Articles Posted on 26 January 2010
Siemens denies aiding Iranian web snoops
News Mobile & Telco
Siemens has denied breaking any laws in its dealings with Iran after rights groups accused the German industrial giant of flogging web-monitoring technology to the unpopular Republic. The company was forced to speak out...
5 Things We Know About Apple's Tablet
News Hardware
With only a few hours remaining, it is worth looking at what we know exactly about Apple's forthcoming Tablet PC, everything from the hardware to the software platform itself. (1) We know that it will be a tablet (rather...
Leaked Apple Tablet photos whip up a storm
News Mobile & Telco
A bloke has posted some photos on his blog and the geeks have gone bananas. Could the pictures posted by Dustin Curtis, a designer in San Francisco, possibly be the hotly-anticipated gadget Apple is to launch tomorrow? Curtis...
Nokia N900 review
Reviews Mobile & Telco
Physically, the N900 has a QWERTY side-slide design, a little on the chubby side but still manageable in a pocket. It has a 3.5" screen and is very definitely an internet tablet with phone capabilities, in that order.The keypad...
Digital DNA could finger Web criminals
News Consumer
Darpa, the US government organisation which kick-started the Internet, is proposing a project which will eventually be able to identify even the most sophisticated hackers by indentifying their digital DNA. The organisation is...
BT launches superfast business broadband
News Web
Just days after announcing the pricing structures for home broadband users, UK telco BT has revealed that most business users can get 40 megabit fibre optic connections for £30 a month. The new service will allow UK firms...
Steve Jobs Confirms Major Product Release For Tomorrow
News Hardware
Apple's charismatic CEO, Steve Jobs, confirmed yesterday during its first quarter results conference call that there will be a new, major product that the company is "really excited about". This comes a couple of days after...
Apple Shares Surge After 50 Percent Jump In Profits
News Consumer
Apple shares have been trading significantly up after the company announced yesterday that it had enjoyed its best quarter ever with its profits increased by 50 percent compared to last year's figures to reach a monumental $2.26...
Cisco VMware NetApp put heads in the cloud
News Business & Government
Cisco Systems said it will work together with NetApp and VMware to improve the security and efficiency of virtual data centres. The announcement marks the extension of a long-standing collaboration between the three firms...
MoD Employees Guilty Of Leaking Military Secrets On Social Networks
News Hardware
In a rather blunt admission, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said that its employees have given away some crucial secrets on the social networking platforms during past one and a half year or so. The MoD has admitted that its...
Acer To Launch Ebook Tablet & Android Based Smartbooks
News Hardware
Taiwanese based Acer seems poised to venture into a slew of unexplored technological domains and has plans for launching an online app store and an e-reader application, by the second half of this year, it has been...
The Twitter honeymoon is over
In-Depth Web
Technological fads come and go as quickly as David Beckham's facial hair, but few gain as much ground, or publicity, as last year's big thing, Twitter. First there was blogging, which gave a vanity publishing platform to a...
Why Apple iPad Tablet Will Be A Failure
News Mobile & Telco
It's been more than one year now since we published an article that analysed why Apple's giant iPod Touch, otherwise known as the iPad Tablet, is likely to be a failure although in theory, the idea is extremely attractive. We...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Still Has A Few Holes Says Security Outfit
News Security
With reports of severe security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) still floating around on the blogosphere, a recent revelation by the US-based security firm has worsened the situation for the troubled...
Apple iPad Tablet Leaked Photos Surface Online
News Hardware
Dustin Curtis, a designer and user interface expert who came to fame after coming up an unofficial redesign of American Airlines's website, has posted two pictures on its blog, of what appears to be Apple's Tablet PC without any...
Walt Mossberg drools over Apple iPad
In-Depth Hardware
The first hands-on review of the legendary iSlate in the hands of self confessed Steve Jobs' best friend and fawning Apple evangelist Walt Mosspuppet. We laughed so much at this a little bit of wee came out. Highlights of the...
Apple iPad Available In March Says Media Markt
News Hardware
Someone at Europe's largest consumer electronics retailer, Media Markt, published a tweet on their Twitter account that said that the Apple iPad would be available from the company from the 1st of March for 499 Euros with a...
Apple worth more than $50 billion
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has announced record-breaking figures for its best ever quarter in a financial conference call. The Company posted revenue for the fiscal quarter ending December 2009 of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38...
