Articles Posted on 29 December 2011
Stuxnet Virus Has Four 'Cousin' Viruses, According to Kaspersky Labs
News Business & Government
Cyber sleuths over at Kaspersky Labs have revealed the notorious Stuxnet virus, which was designed to infect industrial control systems in nuclear plants, has four ‘cousins' made in the same lab. The company said three of...
RIM BlackBerry P9981 Smartphone Is Re-engineered Bold 9900
News Mobile & Telco
Qatari-owned London-based retailer Harrods has announced that it will be stocking the RIM Blackberry P9981 smartphone, previously known as the Knight. According to PhoneArena, a spokesperson for the company confirmed that the...
Nokia N9 Meego Smartphone Drops To £370
News Mobile & Telco
The Nokia N9 Meego smartphone can now be purchased from Expansys for £370 down from £455; the phone shares a number of features with the Windows Phone based Nokia Lumia 800. It comes with a single core Cortex A8 based...
LG Viewty Snap Smartphone Now Down To £40
News Mobile & Telco
Argos has dropped the price of the LG Viewty Snap smartphone down to £40 (excluding a compulsory £10 top up) compared to £60 at Carphone Warehouse; the phone is available on T-Mobile. Its main selling point is...
Facebook Takes On Microsoft, Skype With Windows Client
News Web
(ed : Facebook got in touch with us with the following statement. We encourage readers to learn more about the app in the Facebook Help Center here. They can also find the updated download link within the Help Center or...
LG to Launch New 84-inch 4K HDTV
News Consumer
LG has announced it is going to unveil a brand new a 84-inch 4K HDTV in the forthcoming edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), as reported by CNET. 4K is an emerging video standard where the average horizontal resolution...
Microsoft Developing Web Based Storage Platform for Windows Phone Users
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft is planning to provide Windows Phone customers with a safe Web based storage platform for backing up data on their devices. Apparently this new strategy came into being after a software engineer job listing was...
Microsoft Fixes SMS Flaw in Windows Phone Market
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft Corp. has fixed an SMS flaw that was plaguing the Windows Phone market for sometime now. The revelation was made by Khaled Salameh, the man behind the discovery of the flaw. Salameh, after finding the glitch, reported...
Windows Phone 7 for Budget Conscious; Only £149.99
News Mobile & Telco
This is great news for all those planning to purchase a brand new Windows Phone 7 mobile, but who want to stay within their budget. Jil Sander has joined forces with LG in order to release a budget Windows Phone 7 device. Dubbed...
New Version of Nokia Link Available to Nokia Beta Labs Users
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia has released the brand new version of Nokia Link for Nokia Beta Labs users. It's been only a few months since Nokia unveiled the first public version of Nokia Link. Ever since, the company has been constantly in touch...
Gameloft Sells Android Games for $0.99
News Mobile & Telco
Gameloft is opening its post Christmas gift bag today for all the anticipating Android fans out there. To the joy of millions of Android users across the globe, the company is making available all its games for a paltry amount of...
Samsung to Release Value Pack for Galaxy S Instead of ICS Update
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung is planning to release a value pack for Samsung Galaxy S instead of giving it the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. The company caused an uproar when it had announced the Samsung Galaxy S, which was bought...
SOPA Gaining More and More Attention; Both Positive and Negative
News Business & Government
The outrage over the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) does not seem to be slowing down. In fact, it has grown even bigger and now has spread throughout cyberspace. Bloggers from across the web are uniting to lodge their...
WindowBreak Develops Jailbreak of Windows Phone
News Consumer
WindowsBreak has come up with a brand new, almost full-scale jailbreak for Windows Phone loyalists, reports Geek. Better still, developer @jaxbot successfully exploited the hack to work on the 1st and 2nd generation WP...
Intel Releases New Line of Atom Processors
News Business & Government
Intel has released its brand new line of Atom processors. Codenamed 'Cedar Trail,' the new processors will boost the capabilities of netbooks by adding instant on and instant connect capabilities. According to the company,...
Bootloader Unlockers for HTC Smartphone Models Released After September 2011
News Consumer
HTC has announced that it is offering bootloader unlockers for all HTC smartphones launched after September 2011. The Taiwan based technology giant is reportedly busy updating the product pages of all the devices that have made...
