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Articles Posted on 09 March 2010

Microsoft finds new hole in old IE

Microsoft finds new hole in old IE

Pieces of eight

News Web

Microsoft said it is is investigating new, public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. The firm confirmed it was "aware of targeted attacks attempting to use this vulnerability," and in...


HP sticks with Flash as Slate takes on Pad

HP sticks with Flash as Slate takes on Pad

Video on demand

News Hardware

Hewlett-Packard has released videos of its Slate tablet, which takes a swipe at Apple's iPad, by showing Adobe's Flash player running on the device under Microsoft's Windows 7. Apple chief, Steve Jobs, has been slagging off...


Al Jazeera and YouTube put Iraq poll online

Al Jazeera and YouTube put Iraq poll online

Al Jazzing it up a bit

News Web

Al Jazeera's English service has set up a project in partnership with YouTube’s CitizenTube to put the story of Iraq's latest elections online. The Jaz has been out and about interviewing ordinary Iraqis in the run-up to...


Bing Filters Out Offensive Words In Arab Countries

Bing Filters Out Offensive Words In Arab Countries

News Web

A research conducted by the Open Net Initiative, an entity which monitors the net filtering and surveillance done by nations, has revealed that Microsoft's Bing search engine filters search results related to sexually explicit...


HP Slate Supports Flash Unlike Apple's iPad

HP Slate Supports Flash Unlike Apple's iPad

News Hardware

Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has released a video of its slate like device, which takes a swipe at Apple's iPad tablet device, by demonstrating Adobe Flash player on the tablet, which will runs on Microsoft's Windows 7 OS. The...


Magic Androids have malware pre-installed

Magic Androids have malware pre-installed

HTC snafu

News Mobile & Telco

Vodafone stands accused of distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. An HTC Magic phone, running the Google Android mobile operating system, was found by a researcher at Panda Security to be pre-loaded...


Google gets users to build Street View wiki

Google gets users to build Street View wiki

Mr Smith from No 4 vists Mrs Jones at no. 9

News Web

Google said it wants to let users of Street View edit the service to add local colour in the hope of making it more useful. Naturally, Google is interested in information on businesses and the potential of location-based...


Get the poor online, watchdog urges

Get the poor online, watchdog urges

Tempt them with eBay

News Web

The Government is being urged to tout the money-making possibilities of the Interweb in order to get more poor people online. Consumer research outfit, Consumer Focus, reckons the Government should promote benefits of Internet...


How tech went Gaga in Hanover

How tech went Gaga in Hanover

CeBIT 2010 A lack of western promise

News Entertainment

The old days are under review.  A new order is forming. And it's at 90 degrees, compass point East. It's not that CeBit is dying. Far from it. Much business was done here, much information exchanged, palms pressed to palm...


Nvidia boss rules out settlement with Intel

Nvidia boss rules out settlement with Intel

We cuda been a contender

News Hardware

Nvidia has put the kybosh on any hopes of Intel settling its legal quarrels out of court. The company’s outspoken CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, has revealed that Nvidia has no plans of settling the matter financially. He also said...


Microsoft's folding tablet spotted

Microsoft's folding tablet spotted

It's only a model

News Hardware

Microsoft is attempting to rain on Apple's iPad parade by 'leaking' images and videos of its own tablet gadget just weeks before the launch of Steve Jobs' potentially game-changing device. Tech site Engadget has 'obtained' a...


BBC Sends C&D Letters To Third Party iPlayer Developers

BBC Sends C&D Letters To Third Party iPlayer Developers

News Mobile & Telco

The British Broadcasting Corporation, the outfit behind the popular catch-up service iPlayer, has issued cease and desist orders to a pair of developers working on a third-party iPhone application for the iPlayer. BBC came to...


BSkyB Showcases Sky3D Service In London

BSkyB Showcases Sky3D Service In London

News Network

BSkyB has announced plans to showcase the Sky 3D service at a London shopping mall. Under a new program the company will give a demonstration of the 3D content developed in the past 2 years, in malls across the country. According...


NASA appeal reveals iPhone app fine print

NASA appeal reveals iPhone app fine print

The devil's in the detail

News Mobile & Telco

Apple's iPhone is worse for innovation and competition than the PC ever was, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has published the iPhone developer contract in full. The deal, which all uses of the iPhone SDK...


Google Launches Public Data Explorer Tool

Google Launches Public Data Explorer Tool

News Network

Google Inc. announced Monday, the launch of Public Data Explorer, a new experimental application offered via Google Labs that could help everyone, from students to policy makers, in preparing informative charts using public...


Apple Discarding "Basic" iPhone Apps

Apple Discarding "Basic" iPhone Apps

News Web

After reports that Apple wasn't inclined to keep adult-oriented and Wi-Fi finder apps on its highly popular App Store, new findings suggest that the electronics giant has further begun clamping down on certain submissions to the...


Energizer charger software plants trojan

Energizer charger software plants trojan

Back door assault by battery

News Consumer

There will be a few unhappy bunnies at Energizer HQ today as it emerges that the giant battery maker has included a malicious trojan in the monitoring software for one of its USB battery chargers. THe problem is so serious that...


