To many device manufacturers worldwide, the arrival of the mobile phone marked the end of an era and soon, Garmin, TomTom, Navigo and others may join them as Nokia announced that it would be giving away free satnav application to...

Microsoft has hurriedly released a cumulative critical patch for Internet Explorer that irons out eight vulnerabilities including the one that was apparently used by Chinese hackers to attack Google and a number of other...

BT has just unveiled a new super fast broadband service, Infinity, which is likely to give some nightmares to the bean counters at Virgin Media with an "unlimited" 40mbps phone line costing £25 per month. But things are far...

Nokia has announced that it will be giving away its Ovi maps application that is already pre-installed on many recently launched Symbian-based, GPS-equipped smartphones manufactured by the Finnish handset builder. The...

A few hours after the UK Government launched data.gov.uk, a website that offers an insight into more than 2,500 data sets worldwide, the Guardian has launched what it calls an "online gateway to global data portals". The project...

AMD Developer Relations boss Richard Huddy recently made some pretty damning accusations about arch rival Nvidia's PhysX systems, claiming the outfit had deliberately hobbled PhysX on mutli-core systems. Now NV's Nadeem Mohammad...

Microsoft yesterday slapped a patent infringement lawsuit on makers of personal video recorders TiVo Inc, accusing it of using its digital video recording technology without permission. The suit filed in a San Francisco...

Microsoft has issued a warning against a security flaw in the kernel of all the 32-bit versions of Windows that can be easily exploited by hackers. Interestingly, the security flaw, that also affects Windows 7, has been around...

In an attempt to carve a niche in the mobile advertising market, Opera Software has acquired AdMarvel, a California-based mobile ad company that specialises in providing internet traffic management and analysis software....

Over 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are set to down tools tomorrow after a dispute about pay and job losses at Hewlett Packard's four UK sites broke down. Since the company took over IT services...

A researcher working with a leading US security firm has claimed that he has found ‘fingerprints’ of Chinese hackers in the ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attack that had targeted search engine giant Google...

BT has unveiled its new Infinity product which is based on fibre optic, just like its archrival Virgin Media, and has promised download speeds of up to 40mbps with upload speeds likely to be around 10mbps. The service will be...

Amazon has announced the availability of the development kit for Kindle which will be in limited beta as from next month and will allow developers to code what Amazon calls "innovative active content" for its Kindle...

The European Commission has approved Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase of Sun MicroSystems. The Eurocrats said they think the deal will not have any negative impact on competition in Europe, following a four-month...

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company, has sided with AT&T and slapped a patent infringement lawsuit on TiVo Inc., accusing it of stealing digital video recording technology. The technology covers the...

The UK government is planning to roll out an integrated function in digital radio sets that will allow users to choose radio stations from a single list rather than switching between FM and digital radio stations. The government...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has penned a patent-sharing agreement with the Japanese LCD TV manufacturer Funai. The new cross-licensing agreement between the two companies would help Funai to incorporate...

Microsoft Corp. and Intuit Inc. have announced they have joined forces in the cloud computing sphere to effectively cater to the cloud requirements of the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) sector seeking to reap the...

The technology sector has apparently resumed its path to recovery after months-long global economic meltdown, with a robust fourth quarter financial results from IBM being the latest pointer of the same. Big Blue has breezed...

Microsoft is planning to bring a Zune-branded phone to market according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The blog posting quotes a report by a Jeffries and Company analyst who says "Our recent industry checks indicate...

Nokia today released a new version of its Ovi Maps product, including high-end turn-by-turn voice navigation, all for free at www.nokia.com/maps. The service will work on 10 Nokia smartphones initially, including the N97, 5800...

Tim Berners-lee, the man widely credited with creating the worldwide web, has teamed up with the UK government to launch a new website called data.gov.uk which contains a slew of public sector data sets to be used for private and...

The amount of time kids spend staring at screens is rising at an alarming rate, according to research conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The study (221kb pdf) says that the massive increase in mobile media is driving the...

Youtube is getting into the movie rental business but the initial roll-out, which begins this Friday, will only be available in America. Negotiating international rights for on-line content is a notoriously tortuous process and...

Widely reported, Google has postponed the launch of its phone in China this week after experiencing coordinated cyber attacks aimed at accessing the cloud-held Gmail accounts belonging to Chinese human rights activists.The...

Analysis of some 32 million passwords recently exposed in the Rockyou.com breach has revealed that most people use weedy passwords which can easily be guessed. In a report entitled Consumer Password Worst Practices, data...

Microsoft Corp. appears to be concerned with privacy and security issues in the cloud computing domain so much that it wants the US Government to step in to formulate rules for governing the same. Brad Smith, the software...

Three US universities have agreed not to use Amazon's e-book reader the Kindle until it is easily usable by blind people. A fourth settled a complaint from blind people's advocacy groups by saying that it will strive to use...

China’s leading search engine, Baidu.com, has filed a legal suit against its US-based domain name service (DNS) provider, Register.com, for allegedly letting the hackers infiltrate its networks that led to the site’s...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that the next iteration of its signature database, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, officially codenamed as “Kilimanjaro”, will be available to general public by May this year, according to...

The New York Times Company has announced that it will be charging users to read some articles on its website from 2011 in an attempt to generate some revenue from online visitors to its website, amidst dwindling newspaper...

Oracle Corporation has announced that the company will be hosting a live event for customers, partners, press and analysts at its headquarters in California, the same day the European regulators are announcing their verdict on...

Asus will be launching its first EEE PC desktop computers and laptops based on Nvidia's just-launched ION-2 platform in April 2010 according to Taiwanese sources; they also confirmed that Asus will also release its first AMD...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world-wide wibble, has unveiled a new website he helped build for the UK government. The site, data.gov.uk opens a mountain of public sector data to the public,...

The Web is buzzing with rumours that top Apple execs have been courting the folks at Microsoft about the possibility replacing Google as the iPhone's default browser with Microsoft's Johnny-come-lately offering, Bing. And with...

IBM Corp. has announced on Wednesday that it would be snapping up the security and analytics firm, NISC, dubbed as “National Interest Security Company”, from its parent company D.C. Capital Partners for an unspecified...

Publishing research company Outsell has posted a report which says nearly half of people looking for news on Google's news site just scan the headlines without clicking through to the source. With a row brewing between...

A gang of geeks that has been beavering away at porting Gurgle's Android OS to run on X86 has met with some success. So far, the geeks have ported an OS based on Android 1.6 (Donut) to most Eee PC Models, including...

Google's stab at Chrome operating system has had many a pundit thinking more and more about the direction of the OS market. Microsoft's Windows has been suffering heavily since Windows XP's inception. It's widely reported that it...

Microsoft is to patch up a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer today, in a out-of-cycle update. The vulnerability may have exploited by Chinese hackers trying get into Google. The event has certainly been exolited by...