Motorola shows off a new touch screen device
Having struggled since they released the extremely popular Razr years ago, Motorola is still trying to regain it's position at the top of the heap as it stands toe to toe with some very stiff competition in the mobile phone market. The company is banking on a few new devices,... Read on »
iTunes going DRM free
Apple have just announced, during the MacWorld keynote, that 10 million songs on iTunes will become DRM free by the end of Q1 2009. On the Apple iTunes store the text reads "This is a special offer to upgrade your entire music library of previously purchased songs, albums and music... Read on »
Apple MacWorld 2009 keynote summary
Today saw Apple's final MacWorld keynote provided by Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing at Apple. Apple announced that this would be their final keynote and that, breaking from tradition, Steve Jobs would not attend. Only yesterday, after rumour and speculation, Apple confirmed this was due to... Read on »
SanDisk to launch new SSD range for netbooks
SanDisk have announced that they are launching a new range of Solid State Drives (SSDs) designed specifically for netbooks. The SanDisk pSSD-P2... Read on »
Google ranked as #3 spammer's paradise
As of today (6 January 2009), Google has been ranked as the third worst "spam service ISP" by Spamhaus.org. Besides not doing... Read on »
Google targeted in Chinese Internet crackdown
Google, alongside other popular web portals, was warned on Monday that they must do more to block pornographic content from reaching Chinese users, in the latest in a series of crackdowns on Internet content by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities published a list of 19 websites that have failed to... Read on »
Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search: Windows Vista included the enhanced desktop search feature which helps users to readily locate files, e-mail messages, and other items on their PC . With the release of Windows Search 4.0, the performance of the search... Read on »
New UK police powers to hack without a warrant
To the outrage of civil liberties groups and the government opposition, the UK Home Office has begun permitting police and MI5 officers to hack ("remote search") people's computers without their knowledge and without a court warrant. Information gleaned can then be shared with other European forces, in line with a... Read on »
Comcast bandwidth throttling effective in all markets
Comcast is fighting back against what it calls excessive bandwidth users. The company confirmed that it has successfully deployed throttling technology to all its markets. Comcast claims that the technology is to help make everyone get the same experience and have equal opportunity to the bandwidth. The throttling works in... Read on »
Mac users set to receive Picasa
Google is planning to release a beta of the popular photo editing/viewing program Picasa on the Mac today. According to Jason Cook from Picasa the features you will be seeing in the beta will be the most of the features you currently see in the Windows version. They are going... Read on »
Update: "Vista Capable" trial
The ongoing "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against Microsoft took an interesting turn the other day when an expert witness for the plaintiffs claimed that the Redmond company made more than $1.5 billion through their "Vista Capable" marketing campaign. The origins of the trial itself are to be found in the... Read on »
Roku to support Amazon.com video
Today, Amazon announced that is going to start offering customers the ability to purchase and rent digital movies and TV episodes from the Amazon Video On Demand store, via the Roku Digital Video Player. The Roku Player currently supports only the Netflix service, but starting early 2009 it will will... Read on »
Gamestop says 'goodbye' to Xbox
Gamestop rings in the New Year by no longer accepting trade-ins for original Xbox consoles, games or accessories. It is not official as yet, but an internal memo has been making its way around, informing employees that this new ruling will take place starting February 9, 2009. On the other... Read on »
Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and... Read on »
Steve Jobs: One letter can raise shares almost 6%
Just about everyone knows that Steve Jobs is the face and lifeblood of Apple, and while some Apple-lovers claim that this is not the case, investors think otherwise. Following the last few keynotes and what seemed to be a final blow, investors felt "on ice" about Steve Jobs and the... Read on »
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