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Articles Posted on 19 April 2010

Gizmodo's Apple iPhone 4G To Have HD Ready Display?

Gizmodo's Apple iPhone 4G To Have HD Ready Display?

News Consumer

As the Gizmodo story about the iPhone 4G unravels, we learnt that the phone will have a slightly smaller screen compared to the current iPhone 3GS but John Gruber of Daring Fireball reckons that it might have a 960x640...


Facebook Denies Change In Behavioral Ad Platform

Facebook Denies Change In Behavioral Ad Platform

News Security

Social networking giant Facebook has rubbished the rumors about a speculated change in its Behavioral Ad platform, AllFacebook has reported. An article in the Financial Times initially claimed that the social networking platform...


Gizmodo's iPhone 4G : Is This A Setup?

Gizmodo's iPhone 4G : Is This A Setup?

News Consumer

Could it be that Apple is literally misleading the rest of the world by voluntarily "leaking" a real life iPhone 4G model that not only works but looks like a proper Apple prototype? Well, as an astute commentator...


Asus improves on AMD Turbo Core

Asus improves on AMD Turbo Core

Faster clock speeds and dual-core compatibility

News Hardware

So many manufacturers are now releasing Turbo-branded toys that we’ve forgotten all about the word’s associations with an ironically labelled button in the 486-era. Following Intel’s Turbo Boost, and AMD’s...


Facebook denies plan to target user history

Facebook denies plan to target user history

Snoop dodgy log

News Web

Facebook's new content-sharing button, due this this week, won't go snooping through your browsing history to deliver targeted advertising as earlier reports suggested. A Facebook spokesman on the offensive told the Torygraph:...


Google Street View Snaps Woman 43 Times

Google Street View Snaps Woman 43 Times

News Security

Wendy Southgate, a resident of UK's Suffolk Village, has been photographed 43 times by Google Street View, while she was walking her dog Trixie in her neighbourhood. Mrs. Southgate had seen the Street View car doing rounds in the...


Sony Ericsson Posts Profits Despite Drop In Revenue

Sony Ericsson Posts Profits Despite Drop In Revenue

News Mobile & Telco

Smartphone maker Sony Ericsson has announced that the company has registered a profit of £18.5 million (€21 million) during the first three months of 2010, following a loss of €167 million during the last quarter...


Breaking : "Official" Apple iPhone 4G Smartphone Presented By Gizmodo

Breaking : "Official" Apple iPhone 4G Smartphone Presented By Gizmodo

News Consumer

US technology website Gizmodo had been keeping quiet over the weekend while its archrival Engadget sucked in the pageviews over the leading story of THAT iPhone 4G smartphone being discovered in a bar in SF. Turned out...


Palm Software Supremo Leaves Smartphone Maker

Palm Software Supremo Leaves Smartphone Maker

News Mobile & Telco

According to a US Securities and Exchange board filing made by smartphone maker Palm Inc., it has been indicated that the ailing company's chief of software and service Michael Abbott has resigned from the company, amidst...


Google drops the http:// from Chrome

Google drops the http:// from Chrome

Simplicity through obscurity causes geek outrage

News Web

The next version of Google's Chrome could lack a feature that has characterised web browsers for close to two decades: the http:// in the address bar. The change, which is live in the developer version of the browser, may...


Apple's next gen 4G iPhone left in bar

Apple's next gen 4G iPhone left in bar

Someone's getting fired

News Mobile & Telco

Apple's next generation iPhone has been spotted in the wild and it looks like it could be the real thing for once. Every year dozens of crappy fakes are put together by sniggering design students or hit-hungry web sites,...


Apple To Ship 3G iPad To US Before Official Launch In Europe

Apple To Ship 3G iPad To US Before Official Launch In Europe

News Security

Apple Inc., the company responsible for the iPhone smartphone, has announced that the 3G version of its iPad tablet device will be available in the US from the 7th of May, days before the company even starts taking pre-order...


Intel unleashes fastest dual-core CPU yet

Intel unleashes fastest dual-core CPU yet

Clock speed trumps parallelism, sometimes

News Hardware

Quad-core chips might be a blessing for multi-threaded software, but for many people there’s just no substitute for a healthy supply of of pure Gigahertz, and this is where Intel’s new Core i5 680 could come in...


Windows XP Rootkit Prevents Update From Installing

Windows XP Rootkit Prevents Update From Installing

News Security

Microsoft has announced that a recent security update released for its Windows XP OS has failed to install on systems affected by a new rootkit virus which rejects the updates. A rootkit virus is a malware which, when downloaded...


Twitter, Facebook Helping Travellers Get Back Home

Twitter, Facebook Helping Travellers Get Back Home

News Web

The volcanic eruption in Iceland has resulted in several thousand passengers being stranded at airports across Europe, struggling to cope with the unforeseen situation and trying to find ways to get back home. But it seems that...


iPhone Platform Allows Ether To Survive

iPhone Platform Allows Ether To Survive

News Hardware

A small publishing company called Ether Books is promising to revive the forgotten trend of reading short stories, analysing essays and pondering on poetry, thanks to the iPhone and Apple's other mobile devices. The Guardian...


