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Articles Posted on 24 April 2009

Zotac NVIDIA Ion Motherboard: SFF Goodness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?...

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.

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...

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