Articles Posted on 17 August 2009
BT Rolls Out 20Mbps Broadband Upgrade
News Hardware
BT has announced that it will offer speeds of up to 20mbps broadband to all its customers from today together with a BT accelerator pack that could in theory increase internet speeds by 1.5mbps. Users will hopefully enjoy a...
Advent Launches Altro Macbook Air Rival
News Hardware
Advent, a subsidiary of DSGi, has released a pair of notebooks that uses Intel's new CULV platform and is squarely aimed at those looking for an Apple Macbook Air clone on the cheap. The Advent Altro, which is the entry level...
Facebook for iPhone 3.0 App Sent For Approval
News Mobile & Telco
Facebook is set to launch the third version of the very popular and free to own Facebook App for iPhone after the application was submitted to the almighty Apple App store for approval.The application which clocked more than 12...
Wikipedia Reaches Three Millionth Article Milestone
News Business & Government
Online knowledge database Wikipedia has announced that it has reached the three million articles mark, more than 8 years after it was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.The site, who's ranked amongst the ten biggest...
Microsoft To Increase Price Of Xbox 360 Arcade To £160
News Security
Microsoft has informed its retailers that it will be increasing the price of its Arcade Xbox 360 bundle by a throat-choking £30 to £160 whilst at the same time removing the five XBLA games that used to come with the...
Dell To Unveil Red Mini 3i Android Smartphone In China
News Mobile & Telco
Dell will finally unveiled its unofficial successor to its Axim PDA in the form of an Android-based smartphone called the Mini 3i at an event held by China Mobile.There have been a number of rumours about this phone, with the...
Facebook Needs To Protect Privacy Better, Says Canadian Watchdog
News Security
Facebook does not protect personal information well enough to comply with Canadian data protection law, the Canadian Privacy Commissioner has said. Jennifer Stoddart's office has investigated the social networking website's use...
"Screenagers" Generation Clock Up to 10 Hours Of Monitor Usage
News Security
UK youngsters have literally turned into “screenagers” who spend around ten hours a day glued to a variety of screens including TVs, computers, mobile phones, and video games, according to a new survey. The survey...
TomTom Arrives In Apple's iPhone App Store
News Mobile & Telco
Satnav giant TomTom has officially launched an Application for Apple's iPhone and will be available for £60 at the popular online store as from today.Navigon and Copilot have already released their Satnav applications for...
Psystar Takes On Apple In Massive Legal Dispute
News Hardware
The ongoing legal clash between Apple and Mac clone-maker Psystar has taken a new interesting turn this week, with the latter taking testimony from Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller, and has several other executives...
China Unicom Says No To iPhone
News Consumer
China Unicom, the mobile operator which seems set to become an official iPhone carrier in the region, has dismissed rumours that it has already penned an agreement and will purchase a whopping 5 million iPhones to cater to the...
Netscape Founder Backs Facebook-linked Rockmelt Browser
News Web
Marc Andreessen, one of the co-founders of the Netscape browser, which brought the web to millions of users in the 1990s, is overtly backing a new browser start-up, dubbed as “RockMelt”, in an apparent attempt to make...
Girl Slags Off Boss On Facebook And Gets Fired
News Security
A woman was seemingly fired from her job after she posted derogatory remarks about her boss on social networking site Facebook, forgetting that she had added her boss into her friend list before posting that abusive rant. The...
Lord Mandelson Has UK File-sharers In Sight In Clampdown
News Web
The Business Secretary Lord Mandelson seems set to take a stiffer stance to crack down hard on illegal file sharing over the web, with new set of regulations that could make the offenders see their connections cut off or even pay...
A Need For Speed : ITProPortal.com Site Update
News Security
This morning, I walked out of Starbucks because I was in a queue of 10 other people, with just one person was serving. Although it was a pain to go somewhere else, I’d rather spend my time and money where the service is...
