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Articles Posted on 23 April 2010

Apple iPhone To Get Google Maps Navigation?

Apple iPhone To Get Google Maps Navigation?

News Mobile & Telco

There are rumours pointing to the fact that Apple iPhone will get Google's free Maps application with turn by turn navigation, something that is likely to enrage Apple. Google's Group Product Manager, Steve Lee, confirmed to...


IBM enables nanoscale optical connections

IBM enables nanoscale optical connections

Smallest mountain in the world

News Business & Government

The pixellated Alpine scene below might look like a CGI render of a mountain, but it is in fact a real-life sculpture of Mount Matterhorn that measures just 20nm high. That’s a good 12nm less than the width of transistors...


Microsoft Quietly Cans Forefront Protection Manager

Microsoft Quietly Cans Forefront Protection Manager

News Software

According to a latest announcement made by Microsoft, the software maker has declared that it will release Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 as a part of System Center Configuration Manager, instead of releasing it as an...


Apple 100-year Old Fan Writes Poem About iPad

Apple 100-year Old Fan Writes Poem About iPad

News Mobile & Telco

While people in the US continue to debate on the fact that whether they like the Apple iPad or not, a 100-year old American woman has come out winning the debate in the favour of it, as Apple's iPad has enabled her to do what she...


UK NHS IT System Hit By Qakbot Malware Claims Symantec

UK NHS IT System Hit By Qakbot Malware Claims Symantec

News Security

Internet security company Symantec has claimed that more than 1000 computers being used in UK's National Health Service (NHS), have been affected by a sophisticated data stealing malware named Qakbot. The company reported that...


Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Details Leaked

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Details Leaked

News Consumer

Dutch website Tweaker.net has leaked the confidential manufacturing details of Microsoft's Windows 7 mobile phone, which was announced by the software gaint at the Mobile World Congress in February 2010. The Dutch website, which...


Apple Looking To Launch iTravel Service

Apple Looking To Launch iTravel Service

News Mobile & Telco

Patently Apple, the blog dedicated to discovering secret patents filed by Apple Inc., has revealed a new patent application filed by the iPod maker, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent indicates that...


Express newspapers caught selling SEO spam

Express newspapers caught selling SEO spam

Links for sale, a grand a bunch

News Web

The Daily Express has come in for criticism after it was caught selling links to search engine optimisation companies. The SEO guys at Further.co.uk were not impressed yesterday when they received an email from the Express,...


Lenovo Favourite To Buy Palm After HTC Steps Down

Lenovo Favourite To Buy Palm After HTC Steps Down

News Software

HTC, the Taiwan based smartphone maker, has decided not to go ahead with the talks to buy ailing smartphone manufacturer Palm Inc., losing out on the chance to get its hand on the Palm Web OS technology, news agency Reuters has...


Microsoft Clocks Record Quarter With 35 Percent Rise In Profits

Microsoft Clocks Record Quarter With 35 Percent Rise In Profits

News Security

Microsoft, the software maker responsible for the Xbox, has reported a hike 35 percent in its net profit, taking it total profit figure to $4.1 billion, during the latest quarter results of the financial year ending March...


Mobile health risk questions to be answered

Mobile health risk questions to be answered

But it’ll take some time

News Mobile & Telco

The world's largest study on the long-term health implications of using mobile phones has been launched in London. Cosmos, the cohort study of mobile phone use and health, plans to recruit 250,000 mobile users in five European...


Comet Slashes Price of Samsung UE40C7000 To £1656

Comet Slashes Price of Samsung UE40C7000 To £1656

News Web

The Samsung UE40C7000 has only been officially launched yesterday by John Lewis and already a price war has started with online retailer Comet slashing the cost of the television set to £1656 including...


ARM Not Interested By Rumoured Apple Bid

ARM Not Interested By Rumoured Apple Bid

News Software

The chief executive of ARM has told flatly denied any interest from the Cambridge-based hardware specialist in a potential bid by consumer electronics giant Apple, one which could be worth up to $8 billion. Warren East told the...


First 3D TV hits UK shops

First 3D TV hits UK shops

£2,000 with one set of glasses

News Consumer

John Lewis has become the first high-street retailer to stock next generation 3D TVs. The store which has a famous policy of being 'never knowingly undersold' will be quite safe in this case as no-one else in the UK has actually...


Microsoft Preparing Windows Live 4 Beta

Microsoft Preparing Windows Live 4 Beta

News Web

Microsoft, the company behind the popular Windows 7 operating system, has announced that it will be starting the public testing of the new and improved Windows Live features soon, one which will also include a movie making and...


Apple’s oldest fan celebrates iPad in verse

Apple’s oldest fan celebrates iPad in verse

Warning: poetry ahead

News Web

It has met with mixed reactions since its April 3 launch, but a US lady who must be the world’s oldest computer novice has declared Steve Jobs’ new baby is the Apple of her eye. Virginia Campbell, 99, of Lake Oswego,...


