Articles Posted on 02 February 2009
IBM To Build 20 Petaflop "Sequoia" Supercomputer For US DoE
News Hardware
Computing giant IBM, otherwise known as Big Blue, has announced that it will be building the world's fastest supercomputer called Sequoia, with a processing power of 20 Petaflops, for the US government by 2012. The massive...
Elton John's iPods On Sale For AIDS Charity
News Mobile & Telco
Pop Legend Sir Elton John has released an exclusive series of Swarovski crystal encrusted iPod nanos, whose sale will benefit the singer's own AIDS Charity EJAF. Under the banner "Bling with Benefits", nine colours of iPod Nano...
O2 Debuts £15/Month Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Via CPW
News Mobile & Telco
Telefonica-owned O2 has partnered with Carphone Warehouse to launch UK's cheapest deal on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which many consider as a serious rival to Apple's iPhone 3G. For £15 per month, you get unlimited texts...
TomTom helps UK through the snow
News Mobile & Telco
Users of TomTom’s satnav devices have managed to keep away from the traffic jams this morning triggered by the heaviest snowfall in the UK for the last 13 years that caused absolute chaos on the roads.The HD Traffic System,...
Microsoft Fast-tracks Windows 7, Goes Straight To RC1
News Consumer
Citing the positive response from the developer community, Microsoft has asserted that it won’t launch any more beta versions of Windows 7, as the release candidate for the operating system is there in the offing.The...
Illegal file sharers will be disconnected
News Web
In a bid to take on the illicit downloading of music from the internet, an Irish internet service provider Eircom has agreed to discontinue the internet connections of the users who illegitimately download music files from the...
Is Dell Preparing A New Smartphone?
News Mobile & Telco
With the smartphone segment displaying an appreciable growth rate, rumours are abuzz with the possibility of Dell contemplating to enter into the smartphone domain very soon.The PC manufacturer, which is struggling hard to fend...
Adobe working with Apple to bring Flash to the iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
In spite of all the efforts and time that Adobe has poured, a practicable version of Adobe Flash player for the iPhone appears to be a hard nut to crack, Adobe’s chief exec Shantanu Narayen asserted in an interview to...
Smart Phones Lead Market Growth
News Mobile & Telco
Although the mobile handset market is seemingly falling into the clutches of the global economic crunch with a majority of big players in the industry posting dull Q4 results, the market of smartphones has apparently been left...
Top Secret Totally Accurate Voice Controlled Zumba Phone Revealed By BBC
News Hardware
Military specialist IA Technology has showed to the BBC a prototype of what it calls the "the world's first fully accurate voice recognition system for mobile phones" but some are already wondering whether the whole thing is...
Human Error Causes Google To Flag All Websites As Malware
News Security
A simple human error triggered a snowball effect that caused Google to display the message "this site may harm your computer" for about an hour on Google's Search results page on Saturday. Users who chose to ignore the alert...
