Articles Posted on 04 February 2010
Google runs to NSA for help with China
News Web
Google seems to want the the help of the US National Security Agency (NSA) in warding off cyber attacks, The Washington Post reports. The newspaper understands the NSA would help Google analyse the hack attacks the search...
Digital TV Group Slams Project Canvas Over Competition Concerns
News Mobile & Telco
Digital TV Group (DTG), an industywide business entity that include the likes of Dixons, Samsung, Sony and Pace and , has approached the BBC Trust to express its "widespread concern" over Project Canvas. The video on demand...
Now Google Will Phase Out IE6 For Gmail & Calendar
News Web
Google has confirmed that it will phase out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 for Google Mail and Google Calendar as it attempts to introduce new features as well as improving performance through better JavaScript...
Teenagers Prefer Twitter, Facebook To Blogging
News Security
The Pew Research Center, a Washington based research organisation, has released a report which indicates that the young in US are spending more time on social media network Facebook, rather than Twittering and blogging. The...
NSA Teams With Google Over Cybersecurity
News Security
The electronic surveillance agency of the US government, the National Security Agency (NSA), will soon be assisting search engine giant Google, to improve the company’s cyber security in order to prevent any further cyber...
IBM To Acquire MDM Specialist Initiate Systems
News Network
International Business Machines (IBM), has announced that the company is all set to acquire Master Data Management vendor Initiate Systems, in an attempt to broaden is portfolio of industry specific tools. Initiate Systems is a...
Apple iPhone 4G Reportedly Being Produced By Pegatron
News Consumer
It has been rumored that Apple Inc., has signed another hardware manufacture to produce the 4G version of its popular smartphone offering, the iPhone, which recently received a software update by the Cupertino based...
Symbian Now Entirely Open Source
News Open Source
The Symbian Foundation has announced that the Symbian OS software designed for mobile devices and smartphones will be offered to the developer community as an open source platform under the terms of the Eclipse Public License and...
Analyst bets reputation on Apple iPad sales
News Mobile & Telco
Analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham & Company reckons Apple will sell two million iPads in 2010. He predicts the firm will shift another six million units during 2011. Wolf said, however, that recent market analysis indicated...
Netbooks Used As An Excuse By Notebook Manufacturers To Raise Prices?
News Mobile & Telco
While researching deals for our Techdealspro section, we uncovered a rather worrying trend that a quick analysis of our historical data supported. There appears to be a collusion to raise the prices of entry level notebooks...
Apple iPad To Single-Handedly Create New Tablet Sector
News Hardware
Tech analysts, ABI Research, have published a survey that indicate that around 57 million media tablets could be sold in 2015, a 14-fold increase compared to the volume expected to be sold this year alone. Around 300 millions PC...
ARM announces future roadmap
News Hardware
British chip shop ARM has given us a vision of the future with three new chip designs in the pipeline code-named Eagle, Heron and Merlin. Hoping to take on the burgeoning netbook market currently dominated by Intel's Atom...
Teens turned off by Twitter
News Web
Yank teenagers are unimpressed with Twitter and who can blame them? Only eight per cent of online American teenagers have footled about with the micro-messaging site, research suggests. They'll spend all day on Facebook but...
RIM Working On Blackberry OS 6.0 Amidst Growing Competition
News Mobile & Telco
Canadian smartphone manufacturer Research in Motion is apparently already working on the sixth iteration of its software platform, Blackberry OS, as the smartphone giant attempts to catch up with rivals like Apple and Google...
Microsoft Set To Release Office 2010 In June 2010 As RC Appears
News Operating Systems
The world’s largest computer software company, Microsoft Corp, has rolled out the Release Candidate version of its Office 2010 productivity suite for a select number of testers and developers, with plans to launch it...
HD video coming to the iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
An eagle-eyed iPhone App developer has spotted some interesting information in the latest version of Apple's Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Holy Trinity of iDevices. Dan L told Engadget that a dig around in the...
Apple iPhone Lost Ground In Smartphone Market In Q4 2009
News Security
According to a newly released market research report, it has been revealed that Apple’s blockbuster smartphone offering, the iPhone, has lost a significant amount of market share in the fourth quarter of 2009. The data...
Symbian opens source
News Mobile & Telco
As promised, the Symbian Foundation has gone open source, so from now on anyone can use and tweak the platform's underlying source code as they see fit. The foundation said the software now powers the most smartphones in the...
O2 Reaches Two Million iPhone Milestone In 27 Months
News Security
Telefonica-owned O2 has said that it has managed to sell its two millionth iPhone phone ever since Apple's iconic phone was launched in the UK on the 9th of November 2007. Exactly two years later, it lost its exclusivity with...
