Articles Posted on 05 August 2010
Verizon, Google Reject Rumours About End Of Net Neutrality Deal
News Mobile & Telco
Both Verizon Wireless and Google have publicly denied talks about prioritising paid for content, a move that could herald the end of net neutrality in the United States. The New York Times said yesterday that the two were working...
Survey Shows Kinect May Be Too Expensive
News Consumer
A poll carried out by cluster buying website Groupola amongst more than 2000 gamers showed that the Kinect may be too expensive. Nearly two thirds of PS3 owners say that they will be buying the less expensive Move Starter kit...
Apple iPhone To Account For 10 Percent Of Mobile Devices In 2012 Says Analyst
News Mobile & Telco
The number of Apple iPhone in the UK is likely to account for one in ten mobile devices in the UK by the end of 2012 according to data collected by Mobilesquared. The mobile research agency expects the number of iPhone handsets...
New Apple iPods, iPhone, iPad Coming Out Soon?
News Mobile & Telco
Apple is apparently going to release three new iPods over the next few weeks according to a "highly reliable" source close to technology company. The person also told iLounge's Jeremy Horowitz that there would be a new iPad and a...
Google’s Nexus One gets a reprieve
News Mobile & Telco
High Tech Computer Corporation's Nexus One handset that's made for the Internet search engine giant will still be purchasable from Google, only it's now their new staple reference phone for developing and testing applications...
Brian Blessed To Voice TomTom Directions
News Hardware
Famous British actor Brian Blessed will soon be lending his voice to the TomTom sat nav service, following a successful Facebook campaign.Blessed, who played the role of Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon, will be offering his voice...
£39 Samsung S2 500GB Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive
News Hardware
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have joined forces to produce a world first, the Samsung S2 Portable, a truly...
Amazon Opens UK Kindle Store
News Web
Amazon has opened its official UK Kindle e-book reader store. The online retail giant has said that the store will offer over 400,000 titles for download, with prices for bestsellers from as little as £1.89. The company is...
£109 Netgear Stora 1TB Home Media Server - 2 Bay Network Attached Storage
News Hardware
NETGEAR Stora is an ideal network storage solution for your home's shared media and data. Extremely easy to set up and operate, this network attached storage device lets you and your family share music, movies, photos, and more...
Will Buzz Follow Google Wave Into Oblivion?
News Security
After the decision by Google to drop its cross platform communication tool, Wave, only 15 months after it was launched, it will be intriguing to see whether Google will be canning the other "inbetweener" web service from Google,...
News@5: Apple Game Centre, Android Facebook App Updates & "Game Changer" iPads
News Hardware
Facebook has released simplified privacy control options for users who access the platform from their mobile browser. The updated privacy settings bring the full desktop controls to all mobile browser versions of the site. The...
Valve offers Mac graphics code to other devs
News Hardware
In a bid to harvest more top-tier games for the Mac version of Steam, Half-Life creator Valve plans to offer its Mac graphics code to third-party game developers. In a revealing interview with game dev site...
Fable 3 Ditches Kinect Support
News Consumer
Fable 3 will not support Microsoft's motion sensing Kinect Xbox 360 gaming peripheral.Peter Molyneux, boss of Lionhead studios and the developer behind RPG adventure titles "Dungeon Keeper" and the "Fable" series, has announced...
Internet Explorer 9 enters beta stage
News Web
Internet Explorer might have got a bad press from browser aficionados, but Microsoft's hoping to turn that all around with IE9. The software mammoth has just released the fourth and final Platform Preview of the browser, which...
Facebook And Twitter Cost UK Economy £14 Billion A Year
News Security
Use of social networking platforms Twitter and Facebook at work has resulted in losses of £14 billion to the British economy.According to a survey of 1,000 British workers compiled by MyJobGroup, around half of employees...
Indonesia Denies Plans To Ban BlackBerry Services
News Mobile & Telco
The Indonesian Government has announced that it has no plans to bar the services of Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone in the country.In a statement released by the country’s communications ministry,...
No anonymity on future web says Google CEO
News Web
The CEO of search giant Google has told users they can look forward to an Internet that offers them no place to hide. "True transparency and no anonymity", he says, is the way forward - and there's nothing we can do to prevent...
Google Buys Instantiations
News Hardware
Google has announced the acquisition of start-up firm Instantiations.Instantiations, which offers Java and Ajax-based development tools, is best known for its Google Web Toolkit designer tool.Tech news site ZD Net reports that...
Microsoft To Launch Arc Touch Mouse
News Mobile & Telco
More than a month after it was spotted, there has been further confirmation that Microsoft will be selling an Arc Touch Mouse with a suggested retail price of $69.95 which is the same as the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic...
