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Articles Posted on 22 December 2008

Windows XP To Live Until May 2009

Windows XP To Live Until May 2009

News Software

Windows XP has been given yet another unexpected lifeline by Microsoft nearly two years after its successor, Vista, was released and pushing the official phase-out closing date of 31st January 2009 by four months. According to...


Doctors Warn About Wii Knee Injury Phenomenon

Doctors Warn About Wii Knee Injury Phenomenon

News Security

Researchers from Leeds Teaching Hospital have warned users of the Nintendo Wii Gaming console that they might be at risk of injuries if they spend too much time playing their favourite games and if they are not used to...


Podcast : Managing Passwords Made Easy

Podcast : Managing Passwords Made Easy

News Security

Ben Chai of Incomingthought.com interviews Udi Mokadi, discusses how to dynamically protect the administrator passwords for your databases, OS and network devices. Udi Mokady co-founded Cyber-Ark Software in 1999 and serves as...


Nokia Mail On Ovi Email Service Goes Live

Nokia Mail On Ovi Email Service Goes Live

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia has rolled out its email service called "Mail on Ovi" which will give out free email accounts directly to users of Nokia Series 40 phones (and possibly more later next year). The service, which was previously in beta, is...


Mobile Sector in 2009 : Breakers and Makers

Mobile Sector in 2009 : Breakers and Makers

News Mobile & Telco

At the top of their game, Apple, Google, HTC and Samsung will be pushing forward in their various ways.  A resurgent Nokia will also strengthen their market position.   On the other side, Sony Ericsson seems to have...


3 Releases £9 Monthly Contract With Free Skype Calls

3 Releases £9 Monthly Contract With Free Skype Calls

News Mobile & Telco

Three Mobile Network has announced that they will be releasing a £9 mobile tariff as from tomorrow with a free phone as well as 4500 minutes worth of Skype calls every month as well as 100 mix and match...


Sony Set To Release "Revolutionary" Laptop On January 9th

Sony Set To Release "Revolutionary" Laptop On January 9th

News Hardware

Sony will be launching a new VAIO laptop on the 9th of January, which according to the Consumer Electronics giant, "will change the way you look at laptops forever". At the moment, only Sony's New Zealander website appear to be...


Chrome "Complicates" Relationship Between Mozilla and Google

Chrome "Complicates" Relationship Between Mozilla and Google

News Web

In what will possibly be the most powerful understatement of the year, Mozilla's Chief Executive, John Lilly, has acknowledged that the organisation's relationship with the search engine giant has become "complicated" since...


Sky Abandons Plans To Buy Tiscali

Sky Abandons Plans To Buy Tiscali

News Hardware

Sky has apparently abandonned plans to purchase its Italian rival Tiscali for around £450 million as it plans to close the gap between itself and the other two ISPs ahead of it, Virgin Media and BT. The Guardian reported...


Middle East leads text messaging innovation

Middle East leads text messaging innovation

News Security

The Middle East has gone a significant way beyond person-to-person text messaging.  Businesses, organizations and even governments are routinely using SMS as a powerful, efficient and convenient tool for staying in touch...


Samsung Prepares Android Phone For 2009

Samsung Prepares Android Phone For 2009

News Mobile & Telco

World’s second largest mobile handset manufacturer Samsung Electronics seems all set to unleash a new range of handsets powered by Google’s Android platform, sometime in the second quarter of next year, according to...


Warner Wants Youtube To Take Down Music Videos

Warner Wants Youtube To Take Down Music Videos

News Consumer

Following the collapse of contract negotiations, Warner Music Group has asked YouTube to pull out all music videos of its artists from its online video-sharing platform.  The announcement comes at a time when most of the...


Palm Counts On Next Gen OS Nova To Save The Company

Palm Counts On Next Gen OS Nova To Save The Company

News Software

In the second quarter of current fiscal, Palm Inc. has registered substantial losses worth around $500 million, but the company showed huge confidence in its next-generation operating system, codenamed “Nova”, to...


Google Owns Massive Marketshare In Online Ad Serving

Google Owns Massive Marketshare In Online Ad Serving

News Hardware

In addition to holding lion’s share in search market, Google also has a substantial presence in ad-server market, a recent study from a content tracking firm unveiled.  As per a recent study from the content-tracking...


BBC iPlayer For Kids Rolled Out

BBC iPlayer For Kids Rolled Out

News Mobile & Telco

This “child-friendly” service from BBC will be available on CBBC website, and allow children to watch their favourite shows for seven days after broadcast, with some programmes will be available for up to 13 weeks as...


A Quarter Of UK Broadband Users Get "Ripped Off" By ISPs

A Quarter Of UK Broadband Users Get "Ripped Off" By ISPs

News Mobile & Telco

More than a quarter of broadband users in UK are still paying unexpected charges on their internet bills, a recent survey from price comparison site moneysupermarket.com has revealed.  As many as 27 percent of UK broadband...


Dell XPS 7ore i7 Gaming System 30x H2C Intel C

Dell XPS 7ore i7 Gaming System 30x H2C Intel C

News Hardware

We evaluated the original Dell XPS 730 in early May, shortly after its initial release. At the time, it was Dell's latest high-end gaming machine and the word on the street was that it would be the last to carry the XPS...


YouTube music licensing deal breaks down

YouTube music licensing deal breaks down

News Security

Record label Warner Brothers will remove music it controls from the world's biggest video site YouTube, it said. The company had a deal with YouTube owner Google but said that talks over new terms have broken down. YouTube...


Network Management Suite 7.8

Network Management Suite 7.8

News Hardware

Network Management Suite is a complete network management solution containing two must applications for the network administrators. The first component, Alchemy Network Monitor, monitors servers in your corporate network and...


HP Photosmart D5360

HP Photosmart D5360

News Mobile & Telco

HP's Photosmart D5360 inkjet printer is a solid printer that has useful photo-related printing features paired with some advanced printing features as well. It has pretty good text and photo quality and a lot of multimedia...

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