Articles Posted on 24 August 2009
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Available On August 28th
News Hardware
A great reason for Mac addicts to stay indoors during the forthcoming Bank Holiday, Mac OS X 10.6 AKA Snow Leopard, will be officially released (and shipped) on Friday 28th of August. Apple's store went down worldwide earlier...
Exploring Betavine, Vodafone's Open Mobile Application Community
News Mobile & Telco
Back in January 2007, mobile phone operator Vodafone launched an open source community portal called Betavine which was initially destined to become the research and development space for the company. It grew up to become a place...
Facebook To Increase Staff Numbers By 50 Percent By End 2009
News Security
Social networking website Facebook is bucking the trend when it comes to shedding away staff as it is embarking on a recruitment spree that will see the number of staff employed by the company increase by 50 percent. Facebook...
Rhapsody Sends iPhone App To Apple For Approval
News Mobile & Telco
Real Networks has announced on a blog post that it has sent an application based on its Rhapsody music service to Apple's App reviewing section. The application, which is free, would allow users to access the 8 million or so...
Microsoft Partners With Wolfram Alpha To Take On Google?
News Web
Microsoft has apparently struck a secret partnership with geeky, upmarket, data-focused search engine whizz kid, Wolfram Alpha, to include the latter's content in Bing's search engine results pages. According to Erick Schonfeld...
Nokia To Release Windows-based Netbook
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia has announced the release of its first Windows product, a netbook called Booklet 3G which is powered by an Atom processor, and comers nearly 19 years after the Finnish manufacturer sold its PC business. The world's largest...
Apple Ready To Launch Tablet PC?
News Hardware
Ever since Timothy D. Cook, Apple's Chief Executive Officer, said that the company would be launching a product that is very innovative and that is something they are very proud of, rumours of an Apple Tablet have flared. And to...
5 Things To Expect From INQ Spotify Phone
News Mobile & Telco
It has yet to be announced but one can be sure that INQ is busy designing (or at least integrate) Spotify's popular online music streaming service into its future phones. As reported during the weekend, Li Ka-Shing, the elusive...
Easier Android Root Hacking Method Goes Public
News Mobile & Telco
Capitalising upon the open-source characteristic of Android platform, a developer has come up with a new application that performs Android-equivalent jailbreaking, prominently referred to as “rooting”, for the handset...
Pirate Bay Suitor In Financial Trouble As Stock Trading Is Stopped
News Business & Government
Just within a week before Global Game Factory X (GGF) is set to snap up the infamous Bittorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, the deal seems to be slipping into the grips of some serious troubles, as all trading the GGF’s...
Wednesday, Most Miserable Day of the Week, According to Tweet & Blog Analysis
News Web
Discarding the long-standing assumption about Monday being the most miserable day of the week, a recent research has shown that most of us like the first day back at office after the weekend, as the day has been rated as the...
Microsoft Scores Major Copyright Win In China Against Windows XP Pirates
News Software
Microsoft Corp. has claimed a big triumph in China, after a court in an eastern city of the country sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in jail for selling pirated versions of Windows XP operating...
