Articles Posted on 08 September 2009
£288 28" Viewsonic VX2835wm Widescreen LCD, 1920x1200
News Hardware
ViewSonic’s 28” VX2835wm widescreen (27.5” viewable) LCD amplifies your desktop experience. With ultra-fast 3ms response and integrated speakers and amp, the VX2835wm offers high performance features that...
£130 Advent 4489 Atom Netbook 1.6 GHz 512 MB 80 GB MS Windows XP Home
News Software
The fantastic value 4489 is super portable weighing just 1.12Kg and still has the capacity for all your internet surfing and other mobile computing needs. Lightweight and stylish, the Advent 4489 provides you with a great way to...
£673 LG 50PS3000 50" 1080p Full HD Plasma TV
News Hardware
The 50" HD Ready 1080p PS3000 delivers superior 600Hz sub-field driving technology to eliminate motion blur, perfect for watching sport and movies. LG 600Hz Sub-Field Driving Plasma technology provides zero motion blur and the...
£250 Asus EeePC 1005HA Seashell 10-inch Netbook
News Mobile & Telco
A mere 1 inch slim and 1.27 kg light, the uber-stylish Eee PC 1005HA Seashell is ultra portable and easy to use. The Eee PC 1005HA is so light and compact, you can take it anywhere with you. Dressed in a sparkling...
Spotify Dirty Little DRM Secret Crucial On Mobile Platforms
News Consumer
The roaring success of Spotify, the online music service, is owed partly to the fact that it is a free service - that's as far as consumers are concerned and it appears that the record and independent music labels have been...
Yahoo! Flickr Releases Native iPhone App
News Web
iPhone users now have another massive application to play with as popular photography website Flickr has released an official application for the iPhone platform which can be obtained for free from Apple's App Store (via...
Five Losers In The T-Mobile & Orange Merger
News Hardware
Make no mistake, there will only be one winner in the Joint Venture between Orange and T-Mobile and it is unlikely to be the latter, Deutsche Telekom's shareholders, UK customers, Three Networks or Virgin Mobile. But it is...
HTC Debuts £320 Android-based Tattoo Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone maker HTC has unveiled a new smartphone based on the Android platform called Tattoo; the company chose this name because both the platform and the device itself can be customised and personalised to the user's...
Spotify To Kill Pandora & Nokia's Comes With Music?
News Consumer
Spotify's plan to dominate the music industry worldwide appear to be picking up speed with the launch of applications for three different mobile platforms - iPhone, Android and S60 - planned or already executed. Two of the...
Asus To Launch EEE E-Book Reader With Two Screens
News Mobile & Telco
Taiwanese powerhouse Asus is looking to launch an e-book reader as part of the EEE family which not only comes with two screens but could also be sold for as little as £100 (albeit a single screen version). According to the...
Lawsuit Accuses T-Mobile Of Asking Hourly Staff To Check Email 'Off The Clock'
News Security
T-Mobile could face a class action lawsuit over claims that it made employees work without pay using mobile phones and email devices. The US suit highlights concerns about employee rights at a time of always-on...
Psystar To Offer Snow Leopard Clone Mac Machines
News Hardware
The ongoing legal battle with Apple over manufacturing Mac clones hasn't discouraged Psystar from launching a clone PC range that can support Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard. However, the company has...
Content Industry To Launch Anti Piracy Drive Targeting Y-Generation
News Consumer
UK's Industry Trust for IP Awareness (ITIPA) has launched campaign to persuade so-called “Generation Y-Pay" users to stop pirating content by telling them that illicit downloads has been afflicting their favourite...
Google To Partner With Hasbro On Free Online Monopoly Game
News Consumer
Google is joining forces with the world’s largest board game maker, Hasbro, to come up with an online avatar of the hugely popular property game Monopoly. The California-based company has asked Hasbro to produce a web-based...
Google Makes Compromises In European Book Plans
News Security
In an attempt to tone down European publishers’ fears over its plans of books' digitisation, Google confirmed that commercially available European books won’t be placed in its online catalogue of out-of-print works,...
Spotify : 800 Percent Growth In Six Months
News Mobile & Telco
Another interesting piece of data that we managed to extract from today's releases is that the company grew its user base from one million in March 2009 to eight million end of August. That's a staggering 800 percent increase in...
T-Mobile To Launch Joint Venture With Orange
News Hardware
T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom and Orange’s France Telecom have revealed plans to merge their UK businesses to create the country’s biggest mobile phone network, it has been reported. The two companies have confirmed...
