Articles Posted on 26 January 2012
ZTE Light Tab 2 Tablet Goes On Preorder For £235
News Hardware
ZTE's new Light Tab 2, otherwise known as the V9A, has gone on preorder at Clove for a mere £235 with the first stocks expected to reach the retailer in late February, possibly during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The...
Primitive Tribes in Tanzania Create Social Structures Similar to Facebook
News Business & Government
The Hadzas - a primitive tribe in Tanzania, uses a truly unique way to socialise amongst themselves - a way that resembles the structure of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. According to a study, the Hadza people...
Nokia to Offer Free Lumia 800 and 710 Smartphones to Enterprise Customers
News Business & Government
As part of their massive marketing campaign, Nokia has decided to offer more than 1,000 free Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 smartphones to enterprise customers. Through their distributors Micro-P and Ingram Micro, Nokia has decided to...
RIM's Roadmap for BlackBerry Leaked
News Business & Government
Research in Motion seems to be grabbing headlines again and again - the latest news is that the BlackBerry maker's next 15 month road map has been leaked. According to sources, RIM is working on a number of new product...
Samsung Delays Release of Galaxy S III
News Business & Government
If reports are to be believed then the Samsung Galaxy S III quad core smartphone will not be unveiled during next month's international event Mobile World Congress 2012, held in Barcelona. Even though, according to earlier...
Mozy Introduces 'Stash' for File Syncing
News Business & Government
On Wednesday, Mozy, the cloud storage service provider, announced the availability of public beta for Mozy Stash. This is the latest feature to provide customers with a method to access various files spread...
SAP to Support ERP on HANA, an In-Memory Database Platform
News Business & Government
SAP will be extending support to the ERP module within their Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform during Q4 of 2012. This move has been confirmed by executive board member and technology Chief...
SAP Confident Sales Revenue will Continue to Rise Through 2015
News Business & Government
SAP, the world's largest business software maker, is planning to raise their 2015 sales target after earning record-high annual profits. The company is also setting a double-digit growth goal for 2012. With these...
Will Windows 8 OS Support WP 7 Apps?
News Mobile & Telco
In what could emerge as a potentially worrying outcome for Windows Phone loyalists, a prominent blogger has revealed that Microsoft's forthcoming desktop OS platform Windows 8 may not be compatible with current Windows Phone 7...
Facebook Contributes an Estimated £2.2 billion to UK Economy
News Business & Government
An estimated £2.2 billion is contributed to the UK economy every year by social media giant Facebook, a new study revealed. Commissioned by Facebook, and conducted by Deloitte - the research found that the website...
£31.98 Digital Stream Onyx Internet TV Receiver
Deals Consumer
The Onyx Internet TV Receiver lets you receive and watch all the top UK and global web channels without the need for a laptop or PC or a TV tuner card inside it. All you have to do is to hook up the Digital Stream TV receiver and...
N. Korean Government Says No Mobile Phone Use During 100-Day Mourning Period for Kim Jong-il
News Business & Government
North Korea's leadership has yet again made it to the headlines for the wrong reasons. According to new reports, the government in the "rogue" Asian state has issued a warning to its citizens, stating that anyone found using...
£99.99 Humax PVR-9150T Freeview 160GB Twin Tuner Digital TV Recorder
Deals Consumer
Have you got one of those old LCDs without in-built Freeview or the ability to pause and record live TV? The Humax PVR-9150T should be the one to go for in case you do have one of those LCDs. The Freeview+ Box allows you to view...
Apple CEO Not Affected by Amazon Kindle Fire's Success
News Mobile & Telco
Amazon's flagship tablet device Kindle Fire may have created quite some buzz in the global tablet arena, but if we are to believe Apple's chief executive Tim Cook, the iPad maker is not bothered by the Kindle Fire's...
O2 Sorry for Exposing Customers' Phone Numbers Online During Planned Maintenance
News Consumer
O2, the UK based telecom giant, has issued an apology for a glitch that resulted in users' phone numbers being disclosed when accessing the company's mobile data services. According to the company, the phone numbers were being...
Rhapsody Acquires Napster's Music Services in UK and Germany
News Business & Government
Rhapsody has announced it is going ahead with the proposed acquisition of Napster's Germany and UK wings. According to experts, the move will help the company significantly strengthen its hold over the European market. And...
Teleconferencing Vendors Say Fine Line Between Providing Security and Usability
News Business & Government
Teleconferencing vendors have announced they are desperately trying to maintain balance between security and usability. The announcement from vendors came after it was revealed by a group of researchers that it would not be...
Facebook Implements New 'Timeline' Feature
News Consumer
On Tuesday, Facebook announced its latest feature, Timeline, would be rolled out to all 800 million users worldwide over the next few weeks. Once the feature is implemented, users will have 7 days to go back to the earlier...
AT&T Introduces United Communications Service for Enterprise Users
News Business & Government
AT&T has announced it is introducing its United Communications (UC) services to businesses across the world, irrespective of their size or location, through a carrier-grade service. The company further stated that...
