Articles Posted on 13 August 2010
Facebook Fixes Failed Log-In Bug
News Security
Facebook has announced that it has fixed bug on the platform that could have been used by spammers to steal the full name and photograph of a Facebook user by simply entering an e-mail ID and a wrong password.According to...
News@5: Xbox 360 Outsells Nintendo Wii, Google Defends Net Neutrality Stance & Facebook
News Consumer
Facebook is set to make over $1 billion in advertising revenue in 2010, interent firm eMarketeer has predicted. The market research firm said that advertisers will be spend $1.3 billion for promoting their brands on the platform....
iPhone 5 claims miss the mark by a mile
In-Depth Mobile & Telco
Tech site Dvice is claiming that one of its secret sources has been fiddling with a brand new iPhone, but we're calling shenanigans. The anonymous insider (colloquially known as 'fat bloke down the pub' in the UK) says he has...
Cable may resign over Philip Green spending job
News Business & Government
Vince Cable may become the first Liberal Democrat cabinet member to resign, after controversial businessman Sir Philip Green was appointed to head a government spending review that could see millions slashed from IT...
Nvidia gives in to Rambus' demands
News Hardware
After reluctantly taking a pummelling in its patent dispute with Rambus last month, Nvidia has now given in to the memory maker's demands and signed a patent licence agreement. According to Rambus, the deal relates...
Murdoch planning download-only newspaper
News Hardware
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is planning a dedicated, digital-only newspaper aimed at the iPad and other portable devices. The Australian media magnate's company is already known to have a dedicated tablet group beavering...
'Live' fantasy football game hits web
News Consumer
An online fantasy football game that you play as matches are beamed live on the telly has launched, just as the new season kicks off. Picklive is designed to let you play along with Premier League matches as they happen. You...
Micron claims its SATA SSD is world's fastest
News Hardware
The American memory masters at Micron are making some bold claims about their new enterprise-level RealSSD P300 drives, which the company reckons are the fastest SATA SSDs in existence. Don't worry if you got a slight wave...
Google Defends Net Neutrality Position
News Mobile & Telco
Google has released a statement defending its latest net neutrality proposal, filed in partnership with US wireless service provider Verizon.Richard Whitt, the Washington telecom and media counsel for Google clarified the...
Amazon To Sell Novell SUSE Linux On EC2
News Hardware
Enterprise software vendor Novell has announced the availability of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud-based hosting service.The company said that Amazon Web Service will charge...
Google defends 'sell-out' on Net neutrality
News Web
Google has hit out at claims that it sold out on the principle of Net neutrality in an attempt to cash in on the mobile market with its Android operating system. The search giant this week published an agreement with US...
Google And Skype May Face India Messaging Ban
News Web
Google and Skype could see their messaging services banned in India, unless the companies comply with government security regulations.Citing a source within the government, news agency Reuters has said that the government has...
Microsoft Unveils Adaptive Keyboard Prototype
News Software
Microsoft has showcased a new concept keyboard for desktop computers.The Adaptive Keyboard prototype comes with an LCD touch screen above the top row of keys.According to the company, the LCD touch screen is designed to display...
Tax man warns of phone and phishing scams
News Business & Government
The UK's tax collector HM Revenue and Customs is warning taxpayers to be aware following reports that scammers are using bogus web sites, e-mails and phone calls to dupe them. The Government organisation says that despite its...
RIM claims no deals over BlackBerry ban threats
News Business & Government
Responding to the growing list of countries threatening to ban its handsets, Canadian BlackBerry maker RIM has issued a statement saying that it will not bow to pressure from specific countries. The statement, which was posted...
Shareholders Sue HP Over Hurd Resignation
News Hardware
The Hewlett-Packard (HP) board of directors is being sued by the the Brockton Contributory Retirement System over the disclosure of information concerning the resignation of former CEO Mark Hurd.The shareholders are claiming that...
Weekly Review – 14th of August
News Mobile & Telco
Traditionally this time of the year is known as the silly season in news, where oddball news stories make the headlines instead of real news as there really isn't a great deal of news around. This is a result of the summer...
