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Articles Posted on 14 January 2010

Nintendo DSi XL Gaming Console Comes To UK In March

Nintendo DSi XL Gaming Console Comes To UK In March

News Consumer

The extra large version of the Nintendo DS, otherwise known as the DSi XL, will be launched on the 5th of March in the UK - and possibly in Europe but no details about the pricing have yet been revealed. The fourth version of the...


Guardian iPhone App Downloaded 70,000 Times

Guardian iPhone App Downloaded 70,000 Times

News Web

The Guardian Media Group has announced that its iPhone app, which was rolled out on 14 December 2009, has been downloaded almost 70,000 times in just one month of it being launched.   Emily Bell, the Director of Digital...


Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe Push Handful Of Patches

Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe Push Handful Of Patches

News Security

Microsoft Corp., the Redmond-based software giant, has released a single security patch in its Patch Tuesday security bulletin, which deals with a high-risk vulnerability that is affecting Windows 2000 operating...


HP & Microsoft Strike 3-Year, $250m Partnership Over Cloud Computing

HP & Microsoft Strike 3-Year, $250m Partnership Over Cloud Computing

News Hardware

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have announced a three-year, US$250 million deal to develop hardware and software products which will be focused on management and virtualisation solutions for data centers, prepackaged solutions for...


Vodafone : 50,000 iPhones Sold On First Day

Vodafone : 50,000 iPhones Sold On First Day

News Mobile & Telco

Vodafone has started to sell the iPhone after O2, Orange and Tesco and has already managed to get pre-orders of 50,000 handsets which is significantly more than the rumoured 20,000 Nexus One Google sold in its first week,...


Microsoft and HP expand partnership

Microsoft and HP expand partnership

$250 million invested in business IT

News Business & Government

Over the next three years, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard will invest $250 million to help partner businesses to build the next generation of data centres and cloud computing. The two computing giants will jointly develop a...


Virgin Mobile Launches HTC HD2

Virgin Mobile Launches HTC HD2

News Mobile & Telco

Virgin Mobile has managed to get the stylish and super sexy HTC HD2 for its customers on a rather cheap deal, shortly after Vodafone decided to ditch the device as the arrival of the Google Nexus One and the iPhone looms. The...


Google Rolls Out Secure HTTP For Gmail Globally

Google Rolls Out Secure HTTP For Gmail Globally

News Security

Google Inc. on Wednesday has announced that it will ramp up the security of its free email service Gmail by automatically encrypting all the traffic carried on it, primarily in the wake of row over Chinese attacks. The search...


Obama Administration Backs Google's Decision To Challenge China

Obama Administration Backs Google's Decision To Challenge China

News Security

The US government has indicated that Google has the support of the Obama administration behind its decision to challenge the People’s Republic of China regarding its internet content censorship guidelines.  Google...


Adobe reports broad hack attack

Adobe reports broad hack attack

Lessons will be learned

News Business & Government

The company best known for its image manipulation software Photoshop, Adobe, has reported a large scale attack on its corporate networks and those of an undisclosed numnber of other companies. In an official blog post, Adobe's...


iPhone App Piracy Siphoned $450 Million Worth Of Revenues

iPhone App Piracy Siphoned $450 Million Worth Of Revenues

News Software

An analysis by the technology blog 24/7 Wall St. has revealed that Apple and the developers who sell apps for iPhone and iPod Touch at the App Store have lost a whopping $450 million in sales since the store was launched in July...


Judge Grants Judicial Review To McKinnon In Extradition Case

Judge Grants Judicial Review To McKinnon In Extradition Case

News Security

A High Court judge has granted permission for a judicial review of Home Secretary Alan Johnson’s decision to allow the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.  Mr McKinnon is accused of hacking into the US...


20,000 Google Nexus One Handsets Sold To Date?

20,000 Google Nexus One Handsets Sold To Date?

News Mobile & Telco

All the hype surrounding Google’s venture into the smartphone arena with its newcomer Google Nexus One handset has apparently not been able to attract that many eager customers, according to its first week sales as...


Home Office ruling on McKinnon 'unlawful'

Home Office ruling on McKinnon 'unlawful'

Judge's pronouncements give hacker hope

News Business & Government

A high court judge has said that the home secretary may have acted unlawfully in sanctioning the extradition of UFO hacker Gary McKinnon. In a letter, Justice Mitting said the fact that McKinnon suffers from Asperger's syndrome...


China responds to Google threat

China responds to Google threat

Obey the law or jog on

News Web

China has responded to Google's threat to withdraw from the People's Republic if it is not allowed to offer uncensored access to Web searches by saying that Internet firms are welcome to trade there only if they do so within the...


Companies Have Just Months To Replace Old Wireless Payments Systems

Companies Have Just Months To Replace Old Wireless Payments Systems

News Security

Retailers and caterers have just six months to replace old systems if they are to continue to use wireless card payment technology. The industry payment security body might revoke the right to process cards for companies that do...


GSMA Views 2.6GHz As Pivotal For LTE

GSMA Views 2.6GHz As Pivotal For LTE

News Hardware

The GSM Association (GSMA), in conjunction with a US-based research company Global View Partners, has published a report advocating for the significance of licensing the 2.6 GHz band in a bid to tap the potential of upcoming...


Symantec Acquires Risk Management Specialist Gideon Technologies

Symantec Acquires Risk Management Specialist Gideon Technologies

News Security

Symantec Corporation, the US-based security software giant, has announced that the company was all set to acquire Gideon Technologies, in order to use Gideon’s risk management technology to improve its client offerings in...


Microsoft Teases Google Over New Storage Service

Microsoft Teases Google Over New Storage Service

News Software

Google Inc has announced its very own cloud-based online storage service which will allow Google Docs users to upload any type of file of up to 250 MB while they will have access to a total storage capacity of...

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