£99.98 Sony BDX-S500U 6x External Slim Blu-ray Writer
Deals Consumer
Blu-ray discs and drives are becoming main stream like DVD players and discs. Inbuilt Blu-ray drives are being offered with many desktop and laptop systems but what if you have an old laptop or desktop but still want to enjoy...
£66 VIA ARTiGO A2000 Barebone Storage Server
Deals Consumer
The ARTiGO A2000 Barebone Storage Server from VIA would only need RAM, CF card and SATA drives to take form of a cheap and compact NAS. The ARTiGo A2000 comes with a 1.5 GHz VIA C7-D processor and VX800 media system processor...
Late News: Facebook Subscribe, Google Recommends Changes to TCP, Open Source HP WebOS, Motorola Sues Apple
News Web
Facebook announced on Wednesday that ever since the launch of ‘Subscribe' feature in November last year it has attracted thousands of journalists. According to the social media giant, journalists are increasingly using the...
Tagged Discusses Hi5 Revamp
News Web
Tagged has discussed the revamp of Social Network Hi5 which it bought up late last year, saying that it will continue operation but with a more Tagged like style. "A Tagged.com experience with a hi5 wrapper," is how vice...
£99.97 Acer P226HQVBd 22" Full HD LCD Monitor
Deals Consumer
Acer P226HQVBd is a 22-inch Full HD LCD monitor that provides stunning images for games, movies, applications, operating system and everything else visual you might think of. With support for 16.7 million colours and a static...
£49.99 WiDRIVE DX-325 Multifunctional Wireless NAS
Deals Consumer
The WiDRIVE DX-325 - Multifunctional Wireless NAS is a next-gen Wi-Fi storage router that not only lets you access the internet across multiple devices, but also lets you share files among multiple users. The router supports...
Namco Ignores Programmer Mental Health
News Business & Government
It's been revealed that Japanese video game and arcade giant Namco, ignores the mental health issues of its programmers, even at the urgings of physicians - to the point that they commit suicide. While Apple might be getting a...
WatchDox for iPhone, iPad lets you Annotate and Share Confidential Documents
News Mobile & Telco
Confidela has released an updated version of its WatchDox app, especially designed for enterprise users who need to share confidential documents. The new update delivers a few useful annotation tools. Enterprise users can...
Apple Ignoring Poor Factory Working Conditions
News Business & Government
Apple is completely ignoring the poor working conditions at many of its fabrication facilities, according to former employees and several anonymous Apple executives. Over the past couple of years there have been calls for the...
£39.99 Technisat HDFV Freeview HD Box
Deals Consumer
The HDFV Freeview HD Box is a great box to have that would allow you receive Freeview HD channels onto your HD ready digital TV. The DVR ready HDFV allows you to pause, timeshift and record live programs through the use of...
£299.99 Toshiba 40KV701B 40-inch Full HD 1080p LCD TV
Deals Hardware
Known for its excellent range of consumer electronics and computing products, Toshiba brings to you the 40KV701B LCD TV that would be apt for your living room, study or office waiting area. Capable of Full HD 1080p resolution,...
Backed by Google, Motorola Sues Apple
News Business & Government
In its latest lawsuit, Motorola Mobility has accused the iPhone maker of infringing on some of the company's key technology patents. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Florida. In the latest patent suit, Motorola cited...
Windows Phone to Surpass iPhone within 3 Years, Analysts Predict
News Mobile & Telco
After the publication of an intriguing report on Windows Phone's chances of landing second place in the smartphone market (behind Android) by the end of 2015, various analysts and pundits have started to debate the matter. Rachel...
Nintendo Expecting Massive Losses
News Business & Government
Nintendo has widened its net loss forecasts for the running fiscal by more than threefold despite the fact that it managed to have a very healthy holiday season in terms of sales of 3DS and Wii. With this announcement made, the...
HP WebOS To Go Open Source
News Software
On Wednesday HP declared that they plan to gift the webOS to the open source community in the month of September this year under the Apache license. Last year, HP dug the grave for TouchPad and announced in December that the...
Official source states Apple iPhone 5 is ready to go into production
News Mobile & Telco
Manufacturers of the Apple iPhone are ready to start making the yet-to-be-announced iPhone 4S replacement, according to Apple news website 9to5mac.com 9to5 Mac stated, "We received word from a reliable source at Foxconn in...
iPhone is 'Most Precious Commodity' in the World, Apple eclipses Exxon Mobil
News Mobile & Telco
The mind-blowing earnings report from Apple for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which took almost everyone by surprise with its scale, has greatly boosted its share price and valuation. Consequently, Apple will become the...
Two Megaupload Execs Granted Bail
News Web
Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato - the two Megaupload executives who were arrested in New Zealand last week along with the site's founder Kim Dotcom for allegedly promoting online piracy. According to new and confirmed reports,...
Google Recommends Changes to TCP for Faster Web
News Hardware
We all know how Google has long been, in this seemingly never ending quest, trying to come up with new ways that would allow web pages to load much faster than they do today. According to new reports, the Web search giant has...
