Beta mongoose flaunts new face Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.… Full published article at: Read More »

Un-Flash eyes world of Google Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?… Full published article at: Read More »

Hunting 'mugu' in America A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.… Full published article at: Read More »

Can you handle the truth? In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.… Full published article at: Read More »

That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.… Full published article at: Read More »

Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Friday 3 September 2010 at 16:19:00 NASA's preferred headset provider uses disk fragmentation software Headset manufacturer Plantronics has deployed Diskeeper software to prevent disk fragmentation slowing down its PCs. The company has installed the product across its 250 associate offices across Europe, at a price of “£20-something per user, per year”, according to Philip Jones, IT manager at Plantronics Europe. “Prior to having Diskeeper, we were like a lot of companies; we had hard disk failure, data corruption and performance slowdown. Performance slowdown is very common, at work or at home, we’ve all...Read More »

The opposite of NIL desperandum Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.… Full published article at: Read More »

Evolution and management of the client computing environment Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.… Full published article at: Read More »

Joins BoA and Visa in trials Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.… Full published article at: Read More »

Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Friday 3 September 2010 at 15:11:00 X-Factor releases app for Nokia smartphones, but not iPhones or Android handsets Nokia has launched a new X-Factor app for its smartphones. The app is exclusive to Nokia and is not available for iPhones or Android handsets. The application can be downloaded via Nokia’s Ovi Store. It gives fans of the ITV show access to exclusive photos, gossip, games and video clips from the show. It also features a competition that is exclusive to Nokia owners as well as exclusive behind the scenes footage with the show’s...Read More »