Articles Posted on 10 December 2008
Compile Your Own Google Zeitgeist List For 2008
News Hardware
The data compiled in Google's Year End Zeitgeist for 2008 makes great reading; however, it barely touches on what Google can offer in terms of tools for crunching the huge amounts of data that go through the search engine...
FTC goes after Winfixer
News Security
Major news: The FTC is going after Innovative Marketing, which has marketed products like WinFixer and other rogue antispyware programs. These deliberate scams and frauds have been a plague on the internet now for...
The Innovative Marketing saga continues
News Security
Fascinating reading here from the FTC complaint.Highlights: Over 1 million PC users have been scammed by Innovative and its affiliates. At $40 a pop, that’s $40 million in ill-gotten revenue. Forget refunds. According to...
Google Chrome Browser To Come Out Of Beta
News Web
Marissa Mayer, Google Vice President in Charge of Search Product and User Experience, has announced at the "Le Web 08" gathering in Paris that Google Chrome has come out of Beta. The open source application has been in beta...
Nokia Comes With Music DRM Trashed By £18 Software
News Consumer
The DRM camp has suffered yet another embarrassing defeat after it was revealed today that a simple 20 Euros application can bypass the Microsoft Digital Rights Management system leaving the songs open to copying, all...
Mobile Sector in 2008 : Apple Resurgence
News Consumer
These last 12 months has seen the Asian manufacturers embrace touch screen technologies as the way into the mass market. LG, Samsung, HTC, have all brought out significantly improved and diverse handsets. But it is...
Sony Ericsson, Vodafone Join Google's Android Open Handset Alliance
News Mobile & Telco
The Open Handset Alliance, the entity behind the Android Platform, has welcomed 14 new members boosting the number of participants to 47 in all (while the rival Symbian Foundation currently has 59 companies). The new companies...
Social Networking Websites Are Big Winners in 2008 Google Zeitgeist List
News Hardware
Google's Zeitgeist list of keyword terms reveals more about the psyche of a nation than anything else as serendipity searching becomes a pastime and the latest one reveals a few surprising terms as well as the nation's...
£122.50 PocketSurfer2 with 20 hours free browsing per month
News Software
It does not neither play or record video content or sound; it doesn't come with any USB ports or line in or out ports. It is the antithesis of so many all in one products on the market. Forget about fiddly phones, hit and miss...
IWF Backtracks On Wikipedia Controversial Image Ban
News Web
The row over the 32-year old album cover depicting a nude teenage girl, which some described as child pornography, has apparently ended with the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK Internet Quasi Watchdog, climbing down from its...
UK Citizens Embrace Digital Life Fully Says Survey
News Security
UK residents are increasingly switching to internet for a range of purposes, according to recent reports from research firm TNS Global Interactive. As per the new report, majority of Britons are turning to web for...
£199.99 Asus EEEPC-900 - Atom N270, 1GB, 16GB SSD, 8.9-inch screen
News Mobile & Telco
For a shock proof mobile computer, choose the Asus EEEPC 900 BF001 netbook. The device comes with an Intel N270 Atom processor running at 1.6GHz. The Intel mobile processor delivers high performance across all of your...
Google Adds Tasks Functionality To Gmail
News Hardware
After adding impressive themes along with video and audio chat capabilities into its e-mail service, Google has further revamped its offerings of Gmail by integrating to-do lists to help its users organise their...
US IT Spending Growth Rate To Fall Massively In 2009 : Forrester
News Hardware
A new forecast made by Forrester Research has reduced the expected growth rate in information technology spending in 2009 in US to around 1.6 percent, as against 6.1 percent growth which it had earlier predicted, primarily owing...
Microsoft To Flush European Search Engine Data After Six Months
News Web
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will discard withholding of internet search related information in Europe in the coming six months, but only after its competitors, notably Google and Yahoo, agree to the principle of...
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Browser
News Software
Mozilla has unleashed the second beta of the Firefox 3.1 web browser on Monday which incorporates a multitude of effective features, including private browsing, popularly referred to as “porn mode” and a quicker...
£172.99 Acer Aspire A110AB - Intel Atom N270, 512MB, 8GB, Linux
News Mobile & Telco
The Acer Aspire One is an incredibly compact and versatile Netbook. The A110, one of the most successful and stylish Netbook on the market, comes with a webcam and in blue. The sleek and trendy coloured casing of the Aspire One...
£317.40 Zalman HD160XT HTPC Case Silver
News Hardware
This is not your usual computer casing. It is the ultimate HTPC Ultra quiet mass produced enclosure you can buy in the UK and is optimised for high performance computers. The Zalman HD160XT HTPC case is made up of aluminium and...
Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless Headset
News Software
It’s always a pleasure to test new wireless devices. After all, there’s nothing more annoying then a veritable jungle of wiring hanging from the PC. The Logitech Clear Chat PC Wireless is a headset (microphone +...
Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 HDMI 512MB video card
News Hardware
AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series has been enticing users from top to bottom to part with their cash as the year has progressed, and so far we've reviewed plenty of Radeon HD 4800 series boards as well as taking a look at Sapphire's...
Internet Explorer 8
News Mobile & Telco
This beta preview version of Internet Explore r8 is intended for Web developers and other Web professionals. It is not intended to be a functional product for Web surfers. Internet Explorer 8 beta is intended to enable...
