Playboy to be on iPad as Web page starting March

Adult magazine Playboy will be available on the Apple iPad starting March and in its uncensored form, the magazine founder Hugh Hefner announced on Twitter. The archives will also be available in its uncensored format, he added. SOURCE

American internet users more active in voluntary groups

Internet users are more likely to be active in voluntary groups or organisations than non-users, according to a new US survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.SOURCE

Geron recruits first patient in Imetelstat Phase 2 trial

Geron has recruited first patient in an open-label Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the activity of the company's telomerase inhibitor drug, Imetelstat (GRN163L), in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET). SOURCE

London 2012 Olympic IT testing kicks off

London 2012 and Atos Origin have launched a technology lab that will test all aspects of the technology infrastructure ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games held in London.The Technology Lab, hosted in London's Canary Wharf, will oversee 200,000 hours of testing in what was...

Video content to be 60% of total mobile network traffic in 2011

Increase in full-length and studio-quality videos and live streaming of multimedia content on mobile devices is expected to increase video content to 60% of total mobile network traffic in 2011, compared to 40% in 2010, according to a study by Bytemobile. SOURCE

RIM to censor porn sites from its devices in Indonesia

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it would block porn sites from its devices in Indonesia to comply with an order by the government.While giving RIM a deadline of 21 January, Indonesian communications and information minister Tiffatul Sembiring has asked the...

Google promises no more planned downtime for Apps suite

Google has continued its efforts to woo the enterprise space by adjusting the SLAs for its Apps platform, removing a clause that allows for scheduled downtime. SOURCE

GWS Technologies contract to WindPower

GWS Technologies chose WindPower Innovations as the services and equipment provider for the 1500 acre Colorado Plateau wind project’s first phase. Wind Power’s services will include crane services, construction and maintenance of turbines, etc. for the commercial plant...

Google reigns over search engine space in US

Google retained its position as the top search engine in the US by a long shot. This was revealed in the research firm comScore’s findings. According to it, 66.6% of the US search results in the month of December 2010 was through Google sites. At a distant second was Yahoo,...

Verizon introduces an array of 4G LTE enabled consumer devices

Verizon Wireless, operator of wireless voice and data networks, introduced 4G LTE enabled consumer oriented devices. Significant among them are its first 4G tablet Motorola Xoom and 4G LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab. Smartphones manufactured by Samsung, Motorola, LG and HTC,...

Intel launches new processors, wireless adaptors, chipsets

Intel has launched 2nd generation Intel Core processor family at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new offering includes Insider, Quick Sync Video, and a new version of the company's Wireless Display (WiDi), which now adds 1080p HD and content protection for...

Mobile users far more likely to fall for phishing attacks

Mobile phone users are far more vulnerable to phishing attacks than those accessing email and websites via a PC, according to new research. The revelations come from Trusteer, who recently gained access to the log files of several web servers that were hosting phishing...

Seagate unveils new suite of GoFlex for Mac external drives

Seagate, a provider of hard disk drives and storage offerings, has introduced a new suite of GoFlex for Mac external drives, which are designed to allow users of Mac OS X and Time Machine to backup, shuttle, or share their digital content. SOURCE

Samsung Electronics launches USB external hard disk drives

Samsung Electronics America, a provider of digital consumer electronics and IT, has launched three new lines of consumer external hard disk drives, including two new portable drives and a new desktop drive. The company said that three new drives feature SuperSpeed USB 3.0...

Apple iPhone users enter New Year with glitch in alarm app

Apple iPhone users rang in the New Year with a glitch in the alarm application of their devices that failed to work on the first two days of 2011. The alarm application on the smartphone failed to work for alarms that were set for one-time use only, as opposed to...