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02 September 2010
Google Chrome Turns 2 With Version 6 Release
Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance.
Internet
02 September 2010
Music Industry Raps ISPs Over File-Sharing
Internet service providers (ISPs) still need to do more to prevent the growth of illegal file sharing in the UK, according to creative industry chiefs speaking at the Britain's Digital Future conference in London.
Internet
02 September 2010
New Wireless Charging Standard Launches
Wireless mobile device charging is set to get easier after the Wireless Power Consortium today launched Qi 1.0, a standard enabling interoperability for wireless inductive charging devices.
Internet
02 September 2010
Google Holds On To AOL's Search Business
Having suggested it was considering multiple companies to provide search technology and search ads across its global properties, AOL has opted to renew its partnership with market leader Google until 2015.
Internet
02 September 2010
GlobalFoundries Maps Out 28nm Future
GlobalFoundries has been laying out its schedule for moving into 28nm and smaller chip production and has unveiled new ARM and Flash development plans.
Internet
01 September 2010
Alcatel-Lucent Buys Mobile Apps Dev-Tool Vendor OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, the creator of ELIPS Studio, a tool that allows developers write an application once, and then translate it into native code that can run on iPhones and Android-based smartphones.
Internet
31 August 2010
UK Broadband Adoption On A Roll According To BT
UK broadband adoption is ahead of France, Germany and the US, according to the latest figures from BT.
Internet
31 August 2010
Google Adds Priority Inbox To Combat Information Overload
Google has launched a 'Priority Inbox' interface for all Gmail account holders, designed to flag the most important messages and allow users to deal with emails more efficiently.
Internet
27 August 2010
Google More Powerful Then Twitter's Status Updates
Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.
Internet
27 August 2010
Mozilla Mulls End Of Support For PowerPC Macs
Mozilla this week said it's unlikely that the final version of Firefox 4 will run on older Macs equipped with PowerPC processors.
Internet
27 August 2010
Smartphones Add To Wi-Fi Data Deluge
The demand for mobile connectivity is pushing the amount of data being sent over Wi-Fi networks ever higher, new figures from wireless network access firm WeFi reveal.
Internet
26 August 2010
HP Shopping Spree Acquires Stratvia Databases
On Thursday Hewlett-Packard announced it acquired Stratavia, which specialises in tools for deploying, configuring and managing databases and middleware in an automated fashion.
Internet
25 August 2010
PC Market Bounces Back With 15% UK Growth
PC sales in Western Europe grew to 15.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, up 19.6 per cent compared to the same period in 2009, according to Gartner.
Internet
25 August 2010
It Is All About Online For Students
A new report from YouGov SixthSense in assosiation with studentbeans.com revealed that three quarters of students spend at least 2-3 hours online each day.
Internet
25 August 2010
Verizon Business Says Enterprises Need To Move To IPv6
Verizon Business has a message to companies still reluctant to migrate their networks to IPv6: You're better off doing it now than later.
Internet
24 August 2010
Symantec Report Reveals UK As Top Spammers
The UK jumped into the top four spam sending countries globally in August as volumes of spam sent from infected PCs in the country nearly doubled, according to the latest report from Symantec Hosted Services.
Internet
24 August 2010
Afilias Plans to Deploy DNS Security To The Internet
Afilias, which operates .info and more than a dozen other website extensions, will announce on Monday plans to deploy an emerging standard known as DNSSEC that adds a layer of encryption to the Internet's Domain Name System.
Internet
23 August 2010
One in 20 Make Email Gaffe at Work
A survey has revealed that one in 20 people has got into trouble at work for sending inappropriate emails.
Internet
23 August 2010
Google Patches 10 Security Flaws in Chrome
Google has released patches to fix 10 security flaws in Chrome, out of which seven were labelled "high" and another pegged as "medium."
Internet
23 August 2010
Is Facebook Places a Threat To Foursquare?
Five years ago, one of the last things an entrepreneur with a hot consumer internet startup wanted to hear was "Google is launching a new service just like yours." It's 2010, and that has changed to "Facebook is launching a new service just like yours."
Internet
23 August 2010
Chrome 6 beta optimised for touch
The latest beta of Chrome 6 is out, and its menus have been optimised for touch, complete with buttons for copying, pasting, as well as zooming in on a page.
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