The concept of Wireless Electricity or WiTricity is likely to become mainstream within the next few years according to a US based company that is currently building wireless electricity systems that could eventually replace...

Karoo, an internet service provider based in Hull and owned by telecommunications firm Kingston Communications, became the first mainstream ISP in the land to ban suspected illegal file sharers from its network. (Update : The BBC...

Many Twitter users woke up this morning to find out that the number of Twitter followers they have shrunk, with some reporting that all their followers and people they followed had disappeared overnight. Overnight, Twitter had...

Myspace, the social networking website owned by News Corp, is apparently planning to launch its own webmail service later this year; the website already has a vanity URL service, similar to Google's profile and Facebook URL...

The successor to Windows Vista, Windows 7, has officially been reached the "Released to Manufacturing" milestone which means that thousands of manufacturers will start to test and prepare their machines to run on Microsoft's...

A prominent scientist has claimed that a fully functional artificial brain could become a reality within a decade, which would in turn help diagnose and treat a range of mental disorders. Addressing the TED Global Conference in...

The Government will fight the European Commission over UK consumers' right to reject goods, it has said. It said it was 'optimistic' about changing the Commission's mind about its proposed new EU law the Consumer Rights...

Ad-supported mobile advertising start-up MVNO Blyk entered into an exclusive partnership with the mobile network operator Orange, marking that the company is shutting down its direct-to-consumer business by the end of August this...

In a bid to lure small businesses, O2 has unleashed a new service which automatically reroutes incoming landline calls to a mobile phone for a flat monthly charge. The new service, dubbed as “Fixed Number Anywhere”,...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that its earnings as well as profits for the quarter ending June 30 fell sharply amidst slumping demand in global PC and server markets. The company notified that its net profit for the last quarter...

Arqiva, a broadcast and transmission firm, seems all set to enter into the video-on-demand domains with a new deal to snap up the defunct broadband TV project Kangaroo, a technology developed for the planned collaborative venture...

Virgin Media has joined forces with SamKnows to use the latter’s monitoring tool to help its users evaluate the performance of its 50Mbps fibre optic broadband network. SamKnows has managed to build to an impressive...

Acer redefines mobile connectivity with Aspire one, the revolutionary netbook packed with fun and powerful computing features in a diminutive 8.9" form factor. From the moment you switch it on, the Aspire one is ready to go in...