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Articles Posted on 29 June 2011

Nokia N5 Smartphone Coming Up With Symbian Belle?

Nokia N5 Smartphone Coming Up With Symbian Belle?

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia will launch more N-series smartphones soon with pictures of the N5 having emerged and news that the N6 and N7 will follow shortly. As it stands, the N8 and the N9 have been officially unveiled by the company with the two...


Microsoft Windows Phone 8 To Be Called Tango?

Microsoft Windows Phone 8 To Be Called Tango?

News Software

After Windows Phone 7.5 AKA Mango, Microsoft may be mulling plans to release a new update called Tango, according to sources based in Taiwan. Digitimes reports that at least one makor ODM maker, Compal Communications, has...


RIM To Scrap iPad 2 Rival Tablet To Speed Up QNX Superphone Development

RIM To Scrap iPad 2 Rival Tablet To Speed Up QNX Superphone Development

News Hardware

There are claims that Canadian manufacturer RIM will abandon the development of a 10-inch Blackberry Playbook and focus instead on the forthcoming QNX-based superphone according to N4BB. The handset, like the Bold Touhch 9900,...


Apple To Launch Free iPhone 3GS With iPhone 5 Says Analyst

Apple To Launch Free iPhone 3GS With iPhone 5 Says Analyst

News Mobile & Telco

One of the more vocal and well known Apple analysts, Mike Abramsky of investment bank RBC, issued a note earlier today saying that Apple will not release a cheaper version of the iPhone 4 at the same time as the new iPhone...


FBI Continues LulzSec Investigation, Nabs 29 Year Old Lady From Iowa

FBI Continues LulzSec Investigation, Nabs 29 Year Old Lady From Iowa

News Security

LulzSec may have officially disbanded after 50 days of reign of terror, but law enforcement agencies in the US are showing no signs of slowing down the hunt for the members of the notorious hacking-collective. The Federal Bureau...


Capcom Blocks Resident Evil Game Reset, Resale Value Reduced

Capcom Blocks Resident Evil Game Reset, Resale Value Reduced

News Consumer

Game publisher Capcom has added a new and infuriating feature to its new Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D game for Nintendo 3DS that prevents consumers from reselling the game.The game has been designed in a way that it makes it...


Pope Benedict Rides The Social Network Wave, First Tweet Through iPad

Pope Benedict Rides The Social Network Wave, First Tweet Through iPad

News Web

In what could be termed as the beginning of a revolutionary transformation in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI has become the first Pope in the history of Christianity to ride the social networking wave.The 84 year old, who prefers...


Data Generated This Year Would Fill 115 Billion 16 GB iPads Reports IDC

Data Generated This Year Would Fill 115 Billion 16 GB iPads Reports IDC

News Business & Government

A report released by the IDC has revealed that the volume of digital data that will be generated this year will be enough to fill 115 billion 16GB Apple iPads.The research firm said that this year, 1.8 Zettabytes of data will be...


ZTE San Francisco Sales Hit 2 Million Mark

ZTE San Francisco Sales Hit 2 Million Mark

News Mobile & Telco

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE, has announced that its San Francisco Smartphone sold over 2 million units worldwide hence making it one of the best selling Smartphone available in the market today.The “San...


Analyst says free iPhone 3Gs could double market

Analyst says free iPhone 3Gs could double market

Not if Apple has anything to do with it

In-Depth Mobile & Telco

A number of normally sober tech sites have picked up on the ramblings of RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky who has decided to share his opinion, apropos nothing very much at all, that Apple could double its presence in the US...


Samsung Galaxy S2 Tops UK Charts, HTC LG May Dominate in Summer

Samsung Galaxy S2 Tops UK Charts, HTC LG May Dominate in Summer

News Mobile & Telco

Samsung Galaxy S2 has once again beaten Apple’s iPhone to become the most popular phone in the United Kingdom.According to tech website T3, Samsung’s Smartphone, Galaxy S II has left behind Apple’s phenomenal...


Updated News App Launched By 'The Times' For iPhone And iPad

Updated News App Launched By 'The Times' For iPhone And iPad

News Mobile & Telco

The Times has launched an updated version of its application for Apple’s iPhone and the iPad tablet PC device.Tech website Know Your Mobile has reported that British weekly newspaper “The Times” has released the...


Apple To Ship 30M iPads, 17M Macs In 2011, Analyst Estimates

Apple To Ship 30M iPads, 17M Macs In 2011, Analyst Estimates

News Business & Government

Apple is expected to ship 30 million iPad units and 17 million Mac computers this year, according to Needham & Company's analyst Charlie Wolf. The analyst has revised his predictions after the iPad 2 sold 9 million units in...


