Articles Posted on 15 April 2010
Atari 2600 game sells for £20,000 on Ebay
News Web
If you have an old Atari 2600 in your attic, you's better go and dig it out right now. The console itself isn't worth that much, because Atari sold millions of the things, but if you have a copy of the game Air Raid, you could...
Opera Mini iPhone Browser Hits Top Spot On Apple App Chart
News Mobile & Telco
Opera Mini Browser for iPhone has become the most downloaded application on Apple's App store with more than one million certified downloads in its first day of availability on the 22 featured Apple App stores. By this afternoon...
Tories To Make Data Open According To Election Manifesto
News Business & Government
UK's Conservative political party has released its manifesto ahead of the General Election, which will take place on May 6 2010, in which the party has vowed to make almost all government data available to the public. They also...
AMD Phenom II X6 overclocked beyond 6GHz
News Hardware
AMD’s Phenom II X6 might still be officially under wraps, but that hasn’t stopped the tech heads in Taiwan from landing their mitts on them, just so that they can overclock them into oblivion. In particular, one...
Botnet takedowns have no effect on spam
News Web
Despite a number of high-profile take-downs last year malicious spam is till on the rise. Google says that every time it kills the source of high volume spam, the decrease in unwanted traffic bounces back to previous levels...
Apple Releases Security Updates For OSes
News Hardware
Apple Inc., the company behind the iPad tablet device, has dished out its Security Update 2010-003 for a single vulnerability affecting its Mac OS X Server 10.5, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.6 and Mac OS X Server 10.6 operating...
Apple iPhone 4G Coming On 22nd Of June?
News Consumer
Apple & iPhone community website, ModMyi.com, claims that Apple will be releasing the iPhone 4G at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on the 22nd of June 2010, the same venue that saw the launch of the Apple iPad. To be...
Intel To Kickstart Sandy Bridge 32nm Migration By End Of Year
News Hardware
Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, has announced that the company will commence the production of its latest 32 nanometer micro-architecture codenamed Sandy Bridges, later this year. The company, which made the...
Microsoft Chinese Supplier Lambasted For Abysmal Labour Records
News Software
According to a report released by the National Labor Committee (NLC), a global human rights group, a Microsoft supplier located in Guangdong province in China has been violating human rights by hiring 16-17 year olds to work for...
Sony Announces First 3D Television Sets
News Hardware
Sony has confirmed that the Japanese electronics giant will launch its first 3D television set, the aptly named Bravia HX803, in June 2010 complete with a number of 3D games for the Playstation 3 gaming console, useful, assuming...
Telegraph hacked by Romanians
News Web
The Telegraph newspaper's web site has been hacked and defaced by a group apparently objecting to Jeremy Clarkson's use of the term “Romanian gypsies”. A subdomain of telegraph.co.uk hosting the paper's “Short...
Apple patches Pwn2Own hole
News Hardware
Apple has posted an unscheduled security patch to fix the hole pointed out at this year's Pwn2Own. The annual hackfest, which is hosted by Tipping Point, saw Charlie Miller ripping apart Apple's security using a maliciously...
O2 Set To Challenge Skype With New Cheap International Call Service
News Hardware
Skype is set to get a very serious competitor in the realm of cheap international Voice-over-IP market as O2 has started taking orders for a new beta service that will allow unlimited international phone calls for a fixed...
P2P pirate hunters defend bullying tactics
News Web
The company which snoops on P2P connections to unearth copyright pirates has defended it methods and makes no apology for those wrongly accused of breaking the law. German company Digiprotect, which supplies IP address evidence...
O2 Offers £35 Unlimited Everything Monthly Contract
News Hardware
O2 has given the green light to its offshoot community-centered mobile network operator, GiffGaff, to start selling a £35 so-called Goodybag that gives unlimited calls, texts and internet for as little as £35 per...
Adobe To Sue Apple Within Weeks?
