Articles Posted on 10 February 2009
£77.30 Samsung SyncMaster 923NW 19" TFT Monitor
News Hardware
Samsung has created a range of monitors which allows users greater freedom and flexibility to create their optimum working environment. Elegant and slim, with superior technical specifications and outstanding features, this...
Safer Internet Day Celebrated Across Europe
News Web
The end of the Safer Internet Day worldwide comes as a number of territories including India, Australia and the European Union marked the day with events and campaigns aimed at bringing home the issue of self-protection...
O2 Belatedly Launches Free Laptop Bundle
News Hardware
Never too late to join the party. O2 has become the last UK mobile phone network to offer free laptops with their mobile broadband packages starting from £30.The entry level contract will cost £29.38 per per month and...
UK Overtakes Japan When It Comes To Gaming Sales
News Hardware
Figures published by GfK-ChartTrack show that UK has now overtaken Japan as the second biggest games market worldwide as far as unit sales were concerned. The data comes from a joint research venture between three market...
Twitter Could Make Businesses Pay For Their Accounts
News Web
The co-founder of Internet phenomenon Twitter.com, Biz Stone, has hinted that the micro-blogging company could well be charging companies which use Twitter as a way to make money. Speaking to Marketing Magazine, Stone said that...
Five Reasons Why Amazon's Kindle 2 Is (Already) Obsolete
News Software
Amazon has just released the Kindle 2 ebook reader and some have already hailed it as an iPod for ebooks after it apparently sold more than 500,000 units last year (and was out of stock online). Many are also predicting that...
HP To Offer Three Windows 7 Versions For Future Netbooks
News Software
Kyle Thornton, category manager for Business Notebook PCs at HP, has confirmed in an interview to US website Computerworld that the PC giant will be selling its mini netbook line with up to 3 different Windows 7 operating...
UK Teenagers Spend 87 Hours Online Per Year Watching Porn
News Security
UK teenagers spend a staggering 31 hours in a week (that's more than one day per week) surfing the net, out of which they spend nearly two hours watching adult websites, according to a report published by web monitoring firm...
Microsoft : Quarter of UK Teens Suffered Bullying Online
News Software
A recent research by Microsoft, which evaluates the effect of growth in social media and the attitudes and habits of teenagers across Europe, has revealed that as much as a quarter of teenagers in UK are victims of cyber...
Virgin Mobile Launches UK's Cheapest Mobile Package at £8.32 PM
News Security
Offering the cheapest mobile contract has sparked a race amongst Virgin Mobile and Three Mobile it seems; the former has launched a £8.32 package, undercutting the £9 Three contract while offering more minutes and...
Psystar Wins One Small Battle Against Apple
News Hardware
It seems that Psystar’s persistence has finally been rewarded with a small win that eventually enables the Mac clone maker to purport that Apple misused its exclusive Mac OS X copyrights. The legal battle between...
LiMo To Release More Linux-based Phones In 2009
News Software
The Linux for Mobile foundation, better known as ‘LiMo Foundation’, which includes some of the industry heavyweights like Vodafone and Verzion, announced on Monday that its member companies are planning to launch...
Google Debuts Sync On Mobile; Uses Microsoft Technology
News Mobile & Telco
Google Inc. on Monday rolled out a beta version of its signature Google Sync service for Windows powered smartphones and iPhone, a software application that syncs Google calendar items and Gmail contacts across the internet with...
Mozilla : Microsoft Nearly Eliminated Browser Rivals
News Software
It seems that Microsoft is reeling under some serious criticism from the industry over incorporating its web browser with its operating system, as Mozilla echoed European Commission’s (EC) charges over the software giant...
Green prospects in 2009
News Hardware
The EU Code of Conduct for data centres was formally launched at the end of last year amidst much fanfare, but not without grumblings about its voluntary nature. However, as I have written before, the Code is without doubt a...
Podcast : All That You Need To Know (Or Almost) About Data Encryption
News Security
Peter Mitteregger, EVP for Credant Technology, and Darrell Duane, EVP of Global Field Operation, discuss with Ben Chai of IncomingThought.com about whole hard disk and data encryption, exploring the various differences between...
ASUS Eee Top ET1602: a glimpse of computers to come?
News Hardware
Over the past year, we've all become accustomed to the burgeoning netbook market and we know all about increasingly popular low-cost portable systems such as the ASUS Eee PC and MSI Wind. Nettops, on the other hand, are yet to...
Serial Port ActiveXControl 3.0
News Security
Serial Port AX Control is a powerful ActiveX component that can be used to simplify communication with external devices on rs232 connection. This includes modems, bar code readers, PBX or any other devices that have a serial...
