Samsung has created a range of monitors which allows users greater freedom and flexibility to create their optimum working environment.  The SM2343NW is one of the best in that range. Elegant and slim, with superior...

Video-sharing site YouTube has blocked access to music videos for UK users over a licensing dispute with publishers. It said that it was being asked to make a loss on every song played, but the publishers' group said negotiations...

UK Newspaper The Guardian has revealed that it will allow selected partners to reuse data and content from its online website for free provided that they carry Guardian's advertising. The Open Platform environment essentially...

The European Union's Data Retention Directive has a sound legal basis because it connects to policing but does not actually cover policing functions, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.Ireland and Slovakia had objected...

The software community has always been a communicative one, and new development approaches have been a regular fixture. Today’s landscape sees agile methodologies very much in vogue - but are these affecting the mainstream,...

Liberal Democrats have tabled an early day motion to look into Google recently-announced Latitude phone tracking technology and will pay particular attention to the "privacy implications" of the service. The early day motion...

I12.com, part of Net Access Ltd (who ever they are), is or was a highly reliable email provider to small businesses. Appearing before 2001 when I first came upon them, they have been providing free email accounts, initially...

Gmail, Google's free email service, went offline earlier today for the second time in a month and for a couple of hours. Gmail suffered a major outage at the end of February when it went down for several hours. Users this...

At the other end of the performance spectrum, there are some heavyweight applications around.  Judging what server resources are needed to meet the end user demand is a daunting task.  Often the designer will take...

Hyundai's MB-910 Phone Watch might not have the same set of features or allure as its rival launched by LG last month, but it could yet pull some impressive sales figures by the end of the year thanks to a more affordable...

Apple is almost certainly going to launch a netbook (or a touchscreen version of the iPod Touch) in the next few months if rumours emerging from China are confirmed. We have already heard that Quanta was expecting to add Sony...

Bruised Giant Microsoft has not yet given up on hopes to snatch a last-minute search deal with Yahoo at some point in the (near future) according to Kevin Turner, the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft. In an interview with...

In this second podcast, with Nigel Harrison, an Independent Chartered Business Psychologist, tells Ben Chai, editor of Learning Technologies magazine how to quickly find the real problems that learning is supposed to...

Google-owned video sharing website YouTube on Monday announced that it will block premium music videos to British users after negotiations with the Performing Right Society (PRS), which collects royalties for music composers and...

UK’s fifth largest broadband service provider, Tiscali, is struggling hard to survive after its most serious buyer, broadcaster BSkyB, pulled out of a proposed deal. Shares in this Italy-based broadband service provider...

The European game developer and trade body TIGA has lodged an official complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over the print ad of the UK government’s contentious ad campaign Change4Life.  The ad...

After pointing finger towards BT’s contentious renewal contracts, Carphone Warehouse’s broadband arm, TalkTalk, in a fresh set of accusations asserted that the planned hike in the amount BT charges other ISPs for...

Sprucing up its offerings for its iPlayer services, BBC announced that it will be adding new high definition (HD) channel to its renowned on-demand video streaming service sometime around next month. Though there has been no...