Articles Posted on 13 April 2010
HTC Desire To Cause Google Nexus To Fail In UK?
News Mobile & Telco
So the HTC Desire is already out en force on almost all major UK mobile phone networks and already there's some tough competition between the likes of Vodafone and T-Mobile. So much so that everyone seems to have forgotten the...
Apple Rehauls MacBook Pro Range With i5, i7 Models
News Hardware
Apple has finally updated its existing Macbook Pro range and the most important addition is the promise of much longer battery life on all its laptops; 8 to 9 hours on its larger models and a sizzling 10 hours on the 13-inch...
Ofcom Moves For A 'Robust' Appeal System
News Hardware
Ofcom, the UK telecommunication regulator and competition authority, in an attempt to smooth over the uproar caused by the passing of the controversial Digital Economy Bill, has announced a 'robust' appeals process for those...
First hexacore laptop launched
News Consumer
While our friends in the Far East are busy squeezing low-power chips into the tiniest space possible, Eurocom has just announced the first six-core laptop, and it’s a 5.4kg monster. The company has just announced that its...
Internet caused panic over flu pandemic
News Consumer
Cobblers disseminated on the web caused fear uncertainty and doubt to circulate in the matter of the influenza pandemic, the World Health Organisation thinks. The WHO's head of influenza, Keiji Fukuda told a review of the...
G.Skill memory hits 2,500MHz
News Consumer
The memory megahertz race took a speed jump today, as G.Skill confidently boasted that it’s produced the “world’s fastest memory.” The sticks in G.Skill’s latest dual-channel DDR3 Trident kit can be...
Intel runs Android on Atom-charged phones
News Mobile & Telco
Intel is running Google's Android mobile OS on smartphones based on its Atom microprocessors, IDG newswire reports. Renee James, general manager of Intel's software and services group, told hacks sniffing around the Intel...
Apple updates MacBook Pro line-up
News Mobile & Telco
Apple today updated the MacBook Pro line with faster Intel processors, new Nvidia CPUs and up to ten hours of battery life. The 13-incher gets an Nvidia GeForce 320M GPU for up to 80 percent faster graphics and Apple's now...
Tory Website The Slowest Of All Political Websites
News Web
The official website of UK's Conservative party has been found to be the slowest website by a UK political party. Research done to discover this was conducted by online usability company Site Confidence, which found that...
Opera Mini Gets Surprise Approval From Apple App Store
News Mobile & Telco
Opera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser, has announced that its Opera Mini for iPhone web browser has successfully gained the approval from Apple Inc. to be featured on the popular App Store for iPhone users. The...
Microsoft Unleashes KIN Social Networking Phones
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft Inc., the California based company behind the Xbox 360 gaming console, has unleashed two social networking smartphones, which are being developed under the Pink project, in an attempt to regain some of the market share...
Last.fm To Do Away With Music Streaming Feature
News Consumer
Last.fm, the popular internet radio website, has decided to forgo its music streaming abilities and instead has partnered with third-party music streaming services based in the cloud, to allow users to listen to songs from their...
Facebook Unveils Plans To Revamp Online Security Measures
News Security
Social networking giant Facebook has announced that the company will be working towards strengthening its online safety measures. The announcement came after a 4-hour long meeting with the heads of Child Exploitation and Online...
Twitter To Get A New Advertising Platform
News Mobile & Telco
Micro blogging giant Twitter has announced advertising plans for businesses, on the social networking platform, in an attempt to make the company into a more profitable venture. Twitter, which allows users to send 140 character...
Google Unleashes Revamped Docs, Hints At More Updates
News Mobile & Telco
Search engine behemoth Google has announced the revamped version of its popular online document editing and creating tool, Google Docs, which will now come with enhanced online collaboration features that will allow 50 people to...
Facebook farce rumbles on
News Web
The Facebook farce is rumbling on as the British Government tries desperately not to lose, er, face in in spat with the vanity site over child protection. After a visit from the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection...
