Articles Posted on 06 March 2009
Calculating UK Apple Tax On New Mac Pro & Minis
News Hardware
Following up on our "Apple Mac Pro Vs Windows PC : A 4-way Comparison", we've compiled an article on the amount of money Apple charges its customers extra after having considered the cost of hardware and software. For the...
Orange To Trial 20Mbps ADSL Broadband Service
News Hardware
Orange has announced that it will be upping the download speed of 300 of its customers to up to 20Mbps as it start its ADSL2+ service before launching it nationwide. The France-Telecom owned internet service provider currently...
Google Android Sales To Overtake iPhone In 2012
News Mobile & Telco
A report published by research company Informa Telecoms and Media, Google's Android platform might potentially surpass Apple's iPhone when it comes to sales figures, as early as 2012. Android has yet to catch up the imagination...
Virgin Media Loses TV Head; Appoints UBS For Channels Sale
News Mobile & Telco
The UK-based cable company Virgin Media has employed the investment bank UBS to give advice on the proposed sale of its content division, which has stakes in a couple of channels including Living and Bravo, and could be worth...
Vivek Kundra Becomes Obama's Chief Information Officer
News Mobile & Telco
The US President Barack Obama has officially appointed Vivek Kundra as his chief information Officer (CIO), who will be the in charge of making strategies on key technologies to be used by the administration to govern, along...
NAO Criticises Crown Courts For Outdated IT Systems
News Security
The National Audit Office has launched a stinging attack against the Her Majesty's Court Service (HMCS), in a report, after it found out that out to date computer systems are creating a backlog of criminal cases that is costing...
£99.99 Gateway e-Machine E4231 Computer
News Hardware
Get more from your work and entertainment with the eMachines E4231 desktop. Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic makes your productivity simple and secure with new features for searching your system, creating documents and...
The Queen Adopts Micro-blogging, Starts Twittering
News Web
After using e-mail services to keep in touch with her grandchildren and sending Christmas messages via YouTube, Her Majesty the Queen has further taken a bold step towards keeping in line with the technology by becoming the...
Jay Cross – Tomorrow Learning – Part 1
News Consumer
In this podcast, Ben Chai, editor of Learning Technologies magazine discusses the future of learning and its impact on people's lives with Jay Cross, one of the early pioneers of e-Learning, . Jay Cross is a...
European Commission Lets Off Microsoft Over Antitrust Concerns
News Mobile & Telco
Amidst charges of anti-competition over incorporating the Internet Explorer browser in Windows operating systems, the European Commission (EC) has offered a bit of relief to Microsoft, by saying that it will discontinue actively...
Microsoft To Release More Patches On Tuesday
News Security
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced its plans for releasing three security patches as a part of its convention Patch Tuesday cycle, with one of the vulnerabilities has been rated “critical” that allows hackers to...
Mozilla Makes Firefox More Secure With 3.0.7 Update; Thunderbird Still Vulnerable
News Software
In a bid to address a number of security issues, Mozilla Corp. released an update to its signature Firefox web browser to plug as many as eight security holes noted in Firefox web browser version 3.0.6, out of which six were...
Are Application Providers Getting In The Way Of Consolidation?
News Hardware
Server, or application virtualisation isn’t new. Remember the old mainframes? They used the concept of multi-tasking to share the resources of a single computer, and its single operating system, amongst many...
Fuss And Noise Over The Inevitable, VoIP Is Here And The Networks Hate It
News Hardware
Skype, Truphone and a host of other mobile VoIP providers have been giving away their wares for a few years now. Skype, arguably the most well known of these, got the mobile bug a couple of years ago. Fring and Nimbuzz...
Use Manufacturer Approved Memory Products
News Mobile & Telco
Genuine manufacturers' memory products. Wonderful, no doubt, but, let's be honest, they do tend to be a bit pricey. You wouldn't buy a new TV from the high street if you could buy the same model for less than half the price...
£129.99 Blackberry 8120 Pearl Orange Pre-Pay Mobile Phone (Indigo)
News Mobile & Telco
The BlackBerry Pearl 8120 smartphone is designed to help you do everything you want with your life. It comes complete with advanced phone features, multimedia, digital camera, video recording, Wi-Fi capabilities and expandable...
£61.14 Navigo 4.3" Sat Nav V2 - UK Maps, Full Postcode Search
News Mobile & Telco
Welcome to the NEW car/portable GPS navigator for exact Global positioning in addition to supporting photo browsing, E-book reading and audio/video playing. It has a screen big enogh to be used as a digital photo...
£1299.97 Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2GB 250GB DVDRW
News Hardware
The new MacBook comes in a precision aluminum unibody enclosure. It's a very robust and seamless design that only weight 2.04Kg and is just 2.41cm thin. The new next generation graphics card comes in the form of the NVIDIA...
£490 Vye S41A Mini-V Notebook
News Consumer
The manufacturer of the world's first real mini-notebook - Vye have launched their second generation of the world's most practical mini notebook computer, designed to offer everything that a notebook can. Weighing 993g and...
£70 Flip Video Ultra Camcorder Black
News Hardware
The Ultra Camcorder by Flip Video is fun and simple to use. Capture images and video clips wherever you go and share them with friends and family around the world. Shooting and saving images couldn’t be easier than...
