Articles Posted on 03 December 2008
20 Features That Our Gaming Laptop Would Have
News Software
This week, we will be pondering over five different types of laptops with the view of producing five separate templates that we will be pushing on Asus/Intel's Wepc.com soon. The laptop designs are Server Laptop, Gaming...
Amazon Launches UK MP3 Store To Rival Apple's iTunes But Still No Podcast!
News Hardware
After nearly six months of gestation, Amazon has finally released its competitor to Apple's iTunes store, Amazon MP3, which unlike its popular rival is free of any Digital Rights Management scheme. The online retailer offers...
Kangaroo Online VOD Project Dealt Major Blow By Competition Commission
News Mobile & Telco
The competition commission headed by its chairman, Peter Freeman, has hit out at Kangaroo, the online Video on Demand joint venture backed by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, accusing it of undermining competition in the UK...
Nokia Planning To Build Massive Social Network Using Smartphones?
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia is betting that mobile social networking could potentially be bigger than existing web-based social networking as they plan to ship hundreds of millions of mobile phones with Geolocation features in the next 24 months. The...
Microsoft Ships Windows Vista SP2 Beta Tomorrow, Available on Torrent
News Software
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management at Microsoft, has announced on his blog that MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the beta version of Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2, six weeks...
Unified Communications Expo 2009
News Hardware
The UK's leading enterprise communications event focusing on IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Voice, Collaboration & CRM. Unified Communications Expo is more than an event - it is an opportunity for visitors to listen...
Defining Cloud Storage : Three Key Characteristics
News Software
Welcome to the bi-monthly cloud storage series from ParaScale presented by ITProPortal.com. In each article we will cover a new area of cloud storage and dive into topics including use cases, how to select a vendor, technology...
Apple Opens Up Mini DisplayPort License To Increase Adoption
News Hardware
In its attempt to lure the open source community, Apple Inc. on Tuesday has announced that it will be licensing the specifications of its Mini DisplayPort, a video output interface linked with Apple’s new range of...
BT Vision Links With 20th Century Fox To Offer Movies on Demand
News Mobile & Telco
In a bid to jazz up its IPTV service offerings, UK’s BT Vision has penned a deal with Twentieth Century Fox that will allow BT’s IPTV customers video on demand access to a large number of its classics and new...
O2's New Universal Phone Charger Promises Huge Energy Cuts
News Hardware
O2 has come up with an innovative energy-efficient mobile phone charger that claims to save around £30 million per year on electricity bills in UK alone. The new eco-friendly universal charger from O2 is said to...
Employers "Monitor" Web Usage At Work
News Security
As many as 65 percent of UK employers frequently monitor internet activity of their staff during working hours, and even restrict their access to the websites that are deemed to be irrelevant to their job profiles, according to...
Ex-AOL CEO Looking To Take Yahoo! Private
News Hardware
After an unsuccessful take-over attempt from Microsoft, and a failed ad-revenue sharing deal with Google, things at Yahoo are again looking up with Jonathan Miller, an ex AOL chief exec showing keen interest in taking over the...
A (Blackberry) Storm brewed In Stephen Fry's tea cup
News Mobile & Telco
According to the BBC’s Rory Celan-Jones, many of us are now relying on expert bloggers before buying our gadgets. In particular Stephen Fry is singled out as having one of the sassiest incites into technology. So...
Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC
News Hardware
The Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 OC costs slightly less than the Radeon HD 4670, which works out to be about 15% less for this budget graphics card, but when using OverDrive we had no problems beating the HD 4670 when it came to the...
Asus 9800 GTX+ Dark Knight
News Hardware
"There are many good things that accompany the Asus 9800 GTX+ Dark Knight edition. It is the culmination of many high end features that are sure to help you play all of the latest titles at max without a hint of lag, and stay...
Budget airlines break new rules on opt-in website pricing
News Hardware
Budget airlines Ryanair and easyJet are failing to comply with European laws that ban pre-checked boxes on websites that sell flight tickets. New rules provide that optional price supplements must be accepted on an 'opt-in'...
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.33
News Security
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a surprisingly effective freeware antimalware tool. It's a relatively speedy malware remover, with the quick scan taking about 10 minutes. The heuristics engine proved on multiple computers during...
