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Articles Posted on 18 December 2009

Nokia Booklet 3G Available For £650 From January

Nokia Booklet 3G Available For £650 From January

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia will be selling its not-a-netbook device from January 2010 in the UK for a staggering, jaw dropping, eye popping manufacturer's suggested price of £650 including VAT, a price that makes it one of the most expensive...


Decision Makers Pushing For Green Data Centers

Decision Makers Pushing For Green Data Centers

News Hardware

A recent report by Frost & Sullivan has revealed that economic recession has forced IT companies to switch to Green Data centers technologies which include cloud computing, virtualisation and other power management techniques...


Apple's iPhone Cruises Past Windows Mobile In US Smartphone Market

Apple's iPhone Cruises Past Windows Mobile In US Smartphone Market

News Mobile & Telco

A recent comScore survey has revealed that Apple’s iPhone has rocketed past Microsoft’s Windows Mobile in terms of market share and has landed on the number 2 slot behind mobile device giant, Research in Motion. The...


Orange Unveils Connected Britain Map

Orange Unveils Connected Britain Map

News Hardware

Orange, one of UK’s largest telecom and broadband service providers, has rolled out an interactive map of Britain which depicts which cities will see a shift in their population if everyone had a universal access to mobile...


Google To Buy Yelp For $500 Million?

Google To Buy Yelp For $500 Million?

News Hardware

Google, the California based search engine giant, is currently in middle of talks with Yelp, the highly popular local review and search engine, to acquire the website, which reportedly gets more than 25 million unique visitors...


Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Twitter Website

Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Twitter Website

News Security

Early on Friday, Twitter visitors got a nasty surprise when instead of the micro blogging site's home page, they were directed to another page which declared that the site was hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.  The page...


Nintendo Wii Fit Doesn't Benefit Family Fitness?

Nintendo Wii Fit Doesn't Benefit Family Fitness?

News Security

The Nintendo Wii Fit apparently doesn't carry as much health value for the family as a whole as some might have suggested according to an extensive set of research published by scholars at the University of Mississippi. Eight...


IBM Improves Rational Product Portfolio

IBM Improves Rational Product Portfolio

News Cloud

IBM, the global computer, technology and IT solutions giant has dished out fresh updates for developers and system engineers to help them incorporate different business programs into its Rational platform.   The company has...


Britons Pay Cheap For Slow Broadband Speeds, Says Ofcom

Britons Pay Cheap For Slow Broadband Speeds, Says Ofcom

News Mobile & Telco

A document published by communications Watchdog Ofcom has shown that users in the UK are forking out less than their European and US counterparts for their broadband services and good news is that prices are still going...


Commercial 4G out now

Commercial 4G out now

4G Viking expansion

News Mobile & Telco

This week Scandinavian giant TeliaSonera launched the worlds first publicly available 4G in Norway and Sweden. For now, capital dwellers in Oslo and Stockholm have to manually swap Samsung dongles to switch up to 4G, but TS are...


EPIC Approaches FTC Over Facebook Privacy Complaint

EPIC Approaches FTC Over Facebook Privacy Complaint

News Security

A high-profile electronic privacy group has filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the way Facebook moulded its privacy settings of late. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), along with the...


Apple Will Rewrite T&Cs After Oft Objections

Apple Will Rewrite T&Cs After Oft Objections

News Hardware

Apple will have to rewrite its terms and conditions for the UK after action by consumer protection regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the Office has said. As well as specific changes it will have to redraft the terms in...


Palm Shares Drop Amidst Yet another Q2 Loss

Palm Shares Drop Amidst Yet another Q2 Loss

News Software

Palm Inc, the California-based smartphone manufacturer has registered a drop in its share prices as the company reported a fiscal 2nd quarter loss, its 10th in a row, of $85.4 million, or 54 cents a share. The share price dropped...


Orange Launches "Free" Relaxation Line Service

Orange Launches "Free" Relaxation Line Service

News Mobile & Telco

Orange, one of UK’s biggest telecom and broadband services provider has rolled out a ‘Relaxation Line’ which will allow mobile phone users to listen to soothing sound effects by just dialing a number. The...


Plurk Assesses Options In Microsoft Code Lifting Fiasco

Plurk Assesses Options In Microsoft Code Lifting Fiasco

News Cloud

Microsoft’s public apology for pilfering microblogging site Plurk’s code to use them in its own similar service Juku has apparently failed to mollify Plurk. News has emerged that the start-up has severely condemned...


Oracle Shrugs Recession Fears, Posts Strong Profits

Oracle Shrugs Recession Fears, Posts Strong Profits

News Hardware

Oracle, the California based business software developer, has announced that its 2nd quarter profit rose 12 percent breaking a two quarter revenue decline, amidst cost cuts, improving economy and strong software maintenance...


Pete Cashmore Named UK's Most Influential Twitterer

Pete Cashmore Named UK's Most Influential Twitterer

News Security

While the microblogging phenomenon Twitter has apparently been inundated with swarms of users following celebrities’ profiles throughout the year, the coronation of a virtually less popular celebrity as the most influential...

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