Articles Posted on 30 November 2009
£500 Windows 7 Gaming PC : Build or Buy
News Software
Windows 7 is particularly well suited for gaming partly because it is an evolution of Vista rather than a completely different platform which means that game developers and hardware makers are in familiar territories with Windows...
Dell Engineer Reveals Experimental Chrome OS For Netbook
News Software
Even though Chromium OS is in the developmental stage and might still be a year before the world gets the operating system officially from Google, a bunch of engineers at Dell have claimed to have developed a customised version...
Wi-Fi Hijacking Rampant Across UK, Says Survey
News Security
A survey conducted by moneysupermarket.com on broadband usage has come up with some shocking results. The study claims that around 4 million Britons have admitted to have used someone else’s broadband connection. This...
Google Phone DOES Exist Says Industry Source
News Mobile & Telco
The Google Phone apparently does exist after all if an anonymous (but trusted source) to uberpopular technology website Gizmodo is to be believed. The phone will be a branded handset that will be running a new version of Google...
BT Draws Criticism For Giving Trial Broadband Connection To Its Chairman
News Hardware
British Telecom (BT) has drawn criticism for giving its Chairman, Sir Michael Rake preference over other residents of Hambledon village that has being chosen for a trial of BT’s high-speed broadband internet...
Amazon Claims Best Ever Sales For Kindle E-book Reader In November
News Software
As the emerging market for e-readers is seeing new additions everyday, Amazon Kindle 2 is fighting hard to protect its market share from the likes of Barnes & Noble Nook. The e-tailing giant has also claimed in a press...
Players Cheating On Modern Warfare 2 Stuck With A Ban
News Consumer
Infinity Ward, the leading game developing company behind Call of Duty series, has banned 2500 players from playing the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. The decision was reported by Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward via a Twitter...
Twitter Hailed As Most Popular Word Of 2009
News Web
Microblogging phenomenon Twitter, which has dramatically transformed the way people on the internet interact with each other, has been named the most popular English word of the year, according to researchers. The Global Language...
Next Generation Apple iPhone 4G Spotted In the Wild
News Consumer
Apple's iPhone cuvee 2010 may have briefly appeared on the radar after a developer noticed that an "iPhone 3.1" device appeared on the logs of an iPhone transportation application he has developed called iBart. Pandav used an...
ASA's Remit To Extend To Website Content
News Business & Government
An industry rule-book for marketing communications in the UK is being amended to cover website content for the first time. Statements on websites could face sanctions from an industry body as soon as next summer even if they...
Virtualisation And Business Resilience Explored
News Hardware
If there is one component that has revolutionised business continuity, it has to be virtualization technologies. In this article, Steve Gold looks at how virtualization can be engineered to go hand in hand with increased IT...
BBC iPlayer iPhone App To Debut Soon?
News Security
Settling the rising rumour wave on the blogosphere about the imminent launch of iPlayer app for the iPhone, the BBC has let the cat slip out of the bag as it released a screenshot of the same in its monthly press pack. The...
CIIT Debuts Savvy Citizens Website
News Security
The Chartered Institute for IT has expressed its concern over the results of a survey which has revealed that only 20 percent of British citizens are ‘information-savvy citizens’. The institute, earlier known as...
Converging markets: Cell Phone and Sat Nav
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Consumers hanker after cool gadgets and the market is eager to supply them. When a product starts to look redundant, alarm bells ring and the manufacturers scramble to innovate and show us new ways to make their offerings...
"My Son Could Become Suicidal" Warns Gary McKinnon's Mother
News Security
After last week's announcement by Home Secretary Alan Johnson that he will not intervene in the extradition of Computer hacker Gary McKinnon, the hacker’s mother has came forward and claimed that her son wants to face the...
Nintendo Wii Rules US Female Gaming Sector
News Consumer
Nintendo, the Japanese gaming console maker, has revealed that the company’s Wii gaming console system is the most popular gaming console amongst female gamers in the US. According to a study conducted by Nintendo, it has...
Pub Owner To Pay Heavy Fine Because Of Downloaded Content.
News Web
A pub owner in UK has been fined £8000 by the government when one of the pub’s customers was caught downloading copyrighted digital content from the pub’s Wi-Fi hotspot. The pub, which is client of The Cloud...
BBC To Postpone Launch of Xbox 360 iPlayer
News Security
BBC and Microsoft have apparently fallen out over the latter's wish to make the iPlayer feature available only for the Gold subscribers member of Xbox Live, something that the BBC says wouldn't be allowed.Emma Barnett from The...
Royal Society Unveils "Trailblazing" Website To Mark 350th Birthday
News Security
The Royal Society has published 60 of its most ground breaking scientific papers in a new website called Trailblazing to mark the Society's 350th anniversary next year.The site, which is presented as an "interactive timeline for...
Acer To Launch More Android Smartphones In 2010
News Mobile & Telco
Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has confirmed that it will be launching more Android-based devices next year as it looks to add to the lonely Acer A1 phone that's based on Google's mobile platform.This year, Acer has launched 10...
