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Articles Posted on 12 January 2010

Google Pushes Android 2.1 SDK Out

Google Pushes Android 2.1 SDK Out

News Mobile & Telco

Only a couple of days after the release of the Nexus One smartphone, Google has announced that the Android 2.1 software development kit is available for developers and mobile phone manufacturers to download. Google says that...


Vicar Blesses Digital Tools During New Version of Plough Monday

Vicar Blesses Digital Tools During New Version of Plough Monday

News Hardware

In a move that illustrates the changes in the way one earns a daily living, a London-based vicar has updated the "Plough Monday" tradition by replacing farm tools with more current, communication tools like laptops and...


£20 Obscure VX1i Is Tesco's Best Selling Phone

£20 Obscure VX1i Is Tesco's Best Selling Phone

News Mobile & Telco

Tesco has revealed that its most popular phone over the Christmas period was a little known model from an obscure manufacturer that costs only £18.99 and is being marketed by the supermarket giant as being a disposable...


IBM Survey Reveals Global Trend In Buyer Sophistication

IBM Survey Reveals Global Trend In Buyer Sophistication

News Security

According to a recent survey conducted by global IT solutions giant IBM, it has been revealed that consumers want their favorite retail stores to have a more interactive and personalised online presence.  Shannon Miller, the...


Microsoft Collaborates With Intel On Digital Signage

Microsoft Collaborates With Intel On Digital Signage

News Software

Microsoft and Intel Corporation will join forces to develop a state of the art digital signage technology which will be based on Intel’s 2010 Core i7 processor and Windows Embedded Standard 2011 operating system. A...


Microsoft Unleashes Brand New ERP Solution

Microsoft Unleashes Brand New ERP Solution

News Cloud

In an attempt to increase its share in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market, Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, has rolled out a new ERP software which will be aimed towards mid-sized retail...


Symantec Report Sheds Fascinating Light On Data Center Market Psyche

Symantec Report Sheds Fascinating Light On Data Center Market Psyche

News Hardware

Symantec, the largest security software maker in the world, has released its annual State of the Data Center study for 2010 which reveals that mid-size companies were adopting cutting edge technology much faster than large and...


Blog of the day

Blog of the day

Steve Lawson: Dear rock stars

In-Depth Consumer

Independent musician Steve Lawson chews a nice big hole in the egos of the latest bunch of pumped-up pillock billionaires moaning about the poor record industry struggling to pay the bills. Steve - who is doing OK thank you...


Drunk-phone is big hit with party goers

Drunk-phone is big hit with party goers

£19 lose-it-and-forget-it handset

News Mobile & Telco

News sites might be full of endless reports about the Nexus One and the ever-present iPhone, but a new trend is emerging. Tesco is reporting that it sold over 10,000 units of its VX1i Party Phone in the two weeks leading up to...


Samsung To Launch TV Sets With Built-in iPlayer Features

Samsung To Launch TV Sets With Built-in iPlayer Features

News Mobile & Telco

Korean consumer electronics giants Samsung has confirmed that it will be rolling out a range of televisions that will come with BBC's popular video on demand service, iPlayer. Speaking to the Telegraph, Erik Huggers, BBC Director...


3M launches RSI-busting 'mouse'

3M launches RSI-busting 'mouse'

Looks like a joystick to us

News Consumer

3M has released its Ergonomic Wireless Optical Mouse which the company suggests can help reduce the discomfort associated with carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive strain injury. Slaving away in front to of a computer for hours...


APC Strikes Deal With IBM Over Portable Data Center Solution

APC Strikes Deal With IBM Over Portable Data Center Solution

News Hardware

Schneider Electric’s power and cooling arm, American Power Conversion (APC) Corporation has announced an expanded relationship with International Business Machines to offer IBM’s Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC)...


GPS navigation app ported to Nexus one

GPS navigation app ported to Nexus one

Where in the world am I?

News Web

US firm ALK Technologies has tweaked its CoPilot Live v8 GPS navigation app so that it now runs on Google's Nexus One smartphone. The softwarewas shown off at CES in Las Vegas and now a UK version is available for download for...


Microsoft leaves businesses stranded

Microsoft leaves businesses stranded

Volume licensing portal borked

News Business & Government

Microsoft's Volume Licensing system is broken, leaving potentially thousands of business customers unable to use their software. Reports indicate that a revamp of the website, which was intended to make the process of downloading...


