Archive : Tech

Image via Wikipedia So here in the UK we’ve become accustomed what’s known as the ‘Apple tax’. Whenever a product is launched in the UK, we always see a significant price increase compared the US price. It has been argued that our higher prices are down to extra costs, such as customs and VAT. To this way say: nonsense! As an example, we worked out the cost of an imported [...]

This may come as no shock to you, but Apple have announced today that the International launch of the iPad will be put on hold for another month. Meaning we’ll be receiving the iPad a full 2 months after it’s US debut. Not even a week ago, during a Q&A session after Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement Steve was asked “Will iPad’s success impact its international [...]

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made an influential computational discovery that cast doubt on Gutenberg’s [...]

Virgin Media has teamed up with Enterprise UK Today’s to launch a new youth mentoring scheme called Virgin Media Pioneers. The plan is to  bring together business experts and entrepreneurs  in an online community, which will be conducting  a series of skills development sessions and networking events to help support the enterprising activity taking place online and to eventually  help build [...]

HP  began to brag about the ability  of its forthcoming tablet pc  to run Adobe Flash content, a feature which the iPhone never did and iPad will not do. Though HP did not mention the iPad specifically by name, its choice of words and the specific promotion of Flash make it clear that the company is attacking Apple’s iPad and displaying what will HP’s Slate Tablet have that Apple’s [...]

I often hear from industry analysts that the worst  global recession is now over and it’s a matter of time before  all big companies start hiring people again. However, the story at Vodafone seems to be a little different and it is planning to axe nearly 500 jobs at its Newbury headquarters. The Newbury headquarters currently has 3,000 Vodafone employees. 500 jobs were axed from Newbury last [...]

    Steve Jobs has ruled out any possibilities of iPhone-to-iPad tethering which would allow the iPad users to access the internet using iPhone’s 3G capabilities. In fact, the reply from Apple’s top boss was a point blank ‘No’ in an email reply to a query from a Swedish tech blog Slashat.se. While there are speculations if the email reply was indeed from Steve Jobs, early forensic email [...]

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker saw its share trading halted for a few hours during after hours trading earlier last week when its joint head of Architecture Group, Sean Maloney, suffered a stroke at his home, this outlines his value and importance to the company who is regarded as by many as a potential successor to CEO Paul Otellini. Wedbush Morgan analyst termed him “as the [...]

The war of words between Virgin Media and BBC Trust has turned ugly over Project Canvas. Neil Berkett, Chief Executive of Virgin Media has publicly slammed the BBC Trust’s consultation on Project Canvas and termed it as a ‘shameless whitewash’. Virgin Media has always opposed the idea of BCC Trust creating a new TV platform with a single proprietary user interface. Berkett has been pitching [...]

When Steve Jobs launched the Apple Tablet aka ‘iPad’ amidst much fan fare and media hype, he chose to keep mum on the iPad pricing for UK customers. A tech blog named ‘Geeky Gadgets’ has recently claimed that it has obtained access to the UK pricing details of the iPad. As per them, Wi-Fi only iPad will cost a miserly £389 where as the 32GB and 64GB versions will cost £439 and £489 respectively. [...]