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Articles Posted on 09 January 2009

6 Reasons Why the Palm Pre Is Better Than The Rest

6 Reasons Why the Palm Pre Is Better Than The Rest

News Mobile & Telco

Just like the underdog against a world champion, Palm's quasi-resurrection during a single CES presentation shows that there is still life left in a company whose shares have lost 99.18 percent of their value over the last...


The pain of OLPC

The pain of OLPC

News Security

The OLPC is an amazing little device. Unfortunately, the altruists who are running the project haven’t gotten far enough, and they’re laying off staff (although they have managed to get 500,000 laptops to the third...


Fear and the use of resources

Fear and the use of resources

News Security

Excellent blog post by Schneier this morning on the issue of allocating resources. Basically, FBI resources have been taken off of counter-terrorism to work on the Madoff case.A major question is: have we helped create a worse...


Hello from Russia, talking through code

Hello from Russia, talking through code

News Security

A malware author responds to Microsoft, which found a message  (which malware researcher S!Ri.URZ posted on his blog) in code of the Zlob trojan. For Windows Defender's Team:I saw your post in the blog...


Android Runs On Qualcomm's Snapdragon; Google Netbooks Not Far

Android Runs On Qualcomm's Snapdragon; Google Netbooks Not Far

News Mobile & Telco

Semiconductor company Qualcomm has showcased Google's mobile platform, Android, on its Snapdragon architecture, paving the way for a generation of Netbooks that will run on an operating system other than Windows or...


Asus Unleashes EEE PC-In-A-Keyboard With Wireless HDMI

Asus Unleashes EEE PC-In-A-Keyboard With Wireless HDMI

News Software

Asus has managed to cram a whole EEE PC computer into a super slim keyboard that seems to have been dreamt by Apple's design team and it includes a killer feature; Wireless HDMI. The EEE PC Keyboard can connect to any device...


New UK Email Law Attacked By Human Rights Group

New UK Email Law Attacked By Human Rights Group

News Security

An attack on privacy and a waste of (public/taxpayers) money, this is what critics say a new EU directive, that the government is trying to force on the UK public, is.  From March 2009, all Internet Service Providers will...


WiMAX gets realistic... Finally?

WiMAX gets realistic... Finally?

News Hardware

One moment it’s there and the next it’s gone.  Nokia, according to The Boy Genius, has pulled its N810 WiMAX internet tablet before it had properly gone into the channel.    With WiMAX on the go slow...


XO Laptop Hits Bad Financial Spell, Fires Half Its Staff

XO Laptop Hits Bad Financial Spell, Fires Half Its Staff

News Software

Owing to ongoing strain in global economy, an ambitious US-based project that focuses to provide cheaper laptop for the children in developing countries is cutting around half of its workforce.  The program, popularly...


Sony Releases "Netbook Like" Vaio P Ultra Portable Laptop

Sony Releases "Netbook Like" Vaio P Ultra Portable Laptop

News Mobile & Telco

In a bid to take on the growing market of ultra-portable PCs, Sony has rolled out what it purports to be the world’s lightest netbook in market that weighs just around 1.4 pounds.  Tagged as “Sony Vaio P...


Microsoft To Release One Windows Patch Next Tuesday

Microsoft To Release One Windows Patch Next Tuesday

News Security

Microsoft will be issuing a single patch on Tuesday addressing a critical flaw that could enable a hacker to seize control over victim’s computer remotely, the company announced on Thursday.   The vulnerability is...


Skype VoIP Service To Come to iPhone & Touch Soon

Skype VoIP Service To Come to iPhone & Touch Soon

News Mobile & Telco

Skype, a web-based communications service, announced on Thursday that an iteration of its internet-messaging and internet calling software will be available for Google’s Android powered handset as a free...


Yahoo Wants to Get The Internet In TVs ... Again

Yahoo Wants to Get The Internet In TVs ... Again

News Web

Internet giant Yahoo is joining forces with some of the big players in consumer electronics domain, including Samsung, Toshiba, and LG, to bring web-based content on TVs.  Along the same line, the company has unleashed...


Salesforce.com "Crash" Issue Out Of Proportion?

Salesforce.com "Crash" Issue Out Of Proportion?

News Consumer

Software-as-a-service giant, Salesforce.com, left more than 900,000 customers without service (and their application) for 38 minutes on Tuesday 6th. The cause of the problem, it was later identified, was due to a memory...


Virtualisation boost in the year of doing ‘more with less’

Virtualisation boost in the year of doing ‘more with less’

News Hardware

So last year’s economic and financial events have established ’09 as the year of doing ‘more with less’ as I mentioned pre-Christmas. Cost is now the central factor for consideration, whether that...


£12.65 Maxell Xtreme 16GB USB2.0 Flash Drive

£12.65 Maxell Xtreme 16GB USB2.0 Flash Drive

News Hardware

Maxell have always been known for the quality of their recordable media and these high-capacity pen drives feature those same characteristics; it is offering a 16GB USB drive for only £12.65 Features a lightweight and...


Wireless Wizard 4.1

Wireless Wizard 4.1

News Mobile & Telco

The Wireless Wizard improves the use and reliability of any wireless network including Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks. It allows you to accurately aim a wireless client or antenna, measure your wireless performance and quickly diagnose...


Unblock Myspace Proxy 2.0

Unblock Myspace Proxy 2.0

News Security

Our Free Unblock Myspace Proxy Tool will allow you to access myspace if it has been blocked at work or school. To unblock myspace simply run the application and our myspace proxy tool will allow you to browze myspace as you would...


Port Detective 2.0

Port Detective 2.0

News Mobile & Telco

Helps find out what ports are blocked by your router/firewall or ISP. Useful in testing which ports are blocked, in-use or open. Can be used with Cable or DSL connections so users can host their own photo server,website, FTP and...

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