Archive for February, 2010

Most of us take broadband Internet availability for granted. But a new government survey in USA paints a different picture of the nation. In a survey of more than 100,000 people in more than 50,000 households across the U.S., 40 percent reported no broadband or high-speed access to the Internet, while 30 percent said they have no Internet access at all. Sponsored by the National Telecommunications [...]

Microsoft wants to catch up with mobile phone makers, HTC Corp, Samsung Electronics, Motorola and others. The company has announced it will overhaul its phone software to help it regain momentum in the expanding Smartphone market. Microsoft, realising Smart-phones are the key to the future of communications, is facing stiff competition from all comers, including arch-rival Google, with an Android [...]

The official blog of BlackBerry has launched the first iteration of popular micro-blogging site Twitter for Research in Motion’s (RIM) smart-phone range. For the time being users will have to sign up online in order to receive an invite to get the app, as it is currently available only to those with special permission. Failing this, social networkers with BlackBerry mobiles can keep an eye [...]

A South Florida teenager who prosecuted her former principal after she was suspended for creating a Facebook page criticizing a teacher can proceed with her court case, a federal judge has ruled. The student, Katherine Evans, is seeking to have her suspension erased from her disciplinary record. School officials suspended her for three days, saying she had been “cyberbullying” the teacher, [...]

Our planet with around 6.8 billion people, and more likely to see 5 billion cell phone subscriptions this year. Reaching 4.6 billion at the end of 2009, the number of cell phone subscriptions across the globe will hit 5 billion sometime in 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The explosion in cell phone use has been driven not only by developed countries, but by developing [...]

The marketing campaign of Microsoft for Windows 8 appears to have begun – the company briefly published a blog on msdn.com, and then took it down almost immediately. The blogger added that Windows 8 was “something completely different” from previous operating systems. Rumours had surfaced last month that Windows 8, which is referred to in the blog post as Windows Next, would launch on July 2011. Although [...]

Google has introduced another “safety mode” for YouTube watchers that filters out smut / lewdness and other objectionable material, the company announced. Users can opt in to the “safety mode”, which also automatically hides comments on any videos. If the user decides to view the comments, all objectionable words are censored by Google’s smut filter. The web’s top [...]

Panasonic has publicized a new line-up of “Let’s Go” notebooks and amongst them is a netbook “Let’s Note”, sporting the new Intel Core i7 processor. The netbook in question boasts of a 1.20GHz Intel Core i7-650UM vPro processor with a 10.4-inch (1024 x 768) display. Intel’s Atom chip is the standard stuff that is showing around all over as the driving CPU of the 10.1 inches netbooks [...]

Motorola will split into two separate companies in the first quarter of 2011, almost a year from now. The company had firstly planned to spin off the mobile devices unit on its own. Now Motorola plans to spin off the mobile devices and home units into one company led by Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola. Jha will have a portfolio of mobile devices and home entertainment technology such as the company’s [...]

A Japanese astronaut aboard the International Space Station since December has been shooting some incredible images and sending them back to Earth. The images have been posted via Twitpic to his Twitter page. The images below show San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and a brilliant shot of the Amazon River as it runs through Brazil. Brazzil San Fransisco