A privacy campaigner has vowed to bring a legal challenge over the launch of Google Street View in the UK. It is understandable that some people are uncomfortable with Google making an enormous photo album of 25 towns and cities,...

Semiconductor company NXP has announced what it calls its first functional ARM Cortex-M0 silicon with mass production expected to debut at the beginning of 2010. The Cortex-M0 is the smallest ARM processor architecture currently...

Up to a quarter of databases currently maintained by the UK Government are illegal and should either be overhauled or scrapped altogether according to a report produced by the influential Joseph Rowntree Reform trust. Amongst the...

Taiwanese manufacturer Acer is about to launch a new version of its popular Aspire One netbook with a much improved set of specifications and upmarket ambitions to go with them. Targeted at professional users, the new Aspire One,...

The list of Google Street View pictures that have been removed continues to grow as the British public learns to live with the controversial online mapping service. The Independent newspaper has already pointed in its Sunday...

Telecommunications giant BT has disclosed the list of the first batch of cities across UK which will have access to fibre-based super-fast broadband from the beginning of 2010. 29 cities - including areas of Belfast, Cardiff,...

Korean manufacturer Samsung is releasing yet another netbook, the NC310, which will surely be remembered for its slightly chubby and rounded profile. According to info extracted by Akihabaranews, the NC310 comes in a number of...

Asus will be launching a new upmarket laptop based on the fold/unfold laptop model, inspired by the origami philosophy, demoed at the recent CeBIT 2009 event in Germany in the second half of 2009. Asus's new CEO Jerry Shen told...

The BBC has uncovered an underworld market where UK credit card details are routinely stolen by Indian call centre workers and sold to criminal gangs. The discovery, made by an undercover BBC News investigation, showed that...

In this podcast, Ben Chai, editor of Learning Technologies magazine and Laura Overton, Director of Towards Maturity, discuss the recent results from the 2009 Towards Maturity survey: - On what companies are spending...

A poll started by irate Facebook users has shown that the overwhelming majority rejected the new layout adopted by the social networking website. At the time of writing, only 6 percent of users who took the poll gave a thumb up...

As part of their crisis management and business continuity planning efforts, many organisations quite rightly consider media communications as an essential element.As a result, they give the directors or senior managers who may...