Articles Posted on 30 May 2011
iPad Causing Windows Sales To Drop
News Software
Microsoft has always had steady sales and the company reported good revenue even when the times were hard and the economy was crumbling. But now it seems that the tech giant is beginning to see its sales shrink with the culprit...
VDI At $99 Per Seat, Offer From Kaviza, Wyse
News Software
Virtualisation firm Kaviza has joined forces with Wyse, a leading cloud computing vendor, in order to put up a combined effort for delivering turnkey virtual desktop infrastructure to smaller businesses at an affordable price....
One million Samsung Galaxy S2 Units Sold In Korea, Threat To iPhone 5
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung has every reason to bring out the champagne and celebrate – its one millionth Galaxy S II has been sold in Korea, and that in just one month. This equates to one phone being sold every three seconds. To compare, the...
HP Recalls More Laptop Batteries
News Hardware
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company has decided to expand the recall of Lithium-ion batteries used in HP and Compaq laptops.According to the company, it has decided to voluntarily recall 162,000...
iPad 2 Jailbreak Expected In Roughly Three Weeks
News Software
p0sixninja is working very hard on developing the jailbreaking tools for the iPad 2 and his new creation should become available in "about three weeks", rumours suggest. The info was released on Twitter on Saturday by veeence....
Late News: Torvalds Releases Linux 3.0 RC1, Nvidia Launches Tegra Powered Table PC, Emulator Removed From Android Market
News Software
Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.0 Release Candidate 1 to the masses without much fanfare. In a blog post, Torvalds said that there had been much debate over what the new Linux kernel would be called, as this release marks...
UK Council Forces Twitter To Divulge Names
News Web
South Tyneside council has forced Twitter to reveal details of users on the microblogging website by appealing to a US Court; the council wanted to find out the identify of a Twitter user who criticised some of the council's...
£649.99 Sony Vaio CA1S1E 14-inch Black Laptop
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The Sony Vaio CA1S1E 14" Black Laptop is the perfect platform for both work, as well as for entertainment usage. Featuring a wide range of exciting and innovative technologies, the product comes at a really affordable price. Its...
African-Americans Sue Apple Over Racial Discrimination At Apple Store
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has found itself stuck in yet another legal complication after two African-American men dragged the company into the court alleging of racial discrimination against them at an Apple Store in Manhattan.The complainants named...
Women’s Magazines Selling Better On eReader Than On iPad
News Consumer
Women’s magazines have been selling better on colour eReaders than on iPad tablets, a recent report from the New York Times suggests. A number of popular women's magazines have been downloaded on the Barnes and Noble...
600 Texts, 312 Emails: How Parents Keep Track Of Their Children
News Web
A study carried out for National Family Week found that parents needed to send at least 600 texts, 312 emails and spend more than 1500 minutes on the phone every year to keep track of where their children are. The report found...
Security Vulnerability In Cisco Devices, Reports Dimension Data
News Security
Cisco enterprise network equipments are plagued with vulnerabilities that were patched by the company ages ago, a new study has found.According to the 2011 Network Barometer Report released by Dimension Data, several companies...
HTC Sensation – hands-on walkthrough in pictures
News Mobile & Telco
One Mobile Ring has just taken delivery of the HTC dual-core Sensation mobile phone, for an upcoming review. We thought we would publish these hands-on walkthrough pictures, just to when your appetite in the mean time and ahead...
Skype For Windows Installs Extra Program Without Permission
News Security
Skype is experiencing a massive user backlash after it decided to install crapware in an update meant for its Windows client.Users are reporting that the Skype for Windows update installed the EasyBits Go software on their...
£399.97 Acer Aspire Z3731 21.5-inch Touchscreen All-in-One PC
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The Acer Aspire Z3731 21.5" Touchscreen All-in-One PC is a high-end offering from the house of Acer. The product, by virtue of all its amazing specs and features, merged with an impressive design, has no doubt climbed up the...
