News in Brief on TFTS

If you happen to love gadgets and technology then you must have heard about Best Buy, a giant electronics retailer in the USA. Best Buy should sound like a familiar brand already, even if you’re not an American citizen yourself.

Amazon’s Kindle popular eBook reader had one major flaw. At anytime Amazon could delete stuff from any Kindle without previous notice. That doesn’t sound too good does it? There are folks that went ahead and quit using it after Amazon has remotely deleted purchased copies of 1984 and Animal Farm …

According to reports just surfacing, Intel are set to phase out their widely employed Atom N270 CPU – which is at the core of pretty much every netbook out their right now – with the release of its successor, the Intel Atom N450 (otherwise known as “Pine View”).

Following on from the recent introduction of text ads, Twitter have confirmed that they are looking to offer paid pro accounts for power users and companies in the near future in return for what’s somewhat elusively being termed at this juncture merely as ‘more features’.

According to news surfacing over the weekend a scammer who managed to secure more than 9,000 iPod Shuffle’s directly from Apple by filling bogus replacement requests for non-existent Shuffles using valid serial numbers has been apprehended due to using an invalid credit card as security.

Those amongst you who have ever dabbled with overclocking your PCs will no doubt hold ABIT in particularly high esteem – in no small part due to the fact that introduced the first ever jumperless motherboards (allowing CPU configuration to be adjusted directly via the computers BIOS – so you’ll …

Apple have just released update 2.2 for their iPhone which comes in at a not insignificant 246MB and which includes new Google Maps features as well as enhancements to the iPhone’s mail and Safari browser and improved sound quality of visual voicemail. It also promises to cut back on the …

Unless you happen to work for a UK governmental body – in which case you’ll have an alarming propensity to leave sensitive data on public transport – you’ll know that, in an age where electronically held data is becoming increasingly targeted by criminals, data security is becoming increasingly big business. …

If you have ever sent a particularly harsh and pointed email when under the influence of alcohol – to, for example, your boss to tell him/her in no uncertain terms what you think of them or, perhaps, to your partner following a petty argument – which you’ve had cause to …

One could be forgiven for coming to the understandable conclusion that Microsoft is positively sanctioning PC users skipping their much maligned Vista operating system altogether – thus potentially moving directly from XP to Microsoft’s seventh incarnation of the Windows OS whilst missing out Vista completely – if a leaked email …

MyMemory have become the first company to launch memory vending machines in the UK, allowing you to purchase a vast array of memory products – from USB flash drives to SD cards and CompactFlash cards – using your chip and pin card and have already introduced new memory vending machines …