Articles Posted on 08 January 2010
£123.90 Samsung CLX-3175 Multifunctional Laser Colour Printer
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung's high-quality, compact, and silent CLX-3175F multifunction laser printer is here to meet all your needs! This elegant black all-in-one printer fits in just about any space thanks to its compact form. Plus, the...
£140 Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD 10-megapixel 15x Optical Zoom HD
News Hardware
Fujifilm are proud to introduce the FinePix S2000HD; the first Fujifilm model to offer full compatibility with high definition television (HDTV) systems for both stills and movies. The FinePix S2000HD is a compact and lightweight...
£270.24 Hannspree ST281 28-inch LCD TV Full HD
News Software
A delight for the eyes, this low-priced 28 inch television delivers full 1080p High Definition visuals. It's fitted with with 10W speakers for stereo sound with remarkable depth, and there's also a digital terrestrial tuner,...
£176.24 Hannspree HF257H 25-inch LCD TFT
News Software
Saturated with detail, the Hannspree HF257H is a 24.6 inch monitor that takes you to the level of full 1080 High Definition. It synchronises beautifully with your PC and HD-ready devices thanks to VGA and two HDMI input...
Review : ZTE F102, UK's Only Sub-£30 3G Phone
News Mobile & Telco
ZTE is not a well known brand in the UK but with the F102, it could well become an attractive alternative to other more popular brands such as Nokia, Samsung or LG. The Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited is a...
CES 2010 : Dell Introduces 5-Inch Android-based Touchscreen
News Mobile & Telco
Austin-based hardware manfacturer Dell has unveiled a new tablet PC which has yet to be named and, we infer, is yet another ARM/Android partnership only muich better and way more lethal. The launch, at CES 2010, coincided with...
Microsoft Preparing For First Patch Tuesday Of 2010
News Security
It seems that Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of the year will be a small one as the Redmond-based company plans to release a fix for just one critical vulnerability affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and...
Apple Gets Audio Clips In iTunes Preview Pages
News Hardware
Apple Inc, the company behind the popular iPhone smartphone, had purchased Lala music service in December 2009 and now it looks as if the company has finally put to use the music service’s technology. It recently launched...
CES 2010 : Intel Showcases Moorestown Smartphone, Blurs Tablet Frontier
News Mobile & Telco
Intel demonstrated its first Moorestown device, a smartphone build by Korean company, LG Electronics, and labelled, the GW990. The mobile internet device was shown at CES 2010 during a keynote demonstration by upbeat Intel CEO...
CES 2010 : ION Audio iType Introduces iPhone Keyboard, Doesn't Go Far Enough
News Hardware
ION Audio, the manufacturer of popular gadgets like errr.... USB Turntables and other audio devices, is planning to launch a series of iPhone accessories that could possibly attract quite a few eyeballs. It showcased a standard...
Site Uncoverers New Patent For Apple's Multitouch Screen Display
News Hardware
Technology investigators at the Patently Apple Website, which is a site dedicated to finding patents filed by the Cupertino-based iPod maker, has revealed a patent filed by the company that indicates that Apple has developed a...
CES 2010 : Ford To Introduce Twitter-Aware Car Range
News Consumer
After revolutionising the car industry over a hundred years ago, Michigan-based Ford Motor Company has caused a stir in the in-car technology market by revealing the next generation version of its Sync entertainment system in-car...
Otellini pledges 3D future at home
News Hardware
In his keynote address to the gathering of nerds at CES, Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today acknowledged that computing is no longer just about the PC. "Advances in connectivity, intuitive user interfaces,...
CES 2010 : Netflix Surpassing Blockbuster In Innovation & Industry Pertinence
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In another blow to embattled video store retailer Blockbuster, Netflix announced at CES this week agreements with five global consumer electronics devices to introduce Netflix-ready devices later this. The partners include Funai...
CES 2010 : Palm Follows Android, Opens webOS Developer Platform
News Software
Palm's webOS was introduced at CES last year at this time, and it literally stole the show; in fact, this year, no other single product has yet generated the buzz of the Pre and webOS. But Android caught up extremely fast,...
CES 2010 Photos : SilverPAC's Hyperconnected Windows Powered Remote Control
News Hardware
To paraphrase the old aphorism: "If you want to make money in a gold rush, invest in shovels." I frequently cite this saying when looking at the consumer electronics industry, because that's often how you find the next ten...
CES 2010 For Intel : AppUp, Wireless Displays Moorestown & More
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Today, Intel CEO Paul Otellini is absolutely not expected to come to the keynote stage at CES 2010 empty-handed. Already this morning, the company launched its GPU-on-a-die "Westmere" architecture 32 nm CPUs, with graphics...
CES fails to deliver game changing tablet
In-Depth Hardware
Well it looks like the next big thing failed to show up at this year's gadget fest in the desert, CES. Every tech hack in the known universe was expecting someone... anyone, to turn up with the game-changing tablet which would...
Oink Founder Got £180,000 Out Of Music Sharing Website
News Security
Oink, the music sharing site that was shut down in May 2007 on accounts of promoting piracy, had around 200,000 members who had references to over 200,000 audio files and had overseen 21 million downloads since it was launched in...
