Articles Posted on 25 January 2012
Everything Everywhere Permitted to Continue 4G LTE Trial
News Business & Government
Everything Everywhere's 4G LTE trial, launched in October of last year, will continue until June 2012. The trial was introduced to allow mobile broadband accessibility to consumers located in St Newlyn in Cornwall. According to...
Skydroid Allows Android Device to Take On Windows 8 OS Features
News Mobile & Telco
Google's Android has no doubt emerged as one of the most popular mobile OS platforms today. One of the driving factors behind its massive popularity is the fact that the platform allows handset makers to tweak the default UI, in...
Microsoft to Move from Virtual Currency to Cash for Xbox LIVE
News Consumer
If rumours are to be believed then, Microsoft might be abandoning its Xbox LIVE Point System to adopt a direct cash-purchase method. The current Point System can be used to purchase lots of things like movies and video...
Unidentified WP7 Build Number on Windows Phone Bench App
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft was supposed to release the Windows Phone 8107 update at the beginning of this year. This update was expected to fix privacy and keyboard related issues. The company also also announced the...
HTC and IBM Partner to Design Android Phones with Enterprise Features
News Mobile & Telco
According to reports, HTC and IBM are partnering to speed up the adoption of the Android platform among enterprise handsets. At the Lotusphere conference in Orlando, IBM disclosed that this partnership will bring...
Xobni Introduces Smartr Contacts for iPhone and iPad
News Mobile & Telco
Xobni has announced the release of its Smartr Contacts app for iOS devices, which means the popular automatic address book has become available on all major mobile platforms. Now interested users can find Xobni's product...
Xbox 720 / Xbox Next to be 600% more Powerful than Xbox 360
News Consumer
While the launch of the successor of the Xbox 360 is still nearly two years from now, more rumours have emerged regarding the performance of the next generation gaming platform. Gaming publication IGN says that its sources have...
Nokia Lumia 800 Successor To Come In May?
News Mobile & Telco
After the earlier leak by Carphone Warehouse of the Nokia Lumia 900 (which is supposed to come in June), there's a report over the launch of the yet-to-be-announced Lumia 910 in Europe in May. Russian technology blogger, Eldar...
Sony PS Vita Successor May Be Thinner
News Consumer
Sony is on the verge of launching the PS Vita, its next generation portable gaming console, and its designer, Takashi Sogabe, has hinted that future versions of the console might be slimmer. Speaking to ComputerVideoGames, the...
iPhone 4S Rival Alert : Samsung Galaxy S III To Launch In April 2012?
News Mobile & Telco
The Galaxy S III, the followup to the award-winning Galaxy S II, could be on its way to our shores in April 2012 according to Eldar Murtazin, one of the few technology bloggers that has close (and proven) links to industry...
RIM Blackberry PlayBook Tablet Down To £169 Again
News Hardware
High street retailer PC World has managed to get hold of some more stock of the RIM Blackberry PlayBook tablet for £169, the cheapest price in the UK for the device. Note that the price is valid only online and the in-store...
Dispute Between Telecom Companies Leads to 1.7 Million in India with No Phone Service
News Mobile & Telco
Following a dispute involving Etisalat DB, a telecommunications operator, and Reliance Communications, around 1.7 million of India's Etisalat DB phone subscribers have been cut off. Under a 10-year deal finalised in 2009,...
Dolphin Web Browser for Android Now Includes Evernote
News Mobile & Telco
Web browser maker Dolphin is joining forces with cloud storage outfit Evernote, to introduce a pair of new extensions for the company's browser for the Android platform. Of the two new extensions, the first comes with...
Nokia Maps Now Features Panoramic Images
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia has announced that its panoramic image library 360 will be made available for the company's Nokia Maps for all handsets, powered by the Symbian v3.06 or above. With this new announcement, it has been confirmed that users of...
Apple iTunes Store Made $120 Million on Christmas Day
News Business & Government
Apple has released some very impressive sales figures for the 2011 holiday season. On Christmas Day, for example, the company earned $120 million via its iTunes store. With this impressive performance, the online...
Absinthe A5 Sees About 1 Million Downloads in Just 3 Days
News Mobile & Telco
In a blog post by the iPhone Dev team, at least 950,000 Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak devices accessed the Cydia app store between Friday, January 20th and Monday, January 23rd. The Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak is...
£37.99 D-Link ShareCenter Solo 1 Bay NAS Network Storage Enclosure
Deals Consumer
D-Link presents the ShareCenter Solo 1 Bay NAS Network Storage Enclosure that is highly flexible, easy to use and economical in terms of power management and hard drive battery life. The NAS is ideal for use in home or small...
