Articles Posted on 11 May 2010
£132 LaCie 1TB LaCinema Classic Multimedia Hard Drive
News Hardware
Connect the LaCinema Classic to your computer to easily store your movies, photos and music then connect it to your TV for instant playback! With up to 1TB (1000GB) of storage available, you can store your entire digital media...
£280 BenQ MP515 DLP Projector 2600:1 2500 Lumens 800 x 600
News Hardware
BenQ has made improvements all around – from re-designing their colour wheel for maximum noise and vibration absorption to creating a smoother airflow that enables exhaust fans to run at lower speeds. The BenQ advantage:...
Tales of Android beating iPhone miff Apple
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has been whining about figures that show Google's Android powering more mobile phones than there were iPhones sold in the US in the first quarter of this year Phone counters at research group NPD reckoned smartphones using...
Constipation killed Elvis
News Consumer
Elvis Presley was killed by constipation, according to doctor who was with him when he died. The rubber-thighed rocker died on the toilet in 1977 but the story at the time was that he died of heart failure. Now, Doctor...
Mandriva puts itself up for sale
News Software
According to a French report, Mandriva, maker of Mandriva Linux has put itself up for sale. A snippet published on the site Boursorama, which purportedly comes from the minutes of a Mandriva board meeting from back in...
NZXT knocks out Micro-ATX gaming case
News Consumer
While many PC enthusiasts like to pack colossal cases full of high-end kit, NZXT is attempting to show that gaming cases don’t have to be all about compensating for penis size. The company has just launched its Vulcan case,...
Mozilla outlines Firefox 4 vision
News Software
Mozilla has unveiled its plans for a speedier and more powerful version of its web browser Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox development, explained the development plans to the Mozilla community in an online...
Orange & T-Mobile Merged Company To be Renamed Everything Everywhere
News Mobile & Telco
France-Telecom's Orange and Deutsche-Telekom's T-Mobile will combine their forces as a new joint venture named Everything Everywhere but oddly enough will still keep their own well recognised brand names for their customers. The...
News@5: Twitter, Microsoft and the iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
Twitter has announced it has found and fixed a bug that allowed users to force others into following them an spammers to tweet to other users without prior permission. Twitter has announced the release of a set of business...
Firefox 4.0 Beta Browser Coming To Market Soon
News Software
Mozilla has announced the up-coming release of its Firefox 4.0 beta browser.Firefox development team leader Mike Beltzner announced that the beta version of the browser will be released in the near future, to be followed by a...
Vodafone Won't Be Charging For Excessive Use After All
News Mobile & Telco
UK telecom services provider Vodafone has announced that the company will not be charging users who exceed their mobile broadband download limits - at least for the next few months.This announcement was in response to the...
Eco-friendly Windows 7 Media Centre HTPC : A Primer
News Software
Choosing a HTPC can be a daunting task, one which will determine the quality of a significant portion of your leisure time if you're an avid consumer of video content. Get it wrong and you could experience abnormal levels of...
iHobo app brings homelessness to the iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
Apple iPad owners have been challenged to ponder life without enough money to pay for a night in a bed, let alone to buy dandified laptop computers. Homeless charity Depaul UK has released a game onto iTunes that gives...
How history can now be rewritten by anyone
News Hardware
'History is written by the victors' is a phrase with which most of us are familiar. It may have been coined by Winston Churchill, though opinion on the matter varies, but the relevant point here is that written history was once...
Microsoft Adds Forefront Protection To Sharepoint OS 2010
News Hardware
Microsoft has released security software for its SharePoint Office Server. The security software, Forefront Protection, will bring virus and malware scanning tools to the SharePoint server, complete with anti-spyware scanning...
AMD launches six new Athlon II chips
News Hardware
Although AMD’s Phenom II X6 hexacore monsters have been grabbing most of the headlines, AMD has proved that it’s still catering for the lower-power masses with the introduction of half a dozen new Athlon II...
Critical Vulnerability Affects Windows Security Apps
News Software
Researchers at security tesing firm Matousec.com have discovered a "very serious" vulnerability in Windows' security software.The vulnerability could allow hackers to execute a harmful code capable of dodging even the most...
Microsoft To Launch Natal In October 2010
News Consumer
Microsoft's marketing executive for Saudi Arabia, Syed Bilal Tariq, has confirmed the launch of the company's Project Natal motion-sensing gaming peripheral in Saudi Arabia.The release in Saudi Arabia is set to coincide with the...
Twitter Goes Corporate With Business Toolkit
News Software
Twitter has released a set of business-oriented tools for corporate accounts.Technology blog Mashable reported that the new business toolkit would be available for testing by selected users, before being rolled out in the near...
Apple Had Signed 5-year Deal With AT&T Over iPhone
News Security
The recent discovery of documents from a 2007 lawsuit has revealed that Apple signed an exclusive five-year deal with US telecom service provider AT&T to sell the iPhone. Apple and AT&T were targeted by a class action...
Reminder : Office 2010 & Sharepoint 2010 Come Out On May 12th
News Software
There will be seven versions of Office 2010 with the Home and Business which offers the four main business applications, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook, and replaces Office Basic 2007 being our firm favourite. Volume Edition...
