A construction industry consultant will be prosecuted under the Data Protection Act for running a database of over 3,000 workers which was used by the industry as a 'blacklist' or employees to avoid, the Information...

The Government has shelved plans to allow Government departments to share citizens' personal information with each other and with the private sector. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said that the u-turn was a response to...

A House of Commons Committee has given its seal of approval to the Ministry of Justice's choice to be the new Information Commissioner, clearing the way for the appointment of Christopher Graham to the post.Current Commissioner...

A new report published by Informa Telecoms and Media concludes that sales of Android smartphones are likely to exceed sales of iPhones as early as 2012. The market share of smartphones in general is expected to increase...

Rich Media advertising platform, Mobclix, has released figures that show that the App store has reached nearly 21,000 Apps, out of which roughly 6300 (30 percent) are games. This is roughly 10 times more than the amount of games...

A report compiled by research group Nielsen sheds light on the changing habits of online UK users as they shun email and move to social networking websites like Facebook or Myspace. According to the survey of users' habits...

A Japanese Boffin from the University of Osaka has come up with a novel way of controlling your iPod and could potentially be extended to other electronic devices. The Mimi switch was invented by Kazuhiro Taniguchi and uses...

It seems that Google’s monopoly in the search engine domain is soon to be challenged by a new smart internet search engine, codenamed as “Wolfram Alpha”, developed by a British physicist Stephen...

Barclaycard and Orange have announced that they will be working closely to bring mobile phone payments to a much bigger audience, after some timid trials in the past few years. The deal means that Barclaycard users will be able...

UK ISP Orange has reveealed that it haas started ground tests for a 20Mbps upgrade that will be trialled by 300 customers at first and if successful, could be extended to the rest of its UK user base. However, whether you are...

In a bid to beef-up its offerings online telly addicts, Sky has added six new channels, including a couple of Sky Movies channels, into its inventory of online TV services.  The new six channels that have been included...

Citing the power of the blogging website Twitter in keeping web users abreast about the happenings around, Sky News has appointed a full-time Twitter correspondent, who would fetch the breaking news stories from the...

After months-long speculations and wait, second Android-powered Google handset, “HTC Magic”, is all set to make its debut in UK sometime around next month, the mobile operator Vodafone has announced.  Along the...

It seems that the ongoing credit crunch is taking its toll over the much lucrative external disc storage domains too, with revenues for the fourth-quarter for the worldwide storage software market have plunged by 5.9 percent as...

Telecommunications Watchdog Ofcom has revealed that it will be releasing its first broadband league table, a real life database of how ISPs perform in the United Kingdom. An Ofcom spokesperson told PCPro that they will be...

Another day, another high profile hack; this time, the online website of British UK newspaper Telegraph has apparently been compromised by Romanian whitehat hacking group, Hackersblog. The group, which aims to put online...

In the past there have been many conflicts between the Human Resources and Learning and Development departments due to conflicts in responsibilities.   In this podcast, Ben Chai, editor of Learning Technologies...

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Bring your PC to life with the power of NVIDIA's GeForce 9 architecture at an affordable price with the ZOTAC GeForce 9400 GT.  Packing the power of 16 stream processors, the ZOTAC GeForce 9400 GT delivers high-performance...