Articles Posted on 09 June 2009
Twitter Petition Over O2 iPhone Upgrade & Tethering Fees Gathers Nearly 3000 Names
News Security
A twitter petition created by iPhone owner Patrick Aloft and calling for O2 to offer existing iPhone customers a reasonable way to upgrade to the iPhone 3GS and to stop "ripping off" their customers for tethering has gathered...
Microsoft Bing Perfomance Improving According To Comscore Data
News Web
Comscore is the third internet analyst firm after Statscounter and Hitwise to credit Bing, Microsoft's successor to Live Search engine, with a revival at least in the US as it released a preliminary study. During the...
Gary McKinnon Emboldened In Fight Against US Extradition
News Security
The high-profile case of the self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon has taken a new interesting turn, with the hacker launching a legal battle against the director of public prosecutions (DPP), asserting that he should be trialled...
Registrar Issues Warning Over Fundamental Domain Name Changes
News Mobile & Telco
A recent survey has revealed that as many as two-thirds of businesses are simply not aware of the fact that they will be able to employ their own names rather than use standard domain name extensions, including .net, .com, .org,...
Carphone Warehouse Boss Says Pirates Will Always Win
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Dismissing the calls from UK copyright groups about restricting the internet users caught downloading copyrighted material illegally, Carphone Warehouse's chief exec Charles Dunstone asserted that the move would do no good except...
Twitter Calls Fake-Celebrity Profile Suit 'Frivolous'
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A US baseball manager is suing Twitter over fake posts in his name on the micro-blogging site. Tony La Russa is claiming that the fake posts infringe his trade mark rights and count as cybersquatting. Twitter has said that it has...
Microsoft Bing Is Working In The UK Says Hitwise
News Web
Search Engine Bing might not be a straightaway success in the US according to Statscounter but the picture is altogether more positive in the UK says research firm Hitwise. Although one has to be cautious about using one set...
Apple Debuts Safari 4 Browser With Promises Of Speed And Innovation
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Apple has unleashed the finalised version of its signature web browser, tagged as “Safari 4”, which the company is touting as the “world's fastest and most innovative web browser”. The iteration 4.0 of...
Fasthosts Loses Customers' emails In Technical Glitch
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Dozens of Fasthosts' customers have been reeling through what could be referred to as 'email blackout', as the ISP's email accounts went down over the last weekend, leaving users unable to access their mails. In addition to...
Tomtom To Release Turn-by-turn SatNav Application For iPhone 3G
News Mobile & Telco
Navigation devices maker TomTom has confirmed that it will release its GPS application for the iPhone, providing turn-by-turn navigation details to the iPhone users, the company announced at a keynote speech at WWDC 2009. Sharing...
O2 Prices Up Apple iPhone 3G S, Adds Tethering Tariffs
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O2 has announced that the new iPhone 3G S will ship on the 19th June and although has announced that the old 8GB iPhone 3G will see its price drop to $99 on a subsidised contract, the pricing grid released by the Telefonica-owned...
Apple Unveils Snow Leopard At WWDC
News Hardware
At the Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC) 2009, Apple announced that it will take its signature operating system Mac OS X to next level by launching its new version, dubbed as Snow Leopard. Apple claimed to be faster than...
Co-founder Leaves Myspace UK To Join Rubicon Project
News Web
Jay Stevens, one of the co-founders of MySpace UK, is leaving the News Corporation-owned social networking portal to join Los Angeles-based advertising start up The Rubicon Project. Stevens, who had been there with the social...
Palm Releases First WebOS Update Since Pre Launch
News Mobile & Telco
Following a high-profile launch on Saturday, Palm Pre has already received its first WebOS firmware update on its launch day, promising better stability along with some native apps, including an alarm clock. The new software...
iPhone 3GS : Don’t Bother, Just Pick Up The Original On The Cheap
News Hardware
On purely a spec comparison the recently launched Samsung HD surpasses Apple’s 3GS on all counts. From screen, camera, data speeds, versatility (microSD), video recording etc. The list is seemingly endless. Orange’s...
More Affordable Macbook Air From Apple Puts Pressure On Clone Makers
News Hardware
The new Macbook Air is going to be a tough cookie to crack for Asus, MSI and so many others who have queued up to release netbooks or ultra portable laptops capable of competing with Apple's ultra slim computers. Apple has...
