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Articles Posted on 25 January 2010

The rise of Apple continues unabated

The rise of Apple continues unabated

Positive results fuel feeding frenzy

News Mobile & Telco

The world's biggest Apple posted impressive numbers, claiming a 50 per cent jump in profit over the same quarter twelve months ago , in financials posted today. The company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and an unholy profit...


Google Nexus One Automatically Censors Swear Words

Google Nexus One Automatically Censors Swear Words

News Mobile & Telco

Reuters has discovered that Google first consumer product, the Nexus One Android-based smartphone, is quite family friendly as it automatically censors obscene words. The online news outlet found out that the device's voice to...


BACH Technology's MusicDNA To Replace MP3? No Way

BACH Technology's MusicDNA To Replace MP3? No Way

News Hardware

MusicDNA has been tipped to produce a potential candidate to replace the ubiquitous MP3 file format and the killer detail? MusicDNA is produced by BACH Technology, which incidentally co-invented the file format. However, it is...


Complaints to the ITC

Complaints to the ITC

Guardian of free trade and fair play kept busy

News Mobile & Telco

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is an independent federal agency tasked to ensure that foreign trade imports do not unfairly impact domestic industries. The Commission also adjudicates cases involving the...


Playstation 3 hacked

Playstation 3 hacked

Entire system opened up, filleted

News Mobile & Telco

The hacker best known for allowing the iPhone to be jailbroken has apparently achieved the impossible and hacked Sony's Holy Grail games console, the PS3. George Hotz, who unravelled the iPhone as a teenager, has managed to dig...


Bill Gates Warns Of Tough Years Ahead For US Economy, Invests In GreenTech

Bill Gates Warns Of Tough Years Ahead For US Economy, Invests In GreenTech

News Consumer

Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, one of the world's most vocal philanthropists and incidentally the richest man in the world, predicted that the US economy could take years to recover from the current economic turmoil. He...


Ericsson To Slash 600 More Jobs

Ericsson To Slash 600 More Jobs

News Network

Ericsson, one of the largest Swedish companies, has reported that the company will be ‘laying-off’ almost 600 employees from its chip manufacturing plant as the losses sustained by the company including its mobile...


Mozilla boss warns off Internet police

Mozilla boss warns off Internet police

Interference stunts growth

News Developer

The Grande Mozzerella of  the Mozilla Project, Mitchell Baker is worried about the way the Internet is policed. "The increase in laws make it difficult to run an open network," she said. Baker claimed ISPs were expected to...


Sony Buys Domain Name For Forthcoming Arc Motion Controller

Sony Buys Domain Name For Forthcoming Arc Motion Controller

News Entertainment

After much speculation about the name of the much awaited Sony PlayStation 3 motion controller, a dedicated gaming blog, VGChartz, has reported that the much vaunted controller will be christened as ‘Arc’. The blog...


Scottish Baby Conceived Thanks To iPhone Calendar

Scottish Baby Conceived Thanks To iPhone Calendar

News Security

The Scottish Sun has reported that a Scottish couple has successfully given birth to a baby girl, which was conceived with the help of an app for Apple’s blockbuster smartphone, iPhone.    The baby, being dubbed...


OSX update seeded to developers

OSX update seeded to developers

Public release in six weeks

News Hardware

Apple has seeded the latest release of OSX snow Leopard to developers according to reports on a number of Apple-friendly news portals. First spotted on Apple Insider, the free point release is expected to roll out using the...


Ericsson slash 1500 more jobs

Ericsson slash 1500 more jobs

92% fall in quarterly profits

News Mobile & Telco

Swedish network infrastructure supplier Ericsson has said it will cut an extra 1,500 jobs on top of 2009 targets, as it reported another massive quarterly drop in profits. The company’s planned 5000 head-count reduction for 2009...


Three Radeon HD5670s compared benchmarked

Three Radeon HD5670s compared benchmarked

Review Head to head to head

Reviews Hardware

Having assaulted the ultra high end (HD5970), high end (HD5870, HD5850) and the mainstream (5750 & 5770) market segments with its new 40nm DX11 architecture HD5**** series of card the firm has now turned their attention to...


Can HP's Partnership With Omnifone Ever Succeed?

Can HP's Partnership With Omnifone Ever Succeed?

News Entertainment

HP announced earlier this morning that it will be offering Omnifone's Musicstation service as a trial offer on millions of its computers in a bid to capture a chunk of the growing online music market. But will they both be...


Cut-price computers are changing the game

Cut-price computers are changing the game

Gigahertz don't matter

Opinion & Analysis Hardware

For the first time since Alan Sugar nailed together a bunch of bargain basement components to build the first Amstrad computer, box builders seem to have reset their sights. It's no longer de rigeur to have the meanest fastest,...


Flurry Analytics Reveals Dozens Of Apple iPad Tablet Prototypes

Flurry Analytics Reveals Dozens Of Apple iPad Tablet Prototypes

News Hardware

Flurry, a company based in San Francisco which provides analytics for mobile devices, has uncovered evidence of the existence of Apple's forthcoming tablet PC, a few days before the secretive product is revealed at the the Yerba...


Chinese Government Denies Implication In Google Hack

Chinese Government Denies Implication In Google Hack

News Security

The Chinese government has denied any official involvement in cyber attacks that was revealed by Google nearly two weeks ago, which has led to some serious debate over the country’s internet censoring policies. The denial...