Call Of Duty: Black Ops All Time Best Selling Game In The UK

Call Of Duty: Black Ops All Time Best Selling Game In The UK

News Consumer

Call of Duty: Black Ops has beaten current best seller Modern Warfare 2 to become the all-time best selling game in the United Kingdom.Gfk Chart Track has revealed that Call of Duty : Black Ops which was launched in November...


UK ASA Slams Virgin Media Over Misleading Ads

UK ASA Slams Virgin Media Over Misleading Ads

News Hardware

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has slammed ISP Virgin Media over the ‘Stop the Broadband Con’ campaign.The ASA was acting on eight complaints bought forward by Virgin Media rivals BT and Sky. In its decision,...


Motorola's Android Lineup Ready To Combat iPhone 5

Motorola's Android Lineup Ready To Combat iPhone 5

News Mobile & Telco

Motorola is gathering its smartphone army to launch a killer attack against Apple's iPhone 5. The company has already lined up five enhanced smartphones which will blow customers away thanks to their impressive...


£39.99 Asus PL-X32 200MBPS EUP Ready Twin Pack Powerline Adapters

£39.99 Asus PL-X32 200MBPS EUP Ready Twin Pack Powerline Adapters

Deals Consumer

The Asus PL-X32 200MBPS EUP Ready Twin Pack Powerline Adapters allows you to exploit the existing electrical wiring in your home or office to connect all the systems in your network with a high speed, 200 Mbps connection. The...


T-Mobile sells HTC 'Facebook'phone

T-Mobile sells HTC 'Facebook'phone

and before Orange too

News Mobile & Telco

One part of the mobile phone network umbrella Everything Everywhere company T-Mobile is now retailing the the social networking HTC ChaCha mobile, free on contracts starting from a little as £20.42 a month.The other part of...


Alcatel Puts Out A 400 Gbit Routing Chip

Alcatel Puts Out A 400 Gbit Routing Chip

News Hardware

Communications hardware manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new network processor that has been designed to meet the demand of bandwidth-hogging services.According to the company, the FP3 processor is extremely fast,...


Drop In Apple's Sales Prior To iPhone 5 Launch Predicted

Drop In Apple's Sales Prior To iPhone 5 Launch Predicted

News Mobile & Telco

Apple's sales will drop ahead of the iPhone 5's release, which means the company could sell between 15.2 million and 16.2 million iPhones this quarter, Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi predicts. Previous Wall Street...


White space Super Wi-Fi trial begins in Cambridge

White space Super Wi-Fi trial begins in Cambridge

Using left-over TV frequencies

News Mobile & Telco

Microsoft today begins one of the largest trials of 'white space' Wi-Fi - which promises to bring faster Internet connections to rural communities - in Cambridge. Dubbed 'Super Wi-Fi' by leading Microsofties, the technology uses...


£14 HP Deskjet 1000 Colour Printer

£14 HP Deskjet 1000 Colour Printer

Deals Consumer

The HP Deskjet 1000 Printer is a dedicated solution to all your print requirements. The device deploys the HP Thermal Inkjet technology facilitating you with really high quality print out with up to 600 dpi, for black and Up to...


Buy WebOS Tablet Now And Get $50 Rebate From HP

Buy WebOS Tablet Now And Get $50 Rebate From HP

News Hardware

Hewlett Packard has announced that the company will be offering a $50 rebate to early buyers of its upcoming webOS based TouchPad tablet PC device.The company said in a post on the official HP Palm Blog that the TouchPad offer...


Former Microsoft Prosecutor Is Now Google's Defence Lead

Former Microsoft Prosecutor Is Now Google's Defence Lead

News Business & Government

Google has hired former Department of Justice attorney Jeffrey Blattner to defend itself against the probe being conducted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Reuters reports.Blattner, who worked as the Special Counsel for...


iPhone 5 And iPad 2 More Secure Than Android Rivals, Symantec Finds

iPhone 5 And iPad 2 More Secure Than Android Rivals, Symantec Finds

News Security

Apple's iOS offers more protection against malware threats than Android, a recent Symantec report reveals. iOS users enjoy "full protection" against malware attacks, while Android users are a lot more vulnerable since their OS...


HP To Develop Cloud Computing Products in China Informs Apothekar

HP To Develop Cloud Computing Products in China Informs Apothekar

News Business & Government

The chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. has said that the company will develop cloud computing products in China.CEO Leo Apotheker, on Wednesday revealed company’s plan to develop cloud computing products after...


