Hi-Tech Squad

Report: Deal of ICQ?

Ankur — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:35:43 +0000

A Russian company, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) is negotiating to buy ICQ instant messenger. Presently, owned by AOL, ICQ is one of the most leading instant messengers used today. The deal is supposed to be fixed between $200 millions to $250 millions.

Security Expert Finds Problem with Microsoft’s MSN.com

gary — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:30:52 +0000

Someone has discovered a problem on Microsoft's MSN.com website and the question is being asked, "is a prelude or even the result of an attack on Microsoft's website?"

X-Ray Vision and Birds

Josh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:30:15 +0000

A recent study by a team of researchers suggests that, birds like the small red-breasted robin in your garden has a kind of an “X-ray” vision. The team of researchers from the University of Oldenburg, wrote about their findings in the scientific journal “Nature”. According to them, the migratory pattern of many migratory birds and other birds were linked to the fact that they were able to sense the earth’s magnetic field.

Hackers: “Iranian Cyber Army”

Ankur — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:27:58 +0000

On Friday morning, users while visiting Twitter encountered a message from “Iranian cyber army”, a group of some Iranian hackers. A similar thing was observed with Iran’s green movement website. It seems that these sites have experienced an attack of hackers. They call themselves “Iranian cyber army”. It was like a worldwide protest against green movement because it did not really appeared like a typical cyber crime which generally has some financial intentions. That really happened on Twitter was that the web page of twitter was redirected to a web ...

Now You Can Connect a Keyboard to Your iPhone

Ankur — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:22:23 +0000

There was a time when I used to dream... if I only had a keyboard to type on my iPhone so that I could type fast on this buttonless baby of mine. But my dream has now come true for me. Now there is an application through which we can connect iPhone or iPod touch to a keyboard.

Google Fined $14,300 per day

Ankur — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:35:25 +0000

Google was fined by a French court for $14,300 a day till it stops showing copyright books. A Paris based court ruled this judgment on Friday. Google inc. was also asked to pay $430,000 to a French publisher La Martiniere, who brought out the lawsuit on behalf of other French publishers.

Slim Tablet PC’s From the Makers of the $100 Laptop

Josh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:32:07 +0000

The makers of the $100 laptop and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) have unveiled a new slimline tablet PC, the XO -3. The new tablet PC which is proposed to be released sometime in 2012, will be retailing for a price less than $100 and will be aimed at connecting children around the world. The company had earlier scrapped all plans of developing the XO 2 which was a foldable notebook kind of device.

Microsoft Ends the Fight with EU Over IE

Josh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:29:57 +0000

Microsoft has finally come in peace with the European Union on the issue of the web browsers. The issue that started in 1998, was about Microsoft killing competition in the European browser market. Microsoft was criticized by the European Union for bundling their operating systems with their default web browser, Internet Explorer. Many felt that, this move of Microsoft could kill the competition in the web browser market and that users should be given the choice when it comes to choosing a web browser.

4G Comes to Scandinavia!

Josh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:22:05 +0000

4G networks have now become a reality and people in Norway and Sweden could be first ones to use the fourth generation in mobile networks. Telecom company TeliaSonera has announced that they have been working on two mobile networks in Stockholm and Oslo and people will be able to use the networks from sometime in early 2010. The networks are based on the Long term Evolution technology and users will first be able to access the network only through a laptop and a dongle as no mobile devices currently support the 4G network.

Review of Nokia E72

Ankur — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:20:56 +0000

Nokia is known for its top class smart phones. Recently, E72 was launched into the market. “E” stands for executive, so this is the latest addition in Executive class phones by Nokia. E72 has an elegant smart design, that can impress anyone, but the more important thing about this phone is that it is feature packed. Features of E72 Full QWERTY keyboard. Measures elegantly 114 x 58.3 x 10.1 mm and weighs merely 128g. 3.5mm headphone sockets. ...