Intel accidentally leaks new Atom details
News Hardware
It looks as though Intel is planning to take a 32nm-sized shot at ARM next year, when it releases its next generation Medfield" Atom CPUs for the smartphone market. InfoWorld spotted a juicy document on Intel's website...
VirnetX Sues Apple Over Patents
News Security
VirnetX has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of using its patents in its iPhone and iPad devices.The lawsuit filed against Apple involves two VirnetX patents, one of which was involved in a previous...
Google, Skype could face India messaging ban
News Mobile & Telco
Google and Skype could follow BlackBerry onto a list of banned messaging services unless the companies satisfy the Indian government security concerns. The news comes after authorities in the country issued an ultimatum to...
Apple iAd Partners Happy With Results
News Hardware
Apple's iAd platform is getting good reviews from companies running adverts on the new system. According to the Los Angeles Times, developers who have worked on the iAd mobile advertising network and companies who have registered...
Aussies to get gigabit broadband
News Web
The company tasked with updating Australia's broadband infrastructure will announce today that it intends to provide speeds 100 times faster than originally planned, without increasing the budget. According to Aussie news outfit...
Xbox 360 Outsells Nintendo Wii In July
News Consumer
Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console has overtaken Nintendo's Wii as the most sold console in the US for July, reaching the top-spot for the first time in three years.According to data released by research firm NDP Group, Microsoft...
Dell Vostro 230 Desktop PC Review
News Hardware
The Dell Vostro range is the equivalent of the Ford T, a workhorse that's reliable and available in all colours as long as it is black, targetting small businesses alongside the more upmarket Optiplex. Dell divides the Vostro...
MySpace Unveils Revamped Homepage
News Security
MySpace has unveiled a revamped version of the website's homepage, which many have noticed is uncannily similar to rival social network Facebook.The new changes to the homepage bring two new information streams for users. One is...
Update: Apple Does NOT Confirm iTV Name
News Mobile & Telco
Update : It seems that Ms McMahon seriously misconstrued Apple's statement to her. We received a call from someone at Apple PR denying that Apple had confirmed anything, let alone a change of name, to the Mirror. Instead, they...
£100 Edge10 Edgestore DAS401 eSATA Direct Attached Storage External Hard Drive Enclosure
News Hardware
The DAS401 is a compact RAID tower that utilises the latest SATA II port feature, where one single eSATA cable connects up to four (3Gbps) SATA II Hard Drives. Designed with easy installation in mind, the trayless DAS401...
£185 Archos 5 160GB Internet Tablet Android
News Mobile & Telco
Archos, award-winning for its constant technology innovation, now introduces its new Archos 5 Internet Tablet. This product combines all the multimedia know-how that Archos is famous for, with the ANDROID operating...
Facebook Ad Revenue To Exceed $1 Billion In 2010
News Security
Facebook is set to make over $1 billion in advertising revenue in 2010, internet research firm eMarketeer has predicted.The market research firm said that advertisers will be spend $1.3 billion for promoting their brands on the...
Struggling Nvidia claims a CPU strategy
News Hardware
Graphics chip outfit Nvidia said it made a net loss of $141 million in its second financial quarter of the year it calls 2011. This was even worse than the $105.3 million loss it made a year earlier. The firm set aside a charge...
Android market flogging Nazi Apps
In-Depth Web
When Engadget contributor Michael Gartenberg searched for the word 'Jewish' in the Android Market, the last thing he expected to see was a number of themes based on Nazi symbolism. It's bad enough that the Google-owned operation...
Oracle Sues Google Over Android Java Use
News Web
Oracle has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google.The lawsuit accuses Google of repeatedly infringing seven of its Java patents and associated copyrights in developing the Android operating system, tech news site...
News@10: Google Street View 'Dead' Girl, ClickCEOP Success & BlackBerrry In India
News Mobile & Telco
An image on Google Street View of a girl lying on the pavement has created furore among the residents of Worcester. Concerned Residents of Middle Road, St. John's in Worcester contacted Google to ensure that the company had not...
Rumour: Radeon HD 6000 set for October launch
News Hardware
There's already been plenty of chatter about AMD's new Radeon HD 6000-series GPUs joining us at the end of this year, but the latest word on the whisper wagon is that AMD is planning to announce the chips in just a couple of...
