informal agreement by the software cracking community to temporarily cease open discussion of the Adobe Clickjacking flaw is a positive move for the IT security industry. ...
Comment : BBC email list leak highlights dangers of mailing lists
News Security
Security consultancy Global Secure Systems (GSS) says this week’s revelations that a BBC mailing list had been hacked and the users on the list spammed with scams and/or computer viruses, highlights the dangers that spam...
Google Releases Bloggers Toolset To Encourage Public Domain Books Integration
News Security
In a move aimed at making books in public domain more accessible, Google has come up with a set of tools that allows people to embed entire books into their web page or blog posts. The initiative is likely to increase the...
Samsung Collaborates With Italian Designer For the Armani 2 Night Effect Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung has come up with a stylish co-branded mobile handset that comes with the Armani tag and is expected to become a big draw amongst the discerning clientele. The newly launched 'Armani 2 Night Effect’...
Site glitches blamed for abandoned shopping carts on the web
News Security
Almost nine out of ten people who try to buy online run into problems, an annual customer survey has found. The research found that those problems can seriously affect businesses, as 41% of customers would abandon transactions...
Comment : Fonts are Intellectual Property too!
News Consumer
In today’s competitive business world, one of the best ways to increase awareness of your company is through an instantly recognisable logo. Once companies have become leaders in their respective fields, a prime way of...
Raw data
News Security
Raw data is a term for unprocessed data, it is also known as primary data. It is a relative term (see data). Raw data can be input to a computer program or used in manual analysis procedures such as gathering statistics from a...
CodecInstaller 2.10.2
News Security
Helps you understand which codec you need and lets you install it in minutes CodecInstaller is here to help you understand which codec you need and to let you install it in minutes. It detects the Audio and Video codecs...
Point of sale
News Mobile & Telco
It is a retail shop, a checkout counter in a shop, or the location where a transaction occurs. More specifically, the point of sale often refers to the hardware and software used for checkouts – the equivalent of an...
Pharming
News Security
It is a hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another, bogus website. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim’s computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS...
Petaflop
News Hardware
In computing, FLOPS (or flops or flop/s) is an acronym meaning FLoating point Operations Per Second. The FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of...
Parallel processing
News Hardware
It is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli. This becomes most important in vision, as the brain divides what it sees into four components: color, motion, form, and depth. These are individually...
Sapphire HD4670
News Hardware
Loaded with the latest features, the ATI Radeon™HD 4600 Series graphics cards deliver a level of gaming performance previously only found in high-end graphics cards. Redefine the way you play HD games and enjoy...
HP 530 Notebook
News Hardware
Who says you can’t have it all? Get the essential elements that add to your productivity, not your budget. The HP 530 Notebook PC offers low-cost computing without compromising mobility. Features -Featuring genuine Windows...
German Net usage is changing people's sex lives
News Security
I was quite intrigued to read in yesterday's Daily Telegraph about how a survey amongst Germans has revealed that porn is changing people's sex lives in ways that could never have been foreseen.Incredibly, researchers at the...
Europe overtakes US in business use of WiFi
News Security
Some interesting stats on business WiFi usage were released this week by iPass, the global Internet roaming service facilitator.According to iPass, during the second quarter of this year, the number of business users of WiFi in...
