Jul
26

Meek appointed Project Canvas chairman

Project Canvas has taken another step forward with the appointment of Kip Meek as chairman with immediate effect. One of Meek’s first jobs will be to appoint a chief executive for.. more
Jul
26

Dell drops Ubuntu powered PCs?

Dell has decided to stop selling home computers pre-installed with the Ubuntu operating system, a flavour of Linux, on its web store – at least for the moment. So PC Pro.. more
Jul
26

Google accelerates Chrome releases

Google plans to double the frequency of new releases of its Chrome browser. At the moment the search company issues a new stable version of the browser every three months, but.. more
Jul
26

Say it with an engraved iPad come Christmas

It seems that come the end of the year, Apple may be offering to engrave its magical iPads. So if you buy the tablet as a gift for someone, you’ll be able to get a personalised message engraved on the case. This rumour springs from.. more
Jul
26

The Queen now on Flickr

It seems the Queen is getting down with the technological youngsters, as she’s opened up a Flickr account. Or “The British Monarchy” has, at any rate, to go alongside the Twitter account it started which now has some 51,000 followers. This definitely smacks of a.. more
Jul
26

Nokia N8 set to arrive on T-Mobile

It seems that the Nokia N8, the firm’s next top-end handset, will be coming to T-Mobile in the UK. Much awaited by many Nokia fans, the N8 was announced by Vodafone back in May as “coming soon”. Although the company’s definition of soon is different.. more
Jul
26

Police to use “Minority Report” style crime prediction software

UK police are looking beyond conventional crime tackling means, and are even trialling software which attempts to predict crime. In a move which has shades of Minority Report – minus Tom Cruise leaping off buildings and through windows – two UK police forces have begun.. more
Jul
26

Daily Star apologises for GTA Rothbury article

Last week we reported on the story run by the Daily Star, which claimed that a game was to be produced based on the Raoul Moat tragedy. Of course, Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury never existed, and the paper ran the story without checking any of.. more
Jul
26

HMV says Microsoft Kinect out in the UK on November 19th

It seems that while Microsoft hasn’t officially confirmed the street date for Kinect, its up and coming motion controller for the Xbox, a popular UK retailer has. HMV is listing Kinect as being released on November 19th, a Friday, with the peripheral available to pre-order.. more
Jul
26

BT to employ tagging system to defend against cable theft

BT is set to deploy a new anti-theft system designed to protect its cable infrastructure across the UK. The rising price in the metals market for scrap copper has meant that thieves are happy to rip up cables in order to sell them off. BT.. more