Google Rehauls Places With Free Photos

Google Rehauls Places With Free Photos

News Mobile & Telco

Google Places, the recently revamped version of the poplar Local Business Center service by the search engine giant, is being offered to local businesses along with the some new and improved features that are designed to ensure...


Windows 7 sales give Microsoft a boost

Windows 7 sales give Microsoft a boost

Hasta la Vista

News Web

Microsoft saw its profit jump by 35 per cent this quarter thanks largely to the fact it managed to produce a Windows product that wasn't a complete dog. January to March represents the Vole's third fiscal quarter, during which...


Bloglines enters second day of downtime

Bloglines enters second day of downtime

All over for RSS pioneer

News Consumer

Bloglines looks set to lose users in droves after a prolonged downtime that has so far lasted for at least a day and possibly as long as 36 hours. Anyone attempting to log in to the RSS feed reader service is currently...


Strange beast distresses BT

Strange beast distresses BT

OSS with fangs and golden balls

News Business & Government

The head of BT's open source unit has become distressed by sales calls from the software business' answer to werewolf: half open, half proprietary. Jeremy Ruston, who was made head of open source innovation at BT after it...


Virgin Media Rolls out new Mobile Workforce Management Solution

Virgin Media Rolls out new Mobile Workforce Management Solution

News Consumer

Virgin Media has announced that the company expects an increase in the level of customer satisfaction and cost cuts, after it deployed the Mobile Workforce Management system developed as a software-as-a-service by TOA...


BAA Launches Official iPhone App

BAA Launches Official iPhone App

News Hardware

The British Airport Authority, the company which owns and operates six airports in Britain, has released an application for iPhone and Android smartphones for its London Heathrow airport. It is designed to offer travellers all...


Exclusive : Vodafone Cuts Contract Price Of HTC Desire To £15 Per Month

Exclusive : Vodafone Cuts Contract Price Of HTC Desire To £15 Per Month

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone operator Vodafone has taken some unprecedented steps to inch ahead of the competition when it comes to selling the HTC Desire as it cuts the contract price of the device to a mere £15 per month, rising to...


Facebook puts Microsoft Docs online

Facebook puts Microsoft Docs online

Sharing service has Google in its sights

News Web

Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver a cloud-based document sharing service. Facebook boss, fat-walletted whippersnapper Mark Zuckerberg, announced Facebook Docs at the company's F8 developer conference this...


Apple gets into the airline business

Apple gets into the airline business

iTravel patent application spotted

News Mobile & Telco

Apple is keen to get into the travel business according to a recently discovered patent application. Unearthed by the ever-vigilant Patently Apple, the application relates to a forthcoming iPhone App unsurprisingly called...


Skype hits out at mobile bullies

Skype hits out at mobile bullies

European boss blogging mad

News Mobile & Telco

Internet-based call service Skype has hit out at plans by European mobile phone networks to charge extra for carrying data to certain web sites. Jean-Jacques Sahel, the VoIP operator’s European director of government and...


ISP Debuts Website Classification System

ISP Debuts Website Classification System

News Web

Tibboh, a new internet service provider (ISP), has teamed up with British Board of Film Classification, in order to classify around 3 billion websites by putting film-style age restrictions on them, in an attempt to protect young...


Ubisoft always online DRM cracked

Ubisoft always online DRM cracked

Assassin's Creed 2 filleted

News Consumer

Ubisoft's controversial anti piracy measures have been bypassed allowing Assassin's Creed 2 to run without an Internet connection. The French software company came under fire recently when it announced that a new DRM scheme...


BBC Launches Dr Who Game On June 5th

BBC Launches Dr Who Game On June 5th

News Security

Doctor Who, the popular British science fiction television show, which is produced by the BBC, will be soon available in a four-part video game avatar, which will feature plots from some of the most recent episodes of the popular...


T-Mobile Is Best Mobile Broadband Operator On The Move

T-Mobile Is Best Mobile Broadband Operator On The Move

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile comparison website Broadband Genie has revealed the latest results of its annual "road trip" state of mobile broadband analysis which compares the real life performance of six of Britain's biggest mobile phone...


Samsung Wave Gets On Preorder

Samsung Wave Gets On Preorder

News Mobile & Telco

Resurging T-Mobile has become the first UK mobile phone operator to stock the Bada-powered Samsung S8500, which was first announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. The device, which will be available...


Asus Rolls Out N61JV Laptop With Nvidia Optimus

Asus Rolls Out N61JV Laptop With Nvidia Optimus

News Software

Taiwanese giant Asus has pulled out another rather impressive laptop out of its hat, the N61JV, which comes with Nvidia's Optimus technology which switches between integrated and discrete graphics. The said discrete graphics is...

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