£79.79 Acer A191HQLb 18.5” LCD Monitor with LED Backlight
Deals Consumer
Acer presents the A191HQLb 18.5" LED Monitor that will output visual with amazing clarity - be it for your operating system, movies, videos or images. The 18.5-inch screen is capable of 1366x768 pixel resolution. The screen size...
Late News: Dump GoDaddy Day, Valve Denies Half Life 3, UK MoD Upgrades War Simulations, Gears of War 3
News Web
Despite the fact that GoDaddy.com has retracted its support for SOPA as a damage control move, the stage has been set whereby it might witness another round of domain removals through the "Dump Go Daddy Day". GoDaddy has already...
£94.97 Buffalo LinkStation Live 1TB NAS
Deals Consumer
Buffalo presents the LinkStation Live Network Attached Storage (NAS) with built in DLNA Server and ideal for home networking allowing you to share documents, pictures, movie and music over a network. The LinkStation Live lets you...
£329.99 LG 42LK450 42-inch Full HD 1080p Digital Freeview LCD TV
Deals Consumer
The 42LK450 LCD TV, backed by the quality promise of LG, is a Full HD TV capable of 1080p output and USB PVR allowing you to playback movies, videos and photos right from your USB based storage device - be it a pen drive or an...
£149.99 Konica Minolta Magicolor 3730DN Colour Laser Printer
Deals Consumer
Konica presents the Magicolor 3730DN Colour Laser Printer that is equipped with networking capabilities making it an ideal solution for small office environments. The 3730DN is capable of standard duplex printing whereby you will...
Wii U Could Land in the Second Half of 2012
News Hardware
A new forecast for the Wii U has it showing up sometime in the second half of 2012, disappointing those who were hoping for an April-May release date. While the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and E3 are expected to give us a...
Gears of War 3 Demo Lands
News Consumer
The Xbox live marketplace now has a demo in its catalogue for Gears of War 3, offering up the introductory Shipwreck mission that sets the stage for the rest of the game. Anyone with an Xbox live gold account can download it for...
VeriSign Puts Domain Names Tally on the Internet at 220 Million
News Web
There are almost 220 million registered domain names on the web, a new report released by VeriSign has revealed. The company informed that the internet grew by 2.3 per cent or 4.9 million domain names in the third quarter of 2011...
Will We See An NFC Enabled iPhone 5?
News Mobile & Telco
Looking ahead to the next year, technology enthusiasts cannot help but wonder what the major players in the industry are going to come up with next. As far as Apple is concerned, we know we can expect a pretty impressive iPad 3,...
McAfee, NTT East Release Security Suite to Protect Hikari iFrame Tablets
News Security
Security software maker McAfee has partnered with Japan's NTT East to provide a mobile security solution for the Hikari iFrame tablet. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation's Hikari iFrame tablet device will get a...
Some PlayStation Vita Games to Have Online Pass
News Consumer
Some PSP Vita games will come with an online pass as developers and game publishers look to profit from the used games market. According to Gamepur, Hot Shots Golf is one of the first PS Vita games which will come with an online...
Occupy Protestors Tread The Social Networking Route
News Web
Techie Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to create a social networking meant primarily for organising protests and getting people together for various causes. In the year 2011, social media platforms like Twitter and...
Ministry of Defence Improves War Games for Console Generation
News Business & Government
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has begun updating its Battlespace2 and other simulations to bring them in line with commercial wargames like Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. Andrew Poulter heads up the technical team behind the...
Valve Debunks Half Life 3 Rumours
News Consumer
One of Valve's main writers, Chet Faliszek, has reached out the company's fanbase to debunk the recent rumours of a possible Half Life 3 release. With the recent showing of a video featuring Wheatley, one of the main characters...
Noon News: US-CERT Warns of Vulnerability in WPS, McAfee Security Prediction 2012, Google Gets Most Visits in 2011
News Security
The current Wi-Fi Protected Setup standard suffers from a major vulnerability that could eventually affect the security of hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi access points and routers, according to an advisory issued by the US-CERT....
Orange UK Expects Text and Call Records to be Broken
News Consumer
UK mobile operator Orange claims that this New Years Eve will see call, text and data records all broken with some 78 million calls made between loved ones over a few hours. Text and calls have been growing year on year for a...
PS Vita Sales Dwindle in Second Week
News Business & Government
After making an impressive debut by selling 312,407 units in Japan over just two days, the sales of Sony's latest offering in the handheld gaming console - PlayStation Vita seems to be slowing down. According to a new figures...
