Articles Posted on 17 November 2008
Apple Gets Sued Over Cracked Case and Poor 3G Reception
News Mobile & Telco
Avi Koschitzki, an iPhone user from New York, is, together with three other customers, suing Apple, over hairline cracks that have appeared on their smartphones as well as, what they calls, poor 3G coverage. Koschitzki has filed...
Billionaire Mark Cuban Charged With Illicit Insider Trading
News Business & Government
Self made American Billionaire Mark Cuban has been found guilty by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of insider trading as he sold 600,000 shares of Mamma.com, an internet search company, to avoid a loss of...
Internet shoppers to get duty relief for Christmas
News Security
Internet shoppers who wait until December to look for a Christmas bargain may save more money than they thought when HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) eliminates customs duty on personal purchases costing less that £105. The...
£66 Valve Complete Pack, 22-games Christmas Deal
News Security
Valve is selling all their 22 games through Steam for only $99.99, that's roughly £66. Buying them separately would have cost you $234.81 with the new, soon to be released Left 4 Dead game worth $44.99 on its own. The pack...
UK Online Identities Worth £14,500 To Online Criminals
News Security
A survey conducted by Get Safe Online and backed by Microsoft, SOCA and the Government, showed that the average identity is worth roughly £14,500 to online criminals but can be purchased for as little as £80. The...
Asus Launches The P565, The World's Fastest Business Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
A decade ago, this smartphone could have been the fastest PC on earth; Asus's P565 has a 800MHz CPU, the Marvell TavorP, which also brings back from the dead, the expression "Personal Digital Assistant" or PDA (ed: Remember...
ARM Cosies Up With Adobe, Announces Second Partnership in 24 hours
News Mobile & Telco
Adobe Systems has joined hands with the chip designing firm ARM Holdings to offer better web based services on mobile devices powered by ARM chipsets. This is the second significant announcement by ARM within the last 24 hours,...
Ubuntu's Partnership With ARM To Threaten Intel In Netbook Segment
News Software
Canonical, the company behind popular Open Source operating system, Ubuntu, have announced that they will work more closely with British mobile phone chip designer, ARM. According to the BBC, a version of Ubuntu, specifically...
SpeedUpMyPC 2009
News Hardware
Do you often notice that your PC just doesn't run as smoothly as it used to and you need to speed up your computer? This could be caused by anyone of several problems or a combination of all of them. The problem is, monitoring...
Registry Booster 2009
News Security
Clean, repair, and optimize your system with the leading and award-winning Registry Booster 2009 from Uniblue Registry Booster 2009 is the safest and most trusted solution to clean and optimize your system, free it from registry...
Government Connect : What you need to know
News Security
Many UK Local Authorities and Government Departments planning to use Government Connect are currently investigating the need to record, log, store and retrieve network, file and user based logs on their networks. Join...
Heads Up on Data Leakage Protection
News Security
Since the Cabinet Office released directives for data handling in June 2008, many Government departments have found themselves needing to investigate how to handle logs and offer forensic reporting on data loss. Join...
Papermaster Countersues IBM Over Apple's Job
News Security
Mark Papermaster, who is facing a lawsuit from his former employer IBM after assuming a senior position in Apple last month, has responded by filing a countersuit against the company. Earlier, Papermaster received orders...
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 Only Available To New Customers
News Web
Microsoft has announced the availability of emulators and documentation for the updated browser software Internet Explorer Mobile 6 for its Windows Mobile Platform. Despite the impressive specifications and enhanced speeds...
Virgin Media Customers In Warrington Get Free 50mbps Broadband
News Hardware
Warrington will be among the first towns to use Virgin Media’s fast broadband service, as the company has invited 200 customers from the city to try out its forthcoming 50Mbits/s broadband package for two months at no extra...
Microsoft Helped Intel With Lower "Vista Capable" Specs
News Software
It seems that Microsoft had dropped the requirements of its controversial Microsoft Windows Vista capable program, in order to help Intel to sell older versions of chipsets that were unable to meet the OEM requirements,...
Mirroring for Business Continuity
News Hardware
Offsite mirroring of data on critical IT systems is great! No more loading and unloading of tapes. No more remembering to send tapes offsite and bring them back at the right time. And, depending on the method of mirroring...
Visa's digital credit card could raise legal stakes for competitors
News Mobile & Telco
Visa has introduced a computerised credit card which it hopes will help banks battle fraud. The innovation could force other card issuers and banks to implement similar technology, one data protection expert has said. Four...
