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Articles Posted on 12 May 2010

£37.60 Western Digital WD TV Mini Media Player

£37.60 Western Digital WD TV Mini Media Player

News Web

The Western Digital HD TV Mini Media Player is an easy, affordable way to super-size your digital media on to your big screen TV. Simply connect the WD TV Mini to your TV, plug a USB drive into the player and you're ready to...


£175 Asus EEE PC 1000H Series Notebook PC Intel Atom 1.6GHz

£175 Asus EEE PC 1000H Series Notebook PC Intel Atom 1.6GHz

News Mobile & Telco

Easy to Learn, Easy to Work and Easy to Play. Share photos of your travels without waiting till you get home. Shop the world wide web without attaching any lines or wires. Learn through the latest technology without a technical...


Microsoft To Launch Shrink Wrapped Office 2010 On June 15th

Microsoft To Launch Shrink Wrapped Office 2010 On June 15th

News Software

Microsoft has announced that Office 2010 will be available for consumers in retail outlets across the nation from June 15. The software giant says in a press release that Office 2010 will "consumers by offering a range of new...


Vietnamese iPhone 4G Reveals More Details About The A4

Vietnamese iPhone 4G Reveals More Details About The A4

News Hardware

The Vietnamese iPhone 4G which surfaced a few hours ago showed the interesting picture of the Apple A4 processor on a board; yep, the new iPhone 4G will have an Apple-branded processor although, just like all Apple products,...


The Hidden £5 Orange iPad Data Plan

The Hidden £5 Orange iPad Data Plan

News Mobile & Telco

If you are an existing Orange user looking to get the best deal on the market for your iPad then you can get a 500MB monthly package from France-telecom owned company for a mere £5 per month. The package comes with a few...


Microsoft Office 2010 Now Available To Businesses

Microsoft Office 2010 Now Available To Businesses

News Software

Software heavyweight Microsoft has announced the worldwide availability of its latest flagship business productivity application suite, Office 2010, together with its sidekick, Sharepoint 2010. In addition, Project 2010 and Visio...


News@5: Business, Art and another iPhone 4G

News@5: Business, Art and another iPhone 4G

News Mobile & Telco

IBM has unveiled a new BI analytics tool, the SSPS Modeler, featuring sophisticated business analysis and optimised feedback collection with an emoticon scanner.HP has released a new series of enterprise products, solutions and...


AMD cans Phenom II X4 960T

AMD cans Phenom II X4 960T

Hexacore in disguise reportedly won’t hit retail

News Hardware

Tweakers hoping to get a hexacore slab of silicon for the price of a quad-core chip are set to be disappointed, as reports say that AMD will not be releasing the Phenom II X4 960T into the retail market. Reportedly based on the...


Intel plans SoC with integrated 3G

Intel plans SoC with integrated 3G

Eyes firmly on smartphone market

News Hardware

Intel has already integrated a truck-load of components into its EP80579 system-on-chip (SoC) architecture, but the silicon-centric company has also revealed that it plans to integrate 3G features into future SoCs, which will be...


Pay by iPhone with mobile card reader

Pay by iPhone with mobile card reader

Twitter founder announces Square deal

News Web

Mobile payment company Square today released a free credit card reader for smartphones. The service uses a little widget that plugs into the mobile device’s headphone socket, and enables merchants to swipe customers’...


Google US Search Marketshare Fall Benefits Microsoft And Yahoo

Google US Search Marketshare Fall Benefits Microsoft And Yahoo

News Web

Google's declining share of the US search engine market is down to an increase in the popularity of Yahoo and Bing, suggests a report from internet market research firm comScore.Data released by comScore confirmed that while...


Square Launches Credit Card iPhone Peripheral

Square Launches Credit Card iPhone Peripheral

News Mobile & Telco

Retailers will now be able to receive payments by swiping customers' credit cards on their iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads and Android-based smartphones.It's all thanks to Square, the San Francisco-based start-up founded by Twitter...


Microsoft To Hold UK Webinar For Office 2010 Launch

Microsoft To Hold UK Webinar For Office 2010 Launch

News Software

Microsoft will run an online virtual webinar here to mark the global launch of Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 under the them of "the future of productivity". Stephen Elop, the president of Microsoft's Business...


Another iPhone 4G escapes into the wild

Another iPhone 4G escapes into the wild

Vietnamese video

News Mobile & Telco

Apple's legendary secrecy has taken another kick in the gentlemen's area as a second misappropriated iPhone G4 tips up. This time, the next-generation iPhone has appeared on a Vietnamese web site. The general burble is that a...


Will the ConDem coalition kill the DE Act?

Will the ConDem coalition kill the DE Act?

Doubts as Vince Cable lands Mandy's old job

News Consumer

The appointment of Vince Cable as the UK's new business secretary throws the future of the controversial Digital Economy Act into doubt. As the country awoke this morning to the news that it has a coalition government for the...


