New Pioneer micro-hifi systems announced for fans of small things

Prepare to be confused by complex hi-fi nomenclature and gadgetry as Pioneer launches a trio of micro stereo systems. The robotically named X-HM20DAB-K, X-HM50DAB-K, X-HM70DAB-K and X-HM10-K feature a range of different features to suit various audio needs. The X-HM20DAB-K, for example builds on the X-HM10's CD player with iPhone and iPad...

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Urbanspoon Adds Zagat Reviews

Urbanspoon has signed a deal with Zagat that will see over 25,000 Zagat reviews featured prominently on Urbanspoon. Urbanspoon tells WebProNews, “”We’re excited to be working with Zagat – the pinnacle of high end restaurant reviews. Providing diners with easy access to Zagat reviews directly on their smartphones will make it even easier...

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Italy confirms 4 bidders for 4G spectrum auction

A total of four companies applied by the 29 August deadline for submitting bids for participation in the tender for frequencies in the 800, 1800, 2000 and 2600 MHz bands in Italy. According to a statement from Italy's Ministry of Economic Development, bids were submitted by 3 Italia, Telecom Italia, Vodafone Italia and Wind. The same companies were admitted to the bidding in late July, as well as the wireless operator Linkem....

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Technology report / CNN buys iPad ezine Zite, which customizes by topic

CNN has acquired Zite, an iPad service that learns about readers' tastes and customizes a digital magazine with stories from hundreds of different websites. CNN, a cable news channel owned by Time Warner Inc., has no plans to change Zite's format, said K.C. Estenson, general manager of CNN's digital division. "This is a product that people love," Estenson said. "It just needs to be in the hands of more people." Zite delivers different...

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10 alternative uses for an £89 HP TouchPad

When HP announced it was abandoning webOS and the price of the HP TouchPad plummeted in some stores to the ridiculously generous £89, it caused such a frenzied rush to nab one that few stopped to think about what they'd do with it when it arrived. After all, one of the reasons behind HP's decision was that it couldn't garner the same sort...

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Samsung Series 7 Laptop Debuts with Aluminum Chassis and Quad-Core Processor

Samsung late Tuesday night unveiled its Series 7 laptop line at the IFA global consumer electronics show. These aren't gaming machines like the Samsung 7 700G that was spotted in the U.K. last week, but essentially Ultrabooks without the official designation. The Series 7 comes encased in a thin and compact aluminum chassis with...

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LG to unveil new E91 and D237IPS computer monitors at IFA 2011

IFA 2011 will kick off in Berlin very soon and at the show LG will be unveiling a pair of new LCDs including the E91 and the D237IPS LCD screens. The E91 is very thin at 7.2mm thick taking up as little space as possible on the desk. The bezel of the screen is 4.35mm thick giving the screen a slick and almost borderless style. The display...

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Government approves Telecom asset split plan

The structural separation of Telecom into stand-alone retail and network companies is a step closer, with the Government approving Telecom's plan to split up its assets. The company's plan is to split in two so it can participate in the Government's $1.3 billion ultra-fast broadband initiative. The Government has signed-off on the company's proposal to split its assets and liabilities, although the de-merger still has to be approved...

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Canon PowerShot SX150 IS Digital Camera

The new Canon PowerShot SX150 IS digital camera is equipped with a 12x optical zoom with 28mm wide-angle lens, 720p HD video recording, Intelligent IS and Smart AUTO. The PowerShot SX150 IS Digital camera also features a 14.1-megapixel CCD sensor and Canon's DIGIC 4 Image Processor. This new camera includes manual-shooting capabilities,...

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ASUS reportedly giving Ultrabooks a premium price

Ever since Intel announced the Ultrabook category the feeling has been that it has been created with the Apple MacBook Air in mind. Such is Apple's inability to get a product wrong these days that it has been gaining PC share rapidly, with the MacBook Air leading the charge. This is OK for Intel - which provides the CPUs for Apple PCs - but not such great news for the Wintel ecosystem, which Intel needs to ensure stays healthy...

