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Articles Posted on 29 September 2009

The Weakest Business Continuity Link…

The Weakest Business Continuity Link…

News Security

It’s always important to manage your supply chain continuity and risks, but this is particularly relevant in times of economic downturn or instability.  You only have to think of some of the big names that have...


5 Reasons Why Dell's Latitude Z Notebook Beats Apple's MacBook Air

5 Reasons Why Dell's Latitude Z Notebook Beats Apple's MacBook Air

News Hardware

Dell launched the Latitude Z laptop out of nowhere and compared to the fanfare that accompanied its previous sleek-and-posh notebook, the Adamo, the Texan company has been unreasonably quiet about what turned out to be an...


UK Mobile Networks At The Mercy Of Apple In iPhone Talks?

UK Mobile Networks At The Mercy Of Apple In iPhone Talks?

News Mobile & Telco

Observers largely agree that Apple releasing the iPhone on several mobile phone networks will spark a massive price war across the nation early next year, something that we reckon might not be as easy as you'd think. Although the...


iPhone Game Built In 48 Hours

iPhone Game Built In 48 Hours

News Software

London-based developers ustwo™ have just released a new addictive game that involves a dot in a quest to eat food and avoid poisonous triangles; unsurprisingly the name of the game is dot(tm) or in ustwo's own peculiar...


Business Continuity Resilience

Business Continuity Resilience

News Security

Splitting your IT equipment across multiple computer rooms is a good way of increasing resilience and reducing your risk, right? Not necessarily!  Unless system components are duplicated or mirrored to give true resilience,...


O2 Won't Cut iPhone Costs As It Could Face User Rebellion

O2 Won't Cut iPhone Costs As It Could Face User Rebellion

News Mobile & Telco

By next year, you should be able to buy the iPhone on three networks, O2, Vodafone and Orange, although all existing iPhone customers will possibly be tied up to O2 because of their contract terms and conditions. The Telegraph...


Dell Launches Wireless-Charging Latitude Z Laptop

Dell Launches Wireless-Charging Latitude Z Laptop

News Hardware

Dell has announced what looks to be the big brother of its high end laptop phenomenon, the Adamo; the Latitude Z is an upmarket enterprise-bound laptop with a difference, it doesn't need wires to get charge. Furthermore, Dell...


Toshiba Launches CULV-based Laptops

Toshiba Launches CULV-based Laptops

News Consumer

Japanese manufacturer Toshiba has unveiled two laptops based on Intel's Consumer Ultra Low Voltage platform otherwise known as CULV; the Satellite T110 and T130 will be targeting those looking for a bit more than netbooks. Both...


After Orange, Vodafone Set To Sell iPhone In 2010

After Orange, Vodafone Set To Sell iPhone In 2010

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone network Vodafone has announced early today that it will be joining Orange in selling the iPhone to its customers, leaving T-Mobile and 3 Networks as the only non MVNO networks not offering the iPhone. Unfortunately...


Youtube Signs Agreement With Warner Music Group Over Disputed Content

Youtube Signs Agreement With Warner Music Group Over Disputed Content

News Consumer

After a nine-month long dispute over licensing terms, Warner Music Group Corp has finally agreed to return its tracks and music videos to the Google-owned online video platform YouTube, according to media sources. The two...


Rivals Wants EU To Reconsider IE Ballot Screen Decision

Rivals Wants EU To Reconsider IE Ballot Screen Decision

News Software

While the European Commission is reportedly planning to wind up the long-standing antitrust case against Microsoft for bundling IE with Windows, rival web browsers are urging regulators not to approve the software maker’s...


German Government Lodges Objection To Google Books Deal

German Government Lodges Objection To Google Books Deal

News Web

The German Government has lodged an objection to the deal which will allow Google to continue to scan, and sell digitised copies of, many of the world's in-copyright books. A court will decide in October if a $125 million deal...


BT Kickstarts Campaign On Mis-selling Telecom Practices

BT Kickstarts Campaign On Mis-selling Telecom Practices

News Mobile & Telco

Telecom giant BT has joined forces with the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) to kick off a campaign against what it refers to as ‘mis-selling’ by a number of fixed-line telecom companies. The campaign is urging the...


Apple's iPhone To Come to Chinese Via China Unicom

Apple's iPhone To Come to Chinese Via China Unicom

News Mobile & Telco

China Unicom, the second largest mobile operator in China, on Monday announced that it would start offering Apple’s iPhone in the country from next month. The company further asserted that the blockbuster smartphone will be...


Millions Of Freeview Boxes & TV Sets To Be Retuned

Millions Of Freeview Boxes & TV Sets To Be Retuned

News Consumer

More than 18 million digital TV set-top boxes connected to Freeview broadcasting system will need to be retuned this Wednesday - or else users could end up losing their key TV channels and radio stations. Simultaneously, another...


Youtube & Google Deliver 10 Billion Videos In August

Youtube & Google Deliver 10 Billion Videos In August

News Mobile & Telco

Web metrics company comScore on Monday claimed that a record number of internet users in the US watched online videos in August with YouTube snaring a majority share of the audience. A staggering 161 million users in the US...


Broadband Buyers Prefer Reliability To Speed Says Survey

Broadband Buyers Prefer Reliability To Speed Says Survey

News Hardware

Broadband users in the UK value internet connection reliability more than any other aspect of their broadband services, according to a recent survey. The research, conducted by a broadband comparison site BroadbandChoices.co.uk,...


£55 Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM

£55 Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM

News Hardware

The Samsung Spinpoint F3 operates at 7200RPM and with this offering being 1TB of data storage capacity using just two 500GB per platter disks it offers suberb speeds. As well as meeting datacentre requirements for addition...


£90 Blackberry 8110 GPS Pink Clearance on Orange Pay as You Go Mobile Phone

£90 Blackberry 8110 GPS Pink Clearance on Orange Pay as You Go Mobile Phone

News Mobile & Telco

The BlackBerry 8110 Pearl is an indispensable business tool which takes mobile communication to another level. This Smartphone comes with a QWERTY style layout keyboard for fast text and email composition. Gain quick access to...


£15 15GB Three Mobile Broadband

£15 15GB Three Mobile Broadband

News Mobile & Telco

Available to new approved customers registering on a 24 month minimum term Broadband 15GB plan while customer remains on promoted price plan. Charges of 10p per MB apply if 15GB allowance is exceeded. Compatible with Windows...


£30 p/m LG BL40 Chocolate Orange 600 Min, Ultd Texts

£30 p/m LG BL40 Chocolate Orange 600 Min, Ultd Texts

News Web

The LG BL40 Chocolate mobile phone has an impressive 4 inch HD (High Definition) diagonal touchscreen, with a pixel resolution of 800x345 – it’s long. The touchscreen is ‘capacitive’, which means...


£599.99 Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Sim Free Black

£599.99 Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Sim Free Black

News Consumer

With improved performance making the web more accessible and email even quicker, the iPhone 3G S is up to 2 x faster than the previous iPhone 3G. Capture and edit video footage with the VGA video and then share by email or upload...

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