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Articles Posted on 09 April 2010

Talktalk Set To Defy UK Digital Economy Bill

Talktalk Set To Defy UK Digital Economy Bill

News Mobile & Telco

TalkTalk, one of the largest internet service provider (ISP) in the UK, has declared in a blog post that the controversial Digital Economy Bill is a 'wash up' and that the company will continue to fight 'against these oppressive...


HP Labs Announce Breakthrough In Memristor

HP Labs Announce Breakthrough In Memristor

News Hardware

HP Labs, the research arm of Hewlett-Packard has hinted at a massive breakthrough in the Memristor research field, which, according to tech experts, is capable of changing the face of technology. In a report published to outline...


Juniper Networks Acquires Ankeena

Juniper Networks Acquires Ankeena

News Network

Juniper Networks, the California based computer technology company, is all set to acquire Ankeena Networks, which specialises in software designed for online content delivery, for a speculated amount of $100 million. Ankeena...


iPhone OS 4.0 Game Center Shows Apple's Ambition To Challenge Nintendo

iPhone OS 4.0 Game Center Shows Apple's Ambition To Challenge Nintendo

News Consumer

Apple presented the Game center for the iPhone OS 4 as its 6th tent pole and possibly one of its revenue earners moving forward on the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the iPad as the App store currently stock more than 50,000...


Wi-LAN Sues 19 Technology Firms Over Bluetooth Patents

Wi-LAN Sues 19 Technology Firms Over Bluetooth Patents

News Network

Wi-LAN, a Canada-based wireless technology company, has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit against 19 major consumer electronics companies, accusing them of using key Wi-LAN patents in the Bluetooth functionality...


Sony says sorry for Other OS take-down

Sony says sorry for Other OS take-down

Claims action to prevent piracy

News Developer

Sony has apologised for the row surrounding the removal of the Install Other OS function from older PlayStation 3 consoles. We asked Sony UK to respond to reports that at least one user had received a partial refund from Amazon...


Phones4U Stocks HTC Legend Smartphone On Vodafone

Phones4U Stocks HTC Legend Smartphone On Vodafone

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone retailer Phones4U confirmed yesterday that it has started to deliver the HTC Legend smartphone on Vodafone with tariffs starting as low as £20 per month and claimed that it was the only high street retailer to...


"Arrogant" Facebook Faces Police Wrath Online Child Security

"Arrogant" Facebook Faces Police Wrath Online Child Security

News Security

Social networking giant Facebook has been accused by police authorities of being 'arrogant' in the face of increasing reports of child bullying and grooming on the website. Facebook has failed to install a panic button despite...


Hitachi takes modular datacentres to Europe

Hitachi takes modular datacentres to Europe

Greener than grass

News Consumer

Hitachi Europe and Green Data Systems (GDS) are teaming up to deploy what they reckon are highly-energy-efficient data centres across Europe.   As part of this partnership, Green Data Systems, a co-founder of Eco2dc,...


Apple Kills "I am a Mac" Ad Campaign

Apple Kills "I am a Mac" Ad Campaign

News Hardware

Apple Inc. has decided to scrap the legendary 'I'm a Mac' advertisement campaign, which was first rolled out in 2006 and contained 66 ads broadcasted over a period of 4 years. The termination of the ad campaign was hinted by...


Microsoft To Release 11 Security Updates Next Tuesday

Microsoft To Release 11 Security Updates Next Tuesday

News Security

Microsoft, the Redmond based software company behind the Xbox 360 gaming console, has announced that the company will be releasing 11 security updates for 25 security vulnerabilities in its Windows, Exchange and Office...


Twitter claims first election scalp

Twitter claims first election scalp

Labour candidate sacked after four-letter rants

News Web

Labour has fired its election candidate for the Scottish seat of Moray, after a collection of his offensive Twitter postings came to light. Stuart MacLennan used the microblogging site to blast Speaker John Bercow, Tory leader...


Analysis : Mini Apple iPad means Death Of iPod Touch

Analysis : Mini Apple iPad means Death Of iPod Touch

News Security

Whether or not you believe the analyst from Digitimes over claimed rumours of a miniature version of the iPad, one thing is quasi certain, such a product may kill the iPod Touch altogether, something that Apple may secretly want...


Talk Talk Restates Pledge To Go To Court Over Digital Economy Act Measures

Talk Talk Restates Pledge To Go To Court Over Digital Economy Act Measures

News Entertainment

Telco Talk Talk has restated its pledge to take music and film companies to court if they try to use parts of the just-passed Digital Economy Act. It said it will not hand over any customer details without a court order. The Act...


