Next Tuesday is apparently the day when the world will witness the first Android phone straight from HTC's factories and Google has showed the final version of the handset at a Google Developer day in London, for the first time...

The summer floods of 2007 and now 2008 have brought business continuity into sharp focus. In towns and cities up and down the country, businesses found themselves submerged, with invaluable equipment bobbing up and down in water...

When you can't beat competitors (out of frustration), start throwing names at them. This is exactly what ITV executive chairman, Michael Grade did at the IBC broadcast conference in Amsterdam last Friday when he said that online...

The European Union (EU) has proclaimed that it is ratifying the controversial ad revenue sharing deal between Yahoo and Google, which allows Google to feature its advertising programmes on Yahoo's search engine in North America. ...

In its attempt to take on Asus Xonar U1 USB sound card, Creative has rolled out the Sound Blaster X-Fi Go which boasts of an 1GB USB sound stick card.The device is equipped with Creative's X-Fi technology and bundles with a...

In a bold move, 7digital has announced that all four big major music labels have allowed the small Uk online music shop - which is second only to iTunes - to flog their entire catalog of songs as high quality DRM-free MP3 files. ...

The loss of a 4GB Black USB Drive apparently containing sensitive information about terror suspects and terror cells is the latest data-related embarrassment to hit UK's police force. The storage device was lost by an officer...

NEC and Unisys today announced that they have completed development of the first generation of a common platform for both companies' enterprise servers in a bid to cut development time and associated costs. NEC has begun...

Orange today launches its new mobile broadband and laptop offer targeted specifically at the business market. Small and medium business customers can now sign up to a new Orange Business Everywhere mobile broadband package and...

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is arguably one of the most misunderstood terms in the IT industry.Whilst this is probably because the term has been around since the earliest days of computing in the 1960s and 1970s, when...

The Country Land and Business Association says that a report by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) - recommending no government investment in next generation access network - is “seriously...

The inclusion of Firefox 3.0 end-user license agreement (EULA) into the newly launched Intrepid Ibex version of Ubuntu has left the open-source community fuming. Initially, the Firefox EULA pop-up was reported as a bug by...

Professional social networking website LinkedIn has launched an advertising network that will facilitate its partner publishers to reach its huge chunk of members across the net. The website has created the “LinkedIn...

HTC has unleashed new additions to its Touch series touchscreen smartphones in the guise of HTC Touch 3G, HTC Touch HD and HTC Touch Viva. Among the new offerings the HTC Touch HD steals the show with a 3.8-inch HD touchscreen...

Best Buy has had a busy 2008. After having struck a GBP 1 billion deal with Carphone Warehouse earlier in May, it has now announced the purchase of controversial P2P pioneer Napster for USD 121 million, a 85 percent premium based...

Green initiatives have moved from something to talk about to the point where project plans are being created. In most cases, plans are elaborate and will take months, if not years, to implement. If traditional NAS systems are not...

HP, The world's biggest computer manufacturer, said yesterday that it would be reducing its workforce by nearly 25,000 over the next three years as it tries to assimilate the 145,000 or so employees from Electronic Data Systems...

Gary Warner wanted to find out and has now posted the Mother of all Lists of (almost) all Intercage domains From Gary: “The domains listed … all came from the sites above, but it is not an entirely complete...

It is often called storage or memory, refers to computer components, devices, and recording media that retain digital data used for computing for some interval of time. Computer data storage provides one of the core functions of...

Employers are required to understand employees with Dyslexia – what is the practical approach? Dyslexia is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act which requires organisations to have a Disability Equality Scheme in...

It is the logical name for a computer smaller than the microcomputer, which is smaller than the minicomputer. (The minicomputer is called "mini" because it was a lot smaller than the original (mainframe) computers.)...

It is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometres (10-9 metres). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the still largely hypothetical nanotechnology engineering...

Computers have hardware support to efficiently execute multiple threads. These are distinguished from multiprocessing systems (such as multi-core systems) in that the threads must all operate in the same address space, as there...

New independent research, commissioned by fifty of the UK’s leading call centres, as part of The Top 50 Call Centre initiative, sponsored by Siemens, shows that 93% of their customers get through to the call centre on their...

When a customer contacts an organisation via any channel such as by telephone, email or letter, the CSA (customer service agent) needs to have instant access to the full history of previous contacts in and out, and information on...

Now here's a story that will have your morals churning somewhat: it seems that three teenagers - aged between 16 and 19 - have been arrested in Hong Kong in connection with an allegedly violent mobile phone sex video that has...

It's official - identity thieves are getting smarter, as reports from the US suggest that identity fraudsters are using phone records to assist them in gathering personal information.In what experts are calling...