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Articles Posted on 12 February 2010

Facebook squat party lights up Park Lane

Facebook squat party lights up Park Lane

Plod unamused

News Business & Government

London Police said more than 2,000 oiks turned up for a party in a squatted mansion on Park Lane after details were put out on Facebook. The plod arrived just after 11pm and said they were trying to get the revellers off the...


Tales of Monkey Island comes to Mac

Tales of Monkey Island comes to Mac

Vote for which Telltale Mac adventure comes next

News Consumer

After bamboozling gamers on the PC, Xbox 360 and Wii, Guybrush Threepwood’s latest grog-swigging exploits in Tales of Monkey Island are now available on the Mac too. Not only that, but Telltale is also promising to make Mac...


Vodafone Tempts Rival iPhone Customers With New SIM-only Plans

Vodafone Tempts Rival iPhone Customers With New SIM-only Plans

News Mobile & Telco

Vodafone has just released two new SIM only packages that appear to be targeting existing iPhone users from rival companies that could be out of contract soon i.e. more specifically in this case, O2. Both £25 SIM only deal...


Yahoo To Deliver Targeted Adverts For Sainsbury's Nectar Customers

Yahoo To Deliver Targeted Adverts For Sainsbury's Nectar Customers

News Business & Government

Yahoo! Inc and Sainsbury, the third largest supermarket brand in the UK, have signed a deal in which Yahoo will draw customer data from Nectar loyalty card scheme of Sainsbury in order to offer online advertisers the opportunity...


Motorola To Split Into Two Entities

Motorola To Split Into Two Entities

News Mobile & Telco

Motorola, one of the leading telecommunications company in the world, has announced that the company will be splitting in two at the beginning of 2011, with one part focusing on mobile phone and set-top boxes product offerings...


Amazon To Give Away Free Kindle To Boost User Base Figures

Amazon To Give Away Free Kindle To Boost User Base Figures

News Software

Giant online retailer Amazon is rumoured to be planning to give away free Kindle e-book readers to its Amazon Prime subscribers, something that could well boost its sales figure, both for the Kindle and Amazon products in...


MIcrosoft Anti Piracy Application To Target Malware And Pirated Windows 7 Versions

MIcrosoft Anti Piracy Application To Target Malware And Pirated Windows 7 Versions

News Hardware

Software giant Microsoft is dishing out an updated version of its Windows activation software, in an attempt to curb software piracy and the distribution of malware.  The update is also designed to help Microsoft in...


IBM Rolls Out Mother Of All NAS

IBM Rolls Out Mother Of All NAS

News Hardware

More news from Technology giant IBM, this time, has unveiled its Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) enterprise storage offering, in an attempt to enter the emerging market of clustered network-attached storage systems...


IBM To Extend Support For iPhone, Mac Platforms With New Solutions

IBM To Extend Support For iPhone, Mac Platforms With New Solutions

News Hardware

IBM has announced at the Macworld exhibition in San Francisco that the company will be offering its enterprise social platform, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Quickr team collaboration package for use with the iPhone and Mac...


Big Blue Pushes Yet Another Data Centre For Cloud Computing

Big Blue Pushes Yet Another Data Centre For Cloud Computing

News Hardware

In an attempt to expand its cloud computing services and user base, International Business Machines (IBM) has announced that the company will be opening a new data center in North Carolina, USA, which will be focused solely on...


Microsoft pulls BSODing update

Microsoft pulls BSODing update

XP machines baulk at borked balls-up

News Software

Microsoft has stopped downloads of a security patch that borked XP users' PCs to such an extent the Blue Screen of Death was all that was left on a system that had been chugging away nicely until Windows Update got its hands on...


Google ate my music blog

Google ate my music blog

Archives deleted in DMCA row

In-Depth Web

A number of popular music blogs have had their portals, including years of archives in some cases, summarily deleted by Internet hegemony Google. The music discussion sites hosted on Google's Blogger service, some of which are...


