Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wields incredible power in the computer industry.Still, when it comes to the image of its flagship operating systems, it is greatly at the mercy of third-party software developers.When users sit down to use...

Seems like good old GSM is refusing to disappear. An enhanced flavour of EDGE announced yesterday (27th March 08) by Nokia Siemens tweaks the potential data speed of existing EDGE networks to a usable 592 kbps (presumably in lab...

Much has been made of the fact that Skype's IP header format is notoriously difficult to decrypt, even by the Secret Services, so it comes as a surprise that a company has released a package it claims will automatically monitor...

Not before time, FAST, the Federation Against Software Theft has announced plans to take legal action against people selling pirated software through online auction Web sites.       FAST's move...

It might look mundane but this watch would probably be welcomed by any secret agents (only missing a handcuff-cutting red laser) and is marketed by a Chinese company called Shenzhen Enet Times Technology.The W100 is a popular...

Japanese Mobile Phone service provider NTT DoCoMo Inc. has demonstrated download speeds of up to 250mbps during trials of a novel 3G cellular technology in Yokosuka Japan.These speeds exceed existing wired broadband speeds by...

Super Talent, one of the better known memory manufacturers out there, has announced that it will be selling a 256GB 2.5-inch Solid state drive called the Consumer SATA25-S for only $5950, that's "only" £11.50 per...

It could be a fad, it could even be a hoax (like the Fake Steve Jobs Blog) but for now, believe the hype and visit the official Twitter channel for the Prime Minister's Office based at 10 Downing Street.Someone in the Entourage...

ICT and internet skills for parents - particularly those at a social or financial disadvantage - must go up the government's digital agenda in the wake of yesterday's Byron Review.The call for action comes from UK online centres,...

I'm getting calls. Lots of calls. From friends and colleagues who have downloaded and tried to installed Vista Service Pack 1 this week.Microsoft's problems with SP1 are on a scale of BAA's problems with Heathrow Terminal 5, but...

In a hacking contest pitting a Macbook Air laptop loaded with OSX 10.5.2, a Sony Laptop living with Vista Ultimate SP1 inside, or a Linux box running Ubuntu 7.10, the Mac platform was hacked within 2 minutes by one of the...

Hong Kong financial giant and owner of UK Mobile Operator 3 and Superdrug, Li Ka-shing, has upped his personal stake in social networking website Facebook to above USD 100 million. The tycoon invested USD 60 million in Facebook...

It all started in Taiwan... Hynix Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics have hinted that Apple is piling up 32GB (and above) high density NAND flash chips which some have taken as an indication that Apple might be readying new...

According to a number of reputable online websites, software firm Microsoft is readying a free, online version of MS Office Home and Students in response to the growing threat that Google Apps is becoming. Codenamed Albany, it...

AMD formally announced that it has brought to market a few new Phenom-based processors including an intriguing triple-core processor, the first of its kind, known as the X3. It seems that instead of discarding processors with...

Customer+Center, an application for customers to submit and update support/work order tickets; Tech+Center, an application for support staff to track and manage support and work orders; and Business+Center, a CRM tool for the...

A team of scientists at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL have demoed silicon circuits that can be twisted, bended and deformed and still performed like the ordinary type...

Online retailer Play.com is selling two 2GB SD Cards for only £9.99 delivered.With this 2GB SD card Twin Pack you will be able to store more images, ringtones, mp3's and movie clips than ever before.Specifications- Twin...

The Dell Vostro 1700 features a brilliant 17" widescreen display, a full numeric keypad, additional USB ports and high performing graphics options that help to provide you with the versatility and performance that you...

The general trend of smartphones targeted to a wider audience has been reconfirmed by ABI research.They predict that almost one in three handsets will be smartphones by 2013. Pricing has been the issue for both Nokia &...

A database relies upon software to organize the storage of data. In other words, the software models the database structure in what are known as database models (or data models). The model in most common use today is the...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has thrown out a number of cybersquatters from websites which had registered domain names of well known companies, organisations and individuals. In 2007, more than 2100...

O.k., we know that iPod shuffle isn’t exactly something new – after all it was released 16 months ago. But with the release of the 2 GB model last month the price of the 1 GB dropped dramatically, being easily found...