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CEOP To Use Cartoon To Highlight Dangers Of Online Meeting

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) has launched a new initiative on EU's Safer Internet Day, under which five year old internet users will be educated on internet safety by the means of a new interactive campaign of games and cartoons centered around the adventures of Lee and Kim.

Nvidia Optimus Promises More Powerful Laptop graphics

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Graphics behemoth Nvidia has announced a new feature called Optimus that will allow laptops to seamlessly switch between their integrated and dedicated graphics module depending on power requirements and to save battery life.

Macworld Expo 2010 To Open Without Apple

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Macworld Expo and Conference, the world's biggest Apple related conference and product showcase, will begin at San Francisco’s Moscone Center with no official Apple booth on the exhibition floor.

NGO Encourages Over-60 To Use Web To Write Books

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Booktrust, one of Britain's leading reading charities, has announced a new campaign titled 'The Bookbite Project' which will aim towards encouraging elderly people to join book clubs and write their own novels if they want to.

How Does The Intel Itanium 9300 Compare With The Competition?

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

It is always refreshing to look back at what the Itanium range was suppose to bring to humanity and the world of computing; the epic project was supposed to generate sales of $37 billion in its third year, by 2001.

Juniper Networks Presents Software Solution For Mobile Phone Networks

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Juniper Networks, the California based information technology and computer networking products manufacturer, has rolled out a new wireless networking technology that will help cellular network providers to offer better network coverage to their customers.

Intel Launches Itanium 9300 Tukwila Processor

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Intel has finally launched its next generation EPIC processor, codenamed Tukwila, but now officially named Itanium 9300, a CPU that is set to take on the newly launched Power7 processor from IBM in a formidable battle at the very end of the market.

Google To Provide With Voice Support For Nexus One Smartphone

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Google Inc., which recently launched its Android based Nexus One smartphone, has started customer support operations for the users of Nexus One with a goal of providing technical support in a timely manner.

Cisco Unveils Next Generation Data Centre Architecture Solutions

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Cisco Systems, the networking equipment giant, has announced plans to dish out a bunch of new and improved data center products that will aim to interconnect and manage resources among multiple data centers and are also designed for cloud computing and virtualisation.

LG Debuts GD880 3.2-inch Touchscreen Smartphone

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Korean consumer electronics giant LG has released a new smartphone, the LG GD880, which it is touting as the smallest and thinnest 3.2-inch touchscreen model currently on the market.

Apple iPhone 4G Parts Pictures Appear Online

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

A repair company called IresQ has posted pictures of what appears to be genuine parts for the next generation iPhone 4G smartphone which should be launched on the market by June 2010 during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.

Microsoft Rolls Out Child-Proof Internet Explorer Browser

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Microsoft Corp, the world’s largest software maker has rolled out a brand new edition of its popular Internet explorer 8 web browser which will allow kids and their parents to alert the authorities if they come across inappropriate content over the internet.

Microsoft Tests Show That Windows 7 Doesn't Affect Battery Life

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

While hundreds of notebook users have been grumbling about battery issues pertaining to the three-month old Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft has claimed that its extensive testing has shown that its OS wasn’t at fault.

Facebook Abandons Ad Partnership With Microsoft

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Facebook and Microsoft have terminated their exclusive advertising agreement, which was originally meant to run till next year, as the social networking giant is now dumping Microsoft for serving banner adverts on its platform and taking up the onus at its own.

Microsoft Discontinues Fast ESP Support For Linux, Unix Platforms

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Microsoft Corp. said it will stop developing Linux and Unix core search versions of FAST Enterprise Service Platform (ESP) core, which the software maker snapped up in 2008, following the release of its Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 software suites later this year.

BT On Target With 24mbps Nationwide Roll Out

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

BT, formerly known as British Telecom, has announced that the company has successfully rolled out its Wholesale Broadband Connect product that offers speeds of up to 24 mbps to half of UK homes and businesses.

Amazon Set To Raise Price Of Ebooks After Macmillan Episode

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

After finalising the e-book pricing deal with publishing giant Macmillan, Amazon.com is readying up for further pricing negotiations with other major publishing houses which are keen on adopting the new e-book pricing model put forward by Apple Inc., for its iPad tablet device.

Google Expects Display Advertising Revenues To Surpass $1 Billion In 2010

Desire Athow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010

It’s only around six months back when Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt dropped a hint that the company’s display advertising business would be its another business to cross $ 1 billion mark.