Award winning game Modern Warefare 2 has taken in excess of $1bn or £625m in global revenues according to its publisher, Activision and is the latter's third "billion plus" franchise after Guitar Hero and World of...

In a blog post entitled "A new approach to China", the Chief Legal Officer of search engine giant Google, David Drummond, has revealed that the company has decided to stop censoring search results in China, a decision...

Virtual sex has come top of a poll of technologies gamers had hoped would be available by 2010.   Personal jet packs came in second, followed by time travel, laser pistols and Artificial Intelligence computers.   Game...

Game publisher Activision says its hit game COD Modern Warfare 2 has chalked up sales of over $1billion (625 million quid in real money). The first-person shooter went on sale in November raked in over half a bill in its first...

US Movie Rental Behemoth Netflix launch its popular streaming service on the Nintendo Wii in a few months time and will become the third and last major gaming console on the other side of the Atlantic to benefit from Netflix's...

According to Peter Farago's Flurry Blog, all of the hype and hysteria surrounding Google's so-called superphone (smart just isn't enough nowadays) has done little to boost sales.   Using some indecipherable mathematical...

Yahoo Inc and VMware have finalised an acquisition deal which will see the latter purchasing Yahoo’s enterprise email arm, Zimbra, which currently boasts of providing nearly 55 million email boxes to various organisations...

Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world, has announced that it will provide McAfee’s Internet Security Suite to its members in order to protect them from computer virus and other online security...

Analyst firm Forrester Research Inc. has presented an optimistic picture of the tech sector in the year 2010, forecasting that the year would see a sizable increase in spending on information technology, globally. Forrester is...

A recent proposal put forth by a Conservative peer could bring upon some subtle changes in the UK’s copyright rules that would exempt search engines from any liability while creating copies of web pages in order to dispense...

VigLink has announced that it had received significant financial backing from a couple of renowned venture capitalists, including Google Ventures, First Round Capital, as well as from some other eminent technology...

Bell Labs, the famous research and development arm of global telecommunication company Alcatel-Lucent, is leading a consortium of 15 other organisations, called the Green Touch which will focus on creating technology that aim to...

After last month's attacks on Twitter, the popular micro-blogging giant, it seems that the hacker group calling itself the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ has struck again but this time its target was China’s most popular...

Britain's biggest consumer internet service provider, Talktalk, has labelled the UK Government's plans to give free laptops and broadband access to low income families as "deeply muddled thinking" in a surprising criticism of the...

Google's MS Office-baiting cloud service Google Docs will soon allow the storage of any type of file with sizes up to 250MB, making transferring and storing all of your stuff much simpler. In a blog post, product manager Vijay...

Apple has been criticised for dragging its heels on approving third party Apps in the past but reports suggest that the Cupertino company is now taking a more lenient approach. Apple Insider says that various developers have...

Cultural commentary site The Rumpus has published what it purports to be a genuine interview with a current Facebook employee which could raise some questions/eyebrows about the way the social notworking sites deals with your...

The Government claims that a quarter of the recommendations in the Digital Britain report published six months ago have already been implemented. Others, including the passing of controversial legislation, are progressing, it...

According to a recent amendment in the Data Protection Act (DPA), the Information Commissioner’s office will have the authority to levy fines of up to £500,000 on organisations and individuals, if they are found...

The entertaining efforts of Facebook fugitive Craig Lynch have run aground again after the absconder found himself back behind bars. Lynch got himself a Facebook following of more than 3,400 world-wide, after he began updating...

Active Media, which is best known for SSD and USB storage, has announced two reasonably-priced solutions to upgrade existing laptop and desktop kit to the new USB 3.0 Superspeed standard. Atomix PX is a two port USB 3.0 adapter...

European tech blog Brightside of the News (BSN) has reported that the Windows Mobile 7, the much warranted Windows Mobile OS by Microsoft, will probably be rolled out in 2011 during the World Mobile Congress in...

Google has announced that it will soon allow its users to store any type of file in Google Docs, via cloud storage technology in an attempt to garner market share in the emerging cloud storage sector. In a blogpost on the...

In an attempt to educate Britons who are not familiar with information technology, the UK government has announced the "Online Basics Scheme", under which it will offer free-of-charge short online courses that will teach people...

Google said it will stop self-censoring search results delivered to users in China. The firm said the decision follows the discovery of a hacking attack on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists in the territory. The...