Articles Posted on 06 June 2011
Motorola CEO Claims Open Android, Bad Apps Damaging Smartphones
News Mobile & Telco
The poor apps available in the Android Market due to the openness of the Android platform are responsible for around 70 percent of Motorola Smartphone returns, it has been claimed.Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha, speaking during...
Apple posts WWDC keynote video in full
News Consumer
Apple has posted a full video of the entire two-hour WWDC keynote given by Steve Jobs and a bunch of his less sickly cohorts. It contains announcements about OSX Lion which takes all of the best bits of iOS and bolts them onto...
HP Fights Malaria, Will Assist Botswana Health Care Units
News Business & Government
Making another significant leap in offering its services in the domain of health care services, Hewlett-Packard, the largest computer maker in the world has announced on Monday that it is going to assist Botswana’s...
E3 Brings Voice Search To Xbox 360
News Consumer
E3 witnessed the launch of voice search with Bing on Xbox 360 which would enable users to find entertainment of their choice quickly and easily.Bing on Xbox 360 searches through Sky and Zune along with music, video and Xbox Live...
Microsoft E3: Kinect Fun Labs Launches Today
News Consumer
At E3 today, Microsoft showed off three exciting features of Kinect Fun Labs that will be available to all the Xbox 360 users once it launches later in the day today.The first demo presented the feature through which Xbox Live...
HP May License WebOS To HTC, Other Partners
News Mobile & Telco
If we are to believe the words of Leo Apotheker, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, his company is currently pondering upon the idea of licensing its proprietary WebOS operating system to other handset manufacturers. HP acquired the...
Apple iCloud turns music industry on its head
News Software
Apple has turned the way we buy music on its head again with the announcement of iCloud. Far from the streaming service everyone was expecting, Steve Jobs and his band of little helpers took to the stage at this year's WWDC...
Follow Us For Our Live Apple WWDC 2011 Coverage
News Web
1959... Ze End.. No new iPhone 5, I've lost my bet, no "and another thing"... Good bye everyone. 1957 Apple has already built three data centers, all of them as ecofriendly as it can be. 1954 New feature called iTunes match which...
Ryse, Crytek’s First Kinect Game Revealed At E3
News Consumer
Microsoft’s E3 witnessed the release of Crytek’s first Kinect based game called Ryse, which uses motion control for melee combat. Ryse is a hack ‘n’ slash game set in burning Rome. A CGI trailer along with...
TouchPad Tablet To Support Adobe Flash Video Technology
News Hardware
Hewlett Packard’s upcoming TouchPad tablet PC device will come with built-in support for Adobe’s Flash video technology. The Flash running tablet was showcased by an HP executive during Qualcomm’s Uplinq...
Apple WWDC live blog of Steve Jobs keynote
News Software
And it's all over for another year. 19:51 Aha... we're getting on to ripped music. There are three options. 1. Sync all devices using the old fangled cable method (boo) 2. Buy them again (boooooo) 3. Use iTune Match...
Motorola Tops Radiation Emission Charts
News Mobile & Telco
Smartphones offered by Motorola have figured in the list of highest and lowest radiation emitting Smartphones.The list, which was released by the Environmental Working Group, comes after the World Health Organisation declared...
Microsoft Goofs Up, Halo 4 Announced Before E3
News Consumer
Microsoft came up with an update on its E3 website stating that Halo 4 is “on the way” hours before the keynote speech at Electronic Entertainment Expo. The operating system giant took down the update soon after, but...
£29.99 Netgear WNR1000 Rangemax N150 Cable/DSL Router
Deals Consumer
The Netgear WNR1000 Rangemax N150 Cable/DSL router is designed to facilitate your wireless network a quality Wireless N performance. An excellent product to go for if you have multiple computers in your network and want to equip...
School Boy Invents Anti-Burglar Doorbell, Reportedly Makes £250,000
News Software
A 13 year old school boy from Surrey has come up with a new and innovative “anti-burglar” doorbell that fools intruders by giving them the false assumption that someone is home, even when it is not so. The doorbell...
