Articles Posted on 06 November 2009
Blackberry manufacturer’s share value takes a dive
News Mobile & Telco
Plummeting share prices at Research In Motion are being reported by MarketWatch here. This quarter has seen disappointing results for the Canadian handset maker, but nothing unique there during the recession. Investors are...
Have you tried turning it off and on?
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
We all know the sexes are wired-up in different ways. Within the warm, all-inclusive, tolerant and embracing environment that is my blog, lets poke fun at each other on a Friday afternoon.According to the BBC here, the company...
LG Unveils a Budget Touchscreen Handset Priced Below £100
News Mobile & Telco
With an eye on drawing budget customers who would like to own a touchscreen based phone, leading electronics giant LG has introduced a new mobile handset christened as LG POP which will be available at just £99.99.While the...
Mobile Phone Inventor Feels Mobile Handsets Getting Way to Complex
News Hardware
Mobile handsets of today which boast a variety of features and convergence tools are getting way to complex to use, according to Martin Cooper who was instrumental in designing the first mobile phone at Motorola.Speaking at a...
Maemo 5 demo
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
You’re safe to ignore the words and just watch the funky video.Maemo is Nokia’s slimmed down version of the Debian operating system. Debian itself based on a Linux kernel and the GNOME gui. There, that’s...
Government Outlines Increased Penalties For Data Misuse
News Software
The Government has outlined its plans to jail people convicted of trading illegally in personal data or knowingly or recklessly disclosing it. Under the plans the jail terms would be introduced next April. Privacy regulator the...
Twitter Rolls Out New Retweet Feature On Limited Accounts
News Security
In a bid to ramp up its offerings to amplify the social networking experience of its strong user base, microblogging tsar Twitter has rolled out a new “retweet” feature on some of its limited accounts.Codenamed as...
Mozilla Gears Up To Introduce New Thunderbird Update
News Security
Mozilla Messaging is all set to unveil a near-complete version of its free email software update, codenamed as ‘Thunderbird 3’, by as early as next week. The email-oriented subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation is...
Windows 7 Emerges As A Big Sizzler, Says Analyst
News Software
Market research firm NPD Group is reporting that the US sales of Microsoft’s latest avatar in operating systems Windows 7 have blown past that of its predecessor Vista by a substantive margin. Sales of Windows 7 within a...
Court Bars Online Sales Of Beatles Tracks
News Web
In a preliminary triumph for EMI Music, a federal judge has ordered a Santa Cruz-based company ‘BlueBeat’ to stop selling Beatles’ tracks and other music on its website with immediate effect. In a landmark...
Dell Unleashes ‘Ultra-Thin’ Adamo XPS Laptop
News Software
Computer maker Dell has just added another pearl to its string of high-end laptop range in the guise of ‘Dell Adamo XPS’, which is being pitched as the world’s slimmest PC laptop to date. Dell Adamo XPS comes as...
‘Polished’ Moblin Introduces Support for Plug-Ins, 3G
News Hardware
The guiding committee behind the ‘Moblin Project’, an Intel-commissioned initiative, has announced the next iteration of the operating system, dubbed as “Moblin Linux 2.1”, which is aimed at nettops and...
Orange and T-Mobile advance joint plan
News Mobile & Telco
After two months of negotiations, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile owner) and France Telecom (Orange owner) spill the beans on the joint-venture arrangements that are set to catapult them to dominance of the UK market.Financial...
