Articles Posted on 22 February 2010
Samsung Galaxy Portal review
Reviews Mobile & Telco
Samsung's Galaxy Portal, Spica or I5700 is little brother to the I7500 Galaxy. It's a basic Android 1.5 touchscreen smartphone, with the punch of a respectable 800MHz processor. Cosmetically a bit chunky and weighing 124 grams,...
Nokia Partners With Sky On Video App
News Business & Government
Sky TV and mobile phone giant Nokia have announced a deal in which Nokia mobile phone owners will be able to watch Sky News and Sky Sports by downloading an application, which has been developed jointly by the companies, from the...
Eurosport Debuts Live Streaming iPhone Video App
News Mobile & Telco
Eurosport has launched an application that will enable the iPod Touch and iPhone users to access live content from a couple of UK television channels over the Wi-Fi or 3G connections. The application, dubbed as “the...
Amazon To Launch Kindle App For Blackberry Users
News Mobile & Telco
Blackberry owners who like to read books while on the go can now access their favourite titles right from their smartphones, thanks to the launch of an Amazon Kindle reader for the RIM platform. Over the weekend the online...
Natal To Cost Only $50, Outsell Sony ARC by 5-to-1
News Consumer
Since the gaming world appears all set to step into a new era of motion-sensing gaming with the arrival of Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s PlayStation Arc in the coming few months, speculations about the features...
Fermi “may” be available to buy on 26 March
News Hardware
Prepare for a small dose of disappointment, because we were hoping to have some juicy morsels about Fermi when the little hand hit 5pm GMT today, but instead Nvidia continues to tease us with vague clues. The good news is that...
Bloom Box could fuel the future
News Web
Much has been made of fuel cells and the place they will take in our not-so-distant-future, but until now the technology has relied on pure fuel sources like clean hydrogen which is difficult and expensive to make. Now, a Silicon...
Apple lauded for quality customer service
News Hardware
Apple has been named the third best company in the USA when it comes to customer service, according to a survey conducted by Business Week. The list of the top 25 companies ranked by customer satisfaction was topped by catalogue...
Shuttle reinvents mini PC
News Consumer
In a bid to end the rule of proprietary motherboards in baby PCs, Shuttle has reinvented the XPC range that revolutionised the desktop PC industry at the beginning of the Millennium. Shuttle’s latest XPC SG41J1 not only has...
Firm pins disaster data on Amazon elastic
News Business & Government
UK disaster recovery outfit Double-Take has teamed up with Amazon to offer a new cloud-based disaster recovery product, Double-Take Cloud. Using Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to create a real-time...
Tech waste mountain may engulf Third World
News Business & Government
Many developing countries face the "spectre of hazardous e-waste mountains" with serious consequences for the environment and public health, UN researchers claim, in a report Global e-waste generation is growing by about 40...
Ubisoft defends phone home DRM
News Consumer
Games giant Ubisoft has defended its decision to make playing even the single player versions of its games dependent on a robust internet connection. Speaking to PC Gamer, the unnamed Ubisoft spokesman said that piracy was "a...
Around the web in 80 seconds
News Hardware
Today's wibble around the web takes in everything from motherboards to graphics cards through water cooling systems to storage of both the spinny and solid state varieties. Why spend all day trawling around the Internet we we can...
Nokia X10 Handset With Symbian^3 To Launch Soon?
News Mobile & Telco
While many mobile enthusiasts were a little disappointed over Nokia’s presence at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, some leaked images and details on the blogosphere are indicating that the company is in fact...
Infoworld Columnist Revealed As Man Behind XPNet
News Security
An investigation from the tech news ZDNet.com has found out that the chief technology officer of a small software firm, named Devil Mountain Software, was actually a pseudonym created by an InfoWorld columnist. The editor in...
IBM Adds Intelliden To Tivoli
News Hardware
International Business Machines (IBM), the world’s biggest enterprise software vendor, has acquired network automation software maker Intelliden, in an attempt to expand its product portfolio by integrating the...