Late News: Microsoft Launches Wireless Desktop 2000, Google Acquires PostRank, Kogan Chromium OS Laptop
News Consumer
Microsoft has launched its new Wireless Desktop 2000, a keyboard and mouse combo with advanced security features. The combo, which can be purchased from the official Microsoft site, is currently priced at $40 and it is compatible...
HP Proposes DWP Contract Outsourcing, 200 ICT Jobs May Get Axed
News Business & Government
Hewlett Packard has proposed outsourcing 200 ICT jobs at the Department of Work and Pensions to India.HP has a contract with the DWP to provide ICT support from the department’s offices in Newcastle, Lytham St Annes and...
Surrey County Invites Bids, Targeting 100% Superfast Broadband
News Business & Government
The Surrey County Council has started inviting bids by private companies for bringing 100 percent super-fast broadband to the county.The council decided to take matters into its own hands after it discovered that BT’s...
Kogan launches world's first Chromebook for £269
News Hardware
Australian IT company Kogan has launched the world's first computer based on Google's new Chromium OS, stealing a march on PC giants Acer and Samsung, Google Chromebook products won't launch until 15th June. Tech pundits have...
£429.97 ASUS X52F-EX801V Intel Core i5 Laptop With Free £44.99 BullGuard Internet Security
News Consumer
ASUS is a no strange name in the market while it comes to offering high-end, innovative and feature-rich laptops at amazingly affordable prices- the ASUS X52F-EX801V is no exception in this trend. Powered by the Intel Core i5 480...
The Apple iCloud: Web Services To Rule Them All
News Mobile & Telco
Apple initially launched iTunes to serve users of its music player, the iPod, but rapidly expanded its remit to all kinds of content: apps, audio book, e-books, TV programmes and videos. Apple's iCloud could go even further and...
Apple WWDC 2011: 4 Things To Expect From Steve Jobs
News Hardware
With only a few minutes to go before the WWDC keynote by Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, it's time to look at what we can expect from an event, which many expect will be Apple's most important developer gathering of the last few years...
Acer Finds Irregularities, Stocks Plummet And CEO Forfeits Pay
News Business & Government
Acer has discovered channel inventory abnormalities for its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) operations.To fix the irregularities, the company plans to provide channels with a $150 million sales allowance in order to clear...
Rumour: Google Delaying Honeycomb, Causes iPad 2 Rivals To Postpone Products?
News Mobile & Telco
Some rather worrying news has emerged from Russia over the last 24 hours suggesting that Google may be looking to postpone the rollout of tablets based on the Honeycomb operating system, otherwise known as Android 3.1. The...
Pepsi Launches Pepsi10Co Europe
News Business & Government
Pepsi has launched the Pepsi10Co program in Europe to find entrepreneurs able enough to partner on technology start-ups with the company.After its success in the US, the program will look to find 10 technology firms in Europe...
Anonymous Posts Torrent File of 10,000 Iranian Government Emails
News Security
Tyrant-taunting hacking collective Anonymous has posted a torrent file of more than 10,000 e-mails lifted from Iranian government servers. Many of the 10,365 messages are correspondence over visa requests sent from Iran's...
Website Reports Microsoft To Unveil Kinect Motion Games E3
News Consumer
According to newly surfaced rumours, Xbox maker Microsoft is likely to announce two new games for the Kinect motion camera accessory at the pre-E3 media briefing.According to the USA Today, the website to have disclosed these...
DLNA comes to Symbian
News Mobile & Telco
Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has unveiled the ‘Play To’ application, which brings DNLA capabilities to Nokia handsets.Nokia Play To app allows for media on a Symbian^3 based mobile phone to be shared over a wireless...
Google Doodle Celebrates 92nd Birthday Of Richard Scarry
News Web
Search engine giant Google has celebrated the 92nd birthday of children's’ author Richard Scarry with a Doodle.The doodle, which appeared on Sunday on the company’s search engine page, represents a scene from...
iOS 5 Could Include Automatic App Updates
News Mobile & Telco
According to a recent report, iOS users are likely to get automatic application updates as the company prepares to launch the upgraded version of the operating system platform at the World Wide Developers Conference.The report...