Apple Unveils New Covent Garden Store
News Web
Apple has opened the doors to its Covent Garden store in London - the largest Apple retail outlet in the world.In order to draw the crowds, the Cupertino-based company will be offering free Apple t-shirts to the first 4,000...
Google And Verizon In Talks To End Net Neutrality
News Mobile & Telco
Google and US wireless network provider Verizon are said to be on the verge of closing a deal which could prove to be the end of 'net neutrality', The Guardian reports.The two companies are said to working on a deal which would...
Vodafone Android Update : One More Reason To Go Unbranded
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone shot itself in the foot by updating HTC Desire handsets of its customers with its own proprietary Vodafone applications including some rather unwanted bookmarks that sent a few Vodafone customers cursing around. Given...
WikiLeaks asks Pentagon for help with new dossier
News Web
Online whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks has appealed to the US military to help it review a new batch of secret documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. The site has said that it wants to ensure Afghan civilians and others...
Google Eases Online Advertising Policy In Europe
News Software
Google is to loosen its online advertising policies in Europe, allowing advertisers to register brand names as keywords, news agency AFP reports. The move comes after the European Court of Justice ruled that Google was not...
Google Kills Off Wave
News Security
Google has announced that it is to end support for its cross-platform communication tool Wave, BBC News has reported.Wave, a real time collaboration and communication tool launched only last year, has been axed due to a lack of...
Mini iPad, new iPods and iPhone 5 predicted
News Mobile & Telco
Rumours are beginning to grow about new Apple products in the pipeline including a cut-down iPad, a refresh to the iPod line-up and an unexpected upgrade for the iPhone. It's silly season in the tech world as late summer sees...
Apple To Release Patch For Jailbreak Vulnerability
News Software
Apple has developed a patch for a recently discovered flaw in its web browser found through the jailbreakme iPhone application, the Telegraph has reported.The patch has been released just days after the problem was first...
4 Reasons Why The Blackberry Torch Will Fail
News Mobile & Telco
It is ironic that the new Blackberry Torch came a few hours before a report by Nielsen that found out that most Android users, 58 per cent would go elsewhere rather than stick with the RIM ecosystem. Indeed, half of the...
Apple iPad Is "Game Changer", Says Murdoch
News Security
Apple's iPad tablet device has been labelled a "game changer" for the news media industry by Rupert Murdoch, the Guardian has reported today.Murdoch, owner of News Corp, while addressing a press conference to report the...
Apple to open its largest Store in Covent Garden
News Hardware
Apple will open its 300th retail store this Saturday and the Mac maker says it will be its biggest and best. The existing Apple Store in Regent's Street is already the outfit's busiest temple of consumerism and is reputedly the...
Apple Game Centre Won't Support iPhone 3G
News Consumer
Apple has announced that its iPhone 3G will not be supported in its future mobile gaming networks, tech news site Ars Technica reported on Wednesday.The company's Game Centre has recently been made available for iPhone...
BT instant internet ads banned
News Mobile & Telco
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advertisement for BT fibre broadband services that promises an 'instant' internet connection. According to the promotional campaign, BT allows users to stream...
Microsoft reveals multi-touch mouse
News Business & Government
Unashamed software monopolist Microsoft has unwittingly plunged itself into a bubbling pool of hot gossip, after revealing teaser photos of what looks suspiciously like a multi-touch mouse. Two photos have been let loose...
T-Mobile and O2 offer prepay BlackBerry Pearl 3G
News Mobile & Telco
UK mobile phone networks T-Mobile and O2 have announced Research In Motion's BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105, on pay as you go deals at £249.99.The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is their candy bar budget phone, with 14 keys instead of the 20 that...
Apple iPhone 4 Owner Satisfaction High, Survey Shows
News Mobile & Telco
iPhone 4 owners are mostly satisfied with their handset, despite reception issues, a new survey reported by tech news site Techtree has revealed. The survey, which was conducted by web research company Change Wave, states...
Game giants sued over anti-piracy patent
News Security
Some of the biggest names in the gaming industry are coming under attack for their use of anti-piracy measures, but for once it's not from the gamers themselves. Singapore security outfit Uniloc has filed a suit against seven...
Microsoft Releases Final IE9 Preview
News Web
Microsoft has released the Fourth Platform Preview version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser for developers and partners.The company has said that a public beta will be available soon.According to PC World,...
Facebook For Android App Updated
News Web
The official Facebook application for Google's Android platform has been updated, bringing a host of new features and improvements, tech news site Techtree reports. The Facebook for Android application version 1.3 comes with an...
Google Banks On Social Gaming To Compete With Facebook
News Security
Google is looking to social gaming in an attempt to compete with Facebook in the social networking market.The company has been in talks with a number of entertainment and online social gaming companies, including Playdom and...
