Technology

Huge Solar Flare About To Hit The Earth

Published February 16, 2011 | By Nang Tom

Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO] spacecraft has managed to record an intense flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation coming from a sun spot. The eruption known as an X-flare can affect communications on our planet.

The British Geological Survey [BGS] has already issued a geomagnetic storm warning. The Earth’s magnetic field is expected to be hit with the eruption over the next two or three days.

The impact is likely to cause an increase in geometric activity on the Earth, being the strongest flare recorded in several years. Electrical power grids, communications systems… Continue reading →

HP Touchpad to Rival Apple iPad

Published February 10, 2011 | By Nang Tom

HP Touchpad

Hewlett-Packard Co today unveiled the “HP Touchpad”, due for release this summer. Can it really rival a tablet such as the Apple iPad? Well early reports suggest that perhaps it is not quite ready to do so.

There have been several reports from those that were able to try out the Touchpad, suggesting that it was just a little bit sluggish. Not exactly slow, just tiny little delays between actual touch and movement.

Now if you were excited about the future release of the Touchpad and suddenly started to change your mind after reading about its potential sluggishness,… Continue reading →

Verizon iPhone No Further Online Orders Currently Available

Published February 5, 2011 | By Nang Tom

Verizon iPhone

Verizon iPhone orders online hit record levels. Verizon have said they are not taking any more iPhone orders now until next Wednesday. within a space of just two hours, early on Thursday morning, the company recorded more sales than any previous full days phone launch.

While Verizon were not prepared to talk about actual numbers of iPhone orders they had taken, the did confirm that they stopped taking further orders at just after 8pm on Thursday evening. They will not open up for orders again now until Wednesday morning at 3am.

It should be noted of course that… Continue reading →

Sirius Internet Radio for XM Radio Online

Published February 4, 2011 | By Nang Tom

Sirius Internet Radio

Sirius TTR1 Tabletop Internet Radio(TTR1) is stylish and convenient way to bring SIRIUS XM’s Premium Online content to the home or office using a wired or wireless high-speed Internet connection.

The full-featured TTR1 is easy to set up and use, offering a complete listening solution for subscribers who want to use their high-speed Internet connection to access SIRIUS XM’s online channels without the need for a computer.

The TTR1 has a unique interface that includes a network connection wizard that walks users through a few simple steps to set up and access the Premium Online channels through… Continue reading →

Highly Anticipated Google chrome 9 Released

Published February 4, 2011 | By Nang Tom

Highly Anticipated Google chrome 9 Released

Google chrome 9 Released to the world which means that the Web Store is now officially availabe although it has been for a while just not officially. Google has now move its new Google Chrome 9 out of beta and made it available to download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Google Chrome 9 brings with it WebGL support, Google Instant in stable Chrome’s search/location bar, and opens up the new Chrome Web Store for Chrome-based apps to all users.

Chromes new WebGL support, bring with it native support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics… Continue reading →

The Daily i-Newspaper for i-Pad & Other Tablets

Published February 3, 2011 | By Nang Tom

The Daily i-Newspaper for i-Pad & Other Tablets

The Daily has just been launched in New York – An i-newspaper designed specifically for users of tablets, such as the iPad. A collaboration between News Corp and Apple, The Daily is available to subscribers for a super low cost of around $1 a week.

So what exactly are you getting for your dollar? Well basically the delivery of a daily newspaper to your iPad, or whatever other tablet you happen to be using. Don’t go expecting live updates throughout the day, with breaking news events, because that is not going to… Continue reading →

hiybbprqag and mbzrxpgjys Catches Microsoft Out

Published February 2, 2011 | By Nang Tom

Microsoft Stealing From Google?

hiybbprqag and mbzrxpgjys are just two of the random search queries that Google has used to catch Microsoft’s Bing cheating and Microsoft is not denying Google’s allegations, so far, according to reports.

Last year Google was starting to suspect that one of their biggest rivals Bing was managing to collect search queries that were being carried out on Google, then copying those results across to Bing in its search results.

So how did Microsoft pull of this little bit of cheating? Well, we can’t be exactly sure how they were doing it, but it seems likely… Continue reading →

Microsoft Windows Vulnerability – Microsoft Issue Security Advice

Published February 1, 2011 | By Nang Tom

Microsoft Windows Vulnerability

A flaw just recently discovered on Microsoft Windows could leave it open for your passwords and other information to be accessed by criminals. Microsoft have started to warn users of the issue and have made a manual work-around available. So far there is no downloadable fix to solve the problem.

Microsoft has stated on its site that they are “aware of published information and proof-of-concept code that attempts to exploit this vulnerability. At this time, Microsoft has not seen any indications of active exploitation of the vulnerability.”

Microsoft has also stated on its site “The vulnerability exists… Continue reading →