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Sept 2009 |
Wireless product manufacturer Huawei announced yesterday that 2010 will see the commercial deployment of blazing fast 56Mbps wireless networks based on the HSPA+ technology.
This type of HSPA makes thorough use of multiple-in multiple out (MiMo) technology which allows for the vast increase in speed as it combines the data rates of more than one base station antenna's to increase the throughput.
Currently Asia has a few Huawei-powered wireless networks running at a not-insubstantial 28Mbps.
A massi... |
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Sept 2009 |
Benchmark tests by Computerworld have shown that Google's new Chrome 3.0 browser is the Windows browser and beats every other available browser - including Apple's Safari, which like Chrome, uses the Webkit browser engine - by a long shot.
Google launched Chrome 3.0 last week, and it is currently the fastest production version of the top five Windows browsers available, with JavaScript rendering more than 900 percent faster than Internet Explorer 8. It is 500 percent faster than Opera 10, 250 percent f... |
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Sept 2009 |
High Tech Computer (HTC) gave its latest smartphone a name it can live up to, Tattoo, because people who buy it will be invited to design their own personal skin for the phone.
Announced Tuesday, the HTC Tattoo is the company's fourth smartphone to use Google's Android mobile operating system and the second Android handset to use HTC Sense, the company's own user interface (UI). The UI is designed to let people create their own home pages with the most important data up front, whether a quick link to Fac... |
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Sept 2009 |
The Nokia 7705 Twist for Verizon Wireless is not only square, it also features a blast-from-the-past swivel design. Front and center is the 2.4-inch, 262-color display above a few navigation controls. There's also a ring around the swivel point that lights when you get a call or have missed messages. To find the full QWERTY keyboard, just rotate the swivel out from behind. The front of the Twist is black, but it comes with black and purple battery covers.
Features are centered around messaging, but the h... |
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Sept 2009 |
Twitter has altered its terms of service to permit advertising, as it looks for new ways to make money from its huge following, which now stands at 45 million monthly visitors.
Twitter, the two-year-old venture capital-backed company that lets people send an unlimited number of 140-character messages, is just now beginning to ramp up efforts to monetise and the revision to its terms of service to allow for ads is part of that..
"We leave the door open for advertising. We'd like to keep our options ope... |
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Sept 2009 |
According to a revised analysis by Credit Suisse, YouTube, Google's popular video site, will spend around $300 million on bandwidth alone in 2009, which means that the video sharing site won't be profitable for this year.
Credit Suisse analysts Spencer Wang and Kenneth Sena estimated in an April report that YouTube's bandwidth costs at about $360 million for the year, but the estimate was criticised for not taking "peering" into consideration. Peering is the voluntary interconnection agreement among larg... |
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Sept 2009 |
Google's free Gmail email service suffered a worldwide outage today, leaving millions without email.
The first reports of the outage surfaced on Astralian IT site Whirlpool just after 6AM AS tume, and the mail service seems to have been back to normal around 7.45am, although it is not clear if emails sent to Gmail email addresses while the outage was taking place have been restored.
Google initially stated that the outage affected only "a small subset of users" and that "service had already been rest... |
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Aug 2009 |
Japanese researchers have apparently found a method to break the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) data encryption system used in most wireless routers in just 1 minute.
At a technical conference on 25 September in Hiroshima, the city university's Toshihiro Ohigashi and Kobe University's Masakatu Morii will be explaining their method.
The attack could give would-be hackers a method to view the encrypted data traffic sent and received between computers and certain types of routers that utilize the WPA encry... |
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Aug 2009 |
Large cities in the UK could see their population drop when universal broadband services are available, a study has predicted.
Universal broadband 'could spark population change'
New research has suggested the rollout of universal broadband across the UK could have a significant impact on population trends.
According to the predictions compiled by YouGov and Orange, major cities like Leeds and Manchester could see their populations fall by up to 80 per cent, reports Sky News.
It added that the pop... |
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Aug 2009 |
While most of us are still tinkering with our home networks, perhaps slowly upgrading our machines and equipment to 802.11n draft hardware, researchers at Microsoft and HarvardUniversity are exploring a new type of Wi-Fi thinking.
Instead of operating at the same (or near) frequency range of existing Wi-Fi signals, Microsoft has been testing the transmission of signals over "whitespaces," which is part of the radio spectrum that was formerly used by analog television stations.
Microsoft has published ... |
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Aug 2009 |
Apple's reputation has been based on quality and reliability, says Don Reisinger. So the company needs to take reports of exploding iPhones seriously - alongside recent Macbook issues.
Exploding iPhones, overheating, Bluetooth problems, hard drive noises. What is going on at Apple? The company that provides a premium product at a premium price has experienced so many hardware issues over the past few weeks that it's becoming a real concern.
The iPhone 3GS is becoming a problem child for Apple. Multipl... |
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Aug 2009 |
Scientists have perfected a new technology that can transform a fibre optic cable into a highly sensitive microphone capable of detecting a single footstep from up to 40km away.
Guards at listening posts protecting remote sensitive sites from attackers such as terrorists or environmental saboteurs can eavesdrop across huge tracts of territory using the new system which has been created to beef up security around national borders, railway networks, airports and vital oil and gas pipelines.
Devised by Q... |
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Aug 2009 |
Five people have filed a suit against Facebook in the US, charging the social-networking company with violating California privacy laws and false advertising.
Facebook users assume that personal information and photos that they post on the site are shared only with authorised friends, the suit, filed in the Superior Court for California in Orange County, says. "Users may be unaware that data they submit ... may be extracted and then shared, stored, licensed or downloaded by other persons or third parties... |
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Aug 2009 |
Google has once again topped a poll of the best search engines on the web, says the University of Michigan.
In its annual study, which was conducted by ForeSee Results, Google scored a strong 86 out of 100 on a scale of customer satisfaction, for the second year in a row. That's nine points higher than the second-place finisher, Yahoo.
The study was conducted before Microsoft's Bing search service was released earlier this summer. Nevertheless, Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee Results, said t... |
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Aug 2009 |
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is trimming his stock portfolio--he's sold off 7 million shares in the company he founded since the beginning of August.
Securities and Exchange Commission records show Gates launched the selloff on August 3rd, when he disposed of 2 million shares at a price of USD24.17 per share. Gates then made four additional sales of shares totaling 5 million through Friday.
The price Gates received for the shares ranged from USD23.64 to USD24.17. Microsoft shares were off .81% to USD... |
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