Articles Posted on 18 November 2009
T-Mobile Employees Flogged Private Customer Data To Rivals
News Mobile & Telco
Deustche Telekom owned T-Mobile has acknowledged that some of its employees have sold the details of thousands of customers to third party brokers.The BBC reports that the mobile phone network has already passed on more details...
Opera Mobile 10 (beta) for Windows Mobile
News Mobile & Telco
Opera software have released the latest open beta version of their browser, for Windows-Mobile devices. Symbian-powered phones felt the love a few weeks ago and the overall idea is to get a consistent user experience when...
Google Introduces The Sophisticated Swirl Feature For Its Image Search
News Software
The search engine giant Google is testing a new mode of image search called Image Swirl which will give the user 12 different sets of images related to a given keyword based search. For example, if the user searched for...
McAfee Cautions About The Possibility Of Cyber Wars
News Security
McAfee, an anti-virus company has concluded in its Fifth Annual Virtual Criminology report that the world is arming for a cyber-war and that some defensive measures should be prepared and implemented. David Dewalt, McAfee...
Commission Vows To Continue Legal Action Against Uk Over Alleged Lack Of E-Privacy Protection
News Business & Government
The European Commission has rejected the UK's defence of its electronic privacy laws and will continue to pursue legal action against the Government in a case sparked by BT's use of Phorm web activity monitoring without telling...
Nokia E72 Available In The UK Market From Today
News Mobile & Telco
After unveiling the Nokia E71 back in June Nokia has finally launched its long awaited successor, the E72, in the UK market today. The phone which was scheduled for a third-quarter launch eventually made it to the UK markets in...
Headline figures
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
A quick shout out and respect to Wireless and Mobile News for posting these statistics, the closing remarks at a conference focused on mobile marketing.- Mobiles are the most widely used ‘technology’ on earth, with more than 3...
Orange seizes top spot for mobile broadband
News Mobile & Telco
Independent research company YouGov award Orange the number one spot for overall mobile broadband quality, in a report published today. It’s the second time Orange have topped YouGov’s pops. Customers voted the company top in...
Deconstructing the "S" word in virtualisation
News Hardware
So you've done your homework on virtualisation and have mapped out your strategy for the next couple of years - what about security? According to the Gartner Group, whilst virtualisation offers large organisations the opportunity...
Stephen Fry Lauds Twitter For Its People Friendly Features
News Security
Stephen Fry, writer, actor and a prominent Twitter figure, has appreciated the microblogging phenomenon Twitter for its capability to free up celebs from their intense reliance on the press and media to advertise their...
Pirate Bay Pulls The Plug On Its Bit Torrent Service
News Business & Government
The Pirate Bay (TPB) announced that it was shutting down its popular BitTorrent tracker service for good, and substituting it with an entirely new form of peer-to-peer network. The move wasn’t a result of court ruling or...
Bing Makes Rapid Strides In The US Search Market
News Web
It seems that Microsoft’s intense efforts to ramp up the offerings of its latest bid in search engine domains, dubbed as ‘Bing’, is eventually paying off significantly, as its share in the US search market...
Google Spices Up Its Online Translator Service With Sophisticated New Features
News Software
Google has upped the ante for its widely popular online translator tool, codenamed as “Google Translate”, by bringing in a couple of new features coupled with a refreshing new look to the service. In its latest...
Microsoft Firms Up Its Plan To Roll Out Azure Cloud Service
News Hardware
In a bid to capitalise on the industry’s surging interest in internet-based applications and services, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday has announced that it will be debuting its highly-anticipated Azure cloud service in...
Survey Labels IT Employees As Less Healthy Amongst All Workers
News Security
The personal training organisation, Fat Free Fitness has concluded in its research that IT workers are the least active and healthy workers in the country. The study, in which 1700 UK workers were surveyed, showed that...
Greater Manchester All Set To Roll Out New Biometric Cards
News Security
The metropolitan county of Greater Manchester is all set to get the new sophisticated ID cards developed by the Home Office. People of the county will be able to apply and buy the cards by the end of this month for just...
Major Social Networking Sites Slammed For Not Doing Enough To Protect Children
News Mobile & Telco
Major social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook have drawn criticism from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre which has lashed out at them for not adding the CEOP help button on their web...
Mobile Phone Network Sells Customer Details Without Prior Permission
News Security
The Information Commissioner’s office has disclosed that a major UK mobile network is being prosecuted for selling thousands of customers details without permission.However, the authority refused to comment when it was...
Study Claims Playing Nintendo Wii Could Improve Health
News Consumer
Sports games and activities that are included in the Wii fit series of Nintendo Wii, may increase the energy expenditure to the level of moderate intensity exercise, said researchers at the American Heart Association (AHA)...
Microsoft Launches Windows Marketplace
News Consumer
Microsoft, in a bid to broaden the market for its Windows Application store, has launched the marketplace client compatible with Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1. The marketplace client which has over 800 apps, was earlier accessible...
Email To Disappear Within 10 Years Says Talktalk
News Security
If TalkTalk, the largest internet service provider in the UK, is to be believed then the concept of email will nearly be extinct in the next 10 years.In a research conducted by the broadband provider and a social anthropologist...
Swindon Town Delivers Free WiFi For Its Constituents
News Security
Swindon, one of the major towns of the Wiltshire County in the UK, is all set to get free wireless access to internet by April 2010, the Swindon Borough Council has confirmed and it also has plans to cover the town in a...
Bebo act to beat the bullies
News Mobile & Telco
Youth social networking site Bebo act to deal with cyberbullying, by adding the CEOP button to its pages. Jim Gamble, the chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre praised Bebo on the BBC breakfast...