Adobe Plugs Yet Another Cross-Site Scripting Hole In Flash Player
News Security
Adobe has released an emergency update which fixes a cortical vulnerability in it Flash Player software. The flaw, which affects all versions of the multi-platform media player browser plug-in could allow cross-site scripting...
£123 .99 MSI U135 10-inch Netbook
Deals Consumer
For all those web savvy people who need to stay connected to the Web consistently, even when on the move, the MSI U135 10IN Netbook is the perfect choice to go for. The design alone is enough to make you fall for the product at...
iCloud Will Be "The New iTunes", Report Says
News Cloud
iCloud should not be perceived as a new extension of MobileMe, but customers should "think of iCloud as the new iTunes", respected Apple blogger John Gruber reported citing one of his reliable sources. Syncing will no...
SuVolta Cuts Down Semiconductor Power Consumption By 50 Percent
News Hardware
SuVolta Technologies, a Silicon Valley chip designing start up has announced that its researchers invented a new way to cut-down the power consumption by semiconductors by almost 50 percent, without making any negative impact on...
UK Asks Public Experts To Review New Patents
News Business & Government
The UK government has launched the Peer to Patent pilot program that will allow members of the public to review a patent application before a patent is awarded.The pilot project, which was launched by the Intellectual...
Anonymous tells NATO: 'You cannot defeat us'
News Business & Government
Anonymous, the 'hacktivist' collective named last week by NATO as a threat to its member governments, has issued an official response to a draft report prepared for the military alliance that claimed that the collective would be...
How Apple Could Bring iOS To The Desktop
News Software
The iPad is an invention that will definitely open the way for desktop touch tablets. Apple is expected to introduce Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud at WWDC which are the perfect tools for desktop tablet computing. The...
Acer Europe Servers Hacked, Personal Information Of 40K Users Compromised
News Security
Pakistan Cyber Army, a hacking group from Pakistan has reportedly breached in to an Acer Server in Europe and got away with sensitive personal information of over 40,000 users. Adding more to the worries of the company, the group...
Lady Gaga And Eric Schmidt Invest In New Social Networking Platform For Celebs
News Consumer
Popstar Lady Gaga and Google chairman Eric Schmidt have invested around a million dollars in a company started by Gaga’s manager Troy Carter that will be launched by the end of the month, The New York Times...
£159.99 Acer D255 Notebook
Deals Consumer
If you are looking for a high performing and reliable notebook with a wide range of innovative technology and an attractive design, go for the Acer D255. Bearing a price that goes really soft on your bank balance this product is...
Xbox.com slip reveals Microsoft's E3 plans
News Consumer
The fickle finger of fate has struck at Microsoft HQ, with a list of the company's E3 announcements being posted to the Xbox.com site ahead of schedule - and there's at least one surprise spoiled as a result.For the last week,...
California Privacy Bill Fails Under Pressure From Facebook And Google
News Security
A Californian bill devised to regulate social networks with tighter privacy regulations failed to pass under pressure from high-profile tech companies.Organisations like Facebook, Google and various technology industry...
Possible iPhone iOS 5 Notification Bar Leak
News Software
The long-awaited WWDC 2011 starts today and we will finally get to see what surprises Apple has in store. One recent leak apparently showing the notification bar on Apple’s new iOS 5 is available on the web probably...
Post Google, Schmidt goes Gaga
News Web
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has found himself a somewhat unexpected bedfellow: tea-loving pop noodle Lady Gaga, as the two team up to back a new social networking startup called Backplane. Backplane has so far has raised over...
1,600 show up at birthday party in Facebook mixup
News Web
Over 1,600 people turned up at a teenager's birthday party in Germany after a Facebook mixup sent them all invites. German teen Thessa was expecting a few pals to show up at her 16th birthday birthday, but instead she was...
Steve Jobs To Reveal iOS 5 & iCloud, What About iPhone 5?
