Articles Posted on 20 April 2010
Apple iPhone 4G : Behind The New Design
News Hardware
Despite the many questions that Gizmodo's surprise announcement of the Apple iPhone 4G have raised, there remains the underlying reality, that there the phone exists and has been thoroughly dissected and analysed by the tech...
Why Is Apple So Quiet About Gizmodo's iPhone 4G Saga
News Consumer
One of the reasons why so many believe that the Gizmodo story is just a marketing ploy from Apple to amplify the buzz surrounding the iPhone 4G comes from the fact that Apple is normally more aggressive and paranoid when it comes...
Met Office defends flight ban software
News Consumer
The UK’s Met Office has hit back against allegations that its computer modelling techniques have resulted in the 'unnecessary' grounding of flights across Europe. The flight ban, which is costing airlines worldwide an...
Google outlines censorship policy
News Web
Google has highlighted the increasing number of countries which censor web content, including its own. The company's Global Communications VP Rachel Whetstone says that the number of governments which restrict access to the...
Atari board members jump ship
News Hardware
Two member of once mighty gaming giant Atari's board have resigned. Phil Harrison and David Gardner - who were charged with reinventing the ailing company back in 2008 - have moved on to be replaced in part by Atari founder and...
Lenovo outs greener leaner harder laptops
News Hardware
Lenova today introduced the L Series Thinkpad laptops designed for business, government and education use. Armed with Intel Core i3 or i5 processors, the three models feature 16:9 HD anti glare displays at either 14 or 15...
Apple To Roll Out 3G iPad Models In US On April 30
News Security
Apple is gearing up for the launch of the game changing WiFi+3G version of the iPad in the US on the 30th of April and issued a press statement saying that the "magical device" will be available on that date in Apple Store from...
Meebo Launches Xauth Data Framework Platform
News Web
Meebo, a Mountain-View, California-based company, that carved a niche for itself with its browser based instant messaging client, is gearing-up to launch Xauth (Extended Authentication), an open platform that is designed to help...
Apple Counter Sues Kodak Over Patent Infringement Claims
News Business & Government
Apple Inc., has filed a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on April 15 to counter the patent infringement lawsuit that was filed against iPhone maker Apple along with Research in Motion...
Lenovo Rolls Out LePhone & Chinese App Store
News Mobile & Telco
China-based computer manufacturer, Lenovo, has announced that the company is going to enter the global smartphone market with three new wireless devices, including the company's much awaited Lephone, in an attempt to carve a...
Hackers Disguise Trojan Horse As Google Chrome Extension
News Security
Google's highly popular Chrome browser has been targeted by hackers who have created a trojan virus which is posing as a Google Chrome extension, security company BitDefender has reported. BitDefender's blog, Malware City...
Vote-for-policies site is a green herring
News Business & Government
A UK-based electoral survey site that lets users vote for policy rather than parties has been slammed as a sideshow. Vote For Policies lets users pick the party whose ideas most closely match their own – without letting...
Google Adds Localised Suggestions & Spell Checker
News Web
In an attempt to combat the pressure from Microsoft's Bing search engine, internet search company Google has dished three new features for its Google Search service which are designed to help the users reach desired search...
Gizmodo blows whistle on iPhone loser
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Not content with scooping probably the biggest tech story of the year [er, week, maybe - Ed.] Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple...
Hitachi Data Systems Teams with Microsoft To Provide UC Platform
News Hardware
Storage technology vendor Hitachi Data Systems and software giant Microsoft have announced that the companies will come together to build a sophisticated unified enterprise solution, which will constitute of servers, networking,...
Microsoft Launches Intune Fix-it Solution
News Software
Microsoft Corp., the California based software company, has rolled out a new cloud based service, Intune, which is designed to help small and mid sized enterprises in managing remote desktop PCs at a relatively lower cost and is...
Cisco Finalises $3.3bn Tandberg Acquisition
News Hardware
Cisco Systems, the networking and communication solutions provider, has announced that the company has completed the acquisition of the Norway based video communication technology vendor Tandberg. Now that the deal has been...
Microsoft Puts Office 2010 In RTM Mode
News Software
Microsoft Corp. has announced that the company has put the Office 2010 enterprise productivity suite into mass manufacturing, which will be launched on the 12th of May. The Office 2010 RTM was announced by the company on the...
NXP announces teeny ARM Cortex chip
News Consumer
NXP Semiconductors today announced sampling of the world’s smallest general-market 32-bit microcontroller. The LPC1102 - which is based on the Cortex-M0 processor designed by Brit chip shop ARM - is a hair over 2mm square...
Production problems causing UK iPad delay
News Hardware
Steve Jobs disappointed the rest of the world when he announced last week that America had eaten all the iPads. Citing unexpected demand, Jobs told the UK, and the rest of the planet, that it would have to wait an extra month to...
Irish Judge Approves "Three Strikes" Rule In Eircom Case
News Consumer
A high court in Ireland has passed a landmark judgement, upholding the right of a creator and supporting the “three strikes and you are out” approach against internet piracy in country. The approach was implemented...
Engadget vs Gizmodo : The Murky Side Of The iPhone 4G Saga
News Consumer
We are still troubled about how Gizmodo managed to get hold of the iPhone 4G prototype and the way Apple has kept its calm all along, despite the potential huge stakes. Nick Denton, the head of Gawker Media, confirmed via Twitter...
Facebook Announces "Community Pages" Feature
News Mobile & Telco
Social networking giant Facebook has announced on its official blog that the company will be soon rolling out a new feature for the social network, called 'Community Pages'. This will contain information about topics that are...
Apple "Confirms" iPhone 4G Model, Wants Prototype Back From Gizmodo
News Consumer
As expected, Apple has started to pester Gizmodo on the phone and by email/snail mail asking them to return the device, although they'd be happy to pick up the unit. In a letter published by the Gawker Media website, Bruce...
Google adds malware alerts for webmasters
News Web
Google has added malware alerts to its Webmaster Tools service, essentially offering web site anti-virus to rookie webmasters. The new Tools tab tells webmasters if Google has found malware on their sites. It provides the URLs...
Talktalk Switches Customers To Own Fibre-Optic Network
News Hardware
Internet Service Provider Talktalk has announced that it will be moving its customers from BT to its own fibre-optic infrastructure without giving an exact schedule. The move comes as another broadband provider, Orange, revealed...
Apple iPad 2G To Use OLED Screens
News Mobile & Telco
Consumer giant Apple is expected to use OLED panels for its next generation iPad device according to sources in Taiwan who have pegged its release date for 2011. According to Digitimes, companies working in the component industry...
3 UK & T-Mobile Partner On £400 million Network Rehaul
News Mobile & Telco
Hutchinson Whampoa-owned 3 UK and Deutche-Telekom's T-Mobile have confirmed that they have chosen Nokia Siemens Networks as the main contractor to expand and improve the infrastructure of their Joint Venture, MBNL (Mobile...
Google hack exposed millions of passwords
News Web
The reported cyber-attack on Google in China may have given the perpetrators access to the password system Google uses to control millions of users' access details. The New York Times reports that Google's punter management...
