Articles Posted on 02 January 2012
Sprint-Nextel Grants 30-Day Extension to LightSquared to Obtain FCC Approval
News Business & Government
Sprint Nextel has given billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. a 30-day extension to obtain clearance from the Federal Communications Commission to operate their network. FCC clearance is one of the terms and...
Facebook Pays 'Bug Hunters' Via Debit Card
News Business & Government
Cyber bugs are big trouble for many websites, mostly those sites frequently accessed by users. Most companies have their own ways to tackle bugs and pay a good amount of money to bug hunters. Facebook, however, has...
Ebook Reader Marketplace Sees Increase in Online Piracy
News Consumer
Online pirates are increasingly exploiting the booming ebook market as thousands of shoppers prefer to purchase digital books from rogue sites, reveals a new report. Apparently, these sites are offering ebooks at a much...
Passwords Out, Biometric Security Methods in, According to IBM Predictions
News Consumer
Text-fed passwords are likely to become ancient history replaced instead by biometric scanning as security tools for our online security and privacy. According to the US based multinational technology giant...
WebOS Failure Blamed on Poor Code and Internal Power Struggles
News Hardware
The downfall of Hewlett-Packard owned WebOS platform was primarily due to poor code decisions made by top level executives, claim angry personnel from the WebOS team. According to the team, in addition to poor code decisions,...
Facebook Users Asked to Upgrade Web Browsers to Utilise FB Features
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Facebook seems to be continuing its efforts to drop support for older Microsoft web browsers. ZDNet reports the new Facebook Timeline feature is not appearing on Internet Explorer 7 as the browser is not capable of...
£349.99 Sony KDL-40BX420 40-inch Full HD 1080p LCD TV
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The Christmas holiday shopping is still going on with the Sony KDL-40BX420 full HD LCD TV still available at an amazing price with a ton of features that would enhance your TV viewing experience. For starters, the 40-inch...
£25 HP Deskjet 3050A e-All-in-One
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HP brings to you the Deskjet 3050A e-All-in-One designed for home and office usage that lets you affordably print, scan and copy with an added advantage of being able to print from mobile devices through HP ePrint. The Deskjet...
Former UK PM Gordon Brown's Email Hacked by Newspaper PI's
News Business & Government
A recent report reveals how British Police found out that private investigators operating on behalf of a newspaper had hacked into the email of former Prime Minister of UK Gordon Brown when he was the finance minister of the...
Late News: Verizon Shelves $2 Convenience Fee, Murdoch on Twitter, Siri Knock-offs on Android Marketplace
News Mobile & Telco
US mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless has announced that it is axing a $2 ‘convenience fee' that it planned to charge from its users from next month. It was recently revealed that the company planned to charge a $2 fee...
£49.99 AOC 2036Sa 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor
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The AOC 2036Sa is a cost-effective LCD Monitor that not only offers excellent performance but comes with a sleek black modern design that will look great in any part of your home. The 20-inch LCD panel, capable of a high...
Growing Number of Web-Based Companies Against SOPA
News Business & Government
In opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), it seems that some popular websites are all set to take some strict measures like blocking their own websites. These websites include Facebook, Google and Amazon. According to a...
Microsoft XP Continues to Hold Strong
News Consumer
Microsoft's 10 year old Windows XP operating system continues to be the most used PC platform for accessing the web. New data released by NetApplications reveals that 46.5 percent of Internet traffic that showed up on its clients...
RIM CEOs Named Top Newsmakers of 2011 by The Canadian Press
News Business & Government
The two Research in Motion CEOs have been named top newsmakers of 2011 by The Canadian Press. An article on the Winnipeg Free Press reported that RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have been voted business...
Electronic Arts, Sony, Nintendo Withdraw Support for SOPA
News Business & Government
Electronic Arts, Sony and Nintendo have moved to withdraw their support for the controversial US Stop Online Piracy Act. According to an article on Business Insider, three of the biggest names in the gaming industry have...
comScore Survey Reveals Android Holds 46.9% Smartphone Market Share
News Business & Government
According to a report by comScore, the Google Android smartphone platform had the highest market share with 46.9 percent. The report further showed that Samsung is the largest smartphone maker in the US with 25.6 percent of the...
