Marvell has announced a new addition to the ARMADA family of application processors – the Marvell ARMADA 618 for next generation HD-capable smartphones. The processor competes for space in smartphones and smartbooks and...

Researchers at at Cambridge University have found a flaw in the chip and pin system that makes the secure payment method massively insecure. The boffins can trick the system into thinking the correct pin number has been entered...

It seems that former Microsoft boss and cofounder, Bill Gates is not impressed by Apple’s latest tech toy, the iPad tablet device, which was recently unveiled by the iPod maker and is scheduled for a March 2010...

Freeview UK, the collection of free-to-air services on the Digital Terrestrial Television platform, has updated its database which indicates signal strengths for the Freeview service around the UK. However, the database update...

Garmin-Asus, the partnership between the two consumer electronics giants, has yielded its first Android smartphone, the nuvifone A50, days before the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. Both players have...

Nokia has quietly started to sell its uber-expensive Booklet 3G Netbook on its online store for a throat-chocking, jaw dropping £649, a price that we understand, includes VAT and delivery but which is slightly on the...

Global media giant, News Corp, has announced that the CEO of its digital media forte MySpace, Owen Van Natta has stepped down as the top honcho of the social networking platform. In an official statement released by News Corp,...

The Home Office has been teaming up with the UK Design Council to come up with models that could help reduce the number of phones being nicked in the country. Three prototypes were developed and funded by the Technology Strategy...

An Israeli software house, Emblaze has accused both Microsoft and Apple of infringing media streaming technology patents it owns. The Emblaze Group accused Microsoft of using media streaming technology developed by Emblaze, in...

A day after its launch, Google Buzz, the Gmail social networking tool offered by the search engine giant, has surrounded itself with controversy as tech analysts across the world are voicing their concerns over huge privacy flaws...

Google's announcement yesterday that it was going to roll out a gigabit broadband infrastructure that will force the traditional players to change their game plans looks very similar to what the search engine giant is set to do...

More than 350,000 Sky+ HD customers could switch to Freeview HD within six months according to a research carried out by Yougov amongst a sample population of 2063 adults. 17 percent of Sky Customers that have Sky+ HD said that...

Apple Inc., the company behind the popular iPod music devices, is all set to try a new TV-pricing scheme, under which Apple will offer downloads of popular American television shows for as low as 99 cents. The Financial Times...

Apple had dished out the second beta version of the new iPhone OS 3.2 Software Development Kit for iPad developers and has claimed that the company has fixed the bugs found in the first beta.  The Apple iPad SDK website also...

A inquiry has begun to find how e-mails from the UK's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia appeared on the web. A panel of experts, headed by Sir Muir Russell is charged with investigating all angles of...

Asus Eee PC 1005HA NetbookPrice £262.89 at Dabs.com The Asus Eee PC 1005HA is one of the cheaper members of the, oh-so-stylish Asus Seashell range. It's been around for few months now and differs from the flagship 1008HA...

Cisco Systems, the world’s largest networking and communications technology services provider, has predicted that the mobile video traffic will account for 66 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014. The Cisco Visual...

A Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has dismissed a long-running lawsuit which was filed against software giant Microsoft pertaining to its Windows Genuine Advantage program, which is used by...

The tech gossip vine was swinging in full force yesterday, when Asus announced that it would launch a “killer product” in June this year. What could it be? A new Eee PC, another Wii controller rip-off or perhaps a new...

Google's insidious plans to take over the world have been dealt yet another blow by the Iranian government. Late yesterday reports started hitting the wires about Iranian citizens having trouble logging onto Gmail and the...

International Business Machines, the world’s leading enterprise software vendor, has developed a groundbreaking technology that provides with a less costly way of manufacturing energy-efficient solar cells. The researchers...

Bowser builder Mozilla has admitted that two Firefox add-ons which were flagged as containing malware last week are, in fact, completely harmless. In a blog posting, a red-faced Mozilla spokescheese said: "Last week, we...

