Articles Posted on 07 December 2009
10 Quad Core Desktop PCs From £269.95 delivered
News Software
Never in the history of computing has so much power and storage been available for so cheap. The competition between AMD and Intel means that technology that were worth tens of thousands of pounds only a decade ago can be had for...
12.1-inch Crunchpad Tablet To Launch On Friday As $499 Joojoo
News Mobile & Telco
Friday could see the birth of a new player in the increasingly crowded field of wireless tablet computers as Joojoo, formerly known as the Crunchpad, is finally released for $499 in the US. The 12.1-inch touchscreen internet...
Bravo To Be HTC's Best Smartphone In H1 2010
News Mobile & Telco
HTC's complete portfolio leak yesterday shows that there will be only one high end smartphone from the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer for the first half of 2010, the Bravo, and much to Microsoft's chagrin, it will be an...
Palm Pre Review
Reviews Mobile & Telco
Sturdy black plastic, styled with exaggerated curves give the Pre the look and feel of a glossy, river washed stone. It slides open easily revealing a portrait QWERTY keypad and powers up displaying a 3.1 inch vibrant capacitive...
FTC To Talk To Nvidia About Intel
News Hardware
Acknowledging media reports about the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) looking into possible anti trust issues related to the Intel-Nvidia legal battle, the graphics processor giant has said that that it was in talks with the...
Facebook Unveils Online Safety Council
News Security
The online safety board will comprise of five organisations namely; Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute. Facebook said in a statement that it plans...
Faster Broadband Makes Brits Increasingly Impatient
News Mobile & Telco
A survey carried out by broadband service provider Talktalk ironically points the finger at faster broadband connections to explain why Brits are becoming more and more impatient although it does not explain why many of us do not...
UK Government To Outline Massive Budget Cuts For NHS IT Project
News Security
The Labour government has decided to significantly cut-down the cost of the £12 billion IT scheme for the NHS. Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will announce the cut in the Pre-Budget report on...
Amazon Denies Plans To Open High Street Stores
News Security
Amazon, the online retail giant, is in talks with several property dealers in UK to open a chain of physical stores, the Sunday Times has claimed. According to the newspaper, the retailer has ‘secret’ plans to...
Cisco To Complete Tandberg Acquisition
News Hardware
Cisco, the world’s largest manufacturer of network equipment, has announced on Friday that the company now has over 90 percent stake in Tandberg, a Norwegian based company, indicating that it had secured the $3.4 billion...
Home Access Scheme Computers To Get Panic Button
News Security
The UK Government plans to install the CEOP button otherwise known as Panic button onto more than 270,000 home access scheme computers across Britain. This will allow children to instantly report any offensive and obscene...
Apple Rolls Out 3.33GHz Quad Core Xeons For Mac Pro, Xserve
News Hardware
Apple has quietly added a few components to its Mac Pro which could make the fastest x86 compatible workstation in the world although prospective customers are likely to be paying well over the odds for the privilege of owning...
T-Mobile Says Staff Sold Phone Records To Rivals
News Security
Customers' records have been illegally traded by employees of T-Mobile, according to the mobile operator. The Information Commissioner's Office has reported that millions of records were involved. The ICO reported earlier today...
Entire HTC H1 2010 Smartphone Portfolio Leaked Again
News Mobile & Telco
The list of HTC smartphones to be released in the first half of 2010, complete with the names and rendered pictures, has been leaked out on the internet yesterday nearly a year after another incident that saw a similar list being...
EU Concerns Over Oracle-Sun Microsystems Acquisition Misguided Says SFL
News Security
Software Freedom Law center, a non-profit software group, has sent a letter to the European Union regulators who are investigating Oracle’s proposal for acquiring Sun Microsystems; it says that the EU’s concerns about...
Google To Extend Personalised Search To Everyone
News Security
Google has announced on its official blog that the search engine giant will now give personalised search results to users who are not signed-in on to the website, a feature which was earlier limited to signed-in...
Google Acquires Appjet To Beef Up Wave
News Hardware
Google seems all set to make a mark in the online communication collaboration, as the search engine giant is reportedly snapping up a Silicon Valley start-up to incorporate its technology with the highly sought after Wave...
Microsoft Caves In To EU Demand, Offers Random Browser Options
News Software
Microsoft Corp. has revamped its ongoing legal negotiations with the EU antitrust regulators over the concerns surrounding web browser exclusivity, according to a report carried by Bloomberg. Citing internal sources, Bloomberg...
Google To Launch Chrome Extensions Within Days
News Web
Google seems all geared up to woo the internet surfers by pushing the previously announced Chrome Extensions website online next week. This would let the Chrome users download add-ons, one of the features that has made the rival...
Yahoo & Microsoft Officialise Their Ad Partnership
News Web
Microsoft and Yahoo seem all set to pose a stiff challenge to Google in the internet search sphere by finalising an all important search and online advertisement agreement. The two internet giants penned an agreement in the month...
Apple Officially Confirms Lala Acquisition
News Business & Government
Consumer giant Apple has officially confirmed to a number of technology news outlets that it has acquired struggling online music streaming startup, Lala for an undisclosed amount. Lala's website has not been updated yet to...
Apple Buying Lala : What It Means For The Rest Of Us?
News Business & Government
The acquisition of music startup Lala by Apple, the company that gave us the iPod, iPhone and the iTunes, is big news for those in the business of online music; the impact of the purchase though is likely to be felt by tens of...
Great example of augmented reality
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Augmented reality applications take a live view of the real world and blend in computer generated elements as an overlay. Add GPS and compass technology to a mobile and watch the video for a great example of a practical...
Europeans not flocking to Google Android
News Mobile & Telco
It was reported at the weekend that research firm IDC has seen little European consumer interest in smartphones running Android. They say the small number of phones hasn’t helped, but this will probably change as more become...
LG eXpo with projector demoed
News Mobile & Telco
This is the first video I’ve seen of the 1GHz LG eXpo, with the ultra-portable pico projector attachment clipped on. Pico technology has been much talked about over the last two years and this beasty goes on sale today in the...
Ecosia Touted As World's Greenest Search Engine
News Web
Ecosia, a new search engine that has won the backing of the Worldwide Fund For Nature, is not apparently the greenest search engine on the web thanks to a number of tweaks carried out by its creators. The site, which is set to...