Gaming Community Adopting Windows 7 Massively

Gaming Community Adopting Windows 7 Massively

News Consumer

Steam, the world’s largest PC gaming platform, has reported in its December 2009 report that the latest iteration of its operating system by Microsoft, Windows 7, has become immensely popular with the PC gaming...


iPhone successful for Vodafone

iPhone successful for Vodafone

One week and 100,000 sales

News Mobile & Telco

It’s being reported that Vodafone has shifted 100,000 iPhone units in its first week of sales. Including pre-orders for both networks, Vodafone has topped Orange’s 30,000 launch day sales by an additional 20,000 and then gone on...


Half Of Britain Would Consider Buying An Apple iPad Tablet Says Survey

Half Of Britain Would Consider Buying An Apple iPad Tablet Says Survey

News Hardware

A survey carried out by popular voucher website, Vouchercodes.co.uk, has found out that more than half of the respondents would consider buying an Apple Tablet device although the percentage of those who said they would buy it...


AMD II boosts Phenom II, Athlon II lines

AMD II boosts Phenom II, Athlon II lines

Twos up, prices down

News Hardware

Chipper underdog AMD has added a bunch of new processors to its Phenom II and AMD Athlon II desktop product lines. The firm is pushing a price-to-performance metric which, it hopes, will deflect a bit of the spotlight away from...


MS reveals Office 2010 system requirements

MS reveals Office 2010 system requirements

Upgrade from 2003 to 2010 may be painful

News Business

Software Overlord of the Universe, Microsoft has decreed that anyone using Office 2007 should be able to use the latest incarnation of its all-encompassing suite of secretary-friendly business software, but warns that anyone...


Apple Tablet Device To Be Called iPad?

Apple Tablet Device To Be Called iPad?

News Hardware

With the expected launch of Apple’s highly rumoured tablet computing device inching closer, speculations about the name of the device is now doing rounds on the blogosphere. Refreshed rumours are suggesting that Apple is...


HP begins bundling Musicstation

HP begins bundling Musicstation

Spotify challengers line up

News Entertainment

HP is to bundle Omnifone's MusicStation software on PCs sold in 10 European countries. Punters buying any one of 16 HP desktop and laptop models will get unlimited access to 6.5 million tracks from the big four record labels and...


File-Sharing Network Operator Acquitted Of Fraud Charges

File-Sharing Network Operator Acquitted Of Fraud Charges

News Security

The operator of a file sharing network that was raided by police in 2007 on suspicion of enabling copyright-infringement has been acquitted by a jury. Alan Ellis ran OiNK and was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud by a...


No swearing on Google app phone

No swearing on Google app phone

Bunch of coconuts

Opinion & Analysis Web

Google's voice-to-text speech recognition software censors fruity language, the company has confirmed. "We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognise a...


Microsoft To Mention Nintendo, Apple In Datel Trial

Microsoft To Mention Nintendo, Apple In Datel Trial

News Open Source

Microsoft Corp. is using the example of Apple’s case against the Mac clone maker Psystar to proceed with a ban over the third-party memory cards, plug-ins, and other accessories for its signature gaming console Xbox...


Microsoft Reorganises Entertainment & Devices Unit

Microsoft Reorganises Entertainment & Devices Unit

News Consumer

Microsoft Corp confirmed on Friday that it has made some massive structural changes to the organisation’s Entertainment and Devices (E&D) unit, the division of the software maker responsible for Windows Mobile, Zune,...


Bach Technology Proposes To Replace MP3 By MusicDNA

Bach Technology Proposes To Replace MP3 By MusicDNA

News Hardware

A prominent audio tech firm seems all geared up to come up with the successor to the omnipresent MP3 music file format that could lure music enthusiasts to adopt legitimate downloading in masses, it has been claimed. Bach...


Apple tablets spotted at Cupertino campus

Apple tablets spotted at Cupertino campus

I spy with my little i

News Mobile & Telco

With 'T Day' rapidy approaching, rumours are sure to start ramping up to fever pitch about the Apple iProd, or iPad, or iSlate depending on which of the manifold possible names you favour. Wednesday will apparently see Steve...


Google Founders Sell £3.8 Billion Worth Of Shares

Google Founders Sell £3.8 Billion Worth Of Shares

News Hardware

The co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have announced plans to loosen their grip over the company by selling-off 5 million shares each under five-year stock trading plans.  Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, who met at...


IFPI Could Sue Oink Founder

IFPI Could Sue Oink Founder

News Security

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is preparing to launch fresh legal onslaught against Alan Ellis, the founder of the Oink’s Pink Palace file sharing website, who was recently acquitted after...


China finally denies Google hack

China finally denies Google hack

Not me, comrade

News Government

The Chinese government has denied any involvement in alleged hack attacks on Google and has responded to Hilary Clinton's own verbal attack on the People's Republic. An un-named official told the the government-run Xinhua news...


HP Teams Up With Omnifone To Launch Online Music Service

HP Teams Up With Omnifone To Launch Online Music Service

News Entertainment

The world's biggest computer manufacturer, HP, will be bundling Omnifone's MusicStation software that will allow its customers to listen to music for free for two weeks with the option to subscribe to an unlimited service. From...


Microsoft finally fixes Explorer 6

Microsoft finally fixes Explorer 6

Time to move up or move on

News Web

Microsoft will finally release a security patch for an ancient versions of its Internet Explorer web browser this evening. The company is expected to start seeding update notices to IE6 users at around 6pm UK time today but the...

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