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20 Features That Our Gaming Laptop Would Have

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

This week, we will be pondering over five different types of laptops with the view of producing five separate templates that we will be pushing on Asus/Intel's Wepc.com soon. The laptop designs are Server Laptop, Gaming laptop, Desktop Replacement Laptops, Netbook and Ultra Mobile Laptop. We're continuing the series with the Gaming Laptop

Amazon Launches UK MP3 Store To Rival Apple's iTunes But Still No Podcast!

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

After nearly six months of gestation, Amazon has finally released its competitor to Apple's iTunes store, Amazon MP3, which unlike its popular rival is free of any Digital Rights Management scheme

Kangaroo Online VOD Project Dealt Major Blow By Competition Commission

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

The competition commission headed by its chairman, Peter Freeman, has hit out at Kangaroo, the online Video on Demand joint venture backed by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, accusing it of undermining competition in the UK market

Nokia Planning To Build Massive Social Network Using Smartphones?

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

Nokia is betting that mobile social networking could potentially be bigger than existing web-based social networking as they plan to ship hundreds of millions of mobile phones with Geolocation features in the next 24 months

Microsoft Ships Windows Vista SP2 Beta Tomorrow, Available on Torrent

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management at Microsoft, has announced on his blog that MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the beta version of Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2, six weeks after it was pre-released to a group of Technology Adoption Program customers

Defining Cloud Storage : Three Key Characteristics

Team Parascale — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

Welcome to the bi-monthly cloud storage series from ParaScale presented by ITProPortal.com. In each article we will cover a new area of cloud storage and dive into topics including use cases, how to select a vendor, technology differences, architecture details, security, interoperability, and more

Apple Opens Up Mini DisplayPort License To Increase Adoption

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

In its attempt to lure the open source community, Apple Inc. on Tuesday has announced that it will be licensing the specifications of its Mini DisplayPort, a video output interface linked with Apple’s new range of Macbooks, including new Macbook Pros, and upgraded Macbook Air

BT Vision Links With 20th Century Fox To Offer Movies on Demand

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

In a bid to jazz up its IPTV service offerings, UK’s BT Vision has penned a deal with Twentieth Century Fox that will allow BT’s IPTV customers video on demand access to a large number of its classics and new releases

O2's New Universal Phone Charger Promises Huge Energy Cuts

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

O2 has come up with an innovative energy-efficient mobile phone charger that claims to save around £30 million per year on electricity bills in UK alone

Employers "Monitor" Web Usage At Work

Desire Athow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008

As many as 65 percent of UK employers frequently monitor internet activity of their staff during working hours, and even restrict their access to the websites that are deemed to be irrelevant to their job profiles, according to a recent survey of managers