Pentax has been taking risks with its designs lately, giving us the charmingly retro H90, E90 and I-10. In comparison, the Pentax Optio M90, announced today, is a straight-up compact camera, but with some decent specs and a very tidy price tag. It’s a 12.1-megapixel point and shoot, packing a 5x optical zoom. The focal [...]
Archive for April, 2010
30 Apr
LG Optimus G540 set for launch
LG is about to launch a new smartphone in the UK, the Android powered Optimus G540. The handset has a 3 inch touchscreen, a 3 megapixel camera, an FM radio, wi-fi and GPS. Your jaw is unlikely to drop reading that spec, and indeed the phone is only set to run Android 1.6 rather than [...]
30 Apr
LG Cookie Fresh GS290 ready for UK
LG’s Cookie Fresh GS290 mobile phone is set to launch in the UK. It’s much like the original Cookie, but with some upgraded features, plus a sleeker design and some trendy bright colour schemes. And maybe a few extra chocolate chips.
30 Apr
Apple v. Adobe: Something Just Doesn’t Add Up
The battle between Apple and Adobe over Flash rages on–stirred up by a 1700-word open letter from Steve Jobs explaining in detail why Apple is not willing to embrace the virtually ubiquitous platform on its iPhone or iPad devices. Jobs cites six primary reasons for rejecting Flash, but somehow it just doesn’t add up still. [...]
30 Apr
Questor share-tips: BG is a buy
This contributed to a fall in pre-tax profits of 3pc to $1.73bn (£1.13bn) – but this result was better than the City had expected. There has been some solid progress in its liquefied natural gas (LNG) business over the quarter. The group has signed a contract with the China’s CNOOC for the supply of 3.6m [...]
30 Apr
Heathrow owner BAA puts volcanic ash bill at £28m
The London airports were closed from April 15 to April 20 because of the travel crisis and Colin Matthews, chief executive of BAA, said the company was considering its options over the loss. “It is too early to talk about precisely what we’ll do and how successful we can be,” he added.
28 Apr
iPad users targeted by hackers
Security experts have warned that Apple iPad users are being targeted by cyber criminals. Hackers are trying to dupe iPad owners in to downloading a fake iTunes update on their Windows computer, which, when installed, creates a backdoor for cyber criminals, allowing them to remotely access the machine or even use the computer to send [...]
28 Apr
Can you use the iPad as your only computer?
Those who hailed Apple’s tablet, the iPad, as the future of computing seem to have forgotten about one little thing: the present. While it’s conceivable that it’s the first example of a fundamental shift away from traditional computing towards a world in which we spend less time ministering to, and more time using our computers, [...]
28 Apr
Police come calling for blogger who leaked new iPhone
Police have raided the home of a blogger who revealed details of Apple’s fourth generation iPhone ahead of its unveiling by the computer giant’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, this summer. Officers from California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team smashed down Jason Chen’s door on Friday night and seized computers, servers, cameras, phones and a credit [...]
28 Apr
GKN reveals plan to cut pension deficit
The automotive and aerospace parts maker is to pump £30m a year for the next 20 years into its UK pension scheme, which has 52,000 members and is one of only a handful of defined benefits schemes in the private sector still open to new members. The proposals are in response to the UK scheme [...]
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