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Articles Posted on 12 November 2008

Google Earth Cracks 4th Dimension, Brings Back Ancient Rome

Google Earth Cracks 4th Dimension, Brings Back Ancient Rome

News Hardware

Google has managed to reconstruct ancient Rome with the help of Past Perfect Productions, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia) through Google Earth. The much appreciated...


Carphone Warehouse Says Linux Webbook Is Unpopular, Disappears from CW

Carphone Warehouse Says Linux Webbook Is Unpopular, Disappears from CW

News Software

High Street Retailer Carphone Warehouse has confirmed that it will no longer sell its popular Elonex Webbook Netbook with Ubuntu Operating system after experiencing high level of customer returns. These returns - which amounted...


Son of Asbestos : How Nanomaterials Could Harm You

Son of Asbestos : How Nanomaterials Could Harm You

News Security

Like asbestos in the last century, Nanomaterials have been hailed as a "miracle" substance and found their way in anything from beauty creams to clothing but experts are now saying that its effect on the nation's health could...


Apple To Position iPhone/iPod Touch as Nintendo DS/PSP Competitor

Apple To Position iPhone/iPod Touch as Nintendo DS/PSP Competitor

News Mobile & Telco

The traditional gaming triumvirate could soon welcome a fourth actor if Apple's plans go as prepared and could succeed where Nokia has had limited success with its N-Gage platform. In an interview to T3, Greg Joswiak, Apple's VP...


ISPs Face Growing Threat From Massive DDoS attacks

ISPs Face Growing Threat From Massive DDoS attacks

News Security

A recent survey by Arbor Networks has revealed that internet companies across the globe are facing serious security threats, owing to sophisticated and large-scale malicious attacks. The fourth edition of the survey, dubbed as...


Nokia Brings In £163 E63 Smartphone To Take On Blackberry Bold et Al

Nokia Brings In £163 E63 Smartphone To Take On Blackberry Bold et Al

News Business & Government

Nokia's newcomer smartphone, the E63, squarely aims at a business audience with its Blackberry-esque profile but comes at a price that should keep corporate users happy. At Eur 199 - roughly £160, it is significantly...


AVG Removes Vital Windows Core Component

AVG Removes Vital Windows Core Component

News Security

A recent security update from antivirus firm AVG Technologies has caused a fuss on the web, after some users deleted a core Windows file, which was mistakenly identified as a Trojan by the update. The company stated that the...


HTC releases Fuze, the Android Phone With Windows Mobile

HTC releases Fuze, the Android Phone With Windows Mobile

News Mobile & Telco

In a bid to take on T-Mobile’s G1 handset, AT&T has rolled out its new touch screen smartphone, HTC Fuze, which is fully loaded with a bunch of remarkable features to sway the professional segment.  The stylish...


Orange Reduces French iPhone Prices, UK Next?

Orange Reduces French iPhone Prices, UK Next?

News Mobile & Telco

Orange will reduce the price of its iPhone 3G from 149 Euros to 99 Euros between the 13/11/2008 and the 14/01/2009 to make the most of the forthcoming festive season, prompting rumours that the move might spread out to other...


Three Ways to Reduce Data Protection Costs in the Enterprise

Three Ways to Reduce Data Protection Costs in the Enterprise

News Hardware

1. Invest in an enterprise-class deduplication solution An enterprise-class solution is built to backup, deduplicate, and restore terabytes or even petabytes of backup data in a single system. They deduplicate across all of the...


Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Windows Vulnerabilities

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Windows Vulnerabilities

News Security

Microsoft has released its November 2008 security patch which includes two bulletins for fixing crucial vulnerabilities in Windows and Office applications, out of which one is dubbed as “critical” whereas the other...


Google Introduces Video and Audio Chat To Gmail, Aims At Skype

Google Introduces Video and Audio Chat To Gmail, Aims At Skype

News Mobile & Telco

Google has spruced up offerings of Gmail, by integrating easy to install and use, video and voice chat capabilities to its email application. The new application from Gmail, dubbed as ‘Gmail Video and Voice’, differs...


£527.55 Lenovo SL500 laptop with 30-days Wireless Vodafone Broadband

£527.55 Lenovo SL500 laptop with 30-days Wireless Vodafone Broadband

News Mobile & Telco

Like its Mercedes-Benz counterpart, there are quite a few features that set the SL500 apart from the traditional laptop.For one, it comes with a 15.4-inch LED backlit display which means a better lit screen with an improved...


Sansa's New 8GB SansaClip More Than A Match For Apple's iPod

Sansa's New 8GB SansaClip More Than A Match For Apple's iPod

News Hardware

Memory specialist Sandisk has just announced the release of an 8GB version of its popular Sansa Clip which should provide Apple's iconic iPod range with some welcomed competition. The device, which has four times the storage...


Online Shopping in Q4 2008 expected To Rise by 15%

Online Shopping in Q4 2008 expected To Rise by 15%

News Hardware

Despite the ongoing downturn in economy, online retailers could expect a bit of relief during the end of the year, if forecasts of a 15 percent rise in online spending by UK shoppers made in a recent study comes...


£279 eMachine E520 M575 1GB 160GB 15.4" Laptop

£279 eMachine E520 M575 1GB 160GB 15.4" Laptop

News Mobile & Telco

Looking for a cheap and cheerful laptop? Look no further than the emachine E520 which costs no more than £279 at Tesco Direct. eMachine is a brand popular in the US and has been purchased by Acer. This laptop comes with...


80 percent of UK Web Users Suffer from Information Overload

80 percent of UK Web Users Suffer from Information Overload

News Security

Eight out of ten web users in UK claim that they suffer from information overload while dealing with huge amount of data flooding in via the internet, a recent study from Yahoo revealed.  The research study, dubbed as...


Vodafone Plans £1bn-a-year Cost Cutting Exercises

Vodafone Plans £1bn-a-year Cost Cutting Exercises

News Mobile & Telco

In an attempt to beat the intense competition and current economic turmoil, UK’s mobile phone giant, Vodafone, has announced cost-cutting plans worth GBP 1billion, which could lead to massive job-cuts, in next three years....


£535.76 Buffalo Terastation Live 2.0TB 7200RPM NAS

£535.76 Buffalo Terastation Live 2.0TB 7200RPM NAS

News Hardware

Buffalo's TeraStation Live Multimedia Storage Server NAS offers powerful DLNA Certified multimedia server solutions for both the SMB and consumer markets.  Combining a heavy-duty power supply and cooling system, quick-swap...


Phones 4U agrees to end unfair practices after Ofcom investigation

Phones 4U agrees to end unfair practices after Ofcom investigation

News Mobile & Telco

Phone retailer Phones 4U did not respect consumers' rights and engaged in mis-selling, telecoms regulator Ofcom has said. Phones 4U has said that it has changed a number of its practices in the aftermath of a six-month...

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