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Sponsored by Orange Offers Joint iPad 2 & iPhone 4 Contract Mobile phone operator Orange has come up with the smart concept of selling the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4 on a two year contract with one major advantage, the fact that you have a pooled data... Acer Presents Mockup Of W4 Mango Handset Acer had a cute little mockup handset on display at Computex, the W4, which will be its first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, one based on Mango, the latest iteration of the Microsoft mobile... ZiiLABS Reveals Plans For Quadcore ARM Jaguar Tablets Creative Technology-owned, ZiiLABS announced the launch of the Jaguar family which are 7-inch and 10-inch reference designs that will enable OEMs to quickly design new tablets that are... Kogan Unleashes "World's First" Chromium OS Laptop As expected, Kogan has launched what it claims is the world's first laptop that's based on Google's Chromium open source operating system, one which makes the product different from the... Sponsored by Web Directions @media Get £150 off @media – Europe's leading Web design and development conference HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Mobile, Interaction Design, User Experience, and everything else that's hot right now — it's all on the carefully curated @media program for 2011. Get £150 off by using the code 'WDTOWN' when registering. Chinese Firm Puts NFC & 8GB In MicroSD card Chinese firm Netcom (nothing to do with Netcommunities, our publisher) has managed to cram an 8GB flash memory and NFC electronics and antenna into microSD card. This is by far the smallest... Google Buzz Settlement Fetches $500,000 For Privacy Group EPIC A US judge has ordered Google to pay $500,000 to an online privacy group in a class action lawsuit brought against its Buzz social networking tool for Gmail.The Electronic Privacy... Apple's New Data Centre Finally Appears On Google Maps Apple’s new massive data centre at North Carolina has finally made its debut appearance on Google Earth, but the mystery about what took Google so long to display this mammoth-sized... Google's Browser Share Increases, Chrome Used By One In Eight Internet Users Google’s Chrome web browser is now being used by one in every eight internet users as it continues to inch towards web browser dominance.According to new data released by Net... No High Tech Bubble Forming Claims Marc Andreessen Veteran Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen has claimed that there is no new high tech bubble forming.Speaking during the All Things D D9 conference, Andreessen said that there was a... Nokia CEO Denies Microsoft Takeover, Says Rumours Are Baseless Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has denied rumours that suggested that the company was in talks with Microsoft for a buy-out deal.Nokia’s stock has taken a battering at the stock markers,... Malware Infection Rate At 5 Percent, Microsoft Reveals According to recent statistics gathered by Microsoft through its free scanning tool, one in every twenty PCs was infected by malware. What’s even more interesting is the fact that the... HTC Sensation 4G All Set For June 15 Launch The new HTC Sensation 4G, which has been termed by T-Mobile as the “most powerful Smartphone”, will be hitting the market on June 15. The device will be made available by... EMEA Not Favourable For Oracle Server Business The EMEA server market saw double digit growth in the first quarter of 2011 but Oracle’s server business continued to decline.According to the figures released by market research firm... China Rejects Google's Hacking Allegations The Chinese government has denied any involvement in the recent cyber attack on Gmail, calling Google’s allegations ‘unacceptable’.The search engine giant had launched a... Sony Restores PlayStation Network After 6 Weeks After a prolonged and painful wait of over 6 weeks, Sony is finally restoring its PlayStation Network, the company announced.The site is now back in action throughout Europe and the US,... Apple TV More Important Than The iPad, Netflix CEO Says Reed Hastings, Netflix’s CEO gave an interview at All Thing Digital’s D9 Conference where he stated that the iPad and the iPhone were not very revolutionary devices for... Google Releases Source Code For Video Chat Signalling Tech In order to help developers create a new embedded real-time voice and video chat functionality for web applications, Google has unveiled the source code for a recently acquired... iPad Is Unbeatable, Other Tablet Manufacturers Think At least three tablet manufacturers have tried to beat Apple’s iPad without too much success yet. Motorola’s Xoom, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook... North Korea Reportedly Training Cyber Warfare Team Abroad North Korean government is reportedly sending the country’s best programmers abroad for advanced lessons and to learn latest hacking techniques to boost the communist regime’s... Apple Moves To Stop iPad And iPhone Giveaways Apple is determined to impose its own rules on third party promotions, forbidding the use of the iPad, iPhone or iPhone gift cards in such campaigns, Apple Insider reports. The current... Google, Apple Continue Mobile Map And Searching Partnership Despite their intense rivalry in the smartphone market, Google recently renewed its mobile search and mapping deal with Apple.Google’s Google Maps and Search services come as the... Nokia's Current Market Value Is Equal To Apple's Quarterly Revenue Nokia has a current market valuation of $25.54 billion, 9 to 5 Mac reports. In comparison, Apple reported revenues of $24.67 billion for the last quarter and has a market valuation of... iPad Accounts For 0.92% Of Web Browsing Share The iPad’s web usage is 53 times higher than its nearest Android rival, 9 to 5 Mac reports, citing a survey from Net Applications. The research was done by analyzing browser and OS... Micron Launches New Solid-State Storage Line US based semiconductor company Micron Technology Inc. has announced a new series of PCI Express solid state storage systems dubbed the RealSSD P320h SSD series. According to the... Lucid Previews Hybrid Graphics Virtualisation Software At Computex Lucid has previewed new GPU virtualisation software that supports GPUs offered by both AMD and Intel.The Computex trade show in Taipei saw the company demonstrating the Vertu Universal... AMD Survey Finds A Major Move To The Cloud Advanced Micro Devices says that cloud computing technology is maturing at a fast rate, but some businesses still lack the expertise required to deploy the technology properly.According ... Twitter Most Popular With Black People In The US Twitter is being used by 13 percent of adult web users in the US, up from 8 percent last year, a new Pew Internet report has found.The report attributed the rise in user base to the fact... Cisco Predicts 15 Billion Devices Online By 2015 Cisco has predicted that there will be 15 billion connected devices on the planet by 2015.According to the the Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast, apart from a massive boom in the... Twitter Updates Search Feature To Support Images, Videos Twitter has updated its search feature with support for photos and videos on its search results.In a blog post, Twitter said that from now on, whenever users search for a particular piece... HP Wants To Establish Credibility For WebOS Hewlett Packard CEO Leo Apotheker has said that the company plans to establish the credibility of its webOS platform before it begins seriously competing with rivals.Speaking during the... Apple Officially Take Control Of iCloud Domain Apple has reportedly gained control of the iCloud domain, a week ahead of the launch of its cloud-based storage and music-streaming service.According to an article on CNET, a search on... Polycom Signs Telepresence Deal With HP Business communications service provider Polycom has signed a strategic deal with Hewlett Packard under which the company will acquire HP’s Visual Collaboration unit.Reuters ... DON'T MISS THE ONLY FREE TO ATTEND EVENT IN THE UK FOR PROFESSIONALS WHO SELECT, DESIGN, BUILD, OUTSOURCE AND MANAGE DATA CENTRES. DCW is the UK's largest free event for data centre professionals. 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