Google cans Gears
News Web
Google has called off future development of Google Gears and will instead urge developers to use open standards in their web applications. “We've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities...
Consultant fingered over Google China hack
News Consumer
An insecurity consultant whose work is available for use by the Chinese government wrote the code used to hack into Googlemail accounts in the Peope's Republic, according to a report in the Financial Times. The FT quoted an...
Now Google is urged to kill Flash
News Web
The Free Software Foundation has called on Google to deliver a “death-blow to Flash's dominance of web video” by aggressively promoting its own video format. The call comes just days after Google closed...
Final Fermi details coming later today
News Hardware
After taunting us with minimal specs lists, fake mock-up cards and plenty of delays, the wait for Nvidia’s first Fermi cards could soon come to an end, as Nvidia has hinted that more information will turn up later today. A...
Hacker closes in on PS3 breakthrough
News Hardware
The hacker who opened up the iPhone reckons he's close to doing the same to Sony's Playstation 3. George Hotz - who is more commonly known by his hacker tag Geohot - reckons he now has access to the games console's most intimate...
Internet & Google Make People Smarter Say Panel of Experts
News Security
According to an internet research report released on Friday, several experts, including scientists, doctors and developers, strongly believe that the internet is having a positive impact on the human brain and the next ten years,...
Brace of Radeon HD 5000s get speed boost
News Hardware
Four new factory overclocked DX-11-toting graphics cards based on ATi's 5800 series graphics chipsets have been announced. Saphhire is offering two tweaked HD 5850 models, the Toxic Edition and the Vapor-X. Dutch company Club 3D...
Adobe Application Hides Yet Another Security Vulnerability
News Security
Security expert and researcher Aviv Raff has discovered a serious security vulnerability in Adobe’s Download Manager, which is capable of being exploited by hackers wanting to install and execute malicious content on the PC...
Apple iPad Available On Preorder Next Week?
News Security
Appadvice, a technology blog, has reported that according to some sources familiar with the matter, Apple Inc, will taking pre-orders on much hyped tablet device iPad, from February 25th. The iPad was recently unveiled by the...
More Details Emerge About Chinese Involvement In Google Cyber Attacks
News Security
The team of cyber security experts investigating the cyber attack on Google has apparently established the identity of the Chinese programmer who created the sophisticated program that was used to hack into Google and other US...
HTC Desire coming to all major UK networks
News Mobile & Telco
Android fan blog, Phandroid (see what they did there?) report that all the UK networks have now announced plans to sell the HTC Desire.The Desire is basically HTC’s own brand version of Google’s Nexus One. Similar looking and...
Microsoft, Yahoo! Search Deal Gets Competition Law Go-Ahead
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft and Yahoo! have been given permission to embark on a search engine deal announced seven months ago. European Competition law regulators have said the deal will not damage the European search engine market. Microsoft...
FBI investigates school that spies on kids
News Consumer
A school accused of secretly switching on laptop webcams inside students homes is being investigated by the FBI, an anonymous spook said. The school found itself in hot water last week after parents launched a lawsuit against it...
Infoworld hack sacked over fake alter-ego
News Business & Government
An Infoworld blogger, Randall C Kennedy, has had his blog removed from the site after being outed as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software. Kennedy used the pseudonym so that he could interview himself, in particular with...
£35 HTC HD2 On Orange 1200m Ultd Internet Ultd Text
News Mobile & Telco
With this great deal you will also be entitled to unlimited* Mobile Internet absolutely free! Subject to a fair usage policy of 500MB data allowance per month. With this great deal you will also be entitled to unlimited free...
£25 Per Month Motorola Milestone 600m 500t Ultd Data On T-Mobile
News Mobile & Telco
The brand new Android 2.0 Motorola MILESTONE is available to order today! Zip through the internet with 3G speed, a Flash 10 ready HTML browser and super fast processor. View it all on a huge display with touch gestures, double...
