Channel 4 and Talktalk have confirmed that they will be investing more than £16 million each in the IPTV venture known as Project Canvas and will become the fifth and sixth partners enlisted by the BBC. The corporation,...

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer and arch rival to a number of companies including Nvidia, AMD and others, has been sued by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which considers that it has been acting in an...

Google has filed to trademark the term "Nexus one" even if it doesn't own the domain name; the paperwork for the term was filed on the 10th of December although one could also argue that it could just be a decoy and that Google...

A video of the first audition of Susan Boyle, the lady who was discovered during the Britain's Got Talent show last year, has been named the most watched clip on video website Youtube. It managed to pull more than 120 million...

European Union regulators have officially dropped the antitrust case against Microsoft, which was said to be in breach of European antitrust laws by not providing the users of its Windows operating system with an option to choose...

Microsoft has rolled out the much awaited Bing search engine application for iPhone and iPod Touch which was earlier available only on Windows mobile and Blackberry devices.  The app, which is available free of cost from the...

A new report by Gartner has predicted that mobile phone sales, which have seen a global decline of 0.67 per cent according to the report, will make a comeback in the 2010 amidst shorter model replacement cycles and growing...

Google is apparently considering making part of Youtube's audience pay to access exclusive content provided by third party providers as its ad revenue splitting model faces new challenges in 2010. David Eun, Vice president of...

The Teletext information service has been discontinued from British television a month earlier than its scheduled closure in January 2010.  Teletext, which has been in service since the past 35 years, has apparently been...

Recent studies by Gartner and IDC have been revealed that market for virtualisation software has shrunk significantly this year which might come as a surprise to many given all the momentum gained by this particular...

Citrix, the US-based software manufacturer, has rolled out a brand new disaster recovery software which is based on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation technology and will facilitate a simplified and speedy data recovery...

On Tuesday, Google visitors were greeted by a very questionable search results page when they clicked on the Doodle art work honoring Esperanto creator L. L. Zamenhof that was displayed on the search engine's homepage. The search...

Apps have been a very popular technology for 2009. From a security point of view application firewalling is proving to be very important as businesses need to be able to control what employees are doing within applications such...

Virgin Media become the latest provider to attempt to lasso all your social networking needs and coral them within its own brand application, according to Mobile News. Get Social is their new product, and it follows follows the...

German data protection authorities are investigating whether Google's web traffic measurement system Google Analytics routinely infringes privacy laws, according to a German newspaper report. Zeit reports that several regional...

Major electronic companies like Best Buy, Samsung, JVC and Westinghouse have been dragged into a lawsuit filed by the Software Freedom Law Center on behalf of Software Freedom Conservancy in Federal court in New York on grounds...

Supporters of Gary McKinnon, the Glasgow-born hacker who is accused of hacking into US military networks in 2001, after protesting outside the Home Office, have delivered a letter to the Buckingham Palace which is directly...

TalkTalk, one of UK’s leading telecom and broadband company, has undertaken a wacky publicity campaign that involves buying ‘naming rights’ for peoples’ homes and changing it into TalkTalk Towers, TalkTalk...

Software giant Microsoft has apologised to Plurk, the Asia-based micro-blogging website and has admitted that the third party developer which had created MSN Juku had indeed copied some of the design code from Plurk.   On...

In what could serve as an alarming signal to US parents, a recent survey has revealed that around fifteen percent of the US teenagers, aged between 12 and 17 and own mobile phones, have received sexually suggestive or nude images...

After China, Australia seems likely to bring upon a stringent legislation to filter the internet, banning access to a slew of websites allegedly containing criminal content, from sometime in the middle of the next year, it has...

RockYou, the website which provides widgets and applications for some of the major social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo has come under attack from hackers who have managed to retrieve more than 32 million...

The overwhelming majority of today's software installation routines is done without ever touching a physical media like a DVD or a CDROM, so much so that the number of devices actually shipped without an optical drive appears to...

Renowned business author Steven Covey has penned a landmark deal with Amazon.com, giving online retailing giant exclusive selling rights over his many e-books for at least a year. The retailing website has announced that the...

Motorola, the US-based mobile phone manufacturer, has set in motion plans to roll out its very own app store for its range of Android mobile phones in an attempt to tap into the lucrative mobile app market by providing quality...

US-based Cherrypal has presented a new mini laptop called the Africa which was apparently designed with developing countries in mind and has a price tag to match it, at $99 per unit. The device, whose description is small, slow...

In a surprising twist, Apple has approved a video recording application called the iVideoCamera for the iPhone 2G and 3G, both models that were devoid of this feature which was, until now, one of the selling points of the new...