Articles Posted on 08 October 2009
Sony Reveals Vaio L Series Touchscreen PC
News Hardware
After the rather impressive Vaio X laptop which Sony calls the lightest laptop ever, the Japanese manufacturer has presented a stunning touchcreen computer called the Vaio L.This all-in-one computer has a huge 24-inch touch...
Securing the Future of the Internet
News Hardware
According to the Digital Britain report, the number of UK households with Internet access grew by 1.2m in the last 12 months alone, and over 70 per cent of us use the Internet on a daily basis. This is due in part to a technology...
Twitter Could Sign Data Sharing Pact With Google, Microsoft
News Hardware
Rumours floating across the blogosphere seem to suggest that both Microsoft and Google may be looking at getting access to Twitter's real-time data are in negotiations for licensing deals. According to All Things Digital, Twitter...
UK Mobile Networks "Unaware" Of Any Amazon Kindle Deal
News Mobile & Telco
Amazon might be pushing forward its popular electronic reader, Kindle, to more than 100 countries but it seems that at least in the UK, two of the country's biggest mobile operators have not been contacted to provide Amazon with...
Toshiba Partners With Super Talent Over Superfast SSDs
News Hardware
Flash storage specialist Super Talent has announced that it will co-brand its forthcoming SATA UltraDrive DX solid state drives using parts from Japanese manufacturer Toshiba. The drives come with two level of security that...
HP, Cisco Could Buy Brocade Soon
News Hardware
The competition amongst major players in the networking equipment market is likely to go up in any of them manage to purchase Brocade, a company known for its robust storage and networking solutions. Amongst the names...
Sony Showcases 655g Super-thin Vaio-X Notebook
News Mobile & Telco
Sony will release its extremely light Vaio-X notebook - which it presents as the world's lightest laptop - in the UK in November, a few weeks after Windows 7 is launched. The laptop, which was presented earlier last month at IFA...
Cisco Links Up With Salesforce To Provide Call Centre Services
News Consumer
Cisco Systems and Salesforce.com have joined forces to offer an internet-hosted service to call centres that would connect the users over the web and will help calling executives in effectively address customers’ problems...
Windows 8, 9 Details Emerge, Points To 128-bit OS Versions
News Software
Microsoft’s Research department has let slipped the details on the next iterations of Windows that will succeed to the yet-to-be-launched Windows 7 operating system, according to media sources. The leaked data is pointing...
Hotmail Phishing Scandal Shows Most Common Password Is 123456
News Security
A detailed analysis of the list of Hotmail passwords that were leaked on Pastebin.com showed that the most commonly used password is the string "123456" which appeared 64 times in all. According to Bogdan Calin, chief technology...
Dell To Launch Android Smartphone In Europe, US in 2010
News Mobile & Telco
Dell is set to debut a new smartphone based on Google's Android platform in the US and in Europe as early as in the first quarter of 2010 according to sources close to the plan. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company...
US & Egypt Collaborate To Bust Huge Phishing Ring
News Security
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with Egyptian authorities to take the wrappers off from a big phishing scam in a highly sophisticated operation dubbed as “Phish Phry” that eventually led to the...
Motorola To Wait For Windows Mobile 7, Concentrates On Android
News Hardware
After Sony Ericsson has made it somewhat clear that it’s giving up on Windows Mobile operating system, Motorola seems to be another big mobile company to follow the trend. Christy Wyatt, VP of software platform at the...
Terracotta Updates Ehcache Cache Management Solution
News Software
Terracotta has unveiled a new product called Terracotta for Caching which incorporates technology from its recently acquired Ehcache solution and can offer both simplicity and scalability that most enterprises today are looking...
Nokia E72 Available For Preorder From £322 SIM Free
News Mobile & Telco
The successor to the popular Nokia E71, the E72, has gone on sale for as little as £322 from a number of online retailers although the device is only due for release by the end of the November. Nokia's online shop has it...
UK Teenagers Believe Google Ranks Sites By Truthfulness
News Hardware
A sizable proportion of teenagers aged between 12 and 15 surveyed by Ofcom believe that the search engine giant Google relies upon “truthfulness” as the main criterion for including websites into its search...
Red Hat Teams Up With Microsoft On Virtualised Servers
News Software
In what can be termed as a sign of things to come, leading Linux solution vendor Red Hat announced on Wednesday that its Enterprise Linux server operating system can be safely used with Microsoft Windows Server on the same...
Steve Ballmer Candidly Tells It All At London Event
News Hardware
Microsoft’s exuberant chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has pitched hopes for a rather lustrous future of the company and showed huge confidence in Windows 7 as the new shining star. Mr Ballmer, who took the reins of the...
Spotify Forces Napster To Review Subscription Strategy
News Consumer
Spotify’s recent hype as the most sought after music streaming service in the UK has eventually prompted rival Napster to rehaul its UK music offering, making it more affordable than its erstwhile subscription service. In...
Sears Told To Destroy Data Gathered By Online Tracking Software
News Hardware
US retailer Sears has been ordered to destroy all the customer data it collected from a piece of online tracking software that consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said was unfairly used. The FTC said that while...
Palm Pre UK Previews : Could Do (Much) Better
News Mobile & Telco
Only eight days before the Palm Pre is officially launch in the UK and suddenly, within a few hours, several UK Tech websites have released their reviews of the promising smartphone possibly because of some non-disclosure...