Don't Upgrade To Microsoft Office 2010 Says Google

Don't Upgrade To Microsoft Office 2010 Says Google

News Software

Google has highlighted the strategic advantages of using Google Docs over Microsoft Office 2010.In an attempt to dissuade customers from investing in the latest version of Microsoft's Office suite, Google's official Enterprise...


We take a first look at Office 2010

We take a first look at Office 2010

Review Revamped Office targets Google

News Consumer

After the huge overhaul that was Office 2007, it was difficult to see where Microsoft could really go next. If you’d asked us three years ago, our money would have been on tinkering changes to the way the suite worked with...


Google & Verizon Team Over iPad Killer Tablet

Google & Verizon Team Over iPad Killer Tablet

News Mobile & Telco

Lowell McAdam, the head honcho of Verizon Wireless, the biggest mobile phone operator in the US, has confirmed that the company will work with Google into building a tablet PC, something that's reminiscent of Google's Nexus One...


AMD gets thumbs up with Acer launch

AMD gets thumbs up with Acer launch

Intel not inside

News Hardware

The world’s second-largest PC maker has bucked market trends, announcing more than 20 home PCs based on AMD processors. The range, which encompasses netbooks, notebooks and desktops from all of the Acer Group’s...


HP Rolls Out Slew Of Corporate Products

HP Rolls Out Slew Of Corporate Products

News Business & Government

Hewlett-Packard has released a new series of enterprise products it claims will aid innovation businesses.The new enterprise products, solutions and services are designed to help companies cut the amount of money they spend on...


Epic boobs Bebo teen loses privacy claim

Epic boobs Bebo teen loses privacy claim

Google made girl fair game for Loaded

News Web

A woman has lost a privacy complaint against Loaded after the magazine printed web pictures of her alongside the slogan “Wanted! The Epic Boobs Girl!”. The Press Complaints Commission decided that photographs of the...


Intel: Larrabee is still alive and kicking

Intel: Larrabee is still alive and kicking

Just deciding when to bring it to market, says Otellini

News Hardware

Intel’s x86-based graphics project, Larrabee, is still very much alive according to Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini. Speaking at a Q&A session at Intel’s investors’ conference in Santa Clara yesterday,...


Another iPhone worker commits suicide

Another iPhone worker commits suicide

Sensationalist headline withheld

News Mobile & Telco

Reports are starting to emerge that another worker at one of Apple's Chinese manufacturing partners has committed suicide. We fully expect to see lots of sensationalist clickbait headlines attacking Apple and its partners for...


IBM tool searches web chat for emoticons

IBM tool searches web chat for emoticons

Service with a smiley

News Web

IBM has released a tool that trawls the web to see what emoticons people are using. The feature is part of IBM's new text mining and analytics software, SPSS Modeler 14 Premium Edition. SPSS Modeler allows businesses to see...


Apple iPad On Monthly Contracts To Start From £40?

Apple iPad On Monthly Contracts To Start From £40?

News Security

After the official release of Apple iPad and the availability of the tablet PC on preorder, one can genuinely ask whether mobile phone operators in the UK will be releasing the 3G version on a Monthly contract. We already know...


IBM Unveils New BI Analytics Tool

IBM Unveils New BI Analytics Tool

News Consumer

IBM has released a new business analytics tool, SPSS Modeler.The SPSS Modeler text mining and analytics software aims to provide sophisticated business analysis and the optimised collection of feedback.A major aspect of the new...


Brocade Sees Light At End Of Recession Tunnel

Brocade Sees Light At End Of Recession Tunnel

News Hardware

IP/Ethernet technology company Brocade may be showing signs of improving sales after a poor first quarter. In a notice to investors, investment firm Oppenheimer said the tech firm could now be seeing better sales after a...


Pics : Another "Lost" Apple iPhone 4G Prototype Surfaces

Pics : Another "Lost" Apple iPhone 4G Prototype Surfaces

News Hardware

Apple has apparently lost another iPhone 4G smartphone prototype as photos, a complete tear down and a video emerged in very far from Silicon Valley, in Vietnam to be more precise. A site called Taoviet has managed to get hold of...


Wikimedia Looking To Purge Adult Content From Wikipedia

Wikimedia Looking To Purge Adult Content From Wikipedia

News Mobile & Telco

Despite efforts to remove pornographic material, the Wikimedia Foundation has reported that indecent images still remain on its websites.The outfit behind the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has admitted that a huge number of...


Mozilla wants to secure your browser

Mozilla wants to secure your browser

Even if it's not Firefox

News Web

Mozilla has released an updated version of its browser plug-in security checker, and now it also works with non-Firefox browsers. The organisation said the web-based tool now supports Safari 4, Chrome 4, and Opera 10.5. Support...


Microsoft CTO Warns About Change In Enterprise Fabric

Microsoft CTO Warns About Change In Enterprise Fabric

News Mobile & Telco

Microsoft chief technology officer Barry Briggs has said that the migration to cloud-based computing and storage is only a small part of the coming changes in the global enterprise IT market.Speaking at a conference at the...


