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Articles Posted on 07 April 2010

Meet Twettle : The Twittering Kettle

Meet Twettle : The Twittering Kettle

News Consumer

A kettle that twitters, this is the novel project of two mobile advertising consultants and designers who are based in London, a device however that has yet to come to the market. Twettle is a WiFi enabled peripheral at its...


Apple Acknowledges iPad WiFi Issues But Blames Routers

Apple Acknowledges iPad WiFi Issues But Blames Routers

News Security

Apple has confirmed that some iPad owners have been having recurring issues with WiFi connectivity but was quick to shift the responsibility onto third party routers. The company updated its support pages on Monday and added that...


Sony PS3 Firmware Update Wrecks Gaming Console

Sony PS3 Firmware Update Wrecks Gaming Console

News Security

The latest firmware update for the popular Sony Playstation 3 gaming console, version 3.21, apparently causing a slew of issues for some of the so-called fat, first generation models. The update, which was released on the 1st of...


Choose A Reliable Supplier : Pick One Who Can Handle A Crisis

Choose A Reliable Supplier : Pick One Who Can Handle A Crisis

News Web

When your network is working well, the best supplier might seem to be the one offering the keenest prices, the swiftest delivery or the latest technology. Don't let the good times fool you, though: you may find that when problems...


Yahoo Set To Acquire FourSquare For $100 Million?

Yahoo Set To Acquire FourSquare For $100 Million?

News Web

Popular silicon valley news website Business Insider has reported that internet company Yahoo! Inc. is planning to acquire location based social networking start-up Foursquare for a speculated sum of $100...


Cisco Will Overhaul UCS Server Range

Cisco Will Overhaul UCS Server Range

News Hardware

In an attempt to better compete with HP and IBM, networking technology giant Cisco Networks has updated its Unified Computer System (UCS) servers, which was launched by the company last year. Cisco, which was once a major sales...


Nintendo Wii Fit Used As A Fitness Tool

Nintendo Wii Fit Used As A Fitness Tool

News Consumer

Wii Fit, the popular exercising video game from Nintendo, designed for the Wii gaming console, has emerged an apt weight loss tool, as more and more people continue to use the video game in order to exercise in a fun, non-boring...


Review Of Reviews : Sapphire 5870 Card, SandForce SSD, Savvio RAIDed HDDs

Review Of Reviews : Sapphire 5870 Card, SandForce SSD, Savvio RAIDed HDDs

News Hardware

Today in reviews of reviews we present you with the reviews of the hottest computer hardware available in the market, designed to enhance the overclock performance. Sapphire HD 5870 2GB Toxic Edition has been reviewed by Hardware...


Apple To Debut Mobile Advertising Solution

Apple To Debut Mobile Advertising Solution

News Hardware

Apple Inc., which sold over 300,000 iPads on the first day of its launch, is all set to introduce its very own mobile advertisement platform for its iPhone and iPad devices, on April 8th, during the iPhone Developer...


Nokia Set To Launch iPad Competitor

Nokia Set To Launch iPad Competitor

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is planning on entering the lucrative tablet device market by launching its very own iPad like device by the end of this year, an analyst with Rodman and Renshaw has predicted. It...


Twits to ignore Digital Economy Bill

Twits to ignore Digital Economy Bill

Civil disobedience foments on Twitter

News Web

British Twitter users are plotting to ignore the Digital Economy Bill, which is due to get its final stamp of approval by Parliament this evening. A petition, orchestrated from WhatDEBill.org, has already collected over 1,600...


Digital Economy Bill Progresses Through Controversial Legislative 'Wash Up'

Digital Economy Bill Progresses Through Controversial Legislative 'Wash Up'

News Consumer

The Digital Economy Bill is likely to be passed into law in an accelerated legislative process ahead of the just-announced general election. The Opposition will oppose just three parts of it in negotiations today. The Bill had...


Isle Of Man Minister Wants UK E-Border Inclusion

Isle Of Man Minister Wants UK E-Border Inclusion

News Security

Tony Brown, the Chief Minister of the Isle of Man, has requested that Tynwald, the island's parliament, include Isle of Man in UK's e-border security system in order to ensure that the prevailing no-passport rule continues. UK's...


AOL To Dispose Of Bebo

AOL To Dispose Of Bebo

News Security

AOL, the US based internet company, has announced that it no longer has the resources to keep supporting the development of online social network Bebo and might start looking for buyers after its May 2010 review. Bebo, which was...


Flowers show spring has sprung early

Flowers show spring has sprung early

Blooming heck

News Business & Government

It's not just humans who are confused by Britain's changing climate. Even the plants are getting all of a dither. British flora is now flowering earlier than it has done in the last quarter of a millenium, according to the...