Technology site succumbs to hack attack
News Web
Technology news portal Tech Crunch suffered a temporarily fatal attack early this morning after a hacker replaced the site's normal menu of technology blather with an obscene message and a link to a legally suspicious rapid...
Android Platform, Second Most Important Popular Mobile Operating System
News Mobile & Telco
Google’s Android platform is all set for an incredible growth in terms of number of users and will become the second most popular mobile operating system in three years down the line, if predictions made by an analyst firm...
Government Personal Data Handling Has Improved, Says Report
News Security
Measures put in place by the Government to better protect individuals' personal data have been successful but more work is needed, according to the first annual internal report due under the new regime. After a series of...
Chip shops show significant growth
News Hardware
The microprocessor industry is finally turning the economic tide, with shipments of chips growing in the last quarter for the first time since the beginning of 2009. Fourth quarter volumes for last year jumped more than 30...
Google Release Chrome 4.0 With Extensions & API Set
News Hardware
Just a few days after Mozilla released an update for Firefox, Google has announced release of “stable” version of its flagship browser Chrome for Windows, throwing in some security features and adding some much needed...
iPhone Hacker Jailbreaks Sony Playstation 3 Gaming Console
News Security
The hacker, who jailbroke Apple’s blockbuster iPhone, has reportedly achieved another modding feat, this time with the hack of the erstwhile impermeable Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming console. The 20-year-old...
Ericsson ups dividend, cuts more jobs
News Mobile & Telco
Swedish phone company Ericsson announced that it would increase the dividend paid to shareholders despite a drop in profit... and then cut 1,500 jobs. Net profit fell by 83 per cent to 700 million kronor, the firm said, as its...
Moto China embrace Baidu
News Mobile & Telco
After broadly adopting Android, Motorola’s Rocky-style bounce back is dependent on the platform being a success. Investors have been alarmed by Google’s dispute with the Chinese powers-that-be over censorship and cyber-hacking,...
Acer, Lenovo, Asustek plan ebook readers
News Mobile & Telco
Far-eastern outfits Acer, Asustek and Lenovo have all had the brilliant idea of making and flogging ebook readers. "We’re developing something, and we will see what happens after Apple’s tablet release," Chairman...
Vodafone stakes a claim to music leadership
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone says nearly 450,000 Vodafone customers have signed up to its music subscription services since it signed DRM-free deals with all four major labels in 2009. The phone company reckons this gives it the largest number of...
New T-Mobile tariffs
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile will be launching a new, simplified contract range on Monday, 1 February. It looks like its existing Flext, Combi and U-Fix ranges will all be ringfenced (unavailable to buy, but existing customers can continue on...
£479 Acer 5740 15.6" Laptop Core i3 3GB 250GB hard disk drive
News Hardware
For reliable, glitch-free computing, look no further than the Acer Aspire 5740. Powered by its Intel Core i3-330M processor and pre-installed with Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium operating system, it renders efficiency and...
£5.99 AVG Family Internet Security - 3 Users 1 Year
News Security
Product upgrades immediately online to version 9.0 to give you the most up to date internet security available and continues to update free throughout the duration of the license. Provides complete protection for 3 seperate...
£549.49 Acer Aspire 7738G Dual Core 4GB Bluray HD Webcam 320GB 17.3-inch LCD
News Hardware
The Aspire 7738 serves up the best sights and sounds of movies, home video, Internet clips and even television (TV-tuner optional). Industry-leading graphics and a Blu-ray Disc drive (spec varies) ensure playback with...
£599.95 Dell Studio Laptop 2.4GHz Dual Core
News Mobile & Telco
Get creative and stay connected with the multimedia-rich Dell Studio 1555/9360 laptop. Your digital photos and video will look fantastic on the high definition LED display, and DVDs and MP3s will sound great via the built-in...
£400 Fujitsu Amilo Pi 3635 Tower PC Core 2 Quad Q8200 4GB RAM 1TB HDD Blu-Ray Reader
News Hardware
Be it school homework or home office tasks, from Internet surfing to watching Blu-Ray DVDs – the highly versatile AMILO Desktop Pi 3635 is ideal for the whole family. IT has more then enough space with its 1TB HDD to store...
£40 Epson Stylus SX215 All-in-One Printer
News Hardware
This stylish, affordable all-in-one has individual ink cartridges, a 3.8 cm LCD viewer and memory card slots, so you can print great photos without using your PC. View and print photos directly from your memory card using the 3.8...