Emblaze Group, an Israeli software conglomerate, has claimed that software giant Microsoft had infringed US patents related to streaming media technology developed by the company and has issued a notice to Microsoft, which has...

Google's plans to roll out fibre to the homes of up to 500,000 people could hide a much bigger, much more disruptive plan that could pit it directly against some of its most important partners. Yesterday, the search engine giant...

Cisco has reported two vulnerabilities in its IronPort email and web protection devices. Both flaws allow remote, unauthenticated access to any file on the device and one allows remote, unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary...

Activision Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime has admitted that 70 per cent of new World of Warcraft players get bored before they reach level ten of the game. In a financial conference call, the CEO suggested that company had to do...

The law of England and Wales applies to material published online, even if it is hosted on a server in another country, the Court of Appeal has ruled. As long as a substantial measure of the activities takes place in England, its...

Ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, which will take place on February 15th, various rumors surrounding software giant Microsoft are doing the rounds in the smartphone industry, the latest one being that...

Oracle Corporation, the US based company that specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products, has announced that it will soon acquire Israeli start-up Convergin, in an attempt to enter the telecom...

Revenue from Blu-ray disc sales in Europe rose by 167 per cent last year according to home entertainment industry organisation the Digital Entertainment Group Europe (DEGE). The press association reports that sales of the high...

Unemployed Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said he's not sold on Apple's tablet device. Speaking to Brett Schlender at Bnet, the former richest man on Earth said: "You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital...

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC could be about to launch the fastest smartphone (or device) yet with an unreleased Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running at 1.5GHz coupled with the yet-to-be-announced Android 2.2...

The man brought in to 'refocus and vitalise' social notworking also-ran MySpace has quit after just a year at the helm. Owen Van Natta was taken on in 2009 after it became apparent that MySpace was being kicked in the teeth by...

IBM Research has announced a collaborative scheme with industry universities in the European Union to improve the productivity and reliability of semiconductor and electronic systems design. The EU-funded DIAMOND...

During the Microsoft forum on healthcare technology in Beijing, Microsoft Research Labs scientists have reported that the company is conducting a research to find the best ways to use its Xbox 360 gaming console, surface...

Microsoft Corp. and MediaTek have jointly announced the companies will work together to offer a multimedia rich smartphone device based on Microsoft Windows Mobile platform aimed at the emerging Chinese smartphone...

Google Inc., the California based search engine giant, has decided to mend its ways and clear the murkiness surrounding its recently launched Nexus One smartphone. The company has announced that it will tone down the contract...

Socially-inept instant chat users are being targeted by a new generation of flirtatious fake females. First spotted back in 2007, the automated response programme dupes unsuspecting chatters into believing they are talking to a...

Toshiba has unveiled a new sexy piece of technology, the Satellite U500-1EX, which is its first from the Japanese manufacturer to feature Windows 7 AND a full multitouch screen. The laptop, which will target the corporate &...

Insecurity outfit Symantec reckons there's a battle of the botnets going on out there in Websville. Symantec says the Zeus hack pack has grown over time to be the "most established crimeware toolkit in the underground...

There was a time when small ultra-portable notebooks were almost inspirational products because of their high price, thankfully this isn’t the case any more and the popularity of netbooks proves there is a need for small,...

Ubiquitous outfit Google said it intends to build an experimental fibre network to bring fat-pipe internet to some American homes. Google said it wanted to test the high-speed Internet service in a "small number of trial...

Swedes are the geekiest people on earth, research reveals. The northeren wasteland has taken top spot from the United States in an annual survey of geekiness run by London Business School professor Leonard Waverman "Sweden not...

A Bravia LCD TV is no ordinary television. Design is sleeker, pictures are brighter, details clearer. All Bravia televisions are HD Ready as a minimum, with up to 4 HDMI connections, and come with an integrated digital tuner so...