Archive for February, 2010

Apple may put iPhone OS on other devices

 

The company is on the lookout for an engineer who can help get its mobile-phone software onto additional devices.

 

Apple posted an ad on its website for an engineering manager to lead ‘a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS [operating system] on new platforms.’

10 billionth tune downloaded from Apple iTunes

 

Louie Sulcer, from Georgia, USA, bought Cash’s ‘Guess Things Happen That Way’ and wins the celebratory  $10,000 iTunes gift card.

 

Apple launched the store back in 2003, when it only sold music tracks and was called the iTunes Music Store.

 

KLM moves into the cloud

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 25 February 2010 at 15:18:00

Over 11,000 crew members to migrate to Google Mail

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is migrating some 11,200 crew members to Gmail as part of a wider cloud computing deployment.

Authorities in the dark over level of ID card fraud

Tom Young, Computing, Thursday 25 February 2010 at 15:16:00

But overall the ID scheme is being administered securely and effectively, says Identity Commissioner

It is impossible to tell whether identity cards have been obtained fraudulently, according to the first report by the Office of the Identity Commissioner.

Nokia launches N97 Mini Gold

 

Under the bling  the mobile has all the same features of its humble sibling.

 

The 3.2 inch touchscreen is still present and runs at a resolution of 340×600 – nice for multimedia playback and internet browsing.

 

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Capita upbeat about new business

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 25 February 2010 at 14:45:00

Outsourcer remains positive despite fears over public sector spending cuts

Outsourcing firm Capita has posted positive full-year results, driven by several contract wins and lower finance costs.

Final Fantasy arrives on iPhone and iTouch

 

The iPhone and iTouch games are direct replicas of the original 1987 RPG classic and cost £5.49 each.

 

They come in a remastered format, previously reissued for the PSP in 2007, but  revamped to take full advantage of iPhone’s screen and touchscreen controls.

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ATI Eyefinity on six screens: first look review

Our previous encounter with Eyefinity came courtesy of a Chillblast machine which came with three monitors and enough gaming grunt to stretch the latest titles across its 5,760 x 1,080 native resolution.
ATI’s much-rumoured Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition boasts six DisplayPort outputs – although it’s a standard HD 5870 under the hood – [...]

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