The pricing of Windows 7, which launches on Oct 22, has been announced and shockingly it’s quite reasonable if pre-ordered. From July 15 to 9 Aug you will be able to pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium E for £49 or…
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iPhone 3GS – OK, so we didn’t get the voice control
But otherwise our list of features wasn’t too far out was it? The phone launches June 19 but rumour has it you can order one from Carphone Warehouse from Wed. Better battery life – 5 hours talk time, 9 hours…
Steve Jobs to launch new iPhone?
You may have read here earlier in the year that a new iPhone was likely to appear this summer. Well that time is almost with us, with rumours of the product being launched at the Apple worldwide Developers Conference tomorrow.…
Bing – bong?
Microsoft is due to launch a new search engine, Bing, on June 3. The launch may initially be restricted to the US, as Microsoft is taking time to sign up partner websites in each country. These partnerships may be both a strength and…
Wolfram Alpha goes live – so what is so special about it?
The new search engine, Wolfram Alpha went live today, although its 10,000 computing cores seem somewhat overwhelmed at trying to deal with the SlashDot effect of thousands of consecutive users trying it out for the first time. There are now three…
How can I find my Nokia N95 WiFi MAC address?
There is a simple keypad shortcut to find the wifi interface MAC address – simply type: *#62209526# (the numbers spell ‘MAC WLAN’ on the keypad) Knowing your phone MAC address can be quite useful. Many wifi access points will allow…
Nokia N97 due July
Nokia’s latest smartphone, the N97, is due in the UK this July, according to Vodafone. The 3G quad-band phone features a large touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard. Storage is a massive 32 Gb and another 16 Gb can…
UK government finally accepts it cannot secure large databases
In a major climbdown the UK government has dumped plans for a massive communications database. To quote Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary, in the foreword to a government consultation on the subject, “the balance between privacy and security is a delicate one,…
Bluetooth 3.0 High Speed now official
The Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) officially adopted the Bluetooth 3.0 HS specification today. Not that you would know it from the official Bluetooth.com and Bluetooth.org websites – neither appear to have any mention of it, apart from an almost fact-free…
Government in electric car shock
The UK Labour government have announced a subsidy of £5000 for electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Plug-in hybrid cars can be recharged from the mains or ‘on the go’ by a conventional engine. The bad news is that the subsidy won’t be available…