HP announces Hybrid Delivery cloud solutions

HP has unveiled a suite of new services to enable businesses to get on board with cloud computing. The company’s new Hybrid Delivery cloud solutions aim to provide the full benefits.. more

Gartner forecasts mobile app revenue of $15bn this year

The sages at Gartner have been stroking their beards and looking into the mobile apps crystal ball. And they reckon that global mobile app store downloads will reach almost 18 billion.. more

Black Ops PS3 patch mentions Xbox Live

Yesterday, developer Treyarch issued its patch 1.06 for the PS3 version of Black Ops, which was aimed at smoothing over some of the issues that have led to widespread criticism of.. more

O2 announces free wi-fi network

The folks at O2 have decided they’re going to be generous with their wi-fi access. The network operator intends to create a wi-fi platform in the UK which will be free to access not just for its customers, but for any member of the public... more

Virgin Media brings super-fast broadband to 150,000 more homes

Virgin Media is casting its super-fast fibre net further and wider around the UK, with the announcement that 150,000 more homes are to benefit from the company’s fat 100Mbps pipes. The initial roll out, which began last month, covered around 200,000 households, so this nearly.. more

Installing Windows 98 on Windows 7 Virtual Machine

Am now running Windows 98 on a Virtual Machine in Windows 7. Main reason was to run some legacy software, so I could start updating some files from Win 98 versions to XP versions I can use again. Process was pretty simple, if intimating looking... more

42% of UK Kinect games are home-grown

An interesting statistic has cropped up regarding the sales of Kinect games in the UK. It seems that 42% of the titles sold for Microsoft’s motion controller in this country have been developed by UK studios. This nugget was revealed by UKIE/Chart Track, which notes.. more

Microsoft’s anti-iPad strategy revealed

Microsoft is preparing for a battle of Windows 7 powered slates versus the iPad when it comes to the business world. And some of the company’s thoughts on strategy have been revealed by a PowerPoint presentation from last month which Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet.. more

White iPhone 4 finally about to emerge

Speak of the devil… we mentioned the missing-in-action white iPhone 4 yesterday, when we wrote about the LG Optimus 2X, which will come in a white variant. Now it seems those of you who have been waiting for the snowy iPhone – since the black.. more

Apple opens Twitter account for App Store

The Apple App Store has been in the news recently for passing the 10 billion download milestone, quite an achievement. And one which was marked by the ten billionth customer, a British woman called Gail Davis, being rewarded with a £6,250 gift card for iTunes... more