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Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Virgin Media to trial fiber broadband over telegraph poles

Mikael Ricknäs

Virgin Media will use telegraph poles to extend the reach of FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) in a test in the UK village of Woolhampton, it said on Thursday.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Gameloft unveils new iPhone games at trade show

Chris Holt Macworld.com

Gameloft, one of the leading developers for the iPhone and iPod touch, unveiled three new games to the assembled press on Thursday at GDC.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Smartphones spread slowly in China, despite 3G and Apple's iPhone

Owen Fletcher

China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by China's mobile carriers.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Daily Mail faces court over Facebook sleaze error

John E. Dunn Computerworld

British tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail could be in hot water with Facebook after incorrectly naming the site in an article on sexual stalking on the Internet.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Apple reveals US iPad accessory pricing

Nick Spence

Apple has updated the US Store with iPad ordering details and pricing a range of accessories including the iPad Keyboard Dock, iPad case and iPad Dock.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Freescale touts cheap Linux tablet

David Pierce Computerworld

Could a $200 tablet PC running Linux, Google Android and Chrome become a reality? Freescale thinks so.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari as Pwn2Own looms

Gregg Keizer Computerworld

Apple has patched 16 bugs in the Safari browser, with this latest update.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Apple EU Stores closed - iPad UK price and pre-orders today? (Updated)

Mark Hattersley

The Apple Store is currently closed. Typically this occurs when Apple introduces a new product. The iPad is due to have pre-orders today in the US, but the UK store is also closed. Are we also going to get iPad pre-orders today?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Sony, Panasonic cameras combine small size with SLR features

Martyn Williams

Panasonic and Sony have shown new cameras that mix compact size with interchangeable lenses.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

FujiFilm's latest camera aims at dogs, cats

Martyn Williams

FujiFilm's Finepix Z700 features recognises canine and feline faces, and can snap a picture automatically when they look towards the camera.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking

Dan Nystedt

Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the storage devices.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Apple iPhone apps usage shifts into high gear at night, on weekends

Network World Staff Network World

New US research conducted over the past two months shows that US Apple iPhone users mainly use their apps at night and on weekends, indicating the smartphone apps are currently used more for personal than work purposes.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Apple's iPad pre-sale begins today in US

Gregg Keizer Computerworld

Today is the first on-sale day for Apple's iPad in the US, Gregg Keizer offers an impression of what customers can expect while those in the wait an additional month.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Rumour: Next-gen Apple iPhone 4.0 software to add multitasking

Daniel Ionescu PCWorld.com

Apple's iPhone 4.0 Software Update will finally introduce multitasking to the device, according to one of many rumours surfacing as interest in what's next for the iPhone mounts.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Safari 4.0.5 offers improvements to Top Sites, plug-ins

Serenity Caldwell Macworld.com

Safari 4.0.5, which is now available for Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Windows users, offers several performance and stability improvements.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Fasthosts offers virtual server range

Maxwell Cooter Techworld.com

Fasthosts has introduced a range of virtual servers, based on Microsoft Hyper-V, that allows customers to configure a server by choosing capacity, processor power and control settings that meet changing business needs.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Knomo intros superstar DJ Erick Morillo bag collection

Nick Spence

Knomo has announced a new range of bags in collaboration with Erick Morillo, the globetrotting international superstar DJ.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Intel invests in social media incubator Betaworks

Agam Shah

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Google tests new Blogger layout design tool

Juan Carlos Perez

Google is publicly testing of a Blogger layout customisation tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

The Internet is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Sharon Gaudin Computerworld

Wired magazine has nominated the Internet to be a contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

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