Ask any webmasters working on fairly large projects what their biggest bug bear is and it is likely that they will come up with the words, IE6, short for Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft's long obsolete web browser. The software...

A blend of previous best selling LG models like the Etna and Cookie, the GW520 combines touchscreen with keyboard in my favourite format as a QWERTY side-slider. Sturdily constructed in plastic the phone has a solid feel when...

Mac Rumors, a blog dedicated to reporting news related to Apple Inc., has claimed that new evidence point to the fact that Apple might rename its rumored tablet device as ‘iPad’ instead of the highly speculated name,...

Bill Gates, the former Microsoft CEO, has finally joined the long list of celebrities and business magnets who have succumbed to the popularity of Twitter, the world’s most popular micro-blogging service. The co-founder of...

Children could benefit from the use of abbreviated text that could help them boost their spelling abilities according to a research carried out by linguists from the University of Coventry. The research, which involved studying...

Business Week has reported that Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are in talks to replace Google search engine with Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the default web browser on Apple’s iPhone smartphone. Bloomberg owned...

A critical vulnerability that was introduced some 17 years ago with Windows NT has finally been exposed. According to a post at Neohapsis, the hole in Windows' Virtual DOS Machine allows users with restricted access to change...

Sony has confirmed that it will be releasing a motion controller for its Playstation 3 by the end of 2010 in Japan and the rest of the world and is likely to emulate, to a certain extent, Microsoft's own forthcoming Project...

Twitter may have Bill Gates as a user but where's its business model? Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo sat down with Bloomberg to try to convince a panel in San Fransisco that it has one - beyond flog it and run! The...

Global securities and investment banking group, Jefferies and Company, has released a note where it has claimed that Microsoft will be launching the Zune phone or the Pink phone in the Mobile World Congress conference in...

In the aftermath of Google’s threat to quit China, the search engine giant has postponed the launch of two Android based smartphones manufactured by Motorola and Samsung in China.  Reports have also confirmed that a...

Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing a security patch for a specific vulnerability in its antiquated web browser, Internet Explorer, that allowed Chinese hackers to access Gmail accounts of some Chinese human rights...

Avaya, the company which specialises in enterprise telephony and call center technology, has announced plans to integrate its existing services with Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions offerings. Avaya incidentally has acquired...

So many people are using VoIP service Skype to make international long distance calls that traditional carriers are suffering, research suggests.  A report by TeleGeography says that the growth of international telephone...

Amazon has dropped a bombshell by announcing that it will be increasing the amount of money given to publishers and authors although, as Engadget points out, it does come with some big threads attached. As from the 30th of June,...

Despite the fact that we've been happily using Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on the Mac Pro in our office since the launch of the OS some months ago, Apple has now given its official blessing to Microsoft's latest offering,...

A self-confessed guitar obsessive and software engineer known only as Michael has developed a touchscreen digital guitar which, while it will have purists weeping into their Fender Stratocasters, is rather intriguing. The Misa...

The folks at Mozilla are rubbing their hands together in glee over the misfortune of poor little Microsoft, as Internet Explorer users jump ship in their droves. Following an anouncement by the German Government that Exploder was...

If 2009 was the year of survival, 2010 surely has to be the year of digging in and recovering.  Whether you choose to use ‘the cloud’, or decide to bide your time, ensuring that IT capability is in a position of...

A recent report has claimed that the popular VoIP service Skype has expanded its user base so dramatically that international long distance call traffic has been considerably affected, while the traffic on Skype is accelerating...

International Business Machines(IBM), the New York based computer and IT consulting giant, has unveiled ‘Project Vulcan’, the future of its online business collaboration tool.  Project Vulcan was showcased at the...

Chip foundry TSMC says it has fixed its new 40nm process line so that yield rates to deliver quality on a par with its 65nm node process. Mark Liu, Senior VP of Operations at TSMC made the claim as TSMC opened up a new chip shop...

With the success of the movie Avatar, anything with the letters ‘3D’ in it has become more desirable. One of the first mobile examples of this key technology theme for 2010 is shown off here by Ericsson Labs. An application...

A fresh rumour regarding the much vaunted Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 has been doing rounds in the tech industry as WM Experts, a blog that covers news of Windows Mobile, reported that Microsoft might launch Windows Mobile 7 in...

Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3tunes and former CEO of MP3.com, has written on the popular tech blog, TechCrunch, that Apple Inc., plans to roll out its cloud computing service in the form of a web-based version of iTunes which...

Google has said that it will stop doing business in China unless it can operate without government-imposed censorship. The announcement follows hacks of Google's systems that it said were intended to snoop on the email accounts...

What could have been one of the biggest patent litigations in the history of modern technology has been resolved out of court in a $900 million settlement. Electronics IP specialist Rambus has persuaded Korean tech giant Samsung...

Product Advent Verona Notebook Price £350 Looking for a low cost ultraportable notebook?, then the latest notebook to appear from Advent, the Verona may be just the thing you are looking for, but only if you don’t...

Gamesindustry.biz has closed its doors to casual browsers, including the youngsters who keep the business which pays its bills alive. The site, which is a reliable source of insider news and rumours, now demands that users...

Bill Gates has begun Twittering. Whether the brief outage we experienced had anything to do with that, we can't say. What we can say is, like the rest us innanely blathering away into cyberspace, he has little idea what he's up...

The Finland-based mobile phone manufacturing giant, Nokia, has won a vital patent infringement lawsuit in a UK court, which was filed 3 years ago by German company IPCom, which had accused Nokia of infringing two IPCom patents...

An investigation by The Independent has revealed that the Labour Government in the UK has wasted almost £26 billion on IT projects that were either delayed, scrapped or went over-budget.   In its report, the newspaper...

When Nintendo introduced the Wii to the world - with its sub-standard graphics, poor connectivity and kiddie-friendly games - X-box 360 and PS3 gamers pointed and laughed, safe in the knowledge that their sophisticated next-gen...

China's Google-beating search engine, Baidu.com is blaming its domain registrar Register.com for a recent hack attack which redirected users to a page set up by the Iranian Cyber Army. The firm filed a lawsuit in a US court in...