1plusV hits Google with €295 million damage claim

1plusV hits Google with €295 million damage claim

French outfit can't wait for the EU to make up its mind

News Web

French vertical search specialist 1plusV has announced it is filing papers before the Commercial Court of Paris, seeking €295 million in damages against Google and Google France.The filing follows a complaint filed in...


Bank of America IT Chief Claims HP, IBM And Oracle Not Agile Enough For Cloud

Bank of America IT Chief Claims HP, IBM And Oracle Not Agile Enough For Cloud

News Cloud

A representative of Bank of America Merrill Lynch has named a few big enterprises as not agile enough in the sector of cloud computing.According to UK-based tech website Computing, a principal IT architect of Bank of America...


Oracle Exadata Helps Software Developers Move To The Cloud

Oracle Exadata Helps Software Developers Move To The Cloud

News Cloud

Oracle has launched a new partner programme for independent software vendors (ISVs) for optimising applications to run on its Exadata Database Machine and Exalogic Elastic Cloud platforms.The Oracle Exastack Program is aimed...


IBM Study Reflects Rise In Demand For Hi-Tech Healthcare Products

IBM Study Reflects Rise In Demand For Hi-Tech Healthcare Products

News Business & Government

A new study conducted by International Business Machines highlights the rise in demand for hi-tech healthcare products.The study [PDF] conducted by the IBM Institute of Business Value interviewed more than 1,300 consumers that...


Apple's TV Sets To Hit The Stores In 2012?

Apple's TV Sets To Hit The Stores In 2012?

News Hardware

Apple may be planning to roll out its own TV sets next year, and thus attack a new market segment, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has suggested. Apple is really good at putting everything into one box within a coherent...


Google Tweaks Its Homepage

Google Tweaks Its Homepage

News Web

Google has given its regular homepage a subtle makeover with other tweaks for the same planned for the future.According to tech website The Inquirer, Google has made several tweaks here and there on its homepage, paving a path...


£379.99 Asus X52F-EX582V Intel Core i5 Laptop

£379.99 Asus X52F-EX582V Intel Core i5 Laptop

Deals Consumer

If you are looking for a powerful computing platform for all your productivity as well as entertainment requirements, at a fairly reasonable price, the Asus X52F-EX582V Laptop is the way to go.The product is powered by the...


TAG Heuer luxury phone goes on sale for £3,600

TAG Heuer luxury phone goes on sale for £3,600

The missing link

News Mobile & Telco

Swiss watch makers TAG Heuer has created a luxury smartphone in the TAG Heuer LINK, with costs starting from 4100 Euros.The mobile phone has been created from three years of research and development, with the same precision and...


Apple's iOS More Secure Than Android According To Symantec

Apple's iOS More Secure Than Android According To Symantec

News Security

New research has claimed that Apple’s iOS platform is more secure than rival Google’s Android mobile operating system.According to research conducted by anti-virus maker Symantec, iOS was better protected than...


Archos iPad 2 Rivals Land In UK, Starting At £199

Archos iPad 2 Rivals Land In UK, Starting At £199

News Hardware

French gadget manufacturer Archos has officially launched two Android-based tablets that differ from the rest of the competition by uniquely sporting a 250GB spinning hard disk drive. The Archos 80 G9 and the 101 G9 are...


Google launches WDYL, Takeout, and design pledge

Google launches WDYL, Takeout, and design pledge

UPDATE: Also launches Mobilize and Swiffy

News Web

While Google's planned social sharing service - Google+ - grabbed the headlines this morning, it wasn't the only change to be going on with the advertising giant's product portfolio. We take a look at the changes that are in...


WiGig pushes certification-ready 60GHz standard

WiGig pushes certification-ready 60GHz standard

Adds wireless HDMI and DisplayPort support

News Hardware

The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has announced the publication of version 1.1 of its specification, which it describes as certification-ready for vendors to start introducing support for the technology into their products.The...


£259.94 Acer Aspire 5552 AMD Athlon II 15.6-inch Laptop

£259.94 Acer Aspire 5552 AMD Athlon II 15.6-inch Laptop

Deals Consumer

The Acer Aspire 5552 Laptop is powered by the sophisticated AMD Athlon II X2 P340 / 2.2 GHz processor (L2 Cache) and it runs on the genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition.The product is equipped with a wide range of...


Microsoft Xbox 360 Is Having Trouble In Japan

Microsoft Xbox 360 Is Having Trouble In Japan

News Consumer

Microsoft is having a hard time selling its Xbox 360 gaming console in Japan even as it continues to dominate the North American market.According to an article on Adria Sang, data from a popular Japanese Xbox 360 magazine...