£299.99 Denon RCDN-7 CEOL Network Music Hi-Fi System
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Denon brings the RCDN-7 CEOL network music Hi-Fi system allowing you to enjoy music from a variety of sources giving you a great audio output. The RCDN-7 allows you to dock iPod or iPhone on the top thus enabling you to enjoy...
LG May Introduce Intel-Powered Android Handset at CES
News Business & Government
If reports are to be believed, smartphones powered by Intel chips will soon be available. A recent report by The Korea Times says that LG is all set to introduce their Intel-powered Android handset in January during CES. The...
Anonymous Targets Sony's Network for Supporting SOPA
News Business & Government
Anonymous has claimed in a video message that it is going to ‘destroy' the Sony Network over the company's support for the controversial SOPA act. According to an article on Games On, the hacker group, which made...
Interesting Facts About Male Android Users Revealed by Bluestacks Infograph
News Consumer
BlueStacks, the company that makes the popular Android on Windows software, has released a new infograph that provides insight into the typical male Android user. The infograph, called Mr.Android, takes its data from Nielsen...
Multitask Gestures Brought to iPhone by Zephyr Jailbreak
News Mobile & Telco
Grant Paul, also known as Chpwn, a well known hacker who provides solutions for jailbreaking iOS devices, has done it again. A recently published jailbreak allows multitasking gestures, the option that iPad owners are very proud...
Crysis 2 Becomes Most Pirated Game of 2011
News Consumer
According to a list prepared and compiled by a website, "Crysis2" is the most pirated PC video game of 2011. Developed by Crytek, this game was illegally downloaded by more than 3.9 million gamers from all over the...
iPhone Competing with Cheaper Smartphones in Chinese Market
News Mobile & Telco
Apple is facing stiff competition in the second largest mobile market, China, having faced a similar situation in its homeground. A line-up of Chinese budget smartphones with impressive features is seen as more convenient...
Windows Phone ChevronWP7 Unlock Tokens Sold Out
News Mobile & Telco
Back in the month of July 2011 the ChevronWP7 team disclosed that with co-operation of Microsoft they will be providing ChevronW7 unlock for $9 and in the month of November the same year the unlock version was finally made...
Sony Reduces Tablet S Prices by $100
News Hardware
In an attempt to take on the Apple iPad, Sony has given a $100 price cut to its Tablet S device in the United States. According to Pocket-Lint, the dual core Android based tablet device has received $100 price cuts for both its...
iPads Popular in Enterprise Environment, Study Finds
News Business & Government
Small and medium businesses are considering a move to adopt Apple iPads given the portability and functionality that the tablet device brings with it. A new report from NPD reveals that US companies with fewer than 1000 employees...
Rupert Murdoch Heads to Twitter
News Web
Media baron Rupert Murdoch has shocked and surprised the world by opening an account on micro-blogging platform Twitter. Rupert Murdoch is the owner of News Corp. which, apart from owning many popular influential news...
13 Percent of Christmas Online Purchases Made Through iPhone, iPad
News Consumer
According to a recent IBM report, as revealed by c|net, iPhone and iPad owners were the most active Christmas shoppers this year. IBM study targeted mobile devices and it is based on online sales from 500 retailers during the...
Facebook Responsible for A Third of Divorces in UK?
News Web
A recent survey conducted by a UK based divorce website disclosed that 33 per cent behaviour divorce petitions filed cite Facebook as a cause for filling for divorce in 2011. In 2009 this figure was 20 per cent. 5000 people were...
5.65 Million Free iPhone Apps are Downloaded Every Day
News Mobile & Telco
Free iPhone apps downloads is at an all-time high as it has been revealed that 5.65 million free iPhone apps are being downloaded every day by users across the globe. According to a study, iPhone owners are downloading free apps...