A-Data offers gaming RAM with killer speed
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Taiwanese chip shop A-DATA today introduced its new XPG Gaming Series v2.0 DRAM module, offering multitude killer speed ranging from DDR3-1600, DDR3-1866, and DDR3-2200 MHz frequency with dual channel kit and triple channel kit...
Orange, Barclaycard Roll Out Contactless Credit Card
News Mobile & Telco
Orange UK and Barclaycard have come up together with a contactless credit card, named "Orange Credit Card", which would help the users of the network to make contactless mobile payment. In addition to easing out the way Orange...
ENUM : The key To Unified Communication?
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Bringing all forms of communication together on one platform has obvious benefits for business users. One technology that could make this an affordable reality is ENUM. ENUM is a new registry service that unifies telephone...
UK-based Company To Participate In EU's Gallileo Navigation Project
News Web
The European Union has dished out the first set of contracts for its Galileo Navigation System, which has been designed to compete with the Global Positioning System run by the US military and Russia’s Glonass...
Iphone finally gets full size keyboard
News Mobile & Telco
It looks like Iphone fans are eventually going to get a full-sized QWERTY keyboard which will finally make the ubiquitous handset a useful business tool. Apple has resisted all attempts to move away from the effective yet...
UK Broadband Tax To Cost Businesses £70m Claim Tories
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The Conservative party has slammed the notion of broadband tax by claiming that the tax will take a significant toll over the country’s emerging and small businesses. The Conservatives are claiming that the...
What Happened To Windows Mobile 7 At CES 2010?
News Mobile & Telco
So what did you think of the Windows Mobile 7 sneak preview that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer slipped into his CES keynote last night? Oh. That's right. There wasn't one. In fact, in front of the biggest batch of consumer...
Plastic Logic Que proReader Launches At CES 2010
News Consumer
The market for e-readers, which was largely going untapped until recently, has suddenly started attracting the attention of entrepreneurs with the UK-based Plastic Logic is the latest company to join the bandwagon. The company...
Play the piano on Youtube
News Web
Youtube is the world's most popular website by a million miles and most of us have wasted far more time than we would care to admit watching American teenagers trying their hardest to lose a testicle. But we just had to point out...
Greener Apple cleans up its act
News Hardware
As technology companies jostle for attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Greenpeace's newest edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics cuts through the greenwash. Apple, Sony Ericsson and Nokia lead...
Apple Tablet PC Rumours Round Up : 27th January, SDK & Product Launch
News Hardware
The blogosphere has been inundated with a plethora of rumours suggesting the launch date of Apple's much-hyped tablet computer device, with some recent reports claiming that the company is indeed planning to unleash the device at...
Government Appoints CCTV Watchdog
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The Government has appointed a regulator to oversee the use of CCTV technology amidst growing concerns about surveillance and the effectiveness of the cameras. A minister said he hoped the appointment would "address public...
Samsung beefs up notebook roster
News Consumer
Samsung has announced the launch of its newest notebook computer series, the Samsung R30 series featuring the R430 and R530 and the Samsung R80 series including the R480, R580 and R780, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
Google Sweetens Deals For On2 Technologies Acquisition
News Web
Google Inc. has finally bowed to On2 Technologies shareholders complaining about the original price it was offering for the acquisition of the online video specialist. It will therefore raise its bid for the proposed takeover...
Google To Be Sued By Dick Family Over Nexus One Moniker
News Security
Google Inc., the California based search engine giant, recently launched its much awaited smartphone, Nexus One, whose name has been "inspired" from the Nexus series of Androids from the movie Blade Runner based on the sci-fi...
France redistributes web wealth
News Web
The French government is considering the possibility of levying an additional tax at internet advertising revenues in order to bail out struggling newspapers and musicians. The proposal, which was part of a...
Carphone Warehouse Kills Tiscali UK Brand
News Hardware
Carphone Warehouse, following its May 2009 acquisition of Tiscali UK, has officially axed the Tiscali brand name and has merged its customer base with Talk Talk, an ISP owned by Carphone Warehouse. The company, which also...
CES 2010: Manufacturers Rush To Integrated Femtocell Technology In Consumer Devices
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Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA have all announced femtocell services, and so have Vodafone in the UK and China Telecom, according to a panel of experts in the femtocell space. In fact, although femtos aren't yet...
Intel officially outs 32nm chips
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In news that is no surprise to anyone, Intel has unveiled is new Core Blimey range of 32nm parts at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The firm outlined its plans for the Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 chips...
CES 2010 : HP Doesn't Say When It Will Launch Slate PC (But It Will Be In 2010)
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A Hewlett-Packard spokesperson would only confirm to Betanews this morning that the unnamed 'slate' PC demonstrated by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during his keynote address to CES 2010 yesterday evening, was not a current entry...
iFixit Rips Apart Google Nexus One, Uncovers Few Surprises
News Web
iFixit staff have ripped apart the brand new Google Nexus One days after it was released to the general public and unearthed a few interesting bits and pieces. It was apparently much easier to open up and teardown the first...
