Articles Posted on 05 November 2008
Google Abandons Yahoo Ad Partnership Over DoJ Challenge
News Security
Search giant Google has announced that it will dump the internet advertising agreement it had with Yahoo after facing fierce criticisms from customers, rivals and regulators who saw the Google/Yahoo alliance as being resolutely...
LG KF300 Marks Return of "Fashionable" Clamshell Phones At Orange
News Mobile & Telco
LG has released a rather intriguingly looking KF300 clamshell phone which will be available free on Orange contracts starting from £15 per month for a minimum of two years. The handset has a flash-less 2MP digital camera,...
Blizzard of US Presidential malware
News Security
Following on F-Secure’s blog entry today, we’re certainly seeing a fair number of these. Subject lines include: Obama's Win Reshapes the Race USA Election 2008 Results Election Center 2008 - Election Results Election...
Orange Postpones IPTV Roll-out, Hit By BT Vision Competition
News Hardware
Tom Alexander, Orange UK's Chief Executive Office, has told reporters that the company will rethink its strategy behind the introduction of its IPTV service in United Kingdom as the France Telecom owned company said it would...
Five Joins Freesat Platform (but still no offline VoD)
News Consumer
Five is all set to debut on the Freesat platform, the free-to-air digital satellite TV service, on November 18. The addition of Five onto the Freesat platform has bolstered its offerings to compete against some of the big...
Mozilla Firefox Reaches 20 Percent of Browser Market, Introduces Porn Mode
News Software
Firefox, the open source browser, has just reached 20 percent for the first time ever, in its perpetual battle for market share with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. According to Net Applications, which like so many, monitors...
Microsoft Windows 7, A Huge Hit on Bittorrent, Rapidshare
News Hardware
Thousands are flocking to P2P websites and download websites like Rapidshare to download the pre-beta version of Windows 7 that was presented at the recent Professional Developers Conference. Websites like The Pirate bay and...
5 Reasons Obama Is Good For The Tech Industry
News Web
Obama probably understands technology probably better than any of his predecessors at the White House and the fact that he appointed a Chief Technology Officer nearly one year ago showed that he meant business. Although Kevin...
Contractor loses memory stick with Government Gateway
News Security
Another Government contractor lost track of equipment containing citizens' personal data, newspaper reports have revealed. The equipment has been recovered but its loss caused the Government to temporarily shut down the main...
Games Sales Now Bigger Than Combined Music And Video In UK
News Consumer
Gaming has become the main entertainment industry in the UK in terms of revenues for the first time according to a study carried out by Verdict Research. The analyst firm posits that spending on games will defy the current...
Father of iPod Quits Apple, Replaced By Godfather Of PowerPC
News Mobile & Telco
Tony Fadell, Apple’s senior Vice President of iPod division, who incidentally is also dubbed as the father of iPod is quitting the company for some personal reasons. However, Mr. Fadell is resigning from the full time...
No New Mac Products Before 2009 Says Apple
News Hardware
Settling the rising tides of rumours across the blogosphere about Apple launching a range Mac computers, the company stated that it will not be delivering anything new this Christmas. Bill Evans, a spokesperson from Apple,...
Adobe Releases Major Security Patch For Acrobat Reader
News Web
Adobe has released a security patch that is designed to fix eight major security vulnerabilities in its Acrobat PDF Reader application which includes a fix for a flaw that the company was alerted nearly five months...
£29.99 Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Premium Edition
News Hardware
Run multiple versions of Windows, Linux and other operating systems side by side with Mac OS X. Parallels Desktop is the first solution that enables Mac users to run Windows, Linux, and more simultaneously with critical Mac OS X...
£79 LG W1934S-BN 19" TFT Monitor
News Mobile & Telco
The W1934S-BN from LG has a host of great features, including a 19-inch screen, 1440 x 900 resolution and a contrast rate of 700:1 for colourful graphics. The W1934S-BN is ready for action in just 5 ms, and will stay by your...
