The BBC, with its iPlayer video on demand service, has single-handedly managed to change the way that we view television in just a couple of years. With more than five million unique weekly users - or roughly 8 percent of the UK...

Samsung has announced a new mobile phone called the M5650 Lindy which is the followup to the Genio (or Corby as it is known elsewhere) with some significantly beefed up features. The phone is not currently available in the UK but...

Bskyb is offering six months free broadband, worth £60 to new and existing customers that are going to or have signed up for Sky HD or Sky+ before the 5th of February 2010. The deal is valid for the 20mbps broadband package...

IBM Global Financing, the lending arm of the Big Blue, has announced that it has struck deals with four prominent electronic healthcare record (EHR) organisations. Big Blue will provide them with essential financial assistance to...

Spotify, the popular music streaming service which allows users to listen to songs with virtually no buffering delay for free, has rolled out the list of 2009’s most streamed songs which features the song ‘I Gotta...

Neustar, the company which provides DNS services under the brand name of UltraDNS, suffered an attack on its server which forced several major internet shopping websites to go offline, just two days before Christmas.  The...

In an attempt to make its platform more ‘location aware’, the micro-blogging giant Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs, whose GeoAPI tool will pinpoint the location of people posting messages or ‘tweets’ on...

Telefonica Europe has announced that it has snapped up the telephony and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service provider Jajah for $207 million in cash. Rumours were floating on the blogosphere about the proposed takeover...

The Norwegian consumer group that says that Facebook's terms and conditions break the law has pledged also to take action against Twitter and LinkedIn. The Norwegian Consumer Council told technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that...

Hackers from US and Israel claimed to have broken the copyright shell surrounding Amazon’s popular Kindle e-reader, an exploit that enables e-books stored on it to be transferred as PDF files on to other devices. The hack...

Microsoft Corp. was quick to respond to a court ruling that staves it off from selling some specific versions of its signature Word program, over the allegations that it had violated patents held by a Canadian software firm. The...

Apple could take the wrappers off from its highly awaited tablet-style computer device in an event to be hosted in the end of the next month, sources close to the matter told Financial Times. According to the Newspaper's...

Consumer groups are advocating for a comprehensive probe into the proposed T-Mobile and Orange merger to analyse the impact that it could have on competition in the UK telecommunications market. In a combined missive to the...

Apple expects the next generation iPhone, coined the iPhone 4G, to sell around 45 million units in 2010 according to sources in Taiwan close to manufacturers of CMOS image sensors. According to Taiwanese news outlet Digitimes,...

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