Intel formally introduced the Itanium processor 9300 today, server chip day. The chip previously codenamed "Tukwila," slipped berth with nary a whisper of X86 architecture. Which, at the other end of the scale, Intel insists is...

The Chinese authorities have closed what they have called the biggest hacker training website operating in the country and which, in its heyday, had more than 12,000 paying wannabe hackers. Black Hawk Safety Net (ed : ironic,...

A bloke from New York has sued peddlar of security software, Symantec for automatically charging him a $76 subscription to Norton Antivirus without telling him. Symantec has already landed itself in hot water on similar charges....

Social networking website Facebook attracted a significant number of mobile phone users in December 2009 as figures published by the Mobile Media Metrics service showed that a third of UK handsets accessed the website during the...

BT's CEO, Ian Livingston, has confirmed that the telecommunications company will be working with telco watchdog, Ofcom, to open up its cable ducts to its competitors and partners. Speaking to the Financial Times, he said...

From 1st April, BT is pushing the beginning of its off-peak calling period, from 6pm to 7pm.In a move sure to unsettle millions of customers who have calling packages including free evening calls, incumbent landline supplier...

A couple that runs a bed and breakfast in a village in Cumbria has been quoted a staggering £45,000 by BT for getting broadband to their guest house to replace their dial up 56K line. BT later said that it was prepared to...

If you’re looking to hitch a ride on the SSD cart, but can’t quite afford the necessary second mortgage, then Chaintech may have the answer to your storage woes with its new Apogee SSD Convertor. The 2.5in box...

A quick wibble around the Web serves up a meaty selection of hardware currently passing through the sweaty palms of cyberspace's gaggle of geeks. The Gurus of 3D reckon Gigabyte's H57 motherboard, the GA-H57M-USB3, will soon be...

After bringing us Dongles, this is the first phone I've seen from Huawei. The U7510 is a compact and lightweight mobile, following the portrait design and build of more expensive rivals. A budget-end touchscreen that delivers a...

Leo Apotheker, the chief executive of German software outfit SAP AG, has quit the company after his contract was not renewed. The Chemist as he was known in the inner circle, has been replaced by not one but two new co-CEOs....

BT has said it will play nicely with other ISPs, letting them piggyback on its underground network of cable ducting, in order to get super-fast broadband into as many UK homes as possible. The move has nothing at all to do with...

If you feel like you don't get enough of President Barak Obama's whitterings, or you want to keep up with the latest press briefings from the White House, you can now pretend you are living in an episode of The West Wing live on...

 According to the Digital Britain report, the number of UK households with Internet access grew by 1.2 million in the 12 months to June 2009 and with two thirds of homes now connected, over 70 per cent of us use the Internet...

Google's latest smartphone, the HTC-built Nexus One, is currently being offered for sale at Play.com for a jaw dropping £599.99 including delivery. The phone is due for release from the retailer from the 16th of...

A Japanese company has developed a new printer technology which uses the same sheet of 'paper' up to 1,000 times. The PrePeat RP-3100 is an A4 mono only printer which uses a special thermal head and heat sensitive plastic sheets...

We've seen the future of Web video and it has nothing to do with Flash. Internet software development outfit Jilion has posted what we think is the first HTML5 video and it works well enough to worry Flash fans. Apple boss Steve...

Taiwan based Acer, the world's second largest PC vendor, has revealed that it will become a more aggresive player in the global x86 server market which is dominated by the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The company has...

After spending its early years being condemned by the chip industry’s superpowers, overclocking is now catching up with Simon Cowell when it comes to mainstream attention. Not only has Intel already introduced its Turbo...

Apple's latest consumer device, the iPad, has apparently failed to wow potential customers based in the US according to a survey carried out by Retrevo, a consumer electronics price comparison website across the...

Beer can be good for the bones, researchers have discovered. In fact, some types of beer are so rich in dietary silicon that their regular intake can cut the chance of developing diseases like osteoporosis. So, while supping...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has voiced its objection to the Google Books deal which will allow search engine giant Google create a mammoth online library by scanning the literary works of authors across the...

Apple Inc., the California based company behind the popular iPhone smartphone, has announced that the company will allow iPhone app developers to use the smartphone’s GPS technology in order to insert location based ads in...

International Business Machines (IBM) has rolled out the second beta version of its Lotus Symphony 3 office productivity suite in an attempt to take on Microsoft by offering a free alternative to Microsoft’s Office...

Two add-ons for popular Open Source web browser Firefox have been downloaded by thousands of unsuspecting users, according Mozilla. A security post on the campany's blog warns that two experimental plug-ins - version 4.0 of...

IBM has revealed its new Power7 processor architecture as well as a number of systems based on the chip, designed and built by Big Blue at its East Fishkill plant in New York, and will complement and replace the Power6 and...

Consumer protection regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into whether complex contracts for goods and services are unfair to consumers. The investigation will particularly focus on online...

Details of Microsoft's much delayed update to its mobile operating system have allegedly been leaked just weeks before it was due to make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Web has been awash with rumours...

Google has complained to a Chinese copycat web site over its use of a logo that spookily resembles the one the US search giant uses on its own site Google lawyers in China wrote to the Goojje web site, accusing it of infringing...

IBM has established a new record in the ultra-high-speed transistor design, by unleashing a graphene-based processor that can perform at 100 billion cycles a second, i.e. 100GHz, almost four times the existing experimental...

In a major boost for travellers who often have to deal with linguistic barriers while exploring unfamiliar destinations, Google has announced it is working on a smartphone software technology that can translate several foreign...

Facebook has boosted up the user-friendliness quotient of its service by bringing a redesigned homepage that purportedly helps the website users to navigate through its various features more easily. The homepage of the...

It appears that the details of Microsoft’s much-anticipated Windows Mobile 7 operating system have been leaked over the blogosphere just ahead of its reported official announcement at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in...

Linux's famous parent, Linus Torvalds, loves his new Googlephone. "I generally hate phones," writes the ubergeek on his bog. "They are irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever..."  "But I have to admit,"...

Korean electronics conglomerate LG is set to enrage the entertainment industry with a slew of new TVs featuring USB support. The flat screen sets are capable of reading all sorts of data from an external USB hard drive,...

Chinese police have shut down what is described as a hacker training centre in central Hubei province. Three men who ran the Black Hawk Safety Net have been arrested. According to the China Daily, the three are suspected of...

IBM today launches its hotly-anticipated cell-based, eight-core Power7 processor and is claiming bragging righhs over its ability to run four threads per core. New servers systems based on the chip will be shown off in New York...

It only takes a single mouse click from a disgruntled or incompetent member of your staff to destroy your business. Or maybe a diligent employee takes work home to put some extra effort in and finds his laptop stolen. Key...