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Articles Posted on 30 August 2011

Why It Doesn't Make Sense For Samsung To Buy HP's WebOS

Why It Doesn't Make Sense For Samsung To Buy HP's WebOS

News Hardware

There have been some claims - within the ODM/OEM community in Taiwan - that Samsung is planning to buy HP's WebOS platform after the company's decision to get rid of its Personal Systems Group in the short term. But this doesn't...


£44.99 Western Digital Elements External Hard Drive - 1TB

£44.99 Western Digital Elements External Hard Drive - 1TB

Deals Consumer

Western Digital brings to you a high end external desktop hard drive with space enough to store your precious files for nearly a lifetime in an amazingly affordable price.Storage solution provider Western Digital is offering its...


Facebook Is Latest Tech Company To Crowdsource Bug Hunting: Here's Why

Facebook Is Latest Tech Company To Crowdsource Bug Hunting: Here's Why

News Security

Social networking giant Facebook revealed that it has paid out $40,000 in connection with its security bug bounty program which started in July 2011, with one person having received $7,000 for discovering six issues. Apart from...


£899 New Apple iMac MC309 21.5" All-in-One Desktop Computer

£899 New Apple iMac MC309 21.5" All-in-One Desktop Computer

Deals Consumer

The iMac MC309 from Apple is powered by the Intel Core i5-2400S Processor and is powered by the advanced Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard operating system which comes pre-installed. The all-in-one desktop computer boasts of a generous...


Microsoft Pumps Native Support For ISO In Windows 8

Microsoft Pumps Native Support For ISO In Windows 8

News Software

In a latest disclosure made by Windows 8 Engineering team, it has been confirmed that Windows 8 OS will come equipped with built-in ISO mounting and VHD (virtual hard disk) features.According to Microsoft, both these features...


£119.99 OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB PCI-Express Graphics Card with Free Deus Ex PC Game

£119.99 OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB PCI-Express Graphics Card with Free Deus Ex PC Game

Deals Consumer

The OcUK ATI Radeon HD graphics card gives you the power to indulge in high-end, explosive and HD gaming involving detailed graphics rendering and that too at an affordable price. The chipset belongs to the HD 6870 family line up...


Wikileaks Releases Documents about the Counterfeiting of Apple Products in China and Other Asian Regions

Wikileaks Releases Documents about the Counterfeiting of Apple Products in China and Other Asian Regions

News Business & Government

Measures being taken by the Cupertino-based iPhone maker Apple Inc. to counter the booming counterfeit industry in China and other Asian nations are not adequate and are also somewhat slow, according to a shocking revelation...


Legal Questions Surround New File Sharing Website

Legal Questions Surround New File Sharing Website

News Hardware

The co-founders responsible for the massively popular free torrent site The Pirate Bay have reportedly designed a brand-new site named Bayfiles which they claim is entirely legal and respects all existing copyright rules....


Citrix's Cloud.com to Become Open Source

Citrix's Cloud.com to Become Open Source

News Cloud

Virtualisation equipment maker Citrix has decided to fully open source CloudStack on Cloud.com for developers.The company, which acquired Cloud.com back in July, said that it finished adding the final bits of CloudStack code to...


EA Boss Bets on PlayStation Vita

EA Boss Bets on PlayStation Vita

News Consumer

Frank Gibeau, the president of the maker of massively popular titles such as Need for Speed and the FIFA series, EA Games, is pretty confident about Sony’s forthcoming venture in the handheld gaming console market, the...


Google Asks Users to Report Spammer Websites

Google Asks Users to Report Spammer Websites

News Consumer

Search engine giant Google has asked its users to help it take down scrapper sites from its platform.Scrapper sites, which are primarily run by spammers, copy their content from more popular websites and then uses the...


Late News: Tim Cook is $384 Million Richer, Fake Google Certificate, Legend of Zelda Wii Bundle

Late News: Tim Cook is $384 Million Richer, Fake Google Certificate, Legend of Zelda Wii Bundle

News Business & Government

Tim Cook has been granted a million shares of the company, the value of which is believed to be somewhere near the $384 million mark over a period of the next 10 years. The move was disclosed by the company on Friday just a...


