The Onkyo TX-SR607 7.2 home cinema receiver raises the bar once again in the competitive world of mid-range home theatre. With HDMI 1.3a inputs for up to six components, it's ready to handle all your high-definition video and...

A report by hardware analysis firm iSuppli found out that that bill of materials (BoM), that is the total cost of components, of the Google Nexus One is roughly $174. The smartphone, which was released last week, costs $529...

Google Inc., the California based search engine giant, has agreed to remove the literary works of Chinese authors uploaded on its Google Books database following protests from a group of Chinese authors. Google, which is right...

Yahoo Inc, Hewlett-Packard, Alcatel Lucent and International Business Machines are among the 14 companies that will have a share in the $20 million grant awarded by the United States Department of Energy for developing...

While new Atom-based Windows netbooks did show up at CES 2010, the Wintel mobile PC platform so omnipresent only a year ago, got way overshadowed this time around in a blitz of announcements around Linux-based smartbooks,...

During a Thursday financial analysts' conference at CES 2010, whose transcript has recently been released by Microsoft (DOCX available here), Microsoft Entertainment & Devices division president Robbie Bach painted a...

International Business Machines, the US based information technology giant, has announced that its financial services arm, IBM Global Financing, has signed a deal with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to provide factoring services to...

Microsoft, the Redmond based software giant, has filed a petition with the United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for a second reviewing of the ruling made against the company on charges of infringement of patents held by...

Global IT services giant, IBM, has voiced the company’s intentions of hiring 5000 people in India in order to expand its BPO operations in the country, according to an article in the Economic Times of India.  The...

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the popular social networking site Facebook, claimed that privacy was no longer a ‘social norm’ and most people using social media services had no ‘expectation of...

The UK government has announced plans to revive the Home Access Scheme, which will see a nation wide rollout of free laptops and broadband internet connections to pupils from poorer backgrounds, with the intention of...

Mozilla, the foundation behind the immensely popular web browser Firefox, has rolled out the Release Candidate version of Firefox 3.6, indicating that a final version of the RC is in the pipelines.  The official announcement...

The best video from this year's CES gadget-fest in the desert was, without doubt, BBC tech hack Dan Simmons answering a challenge from Sonim CEO Bob Somefinkorother to test his indestructible mobile phone. Simmons does what...

Insecurity outfit Symantec today released the findings of its 2010 State of the Data Center study. Now in its third year, the study found that mid-sized enterprises (2,000 to 9,999 employees) are more likely to adopt...

Online bank First Tech Credit Union has blown the whistle on a malicious Android application which tried to steal account details from its customers. A warning on the Android Marketplace said "Users of mobile devices with Android...

A £300 million scheme to put laptop computers into the hands of some of the UK's most underprivileged pupils has started to roll out according to the BBC. 270,000 families in England will benefit from the scheme which was...

MagicJack has announced in the Consumer Electronic Show that the company is rolling out an inexpensive device that will allow any GSM phone to make VoIP calls across the US and Canada.  This comes after the company introduce...

A group calling themselves the Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees has written a damning open letter to the company's bosses claiming that overworked coders are becoming suicidal because of illegal working...

Thousands of Chinese-made Acer notebooks are being recalled in the US because of a tendency to melt. Around 22,000 Acer Aspire-series notebooks have an internal microphone wire under the palm rest that can can short circuit and...

HTC's Smart was first uncovered at CES 2010 last week by our content partner Betanews (link) and the phone has now been officially announced by Taiwanese company HTC. Interestingly, it comes with Qualcomm's own Brew OS, which is...

Some have suggested that Google should buy a mobile network operator like T-Mobile but we think that following the launch of Nexus One, Google should instead acquire a mobile phone operator and more specifically its...

A student in China who said his studies went downhill after he discovered Internet porn has been awarded 10,000 yuan (around £908) for helping the government track down on-line purveyors of filth. The unidentified...

When Apple announced that Flash support for the Iphone was coming soon, many assumed that the work that went into getting Flash to support the app phone's multitouch interface wouldn't be wasted, and would find its way into...

Californian chip shop Marvell today announced what it says is the world's first quad core processor for applications using the ARM instruction set. Based on the same CPU architecture as the Marvell ARMADA 500 and 600 processor...

The Nexus One has only been launched a few days ago in the US (not yet in the rest of the world) but we are already looking ahead for the Nexus Two - assuming that Google will stick to the Nexus moniker after the Dick family...

The European Commission has dropped its competition law case against Microsoft over its browser software and accepted the company's solution of offering Microsoft Windows users a screen through which they can choose non-Microsoft...

Miffed Microsoft, having been forced to stop flogging some versions of Word because it was found to infringe patents, wants the US Court of Appeals to reconsider its long-running dispute with i4i systems. Last month, the US Court...

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced the specifications for the Displayport 1.2 standard. DP 1.2 offers twice the data rate of the previous iteration allowing high performance 3D, higher resolutions...

Somehow, we missed this one last Friday; hardware mammoth HP demoed a small device that looked like a netbook, is likely to cost less than one and will certainly have more features than any of those Intel-based micro-laptops...

Graphics chip outfit Nvidia decided to launch a version of its graphics chip, Tegra, for tablets computers at CES this week. Quite why the industry has gone tablet bananas is beyond us. Hype won't fill a vacuum. Tegra actually...