Hackers Plant Fake News Story On PBS Website
News Security
A group of hackers broke into the PBS website and posted a fake story about famous rapper Tupac Shakur being alive and kicking in New Zealand.Hacker group The Lulz Boat claimed responsibility for the attack. The group also...
AMD's Bulldozer expected to get Computex outing
News Hardware
AMD's upcoming Bulldozer architecture could be due for an unveiling at this year's Computex event - and while the company's press conference isn't until Wednesday, its board partners are itching to spill the beans. Motherboard...
iPhone 5 May Be Announced At Apple’s WWDC
News Mobile & Telco
According to latest rumours, Apple’s upcoming World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) could witness an official announcement on the iPhone 5. The rumours surfaced following a tweet from Charlie Brown, the technology editor...
Chimei Innolux To Supply Touch Sensors For iPad 2
News Hardware
Apple is extending its supply chain abroad and is bringing Chimei Innolux into the iPad 2 touch sensors supplier team starting from June. The Taiwanese company has recently obtained the license to manufacture LCD...
Nvidia's New Graphics Card Combines Power With Versatility
News Hardware
Nvidia has released the GTX 560M graphic processing unit for laptops, which comes with new graphics switching technology and 1080p support.According to the company, the new GPU comes with the Optimus graphic switching technology...
£199 Packard Bell DOT SE-110UK Netbook
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The Packard Bell DOT SE-110UK Netbook is an innovative computing platform featuring a whole range of futuristic technologies and an excellent design.The Packard Bell 110UK comes pre-installed with the Genuine Windows 7 Starter...
Facebook Intends To Further Integrate Music And Video
News Consumer
Facebook intends to introduce an improved sharing feature that will make music, videos and other forms of media an integral part of the site.Facebook bosses are currently busy negotiating with multiple online music services...
Ultra-thin goes cheap with the Asus Eee PC X101
News Hardware
Asus, it could be argued, invented the netbook PC with its bargain-basement Eee PC - and it hasn't given up on the market, despite an increased focus on tablets, smartphones, and high-end laptops in its most recent releases....
Motorola May Launch First Four-Core Tablet By This Fall
News Mobile & Telco
Motorola is reportedly planning to launch an Nvidia Tegra quad-core tablet PC as early as this fall.The graphic card maker had showcased the four-core processor running on a prototype tablet at the Mobile World Congress and had...
Nokia E6 hits the stores
News Mobile & Telco
Finnish phone maker Nokia has opened up the pre-ordering of their recently announced Qwerty keyboard based E6, on contracts starting from £25 a month with a delivery date of June 6th.Nokia’s E6 is aimed at the business world and...
£369.97 HP G72-b10SA Intel Core i3 17.3-inch Laptop
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The HP G72-b10SA featuring the Intel Core i3 Dual Core (350M, 3MB Cache, 2.26 GHz) has been designed with the sole purpose of meeting your day-to-day computing requirements. The product, in addition to featuring the sophisticated...
Linux Celebrates 20 Years With Version 3.0, Few Major Changes
News Software
Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.0 Release Candidate 1 to the masses without much fanfare.In a blog post, Torvalds said that there had been much debate over what the new Linux kernel would be called, as this release marks...
Stallman pulls out of Israeli lectures
News Software
Open sourcerer and president of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, has cancelled a bunch of lectures and public appearances he was due to make in Israel, since he'd tacked them on to a visit he is to make to the...
Nvidia Unveils Prototype Tablet With A Four-Core Tegra Processor
News Mobile & Telco
Graphics-card manufacturer Nvidia has unveiled a prototype tablet PC powered by an advanced four-core version of the Tegra processor.The company also revealed that tablets based on the new Tegra processor will hit the market...
Sony's New Portable Gaming Console Rumoured To Be Named PS Vita
News Consumer
Sony is rumoured to have named its upcoming next generation portable (NGP) hand-held gaming device ‘Vita’, which means ‘Life’ in Latin.The company is expected to unveil the hand-held at the upcoming E3...