Customers Call Final Cut Pro X 'Unprofessional', Apple Offers Refunds

Customers Call Final Cut Pro X 'Unprofessional', Apple Offers Refunds

News Business & Government

iPhone maker Apple has reportedly decided to refund unhappy customers of its latest video editing software only within a week of its launch .According to 9 to5 Mac, Apple’s latest version of its professional movie making...


Sony Shakes Up Its Management Team

Sony Shakes Up Its Management Team

News Business & Government

Sony has announced two high profile changes in the management of its video game unit in the aftermath of the massive cyber attack it faced in April.The company announced that Kaz Hirai, the president and group CEO of Sony ...


Apple attempts to quell Final Cut Pro X anger

Apple attempts to quell Final Cut Pro X anger

FAQ post won't please everyone

News Software

Apple has responded to vociferous complaints voiced by professional film makers over the release of Final Cut Pro X, the latest version of the company's industry-standard video-editing package. As we reported yesterday, a large...


News Corp Could Sell MySpace As Early As Today

News Corp Could Sell MySpace As Early As Today

News Business & Government

There are rumours that News Corp. is finally closing a deal to sell the once dominant, now troubled social networking site MySpace. The deal, which is expected to be finalised pretty soon, may see Specific Media taking over...


Noon News: AntiSec Releases Sensitive Data, Google Swiffy Converts Flash To HTML 5, Orange Unveils Monte Carlo

Noon News: AntiSec Releases Sensitive Data, Google Swiffy Converts Flash To HTML 5, Orange Unveils Monte Carlo

News Security

Newly formed hacker collective AntiSec has released a truckload of sensitive data belonging to various governments as well as entertainment companies Universal Music Group and Viacom. AntiSec, which is comprised of members of the...


AntiSec Releases Sensitive Government And Corporate Data

AntiSec Releases Sensitive Government And Corporate Data

News Security

Newly formed hacker collective AntiSec has released a truckload of sensitive data belonging to various governments as well as entertainment companies Universal Music Group and Viacom.AntiSec, which is comprised of members of...


Google Develops Flash To HTML5 Translation Tool

Google Develops Flash To HTML5 Translation Tool

News Software

Google developed new software to convert Flash files into HTML5, which can be rendered on devices without Flash support.According to tech website CNET, Google launched this latest web-based tool in its Google Labs called Swiffy...


Vodafone exclusively gets Sony Ericsson Xperia neo, in red

Vodafone exclusively gets Sony Ericsson Xperia neo, in red

Big Red gets another big red handset

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone network Vodafone has unveiled it is solely carrying the Sony Ericsson Xperia neo mobile phone, in the colour of red - matching the carriers colour schemes.The news of this announcement came from the Vodafone ‘Coming...


Twitter founder Biz Stone flips the bird

Twitter founder Biz Stone flips the bird

Resigns in less than 140 characters

News Business & Government

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is the latest top dog at the micro-blogging outfit to join in the company's corporate game of Hokey-Cokey. Of the original founders, Jack Doresy has been out, and in again in the last few months,...


Amazon Creates Its Own Online Ad Network

Amazon Creates Its Own Online Ad Network

News Web

Online retail giant Amazon has come up with its own ad network, a move that is likely to  strengthen the company’s hold in the ad business.Its been a while since Google emerged as the king of the online ad ...


Orange Outs Monte Carlo Smartphone AKA ZTE Skate

Orange Outs Monte Carlo Smartphone AKA ZTE Skate

News Mobile & Telco

The ZTE Skate, which we saw at the Mobile World Congress, has finally been released in the UK and renamed by Orange as the Monte Carlo; the mobile phone operator ought to have high hopes for this model given the success of its...


GFI warns of Tumblr phishing epidemic

GFI warns of Tumblr phishing epidemic

Thousands of accounts hijacked, researcher claims

News Security

A widespread phishing scam on microblogging service Tumblr has successfully captured the details of thousands of accounts, security outfit GFI Labs has claimed.Christopher Boyd, a researcher at the anti-virus and anti-spyware...


LeapFrog Develops Educational Tablet For Kids

LeapFrog Develops Educational Tablet For Kids

News Mobile & Telco

Educational products manufacturer LeapFrog has launched LeapPad, a computer tablet aimed at helping children learn.LeapFrog Enterprises, an Emeryville,California-based company which designs and develops educational toys has...


FarmVille outfit proves money does grow on trees

FarmVille outfit proves money does grow on trees

Zynga eyes $1billion in cash with stock offering

News Business & Government

Maker of Facebook games Zynga, most famous for its stupidly addictive plant-'em-up FarmVille, is hoping to raise more than virtual crops with its first public stock offering. The company will file paperwork for the offering...


