Articles Posted on 07 March 2011
iPad 2 Won't Cause Samsung To Review 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab Strategy
News Hardware
The arrival of the Apple iPad 2 tablet nearly three weeks after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1-inch will not change the Korean company's tablet strategy overall. Accoriding to AllthingsD, Lee Don-Joo, the vice...
Interview With Steve Purdham, CEO Of We7 : "We Will Expand Beyond Non-Music Audio"
News Consumer
We caught up with Steve Purdham, CEO of online music company We7, ahead of the launch of its new personal radio mobile music service which allows people to listen to free music without any connections and chatted with him about...
12 Million Apple iPad 2 To Ship In Q2 2011?
News Hardware
Apple's iPad 2 target for the second quarter of 2011 include the shipment of up to 12 million units, that's four time the amount of second generation iPad expected to be shipped by the end of the month, together with an equal...
Apple iPhone 5 To Adopt Aluminium Back
News Mobile & Telco
Apple may be willing to drop the current glass back panel from the iPhone 4 in favour of the original aluminium material for its forthcoming iPhone 5 handset. The move (according to Japanese blog Macotakara) might be motivated...
Samsung adds Galaxy Pro to its line-up
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung Electronics has announced an addition to its Galaxy smartphone lone in the form of the Galaxy Pro. The phone runs Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ on an 800MHz Samsung-built ARM chip, making it somewhat less than...
DDoS Attacks On WordPress Came From China
News Web
Blogging platform WordPress has traced the second string of recent DDoS attacks against it back to China, the company has revealed. The platform, which hosts more than 18 million blogs, suffered a second wave of attacks on...
WD buys up Hitachi's drive outfit for $4.3bn
News Business & Government
Western Digital said it is to buy up Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion. The proposed combination will seek to entail the industry’s...
Apple MacBook Air Sales Top A Million In First Quarter
News Hardware
The MacBook Air, which was launched by Apple late last year, managed to sell more than a million units in its first quarter ending December 2010, it was been revealed. The ultra-lightweight notebook, which was introduced in...
iPhone 4 Downloads Twice As Fast On AT&T Than Verizon, Study Shows
News Mobile & Telco
The iPhone 4 on AT&T's wireless network downloads data two times faster than its counterpart on Verizon, a new study has revealed. Mobile evaluation firm Metrico Wireless conducted thousands of field tests in five prominent...
Nokia E7 Arriving Soon On Three
News Mobile & Telco
UK wireless carrier Three will be offering Nokia's long-delayed E7 Symbian based business orientated smartphone in the near future. The company updated its 'Coming Soon' page to reveal that it will be adding the device to its...
iPad 2 Graphics To Add More Details To Future Games
News Hardware
Game developers will take full advantage of the ability of the Apple iPad 2 to crunch more polygons, triangles and pixels to deliver games that are much more refined and detailed compared to the current generation of iPad...
Postman Wins Inaugural UK Cyber Security Challenge
News Security
A postman from Wakefield has won the government-backed UK Cyber Security Challenge, which was aimed at discovering IT talent to help strengthen and manage the country's cyber security infrastructure. Dan Summers, a...
Nintendo Wii 2 Console To Launch At E3
News Consumer
Games giant Nintendo could launch the successor to its wildly popular Wii gaming console at the Electronic Entertainment Expo which takes place from the 7th to the 9th of June in Los Angeles. That will likely coincide with the...
Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse Cut iPad Price Ahead Of iPad 2 Launch
News Mobile & Telco
Carphone Warehouse and its partner, Best Buy, have quietly cut the price of the Apple iPad tablet which is on the verge of being replaced by the iPad 2 which was launched last Wednesday. Only the smallest version of the iPad is...
Photos Of Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 Device Appear
News Mobile & Telco
A prototype Sony Ericsson smartphone running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform has been spotted in the wild. The photos of the device, which have been leaked, reveal a large screen device running the latest WP7...
CeBIT 2011: diversify or die
In-Depth Hardware
This year's CeBIT may have got off to a slow start - and had a few transport-related hiccoughs near the end - but it's been an impressive showing from technology companies nevertheless. We take a look at some of the themes...
Intel's vPro suffix businesses up Sandy Bridge
News Hardware
Intel recently decided to call its new line of chips based on the Sandy Bridge architecture the '2nd generation Intel Core vPro processor family'. Daft name. It's now unveiled its Sandy Bridge line aimed at businesses and stuck...
'TV Dinner' Has Become 'PC Dinner' Survey Shows
News Consumer
A recent survey has revealed that PCs have replaced televisions as the main source of entertainment while people are having dinner. According to a survey commissioned by the online video service SeeSaw.com, more...
iPad 2 Shows That iPhone 5 Is Unlikely To Get Storage Boost
News Mobile & Telco
The fact that Apple choose to stick with the original iPad storage options for iPad 2 (16GB, 32GB and 64GB) clearly shows that the iPhone 5 will unlikely get more than the existing 32GB on top of the 16GB option already on the...
