Tag archive: POLAND

A new controversy is swirling around technology giant Microsoft, and it has nothing to do with its Windows operating system, browser software, antitrust investigations, anti-piracy measures, video games, portable media players, or its stance towards patents and open source software. Instead, the company is quickly trying to apologize for intentionally altering a photo used on its business productivity Web sites to change a man's… Read More

The English language may not be the most common language on Earth—Mandarin Chinese and Spanish beat it out, for instance—but English has always been willing to expand its boundaries and adopt (and co-opt) new words and phrases to expand its lexicon. The Global Language Monitor estimates that almost 15 words a day get added to the English language, and today the organization announced what it claims to be the one-millionth word… Read More

The Wikimedia Foundation has signed its first major corporate partnership deal with European mobile operator Orange. Under the agreement, Orange customers in France, Span, Poland, and the UK will get co-branded access to Wikimedia Foundation content, including a specific Wikipedia channel and both mobile and Web-based widgets to pull Wikipedia content to their mobile devices or Web pages. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed,… Read More

You’ve seen their cars, you might even drive one. Yet you’ve probably never considered using a Hyundai mobile phone. But the company is entering the UK mobile phone market, and plans to have between 3-5% of it within five years – some high ambitions for an already crowded field. The company’s plan is to initially use the Advantage Cellular hub. Advantage is a company that spans the entire telecoms chain, so Hyundai… Read More

There are plenty of Polish people living and working in Britain, some permanently, some temporarily, and they send £1 billion a year home. Now, those who have a NatWest Polish Welcome account can send money back to Poland to accounts run by Polish bank PKO BP using mobile phone transfers, says silicon.com. NatWest claims to be the first UK bank to allow international money transfers via mobile. Customers don’t pay any… Read More

Internet search giant Google has released its 2008 End-of-Year Zeitgeist, noting what was hot worldwide in Internet searches for the year. Unlike search engines like AOL and Yahoo who base their end-of-year summaries mostly on the frequency of terms—hence allowing Britney Spears to rule the search engine listings for years on end—Google bases its Zeitgeist both on frequency and on the novelty of terms. In other words,… Read More

Google has announced the availability of a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked Android phone explicitly aimed at Android developers in the U.S. and some 18 international markets. The Android Dev Phone 1 is available for $399 to registered Android developers—about the same price as an unlocked T-Mobile G1—although developers would need to pay an additional $25 to join the Android Marketplace to purchase the device. Google warns… Read More

The Sinowal Trojan, also known as Torpig and Mebroot, isn’t new. It was first detected by RSA’s Fraud Action Research Lab in February 2006. But it’s one of the most effective Trojans out there. RSA estimates the Sinowal Trojan has taken the details of 270,000 online bank accounts and 240,000 debit and credit cards from financial institutions in a number of countries, including the US, UK, Australia and Poland.… Read More

The US likes to be a world leader, but this is one area where it would rather not get a gold medal – computer attacks. But a new study from SecureWorks shows that the country is way out front of the rest of the world in the field, with 20.6 million attempted attacks, far outpacing China, which had 7.7 million. That doesn’t mean the US is packed with malicious hackers. It simply means that a lot of computers have very weak… Read More

Apple continues to sign agreements with international mobile operators to bring the company's iPhone to a larger market, just as the company is reportedly prepping to launch a new 3G-enabled version of the device, along with version 2.0 iPhone software. Today's announcement come's from France's Orange, which issued a one-sentence statement saying it has reached an agreement with Apple to distribute the iPhone in… Read More

You can get excitement at trade shows, but usually nothing like this. As the CeBIT Expo was getting ready to close on Sunday, it was raided by German police, according to AP. With 180 officers in the building, 51 exhibitors were targeted. Police claimed the raid was in response to the "number of criminal complaints by the holders ofpatent rights in the run-up to CeBIT has been rising for years". AP reported that 24 of the raided stands… Read More

Although the news may not mean much to North American consumers, IBM is apparently re-introducing itself to the personal computer business after selling off its ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines to China's Lenovo. According to Reuters, the company is partnering with Red Hat, Austrian software distributor VDEL, and Poland's LX Polska, so offer Microsoft-free PCs to the easten European and Russian business markets. The… Read More

In its continuing march to march product available in retail outlets, computer maker Dell has signed a deal with Tesco, whichowns stores in England, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, to sell its desktop and laptop machines starting next month.   "With over 13 million customers per week shopping atTesco's stores, this deal will result in substantial exposure for Dell's brand and products," Mark Ormerod, vice… Read More

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is now on 28% of computers in Europe, according to a study by French companyXiTi Monitor.   That figure is up from 24% back in March and just 21% a year ago. A separate study by  W3Counter gives Firefox a 24% market share. One thing for certain, though, is that the increase has come at the expense of Internet Explorer. Its share, both studies agree, is at just over 66%, down from 73% last year. In… Read More