Real-Time Targeting Of Ads Violates Privacy, Say US Pressure Groups
News Security
US consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been asked by consumer groups to investigate some of the internet's biggest companies in a review of whether users' rights are violated by online advertising...
Having cake and eating it
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Current whipping boy Google is coming under attack from three giants in the European communications market. Telefonica, France Telecom (Orange) and Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) are complaining because Google isn’t giving them a...
Mass Wordpress breach hits NetSol
News Web
Web hosting firm Network Solutions has been forced to ramp up security for its Wordpress hosting customers, following a mass hacking over the weekend. The company today issued a set of instructions to help affected users repair...
Microsoft announces two Kin app phones
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft has made its long-expected first foray into the handset market with two new app phones. Microsoft has actually decided to market its duo of KIN handsets as 'social phones' saying, "We saw an opportunity to design a...
Seagate loads up hard drive with 21 movies
News Consumer
Hard disk maker Seagate has teamed up with Paramount Pictures so that it can load up its 500GB FreeAgent Go external hard drives with a veritable library of 21 movies. You might think that’s a bit of a bargain when you...
Sony PS3 Other OS row hits Facebook
News Hardware
Facebook has become the latest battlefront in the row over Sony's controversial decision to remove the Install Other OS function from the PlayStation 3. A recent firmware upgrade to version 3.21 of the operating system killed of...
Google Ready To Take On iPad?
News Mobile & Telco
The New York Times has claimed that internet search and advertising company Google, is planning to take on Apple's iPad tablet device by launching its own Android based tablet device, which, according to 'reliable sources' will a...
Street View Accused Of Aiding In Garage Burglary
News Security
Gordon Rayner, a milkman by profession, has accused Google's online Street View service of aiding burglars, who struck three times at his garage, after finding a Street View image of his garage door being open. Rayner, who...
Google and Apple in iPad grapple
News Web
Google boss Eric Shmidt has apparently let slip that his company is actually developing a tablet device to take on the iPad. The company published conceptual renderings of a tablet device some time ago but there are now...
Law Firm Refuses To Send Fine Letters, Blames 'Adverse Publicity'
News Consumer
With the passing of the controversial Digital Economy Bill, illegal file sharers are being bombarded with fine letters sent by a few chosen law firms, which are penalising ISP customers with fines upwards of £500. However,...
Twitter unveils cunning plan to make money
News Web
Twitter executives have unveiled a tactic they're calling 'Promoted Tweets' which is starting today. The unfathomable social notworking site is now in the business of selling 'words' to the likes of Starbucks and Virgin...
UK Surfers Largely Satisfied With Prevailing Broadband Speeds
News Mobile & Telco
In a recent survey conducted by ISPreview.co.uk, it was revealed that 56 percent of UK's population is satisfied with their current real-world broadband speeds, while a staggering 41 percent download more than 30 GB of data...
iPhone Opera Mini browser wait is over
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has approved the Opera Mini browser for use on its triumvirate of iDevices and it's available on iTunes already. Opera challenged Apple to change its policy of not allowing App developers to publish software which stood on...
Lawyers to keep sending piracy threats
News Web
Despite being widely criticised by the media and the legal establishment, at least one UK law firm intends to continue sending thousands of threatening letters to Internet users. ACS:Law plans, according to the Guardian, to send...
£15 p/m Sony Ericsson W995 300min 300txt Ultd Web Browsing
News Hardware
The Sony Ericsson W995 is the ultimate Walkman phone. Featuring an 8.1 Megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, face detection and video capture, the W995 delivers amazing image quality. The Sony W995 supports all major audio file...
£10 P/M Sony Ericsson X10 100m Ultd Text Ultd Internet
News Mobile & Telco
Slick and slim design and awesome features make the Xperia X10 one of the best Android phones around. Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone is a superb multimedia experience. Timescape cascades your texts, emails, missed...