Three offers 'unlimited' data on pay as you go
News Mobile & Telco
Three is looking to shake things up in the mobile industry with the launch of an 'all-you-can-eat' data plan for Pay As You Go customers, starting at as little as £15. Three is set on wooing customers from its larger...
French Government Confirms Cyber Attack Targeting G20 Info
News Business & Government
France's finance ministry has confirmed that its computers were targeted by a series of cyber attacks beginning in December, aimed at stealing sensitive information about the...
Three’s pay as you go tariff gets unlimited data
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone network Three has announced its prepay tariff data cap has been completely removed, to offer a truly unlimited data allowance and all for just £15 a month.Three’s new no-limit pay as you go contract arrives two...
IDC Report Shows Strong Growth In Storage Software Market
News Hardware
The market for storage software services grew by 10.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010, research firm IDC has revealed. According to the Worldwide Storage Software QView report released by IDC, the worldwide storage...
Three UK Launches "Unlimited" Data On PAYG
News Mobile & Telco
The smallest independent mobile phone operator, Three UK, is apparently reaping the benefits of an all-3G strategy by boldly offering all you can eat mobile data access on two PAYG packages for as little as £15 per...
Online Comprehensive UK Radioplayer Launching 31st March
News Web
The upcoming radio catch-up service UK Radioplayer, dubbed the 'iPlayer for radio', will be launching on March 31st. The service will allow Britons to access past radio shows, broadcasted by 200 BBC and commercial radio...
Western Digital Bags Hitachi Storage Unit For $4.25 Billion
News Hardware
Another storage company bites the dust as Western Digital has announced the acquisition of HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), a unit of Japanese conglomerate giant Hitachi, for $3.5 billion in cash and 25 million shares...
£330 Asus X52F 15.6" Notebook
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Equipped with the latest Intel Core processor family, the ASUS X52F delivers the best mobile multitasking performance in its class, be it for multimedia entertainment or productivity. The ASUS X52F is designed to be your...
£330 Samsung E452-JA01UK Core i3 Laptop
Deals Hardware
Something as powerful, fashionable and reliable as the Samsung E452 shouldn’t be so affordable. But it is. Designed to enhance your unique sense of style with a subtle hairline external pattern in a sophisticated...
£80 Lenovo L2230x 22 inch Widescreen LCD Monitor
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The Lenovo L2230x Wide USB Port Replicator monitor is your perfect notebook companion. As the industry's first port replicator monitor, you are able to connect to your peripherals (including LAN access) with a single USB...
Why Apple Will Dump Intel Altoghether & Marry ARM
News Hardware
The last few days have given us the opportunity to ponder about the future of Apple's relationship with Intel especially as the electronics giant has now almost confirm that it is an ARM licensee, something it had never publicly...
Fujitsu Semiconductor licenses ARM designs
News Hardware
Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited has signed a comprehensive licence agreement with ARM for ARM IP products. The agreement will enable Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe to build platforms featuring the latest ARM technology,...
Logicalis To Provide Cloud Infrastructure For Loughborough University
News Cloud
Loughborough University has acquired the services of Logicalis to provide an on-site bespoke private cloud, to be integrated with an off-site, cooperative hosted cloud. The university, whose data centres...
Google Tightens Security On Android Market After Attacks
News Mobile & Telco
Google is in the middle of improving the security on its Android Market apps platform after a recent malicious apps outbreak infected tens of thousands of users. The Android Market was recently hit by around 50...
We7 Radio App For Android Allows Offline Listening
News Mobile & Telco
Online music streaming service We7 has introduced a new Android radio app that will allow users to create personalised radio stations which also allows them to listen to music when offline. According to the...
Nintendo 3DS killswitch bricks pirate consoles
News Consumer
Nintendo 3DS owners who play pirated games could end up with a non-working device, thanks to a firmware killswitch. Fan site GoNintendo reports that Japanese second-hand console reseller Enterking issues the warning to 3DS...
Microsoft Urges Users To Move On from IE 6
News Web
In a bid to encourage users to upgrade from the Internet Explorer 6 web browser, Microsoft has launched a new website that keeps track of IE 6 usage across the globe. The company says that it wants to see the IE6 user base...
MSI previews N580GTX Lightning board
News Hardware
MSI has given us a walk-through of its upcoming N580GTX Lightning graphics board, which it claims will be the most powerful single-GPU design for quite some time to come.Taking some time out of a busy CeBIT schedule to see us,...
iPad 2 Launch Prompts Apple To Give £100 Refund
News Hardware
Apple has started to give out £100 refunds to customers who had bought an iPad just before the launch of the second generation version, the iPad 2, as the price of the former dropped from £429 to £329. The most...
Offline radio streaming app comes to Android
News Mobile & Telco
Popular music streamer for the UK and Ireland We7 has unveiled a new version of their Google mobile OS app, which can be used without any cost attached.The new We7 radio application is free to run from an Android mobile phone,...
