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Articles Posted on 18 January 2010

Nokia 6700 Slide review

Nokia 6700 Slide review

Classic look building on its baby brother

Reviews Mobile & Telco

Building on the success of the Nokia 6700 Classic, the 6700 Slide is really a relative in name only. Running Symbian S60, the Slide has a more righteous claim on the label of smartphone than many of its rivals. However, it's...


France Become Second European Country To Call For Stop On Internet Explorer

France Become Second European Country To Call For Stop On Internet Explorer

News Security

France has joined Germany into recommending that its citizens give up Internet Explorer 6 and move either to IE8 or another alternative.  Earlier today we reported how the German government warned computer users across the...


Apple Confirms "Creative" Event On 27th Of January

Apple Confirms "Creative" Event On 27th Of January

News Hardware

Apple has reportedly confirmed that it will be holding an event on the 27th of January 2010 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, as we wrote earlier this year, starting from 10AM pacific time. Engadget...


Apple invites hacks to January 27 knees-up

Apple invites hacks to January 27 knees-up

Start taking the tablets

News Hardware

Apple, the firm the with the Midas touch, has emailed selected US hacks inviting them to a special event in San Francisco on Wednesday 27th January. The date, as even your granny has heard by now, is supposed to be the day Apple...


Vodafone Sure Signal To Relaunch UK Femtocell Revolution

Vodafone Sure Signal To Relaunch UK Femtocell Revolution

News Mobile & Telco

A sign of things to come, mobile phone network Vodafone has rebadged its Access Gateway as Vodafone Sure Signal, a device that allows users to improve their signal dramatically by plugging a box into their office or home...


GW620 Is LG's First UK Android Phone

GW620 Is LG's First UK Android Phone

News Mobile & Telco

The other Korean phone manufacturer, LG, has announced the availability of its first Android smartphone in the UK as the GW620 which will be available on T-Mobile and its MVNO, Virgin Mobile, at in the forthcoming weeks. The In...


Jewish Website Compromised By Palestinian Hackers

Jewish Website Compromised By Palestinian Hackers

News Security

The website of a Jewish newspaper, The Jewish Chronicle, was attacked by anti-Semitic hackers who managed to post an image of the Palestinian flag and anti-Jewish messages, suspending the website for almost 18 hours.  It was...


Oxford University Kicks Out Spotify

Oxford University Kicks Out Spotify

News Mobile & Telco

The Oxford University has banned its students from using the popular online music streaming service, Spotify, as the Oxford University Computing Services (OCUS) believes that the huge amount of data that went into streaming music...


Is The Contactpoint Database Fit For Purpose?

Is The Contactpoint Database Fit For Purpose?

News Security

A Telegraph investigation has revealed that the UK government's ContactPoint database has allegedly witnessed security breaches even before it has been officially launched.  The controversial database was proposed following...


France joins Germany in saying 'non' to IE

France joins Germany in saying 'non' to IE

Listen carefully, I will say this only once

News Web

Sacre Bleu! First the Germans and now the French. Microsoft must be starting to the think the whole world is against it as, in another unprecedented move, an entire nation is again warned not to touch Internet Explorer with a...


Chinese hacks hacked in Google attack

Chinese hacks hacked in Google attack

Give us our emails back

News Web

Being a journalist in China is not an easy ride at the best of times, but now at least two news Beijing bureaux have reported that their members have had their Gmail accounts tampered with. The Foreign Correspondent's Club of...


Twitter Bomb Threat "Joke" Lands British Lad In Prison

Twitter Bomb Threat "Joke" Lands British Lad In Prison

News Mobile & Telco

A man was arrested by the South Yorkshire Police under the Terrorism Act on suspicion of conspiring to "create a bomb hoax", a week after he tweeted on his Twitter account that he will blow the Doncaster’s Robin Hood...


Oink File-Sharing Case Illustrates Cultural Paradigm Shift

Oink File-Sharing Case Illustrates Cultural Paradigm Shift

News Security

The acquittal, last week of Allan Elis, a bright software engineer who founded the popular Bit Torrent tracker Oink, highlighted the profound changes that are happening to the moral fabric of the Western world, a shift that...