CA Acquires Cloud Services Specialist Oblicore

CA Acquires Cloud Services Specialist Oblicore

News Web

CA kicked off the New Year with the acquisition of a service-level management technology provider Oblicore for an undisclosed sum. The company formerly known as Computer Associates seems to be on a buying spree for past one year...


Orange Announces Then Denies Apple Tablet PC

Orange Announces Then Denies Apple Tablet PC

News Hardware

Comments from an executive of France Telecom have given air to the rumours of the existence of the device, while a couple of other reports pointed towards a multi-touch enabled iWork, along with an operating system with “a...


Missing website fuels Apple tablet rumours

Missing website fuels Apple tablet rumours

Fingerworks dissapears from the Internet

News Mobile & Telco

The Apple press has become so desperate for any hint that the fabled Apple iTablet might actually exists that even the slightest coincidental occurrence will have the entire industry twitching in overexcited...


Layoffs At Fujitsu Are Discriminatory In Nature Says Unite

Layoffs At Fujitsu Are Discriminatory In Nature Says Unite

News Mobile & Telco

UK’s largest trade union, Unite, has accused Fujitsu of disproportionately targeting women, part-time, as well as non-white workers under its redundancies, it has been emerged. The union on Monday asserted that it had...


Expert Claims File-Sharing Bill Could Give Government Control Of The Internet

Expert Claims File-Sharing Bill Could Give Government Control Of The Internet

News Business & Government

The Digital Economy Bill would give the Government the power to control the internet access of UK citizens by ministerial order, bypassing Parliament and without an adequate right of appeal, according to one legal...


CES 2010 Records Increasing Level Of Attendance

CES 2010 Records Increasing Level Of Attendance

News Mobile & Telco

The increased number of attendees at the Consumer Electronic Show 2010, is been seen by many analysts as an indicator of the economy along with the technology sector getting back on its feet. CES 2010 saw a 6 percent increase in...


Microsoft To Introduce Windows, Office Rentals Scheme

Microsoft To Introduce Windows, Office Rentals Scheme

News Security

In a attempt to increase its revenue streams from the Windows and Office software, Microsoft has added a rental option to copies of Windows operating system and Microsoft Office suite, that will allow those who wish to rent out...


Comment : UK Government Home Access Scheme Way Too Expensive

Comment : UK Government Home Access Scheme Way Too Expensive

News Security

The government announced yesterday the expansion of its home access scheme after a year long trial in Oldham and Suffolk was deemed a success.  However the cost of the project, £300 million according to government...


BBC iPlayer Freesat Trials Limited To Humax Boxes

BBC iPlayer Freesat Trials Limited To Humax Boxes

News Consumer

BBC has announced that it will be extending its Freeview BBC iPlayer beta trials with an official release of codes that will enable the public to access the beta iteration of the much-awaited service. However, the beta version...


Twitter Looking To Expand Its Commercial Department

Twitter Looking To Expand Its Commercial Department

News Security

Microblogging phenomenon Twitter appears all geared up to reproduce the success it had in the year 2009, as the company has posted a number of job vacancies calling on a new technical workforce to work upon a slew of advanced...


Google Nexus One Users Complain About 3G Access

Google Nexus One Users Complain About 3G Access

News Mobile & Telco

Just a few days after its US launch, Google’s newcomer in the smartphone arena, dubbed as ‘Nexus One’, has reportedly been experiencing difficulties in accessing 3G networks. The search giant’s support...


Sitting at the computer will kill you

Sitting at the computer will kill you

Run away!

In-Depth Consumer

If watching TV will kill you, if you do it for four hours a day or more, as Aussie researchers warn, what about sitting at the computer? The researchers tracked the TV viewing habits of 8,800 adults and found that every hour...


Dell To Release Mini 3i Smartphone In the UK

Dell To Release Mini 3i Smartphone In the UK

News Mobile & Telco

Dell's Android-based Mini 3i is to be launched in the UK soon according to reports that emerged from CES 2010; the 3.5-inch touchscreen smartphone made its official debut at the Las Vegas show during the weekend. Dell...


Office disappears from Microsoft's shelves

Office disappears from Microsoft's shelves

Banned

News Business & Government

Microsoft has had to remove almost all versions of its Office product from its US on-line shop in order to comply with an injunction taken out against it by giant-slaying i4i. Last month, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal...


