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Articles Posted on 22 January 2010

5 Reasons Why BT Infinity Triple Play Is Still Inferior To Virgin Media 50mbps Package

5 Reasons Why BT Infinity Triple Play Is Still Inferior To Virgin Media 50mbps Package

News Hardware

BT is finally trying to catch up with uber rival Virgin Media and although its 40mbps package appears to be affordable, one needs to careful weigh the pros and cons before committing to either solutions. It is no secret that BT...


Vodafone Sold 100,000 iPhone During First Week

Vodafone Sold 100,000 iPhone During First Week

News Mobile & Telco

Despite getting the Apple's self-proclaimed Jesus phone two years after O2, Vodafone has managed to sell a staggering 100,000 phone in the first week of sale, which includes pre-orders. Vodafone was the fourth network, after O2,...


£130 Dell 1320cn + 2 sets of compatible colour toners

£130 Dell 1320cn + 2 sets of compatible colour toners

News Security

Printing in colour is affordable!. With the Dell Colour Laser Printer 1320CN you'll never be restricted to monochrome printing again. Whether you're at home or in the office the 1320CN will enable you to print crisp, laser-sharp...


BT puts a price on better broadband

BT puts a price on better broadband

40 megabits per second next year

News Web

BT has announced the launch of its 40 megabits per second fibre optic Internet service called Infinity. According to the BBC, trials have already been held in London and Glasgow, and the full service will be rolled out to four...


Get OSX Snow Leopard Server for free

Get OSX Snow Leopard Server for free

Only in America

News Software

Apple is offering businesses and educational institutions $500 worth of fully functional software for free. The latest version of Mac OSX Server, which normally retails for $500, is available for free from the US Apple site. The...


Google Surges After Massive Boost In Revenue

Google Surges After Massive Boost In Revenue

News Hardware

Google, the California based search engine giant, has posted a rise of 17 percent in its revenue in its Q4 results, further indicating that the US economy is on the path of recovery after the devastating recession that severely...


IBM & Fujifilm Partner To Produce 35TB Tape

IBM & Fujifilm Partner To Produce 35TB Tape

News Hardware

IBM and Fujifilm have jointly announced that they have developed a magnetic tape that can store up to 35 TB worth of data, setting a world record in data density in linear magnetic tapes and incidentally breathing new life in the...


Fermi liquid physics demo sloshes about

Fermi liquid physics demo sloshes about

GF100 may not be such a damp squib

News Web

A short video of the latest Nvidia Fermi G100 graphics gubbins apparently live rendering watery sloshings has tipped up on Youtube. And very nice it looks too. Check it out here. Fermi promises a lot, but it's been a long time...


AMD intros massively parallel tiddler

AMD intros massively parallel tiddler

Embed with the enemy

News Hardware

Profit-making AMD today introduced the ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express module (MXM) aimed at graphics-intensive embedded systems. The chippery features a massively parallel programmable architecture on a tiny scale. AMD said...


China Fumes After Hillary Clinton's Intervention On Web Control

China Fumes After Hillary Clinton's Intervention On Web Control

News Hardware

The Chinese government has released an official statement, warning the US government that continued criticism of its internet policies might harm the ties between the two countries.  The statement, which was issued by the...


Truphone Partners With Vodafone To Launch VoIP MVNO

Truphone Partners With Vodafone To Launch VoIP MVNO

News Hardware

Truphone, a UK based VoIP telephony services provider, has rolled out its Truphone Local Anywhere service that will allow frequent UK business travelers to make calls at local rates when they go to the US. The scheme, which was...


Google Street View Now Includes National Trust Landmarks

Google Street View Now Includes National Trust Landmarks

News Security

A collection of the UK’s twenty picturesque landscapes, country houses and fascinating castles from National Trust properties have been included into the Google’s popular Street View service. The service will now show...


BBC gets back into the game game

BBC gets back into the game game

Pinky Ponk and The Stig up for grabs

News Hardware

The BBC is looking to license its best-loved programming to the gaming industry in an attempt to win back a yoof audience increasingly hooked on mobile entertainment platforms. A report on games industry news portal MCV says...


Intel hasn't a hope in UMPC space  - report

Intel hasn't a hope in UMPC space - report

Analyst sticks an Orr in

News Hardware

An analyst reckons Intel hasn't a frog-in-a-hot-saucepan's hope of ruling the ultra-mobile space in the way it conquered the desktop. ARM designs will rule the roost in the coming years, leaving heaving X86 chip monopoly Intel...


Microsoft learned of IE flaw in August 2009

Microsoft learned of IE flaw in August 2009

China debacle forced fix

News Web

Microsoft has known of the Internet Explorer flaw used in attacks against Google and Adobe since September last year, according to insecurity experts at Kaspersky Labs. The flaw was to be fixed in the the next batch of patches...


Fake Macbook Air shows up

Fake Macbook Air shows up

Apple can't make a cheap netbook, but China can

News Hardware

Apple supremo Steve Jobs has always said his company won't make a cut-price netbook because it doesn't know how to do cheap. The Chinese, on the other hand, are all over cheap and plasticky, so throwing together a knock-off...


