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Articles Posted on 21 December 2009

Prediction 2010 : Apple To Subsidise Tablet PC With Media Bundle?

Prediction 2010 : Apple To Subsidise Tablet PC With Media Bundle?

News Hardware

Apple is likely to launch its Tablet PC - possibly called the TabletMac - early next year and the fact that it has acquired Lala earlier this month opens the prospects of some tantalising services coming our soon fairly soon. We...


MSI To Launch U130 & U135 Pine Trail Netbooks In January

MSI To Launch U130 & U135 Pine Trail Netbooks In January

News Hardware

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has confirmed plans to launch two new netbooks in January 2010; the Wind U130 & U135 will be amongst a hundred or so new netbooks and nettop to feature Intel's just announce Pine Trail platform in...


Tesco, Vodafone, O2 and Orange : All UK iPhone Tariffs On One Page

Tesco, Vodafone, O2 and Orange : All UK iPhone Tariffs On One Page

News Mobile & Telco

It's been only 10 days since we've released the first version of our table containing all the iPhone tariffs currently offered by mobile phone operators in the UK, either officially or unofficially. Since then, Vodafone has...


Facebook Causing Divorce Numbers To Skyrocket

Facebook Causing Divorce Numbers To Skyrocket

News Security

Social networking giant Facebook has been accused of being a cause of divorce in almost one in every five divorce petitions based on a study conducted by Divorce-Online, a law firm which specialises in divorce...


LG Demos 42-inch LCD Panel That's 2.6mm Thick

LG Demos 42-inch LCD Panel That's 2.6mm Thick

News Hardware

Korean consumer giant LG has announced that it will be showcasing a 42-inch LCD panel that's a mere 2.6mm thick - roughly a tenth of an inch - at the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show that will be held in January 2010. LG has...


Intel Packs GPU & CPU On Pine Trail Atom Chip

Intel Packs GPU & CPU On Pine Trail Atom Chip

News Mobile & Telco

Intel has unveiled a new chip, codenamed Pine Trail, that brings together the Atom processor and the chipset in one single physical unit in a bid, by the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer to cut costs while improving...


O2 Still Having Issues With Its Data Network

O2 Still Having Issues With Its Data Network

News Hardware

The outage suffered by O2, one of Britain’s top mobile network providers, has apparently hassled a number of iPhone users who complained that they have not been able to use their Apple iPhones properly for more than 48...


Barnes & Noble Giving $100 Gift Vouchers For Late Nook Delivery

Barnes & Noble Giving $100 Gift Vouchers For Late Nook Delivery

News Software

Barnes and Noble, the creator of the Nook eBook reader, has announced that the company will issue $100 certificates to everyone who preordered the device in November but won’t be able to receive them on time for Christmas....


Sony PSP-4000 Gaming Console Was A Typo

Sony PSP-4000 Gaming Console Was A Typo

News Mobile & Telco

A spokesperson for the peripherals firm that placed an advert in games trade publication MCV listing the yet-to-be-announced Sony PSP-4000 portable gaming console has confirmed that it was nothing more than a typing...


Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Grabs Top Spot In Most Popular Browser Contest

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Grabs Top Spot In Most Popular Browser Contest

News Software

Mozilla Firefox, the popular open source web browser, has emerged as the world’s most used browser, dominating the likes of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 which previously held the coveted title.  StatCounter,...


BT To Roll Out Superfast Broadband before 2012 Olympics

BT To Roll Out Superfast Broadband before 2012 Olympics

News Hardware

BT has announced that the company will roll out its super-fast internet connection service just in time for the Olympic Games which start from 27 July 2012. The national project, the biggest of its kind in BT's history, was...


Google UK Avoids Paying £450 Million Every Year

Google UK Avoids Paying £450 Million Every Year

News Hardware

The California-based search engine giant, Google, has been accused of avoiding payment of the corporation tax on the money which it generates in UK through advertising. The company reportedly siphons its UK revenue through its...


Tapulous Developer Rakes In $1 Million Per Month

Tapulous Developer Rakes In $1 Million Per Month

News Software

Tapulous, the California-based software and video game developer, has claimed that the company is minting nearly a million dollars per month by creating applications for Apple’s iPhone platform.  The company, formed in...


Exclusive! The Hidden Vodafone iPhone Tariff

Exclusive! The Hidden Vodafone iPhone Tariff

News Mobile & Telco

Unbeknown to many, Vodafone has a "secret" iPhone tariff that allows their users to get the absolute best value out of its network; that tariff is not available as a iPhone tariff but yet, it could offer you more value for your...


£469 Toshiba 42AV635DB 42" REGZA AV63 Series LCD TV Full HD

£469 Toshiba 42AV635DB 42" REGZA AV63 Series LCD TV Full HD

News Software

Toshiba's 42" Regza AV series combines HD ready picture processing with a stylish contemporary high gloss design. The 42" Regza AV features Resolution technology enhancing edge detail and texture to upscale high definition...


O2 To Buy VoIP Specialist Jajah?

O2 To Buy VoIP Specialist Jajah?

News Mobile & Telco

O2, Telefonica’s mobile arm, is all set to acquire Jajah, the popular Israeli VoIP company for $200 million according to The Marker, an Israeli financial news site.  However, the acquisition, which is rumoured to go...


Software Development Agreement Did Not Transfer Copyright, Rules High Court

Software Development Agreement Did Not Transfer Copyright, Rules High Court

News Hardware

A company has failed in its attempt to declare itself the owner of software that it paid another company to develop. The High Court has refused to declare that copyright in the software passed to Infection Control Enterprises Ltd...


Vodafone To Sell Apple iPhone From 14th January

Vodafone To Sell Apple iPhone From 14th January

News Mobile & Telco

Vodafone has announced that it will sell the three different versions of the iPhone from the 14th of January with a very competitive set of tariffs that could possibly wow existing O2 customers with first generation iPhones...


Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Bing Search Engine Rebranding

Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Bing Search Engine Rebranding

News Security

A small IT company located in Missouri, USA has sued software giant Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, Bing, used by the company and has further accused the software giant of trademark infringement and...


Illegal Downloading Still Massive According To BPI

Illegal Downloading Still Massive According To BPI

News Security

A recent British Phonographic Industry (BPI) survey has revealed that despite stringent measures for controlling illegal music download, one in every three consumers still get their music via illegal web sites.  The survey,...


Psystar Denies Intention To Close Down

Psystar Denies Intention To Close Down

News Hardware

Responding to Dow Jones Newswire’s report about Psystar pulling the shutters down on its business after losing a 17-month long legal battle with Apple, a lawyer for the Mac clone maker has claimed that it has no intentions...


Keeping The Data Centre Going Over Christmas - The Importance Of DR, Back-Up And Staffing / Management

Keeping The Data Centre Going Over Christmas - The Importance Of DR, Back-Up And Staffing / Management

News Hardware

As the Christmas holidays draw nearer, businesses are preparing for the festive close down and staff are looking forward to some well earned downtime.  Sadly, downtime for the business is not an option and for those...

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