THINQ.co.uk Joins ITProPortal.com On Net Communities Team

THINQ.co.uk Joins ITProPortal.com On Net Communities Team

News Consumer

Online publisher and leading technology advertising network, Net Communities has officially launched its new tech news website THINQ.co.uk. The site at http://www.THINQ.co.uk , will be edited by successful and highly experienced...


Windows Mobile 7 locks out old apps

Windows Mobile 7 locks out old apps

Too little too late

News Mobile & Telco

An obviously exasperated tweet from a well-known and highly respected mobile phone expert has got the cellphone blogosphere all of a dither. Aldar Murtazin, the editor in chief of Mobilereview.com, a few hours ago told the world...


Apple Set To Launch 22-inch Touchscreen iMac In 2010?

Apple Set To Launch 22-inch Touchscreen iMac In 2010?

News Hardware

Chinese based newspaper Commercial Times claims that Apple will be launching a 22-inch touchscreen all in one PC in 2010 that will become the third member of the iMac family, a move that would bring touch capabilities for the...


Taiwan tech site predicts touch screen iMac

Taiwan tech site predicts touch screen iMac

Rumour mill in overdrive

News Hardware

Even the merest sniff of a new product from Apple gets the Internet's digital knickers in a twist these days. The Web has been awash with conjecture, rumours and downright fabricated twaddle from all quarters about the fabled...


Nokia To Introduce New Symbian S^4 User Interface

Nokia To Introduce New Symbian S^4 User Interface

News Mobile & Telco

Finnish mobile phone giant, Nokia, has just upped the ante in the mobile operating system domain by announcing an update to the existing Symbian software with the new ‘Symbian ^4’ OS in the next year. Aiming at...


Rumour : New York Times To Partner With Apple iSlate With Paid Content

Rumour : New York Times To Partner With Apple iSlate With Paid Content

News Hardware

A recent report has just added a few more details about a claimed partnership between The New York Times (NYT) and Apple for bringing news content on the Cupertino-based company's latest consumer oriented device, a tablet...


Microsoft Recommends IE6 & IE7 Users To Upgrade Their Browsers

Microsoft Recommends IE6 & IE7 Users To Upgrade Their Browsers

News Security

Microsoft has cautioned its users about security vulnerability in IE6 that has already been exploited by cyber fraudsters and what appears to be Chinese hackers who managed to ruin Google's first few weeks of 2010. The...


Biostar launches mobo for H55 set-ups

Biostar launches mobo for H55 set-ups

TH55B HD supports single chip architecture

News Consumer

Biostar has announces a new micro-ATX motherboard with full support for Intel's new 32nm Core i3 and Core i5 processors. The TH55B HD offers full 1080p HDMI or DVI video as the name suggests and allows CPU integrated graphics to...


Apple Wants To Prevent Nokia From Selling Handsets In America

Apple Wants To Prevent Nokia From Selling Handsets In America

News Mobile & Telco

The legal battle between Apple and Nokia seems to be intensifying with Apple filling a fresh patent infringement complaint against Nokia, seeking to ban the mobile phone manufacturer from selling handsets in the US.  This...


Nvidia firms up Fermi spec

Nvidia firms up Fermi spec

GF100 will be on sale sometime at some unspecified cost

News Hardware

As we mentioned earlier, Nvidia has shared some new technical details on its next-generation  graphics chippery, codenamed Fermi and now known as GF100, The GPU will sport more than three billion transistors and be produced...


Bing Search Market Share Rises In The US

Bing Search Market Share Rises In The US

News Web

Microsoft’s efforts to promote the revamped version of Bing search engine seem to be finally paying off as according to the latest comScore report, Bing’s US search engine market share rose to 10.7 percent in...


McKinnon sees new hope for mental plea

McKinnon sees new hope for mental plea

More hope than the no-hope legal system

In-Depth Business & Government

UFO hacker Gary McKinnon has every chance of winning his battle against US extradition after being granted another chance to convince the courts that his removal would be inhumane.hhh But not because the law is on his side....


Bloke's Twitter joke gets him arrested

Bloke's Twitter joke gets him arrested

Tweet rage sees him branded a terrorist

News Web

A Twitterer landed himself in deep water when he tweeted a joke about his travel problems with the local airport. After tweeting "Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise...


Yogen yo-yo inspired charger

Yogen yo-yo inspired charger

Make your phone human powered

News Mobile & Telco

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas brought all kinds of new devices out to play. One particularly green invention is the Yogen charger. It’s a 100% green and sustainable charger that fits in the palm of your...


