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  • 27 July 2010

  • News: Virgin partners with power firm on superfast broadband

    Virgin Media has chosen a small Welsh village to trial superfast fibre broadband over electrical poles.

  • News: Smartphones running Android surge in the UK

    The number of smartphones in the UK running Google Android has risen by 10 percent in the last quarter, says GfK.

  • Video: Bill Gates calls for 90 percent Aids reduction

    Gates speaks at the 18th International Aids Conference in Vienna

  • News: Brits can get out of broadband contracts with no penalty

    Brits will now have the option of leaving a broadband contract without being penalised if they find within three months of signing up that their actual speed is significantly below the estimate they are given when singing up.

  • News: IBM hit by EC antitrust probes

    The European Commission announced on Monday that it will begin formal investigations into allegations that IBM has abused its dominant position in the mainframe server market.

  • News: Apple fails to make iPhone jailbreaking a crime

    Apple lost its bid today to criminalize "jailbreaking," the practice of hacking an iPhone to install unauthorized apps on the smartphone, according to a decision by the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress.

  • News: Analysis: Wikileaks aims to crowdsource classified data

    The release by Wikileaks of more than 90,000 documents about sensitive military operations in Afghanistan may just be the start of problems for the U.S. government.

  • News: Yahoo Japan chooses Google search over Bing

    Google has secured a deal to provide search results and related advertising to Yahoo Japan, Japan's most popular Web site, the two companies said Tuesday.

  • 26 July 2010

  • News: HTC forced to swap from AMOLED to SLCD displays

    HTC on Monday announced it would use Super LCD (SLCD) display technology from Sony on its latest batch of mobile phones, replacing AMOLED screens supplied by Samsung. The move comes as shortages of HTC devices such as the HTC Desire forced the company to find an alternative to replenish its stocks. HTC announced the decision in a press release published by the website SlashGear.

  • News: OPINION: Not such a bad month for Apple

    Apple ridiculed over Antennagate and iPhone 4’s Grip of Death. It’s not all bad news.

  • News: Dell dumps Ubuntu PCs from website

    Despite previously claiming that Linux systems are safer than those running Windows, PC maker Dell has stopped selling computers pre-installed with the Ubuntu operating system via its website - the principle source of orders for the company

  • News: iPads to overtake netbooks by 2012

    With its iPad capturing 6 percent of the portable PC segment in the second quarter of 2010 Apple will continue lead the media tablet market through at least 2011 largely because of the lack of innovation in the netbook market.

  • News: Govt clamps down on sales of stolen mobile phones

    Roughly 100,000 stolen UK mobile phone handsets are being sold every year in a business that is worth around £4 million. And because stolen mobile phones are blocked from use on UK networks, legitimate recycling firms are the ones doing the selling.

  • News: iPhone users hit by shock data-roaming charges

    Some Apple iPhone users have received hefty bills after foreign trips, despite switching off data-roaming.

  • News: Las Vegas awaits influx of Black Hat crackers

    If you have plans to travel to Las Vegas next week, you may want to cancel them. Why? Because the city will be crawling with hackers attending a "Black Hat" conference on electronic security. The sponsors of the events describe them as "highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infosec world - from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers."

  • News: Most businesses use cloud computing

    Most businesses now use some element of cloud computing according to research from Mimecast. However, security concerns remain a barrier to adoption, however 57 percent of cloud users say that moving to the technology has actually improved security.

  • News: How good is India's $35 PC?

    India unveiled a prototype of a tablet PC it hopes to sell for $35 or less. Assuming India can find a partner to mass-produce the tablet and can get anywhere near its price target, what can you expect to accomplish with a practically disposable tablet PC?

  • News: Yahoo plans to invest in hackers

    Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday.

  • 23 July 2010

  • Opinion: Opinion: why Windows Phone 7 has to succeed

    If Windows Phone 7 isn't a game-changing success, Microsoft can wave goodbye as Apple and Google disappear over the horizon.

  • News: Microsoft licences ARM architecture

    Microsoft and ARM have signed a new deal that will see the technology giant licence the ARM architecture.

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