Articles Posted on 07 November 2011
Panasonic Introduces World's Smallest 3D Camera
News Business & Government
Panasonic claimed to have launched its first 3D snapper with video capabilities. Along with it, the company also launched the newest micro four-thirds camera which looks very interesting and impressive. Categorically,...
Fujitsu Introduces New PRIMEHPC FX10 Supercomputer
News Business & Government
Just for today, Fujitsu's new supercomputer, PRIMEHPC FX10, will be available for access all around the globe. This supercomputer is tremendously powerful and fast with the capability of scaling up to 23.2 petaflops per...
Motorola Obtains Court Injunction; Prohibits Sale of Apple Products in Germany
News Business & Government
On Friday, Motorola succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction against Apple. This injunction stops Apple from selling any of its devices in Germany that violate two of Motorola wireless technology patents. It was...
Apple Testing Siri on Devices other than iPhone 4S
News Mobile & Telco
iPhone 4S' most talked about feature is without doubt, the voice command assistant, Siri; despite Apple's recommendations, hackers have tried to port the Siri Assistant on other devices, especially older iPhone models. Now,...
Armed Robbers in France Steal 6,000 Copies of Modern Warfare 3
News Consumer
It seems the craze for Call of Duty has reached a new level when this weekend armed robbers hijacked two trucks loaded with thousands of copies of Modern Warfare 3, the latest game in the Call of Duty series. This incident took...
Adidas Offline After Nov. 3rd Cyber Attack to Conduct Investigation
News Business & Government
Adidas has gone offline after a massive cyber attack, it has been revealed. The company said that it was forced to take several of its websites offline after discovering a ‘sophisticated cyber attack' on November 3. Adidas...
Ford Fixes Flaws in MyFord Touch In-Car System with New Upgrade
News Business & Government
MyFord Touch system is an in-car system feature introduced by Ford, which, unfortunately, became the reason for a falling quality rating for the company. But recently, The Associate Press reported that Ford is planning...
Disney and YouTube Form Partnership to Create Video Series for Kids
News Business & Government
Walt Disney Company and YouTube, two of the most powerful media companies in the world, are entering into a partnership that will help both reach new heights. The deal will be officially announced on Monday, under which Disney...
Nokia Drive Possibly Ported to Other WP7 Handsets
News Business & Government
The partnership between Nokia and Microsoft has many benefits, for example, preferential treatment during Windows Phone 7 releases. Nokia is adopting a new policy under which it plans to differentiate itself...
Ericsson Predicts 5 Billion Mobile Phone Users by 2016
News Business & Government
New research claims there will be 5 billion mobile phone subscriptions on the planet by 2016. According to a report released by Ericsson, the US Census has projected that there will be 7.3 billion people on the planet by 2016 -...
Firefox 8 Available for FTP Download
News Business & Government
Mozilla has released Firefox 8 ahead of its November 8 launch on its FTP servers. The release comes only a month after the company introduced Firefox 7 to the masses. The quick releases are a result of Mozilla adopting a...
Israeli Government Denies Official Websites Hacked by Anonymous
News Business & Government
The government of Israel has denied that its websites have suffered an attack from the hacker group Anonymous. Rumours of an Anonymous attack started after several official websites including those of the Mosaad and secret...
Smartphones Increasingly Targeted by Cyber Criminals
News Consumer
Smartphones are become the latest target of cyber crime and virus attacks. Recently, "ethical hacker" and smartphone security expert, Rik Ferguson, presented a live demonstration on how easy it is for cyber criminals to build a...
iPhone 4S Owners Complain of No Audio on Outgoing Calls
News Mobile & Telco
Another complaint from iPhone 4S users has recently come to light: Apple's star handset is failing to give any audio on some outgoing calls. The problem seems to have affected many people, considering the 33-page thread with...
Barnes & Noble Introduces New Nook Tablet
News Hardware
Barnes & Noble have launched a new tablet ahead of the release of the new Kindle Fire colour tablet from rival retailer Amazon, which will be known as the Nook Tablet. The company's CEO, William Lynch, said that the tablet...
