Archive for April, 2009
Orange Debuts £49 Touchscreen Vegas Smartphone
(ITProPortal) - Orange has unveiled UK’s cheapest touchscreen smartphone, the Vegas which comes with some great features and an unbelievably low £49 price tag.
Sold as a pay as you go handset and available either in black or in pink, Vegas is certainly one of the lightest and smallest smartphones around with an 84g weight; it [...]
Internet To “Suffer From Brownouts” From 2012 Says Report
(ITPROPORTAL) - The global supply on internet bandwidth could soon be outstripped by demand, which is growing at 60 percent per annum, according to US-based technology think tank Nemertes Research.
it is not the first time that the company is saying that the Internet will be gridlocked. Back in November 2007, it published a similar report [...]
Scoot Twitters Special Offers
Online business directory, Scoot.co.uk, has turned to Twitter to spread the word about its rapidly expanding database of special offers at local businesses in the UK.
Stockton-on-Tees (PRWeb UK) April 22, 2009 — Online business directory, Scoot.co.uk, has turned to Twitter to spread the word about its rapidly expanding database of special offers at local businesses [...]
Does Open Source Need Individual Donations to Survive?
In a recent survey by Packt Publishing, 70% of software developers said that they have donated time, money, or both to open source projects. However, with large projects like Wikipedia receiving over one million dollars from just three charitable foundations last year, the question remains whether open source really needs individual contributions from developers to [...]
AdInsight Launches New Call Tracking Rule System
AdInsight launches new web based rule system, branded Web Route, which allows AdInsight’s call tracking solution to monitor calls and sales generated from any online traffic source using an advanced online rule builder.
Manchester, UK (PRWEB) April 27, 2009 — Technology Company AdInsight Limited has developed an innovative online call tracking system which can provide businesses [...]
Computer scientists add smell to games
(TIMESONLINE) - Professor Bob Stone loves the smell of napalm in the morning. He’s less keen on raw sewage, burning vegetation and diesel exhaust, but at the click of a mouse any and all can be wafting through his office at Birmingham University. It’s just one of the techniques the computer scientist [...]
Recession watch: Meat processors, lawyers and electronics workers alike thrown on the dole
(GUARDIAN) - The number of people looking for work jumped by 177,000 in the three months to February to reach 2.1 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. This is the biggest quarterly rise since 1991 and is the worst since February 1997. The ONS also reported that the government’s borrowing rose to [...]
Fiat bid to save US car giant
(TIMESONLINE) - FIAT boss Sergio Marchionne is in Washington this weekend to thrash out the final details of a rescue deal for Chrysler, America’s third-largest carmaker, ahead of a Thursday deadline imposed by Barack Obama.
Senior sources at the Italian group said the two companies were hopeful of securing an agreement early this week. If they [...]
Complimentary Wine and Spirits Research for London International Wine Fair Visitors and Exhibitors
Once again, just-drinks.com will be attending the London International Wine Fair, where they will provide all visitors to their stand with over £7,000 of wine and spirits market research.
(PRWEB) April 23, 2009 — This complimentary research, taken from the extensive portfolio of just-drinks research covers Northern and Southern Hemisphere wine reviews, global market reviews of [...]
Electric Pocket Puts a Fresh Face on Android, Offering PhoneFace Speed “Photo-Dialing” for Android-based Smartphones
Electric Pocket is today announcing a new version of PhoneFace for smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system. PhoneFace is a speed dial application that launches phone calls, text messages and emails with a simple click on a contact’s photo — pictures automatically retrieved from Facebook or Twitter.
Wye Valley, UK (PRWEB) April 23, 2009 — [...]
