Articles Posted on 05 May 2010
HP Adds Four New Pavilion Notebooks To Range
News Hardware
HP has introduced a quartet of new Pavilion notebooks during the massive product launch it had today; these include the dm4, dv5, dv6 and dv7 each aimed at a slightly different audience. The first one comes with a brushed...
Sony Ericsson To Launch Xperia X10 Android Update In Q4
News Mobile & Telco
Xperia X10 Users are likely to be disappointed by Sony Ericsson's announcement today that the company will release what it calls a strategic framework for its X10 family of products in Q4 2010. According to Sumit Malhotra who...
£342 Fujitsu Esprimo P1500 Computer Quad Core 4GB RAM 1TB HDD
News Hardware
The wide-ranging ESPRIMO P1510 is the ideal home office and multimedia PC for families. Equipped with powerful Intel processor and NVIDIA graphics technology it is ideal for processing holiday photos, surfing the Internet and for...
£1550 LG 60PK590 - 60" HD 1080p Plasma TV with freeview HD, 600Hz
News Hardware
The LG PK590 Plasma TV series provides superb picture quality with a stunning razor frame design. Convert your living room to a sports stadium or cinema with this large experience perfect for watching sport and movies in crystal...
New HP Envy Notebooks To Rival Apple's Macbook Pro
News Hardware
HP has added 14 new models to its line of netbooks and notebooks and amongst the lot, the HP ENVY family is likely to be the most eye catching by bringing in a number of technologies that puts it on par with the best in that...
Acer Aspire 4810T Laptop Review
News Mobile & Telco
Coming in at 338mm x 240mm x 24mm, the Acer Aspire 4810t fits into the ultra portable market. Under the hood you will find an Intel Core 2 Solo ULV U3500 at 1.4GHz coupled with 3GB of DDR3 RAM, a 250GB hard drive and Windows...
Former Acorn bod to simulate human brain
News Hardware
While IBM is looking to the processing might of its Blue Gene supercomputer to attempt to replicate the functions of the human brain, a former R&D whiz kid from Acorn is attempting to perform a similar feat using thousands of...
Facebook hit by chat hack
News Web
Facebook has taken its chat feature offline for 'maintenance', after a video emerged showing users how to access their friends' chat sessions live. The video, still available at Youtube, shows how any non-technical Facebook...
Intel New Z600 Platform Is A Threat For Apple & ARM
News Mobile & Telco
Intel has two confirmed smartphone partners, Nokia and LG, one mature graphics solution, Imagination's PowerVR which is also used in the iPhone and in a number of other smartphones and of course Meego, the software platform it...
Apple Ups Ante With iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3
News Consumer
Apple is planning a number of new updates plus a list of overdue functionalities that could significantly improve its forthcoming iPhone OS 4.0 operating system. Newly-acquired...
MP says BBC should get into gaming
In-Depth Consumer
Labour MP Tom Watson has suggested that the BBC should have given British videogame companies more support rather than spending piles of cash on web sites. Speaking on an online video show hosted by gamesindustry.biz, the...
Twitter Launches Embeddable Tweet Service
News Security
Microblogging behemoth Twitter now allows users to create embeddable tweets. The move will let users to copy and paste their chosen tweet into a third-party site with the help of a small chunk of HTML. A post on the Twitter...
Novell & Red Hat Win Legal Tussle Over UI Patents
News Software
Novell and Red Hat have won a legal battle over the infringement of user interface patents. IP Innovation, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, brought the lawsuit against the software vendors in 2007, claiming they had...
Opera Debuts Beta Linux Browser
News Software
Opera has made the latest version of its web browser software available for Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. The Linux and FreeBSD beta release of Opera 10.53, previously only available to Windows users, is faster and offers...
Be Broadband To Roll Out Landline Phone Service
News Hardware
Be Broadband is set to launch a landline & phone call package following the official launch of a similar service at O2, which owns the popular internet service provider. Tom Williams, Managing Director of Be Broadband, said...
Youtube To Expand Rental Service
News Security
Google is set to expand its YouTube online video rental catalogue by allowing some users to upload and charge for their own content. YouTube chief executive Hunter Walk revealed the company's plans to allow selected users to...
DVD Player Sales Fall Significantly In The UK
News Hardware
UK DVD player sales have reached their lowest point in seven years, according to statistics released by market analyst Mintel. The figures show that just 5.7 million players sold were sold in the UK during 2009. The players have...
Google To Launch Ebook Service
News Consumer
Google is to launch its own ebook service, the Wall Street Journal has reported yesterday and the online offering, which will be called Editions, will be released some time in June. The search giant has had its eye set...
OCZ launches quiet PSUs for enthusiasts
News Consumer
OCZ may have shut down its Hypersonic PC business a couple of months ago, but it looks as though the PSU business that it purchased with PC Power & Cooling is still going strong. The company has just released a new line-up...
US Government Websites Hacked
News Security
The US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been attacked by hackers. The Bureau, along with three other official government web sites, were targeted in an attack that redirected visitors to web sites containing...
