Articles Posted on 14 August 2009
Palm Pre Sales Tumble After 3GS Release
News Mobile & Telco
Palm's future seems to be even bleaker as an analyst told investors that he forecasts that the number of Pre sold in July would be around 100,000. Analysts are known to be rather unreliable but Ilya Grozovsky's note to Morgan...
Virgin Media To Offer 90 Days Free Broadband
News Consumer
Virgin Media has launched a new campaign in a bid to recruit more members with a free broadband offer.The telecommunications firm will be offered free broadband worth £15 to customers who take on its Medium phone and...
Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard To Come Out Early?
News Hardware
Apple could be releasing the latest version of its mainstream operating system, Mac OS X, as early as Friday, 28th of August.According to various sources, Snow Leopard is ready to go and the latest developer build got the...
Sony Abandons Proprietary Ebook Format For EPUB
News Web
In a bold move, Japanese manufacturer Sony has dropped its own proprietary ebook document format and pledged to adopt the ePub open format.Most Sony ebook readers are capable of reading the ePub format but Sony went a step...
Council Punished Over Theft Of Laptops From Locked Room
News Security
Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has taken action against a local authority which lost two laptop computers despite the fact that they were stored in a locked office and password-protected. The ICO has...
Twitter Introduces Retweeting Functionality In API
News Security
Microblogging phenomenon Twitter has announced that it will come up wtih an official retweeting system thanks to a new feature in its API set. Retweeting (or RT) basically acts like an "echo" and is one of the most used features...
Most Malware Have Shelf-life Of One Day Says Security Outfit
News Security
A report published by security firm Panda Security shows that the average lifespan of most malware is 24 hours or less.This, the firm reckons, is because hackers and cybercriminals want their nasty pieces of work to go unnoticed...
Dell Preparing Chinese Android Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Like PDAs were in their time, Smartphones are about to enter a golden age and Dell looks set to be part of it with a new Android-based smartphone bearing the nice moniker of Benzine (not Benzene).The device, which has been named...
Dell Set To Launch Mac Mini Killer Called Zino HD
News Hardware
Pictures of a brand new lounge personal computer called Inspiron Zino HD and manufactured by US PC Maker Dell have emerged and have prompted loads of ooohhhs and aaahhs.The device is clearly aiming at Apple's Mac Mini (not the...
Leyio Sharing Device Get iPod Support
News Hardware
Leyio will add iPod synchronisation to its "flick to share" personal sharing device thanks to a soon-to-be released firmware update in three weeks' time.The 16GB gadget allows like-minded people (i.e. those who possess another...
Microsoft To Ship Outlook For Mac In Office 2010
News Hardware
Microsoft's other cash cow, Office, seems to be getting a lot of news recently; now has emerged that Office 2010 will include popular messaging application, Outlook, instead of Entourage.Outlook for Mac was dumped from Office...
