Articles Posted on 08 June 2009
Apple Refreshes 13-inch Macbook Pro Range
News Hardware
Next on the list of hardware updates from Apple is a new 13-inch Macbook Pro which will be available for as little as $1199. Like its bigger brothers, it comes with a LED-backlit screen, a multi touch trackpad, a back-lit...
Could Palm Pre Bubble Pop As Apple Squeeze iPhone Prices?
News Mobile & Telco
Ironically, it is not Apple's new iPhone 3G S smartphones which will likely to end Palm Pre's brief period as Apple's main contender but the older generation which is now available for only $99. The old 3G iPhone is good enough...
Carphone Warehouse Opens iPhone 3GS Pre Order On Wedneday
News Consumer
Carphone Warehouse has encouraged prospective customers to register to receive an exclusive offer on the new iPhone handset and could well bring us some massive surprise. According to this page, customers will be able to...
Apple Officially Debuts the iPhone 3G S Smartphone
News Consumer
So here is the new iPhone and it is called the 3G S (Screaming or Speed) and comes not only with a slew of major hardware and software updates but also a more affordable price. The new 3G S comes with a 600MHz ARM CPU, that's 50...
Apple Introduces Cheaper, Better 15-inch Macbook Pro
News Hardware
Apple will launch a brand new 15-inch MacBook Pro that is significantly cheaper and better than the previous generation, hinting at the fact that the company is taking steps to minimise the impact of recession on sales. The new...
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference : The Final Countdown
News Mobile & Telco
** Update 1 : Apple Introduces Cheaper, Better 15-inch Macbook Pro ** In less than one hour now, a team of Apple executives which will be led by Phillip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing,...
Incisive Media To Close Personal Computer World After 31 Years
News Hardware
Technology Publishers Incisive Media have announced that they will be closing Personal Computer World, UK's longest running computer magazine, which was launched back in 1978 with the last issue going on sale next week. 12 jobs...
Microsoft Bing US Market Share Already Waning?
News Web
Data released by research company Statcounter showed that Microsoft's search engine challenger to Google, Bing, had manage to beat second place Yahoo for a couple of days before dropping down to number 3. The search engine, which...
Swedish Anti-copyright Pirate Party Wins EU Parliament Seat
News Mobile & Telco
A political party dedicated to legalising the sharing of copyrighted content without payment has won a seat in the European Parliament. Sweden's Pirat Partiet, or Pirate Party, won 7.1% of the Swedish vote, entitling it to send...
Channel 4 Piles Pressure On BBC As Back Catalogue Goes Online For Free
News Mobile & Telco
Channel 4 has become the first mainstream UK broadcaster to announce that it will be putting all its archived programming content online for free. More than 4,000 hours of rights-cleared content - or 10,000 programme titles -...
Palm Pre Sells Out As First Manufacturing Issues Surface
News Mobile & Telco
Stocks of Palm's new smartphone, the Pre, have apparently run out within hours at some stores after US mobile phone operator Sprint released it on the 6th of June. There are reports that some stores had only three phones...
China Pushes Ahead With Censor App Plans On All PCs Sold
News Security
China web users will be hit by another virtual wall from the 1st of July if plans, by the Chinese government, to install web filtering software on all computers sold in the country go ahead. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and...
WWDC Rumour : Apple iPhone GS To Come In 5 Flavours
News Consumer
As Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference looms, more evidence has emerged that points to not one but several new iPhone models set to be released across the world. Dutch site Tweakers.net have a screen capture of T-Mobile's...
Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta Debuts With Major Speed Boost
News Web
Opera has announced the launch of Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta for Windows Mobile phones and promises much faster surfing thanks to the browser's proprietary Opera Turbo feature. Version 9.7 also brings in a new upgraded browser engine...
Twitter To Verify Celebrity Accounts Amidst Fakes Fears
News Web
Microblogging phenomenon Twitter will be rolling out a new feature called "Verified accounts" which aims at reducing risk associated with the rising number of impersonators and fake accounts worldwide. In what seems to be the...
Photos : What the $99 Apple iPhone Could Look Like
News Consumer
The current Apple iPhone has a suggested retail price of $199 in the United States with customers in the UK getting the Jesus Phone for free on contracts starting as little as £35 per month. But according to the latest...
