Nokia Announces Release Date For 5800 XpressMusic Smartphone
Nokia has announced that its striking touchscreen smartphone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, is all set to cruise into the UK market on 23rd January. Popularly referred to as “Tube”, the handset goes on sale from 10am at the Heathrow Terminal 5 shop and Nokia Stores at Regent Street in London.
2009 : The Year Of Connected Smartphones
The year 2008 has been the year of smartphones, with a large number of devices, such as iPhone 3G, Google’s Android powered G1, Nokia N97, and Blackberry Storm, launched during the last 12 months.
Sony Chooses Foxconn and Asus To Manufacture Xperia X2
The much awaited successor to Sony Ericsson’s stylish smartphone Xperia X1, which is tentatively being referred to as Xperia X2, is expected to hit the floor sometime in late 2009, but it won’t be manufactured by HTC, according to sources.
Virtualisation and hosted applications : Microsoft's Perspective
Microsoft recently announced the launch of a new data centre in Ireland to support its growing online business. This new data centre will comprise tens of thousands of servers pumping out web-based applications to internet users (in particular business users) all over the world.
LG Launches Dual SIM Capable KS660 Touchscreen Smartphone
The KS660 from LG is one of the first Dual SIM high end smartphones to be put on the market by one of the mainstream manufacturers, a feature that tends to be present on dubious clone smartphones sold in Asia.
2009, an even bigger year for Netbooks
Netbooks have been without doubt the big winners of 2008 as an overwhelming number of laptop manufacturers have succumbed to their appeal; with the only outcasts being Panasonic and Sony.
Google To Roll Out UK Street View Feature In Spring 2009
Search Giant Google is set to debut Street View for UK some time next year as the mind-numbing process of collating and processing millions of photographs of Britain's streets and roads continues unabated.
5 reasons why Cinema-like ratings For English websites will Ultimately fail
Andy Burnham, UK's Culture, Media and Sports Secretary, is backing plans to introduce Cinema-like ratings for websites, amongst a number of things which has attracted a number of comments (and even prompted Mike Butcher from Techcrunch UK to "steal" the culture Secretary's Twitter account.
Broadband UK Is Rapidly Falling Behind Says Microsoft Researcher
The UK government should massively invest in a plan to upgrade the nation's communication network to fibre-optic to boost the country's broadband capacity according to Professor Christopher Bishop, chief scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
IP Troll Sues Microsoft, Apple And Google Over Image Previews
A small Indiana-based firm has sued some of the biggest tech behemoths, including the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple, saying that it owns a patent on general previewing feature used by most of the operating systems and browsers to show small images of the files before opening them
Windows 7 Beta Appears on Torrent Sites
The first beta of Microsoft’s Windows 7, which is expected to be released sometime in mid-January next year, has appeared on a Bit Torrent website last week.
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