Articles Posted on 29 June 2009
O2 Adds 3000 BT Openzone WiFi Hotspots To Its Network
News Hardware
Mobile Network Operator O2 has announced that it will be partnering with telecoms company BT to provide its customers with 3,000 WiFi hotspots across Britain. O2's mobile broadband users as well as iPhone owners will be able to...
90 Percent Of UK Homes Completely Digital Says Ofcom
News Hardware
Ofcom published its Digital Progress Report which shows that nearly 90 percent of main television sets in UK households are digital. The document showed that there is a respectable 60.2 million television sets in the UK. A...
Mobile Phone Industry Back European Calls For Universal Handset Charger
News Hardware
Mobile phone manufacturers worldwide, including Apple, have promised to offer a standard mobile phone charger as early as next year to save millions in terms of related mobile phone costs. The move, announced in February,...
White Apple iPhone 3GS Overheats Says French Website
News Consumer
All it took was one very popular technology website - Engadget - to pick up on a rumour that the iPhone 3GS's back cover turned pinkish-red when overheating for the rest of the world to follow suit. French website Nowehereelse...
More Rumours Emerge About Sony PSP Gaming Phone
News Mobile & Telco
Sony could be looking to launch a phone based on its popular PSP gaming console according to Japanese business newspaper Nikkei Business Daily which claims that the consumer electronics giant is more focused on the project than...
Youtube Reports Surge In Video Upload By Mobile Phones
News Mobile & Telco
In an interesting finding which marks the increasing use of smartphones in uploading content on video-sharing platforms, Google-owned YouTube is reporting that the count of videos uploaded using mobile phones rose incredibly by...
Thieves Use Google Earth To Snap Koi Carps
News Software
In what could be marked as yet another incidence of soaring use of online technology in plotting crimes, police suspect that the fish thieves are using web pictures from Google’s mapping service, Google Earth, to steal...
Google Releases Android Native C/C++ Development Kit
News Mobile & Telco
In an attempt to lure the developers’ community, Google has come up with the Android Native Development Kit (NDK), which would enable third party developers to embed components using native code languages C and C+ + into...
Imagination Technologies Could Spell End Of Relationship Between Intel and Apple
News Mobile & Telco
Apple said last week that it was upping its stake in Imagination Technologies, a move that came within a few days of Intel's announcement that it will be partnering with one of Apple's fiercest rivals, Nokia. Intel also has a...
David Milliband Denies Michael Jackson Twitterings
News Hardware
Sudden demise of the pop icon Michael Jackson has showcased the power of the microblogging phenomenon Twitter in helping people to stay connected over happenings around the globe, as many users logged on to the website posting...
Michael Jackson Puts Google News On Malware Red Alert
News Security
A flood of search queries relating to untimely death of Michael Jackson prompted Google News, the popular news service from Google, to initially interpret that it was under some serious malware attack, the search giant...
Ultra Cheap Portable Mega Drive Console To Fight Nintendo DS
News Consumer
The success of the cheap and no-frill Nintendo DS has apparently convinced some to release the Sega Retro-Gen portable from Innex which allows the older generation gamers to enjoy some of their old time favourites. Online...
Vodafone To Acquire T-Mobile For £3.4 Billion?
News Mobile & Telco
UK's largest mobile phone network by revenue, Vodafone, is looking to acquire the loss-making UK operations of T-Mobile for a cool £3.4 billion. The Financial Times newspaper, citing people close to the negotiations, said...