Google Cracks Down On Emulators
News Consumer
Google has decided to crack down on game emulators by removing the popular ‘-oid’ series emulators offered by developer Yongzh from its Android Market.Several popular emulators available on the Android Market store...
Computex: Asus Pits UX Series Against Apple MacBook Air
News Hardware
Jonney Shih, the CEO of Asus, announced the release of the UX series a couple of hours ago, which promises to be one of the main rivals to Apple's popular MacBook Air laptop. Presented at a pre-Computex conference, the UX Series...
Noon News: Lockheed Martin Under Cyber Attack, Iran To Disconnect From World Wide Web, Google Chrome TV Advert In The UK
News Web
In an attempt to block what it calls the infiltration of Western ideas, the Iranian government may soon completely remove its citizens' access to the internet, replacing it with an internal network. If this happens, Iran’s...
Apple Releases Patch For Mac OS X, Developer Preview For Lion
News Software
A new developer build for Apple’s Mac OS X Lion indicates that the company plans to release the OS on the Mac App Store platform.According to an article on Apple Insider, the third developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 comes...
Nvidia Releases Inexpensive, Wired 3D Glasses
News Consumer
Nvidia has announced low-cost wired 3D glasses for its 3D Vision system platform.The glasses come with a 10-foot USB wire that come with support for more than 65 common models of monitor, projectors and notebooks that support...
Asus takes aim at the MacBook Air with the UX
News Hardware
While the main focus of the Asus press event was its innovative Padfone device, the company had some other creations to unveil - including the amazingly thin UX series of laptops, featuring a custom-made Intel processor.While its...
Asus unveils the Padfone hybrid ahead of Computex
News Mobile & Telco
Asus has unveiled a raft of new products ahead of the opening of Computex tomorrow - including the Padfone, details of which leaked out this weekend.Speaking to thinq_, an Asus representative confirmed that the images which had...
Sony Ericsson rolls out latest Android OS
News Mobile & Telco
Joint Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson has started to deploy a new version of the Google mobile phone operating system to their flagship Xperia Arc and Play handsets, in version 2.3.3 of Android.The...
Iran Says It Will Disconnect From The Internet Within Two Years
News Business & Government
In an attempt to block what it calls the infiltration of Western ideas, the Iranian government may soon completely remove its citizens' access to the internet, replacing it with an internal network.If this happens, Iran’s...
LulzSec defaces US PBS over WikiLeaks programme
News Security
Hackers from LulzSec snuck their way into the news website for the U.S. Public Broadcasting System, and created pages along with a fake story that said rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and well and living in New...
Samsung To Launch 4G Android Tablets
News Software
Samsung plans to expand its use of Google’s Android OS for its future tablet PCs that the company hopes will be able to rival the iPad.Samsung already offers the Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet and a range of smartphones...
Google Airs First British Television Ad
News Consumer
Google aired its first British TV advert during the final of the Champions League match.The ad, for the Chrome web browser, is a rework of a popular Chrome US ad in which a father chronicle the life of his newborn daughter...
Computex: Asus Debuts £150 Super Sexy X101 Netbook With Meego & Unknown Atom
News Hardware
Asus has unveiled the Eee PC, X101, its first Meego based product and the first official one from a major manufacturer based on the Intel-backed operating system. The device has a wing-shaped inspired design with a maximum...
Lockheed Martin's IT Infrastructure Compromised
News Security
Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest aerospace company and a key defence equipment supplier to the US armed forces recently found itself at the receiving end of a cyber-attack, new reports revealed.Lockheed Martin officials...
Anonymous attacks target PROTECT IP supporters
News Security
Online mischief-making bunch Anonymous has launched attacks at supporters of the controversial Protect IP Bill, which seeks to give the US justice Department a wide range of tools to allow authorities and copyright holders to...