Adobe's security woes continue

Adobe's security woes continue

More holes found

News Business & Government

Poor old Adobe. It seems that the image manipulation and video streaming company has been cursed by St Eve of Cupertino. Ever since Apple boss Steve Jobs announced that he wouldn't be using Flash on any of his new toys because...


Rumour Mill : Apple Gets $100 Million Per Year To Keep iPhone With Google Search

Rumour Mill : Apple Gets $100 Million Per Year To Keep iPhone With Google Search

News Consumer

Apple could be reaping as much as $100 million each year from search engine giant Google to keep the ever-popular iPhone smartphone on Google's side and away from Microsoft's Bing. In a game of "my enemy's enemies are my...


Inventor of the Frisbee dies

Inventor of the Frisbee dies

Spun his last

News Consumer

The man who invented the Frisbee, Walter Frederick Morrison, has died at home in Utah aged 90. In 1948, Walter Frederick Morrison was working as a building inspector a Los Angeles when he got together wiith a chum called Warren...


Open source office software upgraded

Open source office software upgraded

OpenOffice.org 3.2 is leaner and meaner

News Software

Microsoft-bating open source software maker OpenOffice.org has announced the latest release of its 'anything you can do we can do cheaper' suite of office productivity tools. OpenOffice.org 3.2, as it is officially known has...


Pentium still Intel’s most popular brand

Pentium still Intel’s most popular brand

Core blimey

News Hardware

Despite all attempts to beat off the miserable reputation of the NetBurst architecture with a slew of new Core monikers, new data has revealed that Intel’s crusty Pentium emblem is still the company’s most popular CPU...


Microsoft Pivot brings data to life

Microsoft Pivot brings data to life

Information swarm stops brain overload

News Business & Government

Microsoft's Live Labs division, which is a bit like the mad professor's lair from a 50s B movie as far as we can tell, has come up with an intriguing application which takes the traditional ways in which we view information and...


IBM Joins EU Institutions To Improve Semiconductor Design Processes

IBM Joins EU Institutions To Improve Semiconductor Design Processes

News Hardware

IBM has announced that the company along with several firms and universities of the European Union will conduct a joint research program which will aim at improving the efficiency and reliability of semiconductor chips. The...


Google Releases New Beta Chrome Web Browser For Mac

Google Releases New Beta Chrome Web Browser For Mac

News Web

Search engine giant Google has announced the release of a new update for the beta version of its Chrome web browser for Mac, which will now be able to offer extensions or add-ons, bookmark sync and many other features that were...


ISP Did Not Authorise Customers' Copyright Infringement, Says Australian Court

ISP Did Not Authorise Customers' Copyright Infringement, Says Australian Court

News Consumer

An ISP was not liable for the copyright infringement of its customers, an Australian court has ruled, in what the judge claimed was the world's first full trial of its kind. Australian and UK law on copyright liability are very...


Microsoft May Launch Office Suite For iPad

Microsoft May Launch Office Suite For iPad

News Hardware

Microsoft could well launch its first application for the iPad platform and it might be an evolution of Office For Mac 2011, which was presented yesterday in London. Microsoft Senior Product manager, Mike Tedesco, told T3 that it...


Google buys social search outfit Aardvark

Google buys social search outfit Aardvark

Tentacular spread

News Web

Google has acquired a little-known social search engine provider Aardvark. Aardvark co-founder and chief technology officer Damon Horowitz confirmed his firm had signed an agreement with Google.  Aardvark social search...


Google Provides With Some Interesting Data On Buzz

Google Provides With Some Interesting Data On Buzz

News Web

It has only been three days since Buzz, Google's latest venture in the world of social networking, has been launched and already they have started to churn out some interesting figures and push out a range of...


