Follow ITProPortal:

RSS Tweet Digg

Articles Posted on 18 May 2009

PURE Launches iPhone-ready Sirocco 150 DAB microsystem

PURE Launches iPhone-ready Sirocco 150 DAB microsystem

News Mobile & Telco

PURE has launched a brand new DAB microsystem, the Sirocco 150 that is not only compatible with the iPhone (and the uber-popular iPod series) but also sports a nifty DAB tuner. Of course, PURE doesn't have much to refuse to...


Google Uses Tricycles To Take Pictures Of UK Tourist Hotspots

Google Uses Tricycles To Take Pictures Of UK Tourist Hotspots

News Security

Google has unveiled a fleet of manned tricycles as its latest secret weapon in a bid to capture pictures of landmarks and hot spots for its controversial Street View service. Tricycles have apparently been chosen because of their...


Quango To Provide £1 Million Funding To 10Gbps Broadband Research

Quango To Provide £1 Million Funding To 10Gbps Broadband Research

News Hardware

The Technology Strategy Board will provide a cash pot of £1 million to "develop technology" capable of delivering speeds of up to 10Gbps to UK homes and businesses although no timeline has been set. TSB is backed by the...


Nokia N97 Smartphone To Launch For £499 or £40 PM On Contract

Nokia N97 Smartphone To Launch For £499 or £40 PM On Contract

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia will be launching its top of the range Smartphone, the N97, for a £499 if purchased direct from Nokia, a tad more expensive than the £480 that was the pre-order price back in January 2009 at Play.com. The...


UK Officially Debuts Children Database Nearly A Decade After Victoria Climbié's Murder

UK Officially Debuts Children Database Nearly A Decade After Victoria Climbié's Murder

News Security

The UK government has formally launched Contactpoint, a highly controversial database that will in the long-run contain the personal details of all children in the United Kingdom. All British citizens under the age of 18 years...


Spotify To Expand In The US, Plans Mobile Services

Spotify To Expand In The US, Plans Mobile Services

News Mobile & Telco

Swedish free online music streaming website is planning to launch a mobile version of the service and enter the lucrative US market. In an interview with the BBC, Daniel Ek, Spotify's founder said that the company wanted to be...


Wolfram Alpha Goes Live, Promises To Change Online Search Forever

Wolfram Alpha Goes Live, Promises To Change Online Search Forever

News Web

A new revolutionary search engine, known as “Wolfram Alpha”, which is regarded as a potential rival to the internet giant Google by some experts, has finally gone live.  The search engine is described as a...


Sony Unveils Trio Of Alpha Digital SLRs

Sony Unveils Trio Of Alpha Digital SLRs

News Consumer

Sony has confirmed the release of three new Digital SLRs, the A230, A330 and A380 in the UK as from mid June with the cheapest carrying a suggested retail price of £530. The Alpha 230, which is the cheapest of the lot,...


Government Hails "Transformational" Nature Of Information Technology

Government Hails "Transformational" Nature Of Information Technology

News Software

The UK government has acknowledged the significance of digital technology in public sector reforms with the minister of digital engagement Tom Watson asserting that the government should continue using IT to deliver more...


Please kill this cookie monster to save Europe's websites

Please kill this cookie monster to save Europe's websites

News Security

EDITORIAL: Visit any website and there's a good chance that it will send a cookie to your computer. But unless that cookie is essential, its delivery could become illegal under a strange new plan that has, very quietly, won EU...


Google changes AdWords policy to allow trade marks in text of US adverts

Google changes AdWords policy to allow trade marks in text of US adverts

News Security

Google will allow companies to use other people's trade marks in search engine adverts without their owner's permission for the first time, it has said. Use has previously been restricted to the use of trade marked terms as...


EU Pushes For Two Year Guarantee On Computer and Console Games

EU Pushes For Two Year Guarantee On Computer and Console Games

News Consumer

In a move that could seriously affect the future of game development, EU officials have come up with a new proposal that would require game developers to offer a minimum two-year guarantee on their games.  With this...

Follow ITProPortal:

RSS Tweet Digg

Owned &
operated by:

Net Communities