Articles Posted on 29 April 2010
£239 Samsung HW-C560S Home Cinema System
News Entertainment
The Samsung HW-C560S home theater system is for those who demand nothing less than the highest definition possible in everything they see and hear. With 4 HDMI inputs, there is room for a Blu-ray Disc player and three other HDMI...
£113 Samsung LD220 21.5 inch 'LapFit' LCD Monitor
News Entertainment
The LD-series monitors feature sleek, clean contours and high-glossy black encasements to serve as secondary displays for today's stylish laptops. The models' intelligent image size function projects 4:3 images from laptops in...
£33 Belkin F5D4071uk Powerline Turbo Homeplug Twin Network Adaptor Kit
News Network
Belkin's Powerline Networking Adaptors are a great way to extend the coverage of your home network and are perfect for using to connect your computer and other network devices to your home broadband router. The Belkin Powerline...
£299 Samsung 32'' LE32B450 HD Ready LCD TV
News Entertainment
This 32" HD Ready Samsung TV uses DNIe + technology to create stunning images with superior depth and detail. It also features the Wide Colour Enhancer 2 system, which produces an expanded range of natural colours with greater...
Steve Jobs Launches Scathing Attack Against Adobe Flash
News Mobile & Telco
Apple published a letter written by its charismatic CEO, Steve Jobs, that lambasts one of its most important partners, Adobe and attacks one of their core products, Flash. In the detailed missive, entitled "Thoughts on Flash",...
UK Listed Amongst Biggest Spam Relays
News Security
Internet security software and hardware vendor Sophos has released a study report which has placed UK, along with Russia and Italy, at the ninth position in the list of top 12 spam generating nations in the world. The report,...
PS3 Owner Sues Sony Over Other OS Removal
News Hardware
Japanese consumer electronics maker Sony Corp, has been sued by a disgruntled Playstation 3 owner, after the company barred users from using the 'Other OS' option on their gaming consoles via a recent firmware update. The 'Other...
Microsoft Launches Office 2010 Enterprise Online
News Cloud
Microsoft will make the Enterprise version of its Office 2010 suite available online for the first time ever, in a move that will pit it against other online services such as Google Docs. The web applications are due to launch on...
Cloud Computing Vital For Enterprises Says Big Blue
News Network
Organisations that don't adopt cloud computing technology will lose out on crucial resources in the future, IBM has warned. Speaking at the Interop Las Vegas 2010 conference at Mandalay Bay, IBM's chief technology officer for...
Millions Of Children In The UK Have No Internet Access
News Security
Recent research conducted by Point Topic, a broadband intelligence firm, suggests that there are millions of British children who cannot access the internet from home causing adverse affects to their social lives. The study shows...
Apple Could Charge Millions For iAd
News Operating Systems
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple, which recently launched its iPad tablet computer, might charge $1 million for companies wishing to advertise on their newly unveiled iAd mobile advertisement platform for...
Microsoft Previews Live Wave 4 Platform
News Security
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided a sneak preview of the new and upgraded Microsoft Windows Live Messenger. The insight came during a talk Ballmer gave on cloud computing technology at the University of Sao Paulo in...
Cloud Computing Becoming More Popular
News Network
Large numbers of businesses are now using cloud services for their applications, a survey conducted among the attendees at the Las Vegas Business Technology Conference has revealed. Forty-one per cent of those questioned in the...
Sony closes in on Atom-powered TVs - report
News Mobile & Telco
Sony is planning to build tellies incorporating a custom version of Intel's Atom chip, running a new version of Google’s Android operating system called Dragonpoint, according to a report in Businessweek. The report echoes...
Symantec buys PGP and GuardianEdge
News Security
Symantec is to buy cryptography pioneer PGP Corp for $300 million and GuardianEdge Technologies for $70 million to help build up its security management portfolio. The all-cash deals will see the company bake PGP into its...
Palm Acquisition By HP To Threaten RIM
News Mobile & Telco
Shares of Research in Motion went up slightly in pre-market transactions earlier this morning as news of the acquisition of Palm by HP sunk in. The makers of Blackberry shouldn't rejoice though since it marks the arrival of a...
Gizmodo may sue police over iPhone raid
News Consumer
Gizmodo owner Gawker Media says it is considering legal action against San Mateo county police for allegedly violating a Californian law protecting journalists. The announcement concerns the raid last Friday on the home of...
Yahoo Will Acquire Smaller Tech Companies Says CEO
News Business
Yahoo has hinted at plans to acquire smaller technology start-ups, including location-based networking site Foursquare. At her first ever press conference in Europe to announce a deal to show highlights of Premier League...
Bogus Antivirus Accounts For One In Every Seven Malware Online
News Security
Fake anti-virus software accounts for 15 per cent of the all malicious content floating around the internet, according to a study conducted by Google. The report comes after search giant scanned 240 million web pages over a...
HP To Emulate Apple With Palm Acquisition?
News Mobile & Telco
The acquistion of Palm by HP shows that the company considers mobile computing as a priority rather than a peripheral revenue earner, one which may help it maintain its rate of growth. Obviously, the other company that placed...
Facebook flaw exposes events to strangers
News Web
Facebook's new Graph API is publicly exposing user information according to an eagle-eyed blogger. Ka-Ping Yee (AKA Zestyping) says that he recently discovered something strange while 'playing' with the social notworking site's...
Music service We7 makes adverts pay
News Entertainment
We7, the online streaming music network set up by ex-Genesis star Peter Gabriel, has become the first UK-based on-demand service to cover the cost of its content purely using advertising. Calling the achievement a "momentous...
HP Acquires Palm For $1.2 Billion
News Operating Systems
Beleaguered smartphone manufacturer Palm has been acquired by computer manufacturer HP for a whopping $1.2 billion after the company had been put on for sale earlier this month. Chinese manufacturer Lenovo emerged as the...
PowerColor building 12-monitor gaming card
News Consumer
Most PC gamers would gladly settle for just one 30 inch widescreen monitor, but PowerColor’s latest experiment shows that there are still plenty of affluent gadget freaks who won’t settle for anything less than the...
Sony being sued over Other OS removal
News Hardware
A Californian Playstation 3 user has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony over removal of the Install Other OS function. Anthony Ventura filed the suit at the United States District Court for the Northern District of...
Gizmodo Considering Suing San Mateo Police Over Raid
News Consumer
Gawker Media, the owner of tech blog Gizmodo, says it is considering a lawsuit against San Mateo county police for allegedly violating a California journalist shield law designed to limit searches of newsrooms, following a police...
Apple Buys Siri To Push Voice Search
News Business
In a bid to take on Google's Android mobile OS, Apple has acquired Siri, a technology start-up that develops voice-activated search applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. California-based Siri, develops voice apps...
Fake anti virus is fastest-growing threat
News Web
A study by Google says that fake anti-virus software carrying malicious code is a growing threat. The search engine outfit says that more and more scammers are using bogus warnings about infected computers to trick gullible...
ATI releases Catalyst 10.4
News Hardware
Following on from the Catalyst 10.4 teaser that AMD pushed out a couple of weeks ago, AMD has now unveiled the fully grown-up, WHQL-certified version of the driver. As with the preview, one of the driver’s main advantages...
Palit reveals custom GTX 470 design
News Hardware
Apart from the supply problems, one of the biggest criticisms of Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards is the amount of noise generated by the Nvidia reference cooler. Never fear, though, as Palit has come to the...






