Articles Posted on 27 January 2010
Apple iPad Tablet Released, Reintroduces 4:3 Screen Format
News Hardware
So there we have it, after more than 7 years after the first rumours of an Apple Tablet, first recorded by eweek following Macworld in 2003, the Cupertino-based company has launched the iPad, a tablet device that, it...
iPad is just what we all knew it would be
News Mobile & Telco
So the Interweb is having a bit of a breather and the cleaners at the Apple iBookstore at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco are mopping up bodily fluids left behind by over-excited...
EDS Loses Court Case Brought Forward By BSkyB
News Entertainment
EDS, the consultancy powerhouse now owned by HP, has been found guilty by the British High court of lying to its former client, BSkyB, in order to win a contract worth £48 million to build a tailor-made customer...
Bookies already offering odds on iPad sales
News Hardware
Bookies Paddy Power are already offering odds on predicting global sales for the new-fangled Ipad thingummy. The bookmaker is offering short odds of 11/4 that the iPad will sell between two and three million units in 2010. Here...
Live updates from the Apple media circus
News Mobile & Telco
We'll be here watching all of the live blog feeds and getting you the skinny as soon as it happens, just keep hitting the refresh button... 19:34And it's all over. Journos shuffle off to have a fiddle. 19:33Steve is back up...
Jobs breaks Twitter
News Mobile & Telco
Apple's iPad announcement has become an Interweb event we all knew it would be. Twitters have been cheeping away till blue in the fingers and bloggers bogging like there's barely a morrow. We kept our would-be tweets on this...
Pseudo-Live Apple iPad Tablet Feed From ITProPortal.com
News Hardware
We are bringing you live coverage of Apple's Event direct from San Francisco. We are not there but thanks to the magic of the Internet, we are able to follow it live. We're following streaming from Gdgt, Scriblelive...
McGraw-Hill Boss Confirms Apple Tablet On CNBC
News Hardware
(OUR PSEUDO IPAD LIVE FEED IS HERE) The CEO of publishing behemoth McGraw-Hill, Harold McGraw, has confirmed yesterday that Apple will be launching a new device, a tablet, that will come with an iPhone Operating system. The...
Calacanis "Discloses" Details Of Apple Tablet hours Before Launch
News Hardware
Jason Calacanis, founder of Engadget, Serial internet Entrepreneur and controversial owner of Mahalo.com, has released some details of the soon to be released Tablet from Apple saying that Apple had asked him to "do press...
Cisco Debuts Protocol For Videoconferencing Soltuions
News Network
In an attempt to tighten its grip on the lucrative video conferencing market, Cisco Systems has rolled-out an interoperability protocol for multi-screen videoconferencing that will allow companies with Cisco software to...
Cisco, NetApp and VMWare To Form Cloud Alliance
News Network
Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced a joint project which will be aimed at improving the security aspects related to virtualization deployment in light of the increasing interest displayed by numerous companies to completely...
Stopbadware Becomes Independent Not-for-profit Organisation
News Security
StopBadware, the four-year old anti-malware project that was conceived at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is on its way of becoming a separate non-profit organisation. The project’s...
Daily Mirror joins attack on aggregators
News Consumer
Old Skool newspapers are upping their efforts to scupper news aggregation sites with the the Daily Mirror now joining those blocking NewsNow from sniffing around its web site. The paper is teaming up with Murdoch' Sun and Times...
Google Toolbar Bug Allows Google To Track Sites Visited
News Security
A bug in the Google Toolbar application apparently enables Google to track URLs of the websites visited by the user along with associated directories, filenames, URL parameters and search terms even after the user has...
Google Hackers Used Social Engineering Tricks To Carry Out Attacks
News Security
McAfee, one of the world’s leading antivirus software and computer security companies, has claimed that the hackers which were responsible for the cyber attack on Google and several other US-based companies first ran a...
Microsoft Zune Phone Spotted In Driver Documentation
News Consumer
In what could perhaps be referred to as the most concrete evidence yet pointing towards the existence of a Zune phone, recent updates to Zune software are indeed dropping specific hints about this elusive product. The software...
Kaspersky Security Application Flagging Google Adsense As Malware
News Security
A recent Kaspersky antivirus software update accidentally listed Google's Adsense advertising solution as a malicious script, causing confusion and inconvenience to many. Google Adsense is widely used as an online advertisement...
IBM Bets On Sun Microsystems Uncertainties To Poach New Customers
News Network
In an attempt to further exploit the uncertainty that hovers above Sun Microsystems products after its acquisition by Oracle Corp., International Business Machines has announced plans to step-up its strategy of...
Google Catching Up With Microsoft In The Lobbying Sector
News Security
A recent report published on CNet is indicating that the search engine bellwether Google is rapidly catching up with Microsoft in terms of annual lobbying spending. As per the latest reports on lobbying spending filed by the...
Microsoft Publishes Details Of Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK Before Removing It
News Open Source
Microsoft Corp has pulled the software development kit (SDK) for Windows Mobile 6.5 platform it accidentally published on its site on 22 January, the company has noted. The firm has pulled down some info on Monday related to the...
Home Office To Encourage Young Londoners To Get ID Cards
News Security
Young people in London, aged between 16-year-old and 24-year-old, will be able to apply for identity cards under the contentious National Identity Card Scheme from the 8th of February, according to the UK Home Office. This could...
