Sony PlayStation Online gaming system was badly crippled yesterday leaving millions of ardent followers pulling their hair out in dismay. The system allows users to download games and play each other online where ever they are. The complete computer gaming network which has been a common target recently for hackers was affected when a fault [...]
Yahoo are getting upset and say that Microsoft are actively telling users to switch to hotmail from Yahoo Mail, they are citing Microsoft’s aggressive campaign that is focused only on Yahoo Mail. The relationship between Microsoft and Yahoo may be on the rocks overall. Yahoo reported what was generally considered a catastrophic second quarter, which was mainly [...]
Apple IPhone in design dispute Samsung Electronics are being sued by techno giant Apple for copying the design of its key products IPad and IPhone. Apple have ferociously attacked Samsung for their line of Galaxy mobile phones and tablets. They say the design features such as the look of its screen icons have been blatantly [...]
NASA have opened up a fabulous window into the secrets of the universe and anyone can gaze through it with just a click of their mouse. In December 2009 a ground breaking heat seeking telescope was put into space, it was called WISE short for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and it has produced a stunning celestial [...]
Livejournal website hacked and closed down could be test run for 2012 elections in Russia A few weeks after Russia’s biggest blog “Live Journal” was hacked and temporarily shut down, the country’s security services have called for a full and inclusive study of ”Foreign experience of regulating” the web, causing bloggers to fear a clampdown of Internet [...]
Wal-Mart the giant American retailer has announced that it is cutting the size of it’s electronics department as today’s popular gadgets keep getting smaller. The company say they can now use the extra room to display items like fishing poles and fabrics which previously had to be held in store rooms until requested. Rosalind Brewer, [...]
A 75 year old woman who was allegedly digging for scrap has been arrested after slicing through a fibre-optic cable feeding Armenia and neighbouring Georgia. The pensioners action closed down the Internet for several hours, Zura Gvenetadze a spokeswoman for the Ministry of the Interior said “The woman found the cable while she was collecting [...]
Search engine giant Google today moved into the vacation business, they were allowed by government officials to go ahead with the $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software, reports said significant conditions were to be imposed to allow the deal to go through. Google now has full control over the technology that drives reservation systems [...]
Britain’s famous Jodrell Bank Observatory has been chosen as a base for the worlds biggest collection of radio telescopes, the observatory will be the focal point of a new £1.3 billion space investigation project. The site which is close to Macclesfield, Cheshire in the North of England is to be the headquarters of the SKA [...]
Cella Energy a spin off from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory a British organisation has revealed new technology that they say could point to the end for petrol powered cars. Cella Energy have been involved in developing a technique which is based on a new way of producing nano fibres from hybrides. The nano fibres will soak up [...]
