Articles Posted on 23 April 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
