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Articles Posted on 19 December 2011

Cisco Study Reveals Young Professionals Typically Ignore Workplace IT Policies

Cisco Study Reveals Young Professionals Typically Ignore Workplace IT Policies

News Business & Government

According to a study conducted by enterprise networking giant Cisco, 7 out of 10 young professionals ignore IT policies. The study, which surveyed 2,800 young professionals and college students in 14 countries, revealed that 33...


YouGov Reports Decrease in Demand for Smart TVs in the UK

YouGov Reports Decrease in Demand for Smart TVs in the UK

News Consumer

A new report about consumer demand for smart TVs in the UK have been far below the desired level, but may increase starting next year. The report was published by research outfit YouGov as part of its consumer...


US Army Investigator Searches Leaker's Computers

US Army Investigator Searches Leaker's Computers

News Business & Government

A US Army investigator has found evidence linking Bradley Manning to the US diplomatic cable leak in two of his computers. According to an article on the Boston Globe, investigator David Shaver discovered more than 10,000...


Apple in Talks with Media Organisations about the Future of Television

Apple in Talks with Media Organisations about the Future of Television

News Business & Government

Having enjoyed immense success in the personal computer, smartphone and tablet markets, seems like Apple is now moving on to the television industry. According to recent reports, for the last few weeks the company has been...


Saudi Prince Invests in Twitter

Saudi Prince Invests in Twitter

News Business & Government

Twitter- the massively popular microblogging and social networking platform, now has a new multi-billionaire stakeholder. According to reports, the new investor in the company is a Saudi prince boasting a highly impressive...


Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 Update Available Soon

Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 Update Available Soon

News Mobile & Telco

Google has launched a brand new version of its Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system platform-version 4.0.3. With this announcement, the Android maker also confirmed the update will available in a few days to select...


Supporters Voice Concerns Over Wikileaks Founder's Extradition to Sweden

Supporters Voice Concerns Over Wikileaks Founder's Extradition to Sweden

News Business & Government

Several notable supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, have claimed that he might be extradited to the US without proper legal process if the UK decides to hand him over to Sweden. In a letter sent to the Daily...


Explosion at Apple Supplier's Factory in Taiwan Injures 61

Explosion at Apple Supplier's Factory in Taiwan Injures 61

News Business & Government

A Taiwanese Apple supplier reported a small explosion in one of its factories, which injured 61 workers. According to an article on The Register, the explosion took place in the Ri Teng Computer Accessory plant in the...


Nokia Retires Ovi Contacts Website

Nokia Retires Ovi Contacts Website

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia has decided to cut its last remaining ties to the Ovi brand name. The company, which not-so-long-ago renamed the Ovi Store the 'Nokia Store', announced in a blog post that it will be discontinuing the Ovi...


Motorola Xoom Tablet Receives Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 Update

Motorola Xoom Tablet Receives Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 Update

News Mobile & Telco

Just a day after Google officially released the latest version of its Android Ice Cream Sandwich- version 4.0.3, an update has already hit the Motorola Xoom; through backdoor channels though. According to an...


Sprint Stops Using Carrier IQ Data Collection Software

Sprint Stops Using Carrier IQ Data Collection Software

News Mobile & Telco

Just a couple of weeks after the Carrier IQ data collection software controversy rocked the tech world in the US, Sprint has officially confirmed it will no longer use Carrier IQ software. This move comes only two...


£39.99 Skype FREETALK Home Phone Adapter

£39.99 Skype FREETALK Home Phone Adapter

Deals Consumer

VoIP provider Skype brings to you the FREETALK Home Phone Adapter allowing you to make Skype-to-Skype calls and calls to landlines and mobiles over Skype from your home phone. The adapter sits between your home phone, your...


£428.45 Panasonic Viera TX-P42S30B 42-inch Full HD 1080p Plasma TV with Freeview HD

£428.45 Panasonic Viera TX-P42S30B 42-inch Full HD 1080p Plasma TV with Freeview HD

Deals Consumer

It is that time of the year where you feel like treating yourself and getting ready for the holiday season. What could be a better option than to treat the whole family at one go with the Panasonic VIERA TX-P42S30B 42-inch Plasma...