Gmail Hijacked By Hackers In China
News Mobile & Telco
Google's Gmail service in China has been hijacked by hackers, who are redirecting users to a fake log-in page to steal e-mail credentials.According to a report by Fast Company, Gmail users in China have been complaining that when...
China Mobile And Xinhua To Launch Search Engine
News Mobile & Telco
China's state-run Xinhua new agency is to develop its own mobile internet search engine.China Mobile Communications Corporation and Xinhua have entered into an agreement to develop a new web search engine company, the Wall Street...
Quake maker outs iPhone Rage demo
News Mobile & Telco
The company behind the Quake series of games, id software, as unleashed an impressive demo of it's latest gaming engine for the iPhone. The company's John Carmack showcased the short demo during his keynote speech at this year's...
Google Launches Chrome To Phone App
News Web
Google has launched a new application which allows users to send links and text snippets from their Chrome desktop browser to their Android handsets in an instant.Tech news site CNET explains that the Chrome to Phone application...
Internet Explorer 9 Beta To Launch 15 September
News Web
Microsoft has announced that it will release the first public beta version of its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser on 15 September.Tech news site PC World has reported that the Redmond-based software giant has sent out...
5 Things To Expect From The Apple iTV
News Mobile & Telco
Apple is likely to unveil a new version of its Apple TV platform, renamed Apple iTV, as early as next month and we're betting on a completely revamped model which abandons the x86 platform for an ARM-based solution. This would...
John Carmack Demoes 60fps Rage Game on iPhone
News Mobile & Telco
Video gaming legend John Carmack has showed a live demonstration of the company's newest gaming engine, id Tech 5, running first person shooter Rage on an iPhone 4 at an impossibly-high 60 frames per second. The game will be...
Twitter & Tweetmeme Debut Official Tweet Button
News Mobile & Telco
Twitter announced today that it will collaborate with Tweetmeme on a new official Twitter button one that will allow UK-based Tweetmeme to have a much bigger access to the huge data mines of the social networking...
Sony PlayStation phone coming this year
News Mobile & Telco
Technology news website Engadget has reported Sony Ericsson is developing a Sony PlayStation mobile phone, which will run the Google Android mobile OS and will be capable of playing handheld console games.The news has come from a...
Apple Set To Become Fifth Biggest Mobile Manufacturer Worldwide
News Mobile & Telco
Gartner's report, published earlier today, shows that sales at two of the top five mobile phone companies worldwide have decreased with Nokia, RIM and Samsung being the ones to post significant growth. Outside the top five, Apple...
Is The Tesco £6 SIM Only Deal The Best Around?
News Mobile & Telco
Tesco Mobile announced earlier today the release of a £6 SIM only tariff with 100 minutes and unlimited texts; on the face of it, the deal is a great one at a rock bottom price that's never been seen before. The price is...
Home Computers Discover Neutron Star
News Hardware
Members of the Einstein@Home distributed computing project have stumbled upon a rare neutron star originated from a supernovae.The find was made whilst processing data from gravitational wave detectors.According to BBC News, the...
Google Launches Voice Actions For Android Phones
News Web
Google has launched a voice control application for Android-based smartphones. The Voice Actions program allows users to speak commands to phone to have it write text messages, e-mails and even find road direction, news agency...
Bethesda Parent ZeniMax Buys Arkane Studios
News Security
Bethesda Studio's parent company ZeniMax Media has announced the acquisition of Arkane Studios at the Quakecon 2010 games conference.Arkane Studios are best known for developing the games Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and...
Pure Launches Flow Songs Music Download Service
News Web
DAB radio manufacturer Pure is set to release a music service that allows users to download their favourite music directly from its DAB/web and FM radios.Pure has announced the launch of Flow Songs, set to start from 16 August,...
HP board sued over Hurd departure
News Business & Government
A shareholding company launched a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard's board of directors earlier this week, claiming they bungled their fiduciary duties over the departure of CEO Mark Hurd. The suit, filed in the Santa Clara...
Oracle sues Google over Android
News Web
Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search monster of infringing patents related to Java in its Android phone software. "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's...
