Articles Posted on 21 October 2009
Apple Releases Brand New iMacs
News Hardware
Apple has released a pair of new iMacs, one with a 21.5-inch screen capable of showing 1920x1080 pixels and the other with a 27-inch monitor that can display 2560x1440 pixels. Apart from the fact that both screen sizes are not...
Orange Upgrades Its Broadband Services To 20mbps
News Hardware
With an eye on increasing its penetration in the broadband market, telecommunications giant Orange has decided to boost its standard broadband speed offerings to up to 20mbps and it has also realigned its pricing plans in order...
Google Could Launch Music Service Soon
News Consumer
In a move aimed at tapping into the growing online music market, the search engine giant Google has firmed up its plans to launch a new music service and is actively looking for content for the platform. According to Techcrunch,...
Mobile Phone Users Not Likely To See Clowns (Or Anything Else)
News Mobile & Telco
According to a new study conducted by researchers at the Western Washington University in USA, people who talk on their mobile phones are very less likely to pay attention what is happening near them. The researchers...
Microsoft Launches Windows 7 Officially In UK
News Software
Microsoft held a low-key event earlier today in London to mark the official launch of its new operating system, Windows 7, and hopefully erase the bad memories associated with Windows Vista. In an era where broadband internet...
US Web Users Reject Behavioural Advertising, Study Finds
News Mobile & Telco
Americans do not want to be given tailored advertising based on monitoring of their online behaviour, according to what its authors call the first independent, academically rigorous survey of consumers' views. Research conducted...
RIM Introduces The Blackberry Bold 9700
News Mobile & Telco
Canadian smartphone manufacturer RIM, has announced that it will be launching the successor to the Bold 9000 which was launched back in 2008 and will be called the Bold 9700. The phone keeps the QWERTY keyboard but loses the...
Sun MicroSystems To Shed 3000 Jobs After Oracle Acquisition
News Software
Citing delays in its proposed takeover by Oracle Corp, Sun Microsystems has announced plans to pinkslip nearly 10 percent of its total employees over the next 12 months. The plan by Sun Microsystems to layoff nearly 3000...
Yahoo Q3 Profits Up Significantly But Revenues Fall
News Web
In what is seen by many as a good turnaround for the company, Yahoo has posted impressive profits in its third quarter results with earnings standing at $186m. Yahoo has managed to treble its profits as compared to the same...
Giant Zbot Botnet Trying To Trick Microsoft OWA Users
News Security
Security experts have discovered a massive spam campaign going on this week, attempting to distribute the password-stealing Zeus Trojan application across the internet. The Trojan has reportedly afflicting a large number of PCs...
Fedora Makes Beta 12 Available Online
News Software
The Fedora Project has unveiled the first and only beta of its Fedora 12 Linux distribution, dubbed as “Constantine” and it introduces a bunch of new improvements into the operating system suite. Since the Fedora team...
IBM VMControl To Slash Datacentre Management Costs
News Hardware
IBM on Tuesday unleashed a new software bundle tailored to pull the management of distinct arrays of servers under a single canopy, offering administrators an enhanced control over their systems. The new software suite codenamed...
SCO Says Good Bye To Darl McBride
News Software
UNIX software vendor firm SCO Group has sacked its chief executive and president Darl McBride, the company noted in its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The cash-strapped firm is as of now operating in...
Google Could Launch Its Own Android-based Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
In what could be seen as the most bizarre Android speculation that surfaced so far, rumours are abuzz that Google is prepping its own Android-powered handset, according to reports from TheStreet.com. An analyst from Northeast...
IBM Teams With Canonical Over Ubuntu Cloud Service
News Software
In a poor attempt to wreck Microsoft's Windows 7 launch, IBM and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu Linux, have joined forces to unleash an integrated cloud and Linux desktop package tailored for Netbooks and other low-end...
Microsoft Prepping Minor Windows Mobile 6.51 Upgrade
News Mobile & Telco
While Windows Mobile 6.5 platform isn’t apparently turning out to be a success on several handsets, Microsoft Corp. has decided to come up with a more user-friendly stopgap version of the operating system, version 6.5.1,...
BBC Rejects Calls To Open iPlayer To ITV, Channel 4
News Mobile & Telco
In a decision that is likely to deject many broadcasters who were keen to tap into BBC’s iPlayer platform, the BBC Trust has apparently rejected a proposal from BBC to create an Open iPlayer federation which would have...
£60 LG KU990 Viewty Lite T-Mobile Pay As You Go
News Mobile & Telco
Make no mistake, the LG Viewty, despite the unusual name, is a whole lot of high-tech loveliness stuffed inside the current handset style-of-choice; the touchscreen monolith! Yes, under the hood you’ll find an auto-focus 5...
£180 Acer Aspire One ZG5 8.9" Netbook with Windows XP
News Mobile & Telco
The Aspire one is great for getting things done: whether you're checking your mail, managing your online bank account or chatting with friends, Preinstalled with Windows XP Home Edition the Aspire One makes it easy to stay...
8mbps Be Value Broadband for £6.75 per month
News Hardware
Broadband straight up. Fantastic value. Super-reliable. And with a solid download speed of up to 8 meg. Get what you want, without limits, and with a fair usage policy that is actually fair. Download at speeds of up to 8meg. And...
