Figures published by online research firm Nielsen Online show that social networking behemoth Facebook has more than doubled in size during the last 12 months, further widening the gap with the likes of Myspace and...

A report compiled by a leading independent political research charity shows that members of parliament see the web more as a tool to communicate with their constituents than a medium to share ideas and interact with them. The...

The Government has promised to train more of its technology staff to use open source software in a bid to increase the use of open source in the public sector. It will also include in contracts the stipulation that software can...

British Justice Secretary Jack Straw, is facing embarrassment after it has been revealed that computers used in his offices back in Blackburn had been hacked into and his Hotmail details stolen. Straw revealed that online...

Just hours after the Google’s famed email service, Gmail, experienced a severe outage, a new phishing scam has reportedly hit Google Talk, the instant message service embedded in the Gmail application.  Users who have...

[Note from the Content Editor: Shortly after the publication of this article, we were contacted by a spokesperson from Virgin Media who provided further details on the situation. In addition, a number of financial analysts...

You can't download it yet but Microsoft's new browser prototype, called Gazelle, could well be the software giant's answer to both Google domination and hackers' threat. A paper, entitled The Multi-Principal OS Construction of...

Panasonic is testing HD waters with the release of the DMR-BS850, UK's first (and only) Blu-ray recorder that features twin Freesat receivers and an integrated hard disk drive. The 850 model is accompanied by a lower-specced...

After Mozilla and Opera, Google has also joined the chorus of voices seeking to extend a helping hand to the European Commission in its investigation against Microsoft over the charges of anti-competitive behaviour.  The...

It seems that the UK Government has finally acknowledged the benefits of open source software applications in bringing the IT operation costs down, with the Minister for Digital Engagement Tom Watson releasing a significant...

Google officially apologised to its Gmail users and posted an explanation on the mail service's blog detailing what caused Gmail to stop working on Tuesday 24th. Acacio Cruz, Gmail Site Reliability Manager, said that the...

The UK Government has pushed live an online discussion forum at digitalbritainforum.org.uk in a bid to foster debate about its recently released Digital Britain report, which primarily aims at propelling UK’s growth as...

Dell has been bucking the market trend by selling a higher than usual percentage of its popular Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks with the Ubuntu OS rather than Windows XP Home with 33 percent of Netbooks equipped with Linux. The...