Opera Software has announced the release of Opera 10.50 on Tuesday, claiming it to be the fastest browser of Windows computers. Opera.com, the company’s official web site, offers the new browser which runs off the Carakan JavaScript engine and comes complete with the Vega graphics library. According to Opera, users will not have to wait [...]
Just twenty years ago if one wished to check out the upcoming programmes scheduled for the television, one either checked the newspaper or looked them up in a TV magazine. As print media has fallen by the wayside, most of us rely on the instant information offered by the internet. That resource has now expanded [...]
China has created more restrictions on internet use by adding more security measures for those wishing to create new websites. According to reports, to create a new website (and hence the .cn domain address) an individual most meet with a regulator and provide official identification and photographs of themselves prior to being granted a new [...]
Virgin Media has claimed that by the end of 2010, they will offer a 100MB/s broadband service. This is quite the jump from their current subscription plans, which offer only three variations: a ?20 per month plan that provides 10MB/s broadband, 20MB/s for?30, and a 50MB/s plan that will cost the subscriber?38 per month. All [...]
The new music video site Vevo has stated that almost 25% of the videos watched on their site are that of music icon Lady Gaga.
A 19 year old Wisconsin boy was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to Associated Press reports, for using popular social networking site Facebook as a sexual weapon.
The lawyers of Hollywood’s biggest film studios have recently attacked iiNet, an Australian internet provider, over Copyright Theft. Australian courts roundly rejected the claims, stating that the ISP provider did not “sanction, approve or countenance copyright infringement,” to the bemusement of Hollywood executives.
Bob Sikes Airport will be host to the new Airpark, which begins construction on March 5, after four years of red tape and delays. The 20-acre Airpark will be located just south of the intersection of Airport Road and John Givens Road, on airport property.
A new study released by popular consumer assistance for broadband website Broadband Choices points out that 33% of all mobile broadband customers make their decision on who to sign a long-term contract with based on free incentives. The perception that these items such as dongles and laptop computers are given completely free of charge is [...]
Sky seems to be following the path of BT vision channels as it now offers its programme packs based upon categories rather than volume of channels. This continues the current trend in digital TV to assist United Kingdom television customers in avoiding the purchase of channels they have no desire to watch. Popular categories now [...]
Many laptop computers that have been made available through free laptop deals offered by mobile broadband providers in the United Kingdom are now being delivered equipped with built in 3G mobile broadband ability. This feature comes in addition to the standard 802 megahertz WiFi as used in all laptops. The built in mobile broadband cards [...]
The world of luxury without aesthetic taste has no limits, we saw portable consoles, iPhones, and lots of entertainment technology products and coated with layers of gold, diamonds and other expensive things, but without much sense or aesthetic value, now PlayStation 3 has been the umpteenth victim of the new rich, and his passion for [...]
Windows registry files can be thought of as a large database of info, data & settings for the various pieces of hardware and software on your computer. The job of the windows registry is to hold the configuration data of the many software programs setup on your PC, as well as the hardware devices that [...]
Let’s face it, most people these days love gadgets! – and car drivers are not usually an exception to this rule! In the 1980′s it was those annoying little dashboard mounted sound devices that enabled sales executives to think that they were machine gunning or rocket grenading the car(s) in front, in the vein hope [...]
Virgin media has announced that it has launched a new application called ‘Get Social’. This is geared towards its mobile customers and includes social networking and e-mail applications. Get Social allows users to perform instant updates to twitter, Facebook, Google talk, Yahoo! Messenger and virginmedia.com. This enables people to stay in touch and up to date with [...]
Nearly everything this year has been about applications, mostly the iPhone app store. The app store is far ahead of everyone else and has set the benchmark for all of the other competing manufacturers. Apple boasts over 100,000 applications. This places them far ahead of the mighty Google with only 20,000 applications for Android. In [...]
Although computer game sales went up over the last quarter, spend on advertising by the computer gaming industry is thought to fall shorter than usual before Christmas, experts stated. The well know computer games retailer, ‘Game’ has its figures showing that highly popular computer games, like ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ have worked to [...]
Recently (on Friday 11th December 2009) the Guardian online newspaper raised questions about the effects of violent computer games, and ran the headline of: ‘Do violent computer games turn us into killers‘ Although the piece in the Guardian was a pretty well balanced piece of journalism, and not just the usual scaremongering that the UK [...]
Despite the popularity of bluetooth headsets, it appears that a large proportion of UK drivers still insist on continuing to use mobile phones by holding them in their hand whilst actually driving, found research by the Transport Research Laboratory. The survey was conducted in London earlier in 2009, and shows a major increase in the [...]
Amazon.co.uk Widgets The popular handheld games console, the nintendo DS has reached the 10 million sales figure, reported Gfk Chart-Track. This means that just over one fifth of the UK population actually ownes a nintendo DS, although it is obviously more likely that some people either own more than one, or have upgraded models or [...]