£62.98 OCZ Technology ZS Series 750W 80+ Bronze Power Supply
Deals Consumer
OCZ brings to you the ZS Series PSU that is affordable and would help you power gaming systems while capable of powering both Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFireX modes with an array of connectors. OCZ has designed the ZS with gamers...
Nokia Fined $58,000 by Australian Regulators for SMS Marketing
News Mobile & Telco
Nokia has been fined by Australian regulators for sending spam messages to customers. In addition to this, the Finnish company has also been asked to change their text message marketing strategy. The world's biggest...
Audiobooks.com Offers Unlimited Audio Book Downloads, $24.95/Month
News Mobile & Telco
Audiobooks.com has announced the launch of the first ever unlimited cloud-based audio book service. The service allows users to enjoy the company's extensive collection of cloud-based audio books, for $24.95 per month only. The...
£39.99 Logitech X-530 5.1 Channel PC Speaker System
Deals Consumer
The X-530 dual-driver speakers from Logitech are capable of 5.1 channel audio output giving you immersive, crystal clear and crisp sounds for your games, movies and songs. Being equipped with Frequency Directed Dual Driver...
£69.99 HP CQ521B Photosmart Premium e-All-in-One with Fax Web Enabled Printer
Deals Consumer
Quick, easy, affordable lab-quality photo prints, marketing brochures, everyday documents and web content is what the HP Photosmart Premium e-All-in-One printer is designed. First of its kind, the Photosmart Premium e-All-in-One...
Android to Usurp Apple iOS as Most Popular Developer Platform this Year
News Software
According to Ovum, a London based research and consultancy firm, Android will overtake Apple's iOS "in terms of importance to developers," with the power shift expected to happen over the next 12 months. The study, "Developer...
Apple Largest Buyer of Semiconductors in 2011; Samsung Second, HP Third
News Business & Government
Apple emerged as the largest purchaser of semiconductors during 2011, thus beating every single other electronic manufacturer out there including Samsung and HP, a new study revealed. The study, carried out by market...
Google to Update Its Privacy Policies
News Consumer
Google has announced it is revamping its privacy policy by integrating users' various Google accounts across its entire portfolio. But the move is already subject to strong protests raised by netizens across the world and by...
Orange to Provide Its Mobile Users in Middle East, Africa with Free Access to Wikipedia
News Consumer
Orange has announced it will be providing its users in the Middle East and Africa free access to Wikipedia. According to reports, Orange has into a deal with Wikipedia to ensure that its millions of users from the above mentioned...
Founder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, Denied Bail in New Zealand
News Business & Government
Kim Dotcom, founder of the online file sharing portal Megaupload, has been refused bail by a New Zealand court because he is considered a flight risk. Subsequently, the alleged Internet pirate was taken into police custody for...
Late News: Nokia's Windows Phone Market Share, Casio Android G-Shock Smartphone, LG Optimus 4G
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft may not release statistics about Windows Phone in its quarterly financial results but, third parties are already at it with statistics about various Windows Phone based smartphones. According to the statistics revealed...
RIM Stock Continues to Drop After Co-CEO's Resign
News Business & Government
Following the departure of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie - the former co-chief executives of Research In Motion, the market reacted in an adverse manner, causing the company's shares to decline even further. As of Tuesday, the...
Apple Reveals Incredible Earnings: 37M iPhones, 15M iPads Sold last Quarter
News Business & Government
After the participants at the Apple's Q1 2012 earnings call had taken a deep breath and managed to compose themselves, the news of the impressive figures hit the internet. The Cupertino officials took almost everyone by surprise...
Counter Strike Now Available on Android Platform
News Mobile & Telco
The massively popular first-person shooter game Counter Strike has finally made its way to the Android platform - thanks to a bunch of geniuses from the Android developers community. Counter Strike, published by Valve, is...
£55.20 Xerox Phaser 6000 Colour Printer
Deals Consumer
The Xerox Phaser 6000 is a compact, value-packed and office-friendly colour printer that saves you precious desk space is suitable for both home as well as office use. With print speeds of up to 12 pages per minute (ppm) for mono...
Android : It’s About Differentiation, Not Fragmentation
News Mobile & Telco
During Google's keynote presentation last week at CES, Eric Schmidt addressed the elephant in the room that's been lingering around for the past few years - Android fragmentation. How much of an issue is fragmentation though?...
SNK Playmore Debuts New Neo-Geo Hand Held Console
News Hardware
SNK Playmore is set to re-enter the hand held console market, debuting the Neo-Geo PSP look alike which comes with some classic games already pre-loaded. The original Neo-Geo Pocket, released in 1999, was perhaps the most...
The Death of the "To-Do" List?
