Blog Feed: TECHNOSHARIA

Walkman from Sony celebrates 30 years

Published on 2009-07-05 04:47:00

Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player thirty years ago this week, kicking off a revolution in the consumer electronics industry by changing the way people enjoy music. Until its introduction, the only way people could enjoy their own c > read more

Roaming fees drop under new EU law

Published on 2009-07-05 03:27:00

European mobile phone users can now cross national borders in Europe and know they won’t be slammed with a huge cell phone bill when they return home. Roaming charges for cell phone and texting messages are dropping. A new single tariff, in the wor > read more

Firefox 3.5 already tops 4 million downloads

Published on 2009-07-05 03:10:00

While still not as ubiquitous as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s new Firefox 3.5 browser was just released yesterday and is off to a great start. The browser was met with mostly positive reviews. Reuters stated, “There’s no doubt t > read more

Apple iPhone OS 3.1 Beta released

Published on 2009-07-05 03:05:00

Only two weeks after launching the 3.0 software update for iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple is now working hard on delivering an update to the iPhone OS. The iPhone SDK 3.1 beta has been pushed out to developers last night, which already reported a few n > read more

Chinese surfers celebrates delay of censorship software

Published on 2009-07-05 02:33:00

Chinese web users flooded to a trendy art zone cafe on Wednesday to celebrate a last-minute halt to a rollout of government-sponsored filtering software, and make a stand for freedom of expression in the Communist-run state.Dressed in t-shirts mockin > read more

Some tips to consider before your next electronics shopping trip

Published on 2009-06-17 03:53:00

Going to a retail store for consumer electronics purchases can be both exciting and frustrating. After working at Best Buy for two years, I have a few opinions to share that you might want to consider before your next shopping trip.1. We have no form > read more

US Army unblocks banned social sites

Published on 2009-06-17 03:50:00

There’s long been a military-wide ban on access to a number of specific social media sites, and while that still stands, some soldiers will now be able to access other social media sites that had inadvertently gotten caught in the same ban despite > read more

Windows 7 to ship without Internet Explorer

Published on 2009-06-17 03:04:00

European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. The company said it would make it easy for PC makers and users > read more

Chinese security software full of security bugs

Published on 2009-06-17 02:56:00

Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software. The potential faults were brought to light by Chinese computer experts who said the flaw could lead to a “large-scale di > read more

LonMID M100 MID-phone officially introduced

Published on 2009-06-17 02:49:00

Photos of LonMID’s M100 engineering prototype showed up before Computex, but now the convertible MID phone has made its official appearance on the company’s site. The obvious change is the color-scheme (the prototype was black and gold) but ther > read more