UK Launch Delayed: Samsung Galaxy Xcover

UK Launch Delayed: Samsung Galaxy Xcover

News Mobile & Telco

Sad developments for Galaxy lovers in the UK as it has been virtually confirmed that the much awaited Samsung Galaxy Xcover S5690 journey into the UK market has been put on a temporary halt, meaning the fan boys will have to wait...


Late News: Santa on Google Voice, Google Wallet for Galaxy Nexus, Facebook Sues Mark Zuckerberg

Late News: Santa on Google Voice, Google Wallet for Galaxy Nexus, Facebook Sues Mark Zuckerberg

News Web

Google has launched a free service through which people can receive personalised messages from Santa Clause during Christmas. The Google voice maker stated in a blog post that Santa will himself contact people around the United...


iPhone 3GS Rival Alert : T-Mobile Vivacity For £70 After Cashback?

iPhone 3GS Rival Alert : T-Mobile Vivacity For £70 After Cashback?

News Mobile & Telco

If you're ready to take a punt and are willing to get a phone that looks like an iPhone 4 but runs on Android, then try the T-Mobile Vivacity which is listed at £109.99 on the website of the mobile phone operator. However,...


Top three mobile phones to give as a Christmas present - for him, for her or for younger family members

Top three mobile phones to give as a Christmas present - for him, for her or for younger family members

News Mobile & Telco

Christmas is only days away and time is running out for that essential gift, for him, for her or for the younger family members. With that in mind, we thought we would cast our festive eye over the latest high-street offerings in...


iPhone 4 Rival Alert : Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Super Bundle Down To £173

iPhone 4 Rival Alert : Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Super Bundle Down To £173

News Mobile & Telco

The deal of the year when it comes to smartphones, has to be the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, whose price has been slashed by almost 70 per cent since its introduction at the beginning of the year. The phone, which is the only one...


Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Now Available From £332.50

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Now Available From £332.50

News Hardware

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, which is the follow-up to the popular Galaxy Tab and the tablet alterego of the Galaxy S II, has appeared on Dixons for £332.50 after the five per cent XMAS5 discount code. The GT-P6210, as...


£88.58 Acer S220HQLBBD 22" LCD Full HD Monitor

£88.58 Acer S220HQLBBD 22" LCD Full HD Monitor

Deals Consumer

Acer S220HQLBBD 22" LCD Full HD Monitor is one of the leading monitors in terms of features and quality of video output compared its rivals in the mid-priced display range. The 21.5" viewable widescreen monitor is capable of full...


TeamHaven to Track Activision Blizzard Sales, Promotions

TeamHaven to Track Activision Blizzard Sales, Promotions

Did well with CoD MW3 tracking

News Consumer

To help track future sales and the performance of its Call of Duty franchise, Activision Blizzard has taken on data collection and reporting company TeamHaven. The publishing giant has done incredibly well with its recently...


Google's Doodles Website Gets a Facelift

Google's Doodles Website Gets a Facelift

News Web

Google has revamped its Doodle website to allow users to view some of their favourite Doodles starting from the very first one posted in 1998. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page created the first Google Doodle to mark...


£599 Logik L473CD11 47" Full HD LCD 3D TV with Free 3D Blu-ray player

£599 Logik L473CD11 47" Full HD LCD 3D TV with Free 3D Blu-ray player

Deals Consumer

Logik presents the L473CD11 47" Full HD LCD 3D TV with state-of-the-art and immersive picture quality through seamless image that feels completely natural to your eyes. The full HD resolution at 1920x1080 guarantees you crystal...


BT Takes Google to Court Over Android Patent Infringement

BT Takes Google to Court Over Android Patent Infringement

News Business & Government

Google and its mobile operating system platform, Android, have been once again dragged into another legal dispute, this time by British Telecom which claims that virtually all Android devices are infringing on a number of patents...