A Deeper Analysis Of Engadget's Apple Tablet PC Photos
News Hardware
The photos published earlier today by Engadget appear to be showing an authentic Tablet PC that bears all the hallmarks of an Apple device. Just hours before the official launch of the tablet and this is by far the most...
EC keeps tabs on Virgin's web-snooping ploy
News Government
The European Commission said it will keep a close watch on Virgin Media's contentious deep packet inspection of customers' Internet traffic. The traffic monitoring tool, "CView" which was developed by Detica, scans web taffic in...
More Compelling Photos Of Apple Tablet Emerge
News Hardware
A set of pictures of what appears to be Apple's forthcoming Tablet have been published by popular technology blog Engadget and have been confirmed by an independent separate source in Apple itself. The photos (here) show a tablet...
Piracy carpet bombing bags innocent grandpa
News Web
UK consumer champion Which has been approached by more than 150 people claiming to have been wrongly accused of downloading copyrighted material. According to a report by the BBC, a law firm (to which we are not willing to give...
Scott McNealy bids farewell to Sun
News Business
Scott McNealy has bid farewell to Sun, as the outfit he founded prepares to be Borged by Oracle. McNealy - or McNearly as he should be known - can't hide his disappointment that the Sun is setting. "This is not a note this...
Two-Month Old Report Warned Of Chinese Attacks On Google
News Security
Weeks after search engine giant Google reported that it was attacked by a cyber attack originating from China, Information Week has confirmed that two months prior to the attack, a report issued by the US government had warned...
HP Previews Microsoft Slate Tablet Gadget
News Mobile & Telco
Just when Apple is expected to announce its much awaited tablet device, Hewlett-Packard decided to give a sneak review of its very own HP Slate tablet device, which has been developed jointly with Microsoft Corp. In a video...
Twitter ablaze with Apple tablet twaddle
News Web
A series of Twitter postings apparently written by blogging pioneer Jason Calacanis have given the biggest indication yet of what the fabled Apple tablet device will consist of. As we all know, Twitter is open to abuse as many...
UK Tech Merger And Acquisitions Sector To Recover According To PwC
News Hardware
Research major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has forecasted a buoyant year ahead in terms of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK tech sector following a six-year long slump since “dotcom bubble” crash. However...
Isp Anti-Disconnection Petition Clocks Up 30,000 Supporters
News Entertainment
A petition set up by internet service provider TalkTalk at the Prime Minister's website has received over 30,000 signatures in opposition to the Government's proposal to cut off internet connections used by suspected file...
Thoughts About Voice, Media & Data Tariffs For The Apple Tablet
News Hardware
There are chances that Apple would be releasing a tablet computer without any contracts or subscriptions but, just as for unlocked iPhones, sales are likely to be significantly less than if it was subsidised with some sort of...
Google Unveils Web-based Voice Tool For iPhone
News Open Source
Google has unleashed the entirely web-based iterations of its signature Google Voice app for Apple’s blockbuster iPhone, as well as handsets sporting Palm’s WebOS platform. The search engine touted that these new...
Geeks overclock Celeron to 8.2GHz
News Hardware
A gaggle of geeks has managed to overclock a Celeron processor to run at 8.2GHz. An overclocker from XtremeLabs.org pushed a 65nm, 3.06GHz Intel Celery D 347 to 8199.5MHz on a DFI LanParty UT P35 rig, using OCZ memory and...
Book boss drops Apple tablet bomb
News Hardware
The Chief exec of American text book publisher McGraw Hill, Terry McGraw, may find himself scrubbed off of Steve Jobs' Christmas card list next year after confirming that Apple will release a tablet computer later today. McGraw...
European Commission To Investigate Virgin Media's CView Monitoring System
News Entertainment
In its response to a complaint from Privacy International, the European Commission has decided to keep a close watch on Virgin Media’s contentious internet traffic monitoring system. The traffic monitoring tool, dubbed as...
MoD admits to social networking leaks
News Web
Employees of the Ministry of Defence and member of the armed forces have leaked secrets onto social notworking sites and Internet forums some 16 times in the past 18 months, a freedom of information request reveals. Ten...
Samsung starts 3D TV panel mass production
News Consumer
Korean electronics giant Samsung claims it is the first company to start mass production of specialised panels for 3D TVs The company is now rolliing out LED and LCD panels which are compatible with 'active' 3D glasses in 40, 46...
Radeon HD 5830 runs into validation wall
News Hardware
AMD's upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics chip has run into validation problems, sources at motherboard makers have told Taiwanese publication Digitimes. AMD has said that graphics boards sporting the chip are currently...
£150 Archos 5 120GB Internet Media Tablet WiFi 5",High Resolution Touch Screen 800x480 pixels
News Mobile & Telco
Note, you will need to buy the item from Amazon proper (see right hand side of product page on Amazon). Archos, award-winning for its constant technology innovation and leadership in portable media players now introduces a new...
£599 Fujitsu Amilo Notebook PI 3560 Core 2 Duo 4GB 500GB Blu Ray Geforce GT
News Storage
The AMILO Pi 3560 combines a spectacular appearance with outstanding internal qualities. The high-performant NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M graphics card with 1 GB dedicated video memory provides lifelike picture quality for both, if you...
£399 Asus K70IO TY002C Pentium T4200 2 GHz 4GB 250GB 17.3" TFT
News Open Source
Designed to provide a no-frills computing experience to users while on the move, the ASUS K series domino collection boasts the multimedia muscle to provide cinematic audio and visual enjoyment via a high definition LCD display,...






