So should I upgrade my iPhone to OS4 ?
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Short answer: yes ! Here’s Fotec’s advice on how to get the best from the upgrade for iPhone 3G and 3GS users…
1.Tired of your iPhone switching to landscape when you tilt it ?
Lock in portrait mode by double tapping the Home Button, swipe to left and on the left of the iPod controls you’ll see the [...]
29June
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So should you buy an iPad ?
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As anyone with an iPhone will tell you, Apple’s products are so well designed they’re a joy to use. The engineering is sleek, and the user interface almost redefines the meaning of the word intuitive. The same goes for iPods, MACs and Powerbooks.
Yet Apple lost the IT war: almost everyone uses Microsoft and PCs for [...]
27May
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Internet growth: it’s only just started !
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For many of us now, life and work without the Internet is unthinkable (even your author can remember when secretaries typed letters using carbon paper and all phones had wires). But according to research from US analyst Telegeography, it’s about to expand way beyond current usage.
They say that by the end of 2009, here were 1.73 [...]
9February
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Top 10 Security Trends in 2010 ?
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Global security company Symantec recently published a White Paper predicting the top Security Trends to watch in 2010.
Some of the threats are very easy to understand, but other developments are simply impenetrable to ordinary people: Fast Flux Botnet, anybody ?
If you have a spare hour or three, go to http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1234/messagelabs-intelligence-2010-predictions.pdf where you can download the [...]
29November
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PC market cheats the recession, mobile phone market doesn’t.
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New figures quoted by the CEO of Intel, Paul Otellini, show that the PC market has not lost ground. “In general, it looks like PC sales [by volume] are likely to be flat year-on-year in 2009”. Otellini compared this with mobile phone market, which he expected to see its first ever volume drop of 10% [...]