Articles Posted on 31 August 2009
3 Mifi Wireless Service Starts From £70
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone operator 3 has announced that its nifty little Mobile wireless router otherwise known as MiFi, should be available online from the 17th of September. The clever part of the MiFi is that you don't need any land line;...
Lord Mandelson Requests Summit With CEOs Of UK Mobile Phone Operators
News Hardware
Lord Mandelson, it seems, is looking to solve the issue associated with fast broadband access across the United Kingdom as soon as possible. The Guardian reported that the business secretary has "summoned" the heads of UK's five...
Twitter Teenage Users Introduce New Words To Dictionary
News Web
Teenage twittering seems to have a big impact over the usage of modern day English language, as the microblogging activity has added several words to the new edition of the dictionary and even helped revive some of the redundant...
Facebook IP Protection Is Only For Companies That Join
News Web
Companies which were promised the chance to protect their trade marks from being used as Facebook addresses have been told they can now only do so by signing up for a Facebook page. When Facebook allowed users to customise web...
Virgin Media "Overwhelmed" By Migrating BT Broadband Customers
News Mobile & Telco
Cable giant Virgin Media has been flooded with the users looking forward to switch from BT services, a spokesman for the internet service provider told The Register. In an interview with the news website, the spokesman asserted...
More Than A Third Of UK Households Can't Get Broadband Says ONS
News Hardware
According to recent stats from the Office for National Statistics, around one third of the households in UK don’t have access to the internet, and 37 percent of the internet users can’t access the web through a...
Hackers Penetrate Apache Project Server Using SSH Vulnerability
News Security
The website of Apache Project went offline for several hours last weekend after some anonymous hackers reportedly uploaded and executed malicious codes on the website’s servers. The hackers seemingly employed a stolen SSH...
EA Head Of Tech Foresees PS3.5 Before PS4
News Security
Addressing the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford, Rich Hilleman, the chief creative officer at game publisher Electronic Arts, forecasted that both Sony and Microsoft will roll out their new game consoles in stages, instead of...
British Men Spy On Partners Via Facebook
News Security
A recent survey has revealed that a considerable proportion of British men are more likely to snooping on their partners on the social networking site Facebook. The research study, which included 2000 UK adults and was...