News Hardware
Popular tech news website IT World has claimed that software maker Adobe is going to sue Apple Inc. 'within a few weeks' after the latter banned its developers from using Adobe software for developing applications for Apple's...
ATI releases Catalyst 10.4 preview
News Hardware
In a bid to ensure that its DirectX 11 hardware continues to play nicely with the flagship DX11 game, ATI has hurried out a Catalyst driver hotfix for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. A preview of the forthcoming Catalyst 10.4...
Android Market Still Suffering From Fragmentation
News Mobile & Telco
According to recent data put forward by the Android Developer Community, the problem of fragmentation in the Android OS is slowly declining but still a significant number of mobile phones are running on the older versions of the...
Review finds no science malpractice at UEA
News Consumer
An independent panel chaired by Lord Oxburgh has found that there was no scientific malpractice at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, despite all the 'Climategate' brouhaha. The review was instigated after...
Virgin Media Teams Up With Best Buy
News Security
Virgin Media, one of UK's largest telecommunications providers, has announced that the company will be partnering with tech retail giant Best Buy in order to showcase its products when the retail company rolls out its retail...
Google To Index And Save All Twitter Messages
News Web
Search engine behemoth Google is all set to enhance its internet search capabilities by indexing Twitter messages as a part of a huge database which will allow users to search for Tweets on any given topic. Twitter, which was...
Sony 3D TV debut will be 'affordable'
News Hardware
Sony has announced that its first foray into the UK 3D TV market will happen in June. The Japanese electronics giant says the first range of sets available will be 'affordable' though it hasn't released exact prices or given any...
Light Peak will usurp USB says Intel
News Hardware
The trusty USB port may have become a ubiquitous sight on gadgets and computers, but Intel reckons that the omnipresent interface will eventually be replaced by its forthcoming Light Peak technology. Speaking at IDF in Beijing,...
Google Docs Dumps Gears & Offline Capabilities
News Web
Search engine giant Google has announced that the newly previewed Google Docs editors will not allow offline editing of the documents from May 3, as they will discontinue the Gears technology which supports the much sought after...
Sapphire HD 5870 gets 2GB of DDR5
News Consumer
Sapphire Technology has announced 2GB TOXIC and 2GB Vapor-X additions to its HD 5870 series. The Sapphire HD 5870 2G Toxic Edition is factory overclocked to speeds of 925MHz core and 1225MHz (4.9GHz effective) memory ...
Nokia N8 UK Launch Pushed Till July
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia has apparently reported the launch of its super smartphone, the N8, until the end of July if a report on GSM Arena is to be believed. The phone first appeared on our radar back in March 2010. Someone from O2 UK tipped...
Toshiba To Debut Tecra M11 Notebook
News Hardware
Japanese manufacturer Toshiba has announced the arrival of a new business-oriented laptop, the Tecra M11, the latest addition to the range of high end ultraportable models. The device comes with an i3 or an i5 processor, 2GB RAM,...
Vodafone, Orange & O2 To Introduce iPad In May
News Mobile & Telco
Three of the biggest mobile phone operators in the UK, Vodafone, Orange and O2 have simultaneously announced that they will offer data plans for the Apple iPad 3G models by the end of May. The three companies have issued almost...
Russian police target HP over bribery claim
News Business & Government
Hewlett-Packard said its offices in Moscow had been raided by Russian police who searched the building. The computer maker wouldn't say what the raid was about. The Wall Street Journal did though - bribery. According to...
£15 p/m Nokia 5800 XpressMusic 300m 300t Ultd Web
News Mobile & Telco
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is the first full touch screen mobile phone from Nokia thanks to a 3.2 inch touchscreen. The Red 5800, formerly known as the Tube, is the perfect music phone with support for MP3 and AAC files, a 3.5mm...
£25 p/m HTC Legend 300m 3000txt Ultd Internet
News Mobile & Telco
Get the ultimate statement piece with the HTC Legend. This metallic beauty is far from ordinary both inside and out, the Android operating system runs quickly and smoothly, team that with HTC’s Sense technology, which makes...
