Palm may be down but it is not out. At CES, the company, which in its heydays symbolised the personal digital assistant market is back with a vengeance. More specifically, a new mobile OS and a surprisingly polished...

Consumer magazine Which? advises that hard disk drives should be smashed into pieces using a hammer if you no longer use them. This solution, although quick, is neither easy nor painless especially if you will be opening a...

In a damning report on the state of internet nationwide, Ofcom found that the average UK broadband speeds are significantly less than half the ones advertised by leading UK internet service providers. Most popular broadband...

Microsoft's Chief Executive Office, Steve Ballmer, has announced that the beta version of the company's next flagship operating system, Windows 7, will be available as from tomorrow, Friday, for download (ed: although it is...

Virgin Media and UK's largest commercial broadcaster, ITV PLC, have announced that they have signed a dael that will allow ITV content to be shown on Virgin Media's own video on demand catch-up service. The deal will extend...

UK Consumer Watchdog magazine, Which?, has advised its readers to destroy their hard drives to prevent fraudsters and cybercriminals from stealing their personal information in a bid to stop identity fraud. Computer Which?...

In a move aimed at beefing up its cloud computing offerings, Sun Microsystems has acquired the Belgian based cloud computing software provider Q-layer, for an undisclosed sum.  The privately held Q-layer is known for its...

Nokia has announced that its striking touchscreen smartphone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, is all set to cruise into the UK market on 23rd January.  Popularly referred to as “Tube”, the handset goes on sale from 10am...

A group of UK researchers have found that playing Tetris could prove to be beneficial in dealing with the consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder, or popularly referred to as “PTSD”.  Researchers claimed...

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday presented an all new range of ultra-slim, energy-efficient high-definition televisions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.   Codenamed “Samsung Luxia”, the new range...

It seems that Twitter fell prey to possibly the oldest hacking trick, a brute force based dictionary attack that was used to gain access to an administrator account of the site.  Incidentally members of the online forum...

It is a service of Google that can be customised AJAX-based startpage much like Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, MySurfPad and Windows Live Personalized Experience. It was originally launched in May 2005. Its features include the...

It is an American public corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), and provides Internet services worldwide.The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory,...

It is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65...

It presently refers to a Pocket PC and personal digital assistant first unveiled by Compaq in April 2000; the name was borrowed from Compaq's earlier iPAQ Desktop Personal Computers. Since Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq,...

Easy-Hide-IP secures and anonymizes your internet connections and allows you to: surf any Web sites, instant messenger and chat services, Web-based email services, newsgroups, Web blogs and forums. Your identity is secure,...

The Broadband Download Monitor is a tool that tracks your downloads and alerts you as you get near a limit that you set. If you're thinking of switching broadband packages, you can also use it to measure your usage and see what...

It is a commercially supported, open-source relational database management system. Ingres was first created as a research project at the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the early 1970s and ending in the early...

It is a brand of digital media players and services sold by Microsoft It includes portable media players, Zune Software which includes the Zune Marketplace providing online music, videos, podcast, and channel sections. The...

The Unblock Facebook Proxy App can browze facebook if blocked at work or school. To unblock facebook you just need to run the software & our special facebook proxy software will let you surf the site as you normally would...

In telecommunications, the term gateway has the following meaning: In a communications network, a network node equipped for interfacing with another network that uses different protocols A gateway may contain devices such as...

It also known as integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of...

They operate by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid or molten material (ink) onto almost any sized page. They are the most common type of computer printer for the general consumer[citation needed] due to their low cost,...

It is a suite of applications created by Apple Inc., containing Pages, a word processing and desktop publishing application; Keynote, a presentation package; and Numbers, a spreadsheet application.Although iWork is billed by...