£64.98 Extra Value 250-690 250GB Freeview Recorder
Deals Consumer
Extra value 250-690 TV recorder lets you pause and rewind live TV and the built in twin Freeview tunes provide you with a wide range of recording and viewing options. Through the 250-690, you can watch one channel while recording...
iPad 3 Quad-core A6 Processors to be Supplied by Samsung
News Hardware
For anyone who might have observed tech giants Apple and Samsung feuding in more than twenty courtrooms all over the world, the possibility of them working together seems unlikely. Nonetheless, Apple is, and will remain for the...
Late News: Windows Coming to IBM Mainframes, Anonymous Calls Off OpCartel, Dropbox for Teams
News Software
IBM has announced that soon, its mainframe systems would support Microsoft's Windows platform. According to Computer World, on December 16, the Windows management function will be delivered for its mainframe data centres. Hacker...
HP Launches All in One 3D Touchsmart PC
News Hardware
HP has released a new all in one desktop PC called the TouchSmart 620 3D edition; the device appears to be only available in the US for now for a rather meaty $1800 for the base unit, from the 15th of November. The new...
£140 Technika 22-228 21.6” Widescreen HD Ready LCD TV DVD Combi with Freeview & USB Player
Deals Consumer
Technika presents an entry level LCD TV - the 22-228 21.6" widescreen HD ready LCD TV that is an attractive combination of home entertainment unit and a DVD player. The TV comes in a stunning white finish giving it a look that...
Apple could see iPhone 4S, iPad 2 banned in Germany
News Hardware
Apple could face a ban on the sales of the iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and other devices in Germany after the company failed to show up in court to answer a dispute with rival Motorola over alleged patent infringement. The reasons behind...
£349 Sony KDL32CX520 32” Widescreen Full HD LCD TV with Internet TV & Freeview
Deals Consumer
Sony brings to you the KDL32 CX520 32" widescreen full HD LCD TV that has the capabilities of not only enhancing your home entertainment experience but also capable of entertaining you with content from the Internet. With the...
iPad 2 Rival Alert : Motorola XOOM 2 3G Appears Online
News Hardware
Online retailer Handtec has put the 3G version of the newly released Motorola XOOM 2 tablet on its website; users won't be able to preorder it just yet, although they can register for more details. Motorola hasn't said yet...
£579 LG 50PZ550T 50" Full HD Plasma 3D TV
Deals Consumer
LG presents the 50PZ550T Plasma 3D TV with 50" Full HD Plasma Screen with stunning picture quality that is the very definition of home cinema. Being the first 3D TV to be awarded the THX award, the LG 50PZ550T redefines audio and...
Sony Ericsson mobile phone with an HD screen leaked
News Mobile & Telco
Israeli Android mobile phone news website iAndroid.co.il has published hands-on pictures and specifications of a yet to be announced Sony Ericsson handset, which reportedly has a 720p display.iAndroid.co.il has brought out images...
Google Gifts Marie Curie A Doodle On Her 144th Birthday
News Web
The search engine giant Google is celebrating the birthday of Noble prize winner Marie Curie with a unique "Google Doodle" today by adding a picture of Curie sitting on her work bench on the home page of the search engine. Marie...
Roomba vacuum-bot maker shows off undersea robotics
News Hardware
iRobot, the company behind the Roomba automatic vacuuming-cleaning robot, is to take its expertise to off dry land with a revolutionary newrobotic undersea exploration vehicle without any moving parts. Speaking to Fox news,...
Anonymous Says OpCartel Is A No-Go
News Security
Hacker collective Anonymous has decided to put a stop to its OpCartel movement, through which it wanted to expose people with links to the Mexican Zeta drug cartel. Earlier we reported that, Anonymous, after the alleged...
Minecraft sales top four million ahead of release
News Software
It may not have been officially released yet, but Infiniminer clone 'Minecraft' has pre-sold an impressive four million copies during its beta phase, according to its official stats page - combined with an equally incredible 16...
Android Gingerbread accounts for over 40-percent of Android mobile phone operating systems
News Mobile & Telco
Internet search engine giant Google has run a 14 day test to determine which version of their mobile phone OS is the most used today, where 43.9-percent are running the Android 'Gingerbread' 2.3.3.Google ran a two week test on...
Apple to bring official Siri app to older iPhones
News Software
Apple is reported to be testing a version of its Siri voice-activated digital assistant app that's designed to work on older versions of its iPhone, reports The Inquirer. Siri was the centrepiece of Apple's new iOS 5 operating...
