Articles Posted on 06 April 2009
Dell Presents iPod-esque Inspiron 545, 545s and 546 Desktop PCs
News Software
US PC manufacturer Dell has announced three new ranges of consumer-oriented Inspiron desktop PCs which will be available in eight different colours. This happens to be the same number of colours that Apple's iPod Nano is...
AAXA P1 Pico LCoS Hand-Held Micro Projector
News Mobile & Telco
Projectors are something that most people don’t really think about when they think of their audio and needs. One of the main reasons is that they can get expensive, not just the projector but you’ll need a good...
AMD 7850 Overclocking
News Hardware
Unfortunately with the 4770 and AMD's new 7850 Athlon launching at the same time we ran out of time to fully review the 7850 and our dual core benchmarks are a little older. You can check out our 7750 review though which...
Amazon Takes On iTunes, Cuts Price of 100 MP3s To 29p
News Consumer
Giant e-tailer Amazon has slashed the price of 100 of its most popular MP3 tracks to a mere 30p, undercutting Apple's iTunes by a staggering 61 percent. Amazon list of songs at 29p include current tracks like Lady Gaga's Poker...
ISPs Forced To Follow European Data Retention Directive As From Today
News Mobile & Telco
As per an EU directive, internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday would start keeping records of e-mail details, internet calls, as well as website visits of their customers for a period of 12 months. The move, which...
Windows 7 And Server 2008 R2 To Launch Simultaneously?
News Consumer
Microsoft has dropped a hint that Windows Server 2008 R2 will be shipped alongside Windows 7 operating system sometime around the end of this year. In an interview with the CNet.com, Bill Laing, Microsoft’s vice...
Openreach Contractors Damage Broadband Phone Lines
News Hardware
Thousands of broadband users in East London suffered an internet blackout, after contractors damaged underground BT telecom cables over the weekend. BT Openreach, BT’s division that oversees the communication networks...
Twitter In Talks With Many Other Tech Companies
News Hardware
Google's rumours of an imminent acquisition of micro-blogging website Twitter has sparked a flood of responses not only in the blogosphere but also in the mailboxes of Twitter's top execs. Biz Stone, one of the co-fouders of...
BBC Debuts Live TV On Mobile handsets
News Mobile & Telco
In a bid to lure telly addicts, BBC has further included mobile phones into the list of devices that can stream live television and radio services. The corporation has unleashed the beta version of its 24-hour live TV...
T-Mobile Working On Home-based Android Devices
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile is apparently going to extend Google's Android platform well beyond the mobile market with home phone, a tablet and a table computer apparently in the pipeline for mid 2010. The New York Times claims to have seen...
Proposed Acquisition Of Sun Microsystems By IBM Abandoned For Now
News Software
IBM’s proposal to acquire the rival software maker Sun Microsystems for $7 billion has nearly collapsed after the two companies failed to reach any agreement on price, according to the reports. The acquisition talks...
£169.99 Blackberry 8800 Unlocked
News Mobile & Telco
As stylish as it is powerful, the BlackBerry 8800 smartphone is designed to let you do your best work from wherever you choose. It gives you phone, email, organizer, web browsing and instant messaging. And then it goes a step...
£99.95 LG Viewty Ku990 Purple (Touchscreen)
News Consumer
The LG KU990 Viewty mobile phone has broken through the 5 megapixel barrier... but there's much more to it than a few extra pixels on your photos. The 5.1 megapixel Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens has a manual focus option,...
UK Teenager Saved From Suicide By Facebook Friend
News Security
A British schoolboy who posted a suicide note on Facebook was saved by the police after his friend in the US read that post and raised the alarm. The transatlantic rescue operation began when the depressed 16-year-old...
Orange Emerges As Potential Kangaroo Buyer
News Mobile & Telco
Kangaroo, the doomed video on demand project pioneered by ITV, Channel 4 and BBC, could be purchased outright by none other than mobile service provider Orange. According to the Guardian newspaper, the partners in the failed...
Google Gambles Heavily On Future Success Of Voice Search
News Mobile & Telco
Google believes that its voice search will play a crucial role in their future business growth plans and the search giant expects it to be a major factor in expanding the company presence in the mobile web in the next few...
£19.99 Freecom DVD RW Recorder Dl 20x External USB-2.0
News Software
A fresh, high quality design combined with the technology Super Multi DVD RW drives, that read from and write to any CD and DVD recordable format, including DVD+R(W), DVD-R(W) and DVD-RAM.Meet the latest generation of Freecom...
Twitter falls under the weight of Gravity
News Mobile & Telco
Widgets and web based Twitter clients for Symbian’s S60 platform have been used for a while. Whilst they ‘do a job’ they do have little of the power of a native application, until now. I’m a great...
Consumers Prefer Online Content Supported By Ads
News Consumer
A survey carried out by professional services firm KPMG found out that 60 percent of UK web users would have free online content subsidised by advertising rather than having to pay for it. In a rather obvious statement, the study...
Friends In Strange Places for Business Continuity Testing
News Software
We all know that the poor old auditors often get a bad press. But honestly, your auditor is not your enemy. In fact, with a little forethought he or she can be one of your most important allies when it comes to testing your...
