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LG enV3 launches 29 May

Boy Genius Report has stated that the LG enV3 will be released May 29. This newcomer will have a 2.6-inch internal display along with a 1.5-inch external display, QWERTY keyboard, 3.0MP camera with LED flash and video recording, music player, microSD card slot, Bluetooth, GPS, HTML Web browser, and EV-DO, so where features are concerned [...]

[ More ] May 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

BT accelerates 100Mbps fibre rollout

British Telecom is to double the speed of its forthcoming next generation fiber broadband rollout which will bring up to 100Mbps broadband within reach of more than a million premises on 2010.
This comes after the UK telecommunications giant reported terrible financial results, and announced 15,000 more job cuts. CEO Ian Livingston stated a faster fiber [...]

[ More ] May 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet |

Dell dumps Intel and AMD for Via

Dell engineers are turning to Via Technologies to power the systems. Tasked with creating a server that offered full functionality but that could fit into highly dense Web hosting environments, Via seemed the logical choice.
Dell is preparing to release the XS11-VX8, codenamed Fortuna, which is powered by Via’s Nano CPU and is aimed at Web [...]

[ More ] May 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Computing |

New Nokia E71 receiving positive reviews

The newest offering from Nokia, the E71 is receiving great reviews all over as well as being featured in an AT&T ad campaign aimed for cable TV while also being sold on Amazon for only 1 penny.
The Nokia E71x - available only on AT&T - is a smartphone with a 3.2MP camera, 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, [...]

[ More ] May 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Home Entertainment, Mobile |

Photo frames, home phones get Android

Android - compact, flexible, stable, open source and free. At the Embedded Systems Expo in Tokyo this week Fujitsu showcased a digital photo frame with Android embedded in its PCB. The prototype supports the Digital Living Network Alliance standard which means it can hook into any DLNA-compliant network using Wi-Fi while the local processing power [...]

[ More ] May 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in General News |

Google moves your email for you

Gmail Wednesday added a feature that migrates e-mail and contacts from other providers, including Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and many more, which means you can still view the mails sent to the old account once in your new Gmail account.
The migration feature also lets you have your messages forwarded from your old email account for 30 [...]

[ More ] May 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet |

Google outage causes 5% decline in net traffic

Google’s downtime on Thursday morning caused a 5% drop in Internet traffic, showing clearly how much people and websites depend on the service.
Arbor Networks chief scientist Craig Labovitz observed in a blog post that failures happen. Says Craig, “[B]ut if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet [...]

[ More ] May 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in General News |

After outage, Google responds

Google has responded to the outages that affected numerous of its services in locations around the world, and even though the buzz was seemingly big, only around 14% of users experienced problems, which, in terms of Google users, equates to millions.
The outages were apparently caused by a system error, which necessitated re-routing traffic through Asia, [...]

[ More ] May 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet |

Firefox predicted to lead browsers in 2013

Director of Community Development at Mozilla, Asa Dotzler, predicted this in one of his blog posts after analyzing browser usage data since  when Firefox was first released in 2004.
The data collected shows a slow but steady decline in IE’s market share from just over 90% back in 2004 to just under 70% in 2009 while  [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in General News |

Germany’s T-Mobile prohibits Skype on new handsets

T-Mobile Germany seems unsure exactly what their VoIP strategy is and how to deal with it. The network is to launch the flagship Nokia N97 in summer, but the version it provides to T-Mobile won’t have Skype included in the list of apps, even though Nokia and Skype have an agreement stating that every Nokia [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in General News |