GeForce GTS 450 chip snapped
News Hardware
If the recently-leaked PCB diagrams of an Nvidia GF106 card weren't enough to get your adrenaline pumping, then maybe these new photos of the chip will help out. The snapshots recently appeared on Chinese tech site...
Facebook revamps mobile privacy settings
News Web
Facebook has simplified its privacy controls for users who access the social networking using the Apple iPhone and other mobile devices. The changes give mobile users the same privacy settings previously available to those...
LinkedIn To Acquire mSpoke
News Security
LinkedIn, a social networking platform designed for business professionals, is set to acquire mSpoke, a start-up firm specialising in browsing through the content on web and making valuable recommendations, the San Francisco...
T-Mobile Adds Blackberry Pearl 3G PAYG Model To Range
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile announced that it will start selling the RIM Blackberry Pearl 3G on PAYG for as little as £250, a price that includes free internet and email for six months and free text for life if you top up £10 per...
Microsoft And Salesforce Settle Patent Dispute
News Cloud
Microsoft has announced that it has reached a settlement with Salesforce.com after a three-month legal wrangle, the Wall Street Journal has reported.Although no financial detail of the agreement has been revealed, Salesforce is...
Facebook Updates Mobile Privacy Controls
News Web
Facebook has released simplified privacy control options for users who access the platform from their mobile browser.The updated privacy settings bring the full desktop controls to all mobile browser versions of the site.Facebook...
News@10: Intel Settles Antr-Trust Suit, Vonage VoIP App & Rdio
News Mobile & Telco
Rdio, a new music streaming service, is now available to anyone in the US and Canada. Previously only available by invitation as a private beta version, the service is now accessible from both Windows-based PCs and Mac computers,...
Apple has fix for jailbreak flaw
News Mobile & Telco
Apple says it already has a fix for the security vulnerability which allows users to easily jailbreak their iPhones and other devices. The software hack which allows iPhone owners to unlock their own handsets in minutes by...
HP TippingPoint sets Six-Month Deadline For Flaw Fixes
News Hardware
Hewlett Packard has announced that it will now only give software vendors a six-month deadline to patch security vulnerabilities before it discloses information to the public,HP TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, which...
O2 Sneakily Drops Price Of HTC Desire
News Mobile & Telco
O2 officially sells the HTC Desire, one of the most popular smartphones around, for at least £30 per month with the phone costing at least £149 but use a third party like Dialaphone and you can drop the price to much...
Microsoft To Add Voice Recognition To Windows Phone 7
News Consumer
Microsoft is planning to use cloud-based speech recognition technology in order to overtake rival companies in the smartphone market, tech news site Computer World reported on Wednesday.The Redmond-based software giant is...
Facebook Gets Free VoIP Calls With Vonage App
News Web
Vonage has announced the release of a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application for the iPhone and Android-based devices, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.The application allows users to make VoIP calls to Facebook...
Android Reaches 200,000 Activations A Day
News Mobile & Telco
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has revealed that more than 200,000 Android-based devices are being activated every day, a figure that's up by 25 per cent on last month alone. Techcrunch reports that Schmidt, who was talking at...
Google Android Already Ahead Of Blackberry in US Market?
News Mobile & Telco
Android may well have surpassed RIM's blackberry as the biggest smartphone platform in the US yet according to an NPD report. The document shows that Android accounts for a third of smartphones sold in the United States while...
Do I need to be careful where I sit to enjoy the full 3D effect?
News Consumer
No. With Panasonic's 'active shutter' 3D glasses, there's no need to worry about where you sit You can enjoy the full 3D TV experience wherever you sit. For more 3D content & featured articles, go to Welcometo3d.tv With some...
Facebook Advertisers Increase Spending Ten-Fold
News Security
Market leaders have increased their advertising spending in Facebook by 10 times, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday.Sheryl Sandberg, the social network's chief operating officer, has revealed in an interview with financial news...
Intel Settles Anti-Trust Suit With FTC
News Hardware
Intel has agreed an anti-trust case settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), managing to avoid huge monetary penalty, news agency Reuters reported on Wednesday. The chip giant has settled its legal dispute with the...
Yahoo VP Srinivasan Steps Down After 15 years
News Security
Yahoo vice president Srinija Srinivasan has announced that she has resigned from the company, the Wall Street Journal has reported on Wednesday.Srinivasan joined Yahoo 15 years ago to develop its listing services of the then...
BT Fibre Broadband Ad Banned By ASA
News Security
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advertisement for BT fibre broadband services that promises an “instant “ internet connection, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.According to the promotional...
Intel spanked by FTC
News Hardware
The US Federal Trade Commission said it has approved a settlement with Intel, the anti-competitive chip maker, that resolves charges the company illegally stifled competition for a decade. Intel has agreed a number of...
