Articles Posted on 03 February 2009
Gaming Mogul Criticises Digital Britain Report
News Hardware
The creative director of Eidos, Ian Livingstone, has lambasted the government for putting the gaming industry aside in the Digital Britain report presented by Lord Stephen Carter. Livingstone, who works for one of UK's biggest...
Ireland's Biggest Isp Agrees To Three-Strikes Disconnection
News Hardware
Eircom, Ireland's biggest internet service provider (ISP), has agreed to disconnect users that record companies identify as copyright infringers. The agreement was reached eight days into an Irish High Court trial.The former...
French Court Fines Google Over Trade Marked Keywords
News Hardware
A French court has fined search engine giant Google €350,000 and said that its search advertising business has infringed on two companies' trade marks.Google allows anyone to pay to have their adverts appear beside certain...
Motorola Suspends Dividends Q4 Losses Reaches $3.6 Billion
News Mobile & Telco
Telecommunications company Motorola unveiled a larger than expected loss for the last quarter and took the decision to suspend its quarterly dividend to improve its cashflow. The company posted a loss of $3.58 billion or $1.57...
Toshiba's TG01 Smartphone Comes With 4.1-inch LCD Touchscreen
News Hardware
Toshiba made our day at ITProPortal.com Towers by releasing the TG01 which looks like the smartphone we dreamt when penning an article in January 2009; it comes with a 4.1 inch touchscreen display and yet is only 9mm...
Progress at the mobile frontier
News Hardware
In Spring 2007 I wrote an article for REACH magazine questioning the suitability of mobile phones and devices for sophisticated business tasks. Everything, even typing emails on a tiny Blackberry keypad was far from being...
Dot Tel Domain Names Sales Could Spark Online "Land Grab"
News Mobile & Telco
Some say that it is the biggest innovation in the domain name segment since the initial dot com release; starting from this afternoon at 1500, dot tel domain name will be pushed live by Telnic Limited, the registry operator of...
iPhone to meet promise of full internet?
News Mobile & Telco
Apple have been ticked off for promising the full internet using their iPhone Safari based browser but then failing to deliver Flash and Java based sites. Evidently Apple dismissed Flash as being too heavy on resources...
Get Nokia's 5800 Xpressmusic Phone With Unlimited Text, Mobile & Landline Broadband For Under £30
News Mobile & Telco
Carphone Warehouse managed to get the best possible deal out of mobile phone provider O2 with a £15 monthly contract that includes unlimited texts and the gorgeous Nokia 5800 Tube "Xpressmusic" touchscreen...
Stephen Fry Reaches 104,000 Followers
News Security
UK Presenter and fellow Twitterer Stephen fry has shattered the 100,000 follower barrier, reaching 104,000 this morning, a 60 percent rise in just a few days, a phenomenal achievement bearing in mind that he started Twittering...
Google Releases Earth 5.0, Introduces Underwater Navigation
News Mobile & Telco
Google has spruced up the offerings of its mapping application Google Earth by adding oceans and planet Mars into its latest iteration of Google Earth. The new version, codenamed as “Google Earth 5.0”, was...
UK Government Wants To Free Up 800MHz Spectrum Band
News Hardware
UK communications watchdog Ofcom has announced a new consultation that intends to release more of the TV and radio spectrum in the 800MHz band, a part of the spectrum quite apt for mobile broadband services. The move is...
Motorola Starts LTE-Based 4G Trials In The UK
News Hardware
Motorola announced yesterday that its has kicked off a Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial network after setting up an experiment lab in Swindon, UK, that will enable mobile operators in UK to try out the future 4G...
Data Breaches Becoming Much More Costly For Companies
News Security
Soaring incidences of data breaches are taking a toll over businesses, both in terms of enhanced financial losses and losing customers, a recent study has revealed. The study, conducted by Ponemon Institute, examined the...
IBM Report Highlights Security Vulnerabilities Of 2008
News Security
As many as around half of the vulnerabilities discovered last year went unpatched from the vendors by the year’s end, according to a recent report from IBM’s X-Force research group that was released on...
Amino Communications Reaches 2 Million Units
News Hardware
One of the world’s most renowned internet TV set-top box supplier, Amino Communications, has added yet another feather to its cap by selling its two millionth AmiNET set-top box, the company announced, when it shipped the...
