Articles Posted on 23 December 2008
Photos, Rumours of Apple's New Macs Emerge
News Hardware
The surest place to find hints of any new Apple product has to be in China or Taiwan because of the "leaky" supply chain; Economic Daily News of China has received information indicating that Apple will launch a new all in one...
Intel Releases 160GB Solid State Disk
News Hardware
Semiconductor manufacturer Intel has released two solid state drives destined at the server market, showing that it is now a growing force to be reckoned with in the storage sector. The X25M is a 2.5-inch model and the X18M is...
Cloud Storage – Does It Only Make Sense At Uber-Scale Like Google or Amazon?
News Hardware
Cloud storage and cloud computing in general have been popularized by the giant public cloud service providers. Salesforce.com, Google apps with their highly successful SaaS offerings; Amazon EC2 with its compute-on-demand cloud...
Intel Follows Apple, Buys More Shares In Imagination Technologies
News Hardware
Two of the biggest and respected technology companies in the world appear to be battling out for the control of a British company, Imagination Technologies, that specialises in mobile graphics technology. Intel has upped its...
Kangaroo Offers Massive Concessions To Competition Commission
News Mobile & Telco
The online Video on Demand Project Kangaroo is hoping for a green light from the Competition commission after having canned plans to maintain its exclusivity on popular video on demand shows. Kangaroo's proposals now include...
BBC Controller Supports Paid-For Tiered iPlayer
News Mobile & Telco
BBC's Controller for Vision and Online Media Anthony Rose has backed the idea of tiered broadband tariff in the UK which has worrying undertones of net neutrality controversy attached to it in an interview with the European...
Telcos Must Ramp Up Mobile Broadband Capacity
News Mobile & Telco
It seems that telecommunication players will have to explore out new ways to offer next generation mobile broadband connectivity with soaring demand resulting out of a drastic increase in sale of notebooks in the recent past....
Facebook and Google, Most Visited UK Mobile Websites Says Opera
News Security
Google and Facebook have led all the way through in mobile web browsing space in UK for the year 2008, according to a recent study from Opera Software. The study, dubbed as “State of the Mobile Web” report,...
Top 10 Mobile Contracts Costing GBP10 or less
News Hardware
Because of the credit crunch, more people will be cutting their telecoms budget and trying to get cheaper mobile phone contracts. We've rounded 10 contracts on the market, a mix of SIM only and SIM + Phone under £10. They...
Sock and Awe Website Sells For More than £5000
News Business & Government
Ever since the high voltage shoe incident broke out, a large number of online games appeared over the web that enables users to virtually fling a shoe at President George W. Bush. Out of the large number of such games...
FilmOn Promises Faster HD Video Downloads
News Mobile & Telco
FilmOn.com, a video-streaming website, will be launching its new technology HDi this week, offering speedier streaming capabilities to its customers, which is said to transform the broadcasting industry remarkably. The...
Music Study "Disproves" Long Tail Theory
News Consumer
Challenging the much touted "long tail" theory, more than 10 million of the over 13 million music tracks available online, were unable to find a single buyer last year, according to a new study. The study is dubbed as the...
CryptoExpert Professional 7.9.0
News Security
CryptoExpert uses a real-time on-the-fly encryption system to encrypt and decrypt data. Your files are stored in the encrypted form on virtual hard drive with password authentication, but when it is requested by any application,...
Dell 2408WFP Monitor
News Software
LCD monitors with TN+Film matrixes have been pushing their opponents out of the market thanks to low pricing, so there are very few models with matrix types other than TN+Film available today. And although modern TN matrixes are...
Logitech DINOVO Keyboard
News Consumer
Logitech has had a great deal of success with their diNovo-branded keyboards. The original, the diNovo Media Desktop, was released over five years ago and featured a keyboard, media pad and mouse. A few years later, the diNovo...
Courts, and not Tribunal, have jurisdiction over spectrum sell-off
News Security
Mobile phone operators objecting to the sale of new spectrum must take their case through the courts and not the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT), the Court of Appeal has said. The CAT should not judge the legislative powers of...
