Articles Posted on 02 December 2009
Google First Click Free Plan To Benefit Smaller News Websites?
News Security
Google announced earlier today plans to limit the number of articles one can read before being asked for a subscription in a bid to calm the traditional publishing sector ahead of a potentially explosive 2010 marked by the...
Climate Research Chief Resigns From His Post Amidst Probe Over Leaked Emails
News Security
Climate Research Unit (CRU) Chief, Phil Jones, has stepped down from his position following the leak of certain emails which were hacked from the server of University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich in November 2009. The...
Appeal To Steve Jobs Leads To The Approval For An iPhone App
News Mobile & Telco
Brian Meehan, a developer working at Pointy Heads Software has apparently got his company’s Knocking Live Video iPhone app approved by Apple after writing a compassionate letter to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. The...
Cisco Rolls Out Its Sophisticated FlipShare TV
News Hardware
After the launch of Cisco’s highly acclaimed Flip camcorder which allows you to shoot a video and post it on YouTube effortlessly, the company has now rolled out the FlipShare TV, a set-top-box that streams videos shot by...
Google Firms Up Plan To Limit Access To News Content
News Mobile & Telco
Google has announced that newspaper publishers will be able to set a limit on the number of articles a visitor can read for free before being asked for a subscription. The announcement was made via blog titled, “Google...
Home Secretary Promises To Give More Time To Gary McKinnon To Appeal
News Security
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced in the House of Commons that Gary McKinnon, the hacker accused for breaking into Pentagon’s computer network, will get extra time to appeal to the courts for a judicial review of...
£500,000 Maximum Fine For Data Protection Breaches: Government Consults
News Security
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) would have the power to fine organisations up to £500,000 for serious breaches of data protection principles under plans announced this week by the Ministry of Justice. The...
Digital Radio Sales Rise Sharply In UK, Cross The 10 Million Mark
News Consumer
The sale of digital radios across the UK has increased significantly in recent months with the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB) announcing that the sale of Digital Audio Broadcasting (D.A.B)radios has breached the 10...
Virgin Media Unveils Its 7Mbps Mobile Broadband Plan
News Mobile & Telco
Virgin Media has rolled out a new mobile broadband service which will provide a massive 7mbps speed to its subscribers making it one of the quickest ways to get online while on the move in the UK.The Virgin media dongle or...
Susan Boyle Gets The Pole Position In Google Zeitgeist List
News Security
Susan Boyle, the singing sensation from UK has apparently topped the list of Google’s list of fastest rising news searches for 2009 along with ‘swine flu’. Susan Boyle shot to worldwide fame after appearing in...
Samsung bling and Motorola grit
News Mobile & Telco
This week sees starkly different advertising styles pitching products for girls and boys. Samsung announce its new ‘Diva’ design range of phones, specifically targeted at a female audience and the Motorola Droid gets a very...
It’s Kiss And Make Up For Apple And Psystar: Though Partially
News Hardware
Apple Inc. and the Mac clone maker Psystar have settled a large part of their legal tussle with the latter agreeing to pay $2.7 million to Apple instead of keeping the legal battle on in the federal court of Northern...
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Privacy Upgrades Due On Facebook
News Web
Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made a bold move of sending a message to a massive 350 million users of the website about the modifications that have been made to the privacy policies of the world’s...
The power of 1GHz mobiles
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Super-fast processor phones will become objects of desire for customers next year. 1GHz processor chips power the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, the LG eXpo, and the Toshiba TG01 which is already available with Orange for...
Microsoft Annuls “The Black Screen Of Death” Gossip
News Security
Quashing the widespread rumours about its latest security update being the cause of a galling technical glitch, popularly known as “The Black Screen of Death”, Microsoft is claiming that that the issue is perhaps...
UK Gets Its First Official Twitterer-In-Residence
News Security
In an incidence that in fact serves as a testimony of the kind of influence Twitter has, the northern UK town of Darlington has become the first town in the country to have an official ‘Twitterer-in-Residence’.The...
Expansys To Sell Motorola Droid In UK For £450
News Hardware
Online retailer Expansys has announced that it will be selling the Motorola Droid, which will be known in the UK as the Milestone, for as little as £450 excluding delivery over the next few days. The unsubsidised device...
Managing Storage Solutions Easily With Virtualization
News Hardware
Storage virtualization is a booming segment of the information infrastructure that is not only allowing organizations to better adapt to the modern business environment, but actually helping them to prosper, as Steve Gold...
