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Twitter Blocked Banned in Pakistan due to blasphemous and inflammatory content
May 20th
ISLAMABAD: Social networking website Twitter has been blocked in Pakistan. According to the Ministry of Information Technology, twitter was blocked because it failed to respond and take action regarding the publishing of blasphemous content.
The IT ministry claims that calls made to Twitter authorities over the matter remained unanswered. The micro-blogging More >
stop BlackBerry services to foreign missions
May 17th
KARACHI: Authorities have asked mobile telephone operators to stop BlackBerry services to foreign missions in the country amid concern about the security of the communications, industry sources said on Monday.
Two industry officials confirmed that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had asked them to stop all Blackberry services to foreign missions.
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apple iPhone 5 new Design October Release? still no big screen, no metal back, on track
May 12th
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Apple has yet to finalize the design of the next generation iPhone, according to a new report from iMore.
Currently, the new, smaller dock connector is being implemented, but no changes to screen size or aspect ratio have been decided on. More >
48-Hour Web Wait: UK’s Broadband Blackspots
May 10th
3:25pm UK, Monday January 24, 2011
Goldie Momen Putrym, Sky News Online The survey found the average download speed in the UK was 6.21Mb per secondResearch by broadband comparison website Top10.com found that Railway Hill in Barnham, Kent, had an average download speed of just 0.13Mb per second.
This was 50 More >
Woman Talks After Rare Voice Box Transplant
May 10th
8:32am UK, Friday January 21, 2011
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Brenda Charett Jensen, 52, underwent an 18-hour operation last October, only the second surgery of its kind performed in the More >
E-Books Outselling Paperbacks At Amazon
May 10th
12:26pm UK, Friday January 28, 2011
Goldie Momen Putrym, Sky News Online The Kindle e-reader Amazon’s hottest-selling productThe world’s biggest online retailer says its Kindle e-reader was the best-selling item in the company’s 16-year history.
Electronic book sales outstripped paperback books in the final quarter of 2010. For every 100 paperbacks More >
Insurers Urged: Change Tune Over Downloads
May 9th
8:42am UK, Tuesday January 25, 2011
Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online Music lovers can spend hundreds of pounds on downloadsA third of leading home insurers’ standard policies do not offer any form of “digital information” cover, even though more than 100m tracks are downloaded by UK music lovers each More >
Twitter user names and passwords hack bared online
May 9th
NEW YORK: Twitter said that it was trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up posted at an online file sharing website.
Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be More >
Radiotherapy ‘Could Save Thousands’ Of Lives
May 9th
6:47am UK, Friday January 28, 2011
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Experts from The National Radiotherapy Awareness Initiative say more than half of cancer patients are suitable for radiation treatment – but More >
Page Starts New Chapter In Google Story
May 8th
12:17pm UK, Friday January 21, 2011
Goldie Momen Putrym, Sky News Online Google’s co-founder Larry Page (L) will take over from Eric Schmidt (R) as its headThe move ends the firm’s decade-long triumvirate management structure between its two founders and its chief executive, which has seen Google grow in More >
Samsung Galaxy far away … will Android still rule?
May 3rd
LONDON: Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer and biggest user of Google’s (GOOG.O) Android operating system.
And, for some, that’s the problem.
Samsung’s meteoric rise – in the first quarter of 2011 it shipped fewer smartphones than Apple (AAPL.O), Nokia (NOK1V.HE) or Research in Motion (RIM.TO), but is now More >
New Uses for Your Old Smartphone
May 3rd
Give your old phone a new lease on life by converting it into a brainy TV remote, a GPS navigator, or a numpad companion for your keyboard.
If you’re searching for a new GPS navigator or a touchscreen remote control, a good place to find one is at the bottom of More >
Sony Launches First Vaio T Ultrabooks
May 2nd
Sony is joining Intel’s ultrabook push with the new Vaio T family, which includes models with 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch screens, the company said on Wednesday.
The Vaio T ultrabooks will start shipping in May, Sony said, without elaborating on what they will cost or where they will ship.
As with many other More >
Gaming Laptops Now Available With Intel’s Hot Ivy Bridge Processors
May 2nd
If you’ve been waiting to buy a new gaming laptop so you could have the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processor and Nvidia “Kepler” graphics cards, your patience is now rewarded.
Several recently updated gaming systems–from Alienware, Asus, Maingear, and others–are available for order today and can be in your eager hands More >
iPad Impact on Apple Laptop Sales Revisited
Apr 28th
Is Apple cutting the MacBook’s throat with the iPad?
The question — whether the company’s tablet cannibalizes sales of its own portable computing line — is ultimately impossible to answer, or at least quantify: One can’t look into a counter-factual crystal ball to view an alternate universe without the iPad.
But Tim More >
Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists
Apr 28th
U.S. government supercomputers. Image source: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov
Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists. They are also very expensive, so wasted time can mean a lot of wasted resources. But making the most efficient use of them is not the easiest proposition in the world; it’s not just a case of clicking a More >
Electronics Glass Innovation to Transform Industry
Apr 28th
It’s hard to think of glass as an area of rapid technology evolution. But it’s one of the central technologies that will bring us incredible innovations over the next couple of years.
A combination of new technology, plus a strong desire on the part of major companies to transform glass, will More >
Taptu Mobile Update Adds News Synchronization Across Devices
Apr 28th
Taptu has tried to carve out a space for itself in the world of mobile news aggregators by compiling news feeds and social networks into one place. The latest update of the iPhone and iPad app looks to make sure that lone place for your news is accessible no matter More >
Carriers Desperately Seeking Windows Phone
Apr 27th
AT&T and Verizon Wireless want Windows Phone smartphones to succeed in the U.S., partly to provide leverage against Apple’s demands for subsidies and other concessions required for selling the popular iPhone.
AT&T recently began selling the Nokia Lumia 900 with the Windows Phone 7 operating system for a competitive $99.99 price. More >
Gideon Sundback celebrated in a Google doodle zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage,
Apr 24th
Latest doodle is a giant zipper running down the search engine’s homepage marking the birthday of the zip’s inventor
Gideon Sundback celebrated with an interactive zipper Google doodle on the search engine’s homepage. Photograph: ScreengrabGoogle’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks More >