Subscribe Feature on Facebook Gaining Traction
News Web
Facebook announced on Wednesday that ever since the launch of ‘Subscribe' feature in November last year it has attracted thousands of journalists. According to the social media giant, journalists are increasingly using the...
Cisco Study Finds Rampant Use of Unapproved Devices in Workplace
News Business & Government
A new study reveals how businesses are increasingly willing to allow their employees to bring unapproved devices into the workplace. The study was commissioned by the networking hardware vendor Cisco and was carried out by...
Noon News: Pirate Bay 3D Printing, Virgin America to Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
News Web
The Pirate Bay seems to be planning a new file category which will be allowing 3D printers to create physical objects out of downloaded digital data. It may sound like a plot from a sci-fi movie but, apparently that's what the...
Google Puts Disaster Alerts on Maps
News Web
Web search giant Google is extending its Google Maps service to include crucial timely warnings for potentially hazardous natural phenomenon, the company announced. Dubbed Google Public Alerts, the new service will be integrating...
Software Bugs Aren’t Cheap, So Why Aren’t More Companies Doing More to Stop Them?
In-Depth Software
Fixing defects in software requires time, and time always costs money. According to a recent blog posted by Source Ninja, in the US alone companies are spending almost £40 billion pounds annually on defective software - one...
Amazon Shifts Backup to the Cloud with Storage Gateways
News Cloud
Amazon has converted their cloud based Simple Storage Service (S3) into back-up option for all data thus turning itself into an official of enterprise IT services. Yesterday, the company unveiled its AWS Storage Gateway beta, and...
Irish Government Website Faces Anonymous’ Wrath for SOPA-like Act
News Security
Anonymous has struck again, and this time the victim is the Departments of Justice and Finance of the Irish Republic government. The attack was launched to retaliate against Irish government's plan of coming up with a SOPA-like...
Anonymous: We Have No Affiliation with Anonyupload
News Web
The infamous hacktivist group "Anonymous" clarified that they have nothing to do whatsoever with Anonyupload, an alternative of Megaupload. Anonyupload appeared earlier this week and it claims that the file sharing website is a...
Hosted Solutions : Pros & Cons
News Web
Switching software and hardware from a licensed, in-house product to a leased service has many benefits for businesses. With web-hosted software, all that's needed to access the software is an internet connection, a web browser,...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with HUD May Arrive in April
News Software
According to reports, the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS could be available to end users in April itself. The new release may likely feature the latest Head-up Display or may be a HUD computer menu system. Implementation of HUD menu system...
New Sony Tablet called Crystal in AT&T Q1 2012 Roadmap
News Mobile & Telco
The device roadmap of US mobile phone operator AT&T for the first quarter of 2012 has apparently been leaked to mobile website BGR - with one surprise. Sony may well launch a new tablet called the Crystal for $409.99...
Samsung Exec Reveals Details Of Future Galaxy Tab
News Hardware
During an interview with tech website Laptopmag, Ryan Bidan, product marketing manager for Samsung, delivered a number of hints about tablet devices coming from the Korean manufacturer in the forthcoming months, including some...
Xbox 720 / Xbox Next To Play Blu-ray But Not Used Games
News Consumer
The avalanche of Xbox 720 related leaks continues; after Fudzilla, CVG and Semiaccurate, it's now the turn of games website Kotaku to reveal details disclosed by its own games industry sources. It claims that Microsoft will swap...
Symantec provides Security Recommendations for pcAnywhere Users
News Security
Security company Symantec is warning users of its popular remote access program, pcAnywhere, of what it calls an 'increased risk' following a recent source code incident, and has published a white paper to advise users. In a post...
Nokia Lumia 900 Coming to AT&T in March for $99 on a Two Year Contract
News Mobile & Telco
The telecom giant AT&T is planning to offer Nokia's flagship Windows Phone device Lumia 900 for only $99 on a 2 year contract, according to new reports. The Nokia Lumia 900 happens to be one of the massively anticipated new...
Virgin America’s Tribute to Steve Jobs, Prints 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish' on Jet
News Business & Government
Virgin America has paid homage to the tech legend and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs by putting one of his most famous speeches on the side of one of their jets. According to the website MacRumors, one of Mr Job's most famous...
The Pirate Bay’s Leap into the Future with 3D Printed 'Physibles'
News Web
The Pirate Bay seems to be planning a new file category which will be allowing 3D printers to create physical objects out of downloaded digital data. It may sound like a plot from a sci-fi movie but, apparently that's what the...
AM News: Google Privacy Policy Update, Kim Dotcom Denied Bail, Sony PS Vita Successor, RIM PlayBook Price Slash
News Web
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...
Proposed Internet User Privacy Rules by EU Include Fines for Company Noncompliance
News Business & Government
The new rules proposed by the European Union to safeguard Web users' online privacy involve some harsh measures for companies found guilty of breaching the code, according to reports. Apparently, the new rules will empower the EU...
