CES 2010 has only just got underway in Las Vegas, but the most bizarre news from the massive consumer electronics show is already here: Polaroid has signed a multi-year partnership with Lady Gaga in which the singer becomes...

Saygus has been showing off its Android-based Vphone platform since November, so I was eager to get my hands on it to check out its noted two-way video chat capability. The CEA even gave the company an award for its innovation in...

Call me hopeful that Google's announcement of Nexus One Tuesday helps it positively influence the evolution of an open, innovative wireless market. Call me similarly hopeful that Google's move into hardware -- a bold decision...

Just a day before Barnes and Noble launched its Nook e-reader, a heretofore unheard of company called Spring Design sent out a mass-mail press release which showed its own dual-screen, Android-based e-reader called "Alex." Like...

Syabas Technology scored a minor hit with its Popcorn Hour streaming set top box, but it didn't grab as big of an audience as Roku did with its $99 Netflix streamer, nor did it become quite a geek favorite like Boxee. So this...

The trifecta that was Apple's iPhone introduction in January 2007 was on account of the successful introduction of a software platform and a truly revolutionary device, coupled with a massive surge in the functionality of iTunes...

The Nexus One might have just been released but O2 has had a secret weapon ready to face it; the iPhone 3G can be had SIM Free and legally unlocked, direct from O2, for as little as £364. How to get this is quite...

The hope of small processor manufacturers like ARM, and connectivity platform makers like Qualcomm, is to carve a space for themselves in the price/performance spectrum someplace in-between the smartphone and the netbook, in an...

As expected, Google has unveiled its first smartphone, the Nexus One which it calls a super smartphone, during a press event held in Mountain View, at Google's Headquarters. The phone is already available for sale on Google's...

Jon Stephenson Von Tetzchner, the CEO and co-founder of Opera Software, has stepped down from his position in the company but has agreed to stay as a strategic consultant. Born on August 29, 1967 in Reykjavík, Iceland, Von...

Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch, the convict who escaped from Hollesley Bay prison near Suffolk in England, instead of keeping a low profile, had started taunting the police via his Facebook profile in an attempt to draw media...

Skype, the popular VoIP software application owned by eBay, has rolled out the latest version of Skype for Windows that will allow users to make 720p HD-quality video calls at 1280x720 pixels. The Skype Beta 4.0 for Windows will...

Apple Inc., the Cupertino based consumer electronics company has acquired the wireless advertisement service provide Quattro for $275 million, a New York Times owned technology blog has reported. The blog, ‘All Things...

The New Year’s Honours roll for the Queen isn’t just filled with the military personnel and eminent names in the business sphere, but some of the prominent figures from the gaming industry too have paved their way...

The world does not run on gadgets. Consumers purchase gadgets as investments in the functionality that they provide. Gadgets are handles to their underlying platforms. Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show is a gauge of the...

GOOGLE'S CHROME has knocked  Apple's Safari browser into fourth spot in the battle of the browsers, just 16 months after its debut. California based web statistics firm Net Applications revealed that Google Chrome now...

Google is said to be a few hours away from launching its first consumer hardware, an Android-based smartphone called Nexus One, ahead of the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CES 2010 officially starts on...

Taiwanese tech giant Via has announced the first USB 3.0 hub controller which will allow four so-called Superspeed devices to be used simultaneously. The Via VL810 is the industry's first integrated single chip which supports the...

Intel's spruced up Atom processors are tipping up in systems from all the major OEMs this week. The newest Intel Atom platform for netbooks consists of a new Intel Atom processor, the N450, and a new low-power...

Software hegemony Microsoft has announced retail pricing for its latest iteration of the Office suite of productivity applications. And it would seem that Microsoft's response to the flood of Open Source alternatives to the...

Apple has announced that the Itunes App Store has served more than three billion pieces of Iphone and Ipod Touch software. The service, which was launched in July 2008, hit the one billion apps milestone in April 2009 and clocked...

Flixster, the social movie website, has acquired the popular movie review service, Rotten Tomatoes, which was previously owned by the IGN division of News Corp.  Flixster is a user generated movie review site which allows...

In a rather baffling move that could hit hard on the psyche of obese singles, an online dating website, BeautifulPeople.com, has kicked off a whopping 5,000 “festive fatties” from its network. The website claimed to...

Music industry scapegoat Joel Tenenbaum has filed a Motion for a New Trial to Judge Nancy Gertner, the same judge who presided over the original trial, in an attempt to get a reduction in the original $22,000 per song fine. The...

Palm has announced that it will be unveiling its European e-commerce developer programme for its signature Palm Pre WebOS application sometime in March this year. The move indicates that Palm Pre users in the UK, as well as in...

EMC Corporation, the Massachusetts based information technology infrastructure, software and storage services provider has announced its acquisition of the privately held IT governance and compliance software services provider...

The creator of the popular Twitter client for desktops and Windows, Seesmic, has acquired Ping.fm, a popular status update service that allows users to update their status on almost 50 social networking sites at...

Nokia's mobile phone unit head honcho, Rick Simonson, told The Economic Times of India that the Finnish giant is hoping to sell well over 500 million mobile phones in 2010, which would represent two in every five handsets sold...

In an apparent bid to lure the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) still using earlier iterations of Windows and Office suites, Microsoft Corp. has started the New Year with some significant discounts on Windows 7...

Apple has responded to a patent claim against it with a counter-attack, accusing mobile phone maker Nokia of violating 13 of its patents. The counter-suit pits two of the device industry's biggest names against each other in a...

In a shocking piece of news, it has been revealed that the Intel Compiler, which is widely used in creating most computer programs, deliberately slows down the performance of non-Intel processors like AMD and VIA CPUs. This...

Paul Hewson aka Bono, the frontman of the world famous Irish rock band, U2, has taken a break from saving the planet and has lashed out at internet piracy which has crippled the world music industry in the past couple of...

It seems that Yahoo Inc. is continuing with its drive of reshaping and restructuring its business strategy, which includes pulling shutters down on some of its services, like Geocities, to trim down its costs. This come amidst of...

RealNetworks, the Seattle based software company behind the popular Real Player music application, has acquired mobile start-up Varia Mobile, indicating that the software maker may be planning to develop cloud-based desktop and...

Microsoft Corp. is prepping the first service pack, better known as “SP1”, for its new operating system, Windows 7, according to a report from a prominent Windows blogger. Rafael Rivera has quoted some registry codes...

Facebook announced on Monday that it has forbidden a popular online portal that helps users delete their social networking profiles without taking too much of pain. In a move that could presumably create problems for users...

The next decade is going to witness considerable changes in the way businesses operate. Those who succeed will make the best use of both in house and specialist external knowledge using a combination of traditional workflow...

Cloud Computing Congress Europe http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com   16th March 2010 Venue - Olympia, Earls Court, London Organiser - Six Degrees Events, Bristol The Cloud Computing Congress examines the latest...

Enterprise Social Media Europe– http://www.enterprisesocialmedia.net 15th March 2010 Venue - Olympia, Earls Court, London Organiser - Six Degrees Events, Bristol Enterprise Social Media provides the ideal platform...