IBM Mainframes to Get Windows
News Software
International Business Machines has announced that soon, its mainframe systems would support Microsoft's Windows platform. According to Computer World, on December 16, the Windows management function will be delivered for its...
Internet Companies in China Back Government’s Effort to Block Harmful Information
News Web
Chinese internet firms have pledged to enhance their control over online content in order to stop ‘harmful information' from spreading. China has been repeatedly criticised for censoring the information the Chinese people...
Panasonic shows off new Lumix DMC-GX1 digital camera
News Hardware
Panasonic has unveiled the DMC-GX1, the latest digital camera in its Lumix G lineup. Priced from £500, with a range of optional, replaceable lenses, the Micro Four-Thirds model is a replacement for the aging but...
Intel Eager for a Piece of Ice Cream Sandwich
News Software
ARM rivals Intel and MIPS are creating smartphone and tablet processors that will be able to support Google's latest Android 4.0 OS (aka Ice Cream Sandwich), Computer World reports. ICS already works on ARM processors which...
Jail breaking comes to Microsoft Windows Phone 7 'Mango' mobiles from ChevronWP7
News Mobile & Telco
Popular Microsoft authorised mobile phone unlocker ChevronWP7 has created an easy to use unlocking application and method for Windows Phone 7 'Mango' based handsets, which does not void the warranty.ChevronWP7 has launched...
Google Looking to Highlight Web Journalists on Google News
News Web
Google will be offering writers a great new opportunity to promote their works on the internet. Google has given the writers an option to gain some spotlight for their identity beside their stories on Google News. The declaration...
RIAA bemoans the DMCA's lack of teeth
News Business & Government
The RIAA's top litigator, Jennifer Pariser, has claimed that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act needs tweaking in her group's favour following a series of court decisions which she argues dilute a key portion of the law's...
Google Criticises US Patent System as Broken
News Business & Government
As Google is assailed by lawsuits against the Android platform, the company's top patent lawyer has criticised the US patent system as broken. In an interview with the The San Francisco Chronicle, Tim Porter said that the patent...
Armed robbers steal 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3
News Consumer
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is due to launch tomorrow, but the game has already been responsible for a bout of real-world aggro, with a violent robbery in France seeing a pair of opportunistic thieves make off with 6,000...
Japan’s ‘K Computer’ Tops Supercomputing Charts with 10.51 Petaflops
News Hardware
This year, in the month of June, the 26th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'11) was held in Hamburg, Germany, where the supercomputer from Japan, K, secured the first position in the 37th TOP500 list by beating their...
Motorola Announces Facebook Phone Called Motokey
News Mobile & Telco
Motorola has listed a new slimline Qwerty keyboard mobile phone called the Motokey Social, which has a dedicated Facebook button, on its Canadian website. Our sister mobile phone site OneMobileRing has noted that the Motorola...
Motorola Xoom 2 tablets now available to buy for £390 and £358, for the Xoom 2 media edition
News Mobile & Telco
On-line mobile phone retailer Clove has opened up the pre-ordering to the successor of the original Motorola Xoom, in the Xoom 2 and the new smaller screen Xoom 2 media edition.Clove Technology has made public this news in a blog...
Steam forums hacked - fkn0wned.com implicated
News Business & Government
The official Steam forums have been taken down by Valve after they were hacked late last night. Users who attempted to visit the site before they were taken down were being redirected to fkn0wned.com, a site offering gaming...
Dropbox Aims for Enterprises Through Dropbox For Teams
News Cloud
With the purpose to please the information technology departments of the corporates, on Thursday, Dropbox is introducing the latest Dropbox for Teams. Dropbox is basically a file sharing service between different devices through...
IBM Survey Hints At Increase in Shopping Through Mobile Devices
News Mobile & Telco
A new research conducted by International Business Machines has claimed that this year's holiday shopping season will see a huge number of people logging in from their mobile devices to shop. According to the report, which was...
Play Modern Warfare 3 Before Official Launch and Face Xbox Live Ban Warns Microsoft
News Consumer
Software giant Microsoft has warned that people playing legitimately bought Modern Warfare 3 games might suffer an Xbox Live ban if they play the game before its official release. Activision's Modern Warfare 3 has caused much...