Samsung vs Apple: Emoticon Wars

Samsung vs Apple: Emoticon Wars

In court again

News Business & Government

Samsung and Apple are back in the court room, this time fighting over whether the fruity firm infringed upon four other patents, one of which controls the display of emoticons. "(Samsung) made four more claims; two are...


iPad 2 Rival Alert : Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime With Dock Now From £475

iPad 2 Rival Alert : Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime With Dock Now From £475

News Hardware

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime will hit the UK at the beginning of next year, and a number of retailers have already put the tablet, the first to come with a quad core processor, on the market. Dixons, however, is...


RIAA Officials Downloading Copyrighted Content through Torrents?

RIAA Officials Downloading Copyrighted Content through Torrents?

News Web

Ever since a new website was launched, which is capable of monitoring approximately one-fifth of all Bit Torrent downloaders from across the world, it has been found that even the supposedly pro Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)...


Google Bestows 'Let it snow' Search Results with Snowfall

Google Bestows 'Let it snow' Search Results with Snowfall

News Web

Google has blessed its search engine with a new, eye-candy seasonal touch in line for Christmas that is just around the corner As a part of this seasonal makeover, users who search for the "let it snow" keywords, are gifted with...


Windows 8 to Include Picture Passwords

Windows 8 to Include Picture Passwords

Faster than touch screen typing

News Security

Windows 8 will offer a different way to keep your personal account secure beyond the traditionally typed password: picture passwords that let you login by selecting certain sections of an image. A similar technology has been used...


HMV Revenue Drops 40 Per Cent

HMV Revenue Drops 40 Per Cent

In the last half year alone

News Business & Government

HMV has seen its revenue fall by just over 40 per cent in the last 6 month period which brings the company's overall debt to £163.7 million. For the last half year - that ended on the 29th of October - HMV has seen its...


Google Gets Santa on the Phone for Christmas

Google Gets Santa on the Phone for Christmas

News Web

Google has launched a free service through which people can receive personalised messages from Santa Clause during Christmas. The Google voice maker stated in a blog post that Santa will himself contact people around the United...


Gmail App for iPhone, iPad gets Scribbles, Signatures and Other Features

Gmail App for iPhone, iPad gets Scribbles, Signatures and Other Features

News Mobile & Telco

Google has rolled out an update for its popular Gmail app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with a some new features.  One fun new feature is 'Scribbles' which lets you hand-draw your own graphic to send with the email...


HTC Sensational XL quick review

HTC Sensational XL quick review

Reviews Mobile & Telco

HTC has been pumping out the handsets recently, and the Sensation XL has a couple of things that make it a bit different. It has a vast screen, no memory expansion and Beats Audio. The HTC Sensation XL is a big handset with a...


Will Sony PS Vita Kill Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Successor?

Will Sony PS Vita Kill Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Successor?

News Mobile & Telco

As the Sony PS Vita is launched, it's worth exploring the possibility that the newly released portable gaming console could make the Xperia Play 2 obsolete. The Vita comes with a quad core ARM Cortex-A8 MPcore with a four-core...


Unofficial Google Wallet for Galaxy Nexus Released

Unofficial Google Wallet for Galaxy Nexus Released

News Mobile & Telco

People over at XDA-Developers have managed to release an unofficial version of Google Wallet for Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The US wireless carrier had shocked a lot of users when it decided not to include the highly...


T-Mobile Giving Away Free Phones With £30 Topup

T-Mobile Giving Away Free Phones With £30 Topup

News Mobile & Telco

UK mobile phone operator T-Mobile is giving away entry level feature mobile phones when you top up £30; the two phones on offer are the Samsung E1150i and the T-Mobile Zest E110. The Zest is a particularly good deal given...


Sky series link now available on Sky+ app for Android and iOS devices

Sky series link now available on Sky+ app for Android and iOS devices

News Mobile & Telco

Popular entertainment company Sky has updated its Sky+ mobile applications, which now offers a series link for the very first time on Android, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. This follows on from the news mid-November that...