Chip And Pin Card System Flawed According To Cambridge Researchers

Chip And Pin Card System Flawed According To Cambridge Researchers

News Security

Experts at the Cambridge University have reported a massive flaw in the Chip and Pin debit card system that can trigger a series of fraudulent transactions if not fixed on time, as according to them, the trick to do so is...


Japanese Scientists Cut SSD Physical Size By 90 Percent

Japanese Scientists Cut SSD Physical Size By 90 Percent

News Hardware

Japanese researchers have succeeded in shrinking solid state devices by a whopping 90 percent and managed at the same time to make them cheaper and more energy efficient by 70 percent. The team was formed by scientists coming...


Nokia's N900 is a handful of tech wizardry

Nokia's N900 is a handful of tech wizardry

Hands On Review A fistful of phone

Reviews Software

Product: Nokia N900Price: £470 If you’re after the world’s greatest phone, this isn’t it, but for gadget hungry tech freaks, this feature heavy internet tablet has a lot going for it. In the world of...


Facebook Zaps Profile Pages Of 30 Prisoners

Facebook Zaps Profile Pages Of 30 Prisoners

News Security

Social networking giant Facebook has deleted the profile pages of 30 convicts who were using their Facebook profiles to taunt victims and their family members, says Justice Secretary Jack Straw.  Facebook was made aware of...


Google tweaks Buzz settings as users revolt

Google tweaks Buzz settings as users revolt

Evil is as evil does

News Web

Google was busy making some changes to its Buzz service last night after Gmail users found that they'd been incorporated into a social networking service they neither asked for nor agreed to join. In a blog post, Google said it...


Microsoft Launches Office 2011 For Mac

Microsoft Launches Office 2011 For Mac

News Security

Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, has unveiled the Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite which is designed to bring Microsoft Office functionality on to the Mac with a host of cool new functionalities like...


Google Buys Social Search Engine Service Aardvark

Google Buys Social Search Engine Service Aardvark

News Security

Google has acquired a little known social search engine provider Aardvark for an undisclosed amount, just days after announcing its Buzz social networking tool to the world, the TechCrunch blog has reported.  According to a...


Facebook Integrates AOL In Its Web Chat Client

Facebook Integrates AOL In Its Web Chat Client

News Security

Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site and AOL, the popular instant messaging service provider, have teamed up together in attempt to provide their users a chance to add friends and chat with them across...


Reasons why Apple will stick with Google

Reasons why Apple will stick with Google

100 million of them

News Web

Rumours that Apple would drop search partner Google in order to get into bed with Microsoft's Johnny-come-lately search service Bing have been doing the rounds lately. It has also been suggested that the Cupertino Cabal might be...


Playstation 3 going 3D this summer

Playstation 3 going 3D this summer

Games and movies get extra dimension

News Hardware

Sony's flagship console will jump on the 3D bandwagon later this year. Details are scant to say the least, but Akihabara News is reporting that Sony Marketing boss John Keller has confirmed that the company is working on...


Apple iPad may get Microsoft Office

Apple iPad may get Microsoft Office

Could be tablet's killer app

News Hardware

A Microsoft manager has hinted that the company's Office suite of applications, which dominate the business and education worlds, could come to the iPad. It may have been a throwaway comment, but when T3 asked Microsoft senior...


£90 SAMSUNG BDP1580 Blu-ray Player

£90 SAMSUNG BDP1580 Blu-ray Player

News Software

With the latest software, Samsung's BD-P1580 Blu-ray is more compatible than ever! With the latest generation Blu-ray technology, the Samsung BDP1580 goes further than many budget Blu-ray players by offering BD live and an...


£180 HARMAN KARDON AVR155 AV Receiver With HDMI Interface

£180 HARMAN KARDON AVR155 AV Receiver With HDMI Interface

News Software

The Harman Kardon AVR155 may not have the most channels, but when it comes to quality nothing compares at this price. Using independent front and rear power supplies and high current components, the AVR155 offers punchy audio...

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