Ronan Dunne, O2’s head honcho, has apologised to users who were unable to make phone calls in London, in recent months, owing to O2’s mobile network been overloaded with people using smartphones.  Dunne told...

The British government’s plans for providing fast broadband internet connection to each and every British household by 2012 have run into a major roadblock. Britain's telecom giant, BT, has threatened to take legal action...

Security expert and researcher Soroush Dalili has warned of a new zero day vulnerability in Microsoft’s highly popular Internet Information Service (IIS) web server which could allow hackers to pass through the security...

Mozilla, the company behind the open source web browser Firefox, has announced that Firefox 3.6, which was expected to be launched in 2009, will be rolled out sometime in 2010 while the much awaited Firefox 4.0 upgrade has also...

If a report on the Chinese tech site, Netease, is to be believed then the emerging eBook reader market is about to see a new entrant in the form of Lenovo, the world's fourth largest seller of personal computers. The tech site...

Google is being sued by Chinese author Mian Mian, who has accused it of scanning her book, Acid House, without her permission and listing it on its Google Books library.  In the copyright infringement lawsuit, which was...

According to a Digitimes report, Nvidia"s next generation Directx 11 (DX11) support graphic processing unit (GPU), Fermi, which was unveiled back in September, has been pushed back for a March 2010 release after the company...

Research in Motion's highly anticipated smartphone offering, BlackBerry Tour2, has been previewed weeks before its speculated release early next year in the US market.  The phone was previewed by the popular tech site...

A freelance Japanese technology writer Hiroshige Goto has reported that Intel, the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductor chips, has approached Nintendo, the Kyoto-based video game company with a proposal to use its...

Fuelling the current wave of rumors surrounding the Apple Tablet, MacRumors.com has reported that, back in 2007, Apple had registered a domain name called "iSlate.com" which incidentally is one of the speculated names of the...

Software giant Microsoft has issued a new patent covenant in which the company has pledged not to sue the users of third party distributions of the Moonlight 2 plug-in which will allow users to access videos, applications and...

Search engine giant Google has confirmed in a blog post that its acquisition deal with Admob, a mobile advertisement platform, is being carefully reviewed by the United States Federal Trade Commission. The watchdog has made a...

Last summer, in a move which surprised many iPhone users and iPhone developers alike, Apple banned Google Voice apps like GV Mobile and VoiceCentral from its App Store which lead to a Federal Communications Commission...

US President Barack Obama has appointed Howard A. Schmidt as America's first cybersecurity coordinator who has earlier served as network security advisor to former US President George W. Bush.  The announcement comes seven...

Apple's stock gained $6.94 or 3.4 percent on Christmas Eve, closing at a record high of $209.04, $2.04 higher than the previous closing high of $207 on November 17th.   The share price saw a phenomenal increase based on the...

HDMI Licensing, the body which licenses HDMI specifications has announced that it will add 3D support to the HDMI 1.4 specifications which will allow consumers to watch 3D movies and play 3D video games on their High Definition...

A newspaper publisher was not liable for user comments posted after an online article and will not have to pay out libel damages, the High Court has ruled. The Court upheld the publisher's right under the E-Commerce Regulations...

Comcast Corporation, the largest internet services and cable TV provider in the United States, has settled the class action suit filed against it for delaying data transfers of large music and movie files despite promising an...

AndroidSpin, an Android focused news site, has reported that the very first Android based smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, will be getting an over-the-air update. This will upgrade its software with Android 2.0 or possibly Android...

Apple Inc., the California based electronics giant, has awarded its CEO, Steve Jobs, his customary salary of US$1 in the year 2009, while hiking the salaries of some of the company’s top executives as many of the board...

Following the announcement by the British Government of plans to tackle illegal music, software and file sharing over the internet via the Digital Economy Bill, several major UK Internet Service Providers (ISP) have warned that...

A report on the technology blog Barron's has pointed out that some of the big players in the data storage domain could be looking forward to acquire data storage firm 3PAR Inc., primarily owing to the company’s focus on...

Amazon.com has announced that its Kindle ebook reader, which was first launched in 2007, has become the most gifted item on the website as of December 2009 while the number of digital books sold for the ebook reader has exceeded...

Google Inc., the corporation behind the world's most popular search engine, had revealed the Chrome operating system last month amidst much fanfare and speculations about a possible netbook based on the operating system popularly...

A German cryptographer and computer engineer has claimed to have decrypted and published the code employed to protect world’s GSM phone calls from unauthorised snooping. Karsten Nohl, 28, has deciphered the 21-year-old GSM...

A Japanese website is reporting that the consumer electronics giant Sony is apparently working on the next generation ‘PlayStation 4’ game console, despite the company’s claims that the existing PS3 has a life...

Apple is looking forward to expand its iWork app, which has been tailored to help users to publish their documents online, into a full-fledged web app. The electronics giant, in a job description published this month, has posted...