Archive for the 'Technology' Category


URL change ‘biggest for Web in 40 years’

Friday, May 7th, 2010 No Commented

INTERNET addresses written in Arabic have gone live on the internet, making history as the first online domains in non-Latin characters.

“For the first time in the history of the internet, non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains,” the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said.
“Arabic has now become the first non-Latin script to [...]

Military Tech in Action

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 No Commented

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Making the BlackBerry a lot more fun

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 No Commented

Apple’s iPhone is getting more appealing to business users, but BlackBerry maker RIM says it will prevail among the corporate set.

Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie

For an executive on the go, there’s no better device for powering through e-mail than a BlackBerry, the No. 1 smartphone in North America. But increasingly businesspeople also want cool [...]

Apple may release iPhone 4G on June 7

Thursday, April 29th, 2010 No Commented

Gizmodo debuted the iPhone 4G quite a bit earlier than Apple was comfortable with.
Source: news.com.au

APPLE is expected to formally debut its next-generation iPhone at a developers conference slated for the second week of June.

The California firm announced a June 7 start for its five-day Worldwide Developers Conference in San [...]

Don’t Talk to Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 No Commented

Aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.


The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which [...]

Palm running out of options

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 No Commented

By David Goldman, staff writerApril 23, 2010: 3:02 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Palm’s future has been up in the air as the list of potential buyers has thinned out, but rumors circulated Friday that there might be a white knight planning a bid.
Hong Kong-based PC maker Lenovo appears to be [...]

Thief takes off with man’s iPad, finger

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 No Commented

A US man was left with a severed finger after two thieves stole an iPad he had just purchased at the mall in Colorado.

Bill Jordan told KDVR he went to the Cherry Creek Mall’s Apple store last Thursday to buy the new product for his company to give as a business gift.
After Mr Jordan exited [...]

7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 No Commented

A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers.


The retailer, British firm GameStation, added the “immortal soul clause” to the contract signed before making any online purchases earlier this month. It states that customers [...]

Watch what you say: Old tweets searchable

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 No Commented

By Hibah Yousuf, staff reporterApril 14, 2010: 3:33 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — What was the Twitterverse’s reaction to the Lehman Brothers collapse? President Obama’s election? Now you won’t have to wonder.
Every single public tweet, dating back to the very first missive posted on March 21, 2006, will now be housed in the government’s [...]

Microsoft Kin hopes to hunt down iPhone

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 No Commented

Microsoft is pinning its mobile hopes on ignoring apps in favour of social networking / AP
Source: AP

MICROSOFT has unveiled two mobile phones that are meant for social networking-savvy teens and twenty-somethings, to revitalise its mobile business and regain ground on iPhones and BlackBerrys.

The Kin One and Kin Two phones, [...]

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