Samsung GT B2710 Solid Immerse review
News Mobile & Telco
Why should sedentary city folk have all the fun? Samsung has outdoor types firmly in its sites for the Solid Immerse, a handset with tough phone credentials - though there's nothing smart about this Android-less offering. The...
Dump GoDaddy Day Begins
News Web
Despite the fact that GoDaddy.com has retracted its support for SOPA as a damage control move, the stage has been set whereby it might witness another round of domain removals through the "Dump Go Daddy Day". GoDaddy has already...
HP TouchPad Go Receives Posthumous Review
News Hardware
In a surprising turn of events, TouchPad Go - the officially dead TouchPad's smaller sibling from Hewlett-Packard has been reviewed by the Web OS Nation blog. The TouchPad Go tablet was originally scheduled to hit the market in...
Siri Could Revolutionise the Use of Search Engines
News Web
Soon after Apple released its latest handset all the fans forgot that everyone had expected a redesigned iPhone 5 with larger screen and a teardrop design; what Apple introduced to the market in terms of user interface was far...
Stratfor Denies Confidential Client List Breach
News Security
Recently hacked US based research firm Stratfor has claimed that the effects of the hack attack orchestrated by Anonymous were limited. According to Computer World, Stratfor claimed that Anonymous was exaggerating the scope of...
Outage Rocks Verizon’s Network for the Third Time in December
News Mobile & Telco
The wireless network of US mobile phone carrier Verizon has suffered its third outage this month. According to c|net, customers are complaining that they are not able to connect to Verizon's 3G and 4G data networks. The outage...
Hackers Could Exploit, DDoS Train Systems Says Expert
News Security
A German security expert has warned that too much dependence on wireless technology for establishing communication between railway switches and trains could eventually allow hackers to easily infiltrate the system and execute...
Google Aces Nielsen's Tops of 2011 Chart, Facebook Bags Second Spot
News Web
Facebook was outdone by the Mountain View based tech giant Google in the race to nail the top spot in this year's No. 1 Web brand, according to Nielsen's annual report. Google, according to the report, secured the top spot with...
McAfee Predicts High Profile Industrial Attacks in 2012
News Security
Security software provider McAfee has claimed that the coming year could witness more sophisticated and organised cyber attacks on high-profile targets all across the globe and more hacktivist groups are likely to emerge in...
Hackers Strike Chinese Cyberspace, Leak Data of 6 Million CSDN Users
News Security
Last week unknown hackers invaded Chinese cyberspace and stole personal credentials belonging to millions of the country's netizens. And, to make things worse for the victims, now it seems like all the stolen information...
AMNews: Argentina Bans iPhones, Apple Mulls 7.85-inch Mini iPad, Modern Warfare 3 DLC, Cameron Gets Personalised App
News Business & Government
The Argentine government has imposed a temporary ban on the saleof certain consumer electronic goods including BlackBerry smartphones and Apple's iPhone, reports Apple Insider. According to reports, the ban has been imposed by...
US-CERT Issues Warning About Current Wi-Fi Protected Setup Standard
News Consumer
The current Wi-Fi Protected Setup standard suffers from a major vulnerability that could eventually affect the security of hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi access points and routers, according to an advisory issued by the...
Alcatel-Lucent to Help APT Expand Its 3G Service
News Business & Government
Asia Pacific Telecom will be taking the help of Alcatel Lucent to expand its 3G service to cater to growing demand for data, according to a press release. In the second half of 2012, APT is planning on extending its existing...
Apple May Offer Customised Channel Line-Ups to Apple TV Subscribers
News Consumer
The latest rumours surrounding the upcoming Apple TV platform claims that Apple plans to offer a customised channel line-up to its subscribers. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu claims that Apple is very keen to provide customised TV...
West Lothian Council Releases App on Apple iOS
News Consumer
The West Lothian has become one of the first councils in the UK to launch an app for Apple's iOS platform. According to an article on The Guardian, the app will allow council residents to get news, alerts and other council...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC Available January 2012
News Consumer
Great news for all the Call of Duty fans - Activision has finally announced details about the the forthcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC. The arrival date for the first downloadable content will be January 24,...
Apple Planning 7.85-inch Mini iPad for 2H 2012?
News Hardware
While everybody is waiting with anticipation for the upcoming iPad 3, expected to hit the market in around March, industry observers are proposing Apple could announce a second iPad release next year. In addition to the high end...
