The Satio is Sony Ericsson's high end nomination as a multimedia powerhouse. Touchscreen and with minimal manual buttons it features the highest res camera available on any mobile at present, packing a mighty 12.1...

Yet another report, published by Deloitte Canada, that confirms what many had noticed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas nearly two weeks ago, that 2010 is bound to be the year of the tablet. As a result of...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will be slashing its data retention period from 18 months to six months as the result of an ongoing conversation with a number of privacy stakeholders worldwide. The change will occur over the next...

IP addresses, which are fundamental to pinpoint the identity of every computer any networks, are running out at a frightening speed according to the Number Resource Organisation and could lead to major issues in as little as 24...

Technology analysts Gartner are adamant that the mobile application market is going to exploded over the next four years with the number of apps downloaded in 2010 reaching £3.7 billion worldwide. In 2009, smartphone users...

Market researcher Gartner publishes its latest report, revealing an incredible two and a half billion bits of software were downloaded across ‘i’ phones and pods last year. The number downloaded since the App Store launched in...

Founder of MP3.com Michael Robertson is predicting that Apple will soon offer a live music streaming service, based mainly on the company's acquisition of digital music start-up Lala. Writing as a guest author on Tech Crunch,...

Two new Acer Aspire laptops have won the approval of environ mentalists garnering a coveted Greenpeace Green Star. The Aspire 3811TZ and 3811TZG were applauded for being energy efficient, recyclable and virtually biodegradable...

First to the UK with a femtocell last July, Vodafone this week rebranded their Access Gateway with the more customer-friendly name Sure Signal. Their web page details several customer accolades for the product, examples where...

A 42-year-old Taiwanese man keeled over and died after watching much-hyped Golden Globes winning film Avatar in 3D. A doctor said the man had a history of high blood pressure and died of a stroke triggered by over-excitement, AFP...

Sony has unveiled a new range of Vaio Z ultra-portable laptops that promises to raise the performance bar beyond everything ever packed in such a tiny form factor. The two models currently available, the VAIO VPCZ11Z9E and the...

Fox News is reporting that Apple will be launching the iPhone OS 4 and the brand new iLife 2010, alongside its now quasi legendary tablet PC,at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco on 27 January. Fox journalist Clayton Morris...

Chinese outfit In Technology Group (ITG) has been beavering away on an AMD-powered mobile phone device that runs Windows XP. Stories about the phone have been kicking about for a year now, but wee site UMPCPortal says it has...

Futher adding to the laptop naming convention confusion, Sony has expanded its Vaio range of swanky luggables with a pair of what it is calling ultra mobile notebooks. The two Z series luggables feature ultra fast file access...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has opened its latest chip fab earlier than expected, due it says, to surging demands. The company - which makes silicon for some of the world's biggest tech companies including Nvidia,...

The 5130CDN was sent to us for a quick review back in December, but a series of unexpected occurrences means that we can only have a look at Dell's flagship standalone colour printing workhorse now. The Austin-based manufacturer...

Legendary founder of Taiwanese computer maker Acer, Stan Shih, warned that US computer brands will be extinct in 20 years' time, thanks to their fixation with big, overpriced boxes. "The trend for low-priced computers will last...

The on-going battle between Internet search giant Google and the Government of the People Republic of China has taken another twist. Google has postponed the Wednesday launch of its much-anticipated Nexus One app phone but has...

Google has changed the date of a shindig for London hacks for fear of being left unnoticed, as the Interwibble gears up for Apple's opening of the kimono currently draped around its tablety product thing. Google wrote: "We heard...

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported that HarperCollins is currently in talks with Apple Inc., in order to create e-books specially designed for the speculated Tablet PC by the iPod maker.  According to the report,...

The Conservative Party has vowed to beef up the nation’s cyber security infrastructure if it wins the upcoming general election, as quoted in the party’s green paper on national security. The Tories pledged to set up...

The average UK mobile phone user only uses around half of the calls they actually pay for, research suggests. A bit of ferreting about for the latest Mobile Money Report from moneysupermarket.com reveals that the...

ShoreTel, an IP telephony services provider, on Monday announced a couple of moves to ramp up its position in the unified communications (UC) domains. In one of those moves aiming at the small and medium-sized businesses, the...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google has initiated an internal investigation in order to determine whether some if its China staff were instrumental in the ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attack that breached...

Encryption on its own will no longer be enough to protect data, according to one information security specialist. Secondary authentication from pass codes or biometrics will soon be essential after two encryption technologies...

Nokia, the Finland based mobile phone manufacturer, has dished out a number of Nokia Ovi press conference invites to selected members of the press and some prominent bloggers in order to make a ‘big’ announcement...

IBM is consolidating its presence in the smartphone arena with the launch of a couple of cutting-edge smartphone software applications on Monday at Lotusphere 2010 event. The company unleashed Lotus Notes Traveler Companion, a...

The first service pack for Microsoft's make-or-break operating system is not expected before July, and may not appear until the end of the year, yet already it seems details and screenshots for the update are appearing on the...

Google Inc. has been hit by a slew of antitrust lawsuits in Germany, with a couple of publisher groups, one mapping company, and a Microsoft subsidiary initiating antitrust complaints against the business practices of the search...

Taiwanese giant, Asustek has plans to launch a 20-inch Eeee PC, that combines Nvidia's Ion 2 platform with Intel's Atom D510 dual-core processor, according to Digitimes. The Eee Top ET2010PNT will arrive "in the near future",...

Microsoft has been encouraged to reduce the amount of time it keeps personal information about searches on its Bing service from 18 to six months by a European Union probe into Internet privacy. A report on Bloomberg says that,...

Korean phone manufacturer Samsung will launch a "youth" focused smartphone known as the Samsung Genio Slide (or Genio Pro as it is known outside Europe) on Vodafone for the first 30 days. The device has a form factor that's not...

I’m always amazed by how easy it is to dislike Bono. The guy’s written some of my favourite songs, and he’s a tireless campaigner for human rights. I should be over-awed by this charming example of compassionate...

Oxford University has banned its students from using online music streaming service, Spotify, after techies decided it was eating up all the academics' bandwidth. Oxford University Computing Services (OCUS) said the amount of...