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Articles Posted on 26 February 2009

£54.99 Verbatim 320GB Portable External Hard Drive USB 2.0 - Black

£54.99 Verbatim 320GB Portable External Hard Drive USB 2.0 - Black

News Hardware

This palm sized USB 2.0 portable hard drive is light weight making it easy to carry with you. Weighing only 161 grams it packs portability and capacity in one! Store and carry your digital and day to day working files on this...


£249.99 Nordmende NU323LD 32" HD Ready Digital LCD TV

£249.99 Nordmende NU323LD 32" HD Ready Digital LCD TV

News Software

Amazon sells the same model for more than £400. If you've never heard of Nordmende before, don't worry, you're not alone. But look closer and you might see some striking similartiries between this model and a much, much...


Court Allows AP To Assert Intellectual Property Right Over Facts

Court Allows AP To Assert Intellectual Property Right Over Facts

News Security

News agency The Associated Press (AP) has won the right to fight a court battle to defend a property right over facts. Copyright law does not protect facts, but AP has been permitted to make its defence based on a 1918 case on...


Microsoft Sues Tomtom, Asserts Linux Rights

Microsoft Sues Tomtom, Asserts Linux Rights

News Software

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against navigation device maker TomTom, claiming that its technology infringes Microsoft-owned patents. Some of the alleged infringement is a result of TomTom's use of Linux technology, Microsoft...


5 Reasons Why Nokia's Laptops Will Rule

5 Reasons Why Nokia's Laptops Will Rule

News Software

The announcement that Nokia will be launching its own range of laptops has sent shock waves across the tech sector and could cause a (much) bigger revolution than Asus' Netbooks. We gaze at our Crystal ball in the high towers...


O2 Sells 1m iPhones, Outperforms UK Rivals

O2 Sells 1m iPhones, Outperforms UK Rivals

News Security

UK Mobile phone network O2 has sold more than one million iPhones in UK over the 14 months since Apple agreed to let the Telefonica-owned company sell the iPhone exclusively. The news come as O2 revealed another strong quarter...


BFG GeForce GTS 250 OC 1GB Review

BFG GeForce GTS 250 OC 1GB Review

News Hardware

When you are finally ready to step up to a newer video card or make the selection for your new PC build, the quandary we all face is which one do I get?  The numbering schemes should spell it out for you but for some reason...


McKinnon Set To Be Extradited To The US After Losing CPS Appeal

McKinnon Set To Be Extradited To The US After Losing CPS Appeal

News Security

Autistic hacker, Gary McKinnon, is set to be extradited to the US for trial as news emerged that it lost the last round of his long battle to stay in Britain. The North Londoner has been accused of breaking into NASA and US...


Google Launches Online Service Dashboard Following Gmail Downtime

Google Launches Online Service Dashboard Following Gmail Downtime

News Security

Google acted promptly after complaints about Gmail's outage and released an online dashboard for Google Apps to inform users about the general availability of Google's online services. The release was a long planned one,...


Microsoft Partners With Universal To Bring Movies On Xbox 360

Microsoft Partners With Universal To Bring Movies On Xbox 360

News Consumer

Microsoft has signed an agreement with NBC Universal to distribute an initial batch of 30 HD movies on the Xbox 360 console for £2.08 each; it will be joining the likes of Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures. Consumers...


UK Households Will Have 32Mbps Broadband By 2019

UK Households Will Have 32Mbps Broadband By 2019

News Hardware

90 Percent of UK Households could be have accessed to 32mbps broadband lines, up to 16 times faster than current entry level speeds, by 2019 according to broadband analyst firm, Point Topic. The figures are based on the fact...


Brain Training Games Are Not Effective Say Researchers

Brain Training Games Are Not Effective Say Researchers

News Consumer

A team of scientists brought together by the consumer watchdog Which? has disproved the claims that Brain Enhancing devices like Nintendo's Dr Kawashima's Brain Training help in enhancing the memory of their users. They have...


No more hype at the Mobile World Congress

No more hype at the Mobile World Congress

News Hardware

Mobile telcos and their vendors are trying to benefit from the wave of social networking. However, their only chance is to add mobility to the offerings of big Internet players, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, in order to get a...


Nokia Will Make Laptops By 2011

Nokia Will Make Laptops By 2011

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has confirmed that the company will be manufacturing and selling mobile computers but failed to confirm whether they will be netbooks or traditional laptops (or something in between). Kallasvuo,...


Steve Jobs' Health Remains Investors' Main Focus

Steve Jobs' Health Remains Investors' Main Focus

News Consumer

In a meeting with investors, Apple directors have asserted that Steve Jobs who currently is on a six-month leave owing to health reasons, is expected to reassume his role in June as decided. The company’s board member...


BBC Trust Rejects Online Local Video Project

BBC Trust Rejects Online Local Video Project

News Hardware

In a big blow to the BBC’s ambitious plans for launching online local video service, the BBC Trust, governing body of the corporation, has refused the allocation of £68 million worth of funding for the...


Virgin Media Announces £50 Million Loss

Virgin Media Announces £50 Million Loss

News Software

Virgin Media has posted disappointing results for the final quarter of the last year with its revenues plunged by a whopping £50 million as the ongoing economic downturn has further taken its bite off from the operating...

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