Articles Posted on 11 November 2008
Speed Camera Detector Brings Social Networking To Drivers
News Security
The Novus Mini Coyote is a tiny GPS device that informs drivers of the location of camera or other law enforcement devices should another Mini Coyote owner press a button on their unit within 10 seconds. In effect, you have to...
Virgin Media To Cull 2200 Jobs by 2012
News Consumer
British Cable company Virgin has announced that it will be eliminating 2,200 jobs in the next three years as part of a restructuring process which should improve the prospects of the company. The move should save the company up...
Google Phone Bill of Material Only $144 - Cheaper than iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
Research firm iSuppli, reports that the Google Phone Bill of material reaches $143.89. That compares with $174.33 for Apple's iPhone 3G which Apple sells for $199. The Android-based wireless handset was virtually torn down by...
Podcast : Most people do not think about negative functionality in Security
News Security
Ben Chai speaks with Robert Rachwald, Director of Product marketing, from Fortify on the complex issue of Security Software Assurance and how it has morphed into a discipline involving people and processes. Rob is a 10-year...
Google CEO Says No To Obama CTO Post
News Mobile & Telco
Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt took his name out of the list of potential candidates, who can assume the role of US Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a post created by the President-elect Barack Obama to look after the...
Beta Version of Opera Mini 4.2 Browser Available For Download
News Web
Norwegian developer Opera has just released the latest beta version of its eponymous browser, Opera 4.2 mini, which it hopes will allow it to compete more efficiently with the likes of the soon-to-be released Mobile Firefox...
HP New Procurve Range Takes On Cisco With The Help of Colubris Networks
News Hardware
HP ProCurve on Monday announced the integration of the entire product range of Colubris Networks, a company acquired by HP recently, into its erstwhile ProCurve networking services, while introducing its new 802.11n wireless...
Ballmer Confirms Windows Mobile 6.5 in 2009
News Consumer
Speaking at the occasion of Australian telecoms firm Telstra’s annual investment day, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer stated that the company would soon release its Windows Mobile 6.5 platform. Ballmer said in a...
Dell Partners With Seagate And McAfee On Full Disk Encryption
News Hardware
Addressing the soaring issue of data losses due to notebook thefts, Seagate, McAfee and Dell on Monday collaboratively announced a series of data encryption solutions, including software management systems and self-encrypting...
Youtube Bags Deal With X-factor Producer, FremantleMedia
News Security
Youtube has signed an agreement with Fremantlemedia to distribute its content and share advertising revenues generated by the Youtube channels on the video website. Fremantlemedia produces a number of well known and popular...
Dell Not Keen On iPod Rival But Doesn't Rule Out iTunes Competitor
News Software
Putting an end to rumours, Dell has reportedly shrugged off its plans of releasing a digital music player for the holiday shopping season, the company declared through one of its blog post. The company quashed the apparent...
VMWare Brings Virtualisation To Mobile Phones
News Hardware
After providing virtualisation servers and clients to the industry, VMware is all set to extend its virtualisation technology to smartphones, with the announcement of Mobile Virtualisation Platform (MVP) on Monday. The...
£199.74 HP 2133 Mini Note netbook 8.9" 120GB Linux
News Mobile & Telco
It might be small in size but its big on usability, durability, and attractiveness. Packed with an impressive combination of features, the HP 2133 offers you a full-function PC with the utmost mobility. Plus, its simple, refined...
£449.10 HP G70-100 - Dual Core laptop, 17-inch LCD, 3GB, 250GB HDD
News Hardware
The HP G70-100 combines essential features, attractive design and quality to put the versatility and productivity of notebook computing within your reach and offers a full size keyboard with numeric key pad. Sleek and stylish by...
Facebook Attracts Nigerian Scammers Posing As African Friends
News Security
Facebook users are being warned about a new type of cyber conmen operating on the popular social networking website who try to extract money from users by hijacking users accounts and asking for money. Their modus operandi...
European Commission Puts Plans for Super Telecom Regulator On Hold
News Mobile & Telco
It seems that the European Commission has dumped its ambitious plans to create a US-FCC style telecom watchdog for the EU member states following disagreement from lawmakers over the move. The commission said in a statement,...
Google Mends Android Vulnerability
News Mobile & Telco
Google has come up with a security patch to fix the jailbreaking bug discovered in its Android platform that powers T-Mobile’s G1 handset, which allowed hackers to execute anything entered via text messages. According to...
£1029 Dell XPS 1530 Deal, Expires Tonight!
News Software
Stand out from the crowd with an innovatively-designed, fully-featured 15.4" widescreen laptop that is jam-packed with cool entertainment goodies. The Intel Core 2 Duo is optimized for processor-intensive multimedia and...
£749 Dell XPS 420 Deal, Expires Tonight!
News Hardware
High Definition heaven PC with an eye-popping 23" widescreen flat panel combined with Blu-ray, all for only £749 direct from Dell. Turn your XPS 420 into a command center for Hi-Def entertainment. Watch HDTV on your system...
Patent policy to be investigated by US regulator
News Security
US consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will examine the market for patents to outline to industry the implications of recent legal changes which, it says, are "poorly understood". The FTC, which enforces the...
