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Articles Posted on 27 October 2009

Sky Launches Player For Xbox 360 Gaming Platform

Sky Launches Player For Xbox 360 Gaming Platform

News Hardware

Sky has officially unleashed its player for the Xbox 360 gaming console today with packages starting from £15 per month, depending on the channels included in the deal. A significant number of channels will be included in...


Cisco To Acquire Scansafe For $183 million

Cisco To Acquire Scansafe For $183 million

News Security

Cisco has announced that it will be acquiring SAAS security company Scansafe in a deal expected to top $183 million and which will give the networking giant a foothold in the growing web-based security segment. Scansafe is a well...


More Rumours Emerge About Apple Tablet PC

More Rumours Emerge About Apple Tablet PC

News Hardware

Apple may be getting ready to release its tablet computer next year according to a number of sources close to the project and CES 2010 where Steve Jobs is due to give a keynote speech, may well be the event where it will all...


Microsoft Pulls Out Of Family Guy Partnership

Microsoft Pulls Out Of Family Guy Partnership

News Software

With an eye on avoiding any adverse impact on its brand image, Microsoft has withdrawn its sponsorship of a controversial US cartoon series Family Guy, citing the show’s allegedly offensive content as the reason behind its...


Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 "Rachel" Smartphone To Launch On November 3rd

Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 "Rachel" Smartphone To Launch On November 3rd

News Mobile & Telco

Sony Ericsson has unveiled a new teaser page that promises to reveal a new product on the 3rd of November and all hints indicate that it will be the Xperia X3, otherwise known as Rachael or the X10. Peeping through the page's...


Eolas Sues Internet Aristocracy Over Embedded Application Patents

Eolas Sues Internet Aristocracy Over Embedded Application Patents

News Business & Government

A company which once won a $565 million patent settlement from Microsoft is now suing 23 other companies on the same patent and another one that it claims is "a continuation" of it. Eolas is suing some of the internet's biggest...


Facebook New Feature Suggests Reconnecting With Dead Loved Ones

Facebook New Feature Suggests Reconnecting With Dead Loved Ones

News Hardware

In a move aimed at encompassing more real time happenings through its platform, Facebook has updated its site by introducing a new ‘summary view’ on its homepage that is designed to offer instant access to updates as...


Facebook And Myspace In Talks About Sharing Content

Facebook And Myspace In Talks About Sharing Content

News Security

In a surprising development, social networking rivals Facebook and MySpace have initiated talks for placing content from MySpace including music and video on the Facebook platform.The interesting development has been reported by...


Nintendo Wii Black Edition To Cost £165 At Online Retailers

Nintendo Wii Black Edition To Cost £165 At Online Retailers

News Security

Nintendo's surprise gaming console, the Wii Limited Back Edition, will be available nationwide on the 6th of November but buyers can already pre-order it from a number of online retailers including Currys, Play.com or Amazon for...


Google Voice Now Works With Your Own Number

Google Voice Now Works With Your Own Number

News Mobile & Telco

In a move aimed at increasing the popularity of its telephony service, the search engine giant Google has now allowed the users of Google Voice to utilize their mobile numbers for collecting voice messages instead of a Google...


Gary McKinnon Extradition Halted Due To Health Reasons

Gary McKinnon Extradition Halted Due To Health Reasons

News Security

In what does come across as a major respite for Gary McKinnon who was facing extradition to US over charges of hacking, the Home Secretary Alan Johnson has halted the extradition proceedings on health grounds.It is important to...


£20 Per Month T-Mobile SIM Only 600 Min, Unlimited Texts, Internet

£20 Per Month T-Mobile SIM Only 600 Min, Unlimited Texts, Internet

News Mobile & Telco

Inclusive minutes and texts are from the UK to all UK mobiles and numbers starting with 01, 02 or 03 at any time. This doesn't cover Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Picture messages and voicemail aren't part of inclusive...


£190 Acer Tempo M900 Smartphone 3.8-inch LCD, Keyboard, 5-megapixel camera

£190 Acer Tempo M900 Smartphone 3.8-inch LCD, Keyboard, 5-megapixel camera

News Mobile & Telco

Effective control. Efficient. Practical. Productive. Keep pace with your emails wherever you are. The Acer Tempo M900 with a sliding physical keyboard makes mobile business effortless.  Tear down the walls of your office....


Qualcomm Innovation Center Launched

Qualcomm Innovation Center Launched

News Software

In a bid to step up its mobile open source efforts, Qualcomm on Monday has unleashed a distinct wholly-owned subsidiary to develop open source software for various mobile systems. The subsidiary, codenamed as the ‘Qualcomm...


Multi-lingual Domain Names Coming Soon

Multi-lingual Domain Names Coming Soon

News Mobile & Telco

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) seems all set to come up with some handy propositions in a bid to make the internet a more amicable entity to the millions of users across the globe.The global...


Cloud Computing As A Strategic Economic Tool: Rising to the Challenge

Cloud Computing As A Strategic Economic Tool: Rising to the Challenge

News Hardware

The current recession has made enterprises around the globe take a long hard look at the way they are doing business and forced many of them to revisit their core principles about how they manage IT. In particular, they are...


Google Social Search Launched

Google Social Search Launched

News Web

In a perceptible attempt to capitalise upon the surging influence of real-time social networking in modern times, Google has rushed out the beta iteration of its proposed search tool for social networking platforms, codenamed as...


National Radio Website To Debut In 2010

National Radio Website To Debut In 2010

News Mobile & Telco

A recent report is suggesting that a new website that would offer all British radio stations from one virtual platform could be pushed online by Christmas this year. The website would reportedly offer as many as 500 distinct...


Mobile Networks Overloaded With Data Says Report

Mobile Networks Overloaded With Data Says Report

News Hardware

Mobile broadband networks are already reeling under heavy usage loads and the situation seems to be getting further worse in the near future, according to experts. The telecom analyst company, Informa Telecoms and Media, has...


Google Wave To be Launched In 2010

Google Wave To be Launched In 2010

News Security

Just within a day after Mozilla Foundation announced that it has been working on a communication collaboration tool Raindrop, Google has come up with the probable launch date of its own flavour of collaboration product dubbed...


Details Of Up To 500,000 Guardian Jobs Users Could Be At Risk

Details Of Up To 500,000 Guardian Jobs Users Could Be At Risk

News Security

Personal details of as many as half a million people could have been compromised in a hacking attack launched against the Guardian’s Jobs website over the last weekend. Guardian has already sent out email messages to the...

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