Vodafone to offer low cost, high feature phones

vodafoneA new proclamation coming straight from the telecom operator, Vodafone UK, states that it will sell handsets from March 9 for as little as £30 per month. It is going to be a yearly contract.

This offer will cover 600 minutes, unlimited texts and mobile Internet with a usage capacity of 500 Mega Bytes.

These handsets were launched by Vodafone along with its T-Mobile during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, earlier this month.

The 8.1 megapixel camera-enabled phones take photos of high quality and have the ability to capture videos in 720p high definition mode giving a crystal-clarity image, at even 4x digital zoom.

Ofcom and SamKnows to study the broadband speed

Ofcom-HQOfcom's idea to pull down various broadband companies, with hardcore evidence against their speeds, gained weight when it signed a contract with the broadband monitoring company- SamKnows.

SamKnows expects volunteers to come up with the data which will provide exact speed of the broadband services.

In the latest report of Ofcom, , it was found that UK homes on an average had download speeds of 4.1Mbps compared with ISPs' advertised speed of up to 7.1Mbps on an average. These figures are for the last year.

Besides this, the studies brought out several other discrepancies.

Apple offers ‘Final Fantasy’ games

Apple-Final-Fantasy1-2Apple iPod touch platform and iPhone are offering their users the popular games- Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II.

Both the games have been developed by Square Enix.

With the latest technology and the state of the art graphics and sounds, both iPhone and iPod are appropriate to provide the game platforms.

The titles have been made compatible with the touch screen interface. The content size has been increased with advancements in the graphics.

The App stores are providing the two games at $9. Considering the time that a gamer gets to play them, it is coming very cheap.

Pentax launches new digital camera

Pantex-X90-Digitel-CameraPentax has launched X90. These are the new version of cameras which would have 12.1Mp along with 26x optical zoom, an additional 6.25x digital zoom to zero facilities.

The digital cameras feature the latest technology and features that Pentax has added to its kitty.

Along with the above mentioned features, it also has 26-276mm 35mm-equivalent focal length range, 1cm macro mode, aperture of f/2.8-5.0, a nine-spot autofocus that auto-tracks and an ISO range of 80 to 6400.

British Library to have national web archive

UK-Web-ArchiveBritish Library is going to come up with a national web archive. It would be called UK Web Archive and will be able to store close to 220TB of data every year.

The project was officially started by Culture Minister Margaret Hodge on Wednesday.

The objective of the project is to collect and store data from all the free access websites available in the UK.

The project has been designed and developed by National Archives, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, Jisc and the Wellcome Library. IBM is going to be the technology partner.

Loans repayment a worry for Iceland

Loans repayment a worry for IcelandIceland is facing a tough economic stipulation. Now there is a huge concern over its repayment of a $5 billion bailout loan. The talks between Iceland and the Treasury over the issue ended without any result as the Government in Reykjavik also insisted that the proposed interest bill was too tedious.

But the Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir is hoping to reach a solution to the ongoing talk. She believes that the deal is still open for a short term.

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