Articles Posted on 22 January 2009
£163.57 HP ProLiant ML115 (G5) Special Tower Server Opteron Quad Core 2.1GHz 512MB 250GB HDD SATA DVD-RW 3 Year Next Business
News Hardware
The HP ProLiant ML115 G5 Server is the perfect first server with essential features for the growing businesses. Designed with Small Business needs in mind, the HP ProLiant ML115 G5 offers expandability through multiple...
£102.99 Samsung LCD Monitor 20" SM2023NW silver widescreen 5ms 1000:1
News Consumer
Samsung has created a range of monitors which allows users greater freedom and flexibility to create their optimum working environment. The SM2023NW, part of the Syncmaster family is one of their finest. Elegant and slim,...
Twitter Beating Digg? Here's Why It Means Nothing
News Hardware
The report that Twitter has beaten Digg in a website ranking generated by Hitwise has spread like wildfire and provided Twitter proponents with the argument that the micro blogging website has finally become mainstream. But...
5000 Jobs To Go At Microsoft After Software Sales Crash
News Mobile & Telco
Bellwether software company Microsoft has announced that it will officially cut jobs for the first time in its 34-year history after its sales fell significantly in the past year. More than 5000 employees at the world's largest...
Apple Losing Jobs? Four Reasons Why This Will Hurt
News Mobile & Telco
We wrote recently about Carol Bartz; unbeknown to many, the new Yahoo CEO was, like Steve Jobs, an ex-cancer sufferer who took 30 days off for an "aggressive" chemotherapy and fought all the way till her remission. Jobs could...
Sony Announces First Net Loss in 14 years
News Mobile & Telco
Sony is the latest tech company to join the long list of firms that have been hit hard by the recession; the Japanese giant has announced, via its current CEO Sir Howard Stringer, that it expects a loss of up to $2.9 billion for...
PhonepayPlus Promises To Crack Down On Rogue Phone Companies
News Security
PhonepayPlus, which had changed its name in June 2007 from ICSTIS, will clamp down on rogue mobile subscription services thanks to some new guidelines that can be expected to become underlying rules for the whole mobile content...
Pictures Of Google's G2 Android Phone Appear On the Net
News Mobile & Telco
More Google Android smartphones could be heading our way soon as photos of a HTC build handset has been leaked "inadvertently" online. The photos appear to show an HTC Sapphire 2.0 and Gizmodo, to whom the spy photos were sent,...
Apple Updates Entry Level Macbook, Pushes Price Up
News Hardware
Apple has updated the white 13-inch Macbook, increasing the price of the device by £15 while the US price remains stable at $999, although at the current exchange rate, this means that UK hardware are for once, cheaper by...
Recession-Proof Apple Beats Estimates, Posts Best Quarter Ever
News Hardware
It seems that Apple Inc. has remained untouched by the first wave of economic recession, as the company has posted record financial results for the final quarter of the fiscal year 2008. Apple shares were up by a significant...
Second Life Creators Purchase Startups To Push Virtual Goods Online
News Business & Government
Linden Labs, the company behind the virtual world Second Life, has acquired two start-up firms, namely “OnRez” and “XStreet SL”, for an undisclosed sum. Incidentally the acquired companies have...
Apple Issues Brand New, More Secure Quicktime Media Software
News Software
Addressing a number of critical issues in its QuickTime media player application, Apple has rolled out the updated iteration of the application, codenamed as “QuickTime 7.6”, for both Windows and Mac operating...
Windows Vista SP2 To Be Released Just Before Windows 7?
News Security
In what seems to be an extra step for development, Microsoft Vista’s second Service Pack has reportedly been delayed by a couple of months than its rumoured release date. The news website TechARP, which first...
UK ISPs Make Child Abuse Unit Pay To Get Crucial Data
News Security
The unit established to deal with online child abuse in UK has had to spend thousands of pounds in order to fetch required information from the internet service providers, a recent report revealed. The Child Exploitation...
Cloud Storage Deep Dive - Definition and Access Protocols
News Software
The first definition was that cloud storage is a service delivered over a network (internet or intranet). As promised, I’d like to dive deeper into this topic and discuss protocols for access and the impact on cloud...
Toshiba Ups Ante With 16-inch HD Ready Satellite A350 Laptop
News Software
Japanese Consumer Electronics manufacturer Toshiba has added a 16-inch laptop which it describes as a new "premium quality" multimedia device capable of displaying 1366x768 pixels on 16:9 widescreen. The Toshiba Satellite A350...
Is Microsoft's MSN Mobile Music Download Service Doomed?
News Web
It might not seem like it but Microsoft could well be looking to challenge Apple on its preferred turf, digital music downloads, as it launches a new music download feature across its MSN mobile portal as a rival to iTunes and...
