Over in Ireland, they have a back-up plan in case an aircraft's radio goes down? They use a mobile phone instead. To text message the pilot and guide him/her in.That's not as crazy as it first sounds, as Kerry and Cork air...

Stayed over in the Holiday Inn in Runcorn last night and, whilst I got an excellent value for money room by booking ages in advance - thus saving me having to put up with Travelodge (even if Lenny Henry seems to love the chain) -...

Intel, The hardware partner of the the famed and feared Wintel alliance, has acquired Opened hand, a UK based mobile Linux developer which will now be joining Intel's Open Source Technology Center and help Intel focus on...

Strategic Service Management is the “must attend” pan European pan industries event for After Sales Support Organisations in 2008. The conference is dedicated to offering you both strategic and tactical support:...

Communications Watchdog Ofcom will allow UK mobile phone users to have a say in where the mobile industry should be heading in a consultation that aims at capturing "different points of view". The campaign will be...

Closeup pictures of T-Mobile's Android Dream G1 Smartphone, manufactured by HTC, have surfaced on a little-known Chinese website before being replicated on other news outlets worldwide. Taiwanese-based website iMobile has...

Adobe has announced the launch of its popular Photoshop package for the Windows Mobile platform which will allow happy snappers to send their photos straight to their favourite locations online quicker than ever before. In...

Fujitsu Siemens is the latest computer manufacturer to join in the Netbook market with yet another cloned netbook called the Amilo Mini Ui 3520. In what is worryingly starting to look like an army of look-alikes, Fujitsu...

Software giant Microsoft looks set to release a rival to Apple's iPhone and iTouch App Store as well as Google's forthcoming Android Market, under the moniker "Skymarket". Skymarket would do what only Apple has...

The Federation Against Software Theft (Federation or FAST) and Investors in Software (IiS), two of the most respected, independent names in the UK software industry, have joined forces to strengthen and clarify the advice given...

Epson has rolled out its all new series of High Definition (HD), easy to install home cinema projectors, at the ongoing IFA fair in Berlin. The new EH-DM2 projector from the house of Epson, primarily aims to impress movie and...

BBC investigation team has exposed an imminent cyber attack on the check-out systems in UK supermarkets, which would involve using compromised credit and debit cards of US based bank accounts, to make illicit purchases across UK....

After stealing the show with arguably the world’s slimmest laptop ever, Samsung X360, the Korean giant is ready to rock the MP3 player segment, with its all new ‘YP-Q1’ MP3 player, at the 2008 IFA fair in...

In the ongoing Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) fair in Berlin, MiTAC has introduced its new MiTAC Station that is said to be fully loaded to attract a major chunk of netbook users. Flaunting a 8.9-inch screen display, the...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has finally approved the much awaited roaming Wi-Fi standard, IEEE 802.11r, which primarily aims to allow the Wi-Fi enabled devices to roam amid the WLAN access points....

According to The Register and several other news-boards, Sony Ericsson has delayed the launch of the Xperia X1 again.  Since its launch the Xperia was supposed to launch in September then it was delayed until 2009, back to...

IP’08 is about the delivery of converged networks and next generation IT infrastructure for the enterprise. The event is designed for the CIO and their team looking at deploying and managing an agile infrastructure in the...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that may well be the case, after all, ask anyone on the high street what they know and think about data centres, you would most likely get a blank face in response. Well, that may not...