Noon News: Nexus S Gets Android Ice Cream Sandwich, BlackBerry OS 10 Delayed, Sony PlayStation Vita Teardown

Noon News: Nexus S Gets Android Ice Cream Sandwich, BlackBerry OS 10 Delayed, Sony PlayStation Vita Teardown

News Mobile & Telco

Google has announced that it is deploying the Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich' 4.0 OS to its previous flagship Nexus S handsets, starting now and ending over the next coming months. Google made public this news over Google+,...


Google Lets Android Developers Hone Their Skills with New Tools

Google Lets Android Developers Hone Their Skills with New Tools

News Software

Google has launched a new Android tutorial classes program to help new developers create quality applications for the platform. The new program, called Android Training, has been designed to allow new and old developers to polish...


Microsoft Buys SkypeSexFinder.com Domain

Microsoft Buys SkypeSexFinder.com Domain

News Web

Microsoft is clearly looking to maximise its revenue from the purchase of voice over IP specialist Skype, purchasing the risqué domain SkypeSexFinder.com. In something of a departure from its normal methods of business,...


Brits Found Intoxicated in 76% of Facebook Photos

Brits Found Intoxicated in 76% of Facebook Photos

News Web

A new study claims that adult Facebook users in the UK are in an intoxicated state in almost three-quarters of the photos they are tagged in. The study was carried out by MyMemory.com, and it involved 1,781 Facebook users from...


Microsoft Pulls Windows 7 Bulldozer Performance Patch Following Complaints

Microsoft Pulls Windows 7 Bulldozer Performance Patch Following Complaints

News Hardware

Just a week after its release, Microsoft has pulled a patch for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 designed to improve the performance of the operating systems on AMD's Bulldozer platform. Released last week, the patch was...


Britney Spears Becomes First Million-Strong Google+ User, Proves Network's Reach

Britney Spears Becomes First Million-Strong Google+ User, Proves Network's Reach

News Web

Google+, the advertising giant's attempt to take on Facebook in the lucrative social networking space, has hit a milestone with its first celebrity to reach a million followers. Designed around the concept of 'Circles,' which -...


Facebook May Sue Mark Zuckerberg’s Namesake

Facebook May Sue Mark Zuckerberg’s Namesake

News Business & Government

An Israeli entrepreneur, Rotem Guez, has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg hoping that Facebook won't sue its co-founder's namesake. The social networking giant had been threatening to sue Guez, who runs a business...


Seagate, Western Digital Drop Hard Drive Warranties

Seagate, Western Digital Drop Hard Drive Warranties

News Hardware

Hard drive manufacturers are slashing warranties on their products, dropping some lines from five years to just one year. Last week, Western Digital announced that it would be dropping the warranty period on its Caviar Blue,...


Three is the first UK network to announce the Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone 7 mobile phone

Three is the first UK network to announce the Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone 7 mobile phone

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile phone network Three has unveiled that it will be carrying the lower costing Nokia Windows Phone 7 run Lumia 710 phone, whilst being the very first UK network to make public that it will be carrying that handset. Three...


Leaked AMD Slides Provide Glimpse of Radeon HD 7900 Features

Leaked AMD Slides Provide Glimpse of Radeon HD 7900 Features

News Hardware

The key features of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7900 family of graphics cards have leaked out ahead of a rumoured 22nd December launch. The 'Southern Islands' GPU family powers the cards, but AMD is keeping the design close to its...


iPhone 4S' Siri Made to Work on Rotary Phone

iPhone 4S' Siri Made to Work on Rotary Phone

News Hardware

Siri has captured the imagination of everybody out there, with hackers and developers managing to get the voice assistant working on the older iPhone 4, iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS handsets; and now, a creative gentleman has even...


Apple Gives Santa an iPhone 4S in Siri-Themed Christmas Advert

Apple Gives Santa an iPhone 4S in Siri-Themed Christmas Advert

News Mobile & Telco

Apple has decided to get into the Christmas spirit, giving Santa a hand organising his annual present-distributing journey via the Siri feature of the iPhone 4S. Designed to showcase the features of Siri, a voice-activated...


