Articles Posted on 05 February 2010
Apple ban mention of Google
News Mobile & Telco
Apple will tolerate no mention of Google products on its App Store. Flash of Genius, a tiny app intended to help students study vocabulary that is available via download on both Android mobiles and iPhones, was barred by Apple...
T-Mobile USA sell-off
News Mobile & Telco
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Deutsche Telekom may be under further investor pressure to shift, or reorganise part of its T-Mobile business. Citing mysterious 'people familiar with the matter', the Journal concluded...
Symbian goes entirely open-source
News Mobile & Telco
The Symbian operating system became fully open-source this week. Previously, a developer had to fully subscribe to the Symbian Foundation to access all of the code. But now a generous Eclipse public license agreement allows...
IBM demos 100GHz graphene transistors
News Business
Silicon may have been the integrated circuit material of choice for over three decades, but IBM has just shown that future computer processors may instead contain graphene transistors. The company has just published a paper in...
Another UK Convict Uses Facebook To Brag About Prison Life
News Security
Brendan Rawsthorn, a prisoner at the HM Prison Wolds in the UK, has been reported to be using a smuggled mobile phone for posting his photos and updates on popular social networking website, Facebook. The inmate, who was...
Vodafone To Launch Android-based Xperia X10 In April
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone, one UK’s most popular telecom service providers, has announced that the company will soon be offering Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X10 Android-based smartphone in the UK sometime in April 2010. The telecom...
Apple Previews Cloud-based iTunes Solution
News Mobile & Telco
Apple Inc., has rolled out a new web preview feature for its iTunes store which indicates that the Cupertino based company is slowly and steadily moving the popular platform to the web. The new feature, which was launched...
Intel vPro platform gets a make-over
News Hardware
Intel Corporation has updated its 2010 Intel Core vPro platform to bring the technology's security and management features to Intel's latest Core i5 and Core i7 laptop and desktop processors. The platform is based on the...
Microsoft patches thirteen security holes
News Developer
Virtual software monopoly Microsoft will patch a record 13 major security flaws in its operating systems and software next Tuesday, matching the record it set just a few short months ago. The company - which has recently been...
Netbook pioneer planning iPad rivals
News Hardware
Taiwanese maker of digital hardware, Asustek is planning to steal Apple's thunder, along with every me-too OEM on the planet, by releasing a tablet PC and an ebook reader. Realising that Apple is probably onto...
Super sperm secrets revealed
News Consumer
Anyone afraid that we're breeding a generation of indolent, pot-smoking slackers has got a little bit less to worry about today, thanks to research from the University of California. According to the report, the chemical switch...
Grinning Broon won't bring your pooter doon
News Consumer
Arch miserablist and UK Prime Minister Gordon 'Smiley' Broon is the new poster boy for malicious hackers according to panicky emails spreading throughout the UK today. Warnings about the supposedly infected emails, which are...
Google To Introduce Store View For Street View
News Security
Barry Schwartz, the editor of Search Engine Land, has reported that search engine giant Google plans to add a new product in its Google Maps offering, called Google Store Views, which will allow users to check out popular shops...
Sun CEO Quits Through Twitter
News Open Source
Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, has announced his resignation from the company over the social media service Twitter, becoming the first CEO of a major corporation to announce his resignation via micro-blogging...
Microsoft To Give Office 2010 For Free With Office 2007?
News Hardware
An untimely post on the company’s US Partner Community portal has accidentally divulged details, though for a short period only, about Microsoft’s promotional tactics for its forthcoming Office 2010 suite, according...
IBM Unveils Eco-friendly Project Green Data Centre
News Network
IBM is boasting its endeavours in new state-of-the-art datacentre management capabilities which would help businesses bolster up their IT operations while trimming the operational costs and energy consumption down. Along the same...
Microsoft Reveals MIX 10 Details Including Mobile Highlights
News Security
Microsoft has said it will be adding a dozen of sessions dedicated to Windows Mobile apps and games, as well as development, in its plans for the forthcoming Mix 10 symposium scheduled for mid-March in Las Vegas, it has been...
Palm Pre for the ladies
Opinion & Analysis Mobile & Telco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLh0gfMvJ7gSomeone in the advertising team at American operator, Verizon Wireless, wants to stick to the philosophy of gender selling. Last year, the Motorola Droid launch was very much aimed at...
iTablet finally tips up
News Hardware
Rugged PC maker X2 Computing has announced a new addition to its tablet PC range in the form of a thin box dubbed the iTablet The iTablet range runs Windows, "offering a real alternative to users wishing to continue to use their...
Name of AMD hexacore CPU revealed
News Hardware
Every now and then we get caught off guard by a tech company’s naming strategies, and we end up with bewildering names such as the GeForce GTX 480 and Core i7. However, AMD has decided to stick with expectations when naming...
Facebook is most-popular mobile web site
News Web
Mobile Internet usage is accelerating, driven largely by the rise of smartphone devices, which are now used by one fifth of the total UK mobile subscriber base, according to new figures. The first batch of data released under a...
Police Unit Formed To Take Down Websites Suspected Of Breaking Terror Laws
News Hardware
A police unit has been created to force the take-down of web pages which break the UK's terrorism laws. The Government has set up a web page through which the public can tell the police about pages that they think are...
Microsoft To Solve 26 Vulnerabilities Next Tuesday
News Security
Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will be issuing a record 13 security updates under its traditional Patch Tuesday cycle next week, plugging as many as 26 security holes in its Windows and Office software suites. Of the 13...
Facebook Is UK's Top Mobile Desination Says GSMA
News Security
The GSM Association and internet marketing research company comScore have come together to launch a new Mobile Media Metrics service, which has revealed nearly one-third of all mobile internet users in Britain visited Facebook in...
Motorola Loses Fight Against RIM Over Email Patents
News Security
Motorola, the phone maker behind the popular Droid smartphone, has lost a patent infringement lawsuit to Research in Motion, which had been accused by Motorola of infringing patents related to email gateways...
Ageing Xbox to be excommunicated
News Web
Microsoft has announced that, as of April 15th, owners of the original Xbox games console will no longer be allowed to play online. In a move that is bound to anger millions of gamers, teh company's Marc Whitten also said that...
Apple iPad could kill the Internet
News Hardware
It has only been seen in the flesh by a handful of hand-picked hacks, but already Apple's iPad has been hailed as the saviour of computing, dismissed as nothing more than an overblown iPod and received more column inches than the...
Solar activity may blot out London Olympics
News Consumer
Solar activity and magnetic storms could cause havoc with communication systems just around the time of the London Olympics in 2012, stargazers warn. The sun's been a bit qiet lately, by all accounts, but it's gearing up for a...
More than a million users try Ovi Maps
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia’s decision to make its Ovi Maps application free has been a hit, reaching over 1.4 million downloads in just a couple of weeks. The move, competing with Google and taking an aggressive strike at the satnav market, gives...
Tech Crunch hack sacked over bribe
News Web
Michael Arrington from technology news blog Tech Crunch has publicly apologised to readers after a junior reporter allegedly asked for compensation in the form of a MacBook Air in exchange for a positive blog post about an...
Symbian Now 100 Percent Open Source : Too Little, Too Late?
News Open Source
News that Symbian, the world's most popular mobile platform, has been released as an open source product, has been met with mixed reactions partly because it took Nokia so long to commit Symbian to the open source...