£11 Belkin Wireless G+ router

£11 Belkin Wireless G+ router

News Hardware

The new Belkin F5D7231-4 Wireless Router has a maximum range up to 700ft. The router comes with Ports 4-10/100Base-T auto-sensing and auto-uplink RJ45 ports, LAN 1-10/100Base-T RJ45 port and WAN ports. Protocols supported with...


£520 Acer Aspire 7738 Laptop Dual Core 4GB 320GB Blu-Ray 17-inch LCD

£520 Acer Aspire 7738 Laptop Dual Core 4GB 320GB Blu-Ray 17-inch LCD

News Hardware

If you’re one of those people who won’t accept second best and wants the ultimate in laptop technology then you need the Acer Aspire 7738G laptop.


£90 Wharfdedale 500gb Digital Twin tuner PVR

£90 Wharfdedale 500gb Digital Twin tuner PVR

News Hardware

500gb Hard drive, can pause and rewind live TV. Remote control, CI slot. Built in Freeview. Two Scart Sockets. 240 hours of recording onto the hard drive. 7 Day EPG.   Twin Freeview tuners give a wide range of recording and...


£30 p/m HTC HD2 800 Min Ultd Text & Internet

£30 p/m HTC HD2 800 Min Ultd Text & Internet

News Mobile & Telco

See things more clearly on the HD2’s extra large 4.3" touchscreen - and customise it any way you want to! It’s packed with super slick features like Wi-Fi and GPS and powered by Windows Mobile 6.5.  So, if you...


£162 Zotac Ion N330 Ionitx A B Motherboard

£162 Zotac Ion N330 Ionitx A B Motherboard

News Hardware

Experience fluid and vivid high-definition video playback with the ultra-compact ZOTAC ION platform.  The mini-ITX form factor ZOTAC ION combines a high-performance NVIDIA ION graphics processor with a power-efficient Intel...


£200 Asus Eee PC 1001HA - BLK007X Seashell Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz 1GB 160GB

£200 Asus Eee PC 1001HA - BLK007X Seashell Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz 1GB 160GB

News Mobile & Telco

Elegant Seashell Inspired Design Seemingly crafted by nature itself, the Eee PC Seashell boasts sleek curves and smooth lines that hug its shell.  It's so light and compact, you can take it anywhere with you! And with a...


£4 Belkin Wireless Access point

£4 Belkin Wireless Access point

News Hardware

Once you've done the simple setup, you can share data and peripherals, as well as a single Internet account among all your computers.  Using multiple WNAPs within your home or office lets you increase your network's coverage...


£52 MY GUIDE 4228 4.3" TFT Touch Screen SAT NAV with UK and Western Europe Mapping

£52 MY GUIDE 4228 4.3" TFT Touch Screen SAT NAV with UK and Western Europe Mapping

News Hardware

The MyGuide 4228 offers revolutionary features in an exclusive slimline design.


£15 p/m HTC Touch 2 300 minutes Ultd Text

£15 p/m HTC Touch 2 300 minutes Ultd Text

News Mobile & Telco

The HTC Touch 2 is a fantastic touchscreen phone running the latest generation of the Windows Mobile operating system.  The HTC Touch 2 lets you take control thanks to its 2.8" full touchscreen. You can capture the moment...


£45 D-link Wireless HD Media Streamer DSM330

£45 D-link Wireless HD Media Streamer DSM330

News Hardware

D-Link's DivX Connected HD Media Player lets you stream HD digital content from your networked PCs so that you can enjoy your music, videos and photos on your entertainment system. DivX Connected finally makes HD on your TV a...


£990 Sharp 52'' HD LCD TV

£990 Sharp 52'' HD LCD TV

News Security

The 1080p Full HD LCD TV with the panel size 52 inches fascinates with a perfect interplay of state-of-the-art technology and noble, black piano lacquer design and ring in a new era in LCD TV. Sharp has created an impressive...


£70 Acer X193w 19 inch widescreen TFT

£70 Acer X193w 19 inch widescreen TFT

News Hardware

The Acer X193W 19inch TFT Widescreen Monitor, stand out in a class of its own, from simply watching movies to detailed graphics design, the Acer X193W 19inch TFT Widescreen monitor has it all.  A full 170 degree viewing...

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