Opera Browser Given Adult Rating In Mac App Store
News Web
Apple has somewhat surprisingly put an age restriction for downloading the Opera web browser from the Mac App Store, the browser maker has revealed. In a blog post, Opera Software revealed that users will have to...
Angry Birds Reaches 30 Million Android Users
News Consumer
Angry Birds maker Rovio has announced that the Android version of the game has crossed the 30 million downloads mark. Rovio CEO and Angry Birds creator Peter Vesterbacka told Joystiq that the ad-supported free version of the game...
Plextor confirms March launch for M2S SSD series
News Hardware
Plextor has confirmed that it will be launching its next-generation M2S solid-state drive series in the UK this month, bringing with it SATA 6.0Gb/s connectivity and the company's unique Instant Restore functionality.Designed to...
NASA scientist finds alien life in meteorite
News Consumer
A NASA scientist claims to have found microscopic fossils of alien life among fragments of a meteorite. Space agency boffin Richard Hoover has published pictures of the fossilised, worm-like bacteria in a paper for the...
£55.30 Epson Stylus Office BX610FW Multifunction Printer
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The Epson BX610FW Multifunction Inkjet printer is the complete office hero and the answer to your print and image needs. Printing up to 38 pages per minute in text and laser-like prints at up to 15ppm; the built in LCD screen...
Sapphire unveils Intel-powered Edge-HD mini PC
News Hardware
Perhaps the biggest theme among the various hardware manufacturers present at CeBIT this year was diversification - and nowhere was this more obvious than at the Sapphire stand, where a mini-PC is in the works.The Sapphire...
Android Developers In Higher Demand Than iOS Developers
News Software
The demand for developers of Android applications has overtaken the demand for iOS developers for the first time, according to a popular online tech job posting platform. Based on figures from Dice.com, there were...
Dutch port clogged up with PS3s
News Business & Government
A Dutch port is filling up with Playstation 3 consoles as a result of the injunction Sony's Korean rival LG managed to slap on imports of the gaming machine in a spat over Blu-ray patents. Sony said a shipment of the consoles is...
AMD's E-350 gets home theatre ready at CeBIT
News Hardware
One of the most common sights at this year's CeBIT event was AMD's Fusion E-350 'Zacate' processor, a chip that combines Radeon 6000-series graphics with a powerful dual-core processor in a low-power platform.Designed for use in...
Verizon CFO Criticises Apple Over iPhone 5 Strategy
News Mobile & Telco
Fran Shammo, the chief financial officer at Verizon Wireless, voiced her concern over the introduction by Apple of a new iPhone 5 model over the next few months. Speaking at a tech investor conference organised by investment...
Apple iPad 2 Catches Up With Motorola XOOM Tablet
News Hardware
With the official release of the iPad 2 last week, Apple has managed to refresh its flagship product to provide a sensible match for rival tablets, including its most formidable one, the Motorola XOOM. Comparing both of them is...
Judge Allows PS3 Hacker Website Visitors To Be Identified
News Consumer
A US federal judge has awarded Sony the right to demand the IP address of every individual who visited PS3 hacker George Hotz's website in the past year. The ruling, which is a part of Sony's ongoing battle against PS3...
Corsair not convinced by Intel's Thunderbolt
News Hardware
Corsair is adopting a 'wait and see' approach to Intel's latest peripheral connectivity standard, Thunderbolt, despite devices based around the technology appearing in retail already.Thunderbolt, which officially launched with...
UK Xbox gamers spend £64 per month
News Consumer
Microsoft recently sent out a survey to 251 of its Xbox 360 customers, in the age range of 25 and 34 years old. The survey revealed that, on average, gamers spent around sixty-four pounds per month on gaming. Thirteen per cent...
Xbox 360 Gamers Spend On Average £64 Monthly, Survey Shows
News Consumer
Microsoft has revealed that 13 per cent of Xbox 360 customers spend more than a £100 buying games for the platform every month. The statistics are part of a survey conducted by the software giant's advertising arm,...
OCZ shows off Ibis XL 4TB solid-state drive demo
News Hardware
Determined to be the must-see stand at CeBIT 2011 for SSD technology, OCZ has unveiled the Ibis XL - a technology demonstration platform that offers 4TB of storage and incredible read speeds.The 5.25-inch internal drive features...
RIM Head Of Marketing To Depart
News Mobile & Telco
Research in Motion has announced that its chief marketing officer has decided to leave the company, just weeks before its first tablet device is launched. According to a report on the Wall Street Journal, the company...
3 unveils 3 HTC devices
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone network Three has announced it’s to carry three of the new High Tech Computer Corporation phones that were launched at Mobile World Congress, with the HTC flagship Desire S, the budget orientated Wildfire S and the...
Facebook scammers turn attention to Twitter
News Security
The same scammers who have been affecting Facebook are now targeting Twitter, evidence suggests. The warning issued by internet security outfit, BitDefender, claims there is close connection between a Twitter scam reported by...