Libya must have access to Youtube
News Web
The Libyan people have as much right to watch teenagers ripping off a testicle in skateboarding accidents as do the rest of the world, according to international do-gooders Human Rights Watch. The American organisation - which...
Microsoft Announces Brand New Zero-day Internet Explorer Flaw
News Security
Microsoft has warned that there is a new weakness in Internet Explorer decidedly porous armour, one for which there are currently no solutions, possibly until next Tuesday when Microsoft goes ahead with its Patch Tuesday...
Amazon To Buy Touchscreen Company, Prepares Improve Kindle Reader
News Hardware
In a bid to take on the iPad in the e-reader sector, Amazon has reportedly snapped up a New York-based touchscreen start-up to spice up its Kindle electronic reader device, the New York Times reported. The newspaper is reporting...
Skype Goes CD Quality With Soon-To-Be Released iPhone App
News Mobile & Telco
Skype, the popular VoIP service provider, has announced that soon, a Skype for iPhone app will be released which will be capable of making calls over the phone’s 3G network. According to a blog posted by the company, the...
Apple To Sell 8 million iPads By End 2011 Says Analyst
News Security
A report carried by AppleInsider, a blog dedicated to news related to Apple, has revealed that according to Needham & Company’s analyst Charlie Wolf, Apple Inc. is expected to sell 2 million units of iPad in 2010 and is...
Adobe CTO Responds To Apple's Critics Of Flash
News Mobile & Telco
Adobe’s chief technology officer Kevin Lynch has come to the fore to counter the blunt remarks from Apple’s iconic chief Steve Jobs, in which he tagged Adobe as “lazy”, and Flash as “buggy”,...
Daily Mail shuts down insider blog
News Web
Middle England’s daily dose of fear, the Daily Mail, has apparently stepped in to shut down a blog that exposed the bizarre management tactics of its editor, Paul Dacre. The Daily Mail Insider blog had a brief spell in the...
ARM "Might" Be Involved In Apple A4 Processor
News Mobile & Telco
While the A4 chip at the centre of the recently heralded iPad device has been a mystery for the geeks around the world, chip maker ARM’s chief executive Warren East has dropped a hint about the inclusion of ARM’s...
Intel Preparing Next Generation Tukwila Itanium
News Network
After several delays, chip giant Intel has eventually managed to ship its long-awaited Itanium server processors, it has been reported. Codenamed as “Tukwila”, the company’s next generation server processor...
£299 Dell Inspiron 1545 Celeron 900 1GB 160GB
News Open Source
Power and looks are always good attributes and the 1545 Black 15.6” Laptop from Dell offers both. The combination of a Celeron 900 Processor (running at 2.2GHz) and Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic makes for a solid and...
5 Things ARM Need To Do Conquer The World
News Network
The CEO of Cambridge-based chip designer ARM has declared yesterday that it will be aiming to be the dominant player in the netbook market, a segment which Warren East reckons may make up to 90 percent of the computer market over...
Canadian Privacy Watchdog Launches Investigation Into Facebook's Response To Its Previous Investigation
News Security
Canada's Privacy Commissioner has launched an investigation into changes Facebook made to its privacy policy. The changes were made in response to an investigation the Privacy Commissioner carried out last year. The Commissioner...
OFT consider T-Mobile Orange merger
News Mobile & Telco
The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has asked the European Commission (EC) to bounce the UK aspects of the proposed joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile back to itself. Owners France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom...
Amazon snaps up touch-screen startup
News Hardware
Book-flogging Internet giant, Amazon has reportedly acquired a New York company which specialises in advanced touch-screen technology, fuelling rumours of an impending upgrade to the Kindle e-book reader. The New York Times says...
HDMI 3D specs released
News Entertainment
The organisation which oversees the specifications for the now familiar High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) has released details of the next version of the format. HDMI Specification 1.4a which is now available for...
ATI brings DX11 to the masses
News Hardware
AMD's graphics arm ATI has announced the launch of new graphics card today that it says will bring gaming and Hi Def multimedia into the reach of even the most impoversished computer users. The ATI Radeon HD 5450 will retail for...
ISPs not to blame for illegal file sharing
News Web
An Australian judge has ruled that internet service providers cannot be held responsible for the illegal file sharing activities of its subscribers in what could be seen as a landmark case internationally. An AP report on Yahoo...
Apple's iMac woes worsen
News Hardware
Widespread problems with some 27-inch iMacs are being compounded with a lack of parts held in stock by authorised repairers in the UK. A report on Gizmodo says that Apple is now offering a full refund and a 15 per cent bung to...
Open PC launches Open PC
News Consumer
Open Sauce champion Open-PC has launched a new open PC, called the Open-PC and it's completely open, apparently. The hardware, which we can't help thinking looks a little bit, well... 'tinny' is the word that comes to mind, is...






