Articles Posted on 07 September 2009
How Much Money Is Spotify Making?
News Mobile & Telco
Spotify has released mobile applications for two platforms today - iPhone and Android - and is set to launch one for the Symbian S60 soonish. This brings up an interesting question - how much money is Spotify is making? The BBC...
Spotify Demos App For S60 Platform
News Consumer
Online music service Spotify has demonstrated an application for the popular Symbian S60 platform, which is by far the most popular smartphone platform worldwide. A video of Spotify running on a Nokia slide phone - like the Nokia...
New Technologies in Data Centers : Database Virtualisation and Active Active Databases
News Hardware
Bilal Mehdi, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK) discusses the benefits of new database virtualisation and active/active databases. Today’s datacenter environments, typical enterprise applications are heavily...
PS3 Sales Surge By 1000 Percent After Slim Console Appears
News Security
Sales of PS3 console have increased significantly after Sony introduced a new slim version of the gaming device and dropped its price by £30. Dorian Bloch from Chart-track, said that week-to-week Playstation 3 sales had...
Parents Not Doing Enough To Protect Children From Online Pedophiles
News Hardware
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has issued a stark warning to parents who are leaving their children to surf the internet unattended. In a statement, the CEO of the CEOP, Jim Gamble, called for parents to be...
Spotify Debuts App For iPhone & Android Mobile Users
News Mobile & Telco
Online streaming music startup Spotify has released a free application for the iPhone and Google Android platform after fears Apple would block the move were dispelled. That said, the application (which bears the version number...
Facebook Better For Your Brain Than Twitter
News Software
According to research carried out by boffins at a Scottish university, using social networking website Facebook has more benefits for your working memory than playing around with Twitter. Tracy Alloway, a psychologist at Stirling...
Young Brits Are Confused About Legality Of File-Sharing
News Security
Young people continue to download as much copyright-infringing music as ever and are still confused about their liability for copyright infringement, a study of their music habits has found. The survey of over 1,800 British 14 to...
Google's Front Page Doodle Linked To Japanese Video Game
News Security
Last week, Google changed its search engine logo - one of the most recognisable designs - to depict a flying saucer pulling away the second "O" in Google with a tractor beam. As expected, this rather significant move by the...
Amazon Offers Apologies & Refund For Deleted 1984 Orwell Book
News Software
Online retailing giant Amazon has extended its apologies for deleting copies of George Orwell novels from its Kindle users’ libraries, and agreed to compensate by either redelivering the copies, or offering a gift cheque of...
Google Adds New Features To Android Market
News Mobile & Telco
Addressing some of the common concerns of developers’ community, Google has spruced up its signature mobile app store, Android Market, by bringing upon a handful of key changes, according to a blog post from Google’s...
Microsoft Delays MS Word Sale Ban
News Software
Microsoft Corp. has won a stay on a federal court ruling that forced it to stop selling its Word document processing application by the next month, according to various reports. The US Court of Appeals in Washington DC has...
Nokia Won't Appear At Mobile World Congress 2010
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia has never failed to make a mark in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) until now, but the next year’s MWC is going to miss out on Nokia devices. The Finnish mobile phone giant, which is the world’s largest mobile...
