Articles Posted on 24 April 2009
Zotac NVIDIA Ion Motherboard: SFF Goodness
News Hardware
NVIDIA's Ion platform generated quite a buzz when news first broke of the company's plans late last year. As such, we've been keeping on top of Ion-related developments and have posted a number of stories related to Ion,...
Workers Name Their Price For Company Secrets
News Security
More than one in three workers have said that they would be willing to sell their employer's secrets to a stranger. Some of the London commuters taking part in the survey said that they could be bribed with the cost of a good...
Expresso Book Machine Prints Book On Demand In Minutes
News Software
If you are walking by Blackwell bookshops, near Charing Cross Road in Central London, chances are that you might want to pop in to buy a book. The book chain has purchased a new device that prints up books at the speed of 105...
Five Ways Skype & 3 Will Change UK's Mobile Market
News Mobile & Telco
3, the network owned by Hutchinson Whampoa, is making waves in the mobile market by shoving Skype, the popular Voice over IP service, down the throats of its competitors. The announcement yesterday that anyone with a 99p Pay As...
Facebook Users Choose New TOS Document
News Security
Facebook Inc. announced that it would enforce a couple of new governing documents after nearly three-fourths of the Facebook users who participated in voting favoured the new terms of use proposed by the company. Back in...
Google Rehauls Youtube In Bid To Bring In More Revenues
News Security
Within a few days after an analyst highlighted YouTube as a loss making venture, its parent company Google seems all set to make some money out of this hugely popular online video platform. Along the same line, Google is...
Orange Debuts £49 Touchscreen Vegas Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Orange has unveiled UK's cheapest touchscreen smartphone, the Vegas which comes with some great features and an unbelievably low £49 price tag. Sold as a pay as you go handset and available either in black or in pink, Vegas...
The Five Ps Of An Ideal PC
News Software
Buying an ideal PC is a nerve racking task because it doesn't exist per se. You can only buy a computer that suits your needs (and wants) now, knowing that it will be obsolete the second you actually pay for it. Which is why...
Project Canvas Faces Possible Investigation from Office Of Fair Trade
News Mobile & Telco
Media watchdog Ofcom has warned that Project Canvas, the online TV joint venture between media heavyweights BBC, ITV and BT, could face a competition investigation. In its submission to the BBC Trust, the regulator...
Microsoft Quarterly Revenues Fall For First Time Since 1975
News Software
In what could be seen as an end to one of the most inspiring growth stories in contemporary businesses, Microsoft Corp. has posted a drop in its quarterly revenues for the for the first time in last 23 years. The...
Claims Emerge About Pirate Bay Judge's Conflict Of Interest
News Security
Within a week after the founders of The Pirate Bay were sentenced to one year each in jail, a retrial has been called for after it emerged that the judge who ruled out the sentence has connections with a couple of copyright...
Apple Reaches One Billionth Downloaded App Milestone
News Mobile & Telco
Apple’s phenomenal iTunes App Store has reached yet another milestone after the magical figure of 1 billion app downloads was achieved from this platform. Apple iTunes App Store has been a great success story since...
T-Mobile Celebrates One Millionth G1 Smartphone Sold
News Web
T-Mobile’s Android powered G1 handset is gradually gaining grounds with over 1 million units of the handset already been sold in the US since it debuted six months back. T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom...
Yahoo Takes $4 billion Hit As It Closes Geocities
News Mobile & Telco
Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced that it will be closing GeoCities, a free web hosting service that the internet company snapped up for a massive $4 billion around 10 years ago, when the dotcom boom was at its peak. A post...
5 Features The Skypephone S3 Should Have
News Mobile & Telco
The cat is already out of the bag; the S3 skypephone will be out and available by the end of the year according to 3's UK CEO and it is not too early. By then, the iPhone version 3 will already have been out for more than a...
3's CEO Announces Skypephone S3 For End Of 2009
News Mobile & Telco
3 looks set to launch the third iteration of its Skypephone smartphone by Q4 2009 as there are rumours that the two previous versions have been in short supply for quite some time. Techradar reports that 3's UK CEO, Kevin...
Is Your Business Safe As Houses?...
News Hardware
Whilst fire safes offer some protection and can serve a useful purpose, they do have their limitations and these need to be understood when weighing up your options. Points to consider include : * Different...
Recovery With Tape-Based Systems – The Figures.
News Hardware
The advantage of data on disk-based systems, however, is that they are automated in line with pre-set policies. This means that administration costs are reduced, not least because valuable resource can be deployed...
