Apple and Vodafone have announced this morning that they have signed a deal that will see the iPhone available to Vodafone customers in the UK & Ireland from early 2010. The announcement follows a deal agreed earlier this week for Orange to sell the iPhone in the UK including Northern Ireland. The move could see a significant [...]
The Whitehouse has announced that it will publish a record of all spending as part of the $787 billion economic package signed into law by Barrack Obama this week. the entire spending record will be visible on Recovery.gov, a site that “lets you, the (american) taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and [...]
Reports this morning say that Vodafone is close to finalising a deal with mobile phone manufacturer HTC of Taiwan for the next version of the so-called Google phone. Vodafone and HTC are understood to be in discussions about the next generation of a device based on Google’s Android operating system – dubbed the G2. Both Vodafone and HTC hope [...]
Search giant, Google, has licensed Microsoft‘s ActiveSync protocol for sharing information between a server and mobile phone to power Google Sync that was launched on Monday. Google Sync allows users to synchronize their contacts, and other information, with Google’s Web-based services such as Gmail. Google Sync works with a vast range of phones including Apple’s iPhone, Windows [...]
Mobile phones and TVs converging with the Internet? That is so 2008!! An article on CNN.com today outlines car manufacturers’ plans for integrating computer systems with their vehicles in 2009. Motor industry executives hope the new technological bells and whistles will put some sizzle back into stagnant vehicle sales. The plans range from a system that warns [...]
Computer giant Dell confirmed today that it is to axe 1,900 jobs at its flagship manufacturing plant at Raheen in Limerick. In what has been described as a devastating blow for the region, the company will cease production at its Limerick factory in favour of its newer facility and considerably cheaper labour market in Poland. The closure was part of a $3bn global [...]