Articles Posted on 12 October 2009
Vodafone Unleashes Sony Ericsson Satio Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced the release of Sony Ericsson's latest cameraphone, the Satio, formerly known as the Idou, the first that comes with a camera with whopping 12.1 megapixel resolution.It combines both...
LG Demos Solar-Powered E-Book Reader
News Hardware
LG has revealed the working prototype of an accessory that can power an electronic book reader - in that particular case a model from Sony - using nothing more than solar power or ambient light.The photovoltaic cell is affixed on...
Google To Deploy Corporate Email On 35,000 Rentokil Desktops
News Business & Government
Google has announced that it will provide email services to 35,000 employees of giant British-based business services group, Rentokil Initial, in a deal that analysts expect may bring in up to $3.5 million per annum.Bryan...
Acer Recalls Apsire Laptops Over Heating Problems
News Mobile & Telco
Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has issued a voluntary recall of some of its Aspire laptops that have been sold worldwide before the 15th of September 2009.The affected unit are models carrying the names AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG,...
BT Vision To Miss Three Million Subscriptions Goal
News Hardware
In a rather blunt but sincere admission, BT Vision’s chief executive Marc Watson has claimed that the service will miss out on its previous target of having a user base between two and three million by the end of the next...
Conservatives Plan To Scrap Public Databases, Enshrine Privacy Rights
News Security
The Conservative Party has said that it will scrap some Government databases and enshrine a right to privacy in legislation if it is elected to Government next year. It also said it will give the Information Commissioner new...
Broadband Agreement Could Delay Orange and T-Mobile Merger
News Hardware
The proposed merger of T-Mobile and Orange could seriously be impacted by the government’s new regulations on spectrum distribution that are poised to be introduced soon.According to the new proposals, which could be...
Adobe Warns Users About Acrobat, Acrobat Reader Vulnerability
News Business & Government
Adobe has alerted its users of hacking attacks exploiting a zero-day security hole in Adobe Reader as well as Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 on all popular operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix.The software company...
Sky Blasts BBC Over Use Of Licence Money For Project Canvas
News Consumer
BSkyB has lambasted the BBC for using taxpayer’s money to invest into Project Canvas, a proposed joint venture involving some media heavyweights, such as the BBC, BT, ITV, and Five aimed at distributing content...
RIM's Blackberry Storm 2 To Arrive At Vodafone For £30 Per Month
News Mobile & Telco
The successor of the Blackberry Storm, aptly named, Storm 2, will go on sale soon on mobile phone network Vodafone for as little as £30 per month according to news reports.According to an article published by the Guardian,...
£200 MSI Wind U100 10in Mini Laptop - Black
News Hardware
The U100 has selected a 10" wide LCD display as oppose to the typical smaller sizes to provide better comfort while viewing or reading. In addition, the 1024x 600 resolution can relief concerns of the full display of WebPages...
£139.89 Hitachi Deskstar 2TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache
News Hardware
The Deskstar 7K2000 hard drive delivers a colossal two terabytes of storage capacity and 7200 RPM performance in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. Now in its fourth-generation, the 7K2000 is based on a robust mechanical design...
TomTom Car Kit For iPhone 3G/3GS Goes On Sale Officially For £100
News Mobile & Telco
Satnav specialist TomTom has finally released a car kit that will convert the iPhone into a fully fledged satellite navigation device for £100 and will certainly get some observers to question the future of stand alone...
Blackra1n Jailbreaks iPhone, iPod Touch With iPhoneOS 3.1.2
News Consumer
The iPhone Dev Team has done it yet again as it releases yet another jailbreaking tool to crack wide open Apple's latest iPod Touch/iPhone Firmware - in this case, version 3.1.2.Blackra1n has been released, courtesy of George...
Barnes & Noble To Rival Kindle With Android E-book Reader
News Software
Barnes and Noble, the US-based book retailer, will bring some much needed competition to Amazon's Kindle range of products and has enlisted the help of a well known partner, Google's Android.Daniel Jorrison, an executive with...
Rural Britain Needs Better Broadband Services Says Prince Charles
News Hardware
A consortium of some of the major countryside groups has expressed the need for enhanced broadband access in remote areas after the Prince of Wales showed concerns over what has been referred to as “broadband...
Facebook & Twitter To Land On Xbox 360 On 17th Of November?
News Mobile & Telco
Popular social networking services Facebook and Twitter will be available on Microsoft's Xbox 360 platform very soon according to an update on the official Xbox 360 UK page.Both services will need an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription...
Sky To Debut Sky Songs Digital Music Service
News Consumer
Sky is all set to join the league of digital music providers with its new online music service which is poised to be launched on Monday 19th of October.The new service will offer music enthusiasts a massive four million music...
Microsoft, T-Mobile Lose Data Of Sidekick Smartphone Users
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile network operator T-Mobile and its software and online service provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, have announced over the weekend that a technical snag in their systems would possibly led to some of its users...
