This featured article was written by Simon Shaw, strategy consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Ltd. There has long been a disconnect between on-the-ground IT staff and board level management.  This is often because...

Satnav specialist Tomtom has finally released a dedicated car kit for the iPhone although potential customers will have to fork out a pocket busting £100 to get the peripheral and that doesn't even include the price of the...

Korean phone manufacturer LG has announced the release of the LG GW300 which looks a lot like a RIM Blackberry candybar smartphone but with a snazzier, less conservative look and with more buttons. Keyboards are back with a...

Whether if you are a student or if there is a student in your family, then you may be eligible to buy Microsoft products and therefore purchase Windows 7 Ultimate operating system when it is launched on the 22nd of October. This...

Gmail, the world's third largest email provider and owned by Google, has been hit on Thursday afternoon by a massive outage that left many users without email access for a couple of hours. Google has yet to apologise officially...

O2 might be launching Palm's smartphone, the Pre, in three weeks time but this hasn't prevented the beleaguered handset manufacturer from raising $360 million in a public stock offering. Although this caused the company's shares...

Press organisations around the world have been printing the shocking findings of the Ponemon Institute where it was found that 79% of online businesses have suffered a data breach of some form (think customer credit card loss)...

In a move similar to what the Microsoft is doing with the 250GB Xbox 360, Sony has confirmed that it will be launching a more expensive 250GB version of its Playstation 3 gaming console but only as part of a bundle. The...

Microsoft has launched a new video tutorial, conveying people how to host parties to mark the launch of its new operating system Windows 7. It shows four party organisers talking about how to host perfect party to celebrate the...

Yet another UK company has fallen victim to poor data protection measures, and subsequently splurged private account details of its thousands of customers, it has been reported. This time the culprit was an internet service...

While the government has declared to impose a new ‘broadband tax’ to fund next-generation broadband roll out, BT has announced its plans to double the coverage of its fast copper broadband network by 2011. The telecom...

The European Commission will conduct a consultation on how best to operate a digital library of Europe's scanned-in books. Unlike Google's controversial digitisation programme, the EU's existing digital library does not scan in...

A majority of IT managers in the UK called for enhancing IT skills of workforce rather than revamping technology infrastructure to pull the country out of the clutches of the prevailing economy crunch, a recent survey...

When the world's largest mobile phone network launches a platform, everybody notices but the launch of Vodafone 360 has been met not with skepticism but rather with a number of questions.Vodafone can be credited with a number of...