Google To Invest In Its Own Employees Through Google Ventures
News Hardware
Google plans to invest $100 million in buying start-up organisations over the coming year. The new strategy comes from its year-old venture capital funding division, Google Ventures, and plans to capitalise on the knowledge of...
Online gamers get a social life
News Web
Single-player gamers should soon get a social life that could extend to Android and iPhones, courtesy of new 'social gaming' technology from RealNetworks. The company’s new GameHouse Fusion platform was unveiled yesterday...
Spam scam targets ash cloud victims
News Consumer
As if we needed any further proof that e-mail spammers are bottom-feeding scum of the lowest order, one group of knuckle-dragging cyberthieves is trying to trick victims of the Icelandic ash cloud which brought Europe to a...
Iomega Unveils New NAS/SAN Solution
News Hardware
Iomega has released a new NAS-SAN based storage system for the unified storage business market. The EMC subsidiary has released its new StorCenter ix12-300r with small- to medium-sized companies in mind. Prices start at $5,000...
Google Working On Android TV Software
News Mobile & Telco
Google is to develop new Android-based software for televisions. Following the success of its Android OS for smart phones, the search giant has decided to bring the software platform to television, deployed via set-top...
Real Networks Rolls Out Social Gaming Platform
News Mobile & Telco
RealNetworks unveiled its new social-gaming platform at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco yesterday. GameHouse Fusion is a suite of tools that give developers can use to boost the social presence of their games by tapping to the...
Desktop Virtualisation Forum 2010
News Hardware
Register by 14th of May and attend for FREE! A discount worth £199. Harry Labana, VP and CTO, Citrix Systems will be delivering a keynote speech at the event which will take place on the 24th of May. Enterprises are...
Google Chrome gets hefty speed boost
News Web
Google's Chrome web browser version 5 is now in beta and the company reckons it's the fastest ever. Software engineer Mads Ager, who heads up the V8 Project which looks after the browser's Javascript engine, reckons the latest...
Google to launch e-book service
News Web
Google has announced plans to launch its own online e-book store in June. Google Editions books will not be tied to a specific device, but can be accessed using any web-enabled device from a smart phone to a laptop. Until now,...
Asus To Launch The EEE 1005PR Netbook Soon
News Hardware
Asus is set to debut its latest netbook, the EEE 1005PR, one which comes with a rather interesting twist, since it integrates a Broadcom Crystal HD Decoder that makes Nvidia's ION solution quasi obsolete, at least when it comes...
Virgin Media Sets Aside £173 Million For Marketing
News Security
Cable Operator Virgin Media looks committed to invest massively in 2010 to increase its exposure in the UK through a number of marketing and advertising campaigns financed by a £173 million cash pot. This is a 30 percent...
Auction firm sues 'shill bidder' VP
News Consumer
SnapNames, an auction house for internet domain names, has sued a former vice president for $33 million, alleging shill bidding and embezzlement. The company claims that Howard Nelson Brady spent years sneakily bumping up the...
Nintendo Profits Slump Amidst Decreasing Demand
News Consumer
Nintendo has reported the first drop in its profits for six years after declining demand for consoles products from Japanese gaming giant and the strength of the Yen, which has put pressure on exports, mean the company's previous...
Google Debuts Fastest Chrome Browser Yet
News Web
Google has released the latest version of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux users - and it's the first version to support Adobe Flash player natively. The inclusion of Flash support in Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta is...
Apple fanfolk get dating service
News Consumer
Apple fanboys and fangirls will soon be able find iLove if a new dating service has its way. Cupidtino (did you see what they did there?) has been set up to allow lonely Macolytes to get together to spread the word. You never...
Intel Debuts Z600 "Moorestown" Processors
News Mobile & Telco
Intel has revealed a new range of Atom processors that will could help the semiconductor giant compete with ARM, the current undisputed leader in the mobile sector. Devices based on the new Atom CPUs will be launched over the...
Microsoft imposes E3 media blackout
News Web
Microsoft has announced some details for this year's E3 press conference on Monday June 14th. But, remarkably, the software giant has come across all Apple and banned attendees from bringing video cameras or any kind of...
Low cost Fermi chips due this summer
News Hardware
Nvidia might have only launched two top-end GPUs based on its Fermi architecture, but the rumour mill is currently hammering out stories about three new lower cost variations that could be doing the rounds this summer. The...
Nokia Brings C3 Blackberry-like Smartphone To Vodafone
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia will partner with Vodafone to roll out the C3 phone on an exclusive Pay as you go package with other mobile networks getting the smartphone much later. The phone, which was announced back in April, is a low-end version of...
Asus debuts 20-inch multi-touch all-in-one
News Hardware
ASUS has launched an all-in-one multi-touch PC and it can't resist sticking the Eee label on it. The new machine is called the ASUS Eee Top PC ET2010 PNT. The Taiwanese manufacturer said the machine has been built for family...
Intel shows off Atom for smartphones
News Hardware
Intel has unveiled its long-promised Atom-based platform formerly codenamed Moorestown. The chip maker - desperate to worm its way into mobile phones - reckons the Moorestown chippery significantly reduces power consumption,...
