Articles Posted on 30 April 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 Released By Canonical
News Software
Canonical, the commercial provider of Ubuntu, has officially released Ubuntu 10.04, the latest version of the immensely popular Linux distribution, which was available for download yesterday onwards. After almost six months of...
200 Firms Migrate To IBM In Q1 2010 Through MF
News Hardware
IBM has announced that around 200 companies have migrated to IBM systems from Hewlett Packard and Oracle, in the first quarter of 2010, via its Migration Factory transition tool. However, despite the excellent end-quarter results...
Bungie Partners With Activision
News Hardware
Popular video game publishing company Activision has signed a 10 year deal with Bungie, the developer of the billion dollar Halo video game franchise, which will allow it to publish video games developed by the company for next...
Borked virus update hits McAfee bottom line
News Security
McAfee's share price took a 10 percent tumble last night, after the company lowered its financial outlook and said it would take an earnings hit after compensating some of its customers. The security company said it would see a...
Apple Pushed For Police Probe In iPhone 4G
News Consumer
In a further development in the story of Gizmodo and lost iPhone 4G, the San Jose Business Journal has reported that Apple Inc. had requested an official probe into the case of lost iPhone 4G, as it suspected a theft. Gizmodo's...
Rosetta Stone Loses Lawsuit Against Google
News Security
Rosetta Stone, the company which provides education in foreign languages, has announced that the company has lost a lawsuit against internet search and advertising company Google. The educator has accused Google of allowing...
Valve reveals Steam for Mac launch date
News Consumer
After a few weeks of Beta testing, Valve has now revealed that the full public version of Steam for Mac will be unleashed on 12 May. Not only is Valve planning to offer a number of downloadable games to Mac owners, but...
Google Launches Mobile Image Search
News Consumer
Search engine giant Google has come up with a new and upgraded version of Image Search, to help users of the Android smartphones and iPhone users by enhancing their Image Search experience via mobile phones. According to the blog...
Sky News Going HD On May 2010
News Consumer
The chief of Sky News, John Ryley announced on Thursday that the news channel is ready to launch itself in HD, on the election night, to cover the 'Decision Time' programme on May 6, following a temporary preview on April...
Google To Team With Intel & Sony Over Google TV Product
News Hardware
Business technology news blog Business Week has reported that Google, along with tech giants Intel and Sony, will be announcing its Google TV Android based software at a company conference in May. Google TV, which has been...
Cisco Launched Telepresence Starter Solution
News Mobile & Telco
Enterprise networking software vendor Cisco has announced a Tandberg-branded Telepresence Starter Kit at a discounted rate of almost 70 percent from the original price, in order to "take Telepresence all the way down to the...
Symantec Acquires GuardianEdge & PGP
News Business & Government
Internet security software vendor Symantec has announced that the company is planning to acquire GuardianEdge Technologies and PGP, in an attempt to conquer the emerging file encryption security market. The company is reportedly...
Microsoft Reportedly Cans Courier Tablet Prototype
News Hardware
Technology blog Gizmodo has reported that Microsoft's prototype 'Courier' tablet has been dropped by the software maker and will not be commercially released any time in the future. Following the leak of a video from Microsoft's...
Adobe throws in towel after Apple slurs
News Hardware
Adobe has thrown in with Google for mobile applications, after Apple CEO Steve Jobs made it clear that he really, really hates Flash. Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch blogged last night that the company “plans...
AMD loses CPU market share to Intel
News Hardware
Market share figures have revealed that chip-making underdog AMD has lost a substantial chunk of the CPU pie chart to its arch rival Intel. The figures come from technology market analysis firm IDC, and show that AMD’s...
