For some unknown reasons, the Department of Health (DoH) has issued a statement over the need to move from Internet Explorer 6 that refutes the official stand of the UK Government taken last week in the House of Lords.In a four...

UK Government’s former Chief Scientist, Sir David King, has claimed that the stolen emails at the core of the "Climategate" scandal had most probably been stolen by spies of foreign intelligence agencies. Back in December,...

On Sunday, Jeremy Hunt, the Shadow Culture Secretary, said that a Tory government will coerce BT into allowing its fiercest competitors to use its extensive network infrastructure. The Register understands that Mr Hunt, and...

Strategy Analytics, a global market research and consulting firm, has released data which suggests that smartphone sales have jumped 30 percent year on year during the fourth quarter of 2009 to 53 million units while mobile...

Popular tech website Wired has reported that Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Inc., has taken a shot at Google Inc. by citing Google’s mantra ‘Don’t Do Evil’ as rubbish, to use a slightly more acceptable...

Deutsch-Telekom owned mobile network, T-Mobile, is in talks with Google to launch the Nexus One smartphone first in the UK and possibly in Germany according to Robin O'Kelly, the Head of Corporate affairs for T-Mobile...

Microsoft calls its new SideWinder X4 gaming keyboard the ‘Ghost Buster’ but it sadly doesn’t come equipped with a portable particle accelerator, or even a hazardous storage facility. Instead, the 80s film...

Apple has confirmed on its UK website that the iPad will be launched in April in 3G version with WiFi models available in March 2010 although pricing details haven't been disclosed yet. Interestingly, Apple hasn't updated...

Google has announced that it will start paying amateur bug-hunters to have a sniff around its Chrome web browser to see if they can break it. The company said it will pony up a cash reward for bugs reported through the Chromium...

Graphics chip maker Nvidia reckons it has the mobile workstation market cornered with announcement that four of the biggest players in the notebook market have gone green. The Santa Clara company is now supplying Cuda-based GPUs...

Reacting to claims made by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs that Apple was the largest mobile device company in the world, Nokia’s Mark Squires posted an article titled ‘A Fruit Confused?’ on Nokia Conversations blogs, in...

In an announcement posted on its website, Amazon.com, the online retail giant, has reported that the company has agreed to sell Macmillan E-books at a higher price instead of the standard $9.99. The Amazon Kindle Team wrote on...

Much has been said about Apple's forthcoming tablet device the iPad and where it will fit into our digital lives. Some say it's nothing more than an iPod touch that's spent too long in the gym, and others have suggested it will...

The UK government appears to be hell-bent on making sure its various ministries continue to use and support Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser despite the French and German governments having voiced their concerns over the...

The Seminconductor Industry Association (SIA) said chip sales declined nine per cent  in 2009, slipping from $248.6 billion in 2008 to $226.3 billion in 2009. Despite the dip, "2009 turned out to be a better year for the...

Intel's attempt to bar a commissioner from sitting in an antitrust enforcement action against it has been scuppered by the US Federal Trade Commission. The FTC decided to hear from Commissioner J Thomas Rosch after it was found...

The office of Fair Trading (OFT) has reported today that almost 10 per cent of British adults have fallen foul of unscrupulous scam artists. Half of the people brave enough to admit being duped lost more than £50 while one...

In this podcast, Jan Tiri, a virtualisation specialist with VMware & Steve Gold From ITProportal.com will be discussing how the differences when it comes to business resilience between a virtual and a physical server.Also in...

UK satellite broadcaster Sky has announced that it will soon be offering the largest capacity personal video recorder in Europe. The New Sky+HD boxes will quadruple the capacity of current offerings from the Rupert Murdoch-owned...

Google Inc. has announced that the company will start paying external researchers who are successful in finding and reporting security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser and its underlying open source code. The company...

Search engine giant Google has announced that it will not continue to provide support for its Google Docs and Google Sites on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The company mentioned in a post on its official blog...

Joint venture outfit IM Flash Technologies seems set to start manufacturing the world's first 25-nanometer NAND Flash chips.  The shift to 25nm allows the firm, a collaboration bewteen US chip shops Intel and Micron, to...

During CES2010, a UK-based company called ION Audio, launched a new device called the iType which is a standard, laptop size keyboard peripheral that allows users to use their iPhones as micro notebooks, a 2010 version of the...

Virgin Media has announced that from the 1st of April 2010, its landline users will be able to make free phone calls to any Virgin Mobile handsets as it looks to convert more of its landline customers into Virgin Mobile...

Apple has halted production of all 27-inch iMac all-in-one computers after it failed to find the fault causing flickering screens which have been reported for several months now. According to a factory insider who spoke to...

British Internet shoppers spent £38 billion shopping online last year making Web retailing one of the fastest-growing markets in the UK. Online sales grew by 12.4 per cent year on year and Web purchases now account for...

The increasingly intricate world of DRAM edged another step closer to the atomic level today, as Samsung revealed that it's successfully completed customer trials of the industry’s first 2Gb 30nm DDR3 chips. With their...

Intel and Micron Technology are set to unveil the world's first 25-nanometer NAND Flash which according to reports, would allow hardware manufacturers to pack twice the current amount of storage on the same surface area.IM Flash...

It's common practice for Steve Jobs, after an announcement the size of the iPad launch, to come amongst the little people at Apple and spread some corporate love to the paeans. And according to a report on Wired, Jobs has...

The UK Government's former chief scientist has claimed the hack that outed over a thousand emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by foreign spies. In an interview with The Independent,...

A search engine company that has won plaudits for its efforts to protect users' privacy is launching a proxy-surfing service on Thursday by which users can look at web pages without the knowledge of the page owner. Proxy services...

Over the last 18 months the debate as to which type of cloud - private or public - is better has been hotting up. As far as Tom Brand, virtualisation practice lead at Glasshouse Technologies (UK) is concerned there is no debate:...

The Tories have surprisingly come forward with an election pledge to bring 100mbps super-fast broadband to the majority of British households by 2017 by intervening in the UK internet market. The Shadow Chancellor George Osborne...

Sales of smartphones rocketed to 53 million units in Q4 2009, a 30 per cent increase on the comparable quarter in 2008. Smartphone shipments reached an all-time high of 173.8 million units in 2009, a 15 per cent increase...

Amazon says it will bow to pressure from book publisher  Macmillan and sell electronic versions of its books at higher prices. In a classic manoeuvre, the etailer is blaming publishers for putting up prices. Never mind that...

Connecting the Belkin N Wireless Router to your cable or DSL modem lets you share your broadband Internet account with all your networked computers. The N Wireless Router uses draft 802.11n technology and intelligent MIMO...