Apple iPad Customers Encountering WiFi Issues

Apple iPad Customers Encountering WiFi Issues

News Mobile & Telco

New users of Apple's tablet device, which was launched in the US on Saturday, have reported that they have been experiencing problems while surfing the internet on the device, as they are not able to establish a strong Wi-Fi...


Sapphire launches pocket projector

Sapphire launches pocket projector

Looks like you're pleased to see me

News Hardware

Graphics cards outfit Sapphire Technology has today launched a pocket-sized projector, the Mini Projector 101. The device beams virtually any digital output onto an area up to 65 inches wide, running graphics and video input...


IBM Betrayed Open Source Pledge According To FOSS Proponents

IBM Betrayed Open Source Pledge According To FOSS Proponents

News Hardware

International Business Machines, the world's largest computer technology company, has lashed out at the open source community, which it was ardently supporting sometime back, by serving open source software developer...


ATI brings DX11 to Firepro line

ATI brings DX11 to Firepro line

To Eyefinity and beyond

News Hardware

AMD has brought DX11 and Eyefinity multi-monitor support to its professional ATI Firepro series, with the introduction of the V8800. AMD claims the card is the most powerful graphics card ever targeted at professionals. It said...


Verizon Wireless CEO Dismisses Vodafone Merger Rumours

Verizon Wireless CEO Dismisses Vodafone Merger Rumours

News Hardware

The Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Communications, Ivan Seidenberg, has dismissed speculation that hinted at a Verizon-Vodafone merger, explaining that there is no feasible reason for the two companies to merge. Verizon...


eBay UK sees healthy trade in Apple iPads

eBay UK sees healthy trade in Apple iPads

What's it worth to you?

News Web

iPads have started appearing on eBay's UK site, offering impatient British fanbois the chance to own Apple's latest piece of overpriced touch-screen bling a few weeks early. Buyers can expect to pay a premium over US prices. The...


Sony update bricks fat Playstations

Sony update bricks fat Playstations

Kills more than Other OS functionality

News Hardware

A controversial update which was seeded by Sony in order to remove the ability to run Linux on the Playstation 3 games console has caused a storm of complaints. The 3.21 firmware upgrade, which removes the security hole provided...


Rhapsody Launches $10 Monthly Service

Rhapsody Launches $10 Monthly Service

News Consumer

Rhapsody music service, which has been going through a major revamp, has announced that the now-independent company will offer users the ability to listen a million songs on its database for only $10, $5 less than what was being...


Alleged Involvement In India Security Data Theft By Chinese Hackers

Alleged Involvement In India Security Data Theft By Chinese Hackers

News Security

The People's Republic of China has once again landed in another global scandal after a group of researchers at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, disclosed that a Chinese hacking organisation, which...


Unofficial Facebook App For iPad Banned By Apple

Unofficial Facebook App For iPad Banned By Apple

News Mobile & Telco

Apple Inc., the company behind the iPod music player, has removed an unofficial Facebook application, designed specifically for the iPad tablet PC, from the App Store, citing copyright infringement as the reason to do so. The...


Pirated Software Is OK Says Third of British People

Pirated Software Is OK Says Third of British People

News Hardware

According to a recent survey conducted by Microsoft, it has been revealed one in every three people in the UK believes that software piracy is the way to go and are generally ignorant of the dangers involved in using pirated...


Hitachi doubles battery life expectancy

Hitachi doubles battery life expectancy

Ten-year claim for lithium ion cells

News Hardware

Japanese industrial giant Hitachi has developed a new battery which could double the life expectancy of current lithium ion batteries. Using a new manganese-based electrode material, the new batteries - which will first be used...


Murdoch: We'll stop Google

Murdoch: We'll stop Google

From behind the paywall

News Web

Rupert Murdoch has vowed to stop Google stealing content from his newspapers and making money out of it. "We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing… there is a law...


Apple offers answers for weak iPad wi-fi

Apple offers answers for weak iPad wi-fi

Stand a bit closer

News Hardware

Apple's new iDevice is having trouble getting connected according to thousands of angry posts on the company's own forums. Grinning iPad early adopters are having the shine taken off of their new toy as soon as they try to jump...


£100 Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray Disc Player - Black

£100 Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray Disc Player - Black

News Software

Samsung’s BD-P1600 offers full HD 1080p playback of Blu-ray discs, and crisp up conversion of standard DVDs through the HDMI 1.3 connection. For a true, Hollywood-quality experience, the player can internally decode the...


£400 LG 37LF7700 37in Full HD Freesat Digital LCD TV

£400 LG 37LF7700 37in Full HD Freesat Digital LCD TV

News Security

Everyone deserves brilliant TV. The LG LF7700 Series has built-in Freesat HD proviidinga digital satellite TV service brought to you by the BBC and ITV built into the TV. You will be entertained with over 140 TV and radio...

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