Sony's PlayStation Vita Gets Teardown Treatment, First Homebrew App

Sony's PlayStation Vita Gets Teardown Treatment, First Homebrew App

News Hardware

Following a sell-out of pre-orders, Sony's PlayStation Vita hand-held console has launched in Japan - and has already been given the homebrew and teardown treatment. The console, once known as the Next-Generation Portable or NGP,...


Facebook for Android App Has More Users Than Its iPhone Counterpart

Facebook for Android App Has More Users Than Its iPhone Counterpart

News Web

The Facebook for Android app has surpassed its iPhone counterpart in terms of daily active users, it has been reported. According to app metrics released by AppData, the official Facebook for Android app has more users than the...


Fusion Garage Dropped by PR Firm as Grid10 Tablet Flounders

Fusion Garage Dropped by PR Firm as Grid10 Tablet Flounders

News Business & Government

Fusion Garage, the company behind the ill-fated JooJoo tablet and upcoming Grid10, appears to have retreated from its launch with the news that its PR firm is no longer working with the company. Fusion Garage shot to infamy when...


Google Nexus S mobile phones now receiving an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Google Nexus S mobile phones now receiving an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

News Mobile & Telco

Internet search engine giant Google has announced that it is deploying the Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich' 4.0 OS to its previous flagship Nexus S handsets, starting now and ending over the next coming months. Google made...


Ofcom Summons RIM, Wants it To Attend Pornography Meet

Ofcom Summons RIM, Wants it To Attend Pornography Meet

News Business & Government

UK telecom regulator has summoned RIM executives to be part of a summit which would focus on mobile pornography. According to The Telegraph, Ofcom has learned that Blackberry smartphones are being used by children to access...


Samsung Galaxy S 5-inch Tablet On Sale For £130

Samsung Galaxy S 5-inch Tablet On Sale For £130

News Hardware

Amazon has quietly cut the price of the Samsung Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0 to just under £130, which is a third less compared to Tesco; this portable media player is in reality a cheaper version of the £500 Samsung Galaxy...


BlackBerry OS 10 Delayed, RIM’s Future Looks Grim

BlackBerry OS 10 Delayed, RIM’s Future Looks Grim

News Mobile & Telco

Analysts have chalked out a grizzly end to RIM's BlackBerry after the Canadian smarphone maker informed that new BlackBerrys with the BlackBerry 10 OS will be launched by the end of 2012, months after their original tentative...


New Analyser Tool Sifts Through Large Piles of Data

New Analyser Tool Sifts Through Large Piles of Data

News Software

It's not an uncommon scenario to come across complicated and piled up data in an organisation, which eventually ends up paralysing its overall operational aspects - even if only temporarily. This annoying issue is just about to...


Novell Looking at New Jury in Lawsuit against Microsoft

Novell Looking at New Jury in Lawsuit against Microsoft

News Business & Government

Novell, which had filed a massive $1 billion lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. earlier, is likely to retry the case under a new jury, according to new reports. The decision to reopen the case has come after the federal jury, which...


Oracle Releases Siebel CRM Public Sector Update

Oracle Releases Siebel CRM Public Sector Update

News Business & Government

Enterprise software maker Oracle has dished out the Siebel CRM Public Sector 8.2.2, to help government organisations enhance program delivery and citizen services. The new platform, a part of Oracle's Social Services Suite, will...


AMNews: iTunes Match in UK, Chrome Surpasses Internet Explorer, Flash Player for Android Ice Cream Sandwich

AMNews: iTunes Match in UK, Chrome Surpasses Internet Explorer, Flash Player for Android Ice Cream Sandwich

News Web

Apple has finally launched its iTunes Match feature in the UK marketplace. The iTunes Match is a feature in the company's iCloud platform - the online storage facility that allows iOS users to store songs, videos, images and...

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