Amazon Brings Android MP3 Service To UK

Amazon Brings Android MP3 Service To UK

News Software

Amazon’s much-awaited online music service, dubbed as “Amazon MP3”, would now be available to the UK users having Android-powered smartphone.  The service has already been available to the Android users in...


Clinton Demands Chinese Intervention In Google Attacks

Clinton Demands Chinese Intervention In Google Attacks

News Business & Government

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has urged the Chinese government to launch an investigation into the cyber attack, which had originated from the country and had targeted Google and several other US based...


Microsoft avoids WGA class action lawsuit

Microsoft avoids WGA class action lawsuit

Fortune saved

News Business & Government

Microsoft has avoided a class action suit which could have cost the software monopolist hundreds of millions of dollars. Consumers were up in arms that Microsoft encouraged them to install an update for Windows Genuine Advantage...


Video Games Industry Warns UK Government To Be More Supportive

Video Games Industry Warns UK Government To Be More Supportive

News Security

The gaming industry has urged the UK government to support UK video games developers as it feels that they are threatened by their international rivals who get full backing of their respective governments. Some of the most...


Fujitsu Employees Set To Strike For Even Longer

Fujitsu Employees Set To Strike For Even Longer

News Mobile & Telco

UK’s largest union, Unite, has announced that it would continue its ongoing strike for five more days over the payment and pension issues, and the proposed job cuts announced at Fujitsu. Meanwhile, the union further...


RockYou Breach Uncovers Nasty Truth About Lazy Passwords

RockYou Breach Uncovers Nasty Truth About Lazy Passwords

News Security

The widespread hacking attacks and unauthorized intrusions have so far failed to serve as eye-openers for many web users, as a recent analysis of more than 32 million passwords has disclosed that a majority of users are still...


Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Officially Debuts

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Officially Debuts

News Software

Mozilla Foundation has unleashed the latest iteration of its signature Firefox web browser, bringing raft of improvements in the browser’s speed and performance. Dubbed as “Firefox 3.6”, the latest version of...


4 Phones That Are Perfect For Nokia's Free Ovi Maps

4 Phones That Are Perfect For Nokia's Free Ovi Maps

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia's announcement that its Ovi Maps will now be free means that many of us could seriously consider getting one smartphone from the Finnish manufacturer. Apart from setting Ovi Maps free (more details here), Nokia is also...


Android tablet spotted in China

Android tablet spotted in China

Viewsonic Vtablet 101

News Mobile & Telco

Joining the soon-to-become-annoyingly-overcrowded Tablet PC market, Viewsonic has unveiled the VTablet 101 in China. Details are pretty scant as we write, but according to a combination of Google translate, and Chinese langauage...


Peer Drops Damages-Quantification Amendment To Digital Bill

Peer Drops Damages-Quantification Amendment To Digital Bill

News Hardware

A Conservative peer who had proposed forcing copyright holders to detail the exact damage they suffered when trying to force alleged infringers off the internet will drop the plan. Lord Lucas told OUT-LAW Radio that he would "not...


3D is here to stay, so get used to it

3D is here to stay, so get used to it

Comment Goggle-eyed paean

In-Depth Consumer

If you’ve not noticed any of the hype around James Cameron’s Avatar then you’re probably a blue alien living on another planet. The film has been touted as the poster boy for 3D technology – technology...


Google posts strong numbers for Q4 2009

Google posts strong numbers for Q4 2009

China crisis not taken into account

News Web

Internet search giant, Google has posted its financial results for the last quarter of 2009 which, despite, the state of the economy, show strong growth. "Google had a strong fourth quarter, with 17 per cent year over year...


Rockstar responds to wage slave allegations

Rockstar responds to wage slave allegations

Crunch time

News Consumer

Maker of games, Rockstar has responded to allegations that it is forcing coders to put in untold hours of unpaid overtime. In response to a question posed on the company's webisite, a Rockstar spokesman said, "Unfortunately,...


Nokia bundles free maps app

Nokia bundles free maps app

Head them off at the pass

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia said it will begin giving away for free the Ovi maps application that is already pre-installed on many of its recently-launched, Symbian-based, GPS-equipped smartphones. From March, OVI Maps will be pre-installed on Nokia...


AMD finally makes some money

AMD finally makes some money

Should sue Intel more often

News Hardware

Ex-chipmaker AMD managed to turn a rare quarterly profit with which to round off its fiscal 2009. The firm said it made $1.158 billion profit on income of $1.646 billion. Unfortunately, the figures include $1.2 billion awarded...


Androids being replicated

Androids being replicated

Multiple Android phones shipping in 2010

News Mobile & Telco

Standing tall with no iPhones is becoming harder for a network to do, so credit to both 3 and T-Mobile for not following the fanboys. As alternatives to carrying Apples ubiquitous devices, both networks are expected to unleash a...



£230 Aspire Revo R3610 Dual Core Atom 330 2GB 250GB Windows 7 Premium

£230 Aspire Revo R3610 Dual Core Atom 330 2GB 250GB Windows 7 Premium

News Software

The AspireRevo R3610 is a revolution in computer size, shape, design and affordability.  This compact net top sports a small casing that can either stand alone or snap to your monitor, streamlining your personal space while...

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