Articles Posted on 02 October 2009
Palm Pixi Goes On Sale In US On 20th, In UK By December?
News Hardware
Palm is set to debut the small sister of the Pre, the Pixi on the 20th of October with the budget smartphone expected to arrive in the UK by the end of the year. According to Boy Genius Report, the webOS-based device will be...
Injunction Served By British High Court Through Twitter
News Mobile & Telco
In what can be termed as landmark decision in legal history, the High Court has allowed an injunction to be served through the microblogging site Twitter on a case related to impersonation. The case relates to a petition filed by...
IBM To Compete With Microsoft & Google Apps With LotusLive iNotes
News Cloud
In a bid to take on Google and Microsoft in the web based business email domain, IBM has launched the LotusLive iNotes, a sophisticated on-demand e-mail, contact management system. The solution is primarily aimed at large...
Toshiba Completes Fujitsu Hard Drive Business Acquisition
News Hardware
Leading Japanese electronics firm, Toshiba has announced that it has taken over the hard drive business of rival Fujitsu with an eye on increasing its share in the netbook hard drive market. Fujitsu’s hard drive business...
T-Mobile Android-based Pulse Goes On Sale
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile has been a proponent of Google's platform since the beginning, having introduced the HTC G1 last year and the HTC Hero and Magic in 2009. The Pulse will be exclusively available on T-Mobile for now and its arrival could...
Sony PSP GO Console Now Available From £199.99
News Mobile & Telco
The PSP GO can be purchased for as little as £199.99 including delivery, a £25 drop from Sony's suggested retail price equivalent to a rather unconventional 11 percent saving. Play.com has the black version in stock...
Microsoft Rolls Out XP Mode For Windows 7
News Software
Microsoft has released the Windows XP mode, an add-on to the Windows 7 system which is designed to facilitate the functioning of legacy applications designed for Microsoft's now-antiquated but still popular operating...
Nvidia Plans Assault On Supercomputers With Fermi GPU
News Software
Nvidia has released the details of its new graphics processor architecture (GPU) called Fermi at its inaugural GPU Technology Conference on Wednesday. The company believes that Fermi, which shares its name with legendary Italian...
Facebook Clamps Down On Fraudsters' Fake Accounts
News Security
In a move aimed at reducing the increasing incidents of online frauds perpetuating through its platform, Facebook has reportedly blocked several profiles which were been used by cybercriminals to lure Facebook users to send them...
Microsoft Security Essentials Gets Thumbs Up From Users, Reviewers
News Security
Microsoft’s newly launched free anti virus scanner Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has received a good feedback from many internet users who feel that the package offers substantial protection to those who do not have...
Twitter To Introduce Friends Lists Feature Soon
News Security
Twitter has come up with a new feature which essentially makes it easier for its users to track the people they wish to follow on Twitter by neatly grouping them in lists. Twitter believes that its new feature called Lists can...
EU's EGNOS To Improve GPS Accuracy
News Web
With an aim of increasing the accuracy of the US global positioning system (GPS), the European Union (EU) has launched a free satellite navigation system called EGNOS, which apparently fine tunes accuracy of the GPS system to...
RIM Fixes Blackberry Phishing Vulnerability
News Mobile & Telco
Research In Motion (RIM) has come out with a security fix for a reported vulnerability in its BlackBerry smartphone range which apparently left its users susceptible to possible phishing attacks. RIM has urged it users to...
Did Apple Buy Placebase To Get Rid Of Google Maps?
News Hardware
Apple has quietly gone ahead and brought itself a mapping company called Placebase in July this year, a move, which some analysts say, gives a hint at Apple’s strategy to look beyond Google Maps. Details of the deal between...
Cisco Buys Video Conferencing Tandberg For $3 billion
News Hardware
In a move aimed at increasing its dominance in the video conferencing and online collaboration market, Cisco has agreed to purchase Norway's Tandberg ASA for a price of $3 billion in cash. Cisco, which incidentally is the largest...
Linux-Defending Patent Suit Blockers Buy 22 Microsoft Patents
News Software
A body formed by technology companies seeking to defend open source software against patent attacks has bought 22 patents until recently owned by proprietary software giant Microsoft. The Open Invention Network (OIN) is funded by...
Opinion : Sony Should Launch A PSP Go Phone
News Consumer
There's no denying that the PSP Go, Sony's newest portable gaming console, looks a lot like a touchscreen smartphone (think Blackberry Storm) when it is closed. It makes us wonder what it would take from the Japanese consumer...