News Business & Government
The Death of the "To-Do" List? If you're like most people managing a work list, you depend on a To-Do list to keep you on track. The To-Do list has traditionally been a powerful tool. Pilots rely on a To-Do list (or Checklist)...
£119.99 Packard Bell Maestro 230 23" LED Full HD Widescreen Monitor
Deals Consumer
Stylish design, Asymmetric build, premium features is what the Maestro 230 from Packard Bell is all about and this 23" monitor provides great visuals - be it for your operating system, movies, games or images. The Ultra slim...
£299.99 Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 Dual Core 500GB Laptop
Deals Consumer
The Lifebook AH530 from Fujitsu is a reliable notebook that would enable you to cope up with your daily computing activities in a faster and efficient manner. Powered by Pentium Dual Core P6200 processor at 2.13GHz and 4GB of...
£299.99 Toshiba 40BV801B Full HD 1080p 40-inch Refurbished LCD TV with Freeview HD
Deals Hardware
If you are looking for a full HD TV from Toshiba, but don't want to shell out prices of a new TV, then the Toshiba 40BV801B in a refurbished condition is the right choice for you. With 40-inch screen and 1920x1080 resolution, the...
Camera Uses Shoes for User Detection on Multi-touch Displays
News Hardware
German researchers have developed a new method of detecting users on a multi-touch display: just look at their shoes! Known as Bootstrapper and developed at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germary; head of computer...
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Comes to Huawei Honor
News Mobile & Telco
Huawei aired a demo version of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, running on an Honor smartphone in December last year. Now, the company has now dished out the Ice Cream Sandwich flavour in China. Owners who have Huawei Honor...
One million LG Optimus 4G LTE phones sold
News Mobile & Telco
South Korean second largest consumer electronics company Lucky Goldstar has made public that their Optimus LTE handset has reached over a million sales, within the USA, Canada, Japan and South Korea - in total. LG launched the...
Casio Unveils Concept Android G-Shock Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Casio has unveiled its concept model of a rugged Android G-Shock smartphone, which is specifically designed for those users who face extreme environments. When and if launched in the consumer market, users will not have to worry...
Unofficially Nokia Holds Near 50% Share in Second Gen Windows Phone Market
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft may not release statistics about Windows Phone in its quarterly financial results, but third parties are already producing statistics about various Windows Phone based smartphones. According to the statistics revealed...
Pew Study Finds Tablet Ownership at 19% Among US Adults
News Consumer
According to a study conducted by Pew Research Centre, almost one out of five US adults own a tablet computer at present. As a matter of fact, the number of tablet owners nearly doubled during the holiday season. Till...
Olympus to Receive Sony Investment?
News Business & Government
Olympus has begun fielding offers from various firms in an effort to generate capital, with one of the major offers so far coming from Sony. Other companies involved in the process are Fujifilm and medical equipment firm...
MWC 2012 May See Launch of Huawei Diamond Series Smartphones
News Mobile & Telco
Unconfirmed reports are suggesting possible launch of Huawei's new Diamond series smartphones at the forthcoming Mobile World Conference (MWC) to be hosted in Barcelona. According to various media sources, the event has been...
Study: 36% of iPhone 4S Adopters Migrated from Other OS Platforms
News Mobile & Telco
A new study reveals that as much as 36 per cent of those who purchased a new iPhone during the last quarter of 2011, migrated from other mobile OS platforms. The study was compiled by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners...
iPhone 4S' Siri Looks Dumb Next to Evi (when her servers are functioning)
News Mobile & Telco
True Knowledge, with its world-renowned Answer Engine (as opposed to just a 'search engine') has managed to incorporate its unique semantic technology into a voice assistant. This is said to be even smarter and more...
Nokia sells 1.5 billionth Series 40 mobile phones
News Mobile & Telco
Finnish handset maker Nokia has announced that the company has now sold 1.5 billion Series 40 based handsets, with that figure being hit in Brazil. Nokia has reached this milestone with one of their Asha 303 devices, which has...
Tablet, Phone Users Spending More Time on Apps Compared to Web
News Mobile & Telco
According to data gathered by Flurry Analytics, owners of smartphones and tablet computers spend more time using apps rather than surfing the internet via their devices. Just a year and half ago, these statistics were more on the...
Paradox CEO Smashes DRM
News Security
The CEO of Paradox Interactive - the developer behind the Magicka games, has hit out at DRM, saying that as well as costing developers and publishers money, it generates loses it for them too. Mr Fred Wester made these comments...
iPhone 4S Rival Alert : Motorola adds Droid Razr Maxx to Portfolio
News Mobile & Telco
The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx smartphone is set to debut on US mobile network operator Verizon in 24 hours, and will offer a bigger battery and double the onboard storage capacity compared to the original Droid Razr - which...
