Articles Posted on 23 February 2009
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Irish ISP Eircom Will Block Illegal File Sharing Sites
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Ireland's largest ISP and largest telecommunication group, Eircom, has announced that it will be blocking music file sharing websites following lawsuit threats from the Irish Recorded Music Association. The IRMA said that they...
Last.fm Denies Sharing User Data With RIAA
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Online Music Service Last.fm has hit back at online tech news website Techcrunch over an article saying that Last.fm has shared data about users' music usage with the RIAA. Writing for Techcrunch, Erick Schonfeld, the site's...
Dell Applies To Have The Term 'Netbook' Released From Psion Ownership
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Dell is trying to have a trade mark owned by rival Psion cancelled because it believes the term 'netbook' is now a generic name for small, cheap computers. Psion applied to register the term as a trade mark in 1996.Dell has filed...
Galaxy GeForce GTS 250 1GB Graphics Card
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Today we see the release of the GTS 250. Now, we're not going to sugarcoat it; this card is a 9800 GTX+ which we saw come out around August of last year. The thing about the 9800 GTX+, however, is that it's nothing more than an...
UK Government Looking For £160K Head Twitterer
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Popular Twitter Stephen Fry might be interested to know that the UK government is looking for a senior civil servant that could "develop a strategy and implementation plan for extending digital engagement across...
Palm Readying Pre Smartphone For UK Market
News Mobile & Telco
Palm's UK website has been updated and is now displaying a message to invite those interested to sign up to receive information on the Pre smartphone when it will available in the UK. The Pre has emerged as a potent competitor...
Philips Releases More Net-enabled LCD TV Sets
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Consumer Electronics giant Philips has announced that it will be launching a few more of its super slim Series 9000 LCD Televisions later this year. Two models will be part of the 9600 series and one in the 9700 series; all...
BBC Focuses on Canvas Project After Kangaroo Debacle
News Mobile & Telco
The BBC, in conjunction with ITV and BT, is planning to launch a next generation Freeview service, codenamed as “Project Canvas”, which includes new iteration of television set-top box that comes pre-installed with...
Dell To Launch Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook
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Dell look to complement its popular range of Netbooks with an "in-betweener", the Inspiron Mini 10, that comes with a price tag of £300 and could actually be a better netbook than Dell's other model. The Inspiron Mini 10...
Adobe : Acrobat Vulnerability Won't Be Resolved Till March
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The software behemoth Adobe said that the zero-day security vulnerability, which is affecting the users of Acrobat and Adobe Reader applications, won’t be patched until March. In its advisory released last week, the...
Over 700,000 UK Households Could Have Access To Child Pornography Says Charity
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A minority of web users in UK still have access to the websites showing child abuse in spite of the government’s assurance to ban them, key children’s charities asserted on Monday. The Children’s...
ITProPortal.com Release 6.4.1 Update - 23rd February 2009
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Our team of developers have just released another update for ITProPortal.com. Here's the list of fixes and updates: Back End improvements : We have significantly improved the backend of the website and amongst other things,...
TealOS Brings WebOS To Palm's Old Smartphones
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With the much touted Palm Pre handset all set to be launched next month, TealPoint has unleashed launcher/skin combination software, tagged as “TealOS”, which bears close resemblance with the Palm Pre’s...
BenQ's All in One nScreen PCs To Rival Apple's iMac
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Taiwanese hardware manufacturer BenQ has released two all in one PCs, the nScreen i91 and i221, that promise to be quite different from other similar computers from rivals like MSI and Asus and squarely aim at Apple's...
Microsoft Invests In Institute To Evaluate How Gaming Benefits Learning
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Microsoft Corp. has come up with a new learning institute in a bid to help researchers to comprehend the constructive influence of video games on gamers. In order to learn the impact of video games on gamers, the software...
Tony Buzan Part 2 – When to Create Mind Maps and How to Manage Knowledge
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Play this podcast now by clicking on this podcast link or download by right clicking on the podcast link and saving the file to your computer. This podcast follows on from Tony Buzan part 1 - The Latest in Mind Map technology....
Microsoft Wants Ex-Employees To Give Back Severance Money
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Adding woes to the injuries of the individuals who lost their jobs in the wake of economic downturn, the software giant Microsoft has asserted that an accounting error had occurred when it recently laid-off a number of its...
Carol Bartz To Announce Major Yahoo Reorganisation
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It seems that Yahoo Inc. chief exec Carol Bartz may reorganize company’s top management board sometime around next week in order to negotiate the current business environment. The news originates from AllThingsD, a...
