Articles Posted on 24 October 2008
Teenager Caused Apple Shares To Crash After Fake Steve Jobs Story
News Hardware
According to Bloomberg news, the fake news story about Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs suffering a heart attack was submitted to CNN’s user generated news website, was actually posted by a teenager. Apple’s...
Russian Authorities Block Google's Acquisition of Zao Ebgun
News Software
Russian antitrust authorities have halted the procedure of Google’s acquisition of Zao Begun, a Rambler Media owned online advertising company. The acquisition agreement worth USD 140 million was penned in July this...
Google Launches Gmail Mobile 2.0 For Blackberry and J2ME devices
News Mobile & Telco
Google has revamped its Gmail mobile offering by introducing a new version 2.0 of the application. Primarily designed for J2ME-supported platforms and Blackberry devices, the new version boasts of extensive support for...
Analysis of German VOIP attack
News Security
VOIP security is an issue, but it is often overhyped (and often, misunderstood). However, “security breaches” in this area should be analyzed carefully to understand the potential issues as VOIP is rapidly...
3 Bundles Comes With Music with Nokia N95 For £35 Per Month
News Mobile & Telco
UK’s prominent telecom service provider, 3 Mobile will be offering Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service on Nokia N95 8GB. The scheme is expected to be launched on 3rd November with the “Comes...
IWF Launches Hotline To Tackle Child Abuse Online
News Security
As many as three-quarters of web users from UK, who often “stumble across” content and images of online child sex abuse do not know how and where to report it, says a recent survey. According to a recent poll...
Microsoft Appears To Be Recession Proof As Revenues Rise
News Software
Amidst the ongoing credit crunch, the software behemoth Microsoft has managed to report impressive gains in both sales and earnings in its financial results for the first quarter of this year. Microsoft’s revenues...
Ebay Buyer In Legal Trouble After Leaving Negative Feedback
News Software
Chris Read, a 42-year old mechanic from Herne Bay is likely to face a lawsuit after he sent negative feedback comments on the popular auction website, eBay. Read stated that he was stunned to receive legal papers saying that he...
Symbian Foundation Poaches Lee Williams From Nokia To Become Its Director
News Mobile & Telco
Lee Williams, the current chief of Nokia’s S60 organisation, has been appointed as Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, by the board comprising of 10 founding members of the Foundation. All the 10 founding members...
Amazon Makes EC2 for Windows Public, Guarantees 99.95 uptime
News Hardware
In a bid to enhance its appeal to big business users, Amazon has made a couple of crucial changes in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) module. To start with the company has launched the public beta version of EC2 that...
Sun Co-founder Joins New Networking Startup Company
News Hardware
Arista Networks, a networking start-up firm, has reportedly snared some of the top officials from major networking giants, Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems Inc. The start-up company will compete against Cisco Systems and...
New Zealand super-hacker accomplice jailed
News Security
Interesting to read that an American who helped Kiwi superhacker Owen Walker launch an electronic attack on an Internet server, has been given 90 days in clink and five years of probation.According to the Philadelphia Inquirer,...
India's Mumbai WiFi networks wide open says report
News Security
Whilst insecure WiFi access points are increasingly becoming a rareity here in the UK, it seems that Indian networks are still wide open.According to a study by Deloitte in Mumbai, as many as 88 per cent of WiFi networks in the...
Three Apps Marketplaces Launched On Time For Forthcoming Android Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
The first smartphone featuring Google’s “Android” platform, the HTC G1, was unleashed over the T-Mobile network on Tuesday. In addition to the smartphone, Google has also rolled out its application...
Microsoft Pushes Emergency Security Patch To Solve Remote Execution Vulnerability
News Security
Microsoft has released an “out of band” security patch, aimed at fixing a critical vulnerability in almost all versions of Windows and Windows Server. Researchers at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Centre...
£176.24 Acer Aspire T180 AMD, Dual Core PC with Vista
News Software
The Aspire T180 gives you all you need for high-level work and entertainment. The Aspire T180 a wise investment in your family's future. The Aspire T180 is a strong performing AMD Turion Dual Core based mini tower desktop, ideal...
£98.69 Xerox Phaser 6125V/N Colour Laser Printer with FREE CMY Toner Offer
News Hardware
Xerox makes colour the easy choice with refreshing office-friendly, value-packed Phaser 6125. It is a compact printing solution powerful enough to handle all of your office printing demands with ease. The Phaser 6125...
£499.99 Toshiba Protege M700-110 Tablet
News Software
When the rules change, you can too with the performance and versatility of the Portege M700 Tablet PC with a diagonal widescreen LED Backlit Display with digital pen support, touch capability and anti-glare display for...