Mobile App Turns iPhone Users Into Paparazzis

Mobile App Turns iPhone Users Into Paparazzis

News Mobile & Telco

Matrix Photos, the photo company which specialises in celebrity photographs, has unleashed its very first iPhone app CelebAround, which will allow users to keep track of their favourite celebrities by giving them a constant low...


Flash coming to iPhone 4

Flash coming to iPhone 4

Say cheese (not you Adobe)

News Mobile & Telco

When Steve Jobs was asked if iPhone OS 4.0 would have support for Adobe Flash, his answer was short, to say the least. "No." What the invited crowd should have asked him was will iPhone 4.0 support 'a flash'. In which case the...


Super Talent punts cheap SSDs

Super Talent punts cheap SSDs

Less than fifty quid for eight gigs

News Developer

Californian flash aficionado Super Talent has announced four new budget solid state drives. The 2.5 inch SATA II SSDs come in 8, 16, 32 and 64GB flavours and promise 'no compromise in performance', though sequential red/write...


FirstPlay Virtual Magazine Lands On Playstation 3 Consoles

FirstPlay Virtual Magazine Lands On Playstation 3 Consoles

News Security

Sony Corporation, the Japanese consumer electronics giant, has dished out the very first episode of its interactive show, FirstPlay, for Playstation 3 gaming console users. Delivered via the PlayStation Network (PSN), the fully...


Open source Songbird dumps Linux

Open source Songbird dumps Linux

Penguin in a flap

News Developer

Developer of the open source Songbird media player, Pioneers of The Inevitable announced that it is abandoning its Linux product to concentrate on its Windows and Mac versions. Project spokesperson Georges Auberger blogged of...


Apple bans Flash-to-iPhone ports

Apple bans Flash-to-iPhone ports

SDK contract forbids third-party tools

News Mobile & Telco

Apple has banned iPhone application developers from porting code over from third party tools such as Flash, it has emerged. With the latest version of its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement for the new iPhone 4.0,...


LG Unveils £1780 15-inch OLED TV

LG Unveils £1780 15-inch OLED TV

News Mobile & Telco

Korean manufacturer LG has launched the 15EL9500, the largest commercially available OLED TV with a diagonal size of 15-inch which is significantly more than that of the 11-inch photoframe size of the Sony XEL-1 which was...


Samsung announces HD webcam sensors

Samsung announces HD webcam sensors

Full hi-def 1080p in a tiny package

News Consumer

Two new video sensors from Samsung could soon be bringing full HD video capture to a netbook near you. Webcams built into laptops are pretty much par for the course but nowadays the size limitations of cramming the sensors into...


Amazon pays refund on Other OS-hobbled PS3

Amazon pays refund on Other OS-hobbled PS3

Sony could regret taking on the penguin

News Hardware

Online retailer Amazon has been forced to offer a partial refund to a PS3 owner who complained about the removal of the console's Install Other OS function. A report on gaming blog PlayStation Universe alleges that a NeoGAF...


iAd : Apple Goes At War With Google

iAd : Apple Goes At War With Google

News Business

Apple is gradually positioning itself as serious online advertising competitor to Google and to a lesser to Microsoft and Yahoo as it tries to corner the mobile ad segment with the new iAd platform. The latter will blend together...


Kid sues mum over changed Facebook password

Kid sues mum over changed Facebook password

Hacking charges

News Web

An Arkansas kid has sued his own mother, accusing her of 'hacking' into his Facebook account, posting slanderous comments and changing his password so he wouldn't be able to access it. Denise New claims that all she did was...


Apple Finally Launches iPhone OS 4.0

Apple Finally Launches iPhone OS 4.0

News Consumer

Apple has finally unveiled the fourth iteration of the iPhone OS which promises to add 100 new features for the iPhone and the iPod Touch mobile devices. The software platform also paves the way for the next iPhone which should...


Digital Economy Bill miffs Google

Digital Economy Bill miffs Google

Copyright concerns

News Web

Google is joining many others in complaining about the Digital Economy Bill. In particular the lord of the Interweb is worried about Clause 8, which is says "escaped proper scrutiny." The clause allows the secretary of state for...


£600 Sharp Aquos LC40LE600E 40" Full HD LED TV

£600 Sharp Aquos LC40LE600E 40" Full HD LED TV

News Entertainment

Get a glimpse of the future with the Sharp Aquos LC40LE600E 40" Full HD LED TV, a fantastic example of the new breed of LED-backlit flatscreen televisions! This cutting-edge HDTV offers outstanding picture quality at a price you...


£29.99 Linksys by Cisco WRT120N Wireless N150 Router + Adapter

£29.99 Linksys by Cisco WRT120N Wireless N150 Router + Adapter

News Security

The Wireless-N150 Cable Router gives you a wireless connection that's twice the speed of Wireless-G so your whole family can share a broadband Internet connection and access files from almost anywhere in the house. Wireless-N...

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