The European Commission set some restrictions on Microsoft's propensity to bundle its Internet Explorer browser with its Operating system. This means that IE8 won't be able to included in the next version of Windows 7 Europe,...

The new cyber crime operations centre to be set at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham has employed a team of so-called naughty boys, white hat or ex-hackers. Lord West who has been appointed as the...

Chinese internet users looking to access Google and many of its services were unable to do so after the Chinese government accused the US company of serious wrongdoings. The BBC reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry...

Apple's App store will house "Hottest Girls" its first adult application ever which introduces full frontal nudity and could prove to be a major revenue generator for the company. More than 2200 pictures of naked ladies are...

Microsoft has announced that it would be significantly cutting the prices of its next generation Windows 7 operating system although Europeans would still have to substantially more than their US counterparts. The fact that...

Gordon Brown, the British Premier, has announced that the Open University will get a massive cash injection from the government to help it expand it role as one of the most innovative UK Universities. Onits 40th anniversary, OU...

The US government is exerting pressure on Chinese authorities to drop a new mandate for all computers to have Internet filtering software, amid concerns that the move could result into censorship.  In a move to push China...

The UK government is to hire a new cyber security tsar who would help safeguarding UK's cyber infrastructure from unauthorised intrusions. On Thursday, the name of the appointee who would take the responsibility as the director...

Hutchinson Whampoa owned 3 has announced that the N97 is now available for pre-order from the company's website and that it will be on sale officially as from tomorrow. Nokia's flagship smartphone will cost £35 per month on...

A computer the size of a power plug and costing only a fraction of a traditional PC has been launched in Europe thanks to Marvell Technologies and its Plug Computing push. Marvell has enlisted the help of Buffalo, LaCie, Seagate...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unleashed a new innovative online service that enables consumers to track their household energy usage and offers handy ways to bring their energy consumption down. The new service, codenamed as...

The privacy regulator for European Union bodies will increase the number of on-the-spot checks of EU bodies and agencies to ensure that they are complying with data protection law, it has said.The European Data Protection...

We will forgive T-Mobile for attempting to hijack the goodwill of the HTC G1 "Dream" by changing the name of the HTC Hero to that of the first Android smartphone. The more we look at the HTC Hero, the more attractive it appears....

Mozilla foundation has announced that it is working on a new technology that could help in tackling the gruesome threat of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, which have been inflicting damages to websites since several...

Mozilla seems to be pressing the accelerator a bit hard to keep up with its promise of launching a completed Firefox 3.5 by the end of the month, with the foundation has already introduced the second release candidate (RC2) for...

The Femto Forum has signalled a new initiative that intends to offer a common applications environment as well as commonly-accepted APIs to let developers create applications compatible with femtocells from distinct vendors, the...