Articles Posted on 02 September 2009
Is The Nokia N97 Mini Worth It At All?
News Hardware
The N97 Mini smartphone has now been officially released and is already available on pre-order from Nokia's UK store for £433. But given the price of the N97, the forthcoming availability of Nokia's own N900 Internet Tablet...
Sony To Debut 3D LCD TV Sets In 2010
News Consumer
Sony has announced at an IFA event in Berlin, Germany, that it will be launching 3D television for households as early as next year without giving a more precise time frame. Sir Howard Stringer, the CEO of the Consumer giant,...
Nokia To Pit The X3 Smartphone Against Apple's iPod Nano?
News Consumer
Nokia's new X3 handset might not have the same credentials as its bigger brother, the X6, but it could well become the most successful "Comes With Music" mobile phone to date and even eclipse Apple's iPod range. The device...
Change Your Network Manufacturer
News Hardware
Time for a change? All network systems manufacturers are not the same. While this may not be a startling revelation, a key consequence does often go overlooked: changing your network manufacturer, or even simply considering doing...
Nokia Reveals The X6, Its Sexiest Music Phone Yet
News Consumer
Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia has unveiled one new smartphone at its Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany; the X6, which has already been hailed by some as the best looking Nokia phone yet. The X6 sheds Nokia's normally...
YouTube Clarifies Ban On Privacy Invasions, Harassment And Threats
News Security
YouTube has clarified the conditions under which it would remove videos that invade people's privacy or harass, impersonate or threaten them. YouTube maintains 'community guidelines' and removes videos that are flagged by users...
Google To Add Video Results in Search Pages?
News Software
In its attempts to woo the entertainment industry ad dollars, the search engine bellwether Google would now be letting the brands to show their popular videos alongside its paid search results, as it continues exploring...
Nearly 24,000 Sign Online Petition For Alan Turing
News Consumer
An online petition demanding a posthumous apology by the UK government to Alan Turing - a mathematician and cryptographer who cracked German codes during the Second World War - has gained a strong support from the online...
Council Forbids Employees From Using Facebook
News Mobile & Telco
A council is set to ban its staff from using the social networking website Facebook after it was disclosed that its staffers visited the platform an average of 413 hours in a month. Stats released under the Freedom of Information...
Google's Gmail Fails Again
News Mobile & Telco
A “majority” of 150 million Gmail users across the globe were not able to access the email service for almost two hours due to some technical glitch, Google has confirmed. The reason behind the massive outage - which...
Nokia Officially Unveils N97 Mini
News Hardware
The N97 Mini is finally with us and according to Nokia's Executive Vice President of Markets, Anssi Vanjoki, is a modified version of the N97 which targets social networking aficionados. As expected, the Nokia N97 mini is a...
Virgin Media Drops Price Of 50mbps Broadband
News Consumer
As expected, cable Powerhouse Virgin Media has dropped the price of its flagship offer, the XXL 50mbps broadband, from £35 to £18 for a limited period when buying a phone line at the same time. The introductory price...
Samsung Launches Cheapo Corby Touchscreen Smartphone
News Hardware
The world's second biggest phone manufacturer Samsung has quietly released an entry level smartphone with touchscreen capabilities, the S3650 or Corby, which aims at a younger, more hippier audience. Available in Jamaican Yellow,...