Government Confirms £500,000 Fines For Worst Data Protection Offenders

Government Confirms £500,000 Fines For Worst Data Protection Offenders

News Security

Organisations responsible for major breaches of personal information security will face fines up to £500,000 from 6th April this year. The long-awaited penalties for serious data protection breaches have been approved by...


Square payment dongle for iPhone

Square payment dongle for iPhone

Allows anyone to take a credit card payment

News Mobile & Telco

Here’s a demo (thanks to technology investor Kevin Rose) of a prototype credit card reading dongle that plugs into the headphone jack of an iPhone. The easy to use, secure system (no details are held on the phone) has the...


Linux to get Nvidia drivers by March

Linux to get Nvidia drivers by March

Reverse engineering in action

News Software

The next distribution of Open Source operating system Linux is ready to roll, and will include new drivers for Nvidia graphics cards and chipsets, according to pronoucemnets published by ComputerWorld. Full details of the new...


Oink founder walks free

Oink founder walks free

First UK file-sharing prosecution fails

News Consumer

Allan Ellis, founder of popular Bit Torrent tracker, Oink.cd, was acquitted of conspiracy to defraud by a jury at Teesside Crown court on Friday. Ellis, 26, was the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for file-sharing. He...


German Government Tells Consumers To Abandon Internet Explorer

German Government Tells Consumers To Abandon Internet Explorer

News Security

The German Government has issued a warning against using Microsoft’s signature browser Internet Explorer (IE), and recommended its citizens to find an alternative to it. The word of warning from the nation’s Federal...


Fifth Of Brits Believe Steve Jobs Is Championship Footballer

Fifth Of Brits Believe Steve Jobs Is Championship Footballer

News Mobile & Telco

A recent research has exposed how uninformed the Brits are when it comes to knowing the eminent figures and jargons related to the IT industry, with some even believing that Steve Jobs is a footy player and dongle is a sex...


SWOFties Embracing Twitter & Facebook In Droves

SWOFties Embracing Twitter & Facebook In Droves

News Security

Swofties - an acronym for “single women above fifty” - have never been happier making apparently, the most out of their otherwise mundane and monotonous life, a recent research has revealed. Keeping the things like...


Germany says 'nein' to Internet Explorer

Germany says 'nein' to Internet Explorer

Who do you think you are kidding Mr Ballmer?

News Web

The German government has told Internet users to steer clear of Microsoft's beleaguered Web browser Internet Explorer if they want to stay safe online. Prompted no doubt by the revelation that a gaping hole in the browser's code...


Nokia's iPhone spat with Apple ratchets up

Nokia's iPhone spat with Apple ratchets up

Lawyers spotted running all the way to the bank

News Mobile & Telco

The spat brewing between two leading mobile phone firms is hotting up as Nokia and Apple escalate their war of words and break out the key to the bottomless bank account marked "legal". Apple filed a fresh complaint about Nokia...


Psystar appeals Apple court ruling

Psystar appeals Apple court ruling

Mac cloner battles on

News Hardware

Florida-based Apple-bating Mac cloner Psystar has filed notice of appeal against a ruling which stops the company selling its own generic boxes pre-installed with Apple's OSX operating system. Psystar maintains that anyone...


New York Times to charge for online news

New York Times to charge for online news

Murdoch crows with glee

News Web

In a significant move, the New York Times is preparing to charge readers for access to  on-line content, according to a report in New York Mag. According to the report, the paper is planning it give readers limited access...


AMD brands Nvidia's Fermi a graphic failure

AMD brands Nvidia's Fermi a graphic failure

Too big, too late, badly focused

In-Depth Hardware

AMD has launched a verbal assault on Nvidia over its Fermi architecture. While Nvidia claims its delayed next-generation graphics standard is a significant "game-changer" in the history of the GPU, AMD says that's cobblers and...


Top Five best-value netbooks money can buy

Top Five best-value netbooks money can buy

All the PC you really need

Reviews Software

Buying a netbook is a minefield but to help you make a decision here is our choice of  the five best-value netbooks available in the UK today. We've had hundreds pass through our hands in recent months. We've selected the...


