Articles Posted on 29 January 2010
Comment : The First 100 Days Of Windows 7
News Software
Windows 7 has been launched exactly 100 days ago on the 22nd of October 2009 and has quietly secured itself as the most successful version of Microsoft's Windows family ever. Not only was it the biggest pre-order of all times on...
Thanko reveals 80-port USB hub
News Business & Government
We’d love to get a sneak glimpse of what happens in an average day at Thanko’s Research and Design labs. The eccentric Japanese company has already given the green-light to a quirky catalogue of oddball gizmos, from...
Cable hacker faces 20 years in jail
News Consumer
US Feds arrested a man yesterday and charged him with conspiracy and wire fraud after he allegedly sold two knobbled modems to undercover FBI agents. Mathew Delorey from Massachusetts faces 20 years in clink or a $250,000 fine...
Hexacore processors coming soon
News Hardware
Both AMD and Intel are planning to launch six-core desktop CPUs according to unsubstantiated reports hitting the Interwibble. According to sources within the motherboard manufactuiring industry who have spoke to Digitimes, AMD...
A Significant Number Companies Suffer Cyberattacks Frequently, Claims Survey
News Security
McAfee, the US based leading antivirus software and computer security company, has released a survey which suggests that networks of critical infrastructure companies such as power, water, oil, telecom, finance, and transport,...
Music biz condemns piracy court threats
News Consumer
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has hit out at law firm ACS Law following its heavy-handed approach to file sharers. The ruthless law firm has sent out threatening letters to alleged file-sharers, asking for compensation...
MS Riding High on Windows 7 Bandwagon
News Software
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company, has reported a meteoric increase in its profit and revenue for the last quarter of 2009, thanks to the Windows 7 operating system, which has emerged as the...
EC Firms Up Plans to Revise Data Privacy Laws
News Web
The European Commission has indicated that it might soon reform its Data Privacy rules in order to stay at par with technology advancements that sometimes threaten the privacy of users.The announcement was made at World Data...
Security Threats to Apple Devices Increasing, Claims Intego
News Hardware
Intego, a Mac oriented security software company, has released its annual ‘A Year in Mac Security’ report that highlights several security threats and vulnerabilities experienced by Apple’s Mac OX operating...
Adobe Condemns Apple For iPad’s Flash Omission
News Mobile & Telco
Users seeking a complete web experience on the recently heralded iPad device may miss out on something very important - absence of Adobe’s Flash technology on the device.However, Adobe too isn’t apparently very much...
Fujitsu May Consider Suing Apple Over iPad Trademark
News Mobile & Telco
In a much expected move, IT services provider Fujitsu is mulling over the option of taking Apple to court for using the name iPad for its tablet computing gadget - the trademark Fujitsu holds for a touch screen Wi-Fi-enabled...
MSI bundling editing software with NV cards
News Hardware
Taiwanese graphics card player MSI hs announced that it will bundle a new video editing application with all of its Nvidia-powered cards. Loiloscope is the first video editing software suite tweaked to expolit the GPU's...
Motorola hops on Google's Android bandwagon
News Web
Motorola boss Sanjay Jha let slip in a financial conference call that his company would soon be cosying up to Google to make a new mobile device. The troubled mobile company which once ruled the world with its phenominally...
Big Firms Leaning Towards Free Software, Says Survey
News Business & Government
In what could be regarded as a big offset for companies like Microsoft and Adobe that are working hard on bringing handy software suites aimed at business professionals, a recent poll has discovered that a majority firms are...
Windows 7 ate my battery
News Software
Laptop users are complaining that upgrading their OS to Windows 7 is causing all sorts of power management problems. Some forum posters are complaining that batteries which happily chugged away for hours under XP or even Vista...
Nintendo boss Wiis on iPad parade
News Hardware
Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata left his audience in a Tokyo Hotel last night in no doubt that he was impressed with Apple's wonderkind launch. "It was a bigger iPod Touch," he said of the much-discussed gadget. "There were no...
Chinese Mimic Google, YouTube Sites Following Google’s Exit Threat
News Web
Ever since Google has announced that it might pull back from the Chinese market over recent disputes with the nation’s government on matters relating to web censorships and attacks, a couple of knock-off sites have surfaced...
Apple Gives Nod To VoIP Calling Over iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
After a considerably long period of reluctance, Apple has finally approved the use of VoIP telephony services over cellular networks on its signature iPhone, it has been emerged.Several companies offering the internet telephony...
Is Motorola Prepping Google Nexus Phone 2?
News Mobile & Telco
Beleaguered mobile phone maker Motorola has announced that it will unleash another Android-powered handset that it looks to sell directly to consumers via Google, according to the company’s CEO Sanjay Jha.This announcement...
Did Apple Swipe iPad’s iBook Design?
News Hardware
For all those who are thinking that they have already somewhere seen the iBooks e-reader app recently unveiled on the iPad device, a blogger has reportedly exposed the fact that the company might have ripped-off the UI from an...
Tech Deals Collapsed Last Year But Analysts Predict Early Upturn
News Hardware
The number of technology company mergers and acquisitions fell by 60% and the value of those deals by 52% last year, according to figures produced by consulting form PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Though deal-making slumped to...
RedHat Debuts Opensource Web-based Community
News Software
Red Hat Inc., a leading commercial vendor of Linux open source operating system, has rolled-out ‘Opensource.com’, a new online community which will be focused on catering to the open source software development...
Microsoft Windows 7 Set To Steal Market Share From XP
News Security
According to a recent report by Net Applications, a web analytics firm, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 7, has managed to acquire a operating system market share of 5.71 percent as of...
Amazon To Contest Google Books Agreement
News Hardware
Amazon.com, the online retail giant, has voiced its concern over a revised deal that will allow Google Books to create a massive online library by scanning the literary works of authors around the world and making them available...
Linux Foundation To Offer Free Online Courses
News Software
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the open-source Linux operating systems, has announced that it will be offering global online Linux training programs in order to meet the sudden increase in demand of...
3 Networks Celebrates Activation Of 10,000th Cell Site
News Mobile & Telco
3, one of UK’s most prominent mobile services provider, has announced that the company has successfully activated its 10000th cell site in Shooters Hill, London and has also indicated that the telecom services vendor...
Canonical To Bring Yahoo Search To Ubuntu OS
News Software
Canonical, the company behind the open source Ubuntu Linux operating system, has announced a ‘search deal’ with Yahoo Inc. in which Yahoo! search engine will replace Google as the default search engine on homepage of...
iPad name contested by bra firm
News Hardware
When Apple announced its new tablet device on Wednesday, the company's lawyers were well aware that they would be facing a legal challenge from Japanese technology company Fujitsu over the moniker iPad. Fujitsu has been...
Snoops' CCTV streaming website investigated
News Consumer
A web site which planned to pay people to spot criminal activity live on CCTV streamed onto the Internet is being investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Internet Eyes had offered to pay users up to...
Microsoft profits surge thanks to Windows 7
News Web
One-time lord of all it surveyed, Microsoft, is still kicking about and still making money. It's easy to overlook the Vole these days, what with that screaming upstart Google nicking all the headlines. Second-quarter profit was...
Five Reasons Why The iPad Will Not Kill The Kindle
News Software
The Kindle was the only competitor product that appeared in the presentation yesterday at Apple's iPad launch event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco which shows clearly what segment the iPad was originally...
Five Things To Look Forward With The Apple iPad 2
News Security
We will possibly get shot down for even wondering how the Apple iPad v2 will look like while the iPad v1 is not even out but we can't help but wonder what Apple will present to us by January next year. As expected, Apple will...