IBM Develops New App for Smartphones to Access IBM Connections for Free

IBM Develops New App for Smartphones to Access IBM Connections for Free

News Consumer

PC and laptop maker IBM is developing new technology that allows smartphone users to access its enterprise social media platform, IBM Connections.The company has already developed a dedicated app for the Apple iOS,...


Filmmaker Rob Spence Trades Old Prosthetic Eye for New Eye with Camera

Filmmaker Rob Spence Trades Old Prosthetic Eye for New Eye with Camera

News Consumer

Canadian film-maker Rob Spence, who had lost an eye in a shooting accident as a child, has replaced his prosthetic eye with a one that has a video camera in it.Aiming to break new grounds in film making, Spence, working with...


Hewlett-Packard PC Division Likely To Be Spun Off

Hewlett-Packard PC Division Likely To Be Spun Off

News Business & Government

The head of Hewlett-Packard’s personal computer division has claimed that the division will retain the title of world’s largest PC maker - even after a spin-off.According to an article on Reuters, Todd Bradley,...


Sainsbury’s Shopping Trolleys Get iPad Docking Station

Sainsbury’s Shopping Trolleys Get iPad Docking Station

News Consumer

UK retailer Sainsbury’s is trialling a new shopping trolley which will allow people to play with their iPads while they shop.The company is testing the trolleys in its store at Cromwell Road in Kensington, London. The...


VMware Catches Cloud Fever as Paul Maritz Lays Forth Cloud Ambitions

VMware Catches Cloud Fever as Paul Maritz Lays Forth Cloud Ambitions

News Cloud

According to a recent revelation made by VMware CEO Paul Maritz, the executives in his company, just like their counterparts from most of the other IT vendors, are currently focusing hard on the possibilities and opportunities in...


AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless Form Joint Venture to Increase Mobile Phone Consumerism

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless Form Joint Venture to Increase Mobile Phone Consumerism

News Consumer

Telecom giants AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless are investing over $100 million in a joint venture aimed at allowing consumers to make purchases using their mobile phones, according to new reports.A few industry...


£64.99 Samsung CLP320 A4 Colour Laser Printer

£64.99 Samsung CLP320 A4 Colour Laser Printer

Deals Consumer

Colour printing couldn’t have been easier, fun and efficient as with the compact, powerful and easy to use, the Samsung CLP-320 colour laser printer. The Samsung CLP-320 is an advanced colour printer designed with high...


Tetris arrives on Android

Tetris arrives on Android

for free

News Mobile & Telco

Computer games manufacturer Electronic Arts has announced that it has released the popular Tetris game for Android, completely free of charge.This news arrives only a short time after EA brought out Scrabble for the Google mobile...


Google, OpenDNS and Verisign Develop New Technology Aimed at Speeding Up the Internet

Google, OpenDNS and Verisign Develop New Technology Aimed at Speeding Up the Internet

News Hardware

Internet search giant Google Inc., along with OpenDNS, Verisign and others, have developed brand-new technology aimed increasing the rate of delivery of Web-based data all around the world.According to reports, this new...


Motorola to Offer New Defy+ Smartphone

Motorola to Offer New Defy+ Smartphone

News Consumer

Android mobile phone maker Motorola has unveiled a much faster version of its highly popular Defy smartphone.The new Defy+ will feature Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a faster web browser, a decent 5 MP camera, 3.7-inch 864x480...


Facebook's 'Bug Bounty Program' Uncovers Security Threats within the Platform with Help from Experts

Facebook's 'Bug Bounty Program' Uncovers Security Threats within the Platform with Help from Experts

News Security

Social networking giant Facebook has reportedly spent $40,000 (£25,000) in the first 3 weeks since the start of the "Bug Bounty Program" which rewards anyone who notifies the company of an undiscovered...


Schmidt Confident of Google TV’s Potential

Schmidt Confident of Google TV’s Potential

News Web

Seems like the Mountain View based Internet search giant Google Inc.’s acting chairman Eric Schmidt is quite optimistic about the company’s venture in the television industry, Google TV, which has so far failed to...


