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Articles Posted on 01 April 2009

GIGABYTE EX58-UD4P Motherboard

GIGABYTE EX58-UD4P Motherboard

News Security

X58 is by far the most expensive board on the market, mostly because it is at this point the only chipset capable of supporting the Core i7 processors. And most likely, unless NVIDIA is granted a licence for the QPI bus, it will...


Yahoo! Launches Yahoo Mobile

Yahoo! Launches Yahoo Mobile

News Software

Yahoo has launched its Yahoo! mobile homepage in eight countries and across more than 300 mobile internet devices, phones and smartphones. The personalised mobile portal page which was first unveiled to the public back in...


Jimmy Wales Quietly Shuts Down Wikia Search

Jimmy Wales Quietly Shuts Down Wikia Search

News Hardware

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikia search, which was once presented as a potential rival to Google, will be closing down only 15 months after it was launched. The search engine was based on the same concept as...


Research In Motion Finally Launches App World For Blackberry Platform

Research In Motion Finally Launches App World For Blackberry Platform

News Mobile & Telco

Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion Ltd has officially debuted its software marketplace called App World for its range of business and consumer smartphones with in the backdrop, the iPhone almost outrageous dominance of...


Hidden Google Street View Hack Reveals Superfine Images

Hidden Google Street View Hack Reveals Superfine Images

News Security

In another twist in the current Google Street View controversy, a simple hack has been uncovered that allows images displayed by the online mapping service to be swapped for ultrafine versions, up to five times more detailed. By...


Rumour Mill : After Encarta, Microsoft Could Axe Works Suite

Rumour Mill : After Encarta, Microsoft Could Axe Works Suite

News Mobile & Telco

Home productivity package Microsoft Works could be the next to face the axe as rumours emerged that the software giant could well close the consumer oriented business suite as early as August 2009. According to several sources...


Apple Planning £99 iPhone Wireless HDMI Base Unit?

Apple Planning £99 iPhone Wireless HDMI Base Unit?

News Hardware

Apple could well be planning a wireless HDMI base unit for the iPhone as part of an extended range of peripherals set to be launched later this year according to a Australian source close to the Cupertino-based company. It is...


Experts Warns About Nasty Conficker Worm Threat

Experts Warns About Nasty Conficker Worm Threat

News Security

In what could either be the start of a new spell of internet attacks, or the biggest Fool’s Day joke in the history of the internet, the nasty Conficker.c worm is said to start inflicting damages to the computer systems on...


Sun Uses New Intel Xeon 5500 Processors To Push Solaris Further

Sun Uses New Intel Xeon 5500 Processors To Push Solaris Further

News Hardware

It seems that in order to make the most out of the Intel’s newly released Xeon Series 5500 processors, Sun Microsystems has decided to extend the features of its Solaris operating systems.  The company has announced...


Firefox Overtakes Internet Explorer In Europe As Browser Wars Intensify

Firefox Overtakes Internet Explorer In Europe As Browser Wars Intensify

News Software

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) has been dethroned as the Europe’s leading web browser for the first time in years, according to the recent figures released by a web analytics company Stat Counter.   Mozilla...


£800m Scottish Data Centre Project Goes Ahead

£800m Scottish Data Centre Project Goes Ahead

News Hardware

The Scottish council of Dumfries and Galloway has received documents related to a £800 million data centre that could create up to 1000 new jobs in the region. The plans for the huge project were submitted by the Lockerbie...


Long Term Evolution Revenues To Reach $70 Billion In 5 Years

Long Term Evolution Revenues To Reach $70 Billion In 5 Years

News Hardware

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology is poised to transform the mobile broadband domains with notable increase in broadband services for both businesses as well as consumers over the next five years, according to a recent...


Google Ventures To Invest $100 Million In Technology Startups

Google Ventures To Invest $100 Million In Technology Startups

News Mobile & Telco

Google has announced a new venture capital funding arm, tagged as “Google Ventures”, intended to provide financial help to start-up firms working on some innovative technology.  The search engine giant is to...


European Union Urged To Prepare Itself For Cyber Attacks

European Union Urged To Prepare Itself For Cyber Attacks

News Security

The European Commission has released a new draft strategy tailored to safeguard the region’s critical information infrastructure against disruptions and cyber attacks. The proposed guidelines, which encompass disaster...


UK Government To Distribute One Million Nintendo Wii Consoles By 2010

UK Government To Distribute One Million Nintendo Wii Consoles By 2010

News Security

The British government has announced plans to provide children and teenagers living in the United Kingdom with a free customised version of the Nintendo Wii together with two games and the Wii Fit accessories. Speaking to the...

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