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has confirmed that Steve Jobs will climb onto the WWDC stage to introduce the new iOS 5 and iCloud but no mention has been made about the iPhone 5. "Apple CEO Steve Jobs will open the company's annual Worldwide Developers...
Nokia X7 now on sale
News Mobile & Telco
Finnish phone maker Nokia has unveiled the X7 large screen mobile phone is now available to pre-order, from their own website on a £25 a month contract.Nokia’s X7 was announced at the same time as their E6 business handset, where...
Microsoft's Wireless Desktop 2000 Comes With 128 Bit AES Encryption
News Security
Microsoft has launched its new Wireless Desktop 2000, a keyboard and mouse combo with advanced security features.The combo, which can be purchased from the official Microsoft site, is currently priced at $40 and it is...
Google Acquires PostRank To Strengthen Its Social Media Services
News Web
Google has moved to acquire social media analytics firm PostRank and plans to incorporate the company into its future social media strategy.PostRank announced the acquisition on its blog but did not disclose the financial...
Chinese State Media Warns Google Not To Become A 'Political Tool'
News Security
State-owned Chinese media has warned Google not to become a tool of ‘political contention’ between the US and China.In an editorial piece in the Chinese-language People’s Daily Overseas, a part of the State...
Build Your Own Google Chrome OS Laptop For Under £200
News Hardware
Kogan announced the launch of a Chromium OS laptop a few days ago, which comes with an open source version of Google's Chrome OS but also lacks some of the distinctive hardware features of real Chrome OS laptops like dedicated...
Xbox Kinect Lets Players Duel With Lightsabers And Use The Force
News Consumer
Xbox 360 maker Microsoft is expected to introduce several new games during the E3 conference that will enhance gamers’ Kinect experience.First up is a new Kinect game on Disneyland, which will allow Kinect users to take...
Activision drops Call of Duty Elite details
News Software
Activision has published details of what users can expect from its forthcoming Call of Duty Elite service, but only for those players not willing to cough up for the subscription-based premium version. The gaming giant says it...
New Steve Jobs Biography Is Being Heavily Preordered
News Consumer
Amazon has started offering the official biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs on pre-order, eight months before it is expected to be released.Written by notable biographer Walter Isaacson, the book is titled ‘iSteve : The ...
Nintendo 3DS update brings game glitch
News Consumer
An update to Nintendo's 3DS hand-held console, designed to bring new features, comes with a nasty bug - causing copies of the racing game Ridge Racer 3D to crash in certain scenarios.The update was written to bring the 3DS eShop...
More than just a meeting: The cement of business
News Hardware
Meetings are a big part of the fabric of our working lives, and it is important to remember that today’s company meetings are not just about bridging geography; they are the medium through which symbiotic business...
Sony's European Subsidiary Hacked Again, No Private Data Compromised
News Security
The unrelenting cyber attacks against Sony continue with the company’s European subsidiary website falling victim to yet another security breach.Sony admitted the incident taking place, but reassured its users,...
Noon News: Groupon Posts Massive Revenue Increase, Charge iPhone With Solar Powered Bikini, Office 365 May Launch By June End
News Business & Government
Deal-of-the-day website Groupon reported that its revenue for the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year is close to $645 million. This is a significant increase for the company, which made about $713 million during the entire...
New games come to Xperia Play
News Mobile & Telco
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has announced a series of new games coming to the Xperia ‘PlayStation’ handset, which includes Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard along with 20 other titles.The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has the ability...
Apple Hires Developer Behind MobileNotifier App For Jailbroken iPhones
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has reportedly hired the iOS developer behind the popular MobileNotifier app for jailbroken iPhone devices.The MobileNotifier is generally regarded as a huge improvement over Apple’s existing notifier for the iPhone...
Solar-Powered Bikini Keeps Your iPod Charged At The Beach
News Consumer
A researcher from New York has come up with a new way for beach goers to keep their iPods and iPhones charged at the beach, when an open socket is nowhere to be found. Inventor Andrew Schneider has designed a solar-powered...