Supermarket Giant Tesco Signs IT Management Deal with CA Technologies

Supermarket Giant Tesco Signs IT Management Deal with CA Technologies

News Hardware

Supermarket giant Tesco has signed an IT management deal with CA Technologies for £27 million.Under the deal, CA will provide the retailer with IT management software such as Service Operations Insight, SysView...


Apple Previews New iTunes Matches Service for the iCloud Platform

Apple Previews New iTunes Matches Service for the iCloud Platform

News Cloud

Yesterday, iPhone maker Apple Inc. unveiled a preview of the company’s upcoming iTunes Match services for the iCloud platform. Now, according to sources familiar with the product, the developers’ build of the iTunes...


Google hires hacker for web security push

Google hires hacker for web security push

Also a nice way to shut him up

News Web

Google+ hacker Florian Rohrweck, the source of much pre-release information about Google's social networking service, has announced that he is to join the advertising giant to work on improving the company's security.Rohrweck's...


AT&T to Launch LG Thrill 4G in US by September

AT&T to Launch LG Thrill 4G in US by September

News Consumer

US wireless carrier AT&T has confirmed that it will be launching the LG Thrill 4G device in early September of this year.The company said in a post on Twitter that the glass-free 3D smartphone, which will support...


Samsung to Introduce Three Smartphones on Samsung's Bada 2.0 Platform

Samsung to Introduce Three Smartphones on Samsung's Bada 2.0 Platform

News Consumer

Samsung has produced three new smartphones based on its home-grown Bada 2.0 platform to reduce its dependence on Android and to compete with Apple.The three new smartphones, running on the latest Bada 2.0 platform, are part...


Rural communities to get free broadband from Three

Rural communities to get free broadband from Three

With hot-spots to not-spots

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone network Three and The Countryside Alliance have formed a partnership with local members of parliament and campaign groups to deliver rural fixed-line broadband, to those who cannot normally receive high-speed...


Why Amazon Could Ship "Up To" Five Million Of Its iPad 2 Rival Tablets By Year's End

Why Amazon Could Ship "Up To" Five Million Of Its iPad 2 Rival Tablets By Year's End

News Hardware

News that one major analyst firm, Forrester Research, is predicting that Amazon could ship up to five million tablets in just over three months doesn't come as a major surprise to us. Amazon's tablet strategy will differ...


Could HP Revive The TouchPad Tablet?

Could HP Revive The TouchPad Tablet?

News Hardware

It seems that HP has been taken aback by the significant surge in popularity caused by the decision of the company to cut the price of the TouchPad to only £89. Not only did it managed to whip up general interest enough to...


Forged Google Certificate Lurking On The Web

Forged Google Certificate Lurking On The Web

News Security

Security experts have discovered a fake web certificate for Google websites doing the rounds in the wild.The fraudulent web certificate for Google.com allows hackers to impersonate Google websites like Gmail.According to The...


Computing pioneer Tony Sale dies aged 80

Computing pioneer Tony Sale dies aged 80

Leaves behind a legacy at Bletchley Park

News Consumer

Tony Sale, computing pioneer and the man behind the rebuild of the Colossus machine at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, has died aged 80.Born on the 30th of January 1931, Anthony Edgar Sale - Tony Sale to his...


Anonymous hackers take down EDL web site

Anonymous hackers take down EDL web site

English defenceless

News Security

Right-wing Muslim-baiting nut-jobs the English Defence League have come in for a bit of a poking with a sharp stick wielded by hackers with a conscience. #TeamPrinc3ss is credited with a part in the hack, though to be honest we...


Tim Cook Bags One Million Apple Shares

Tim Cook Bags One Million Apple Shares

News Business & Government

The iPhone maker Apple Inc.’s new chief executive officer Tim Cook has been granted a million shares of the company, the value of which is believed to be somewhere near the $384 million mark over a period of the next 10...


False Google certificate causes security panic

False Google certificate causes security panic

Iranian government accused of MITM attack

News Security

A Netherlands-based certificate authority has been tricked into issuing a wildcard certificate for Google's primary domain to a third party, in an attack believed to be designed to sniff on the traffic of Iranian...


