When Oracle made the announcement that it will purchase Sun Microsystems, it said in its press release that the combination is a natural evolution of their relationship and will be an industry-defining event. Oracle purchased Sun...

Software powerhouse Adobe is planning to take over your lounge by bringing its ubiquitous multimedia platform, Flash, to televisions, set-top boxes, optical players and every major content distribution device. Adobe is already...

ASUS uses AMD 790GX chipset to keep AM2+ platform in the gameLast September, PC Perspective’s own Josh Walrath wrote a comprehensive article on AMD’s 790GX chipset and outlined numerous feature available with this...

Viral marketing which relies on people to hand over friends' contact details can be legal but only if certain conditions are met, Dutch authorities have ruled. Companies must be careful not to break telecoms and data protection...

Internet World is Europe's longest running, best attended and biggest event for digital marketing and online business, attracting over 13,000 visitors and more than 300 exhibitors. Now in its 17th year, Internet World features...

Trying to get rid of The Pirate Bay is only another step in the long battle between the movie and music industries and the millions of internet users who flout the law by downloading content illegally. This giant whack-a-mole...

Whilst I may berate the US networks for the less than scintillating range of handsets being flogged out on 24 months contracts (ball and chain?) they are creating some seriously good apps. For the iPhone anyway. The Wall Street...

Database giant Oracle Corporation has agreed to purchase Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion or roughly $9.50 per share. The sum represents a 14 percent premium on the $6.5 billion offer that IBM reportedly put on the table for the...

Telecom giant BT has announced that it will be partnering with Coffee Shop chain Starbucks to provide with BT Openzone Hotspot services to all its 678 outlets from today. Importantly, all O2 customers with Apple iPhones will be...

A majority of UK consumers believe that the ongoing economic crunch will increase their vulnerability to falling victim of identity theft and other related crimes, according to a recent report from the technology company...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation has spruced up the offerings of its XO laptop that will see a faster processor as well as the feature to play HD video. The OLPC is bringing a notable overhaul to its erstwhile XO-1...

Ask.com has reintroduced its butler, Jeeves, to internet users again, three years after the iconic figure was irreverently removed from the search engine's name and front page in 2006. Jeeves, which rival Google still associates...

Inching closer to the final release of Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed as “Jaunty Jackalope”, the Ubuntu development team has come up with the release candidate (RC) for the upcoming operating system.  The Ubuntu team...

Vodafone's website now says that the second Android smartphone, known as the HTC Magic, will be available for sale on the 5th of May, nearly three weeks after it was originally scheduled to be launch.The successor of the HTC G1...

A web application development firm has reportedly hired the teenager who was responsible for inflicting damages on the micro-blogging website Twitter by launching various different worms over the last weekend. Michael...

Microsoft seems all set to “launch” its Windows Mobile 6.5 platform at the upcoming TechEd 2009 event, according to a blog post on the Microsoft Developer Network. The event, which runs from 11 May through 15 May,...

Apple’s iPod Touch is turning out to be the product of choice to help US military personnel to interact effectively with other soldiers and intelligence resources in this era of “networked warfare”, a recent...

Researchers have pointed out the emergence of what could be referred to as the world’s first ever Mac OS X botnet, which inflicts infected systems to trigger denial of service attacks.  Alfredo Pesoli and Mario...