Energizer DUO USB Battery Spread Malware

Energizer DUO USB Battery Spread Malware

News Hardware

While PC users have long been wary about the entities that can infiltrate malware into their machines, they can add another agent into their ever-increasing list of things that can potentially infect their PCs - a battery...


Fake Intel Core i7 Processors Go On Sale In US

Fake Intel Core i7 Processors Go On Sale In US

News Open Source

Intel says it is probing into the matter of the sale of counterfeit Core i7-920 processors by the online retailer Newegg to customers in the US. As reported by the tech news site HardOCP last Friday, online electronics vendor...


Vodafone Plans To Cut 500 Posts At Newbury HQ

Vodafone Plans To Cut 500 Posts At Newbury HQ

News Mobile & Telco

Vodafone, one of UK's largest telecom service providers, is planning to lay-off 500 employees from its headquarters located in Newbury, Berkshire, according to a report by the Times. The report said that the company will cut jobs...


Shambles Wins Google Street View Award For Best Street

Shambles Wins Google Street View Award For Best Street

News Network

The results of the Google Street View Awards have been announced and it seems that Britain has voted the Shambles in York as the country's most picturesque street. The street, now a major tourist attraction, is one of the oldest...


ASA To Start Regulating Facebook & Twitter

ASA To Start Regulating Facebook & Twitter

News Web

The Advertisement Standards Agency (ASA) has announced that it will be setting up protocols for companies that have a profile page on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.According to a fresh proposal of...


MEPs Ask For More Time Before Full Vote On PNR Data Transfer

MEPs Ask For More Time Before Full Vote On PNR Data Transfer

News Security

Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have been asked not to torpedo a long-standing agreement on sending air passengers' personal details to US authorities to leave time for a new deal to be negotiated. Passenger name records...


Virgin Media Discards BT Calls To Open Network

Virgin Media Discards BT Calls To Open Network

News Mobile & Telco

One of the UK's top internet services providers has decided to go ahead with plans to roll-out super fast internet for its customers, ignoring competitor BT, which has asked the ISP to open its network of underground pipes to...


Lip-Reading Technology Makes Debut At CeBIT

Lip-Reading Technology Makes Debut At CeBIT

News Web

Researchers have developed a prototype technology which could allow people to have mobile conversations without making any sound. The technology revolves around electromyography, a technique for recording electrical activity...


Valve confirms Steam for Mac

Valve confirms Steam for Mac

Cross-platform gaming launching in April

News Entertainment

Game delivery outfit Valve announced today that it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2,...


Apple, Nokia Patent Dispute Put On Hold By US Judge

Apple, Nokia Patent Dispute Put On Hold By US Judge

News Security

A judge presiding over a patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Nokia, has halted the proceeding of the case, in order to allow the US International Trade commission to investigate other patent infringement cases filed by...


China Launching Secret Cyberwar On Western Countries

China Launching Secret Cyberwar On Western Countries

News Operating Systems

Several internet security experts around the world have warned that an international cyber war is under way with China attacking European and American agencies in order to steal sensitive intelligence information. Warnings have...


Apple Teams With China Unicom On New iPhone

Apple Teams With China Unicom On New iPhone

News Mobile & Telco

Apple Inc., the company behind the popular iPod music player, is reportedly trying to re-enter the Chinese smartphone market with its iPhone device, by working together with China Unicom. The Cupertino-based company wants to...


Apple iPad To Launch At Expansys, Play

Apple iPad To Launch At Expansys, Play

News Security

The usual suspects are lining up to sell Apple latest gadget, the iPad, when it goes on sale late next month; already Expansys and Play.com have online listings for the product without price or exact availability. Earlier today,...


Microsoft Sends Bouquet For "Funeral" For Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft Sends Bouquet For "Funeral" For Internet Explorer 6

News Open Source

Colorado based designer firm, Aten Design Group, hosted a 'funeral' for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 web browser, 'mourning' the 9 year old web browser, after support for it stopped by several prominent web services including...


£410 Fujitsu Amilo Pi 3745 Quad Core 4GB RAM 1TB HDD Bluray Geforce GT120

£410 Fujitsu Amilo Pi 3745 Quad Core 4GB RAM 1TB HDD Bluray Geforce GT120

News Operating Systems

Be it school homework or home office tasks, from Internet surfing to watching Blu- RAyDVDs – the highly versatile AMILO Desktop Pi 3635 is ideal for the whole family. It has more then enough space with its 1TB HDD to store...


£400 Acer Aspire 7530G - 754G32BN Dual Core 17-Inch 4GB 320GB Bluray

£400 Acer Aspire 7530G - 754G32BN Dual Core 17-Inch 4GB 320GB Bluray

News Hardware

The new Acer Aspire 7530 is Acer's new 17" notebook featuring the new and enhanced Gemstone design it is a clear statement that design and performance can go hand-in-hand. From the Acer starlit logo in the top cover to the...

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