Sainsbury's decks out trolleys with iPad docks

Sainsbury's decks out trolleys with iPad docks

Off its trolley

News Hardware

Supermarket giant Sainsbury's said it is fitting iPod docks, battery chargers and speakers to its trolleys in a trial move. The outfit's West London shop on Cromwell Road will be the first branch of the mega-retailer to take...


Nintendo To Launch Legend of Zelda Wii Remote Bundle

Nintendo To Launch Legend of Zelda Wii Remote Bundle

News Consumer

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo is planning to release a gold remote for its Wii gaming console as a part of a new Zelda gaming bundle.The new ‘blingy’ remote will come with the $69.99 bundle which will also contain...


Disgo 7-inch Tablet Now Available From Under £60

Disgo 7-inch Tablet Now Available From Under £60

News Hardware

The price of the Disgo 6000, a nifty little tablet with a 7-inch display, has dropped to less than £60 on Ebay from reputable sellers, possibly a sign that a new model is coming given that the device was released last year...


Windows Phone Marketplace Now Has 30K Apps

Windows Phone Marketplace Now Has 30K Apps

News Mobile & Telco

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace app store has achieved the 30,000 apps milestone as the competition in the smartphone market heats up.According to the latest statistics provided by Windows Phone App List, the app...


Samsung launches trio of bada phones

Samsung launches trio of bada phones

With the new operating system

News Mobile & Telco

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has announced three new handsets running their bada OS – the Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y devices.The news of the introduction of these mobiles into the Samsung arsenal of phones comes...


Noon News: Mozilla to Enhance Firefox for Android, Samsung May Buy WebOS, TomTom Redefines Navigation

Noon News: Mozilla to Enhance Firefox for Android, Samsung May Buy WebOS, TomTom Redefines Navigation

News Mobile & Telco

It has been revealed by a DoJ official that Larry Page, the CEO of Google, was aware that the search engine giant was placing ads for illegal online Canadian pharmaceuticals. Peter Neronha has told The Wall Street Journal that...


CyanogenMod team puts Android on the TouchPad

CyanogenMod team puts Android on the TouchPad

Still a way to go on the project, mind

News Software

Efforts to install Google's Android operating system on the cut-price HP TouchPad tablet have reached a new milestone: the first successful boot of the popular CyanogenMod 7 firmware on the device.The HP TouchPad, by default,...


Time Warner Profiting from Guy Fawkes Mask Used by Anonymous

Time Warner Profiting from Guy Fawkes Mask Used by Anonymous

News Business & Government

Controversial hacktivist group Anonymous’ relentless strikes targeted at various businesses, government agencies etc. may have caused havoc in many circles, but one big-fish in the corporate world has actually benefited...


Samsung touted as potential webOS buyer

Samsung touted as potential webOS buyer

Still taking the tablets

News Mobile & Telco

Samsung, as we wrote recently, is the US tech industry's new bogeyman. It's far too big and powerful for the liking of the likes of Apple or Intel, never mind HP or Qualcomm. While we didn't think much of the rumours that...


Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon Enables Quick File Operations

Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon Enables Quick File Operations

News Software

Microsoft revealed that the Windows 8 explorer or in other words the file manager shall be ‘ribbonized’. Microsoft published the information in a Microsoft official blog post in the midst of almost confirmed report of...


Microsoft Lures Salesforce, SAP Customers With Rebate Offer

Microsoft Lures Salesforce, SAP Customers With Rebate Offer

News Business & Government

Software giant Microsoft has launched a new campaign to siphon customers from Salesforce and Oracle for its own cloud computing services.Microsoft’s ‘Cloud CRM for Less’ campaign aims to offer rebate of $150 per...


Amazon Android Tablets Likely to Disrupt Sales of Apple iPads

Amazon Android Tablets Likely to Disrupt Sales of Apple iPads

News Business & Government

Online retail giant Amazon Inc.’s new found interest in the ever expanding tablet market could soon change the status quo of the industry - at least that is what many experts have been claiming ever since reports started...


Carphone Warehouse Drops Price Of Samsung Galaxy Tab Rival To £145

Carphone Warehouse Drops Price Of Samsung Galaxy Tab Rival To £145

News Hardware

Those who missed out on the HP TouchPad deal could have a look at the Arnova 7c G2 tablet from French company Archos, which costs £145. While the tablet only comes with a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a 800x480...


