Dec
14

Samsung Galaxy Tab now at HMV for £420

The price cutting on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab seems to know no end, with retailers under-cutting each other’s prices on what seems like an almost weekly basis. There have certainly been some.. more
Dec
14

Anonymous starts fax attacks

Anonymous has opened up another front in its WikiLeaks war, aside from denial of service attacks on those who have cut ties with the whistle blowing site. The loose collective of.. more
Dec
14

Facebook produces world friendship map

Facebook has produced a map which shows the geographical relationships between its half a billion members on a global scale. Paul Butler, an Intern on Facebook’s Data Infrastructure Engineering Team, produced.. more
Dec
14

O2 planning Dell Streak Froyo upgrade this week

O2 will be pushing out an update to Android 2.2 (Froyo) later this week, the company has said. This information emerged on its Twitter feed, as spotted by T3. Yesterday afternoon, O2 tweeted: “Great news for our Dell Streak owners – the 2.2 Froyo update.. more
Dec
14

Vodafone rolls out Android 2.2 update for HTC Magic

The HTC Magic might not be a new phone – in fact it’s a bit of a veteran, these days – but that hasn’t stopped Vodafone bringing Froyo to the handset. Vodafone announced on its forum that Android 2.2 is now available as an upgrade.. more
Dec
14

Amazon Windowshop, redesigned site for the iPad

Amazon UK has launched Windowshop, which is effectively a redesign of its online shopping site for browsers on the Apple iPad. Apparently Amazon Windowshop features an “intimate and fluid user interaction”, which almost sounds quite rude, but actually refers to the fact that it has.. more
Dec
14

Nokia E7 delay officially confirmed

Nokia has confirmed that it won’t ship its new E7 smartphone until early next year. The Nokia E7 was first announced at Nokia World back in September, as a phone pitched at business users, with a 4 inch tilting AMOLED touchscreen display and full slide-out.. more
Dec
14

Hacked Gawker passwords analysed

We reported yesterday on the Gawker Media hack, whereby 1.3 million user names, email addresses and passwords were exposed. While the passwords were encrypted, the security wasn’t particularly difficult to crack, as experts Duo Security proved when they ran the passwords through the cracking tool,.. more
Dec
14

Cuba creates own version of Wikipedia

The Cuban government has decided to launch its own version of Wikipedia. The Cuban online encyclopedia (at ecured.cu) has just been launched today, although it won’t feature a model of opening editing as Wikipedia does. Instead, according to a BBC report, changes will need to.. more
Dec
14

Mass Effect 2 demo coming to PSN

Yesterday, we reported on Mass Effect 3, and how Bioware is bringing the three-quel to the PS3 as well as the Xbox and PC from launch this time around. And Patrick Buechner, Marketing VP for Bioware, reminded us that Mass Effect 2 is coming out.. more