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iPhone 5 with Metal Chassis and Less Than 4" Screen?

Digitimes offers a bit of a strange report this morning that just seems to reinforce some details that have been previously reported about the iPhone 5. The strangest bit, however, is that their report attempts to refute a fake "leak" video that circulated on YouTube earlier this month. Despite rumors about iPhone 5 featuring a 4.2-inch...

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WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online

For the second time in a year, WikiLeaks has lost control of its full, unredacted cache of a quarter-million U.S. State Department cables — and this time the leaked files are apparently online. The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named “cables.csv,” which is reportedly circulating somewhere on the internet,...

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SK Telecom to Spend $924 Million for 4G Spectrum in Korea

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- SK Telecom Co., the largest mobile- phone carrier in South Korea, won the rights to use a key frequency for fourth-generation phone service for 995 billion won ($924 million) in the country’s first auction of spectrum. The carrier won 20 megahertz of airwaves in the 1.8- gigahertz frequency band, the Korea Communications Commission said in a statement today. KT Corp. dropped out of the race because the...

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LG Display cuts capex; tablet boom hits LCD TVs

SEOUL (Reuters) – Flat-screen maker LG Display will slash next year's capital spending by a quarter as booming sales of mobile devices from iPads to Android smartphones saps demand for TV panels, its main source of earnings. Mired in excess capacity for more than a year, the outlook has worsened for the global liquid crystal display (LCD)...

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Quixey Raises $3.8M Round; Searching The Functional Web

At last count, there were 425,000 apps in the Apple App Store, and that many choices or more in Google's Android Market. There are BlackBerry apps, Windows Mobile apps, Symbian apps and Palm WebOS apps (not a lot of demand for those right now). And mobile devices aren't the only place you can go to get small, specialized applications for...

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Astaro Security Gateway

The Astaro Security Gateway appliance (mail applications only) comes to us again, this time highlighting some of its email content functionality. With this gateway, administrators can set policy to manage spam, encrypt messages and scan email for viruses. Furthermore, this tool allows users to access a web-based portal to manage their own...

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Digital Storm Empowers Supreme Processor Performance with Cryo-TEC Cooling System in Gaming Computers

Direct contact heat dissipation technology & streamlined design create a sub-zero cooling solution that maximizes performance Fremont, Calif. - (August 25, 2011) - Digital Storm, the predominant name in computer system integration and engineering, proudly debuts its latest innovation in the quest to design the most superior PC on the planet: the Cryo-TEC Cooling System. Based on the Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled system developed...

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Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Wave 3 leaked ahead of IFA

We don't know for sure what Samsung-shaped goodies are coming our way at IFA next week, but we've got a pretty good idea. How? An intrepid, eagle-eyed Android...

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Facebook hits 1 trillion page views? Wowww!

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The news stormed across blogs and headlines this week: Facebook had become the first website to rack up a mind-boggling 1 trillion monthly page views.The tip came from an advertising service called DoubleClick AdPlanner -- which, ironically, is operated by Facebook rival Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). The most recent...

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Mozilla chair admits problems with rapid release schedules

The release of a version of the Firefox browser every six weeks is found to be disconcerting and at times potentially unmanageable by enterprises, said the chair of the Mozilla Foundation, which maintains the browser. The compatibility of addons with new versions is also another issue, said Mitchell Baker, chair of the non-profit organisation....

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Pandora making more money from mobile advertising

US music service sees triple-digit revenue increases year-on-year in latest financials. US personalised radio company Pandora Media saw its revenues leap 117% year-on-year to $67 million in the second quarter of this year, with mobile advertising playing a key role in that growth. In total, ads accounted for $58.3 million of those revenues, but Pandora broke out the mobile element specifically. "In addition to continued high growth...