Amazon to become synonymous with Android tablets

Amazon to become synonymous with Android tablets

Forrester analyst claims a launch impending

News Mobile & Telco

Despite silence from the company itself, book seller turned general-purpose retailer Amazon is thought to be launching a an Android tablet as early as this October - and at least one analyst believes that it could be a major...


TomTom Integrates Twitter, Yelp With Navigation

TomTom Integrates Twitter, Yelp With Navigation

News Hardware

Navigation equipment maker TomTom has dished out a portable navigation device which will come with several popular travel apps like Expedia and Yelp.The TomTom GO LIVE 1535M is powered by the powerful TomTom HD Traffic which...


Samsung Mulls WebOS Acquisition, Hires Former HP Vice President

Samsung Mulls WebOS Acquisition, Hires Former HP Vice President

News Mobile & Telco

Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung is considering the acquisition of HP owned webOS mobile operating system to take on Apple.Recently, Hewlett-Packard announced that it will no longer make devices based on webOS,...


The Pirate Bay founders go legit with BayFiles

The Pirate Bay founders go legit with BayFiles

Web-powered sharing for legitimate files only

News Web

The founders of The Pirate Bay, possibly the best-known BitTorrent tracking service in existence, are going legit with a new file-sharing site which they claim will adhere to all copyright rules and takedown requests.BayFiles, as...


Samsung Confirms LTE Based Tablet & Smartphone

Samsung Confirms LTE Based Tablet & Smartphone

News Mobile & Telco

Seems like Samsung is getting really serious about its LTE and LTE enabled product line. The Korea based electronics giant has announced two new products in the LTE family line-up, the LTE Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the LTE Galaxy S...


Mozilla Planning Firefox Expansion on Mobile Devices

Mozilla Planning Firefox Expansion on Mobile Devices

News Software

Open source outfit Mozilla is set to prioritise the development of Firefox for Android as it seeks to expand its browser dominance to smartphone segment as well.Firefox is already the world’s second most popular desktop web...


Android Malware Issues Rise : The Implications

Android Malware Issues Rise : The Implications

News Security

New research from McAfee suggests that Android is the most attacked mobile OS, jumping 76 per cent in Q2 this year.  Clearly there is a correlation here with usage. As smartphones increase in popularity, it is a given that...


BlackBerry Torch 9860 now available with Vodafone

BlackBerry Torch 9860 now available with Vodafone

Big Red gets the Storm replacement

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone network Vodafone is now retailing the full touch screen BlackBerry 9860 mobile phone, on contracts from £30 a month.The Research In Motion Torch 9860 was launched at the start of August, as a part of the largest...


Nokia developer forum hacked

Nokia developer forum hacked

Email addresses liberated

News Security

Nokia's online  Developer Forum found itself the victim on a hack over the weekend. The phone maker confessed that a database table containing developer forum members' email addresses had been accessed. Attackers...


Official Says Larry Page Quite Informed of Illegal Drug Ads

Official Says Larry Page Quite Informed of Illegal Drug Ads

News Business & Government

Google CEO Larry Page was aware that the search engine giant was placing ads for illegal online Canadian pharmaceuticals.Peter Neronha, a US Justice Department official has told The Wall Street Journal that Page was aware that...


LulzSec exposes alleged child porn traders

LulzSec exposes alleged child porn traders

Sabu gives the LulzBoat an outing

News Security

Apparently operating under the semi-defunct LulzSec banner, infamous hacker Sabu appears to have taken over a website forum alleged to to be trading in child porn. Over 7000 account log-in details for the site...


AMNews: White iPod Touch, HTC Vigor Images Leaked, Rural 3G Connectivity Initiative by Three UK

AMNews: White iPod Touch, HTC Vigor Images Leaked, Rural 3G Connectivity Initiative by Three UK

News Hardware

According to new reports Apple Inc. is planning to offer a white version of its massively popular 5th generation iPod Touch. Apparently, iFixDirect, a key part supplier to the Cupertino-based tech heavyweight recently received a...

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