Archive for March, 2011
Risk of support from callers unknown
A friend received a phone call out of the blue yesterday from a company claiming that her computer showed a number of problems which they would be able to fix remotely. My friend doesn’t know a great deal about computers and was persuaded to part with £200 for a four-year contract, allowing the company to [...]
Read moreTED 2011 roundup: French creative JR launches global street art project
Can art change the world? Just possibly. Or at least it may just be able to change the way that certain parts of it look. Coming soon to a wall near you: a vast, black and white, billboard-sized print of a face – which could be yours, your mother’s, your child’s or a total stranger’s. [...]
Read moreiPad price cut by £100, while Xoom may arrive in April
Apple has cut the price of the original iPad by £100 to £329 on its website “while stocks last” – though it’s hard to know whether those stocks will last until the iPad 2, retailing from £429, arrives on March 25. Meanwhile you can pre-order Motorola’s Xoom 10-inch tablet from Dixon’s in the UK: £499 [...]
Read moreAverage broadband speeds ‘less than half those advertised’, says Ofcom
Millions of broadband customers are being sold super-fast connections that their internet providers are unable to deliver, according to new research. Data released by Ofcom, the communications watchdog, shows that the average broadband speed is still less than half of the average advertised speed. The report, published on Wednesday, says that Britons get an average [...]
Read moreFacebook takes fresh step to open up users’ personal details
Facebook is planning to make users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers available to apps that people use on the site, although it says it would require users to give explicit permission for it to happen. The company reiterated its plan to go ahead with opening up users’ personal details, which was first revealed in a [...]
Read moreiPad 2: the first analysis roundup of Apple’s new tablet
Here’s what folks around the web have to say about the iPad 2 announcement, with the machine to ship in the US on 11 March and in the UK and other countries on 25 March. Carolina Milanesi, vp of research in consumer technologies at Gartner, says: Competitors have a new benchmark. As they roll out [...]
Read moreConfirmed: Tegra 2-equipped Samsung Galaxy S II is coming
We’ve confirmed with our own sources what was almost an established fact already: there will be a version of Samsung’s 4.3-inch Galaxy S II Android smartphone relying on a dual-core Tegra 2 chip for its processing. The second-gen Galaxy S launched at MWC this year with Samsung’s own Exynos dual-core solution at its heart, but [...]
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