September 2009

Live: iPod Nano to have VIDEO CAMERA, radio, pedometer and voice recorder

Apple are going head to head with the Flip by releasing an 8GB iPod Nano video camera with a speaker. It has a larger display of 2.2" and will come in a variety of coloursand will cost $149 for teh ...  Continue Reading

Live: iPod 64 GB announced at $399 as well as upgrades to shuffles

The 64GB iPod was announced seconds ago at the Apple event. It will be 50% faster than the other iPods.  Continue Reading

Live Apple Event: iPod and iPhone games (Assasins Creed 2)

We're now back onto the iPod. They're telling us how amazing the iPod and the iPod touches are.  Continue Reading

Live Apple Event: iTunes 9, Genius mixes, Home sharing and iTunes LP

Steve Jobs is now talking about iTunes 9 that will go live today. It integrates Genius in that it will create a playlist by recommending music to you depending on music you've already downloaded.  Continue Reading

Live: Download iPhone upgrade 3.1

He's just announced the iPhone 3.1 upgrade with the 'Genius' upgrade so it recommends apps from the apps store teh same way music is recommended to you.Ringtones will also be added to the apps ...  Continue Reading

Live: Apple Event coverage - First post

So far they've just gone through how successful the iPhone has been globally.  Continue Reading

Apple's Steve Jobs steals the show by appearing, but no iTablet announcement

Apple's Steve Jobs steals the show by appearing, but no iTablet announcement  Continue Reading

The Ten Commandments for web 2.0

Security supplier Websense has published the 10 commandments for businesses to adhere to if they are to get the best out of web 2.0 technologies. Survey...  Continue Reading

Satyam brings back employee benefits

Mahindra Satyam is sending a confident sign to the market by restoring benefits for staff.

Satyam said in May this year that times were...

Video: Artificial intelligence plays Mario

Julian Togelius at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and colleague Sergey Karakovskiy have thrown down the gauntlet to developers to write software that can learn to master Mario by playing it over and over, much as generations of gamers have...  Continue Reading

Microsoft invests £45m in IT training for unemployed

Microsoft is investing £45m in IT training and apprenticeships to help 500,000 unemployed people in the UK back to work by 2012.  Continue Reading

Apple slashes iPod prices and announce a 64GB iPod (and possibly the iTablet)

The Apple event tonight is going to be Beatle themed (kind of obvious with the whole Let's Rock thing) but more interestingly, Apple have dropped the prices of their iPods and it looks like the ...  Continue Reading

Microsoft faces two zero-day security flaws

Microsoft may be forced to release an out-of-cycle security update for a vulnerability published the same day as the firm released its September Patch...  Continue Reading

Robot surgery book wins BMA award

A book that details everything now known about getting robots to perform surgery won first prize at the 2009 BMA medical book awards in London last night.  Continue Reading

Broadband users to hit 500m this year

Half a billion people will be using broadband connections within a year, figures released at the Broadband World Forum yesterday suggest.  Continue Reading

IT job market struggles despite hope in other sectors

The UK jobs market as a whole is showing signs of improvement, but figures for the IT market are mixed, according to the KPMG and Recruitment Employment Confederation report on jobs.  Continue Reading

Update: Morse returns to profit

IT consultancy and systems integrator Morse's turnaround  Continue Reading