Noon News: Anonymous Not to Hack Facebook, CyanogenMod Android App Store, Xbox 720 Chipset Production Commences
News Security
Anonymous clarified on Monday that it has no plans whatsoever to target Facebook on Jan 28 as reported by a section of the media. The reports of a looming hack-attempt on the massively popular social media platform started...
Kinect Hack Lets You Make a Massive Touch Screen
News Software
A new Kinect hack has allowed a clever chap to create a giant touch screen for use with his Samsung Galaxy Nexus mobile handset. If you're an older gentleman who struggles to see icons on your little mobile phone, you now...
Absinthe iOS 5 Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 has a Million Downloads within Days
News Software
According to a recent post from the iPhone Dev Team, the newly released untethered iOS 5 jailbreak solution, for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners wanting to enhance the capabilities of their devices, is being downloaded...
O2 caught sharing customers mobile phone number with websites
News Mobile & Telco
Broadband news website thinkbroadband.com has published an article that details O2 is passingthe phone number of their customers to every website visited, when that user on their network access the internet from a...
Google’s Android App Inventor Goes Open Source
News Software
Google, along with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has decided to open source the Android App Inventor code The developers at MIT stated that for the time being the App Inventor will not accept any contribution made...
O2 deploys update to Windows Phone 7 mobile phones and finally fixes MAC address bug
News Mobile & Telco
Former British Telecom mobile phone network O2 has now rolled out a firmware update to Microsoft Windows Phone 7 handsets running on their network, which includes the network exclusive HTC HD7 device and its constantly changing...
Juror Mines for Data about Defendant on Google, Gets Six Months Imprisonment
News Web
On January 23, a juror was jailed for six months after she used Google to find out information about a rape case defendant in Luton. The juror academic Dr Theodora Dallas informed her fellow jurors that a man facing trial for...
Apple Planning to "Reinvent" Photography on the iPhone, iPad?
News Mobile & Telco
According to Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs' biographer, the Apple co-founder was focused on bringing significant changes to three particular areas. "He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and...
LG Optimus Black Gets Android Gingerbread Update
News Mobile & Telco
The much awaited Android 2.3 Gingerbread update has been rolled out to the users of LG Optimus Black. The update is only available in India at present, and select few regions in Europe. It's just a matter of time though untill...
US Based Consumer Watchdog Requests EU to Block Google’s Motorola Acquisition
News Business & Government
In what could be termed as the first of its kind complaint to the European authorities, the European competition commissioner has been urged by a United Stated based consumer group to block Google's proposed acquisition of...
Xbox 720 / Next Xbox Chipset Production Has Started
News Consumer
The production of the system of chip that will power Microsoft's next generation gaming platform, otherwise known as the Xbox 720 or the Next Xbox, has started according to tech websites Fudzilla and Semiaccurate. Both sources...
iPhone 4 Rival Alert : Price Of Motorola Milestone 2 Slashed To £200
News Mobile & Telco
Android smartphones with a proper physical QWERTY keyboard are rare, so prospective buyers will be happy about the discounted Motorola Milestone 2 from Expansys, which can be had for £200. Like the iPhone 4, it has a single...
iPhone 4S Rival Alert : Samsung Galaxy R Down To £300
News Mobile & Telco
The cheaper version of the Samsung Galaxy S2, called the Galaxy R, is now available on preorder from as little as £300 from Handtec. Given that there's a 20 per cent price difference between the two handsets, there are some...
CyanogenMod Android App Store May be in the Works
News Mobile & Telco
A group of Android hackers are currently pondering over the idea of coming up with a specialist app store, featuring applications built for rooted handsets alongside many other offerings that Google currently does not allow in...
Anonymous: We Will Not Attack Facebook
News Security
Hackers' collective Anonymous clarified on Monday that it has no plans whatsoever to target Facebook on Jan 28 as reported by a section of the media. The reports of a looming hack-attempt on the massively popular social media...
AM News: YouTube Gets 4bn Daily Views, Sony S & P Tablets to Get ICS Soon, Lumia 900 in UK
News Web
YouTube should put another feather in its cap with daily page views crossing the four billion a day mark. The Google owned site has long since been the benchmark for all video sharing sites - and today it stands head and...
Study Proves iPad Superiority over Textbooks for Education
News Hardware
Following a recent event where Apple announced its new strategy to become more engaged in education with the release of iBooks 2, amongst other new applications, a new study reveals the impact of the iPad on students'...
Over a Third of iPhone 4S Buyers Desert from other Operating Systems
News Mobile & Telco
In the three months after it was introduced to the market, the iPhone 4S has made quite a splash. Even in the first days of availability analysts were predicting the fifth generation iPhone would be a great success, after managed...