Adobe outs Flash and Air betas for Android

Adobe outs Flash and Air betas for Android

Mobile testers invited

News Web

Adobe is looking for beta testers for Flash and AIR on the Android mobile platform. Video streaming software Flash and multimedia content building application Air are both currently in private beta. There's no indication of when...


Microsoft Office 2010 ready to roll

Microsoft Office 2010 ready to roll

Enterprise April 27th, retail June

News Business & Government

Engineers at Microsoft's Office division will have been popping the corks this weekend as work on Office 2010 was completed on Friday. Office project boss Tekeshi Numoto recently announced, "I am very excited to share some great...


Google Announces Cloud Based Printing Solution

Google Announces Cloud Based Printing Solution

News Web

Google Inc., the company behind the Android operating system, has announced that it is on the verge of developing a cloud based printing solution. This will allow users to print documents using there tablet PCs, smartphones and...


Adobe Delays Launch Of Mobile Flash 10.1 Player

Adobe Delays Launch Of Mobile Flash 10.1 Player

News Mobile & Telco

Adobe Systems, the software maker behind the Flash online multimedia platform, has hinted that the company's much awaited Flash 10.1 with mobile support for Android, BlackBerry and webOS smartphones, will be launched in the...


Samsung samples first 20nm NAND chips

Samsung samples first 20nm NAND chips

Smaller, cheaper, faster

News Hardware

While Intel and GlobalFoundries are still waxing lyrical about the move to 22nm chips, memory maker Samsung has raced ahead of the pack and revealed that it’s already produced the first NAND chips on a miniscule 20nm...


Pirate Bay court case boosts use fourfold

Pirate Bay court case boosts use fourfold

No such thing as bad publicity

News Consumer

It's a year since the Pirate Bay court case ended but the file-sharing tracker is still sailing. On April 17th 2009 the site's four main protagonists were each sentenced to a year behind bars and given fines as near to a million...


Clegg sees surge in search popularity

Clegg sees surge in search popularity

No more 'Who?' jokes about Lib Dem leader

News Business & Government

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg saw a big boost in popularity as a web search term following his performance at the first-ever leaders' debate last week. According to HitWise, Clegg-related queries spiked at 0.012 per cent of...


Apple Patents Mobile E-Ticketing Solution

Apple Patents Mobile E-Ticketing Solution

News Security

Patently Apple, a blog dedicated to unearthing secret patents filed by Apple Inc., has reported that a patent application filed by the Cupertino based company with the US Patent and Trademark Office indicates at an e-ticketing...


UK IT Expenditure May Not Rise As Fast As Expected

UK IT Expenditure May Not Rise As Fast As Expected

News Hardware

A prominent UK IT expert has cautioned that it might be sometime before IT spending in the UK sees significant growth, following the recession, even though countries like the US are reporting a steady rise in enterprise IT...


Apple shipping 3G iPad May 7th

Apple shipping 3G iPad May 7th

Only in America

News Hardware

Apple will start shipping the cellular version of the iPad 'by May 7th' according to the company's online store. The Cupertino company has already shifted more than half a million of the flat devices to early adopters and is...


Apple in talks with AMD over new CPUs

Apple in talks with AMD over new CPUs

Intel Mac monopoly could end

News Hardware

Apple has been courting AMD in a move which could possibly see Intel's stranglehold over the Mac platform ending according to reports. Apple Insider says its spies have spotted AMD top brass attending meetings at the Cupertino...


Microsoft factories given week to clean up

Microsoft factories given week to clean up

Chinese clamp down

News Business & Government

Chinese investigators have given two factories a week to rectify their "illegal practices", following reports that workers were treated like slave labour. The factories are both contracted to produce merchandise for...


Apple iPhone 4G Apparently Found On Bar Floor

Apple iPhone 4G Apparently Found On Bar Floor

News Consumer

Now that the iPhone OS 4.0 is already on us and coming as early as the 21st of June 2010 - which is when summer officially starts in the UK - the number of blurry pictures showing the iPhone 4G keeps growing. Engadget published a...


Fake Grey Apple iPhone 4G Smartphone Pics Emerge

Fake Grey Apple iPhone 4G Smartphone Pics Emerge

News Consumer

Photos of an iPad like iPhone device empty enclosure have appeared a few days ago online which apparently shows that Apple is moving towards a unibody design and a 64GB iPhone 4G device. The three pictures, that can be seen on...


£20 p/m Acer Liquid 300m 300t Ultd Internet

£20 p/m Acer Liquid 300m 300t Ultd Internet

News Mobile & Telco

The Acer Liquid sports a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen that is perfect for watching movies and browsing the web. Running Google's Android operating system, the Liquid can be enhanced with apps from the Android Market app store...


£25 p/m HTC HD2 600m 500t Ultd Internet

£25 p/m HTC HD2 600m 500t Ultd Internet

News Mobile & Telco

HTC HD 2 delivers an experience your senses have been waiting for. The unprecedented 4.3-inch pixel-packed display is stunning, and is the largest touchscreen on any HTC mobile phone. The world's first capacitive touch technology...

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