Articles Posted on 19 February 2009
Apple Mac Mini 2009 To Sport 5 USB Ports?
News Hardware
A photo of Apple's refreshed entry level PC, the Mac Mini has, appeared on the Macrumors Forum showing the backside of the computer and has already confounded many observers. The image, posted originally by "Montly" on the...
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Published bi-monthly, Mainframe Executive is an independent magazine for CIOs and IT managers that focuses on the role of the IBM mainframe computer system within the enterprise's IT infrastructure. IBM mainframes, though...
Mobile Networks Use Traffic Data For Advertising Stats
News Mobile & Telco
All five UK mobile phone networks have monitored users' web surfing habits and submitted the data to an industry body to help generate advertising. Users' permission was not sought but the GSM Association says the project did not...
Acer Reintroduces Gateway PC Brand To UK Market
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Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has brought back the Gateway brand in the United Kingdom and Europe and will target businesses only via a network of resellers. Acer, which bought Gateway for $710 million last year, will use the...
SIP Trunk Authentication, who needs it?
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Judging from my recent experience, at least one North American SIP trunk provider has not understood the importance of SIP authentication. While working on a customer’s VoIP system, I noticed that SIP messages sent from...
New Blackberry Smartphones Boost RIM's Profits
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile Device manufacturer RIM has revealed better than expected revenues of $2.78 billion with higher than predicted earnings of $477 million for the last financial quarter. The company's profits beat experts' expectations of...
HP Cuts Employees' Pay After Steep Profits Fall
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Tech giant HP has announced that it will be cutting its employees' pay by an average of 15 percent across the board for one year in a bid to improve the firm's economic outlook. The company reported a 13 percent year on year...
Cisco and Trend Micro Collaborate Over Wireless Router Security
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Web Security firm Trend Micro and Networking giant Cisco have announced that they would collaborate to improve the security of the Cisco's Linksys range of Wireless routers. The package is not free though and costs £49.95...
Microsoft Celebrates After Vista Capable Court Action Dismissed
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US district court judge Marsha Pechman ruled that the "Vista Capable" lawsuit should not be allowed to proceed as a Class Action case, much to the relief of Microsoft. In her ruling, the judge recognised that there was "Absent...
Google Mobile Apps Now Available On Windows Mobile
News Mobile & Telco
Google has quietly released a Google Mobile App version for Windows Mobile smartphones and includes the search engine giant's most popular services, all for free and available without browser. Google Mobile App for Windows...
ISP Plusnet Launches £5.99 Broadband Package
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Broadband Provider Plusnet has released a new entry level up-to-8mbps broadband offer that costs only £5.99 per month and comes with a rather low 10GB monthly data transfer limit plus a free wireless router. According to...
Western Digital Unveils Eco-friendly 2TB My Book World Edition NAS
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Western Digital has released a new, updated version of its My Book World Edition NAS device compatible with Macs and PCs and will be available in 1TB and 2TB versions. It uses Western Digital latest high capacity drives, the...
Palm's building momentum
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As expected, Palm is demonstrating the UMTS version of their Pre smartphone at MWC. Built for the world outside of CDMA, UMTS is almost everywhere these days, Vodafone (their UK carrier of choice) may be launching the Pre...