£399 Medion Akoya P7610 17" 2.16GHz 320GB Laptop

£399 Medion Akoya P7610 17" 2.16GHz 320GB Laptop

News Software

Boasting a 17" TFT widescreen (maximum resolution 1440x900 pixels) and powered by an Intel Pentium T3400 dual core processor, it's fast, functional - and finished in a simple black and silver colour scheme. It has a 320GB hard...


£70 WindowsCE 5 Inch Touch Screen MID

£70 WindowsCE 5 Inch Touch Screen MID

News Hardware

The Windows CE Ultra-Portable Touch Screen MID (Mobile Internet Device), is a perfectly compact micro netbook. Its 5-inch, crystal clear LCD screen is ideal for surfing the web and working with Office applications on the move,...


Microsoft Sues Unidentified Live Search Users Over Cashback Fraud

Microsoft Sues Unidentified Live Search Users Over Cashback Fraud

News Software

Enhance your office communications with Epson’s most advanced corporate MFP. Choose from a range of versatile solutions that add a professional touch to mono and colour printing, scanning, copying and even faxing. This...


£302.43 ARCHOS 5 Android 501322 Internet Tablet Multimedia Player 160GB HD Bluetooth 2.0

£302.43 ARCHOS 5 Android 501322 Internet Tablet Multimedia Player 160GB HD Bluetooth 2.0

News Mobile & Telco

ARCHOS is once again bringing new technologies into the hands of its users. The new ARCHOS 5 Internet Tablet is combining all the know-how and renowned expertise of multimedia with the hot new environment developed with Google:...


£100 Ricoh Aficio SPC222DN A4 Duplex Network Colour Laser Printer

£100 Ricoh Aficio SPC222DN A4 Duplex Network Colour Laser Printer

News Hardware

Add impact to your business communications with Ricoh’s innovative colour laser printers. The Aficio SP C222DN offer everything you have always expected from a printer at a very competitive cost. Smaller yet faster than...


£61 Solwise PLA-PIGGY6 HomeplugAV 3-port Ethernet Switch W/ 6-Way Surge Protected Multiplug

£61 Solwise PLA-PIGGY6 HomeplugAV 3-port Ethernet Switch W/ 6-Way Surge Protected Multiplug

News Hardware

The Solwise PLA-PIGGY6 HomePlug Mains Power Strip with 3 Ethernet Ports operates on the HomePlug Powerline AV Specification standard, providing up to 200Mbps bandwidth over home AC wiring.  Since the home power lines are the...


£296 Advent PQD5002, Phenom X4 9550 2.2 GHz, 4 GB, 500 GB

£296 Advent PQD5002, Phenom X4 9550 2.2 GHz, 4 GB, 500 GB

News Hardware

Available with the latest generation Intel or AMD processors, ample storage for all your photos and/or music, and enough memory to run everything smoothly. It also offers you all the benefits of a stable configuration for all...


£220 HTC Tattoo Sim Free Unlocked 3.1 Megapixel Mobile Phone

£220 HTC Tattoo Sim Free Unlocked 3.1 Megapixel Mobile Phone

News Mobile & Telco

HTC Tattoo is all about you. It's the first phone that can be customized inside and out. Decide how your phone looks, then decide what you want to look at. Texts? Twitter?  Your photos? When you're done customizing HTC...


£176.24 IBM ThinkPad R52, Celeron M 1.4 GHz, 512 MB, 40 GB, MS Windows XP

£176.24 IBM ThinkPad R52, Celeron M 1.4 GHz, 512 MB, 40 GB, MS Windows XP

News Security

Performance and value for mainstream users ThinkPad R Series are affordable, lightweight notebooks with great performance and large, bright displays.  The ThinkPad R52 is a cool and quiet notebook, and includes either a...


£19 D-Link ADSL Wireless N Modem Router & USB Dongle

£19 D-Link ADSL Wireless N Modem Router & USB Dongle

News Hardware

The D-Link wireless N modem router kit is the ideal solution for first-time home users wishing to benefit from high-speed networking. It consists of one wireless N ADSL2+ modem router and one USB 2.0 mini adapter.  With USB,...


£165 I-inc 25 HDMI 25-inch Full HD TFT Monitor

£165 I-inc 25 HDMI 25-inch Full HD TFT Monitor

News Hardware

Get the beauty of full high definition visuals when you have this 25 inch widescreen LCD serving up your computing environment.  The 2ms video response time ensures rapid moving action scenes are rendered...

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