Apple fails to fix iPhone Daylight Savings Time bug
News Consumer
iPhone users in the US have complained that their smartphones have been showing the wrong hour after Apple failed to correct a bug that prevents the phone automatically updating from daylight savings time (DST). The Inquirer...
Earth to have closest brush with asteroid in 30 years
News Consumer
The Earth is to have its closest brush with a large asteroid in three decades this week, report NASA scientists - and for amateur astronomers, it's a fantastic chance to get a closer look. The space rock, known as 2005 YU55,...
Noon News: Motorola Corvair Tablet, HP TouchPad for webOS Devs, Verizon Preps Bandwidth Boost APIs
News Hardware
Shortly after the release of the XOOM 2 and the XOOM 2 Media Edition, Motorola is planning a new tablet called the Corvair which will be an even smaller tablet that is also a TV Controller. Is the WebOS dead? Well, it seems that...
Microsoft releases Bing Mobile app for Android with HTML5
News Mobile & Telco
Seattle based software developers Microsoft has announced a new Bing mobile app, with HTML5 for Google Android and Apple based products.Microsoft has released this news in a blog post to their community website where Bing is now...
HP's cheap TouchPad offer: two for £130 each
News Hardware
HP, which slashed the price of its TouchPad webOS-based tablet to just £89 in September amid rumours that it was to quite making PC devices, has announced that its discount tablet will be made available to developers at an...
iPad 2 Rival Alert : Asus Eee Pad Transfomer Prime Shows Tegra 3 Superiority
News Hardware
What appears to be the first benchmark of the soon-to-be-announced Asus Eee Pad Transfomer Prime has surfaced online courtesy of Tech2 in the form of a screen capture of benchmark app AnTuTu (v2.4.2). The tablet is the first to...
Ice Cream Sandwich coming to HTC Sensation, Sensation XL, Sensation XE and Evo 3D
News Mobile & Telco
HTC has announced via its Facebook account that it will be rolling out the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich or Android 4.0, on a number of its handsets. These include the HTC Sensation, the...
Carphone Warehouse to close UK Best Buy stores
News Business & Government
UPDATE, 13:00 GMT: Since news of the shop closure surfaced, Best Buy UK have released a detailed statement on Facebook, answering many questions that customers and staff alike have raised - and denying any firm plans to shut its...
Best Buy Cuts Price of Nook Color Tablet to $200
News Hardware
Best Buy has slashed the price of the Nook Color tablet from Barnes and Noble to $200, just days before its yet-to-be-named successor goes live and the Amazon Kindle Fire becomes available (ed: that's Best Buy US, Barnes &...
Google to Withdraw from US Chamber of Commerce?
News Business & Government
Search giant Google is planning on quitting the US Chamber of Commerce as it is ‘frustrated' over a new bill that the organisation is supporting, which will force search engines to crack down on websites offering copyright...
Pirate Party banned from Sweden's biggest gaming show
News Business & Government
The Pirate Party has been banned from Sweden's largest gaming exhibition at the last minute for being "too controversial". The Party had booked and paid for a booth at Gamex, which ran from 3rd to 6th November, having been...
Mozilla releases roadmap for Boot to Gecko project
News Mobile & Telco
Mozilla is continuing its assault on the operating system, releasing an updated roadmap for its Boot to Gecko (B2G) project that sees its developers using the mobile platform as their primary phone device by the end of the...
Chrome now Enables Syncing Bookmarks and Settings Across Devices
News Software
Search engine giant Google has shipped a beta version of its Chrome web browser which allows users to sync their bookmarks, apps, saved pages, passwords and other personal stuff to their various computing devices. In a...
Volumetric projector creates floating 3D image
News Hardware
Marc Ressl, a professor at the Buenos Aires institute of technology, has shown off a new sort of 3D projection that he's created, using what he calls a "volumetric projector", Wired reports. By utilising many projectors - in...
Duqu Hackers Use Belgian Servers to Collect Stolen Data
News Security
According to security experts, after authorities closed down the system in India for collection of stolen data from infected machines corrupted by the Duqu computer virus, hackers are now using Belgian servers for rogue...
Motorola unveils Facebook mobile phone
News Mobile & Telco
Recently acquired Google handset manufacturer Motorola Mobility has made public details of a new Qwerty keyboard based phone, with a dedicated Facebook button – known as the Motokey social.Motorola announced the Motokey social...
