Tag: Update
TuneUp Utilities 2010 – Review
Name: TuneUp Utilities 2010 Type: Maintenance software Price: £24.59 (Amazon) Keeping on top of the myriad problems that can blight an otherwise healthy PC can be quite a challenge. To a novice, watching a PC slowly grind to a halt…
Security fix on its way to Internet Explorer
Microsoft are about to roll out a security update that should see users of Internet Explorer 6 protected from the attacks that have caused the French and German governments to condemn the browser. The vulnerability highlighted by the recent phishing…
Windows Mobile 6.5 update on its way
UI improvements are high on the agenda.
Apple updates iPhone OS – now on to OS 3.1.2
Apple has just released a new update to its iPhone OS. OS 3.1.2 is a small update, but it should address the problems that some owners have had with OS 3.1. There's also an update for Pod Touch owners too….
Android 1.5 to hit G1 owners in May
T-Mobile G1 owners yearning for an onscreen keyboard, video recording and Latitude for Google Maps need yearn no longer. Well, not much longer anyway. Android 1.5, better known as ‘Cupcake’, will be hitting handsets in May.
T-Mobile has sold 100,000 G1 handsets since its launch in October, six months ago. That might not seem like much compared to the iPhones dominance of the smartphone sector, but it’s not bad for a completely new OS, brand and device. It’s T-Mobile’s most popular handset, too.
The Cupcake update will be delivered over-the-air to phones, so you won’t have to do anything except maybe hit ‘yes’ once or twice. The onscreen keyboard should help ease complaints that you have to flip out the QWERTY to enter even small bits of text.
T-Mobile has also announced that it’ll be releasing a second Android handset in 2009. This isn’t the G2, or the HTC Magic, which is coming out on Vodafone and will be available this weekend to people who’ve preordered.
No, it’ll be completely new device. A device that we know absolutely nothing about – because T-Mobile won’t tell us anything. Damn them. When we find out, we’ll let you know.
T-Mobile
Seagate Fail part two: firmware fix breaks other drives
Poor Seagate. Late last week, the news broke that their Barracuda 7200.11 1TB drives were failing en masse. Admirably, the company’s already published a firmware fix, but maybe they pushed it out a little too fast because it’s causing 500GB drive owners’ discs to fail en masse.
The update has been taken offline for the moment, and users of 1TB and 750GB drives are reporting successful updates, but if you’re on a 500GB drive and you’ve downloaded but not installed the update, then I certainly don’t recommend doing so just yet.
Seagate Forum (via Tom’s Hardware)
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Xbox 360 "Jasper" hardware variants spotted in the wild – efficient and with built-in memory for game saves
Microsoft’s been fiddling with the internal organs of its Xbox 360 again, with the long-rumoured “Jasper” hardware re-jig apparently rolling out across the world right now.
The new Xbox 360 – as found and disassembled by a user on Xbox-Scene – features a lower-Wattage PSU (150W instead of 175W) that’ll keep Greenpeace happy when it does its next name & shame list.
But the most thrilling enhancement for you, humble end user, is the addition of 256MB of internal flash memory…
Lenovo promises two new netbooks – S9e and S10e
The hail of netbooks continues as Lenovo updates its S10 Ideapad netbook with ‘Splashtop’ capabilities. This is a rather nifty little facility that makes the netbook very nearly ‘instant-on’. This means that basic email, IM and internet tasks can be accomplished within seconds of pressing the power button, though to do more complex stuff you need to boot into Windows.
Similarly, the S9e is an update of the S9, and adds the same ‘Splashtop’ functionality to the existing model. Both updates feature identical specs to their originals, but have the new instant-on Linux OS which dual-boots with Windows. The S10e will cost 299 pounds, but I can’t seem to find anywhere how much the S9e will cost. If you know, then drop us a line in the comments.
Lenovo (via PC Advisor)
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Mobile GMail version 2.0 released – a billion times better than before
Like many people, I use GMail almost exclusively for my email. I run Mobile GMail on my N95, but the application is one of the least functional that I’ve ever seen. Luckily, Mobile GMail 2.0 is here to save the day. It adds better performance, offline support, multiple account support and lets you save more than one draft email at a time…
UPDATE: Apple fixes 3G woes with 2.0.2 software update
Rejoice, iPhone users, for salvation is at hand. Last week we brought you the story that carriers were blaming Apple for poor 3G performance and connectivity issues, pinpointing “an immature chipset and radio protocol stack” as the source of the problem.
Apple responded on Thursday, saying “oops”, and pledging to fix the problem, and here we are on Tuesday with a software update, that simply claims “bug fixes”. Luckily, it seems to have made things considerably zippier, and iPhoneBuzz have run some video tests comparing 2.0.2 with the previous 2.0.1 software…