Apple Safari Browser Hit By Zero-day Vulnerability

Apple Safari Browser Hit By Zero-day Vulnerability

News Security

Apple's Safari web browser has come under scrutiny after the discovery of a critical 'zero-day' bug in the Windows version of the application.The bug, discovered by Danish IT security company Secunia and the US Computer Emergency...


World Running Out Of IPv4 Addresses Warn Experts

World Running Out Of IPv4 Addresses Warn Experts

News Hardware

The internet may soon run out of IP addresses as a result of the boom in web use and an increase in the number of mobile internet users. According to a report by the BBC, experts predict that the last batch of internet addresses...


David Hockney Uses iPad To Express His Creativity

David Hockney Uses iPad To Express His Creativity

News Mobile & Telco

Renowned British artist David Hockney has been using an Apple iPad to draw works of art and e-mail them to friends.The artist, who has been known to experiment with fax machines, Polaroids and photocopiers, said that he had been...


Apple Skeptical About IDC Android Claim

Apple Skeptical About IDC Android Claim

News Mobile & Telco

Apple has said that rival smartphone makers still have a long way to go before they catch up with the iPhone.The bold statement was made in response to a report released by market research company IDC, which claimed that sales of...


Google Intervenes On Privacy Debate

Google Intervenes On Privacy Debate

News Security

Google has responded to complaints made by privacy regulators who claim the search giant ensure its products comply with privacy laws before releasing them.An example given of Google's lack of compliance was its social networking...


Magic Software shoots its iBOLT

Magic Software shoots its iBOLT

New version integrates with SharePoint 2010

News Business & Government

Israeli outfit, Magic Software Enterprises said its latest version of its iBOLT business integration platform offers a Microsoft SharePoint connector for  code-free integration between the newest version of...


Office 2010 is a big deal for Microsoft

Office 2010 is a big deal for Microsoft

If it does a Vista, it could be curtains

News Business & Government

Today is a big day for Microsoft as it launches Office 2010 at businesses. As we wrote earlier, Office is one of Microsoft's most lucrative products, but today it will also launch a free version of the software in an attempt...


Verizon and Google jump iPad bandwagon

Verizon and Google jump iPad bandwagon

Android tablet device in the works

News Hardware

The largest wireless operator in the US is hopping into bed with Google to create a rival to Apple's iPad. Verizon is hooking up with the many-tentacled, search engine megacorporation in an effort to catch up with Steve Jobs'...


Save £48 On Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 Using This Trick

Save £48 On Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 Using This Trick

News Software

Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 will go on sale fairly soon and is, in our opinion, the best value for money package for corporate end users across the country. This version of Office 2010 comes with Word, Powerpoint,...


Everything Everywhere May Shed Hundreds Of Jobs

Everything Everywhere May Shed Hundreds Of Jobs

News Mobile & Telco

Everything Everywhere, the new merged company created by the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, could cut its headcount rapidly during the first year of operation in a bid to increase efficiency. A sizeable £3.5 billion worth...


Apple To Release WiFi iPad Update

Apple To Release WiFi iPad Update

News Mobile & Telco

Apple has confirmed, via a support page, that it will roll out a software update to solve the iPad's problematic handling of WiFi that has plagued scores of users since the launch of the tablet PC. In a support advisory, Apple...


Microsoft To Sell Office Starter 2010 From $2

Microsoft To Sell Office Starter 2010 From $2

News Hardware

Microsoft will make an early push to sell a cut-down version of its Office 2010 productivity suite through computer resellers by providing them with a deal they can't refuse. PC manufacturers will be charged as little as $2 per...


Project Natal will NOT launch in October

Project Natal will NOT launch in October

Saudi marketeer talking tosh

News Web

Microsoft has denied that its motion-sensing XBox controller codenamed Project Natal will see the light of day in October. The software giant told Wired that it was sticking with its original 'holiday' release date (that's...


XML patent claim against Microsoft is valid

XML patent claim against Microsoft is valid

16-year Office spat rolls on

News Consumer

Plucky little Canadian software company i4i has had a breakthrough in its long-running dispute with Microsoft. The Toronto outfit, which has been insisting for 16 years that the Redmond behemoth stole part of its code for the...


Apple design ethos inspires Mercedes-Benz

Apple design ethos inspires Mercedes-Benz

Jobs won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz

News Hardware

Apple design gets a nod from Mercedes Benz as it shows off its brand new SLS AMG supercar and F800 Style concept car to a select group of assembled automotive hacks – and THINQ. Mercedes Benz has cited Apple as a...


SharePoint 2010 eases development process

SharePoint 2010 eases development process

Adds social networking and mobile tools

News Business & Government

The latest version of Microsoft’s server application – SharePoint 10 – is evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.  Previous versions of the software have focused on the enterprise. SharePoint 2010 fills...

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