Articles Posted on 07 August 2010
RIM seals BlackBerry deal in Saudi Arabia
News Mobile & Telco
Canada's Research In Motion has reached a preliminary agreement with Saudi Arabia's telecom watchdog and mobile phone operators to set up a server in the country to handle Blackberry data, according to reports. "A preliminary...
Amazon Kindle Free Games Already Frustrating Users?
News Hardware
We reported earlier that Amazon released two free games for its Kindle ebook reader yet there's growing discontent about two significant disadvantages that the platform has compared to the Apple iOS environment. Mike James,...
iPod zombies risk life and limb
News Hardware
The Automobile Association (AA) has warned that pedestrians listening to music on their iPods could be at risk of causing road accidents. The AA's insurance service warned drivers to keep an eye out for 'zombie' iPod users or...
SAP Accepts Liability In Oracle Copyright Case
News Business & Government
Enterprise software firm SAP has accepted responsibility for copyright infringement and has a agreed to discontinue the infringing service and pay damages to Oracle.According to The Wall Street Journal, apart from accepting the...
Apple Covent Garden Store : Already A Success Story
News Web
Apple's newest store opened earlier today in Covent Garden with reportedly hundreds of Apple aficionados standing in queues to be amongst the first to enter the store, some for longer than a day. The store, which takes over...
AA Warns Drivers Of "iPod Zombies"
News Hardware
The Automobile Association (AA) has warned that people focussed on listening to music on their iPods could be at risk of causing a road accident.The company has said that the number of "iPod zombie pedestrians" and joggers that...
Illumos To Reopen Oracle's Open Solaris
News Business & Government
A group of former Sun employees and Open Solaris developers have shed light on a new project, code-named Illumos.Illumos is an offshoot of the Open Solaris project, and involves building a development community around OS/Net, the...
£141 Foxconn NetBox nT330i Barebone Chassis
News Hardware
For the first time, with the nVidia ION chipset and the latest dual core Intel Atom processors you can view HD content and utilise high end graphics on one of the the smallest form factor desktops available. If you're looking to...
Amazon Kindle E-reader Gets Free Games
News Mobile & Telco
Kindle Developers have released the first pair of applications for the popular Amazon ebook reader using the Kindle development kit, both of which are unsurprisingly based on letters and numbers. The Shuffled Row and Every Word...
O2 Offers Blackberry Smartphones On PAYG
News Mobile & Telco
O2 will offer PAYG option of three Blackberry smartphones including the upmarket Bold 9700; the other models are the Pearl 3G & the Curve 8520 available in black and purple. According to Mobile Today, users will be able to...
Microsoft Patent Reveals Kinect Technology
News Consumer
The technology used in Mocrosoft's Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 gaming peripheral has been revealed by a patent application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office.Tech news site Gizmodo reports that Kinect uses...