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 Coming in 2012 Confirms Sega
News Consumer
Sega Corporation recently confirmed that in 2012 they will be releasing Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II. The latest version of the popular game can be played on PSN, Xbox Live and on mobile phone platforms. For the time being the...
Future iOS Devices Will be Able to Recognise Their Owners?
News Mobile & Telco
According to a freshly filed Apple patent, the Cupertino based company is working on security features allowing iOS devices to use presence detection and face recognition software to be able to recognize their owners. The new...
Verizon Dikes $2 Convenience Fee
News Mobile & Telco
US mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless has announced that it is axing a $2 ‘convenience fee' that it planned to charge from its users from next month. It was recently revealed that the company planned to charge a $2 fee...
Find Your Lost iPhone With a Free App
News Mobile & Telco
There is no mobile phone owner who can honestly say he or she never lost a handset. Even if the phone is eventually found, the panic of losing all the info stored on it can still leave a bitter memory and the situation is worse...
IE9 Races Ahead of Firefox, Chrome on Windows 7
News Web
Internet Explorer 9 has become the second most used browser on Windows 7 after IE8, beating all available versions of Chrome and Firefox. Citing a report released by NetApplications, Microsoft's Roger Capriotti the Internet...
Android Market Filled with Siri Knock-offs
News Mobile & Telco
The rising popularity of Apple's Siri voice controlled virtual assistant has given birth to several knock-offs that are masquerading in the Android Market. According to PC World, a new app called ‘Siri for Android', which...
Noon News: Apple's Secret Archives in Stanford, Telstra Privacy Breach, iPhone 4S Yells at 12 Year Old
News Business & Government
The Stanford University in the US has amassed a massive collection of Apple related items which were a part of a company museum that Apple was earlier planning. The Associated Press reported the existence of the Apple secret...
More Stratfor Data Released by Hackers
News Security
On Thursday, hackers released another batch of subscribers' data that was stolen during the Stratfor breach. Stratfor Global Intelligence is very popularly used research as well as analysis company the website of which fell prey...
First Apple iPhone Prototype Designed in 1983
News Hardware
Recently, images of an iPhone prototype from the year 1983 were released, which seems like the ancestor of the popular device. The image shows that the device had a touchscreen interface but it's a landline device having an...
Google+ to Bag 400m Users by 2012 End Claims Researcher
News Web
Despite what the critics are claiming, Google's Google+ platform has shown exceptional growth and might top 400 million users by the end of 2012, a researcher has claimed. Ancestry.com and FamilyLink.com founder Paul Allen wrote...
Apple Gaines Share in US Smartphone Market
News Mobile & Telco
Apple seems to be tightening its grip on the US smartphone market but, Android continues to be the most popular operating system. According to new data released by comScore, through survey of 30,000 US mobile phone users, Apple...
iPhone 4S Tells 12 Year Old to 'Shut Up'
News Mobile & Telco
A boy aged 12 was asked to ""Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***." by an iPhone 4S when he asked a very simple question "How many people are there in the world?" The latest iPhone from Apple has Siri, which is getting very popular...
Stuxnet, Duqu, Three Others Part of the Same Family: Researchers
News Security
Researchers at Russian security firm, Kaspersky Lab, have revealed that the Stuxnet virus, known for damaging the nuclear program of Iran last year, and Duqu malware have been developed by the same platform which developed...
Apple’s Origin Guarded in Stanford Archives
News Business & Government
The Stanford University in the United States has amassed a massive collection of Apple related items which were a part of a company museum that Apple was earlier planning. The Associated Press reported the existence of the Apple...
AMNews: Jonathan Ive Awarded Knighthood, EU Roaming Caps, Acer Iconia Tab A700, RIM Market Share Declines
News Business & Government
The man behind some of the most iconic technological designs of the last decade, British-born Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a Knighthood in New Year Honours. The KBE was bestowed on Ive - who is the senior vice president of...
Orange Sydney Touchscreen Smartphone Now Available From £15
News Mobile & Telco
Asda has cut the price of the Orange Sydney smartphone down to just £35; the phone comes with £20 worth of airtime on Orange (£10 received immediately with a further £10 credit received by text within one...