MasterCard Outage Apparently Not Caused By Hackers

MasterCard Outage Apparently Not Caused By Hackers

News Business & Government

Credit card services provider MasterCard has clarified that the outage its website suffered on Tuesday was not caused by a DDoS attack launched by hackers.When the website first went down on Tuesday, Anonymous supporters...


Google+ Takes On Social Networking

Google+ Takes On Social Networking

News Web

Google has again made an attempt to challenge world’s leading social networking website Facebook with an altogether new platform, Google+.On Tuesday Google released Google+ Project with four separate features, its...


T-Mobile Introduces HTC-Built MyTouch 4G Slide

T-Mobile Introduces HTC-Built MyTouch 4G Slide

News Mobile & Telco

T-Mobile has introduced a brand new slider, the MyTouch 4G Slide, which is built by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC and should go on sale in the US as early as next month. The handset is a smaller version of the Sensation with a...


Acer Targets iPad 2 With £350 Iconia A500

Acer Targets iPad 2 With £350 Iconia A500

News Hardware

Acer has announced today the launch of a new version of the Iconia A500 Android-based tablet which has half the memory of its bigger brother and comes with a suggested retail price of only £349.99. The Taiwanese...


New Study: Radio Improves People's Moods And Boosts Energy

New Study: Radio Improves People's Moods And Boosts Energy

News Consumer

In a recent survey it has been revealed that the traditional mode of entertainment, listening to the Radio, still holds its prominence despite a flair of entertainment devices available in the market. The report, titled Media...


World of Warcraft goes free with Starter Edition

World of Warcraft goes free with Starter Edition

Play up to level 20 for nowt

News Consumer

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its enormously popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft will be free to play for characters up to level 20. WoW has always offered free trials of one of the world's biggest...


Toshiba AC100 Quasi Chromebook Now Available From £140

Toshiba AC100 Quasi Chromebook Now Available From £140

News Hardware

Toshiba's attempt to produce something similar to the Chromebook might have failed, but its legacy remains with us in the form of the AC100, a laptop that weighs under 900g, comes with 3G and runs on Android. Its price has now...


Sony cops US anti-trust battery probe

Sony cops US anti-trust battery probe

Fixing on price

News Business & Government

Electronics giant Sony has revealed that it is cooperating with a probe by the US Justice Department into the global battery business. The Japanese company's US wing Sony Electronics declined to comment further on the scope of...


New Nokia handset now available

New Nokia handset now available

with a new OS

News Mobile & Telco

Finnish phone maker Nokia has unveiled their new Qwerty keyboard based E6 is now available to be purchased, along with being shipped with the update to their Symbain^3 operating system known as Anna.Nokia’s E6 builds on from the...


MySpace Will Lay Off A Third Of Its Workforce

MySpace Will Lay Off A Third Of Its Workforce

News Business & Government

Ailing social networking platform MySpace is expected to lay off 150 of its employees on Wednesday to continue cutting costs, it has been claimed.Citing an inside source, TechCrunch reported that the website, which is owned by...


Hollywood Goes After British Usenet Site

Hollywood Goes After British Usenet Site

News Business & Government

A group of Hollywood film studios has filed a lawsuit against Britain’s Internet service provider (ISP) BT for hosting a website that continuous to offer pirated versions of English movies.Hollywood film studios have...


AMNews: iPhone 5 May Get Cheaper, Office 365 Compliance Solution From Proofpoint, Acer Chromebook Launched

AMNews: iPhone 5 May Get Cheaper, Office 365 Compliance Solution From Proofpoint, Acer Chromebook Launched

News Mobile & Telco

Apple may find the argument to penetrate the mainstream segment now with a cheaper iPhone 5 compelling as two of its biggest rivals, RIMM and Nokia, are finding life difficult in the mid market. This is, in essence, what an...


Nortel's Patent Auction Begins Anew

Nortel's Patent Auction Begins Anew

News Business & Government

Nortel, the former telecom giant, has begun the auction for its 6,000 strong patent portfolio related to mobile, web and wireless technologies. The auction originally began in April when Google made a $900 million offer to...


Google+ takes aim at Facebook's crown

Google+ takes aim at Facebook's crown

Advertising giant looks to get more social with users

News Web

Google has finally unveiled its answer to the unalloyed success of Facebook: Google+, a 'social sharing' service based on the long-rumoured Google Circles product. Despite numerous denials from the company - including the claim...

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