Sony Downgrades NGP Specs To Reduce Its Price
News Consumer
Sony has reportedly downgraded the specifications of its upcoming NGP hand-held gaming device to bring its price in line with Nintendo’s 3DS.According to an article on 01, the company has halved the 512 MB on-board memory...
Twitter Identifies User Accused Of Violating Super-Injunction
News Business & Government
In a recent development that could have a significant impact on free speech across the Web, micro-blogging giant Twitter has been compelled to hand over the details of a British national who allegedly violated a super-injunction...
Nokia tops O2 green poll
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone network O2 has awarded Nokia the greenest mobile phone manufacturer around in their Eco rating poll, with two of the Finnish company’s handsets coming in joint 1st and another in 2nd place.O2 launched the Eco rating...
Pervasive Video ; Connect Better With Flexible ‘Face Time’
News Business & Government
As I’ve highlighted over the last couple of weeks, the benefits of video communication are far reaching - it speeds up decision making and collaboration, whilst maintaining high levels of engagement. When you see the...
HP's Networking Chief Leaves For An Investment Firm
News Business & Government
Hewlett-Packard’s networking head, Marius Haas, has left the company for a job at investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.Haas had helped HP to acquire networking technology maker 3Com last year, giving HP the capability to...
MacDefender Scam Connected To Russian Payment-Processing Firm
News Security
The recent MacDefender scam that has caused havoc amongst thousands of Mac users was perpetrated by a Russian online payment company, according to a new report.The victims of the MacDefender scam, which was caused by a fake,...
AMNews: Tunny Machine Revisited, Zuckerberg Vows To Kill And Eat, Padfone Pictures Released, Skype Issue Lingers
News Web
Pictures of the Padfone, one of the four devices set to be announced later at Computex by Asus during a press conference, have emerged online. Pocketnow has published the exclusive pictures on its website hours after Asus...
Mark Zuckerberg Only Eats Animals He Has Personally Killed
News Consumer
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to only eat meat of animals that he has killed himself.The young billionaire likes to set personal challenges for himself and this time, he has taken to exclusively eating meat...
Computex 2011: Ni Hau From Taipei!
News Hardware
We finally reached Taipei Taiwan yesterday ahead of tomorrow's kick-off for Computex 2011 with two tasty events tonight featuring Asus and a slew of new products, and an informal Gigabyte gathering in one of the few traditional...
Computex 2011 undergoes some last-minute tweaks
News Business & Government
Computex 2011 is nearly here, marking the first show since the organisers signed a memorandum of understanding with German trade show CeBIT - but some things never change. Computex, in Taiwan's capital Taipei, is the world's...
Samsung unveils Origen Exynos board
News Hardware
Samsung has announced its first low-cost ARM development board to feature a dual-core Exynos processor, in partnership with open source development collaborative Linaro.Unveiled to press at an exclusive event ahead of the...
Computex: Asus To Launch Padfone Smartphone & Tablet
News Hardware
Pictures of the Padfone, one of the four devices set to be announced later at Computex by Asus during a press conference, have emerged online. Pocketnow has published the exclusive pictures on its website, hours after Asus...
Computex: Linaro Announces $199 Samsung Dev Board, Promises Two Additional SoC Members
News Hardware
Open Source outfit Linaro has announced this morning, in partnership with Samsung, the launch of the Origen development board, which joins the likes of ST-Ericsson's Snowball and TI's Pandaboard. As expected the board comes with...
LG Optimus 3D Drops To £25 Per Month
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile currently offers the LG Optimus 3D smartphone for as little as £25.54 per month on a two year contract with £10 cashback including 600 minutes, 500 texts and unlimited internet booster. The phone is...
Computex: Is Asus Going To Give A Preview Of Bulldozer?
News Hardware
Asus' marketing website, Techinstyle, dropped a bombshell a couple of days ago by publishing an article entitled "AMD Bulldozer in the Crosshair". The article, mentions that something new is in ROG's Crosshair, with ROG standing...