UK Charity Launches iHobo iPhone App
News Software
UK-based Youth charity DePaul has released the iHobo application for the iPhone.The application, created by advertising firm Publicis, aims to encourage donations for homeless teenagers and young adults from its users.iHobo will...
Biggest spam botnet grows by 300 per cent
News Web
Rustock, a ‘botnet’ of infected PCs has grown by 300 per cent to become the largest spam-sending network in the world, according to a new report from security firm MessageLabs. Botnets work by infecting individual...
The Ultimate UK Apple iPad 3G Data Plans : 6 Networks, 39 Plans
News Mobile & Telco
The countdown for the official launch of the iPad has already started and the first device will be available on Friday the 28th of May nationwide. Unlike the iPhone, iPad users will have to look for the best data packages by...
Twitter targets businesses
News Web
Twitter is testing a set of add-on services aimed at corporate users, it has emerged. There's no word on pricing yet, but the Twitter Business Center is expected to be a paid-for service, given that the company doesn't have...
EA adds $10 tax to second hand games
News Consumer
Gaming behemoth Electronic Arts will make cheapskate gamers who buy used games pay $10 to play online. The company is to introduce a new Online Pass for anyone buying a used copy of future titles which could see an end to the...
Codemasters Sue Rival Over Illegal Poaching
News Software
Codemasters is to sue rival Playground Games over allegations that the company poached key staff.The Daily Mail reports that Codemasters has filed the lawsuit against its rival after Playground lured away key staff in an attempt...
Twitter Suffers Major Glitch
News Hardware
A week after social network Facebook was plagued by a major bug, Twitter has announced it too has suffered a glitch.The bug enabled users to force others into following them and allowed spammers to send tweets to others' accounts...
Orange to rival Virgin in quad-play market
News Consumer
Mobile operator Orange looks set to go head-to-head with Virgin media, becoming the UK’s second ‘quad-play’ provider, offering landline, TV, broadband and mobile services in a single package. Speculation comes...
Orange, T-Mobile merge into mega-network
News Mobile & Telco
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom announced they are to merge their UK operations - Orange and T-Mobile to form Britain’s biggest communications company. The company – called Everything Everywhere – will...
Cloud Computing To Become More Complex Says EMC CEO
News Hardware
The Chairman and CEO of EMC, Joe Tucci, has said that he expects the use of cloud-based storage systems to increase.Speaking at the EMC World 2010 conference, Tucci said the amount of data stored by enterprises in their physical...
Bigfoot network card cuts ping, adds bling
News Consumer
In a bid to squeeze as much cash out of affluent gamers as possible, Bigfoot Networks has launched a new member of its line of Killer network cards. The latest temptation to join the line-up is the Killer 2100, which Bigfoot...
Microsoft Takes On Google With Online Suite
News Web
Microsoft is set to challenge Google in the web apps domain with the launch of its Microsoft Office 2010.Office 2010 will come with web-based versions of its Word, Power Point and OneNote, allowing users to access the...
Spansion emerges from bankruptcy protection
News Consumer
Flash memory outifit Spansion Inc., said it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after getting itself in a bit of a pickle around a year ago. The firm, an AMD spin-off, reorganised, focusing its...
HP May Rename Slate As Hurricane
News Hardware
There are rumours indicating that HP will be rebranding its Slate tablet PC as the Hurricane - if a blog post on the Examiner is to be believed. The publication does not mention its source, but states that the device will...
UK iPad prices released
News Hardware
UK mobile phone operators have released the prices at which they will sell the Apple iPad when it is released on 28 May. The stylised laptop computer will retail between £429 and £699, depending on memory and...
iPad To Come With Printing Capability
News Hardware
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has confirmed that customers will be able to print from their iPads, though he has yet to specify a date.Responding to the email query: "Why not printing on the iPad? What gives?", Jobs replied via iPhone:...
Blinkbox Movie Service Now Available On PS3 Console
News Consumer
Online movie streaming service Blinkbox will now be available on Sony's PS3 games console.The new service comes with a catalogue of over 6,000 films and TV programmes available to rent from 99p per movie and 39p per episode,...
Microsoft Preparing For Launch Of Office 2010
News Cloud
Microsoft has revealed details about the Office 2010 enterprise software.Revealed just days prior to the new software's release, the details show a huge amount of work going into making the software more web orientated and...
Developers get second crack at IE9
News Web
Microsoft has posted a second IE9 Platform Preview for developers to fiddle with. The IE9 Platform Preview 2 was completed last week and is now available for download. You should only download it, though, if...
Project Natal will launch in October
News Web
Microsoft's marketing manager for Saudi Arabia has let slip that Project Natal will be launched in October. It has long been rumoured that Microsoft's wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don't-care, controllerless...
Samsung unveils $20 billion investment plan
News Consumer
South Korean giant Samsung outlined plans to get even bigger in Seoul yesterday, revealing an investment programme totalling some 23.3 trillion won ($20.6 billion) over the next decade. The chaebol said it would be spending...