Microsoft clings to Nvidia anti-takeover deal
In-Depth Business & Government
Details of a deal between Microsoft and Nvidia which gives the software giant first refusal should the graphics specialist come up for sale have emerged - but why does the deal still exist?The first clue as to the existence of...
Steve Jobs Will Break Medical Leave To Debut Apple's iCloud
News Consumer
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who is currently on his third medical leave, is expected to break his medical leave to unveil the company's new cloud service, dubbed iCloud, at the World Wide Developers conference today,...
Adobe plugs hole with Flash Player update
News Software
Adobe has released an update for all flavours of its media mangler Flash Player which plugs a hole which could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Flash Player versions up to and including 103.181.16 for Windows, Mac,...
Office 365 Will Be Available By The End Of June
News Cloud
Microsoft is planning to launch the cloud-based version of its popular Office productivity suite by the end of June.Office 365 is a cloud based version of Office suite which comes with World, Excel and PowerPoint. The online...
Rumour: iCloud will use new Time Capsule hardware
News Hardware
In just a few short hours Steve Jobs will step onto the stage at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference to reveal details of the latest versions of OSX Lion, iOS5 and the launch of iCloud. Until now, it has been assumed by...
Groupon Shows Incredible Revenue Growth But Still Posts A Loss For Last Quarter
News Business & Government
Deal-of-the-day website Groupon reported that its revenue for the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year is close to $645 million. This is a significant increase for the company, which made about $713 million during the entire...
Nvidia announces 3D Vision E3 footage deal
News Consumer
The E3 Expo, the world's biggest trade show for the computer and video games industry, is nearly upon us once again - and for those who can't make the trip to Los Angeles, Nvidia has some good news: footage from the event will be...
ZOMG Enters The Oxford Dictionary Online
News Consumer
Nearly half of the new entries to Oxford Dictionary Online are inspired by technology or online slang.Words like ‘ZOMG’ and Twittersphere’ are among the 35 new words or abbreviations that have made into the...
Samsung Drops 3D TV Price To Under £400
News Hardware
The price of 3D-capable television sets has dropped significantly since the first models were launched around 18 months ago, with the cheapest product now available for £399.98. The Samsung PS43D490 is a decent 43-inch...
Intel Reveals Two iPad 2 Secrets
News Hardware
Intel engineers have finally cracked the secret of what makes the Apple iPad 2 a successful product, despite the fact that it does not actually have the fastest hardware in the tablet world. Techradar was shown a single core...
Computex 2011: ARM'ing The Future
News Hardware
There's no denying that ARM has got some fantastic momentum behind it at the moment; Microsoft's Windows 8 partner preview was as much about the semiconductor company as it was about the next version of Windows itself. And the...
Sony Ericsson Xperia pro goes on sale
News Mobile & Telco
Joint Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturing venture Sony Ericsson has opened up pre-ordering of the Qwerty keyboard based Xperia pro handset, for £349.99.Sony Ericsson announced a trio of Android phones at Mobile World...
Leaked Video Shows Specs For Motorola's Droid 3
News Mobile & Telco
Motorola’s highly anticipated Droid 3 smartphone has been leaked in a series of video tutorials on YouTube.The official looking videos were posted online by German technology blog Phone Pads. The videos reveal some of...
Fake Construction Crew Attaches Microsoft Sign To Apple Store In Hamburg
News Consumer
A group of pranksters in Germany has defaced Apple’s soon-to-be-launched store just outside Hamburg, Germany with a huge Windows logo.The pranksters also uploaded a video on YouTube depicting how they put a huge Windows...
AMNews: OnLive Confirms Support Beyond HTC Flyer, HTC Chacha Upgraded, HTC Sensation Price Wars
News Consumer
Cloud gaming outfit OnLive has confirmed that it will be extending its wireless controller compatibility beyond the HTC Flyer, the only Android device that currently supports it. The company told PCMagazine in an email "The...
Nintendo Hacked By LulzSec, No Serious Damage Done
News Security
Nintendo is the latest major company to suffer a cyber attack on its servers, only this time no consumer data has been leaked.Nintendo said that servers belonging to one of its affiliates in the US was hacked ‘a few ...
