Articles Posted on 04 November 2009
3 Skypephone S2 Review
Reviews Mobile & Telco
Visually much more appealing than the S1 (and heck, it really needed a revamp), the S2 is a candy bar design in charcoal black. It feels a bit plasticky but it's solid construction. Want a brushed chrome and alloy finish? Then...
TalkTalk Unveils Competitively Priced High Speed Broadband Plan
News Mobile & Telco
With an eye on drawing more web users to its network, leading internet service provider TalkTalk has come up with a new broadband package that offers download speed of up to 24Mbps along with free calls to certain UK...
New Trojan Masked As A Game, Affects Mac Users
News Hardware
Security analysts from leading antivirus firm Symantec has warned Mac users of a video game that can act as a Trojan and have labelled it as a potential threat. The video game in question called Lose/Lose was apparently created...
London Congestion System Crashed As IBM Takes Over Control
News Security
Things have gone awry for IBM on its very first day of assuming the control of Transport for London’s Congestion Charge Systems on Monday this week. The Big Blue took over the monitoring task of the system from Capita,...
Beatles Music Now Available In Digital Format On USB
News Hardware
Music enthusiasts can now have a chance at savouring their favourite Beatles music in digital format, with their collection of 14 studio albums being made available on a USB drive from the official Beatles store. The music will...
Smartphone Growth Rate Slides In Q3 To Just 4 Percent
News Mobile & Telco
The growth in the smartphone market seems to have slowed down in the third quarter of 2009 as demand for advanced mobile handsets falls across Latin America, according to research firm Canalys. However the smartphone market was...
Red Hat Unveils New Virtualisation Platform
News Hardware
Open source software bellwether Red Hat Enterprises has rolled out a new server virtualisation platform in an apparent attempt to capitalise on the rising adoption of the notion of cloud computing among businesses these days. The...
Proposed Age Law For Online Retail Faces Parliamentary Scrutiny
News Business & Government
A proposal that will force online retailers to take extra steps to ensure that young people cannot buy or access inappropriate goods or material will move one step closer to becoming law on Monday. The Online Purchasing of Goods...
iPhone On Orange Goes Monkey With Free Music
News Consumer
Orange has highlighted the new "Monkey" option for its PAYG iPhone. Intriguingly, it says that you will get free Music and texts on this package. The iPhone 3G 8GB will costs £343 with unlimited WiFi and 250MB monthly...
750MB Orange iPhone limits
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Consumer rage may force Orange UK to reconsider terms for internet use with their iPhone offering. Setting a usage policy at less than one gigabyte has drawn much media comment and a fair amount of twitter-based scorn.It feels a...
Recycle at Orange stores
News Mobile & Telco
Orange today launch Recycle & Reward. A scheme to allow any member of the public to recycle old phones, laptops and personal music players at any UK store in return for a cheque being sent out in around a week.The amount you...
Orange Introduces Unlimited iPhone Contract, No One Notices
News Mobile & Telco
When introducing the iPhone 3G to the British Public, Orange also dropped in the first unlimited texts/calls package ever with a mobile phone in the UK with a staggering price tag of £122.34 per month (to rise to £125...
Blackberry Storm 2
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
There be storms on the horizon! Initial feelings about the Blackberry Storm 2 are that most of the problems and quibbles the community had with the Storm 1 have been addressed. Come on RIM, do you think 'We fixed most...
Cisco And EMC Clasp Hands To Ramp Up Their Cloud Offerings: Sources
News Hardware
Rumours are bristling about the collaboration between Cisco Systems Inc. and EMC Corp. over selling new range of networking gear, including computers as well as storage equipment tailored for use in the cloud computing...
BBC iPlayer Coming to Freesat TVs By The End Of This Month
News Hardware
In a gratifying move for those who’ve opted for Freesat to receive their cost-effective HDTV fill, Freesat has announced that it will be adding the BBC iPlayer video catch up service to its stable by the end of this...
Toshiba Entices Users With Laptop Trade-In Scheme
News Software
In a bid to snare some significant share in the highly competing notebook market, Toshiba has launched a laptop trade-in scheme which would include up to £150 cashback against a Toshiba laptop loaded with Windows 7 if the...
Google Rolls Out Chrome 4.0 Beta and Updates Its Wave Platform
News Security
The search engine giant Google has launched the latest iteration of its web browser Chrome while it has also updated its Google Wave platform with the aim of facilitating interoperability amongst Wave servers. The new version of...
Many Smartphone Users Veering Away From Touchscreen Handsets, Says Survey
News Mobile & Telco
If the findings of a recent survey are to be believed, many smartphone users are not exactly satisfied by their touchscreen phones and for their next phone, more than half of them may choose a handset that offers buttons or...
Nokia announce five new affordable phones
News Mobile & Telco
Available globally but aimed primarily at acquiring new customers in the developing world, five new Nokia handsets are coming to market. In the £20 to £50 price band (before tax and network subsidy), you can expect to see some of...
Unisys Rolls Out Private Cloud Offering, Harps On Cost Savings
News Cloud
In a move aimed at offering secure cloud computing solutions, Unisys on Monday launched its private cloud offering that is designed to help companies develop their own private clouds. Unisys claims that its solutions are targeted...
Google Creates A Mythical Town In UK
News Mobile & Telco
Google Maps is showing a town, named “Argleton”, in Lancashire that apparently does not exist at all, and the location where it has been marked on the service is actually a huge surface area covered with grass...
Stephen Fry Back To Twitter After Threats To Quit
News Security
The popular TV anchor, actor and writer, Stephen Fry, on Tuesday has re-joined Twitter again after threatening to leave the microblogging website when one of his followers alleged him of being a bit boring. The prominent figure...
iPhone Gets Tepid Welcome In China
News Mobile & Telco
Apple’s blockbuster iPhone isn’t quite able to attain the kind of popularity in China as it had in other markets across the world. China Unicom, the official carrier of the iPhone in the country, noted on Tuesday that...
Opinion : Orange iPhone Offer Promises Lots But Watch Out For T&Cs
News Consumer
Orange's iPhone offers have been scrutinised by the wider army of bloggers and UK-based journalists for the last few hours and already, the France-Telecom owned mobile phone network has come under fire for a number of reasons.The...
