Huddle extends collaboration with BlackBerry app

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 14:32:00 Online project management and sharing service expanded to RIM platform Online collaboration firm Huddle has brought its cloud-based project management, document sharing and collaboration services to the BlackBerry market with the launch of a dedicated application for users of the…

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Jive touts social business tool enhancements

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 14:19:00 Firm announces tighter intergration with Google and Twitter Jive Software has updated its Social Business Software (SBS) designed to tackle information overload and improve workplace productivity. The company claims that SBS 4.5 can help enterprise users better manage…

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Skobbler sat-nav available on iPhone in the UK

The free German turn-by-turn sat-nav service Skobbler is now available on the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Using a community powered model called OpenStreetMap, Skobbler is the Wikipedia of the sat-nav world, allowing users to update its maps with their latest discoveries

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Award-Winning Self-Portrait Shows What It Means to Have a Photographic Eye

Photography is a form of creative visual expression.  So when photographer Taylor Horne wanted to visually express how he views himself, he created this strikingly original self-portrait of the artist as a young man. In fact, his self-portrait is so eye-catching, that it won first place in the student print competition conducted by Antonelli Institute

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Polariq aquired by Xtera Communications

Polariq Ltd, a UK-based optical fiber company, has been acquired by US-based Xtera Communications, Inc. Polariq specialises in solutions for polarisation mode dispersion (PMD), which causes random spreading of optical pulses in optical fiber and limits the rate at which data can be transmitted over a fiber

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Gartner urges reassessment of software-as-a-service

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 12:16:00 Companies should re-evaluate plans as model fails to achieve widespread take up Software-as-a-service (SaaS) will have a role in enterprise systems, but will not take the dominant place many thought it would, according to Gartner….

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Anti-malware body expands testing guidelines

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 12:01:00 Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation aims to highlight the complexities of software testing The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation (AMTSO) has expanded its guidelines and resources in a move designed to provide software testers with more accurate security testing methods….

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Solar buying group moves into LA

One Block Off the Grid (1BOG), a San Francisco-based group that negotiates group collective rates for installing solar technology through pre-approved installers, has moved into the Los Angeles area. Here’s what this means: IF you’re thinking about installing solar technology, AND you do it through 1BOG, you can get a 15 percent discount off typical rates

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UK firm boosts security for call centre payments

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 11:57:00 Veritape claims to slash ‘audio data thefts’ from call centres UK security firm Veritape has released a new device which it claims can help protect banks and consumers from credit card fraud committed through call centres….

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September launch for Project Canvas

By the end of this month, the BBC Trust will have made its decision on the future of the online TV service known as Project Canvas. If this is favourable, and there is no reason to assume that it will not be, then there will be a three month timeline leading to an initial launch during September. According to the controller of strategy at ITV, Simon Pitts, following the BBC Trust’s approval, partners will be found in July and then the technical specs can be defined and shared in August

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BT sets up big screen for World Cup

World Cup fever can be found all around the UK but nothing can be as prominent as the display that BT has installed at the top of the BT Tower in London. The phone and broadband provider has installed a screen with a length that is equivalent to half a football pitch and completely wraps around the tower, offering a 360 degree view.

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Broadband deal from BT

The phone and broadband provider, BT, has cut the price of the popular Talk and Surf Plus Home Broadband up-to-20 Mbps with 10 Gb monthly usage package, while still offering new subscribers three months free. Before the deal, a new customer would sign for the package and receive three months free, but only providing they paid the rental charge for the landline. After the three month period, the customer would be charged £19.99 per month.

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Repairing the flash shoe on my Canon Digital Rebel XT

I’m surprised at just how easy it was to repair the loose flash shoe on my Canon Digital Rebel XT! I followed the instructions here conraderb.com (found through a Google search ) and once I figured out what to do, it took me about 30 seconds to do the repair. The flash shoe, which was loose and causing the flash to not fire at all or to fire at full strength (so photographs were all washed out), is now fixed and my flash is working perfectly. And the connection between the flash and the camera feels like new (even when it was working right, it had been feeling a little bit loose)

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HP announces e-All-in-One printer range

Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 00:36:00 Web-connected printers can print anything from any smart device HP has announced a line-up of e-All-in-One printers, which it claims will allow documents to be printed from any email device to any ePrint-enabled printer from anywhere in the world….

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Trend Micro acquires storage specialist Humyo

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 00:35:00 Company hopes to bolster small business backup and recovery Trend Micro has announced plans to acquire Humyo, a UK provider of online storage and synchronisation services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed….

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HP buys Linux OS from Phoenix Technologies

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 00:34:00 Vendor shells out $12m for HyperSpace platform HP has agreed to acquire a Linux operating system from software developer Phoenix Technologies for $12m (£8.2m). The HyperSpace purchase includes a quick-boot operating system and a number of virtualisation..

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A week in security: Feds investigate iPad breach

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:31:00 V3.co.uk rounds up the hottest security stories of the week The week has been dominated by a batch of security fixes from Microsoft, Google and Adobe covering several key products, as well as growing concerns over the security of the…

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ITC to investigate Apple after HTC claims

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:23:00 Legal battle takes another twist The US International Trade Commission (ITC) is to investigate allegations by Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC that Apple’s iPhone technology infringes on some of its patents….

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Web sites crash under World Cup strain

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:17:00 ITV.com and TVCatchup suffer temporary glitches ITV’s web site crashed yesterday as millions went online to watch Mexico play South Africa in the first World Cup match of the 2010 tournament, highlighting the need for companies…

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Top 10 reasons for and against the iPhone 4

Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 08:01:00 Pros and cons of the new Apple handset In case you haven’t heard yet, Apple had a little do last week, and the star of the show was a new iPhone….

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