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Guy Set To Sell 100 HP TouchPad Tablets On Ebay

For those who are gutted at having lost out on the £89 HP Touchpad tablet, here's some extra salt to rub in your wounds; we've been sent a link to an Ebay Seller who managed to sell a whopping 70 tablets yesterday between 1PM and 8PM with a selling price of £199 including delivery, which is more than twice the selling price of the TouchPad...

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Government considers porn ban

Parliament considers deploying ‘child protection’ measures Parliament is to launch a formal inquiry in to the protection of children online – one which will debate the implementation of nationwide web filters. According to Thinkbroadband, the inquiry follows Parliamentary moves to give itself the power to force ISPs to filter pornographic...

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Android is on fire

Because Linux is free software and belongs to no-one, it is often assumed that Linux is “surrounded by legal uncertainties,” but Linux is no more or less prone to legal uncertainties than any other software. Richard Hillesley looks at the latest attempt to cast fear, uncertainty and doubt around the GPL and the Linux kernel… The Linux kernel is released under the GPLv2. The GPL was devised as a means of enhancing and protecting...

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Sony Digital Link Sound System for Iphone

Do you fancy listening to the musics on your Iphone while driving ? Well Son thought of it and presented us with a car integration system. This new system from Sony called XDP-PK1000 is made up of 5 elements, a cradle for the Iphone itself, a wireless remote control, a digital sound processor, a 12inch subwoofer and a 300Watt Class D...

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Nokia announces Symbian Belle along with a few new devices

As expected, today Nokia announced the Symbian Belle update, and a few new devices to go alongside it. We have official word that the new devices are the Nokia 700, Nokia 701, and Nokia 600.Each of the new smartphones are powered by Symbian Belle, with 1GHz CPUs, and NFC which Nokia seems quite proud of. The big deal with NFC is that...

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Sony announces new Handycam NEX-VG20 full HD camcorder

In addition to the four new cameras announced this morning, Sony has also introduced a new Handycam full HD camcorder called the NEX-VG20. Its predecessor, the NEX-VG10, was Sony’s first consumer model to offer interchangeable lenses. This latest version adds several improvements including more comprehensive manual controls, enhanced ergonomics,...

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Comtech Telecom. Gets $1.3 Mln Order For Satellite Communications Equipment

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (CMTL: News ) announced that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has received a $1.3 million order for satellite communications equipment to support a customer's network expansion in Asia. The company stated that this order included several models of Comtech EF Data's satellite modems including the CDM-625, the CDM-700 and the DMD20 models. Commenting on the CDM-625, Comtech...

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Cisco Unveils Small Router for M2M Communications

Cisco’s 819 ISR is aimed at bringing networking capabilities to systems not normally connected to the Internet. Cisco Systems officials are continuing to bring their networking capabilities farther from the data center, with the latest example being the company’s new Cisco 819 ISR Machine-to-Machine Gateway. The new Integrated Services Router (ISR), announced Aug. 23, dovetails with Cisco officials’ idea of the “Internet of things,”...

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ComScore’s Main Web Tracking Tool Hit With Privacy Lawsuit

comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is one of the biggest analytics companies out there, and its statistics about internet usage are quoted constantly in the press. A new lawsuit alleges that the company’s primary strategy for getting that data—composing a “panel” of more than 2 million users who install comScore software on their computers—is a serious...

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Doug Brady HiFi Completes £250,000 Cheshire Store Refit

With over 50 years of experience in the Hi-Fi business, Doug Brady has seen the rise, fall and resurrection of vinyl, ushered in both the Hi-Fi and digital age, and has helped develop some of the biggest names in Hi-Fi. Founder Doug Brady played an instrumental role in the development of some of the world's most respected names in audio visual equipment including Rega turntables, Linn, Naim and The Chord Company. The company started...

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NASA to Test Ultimate Space Wifi

Hoping to do for space communications what broadband has done for the Internet, NASA is planning to fly a laser communications system, paving the way for high-definition, live TV from Mars. There have been a few tests of optical communications before, but nothing like the planned three-year run of the Laser Communications Relay demonstration...

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