Mozilla Developers Testing B2G Mobile OS
News Software
Open source outfit Mozilla is to start testing its mobile operating system called B2G or Boot to Gecko that will be web based, on mobile devices. According to an article on PC World, the company plans to start testing the mobile...
GNOME Shell adds CPU rendering support
News Software
The GNOME Shell - the project's answer to Canonical's touch-centric Unity interface - has achieved an important milestone: support for devices that don't have 3D graphics acceleration hardware. The GNOME Shell - designed to...
Hour-Long Interview with Steve Jobs to be Released
News Business & Government
The sad passing of Steve Jobs on 5th October was met with a wave of sympathy from around the whole world. Since then lots has been said, written and printed about the late Apple founder's remarkable life. The authorised biography...
Nvidia struggles to fix TDR bug
News Hardware
Nvidia has confirmed that it is investigating a problem with certain models of its graphics cards that cause the display to blank out and become unresponsive due to a driver timeout, asking those encountering the problem to...
Khan Academy gets $5M Investment to Promote Online Education
News Web
The O'Sullivan Foundation has donated $5 million to the Khan academy, a non-profit online teaching business, so that the academy can hire more teachers and also improve its curriculum. This academy was started by Salman Khan who...
Fujitsu announces CPU adsorption cooling system
News Hardware
Fujitsu has announced a new technology which it claims allows the waste heat of a computer's CPU to actually cool the surrounding server room. The seemingly impossible achievement, unveiled at the International Conference on...
Google Not Dominating Search Says CEO
News Web
The Executive Chairman of Google Inc Eric Schmidt, claims that despite being the owner of the most popular search engine in the world, the company is not "dominant" in the search sector and faces stiff competition from various...
All Best Buy Stores in UK to Close Down
News Business & Government
Carphone Warehouse has announced that it will close its Best Buy stores, ending its attempt to compete with Currys and Comet and thwarting the company's ambition to become a major electronics retailer in Europe. Carphone...
Apple's Head Of Security Steps Down Following iPhone 4S Fiasco
News Business & Government
John Theriault, Apple's vice president of global security, has stepped down following the controversial handling of the case of the lost iPhone prototype. A while ago, Apple security employees, accompanied by San Francisco...
HTC Sensation, Sensation XL, Sensation XE and Evo 3D mobile phones all to receive Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ 4.0
News Mobile & Telco
Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer High Tech Computer Corporation has made public an update to which of their latest handsets will be receiving the recently launched latest version of the Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich...
10 Easy Steps to Preview Windows 8 In VMware Workstation 8
News Software
We recently presented several ways of previewing Windows 8, the developer version, by upgrading the Windows 7, dual-booting and virtualising a machine using VirtualBox. If neither of them was of your taste, today we are going to...
WebOS Developers To Get 32GB HP TouchPad For $150
News Hardware
Is WebOS dead? Well, it seems that HP still wants the mobile platform to survive as it announced the return of the Developer Device Purchase Program in the US, Canada and Europe. WebOS developers will be able to buy up to two...
Motorola Planning New Android Tablet Called Corvair
News Hardware
Shortly after the release of the XOOM 2 and the XOOM 2 Media Edition, Motorola is planning a new tablet called the Corvair which will be an even smaller tablet that is also a TV Controller. The Verge reports that the device will...
Some Windows Phone Handsets May Not Have Cameras
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft has quietly removed the obligation to have onboard cameras on Windows Phone powered handsets according to a report published by John P. Mello Jr from PCWorld. The software company is usually very strict when it comes to...
Verizon Wireless Designs API for Bandwidth Boost in Apps
News Software
US wireless carrier Verizon has designed a new API which will allow customers to give a temporary bandwidth boost to their apps when network congestion slows them down. According to PC Mag, the API was showed off at Verizon's...
One Third of UK Having Super-fast Broadband Access Claims Virgin
News Hardware
Broadband services provider Virgin Media has announced that its super-fast 100 Mbps connection is available to 20 million people in the UK. The company, announcing the milestone, also informed that it is on schedule to deliver...
AMNews: iPad 3 Coming Autumn 2012? ISPs to Block Pirate Bay? Microsoft Battles Duqu
News Hardware
According to a recent report from Digitimes quoting sources from Apple's upstream supply chain, users will not be able to get their hands on a fully revamped iPad 3 until the autumn of next year. Numerous reports published...
