The 10 best budget laptops
This netbook stands out, with a purple swish pattern on its lid. It has a very sturdy base and good battery life. It’s very well connected, too, with three USB ports and an SD card reader. 2. Grade A2 Acer Aspire One 722 Acerdirect.co.uk, 239.98 This netbook punches above its weight….
BlackBerry World 2012: Three Things Investors Should Watch For
VANCOUVER, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – With Research in Motion’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) stock trading near decade lows and a corporate restructuring already announced, this year’s BlackBerry World conference, which begins May 1st in Orlando, is shaping up to be a whole lot more substantive than any prior. Cantech Letter delves into SOURCE…
Hands On With Google Drive: Cloud Storage for Google Loyalists
One of the worst-kept secrets in the technology space, Google Drive, is finally here live and yours to explore, if you’re game. But if you’re already using a cloud service, or maybe even a couple of services I actually use a combination of existing Google products, Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud…
Android chief: We didn’t think we needed a license from Sun
SAN FRANCISCO Android chief Andy Rubin wrapped up his testimony on Wednesday morning in the copyright portion of the Oracle-Google trial at the U.S. District Court. See also: Trial: Android chief on why Java was picked for AndroidGoogle’s Rubin spars with Oracle over definition of fragmentationClosing statements in Oracle-Google…
Virgin wins 240k Tivo subs
Virgin Media has attracted 242,000 customers to its connected TV service Tivo over the past three months, taking its total installed base to 18%. You must be a paid subscriber to Broadcast magazine to read this article and receive complete, unrestricted access to broadcastnow.co.uk Broadcast Subscribers: If you are a…
Swiss scientists demonstrate mind-controlled robot
Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars. Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either able-bodied…
BlackBerry blamed by Murdoch in Leveson hacking inquiry
James Murdoch has blamed his BlackBerry for missing an explosive email warning him of the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World. Murdoch, News Corp’s deputy chief operating officer and son of media oligarch Rupert Murdoch, claims he only glanced at the crucial email on his BlackBerry…
Nicki Minaj Rejoins Twitter
Dear Barbz, your leader has returned. After a nine-day Twitter hiatus, Nicki Minaj has come back to the social networking site minus several million followers, however. It was April 15 when Nicki drove her legion of fans crazy by disappearing from the site on which she was among the most At…
Nokia, BlackBerry shares cheap but not attractive
Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9Open the Internet Browser Click Tools> Internet Options>Privacy>Advanced Check Override automatic cookie handling For First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click Accept Click OK and OK Enabling Cookies in FirefoxOpen the Firefox browser Click Tools>Options>Privacy<Use custom settings for history Check…
WiFi to take flight
SA’s first WiFi-enabled flight is imminent.The long-awaited advent of Internet in the sky is imminent, with the first WiFi-enabled flight in SA set to take off in just over two weeks. Broadband enabler WirelessG will launch its G-Connect In-flight WiFi service, “providing broadband connectivity from 30 000 feet” next WirelessG was…