Yesterday, a serious glitch at our email service provider caused some of our email recipients to receive several copies of the same newsletter (Techdealpro).As soon as we found out, we switched off the system and after having...

Apple's iPhone might get only 8 percent of the revenues generated by the mobile handset revenue but its ruthless efficiency is such that the smartphone accounts for a disproportionately high 32 percent of the industry's...

Figures released by App store analytics company, Distimo, show that iPhone users are much more likely to purchase games to play on their smartphones than other "serious" applications.The nine of the top 15 purchased apps for the...

Like a groggy boxer, Twitter is still numb by yesterday's distributed denial of service and the first set of data has emerged as to the extent to which Twitter's service was disrupted. One of the issues encountered by Twitter was...

The number of mobile phone users switching their existing contracts to a SIM only deal surged to 20 percent as the recession caused a significant fall in expensive monthly contracts.Since September 2008, Ofcom noted that as many...

Virtualisation is not a new technology and has existed since the 1960s when IBM pioneered the first ‘full virtualisation’ CP/CMS operating system, providing virtual System/360 computer instances. However, arguably it...

The major topic at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans was Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing OS. It is clear that Microsoft is shifting a majority of resources to support cloud...

A little-known Georgian activist going by the name of Cyxymu could have been the cause of one of the biggest distributed denial of services ever to have struck the Web 2.0 ecosystem.Cnet reports that hackers may have attacked the...

UK Commercial broadcaster ITV sold the ever-shrinking social networking website Friends Reunited to Scottish publisher DC Thomson for £25 million, significantly more than previously thought.Last week, we reported about...

A striking report from the UK media watchdog Ofcom revealed that the lustre of the phenomenon of social networking has been fading away among the UK youths, while the older generation is increasingly logging onto these platforms...

Apple iPhone has received yet another navigation application this week in the guise of a new turn-by-turn sat-nav application, dubbed as “CoPilot Live”, an early iteration of which was unveiled at the CES back in...

In its traditional Patch Tuesday for the month of August, Microsoft will reportedly release security patches for as many as five critical security vulnerabilities plaguing Windows and its other software suites. The critical...

In what seems to be a major shift from its existing PR policy, Apple has surprisingly responded to a wave of complaints over its latest efforts to monitor content it placed on its signature App Store. Responding to the row over...

Twitter has been the victim of a virulent denial of service attack otherwise known as DDoS since early Thursday afternoon (UK time) according to Biz Stone, the co-founder of the popular microblogging website. The coordinated...