We love challenges at ITProPortal.com which is why we've decided to see how low Microsoft's Windows 7 Ultimate could go. By low we mean, what's the most antiquated, slowest piece of technology that will run Microsoft's shiniest...

After the HTC Desire Smartphone, online retailer Expansys has also listed two HTC smartphones announced a few hours ago at MWC 2010. Both the Android-based HTC Legend and the Windows-powered HTC HD Mini have now...

Search engine giant Google has finally acknowledged the fact that its recently unveiled Gmail social networking tool Buzz, was indeed quite faulty and had some privacy issues surrounding it, BBC News has reported.  The news...

The UK Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has granted a £300 million contract to Japan’s Fujitsu Limited, in which DWP will install thin client IT architecture infrastructure which will enable the government to cut...

A research paper by investment bank Morgan Stanley on Project Canvas, the next generation content delivery network backed by BBC, BT and others, said that it could boost the number of broadband users in the UK. More specifically,...

Dutch website Winmo has managed to capture Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series running on a HTC HD2 smartphone, something Microsoft said that it wouldn't be possible (ed : or did they say acceptable). A picture of the device has...

More Android phones are confirmed at the Mobile World Congress this week, for release in the UK market. Vodafone are taking two from HTC and T-Mobile is branding another Huawei device in its own livery, the same way it began...

The official snazzy and very colourful site of the HTC Desire has just cropped up courtesy of HTC Europe with just enough details to wet our appetite especially when you click on the pre-register button at the bottom of the page...

Vodafone is launching its mobile money product, M-PESA in South Africa, via subsidiary company, Vodacom South Africa. Pesa is Swahili for cash. The service is already up and running in with Vodacom in Tanzania, Safaricom in...

A set of four twelve-core AMD Opteron 6174 microprocessors is for sale in an Ebay auction. The chip wizardry, which is not yet officially on sale, is offered by a Oakville Mehlville Computers, a firm based in St Louis, US and A,...

The 2010 nominations for the British Academy Video Game Awards were finally unveiled today, revealing an extensive roll call of nominations for just a few select games. The killer titles hogging the nominations are Call of Duty:...

Research in Motion, the company behind the popular BlackBerry device, has announced that from March, it will be offering a free version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Express software suite to small and medium...

The New York Times has reported that Apple head honcho, Steve Jobs, is all set to collaborate with author Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, to publish an authorised biography about Steve Jobs...

There hasn't been any proper review of Microsoft's relabelled Windows Mobile 7 platform, more like previews and commentaries about the heavily rehauled Windows Phone 7 platform. It does represent Microsoft's most potent and...

Deutsche Telekom owned T-Mobile, one of the world’s largest mobile services provider has launched its very first mobile entertainment device in the form of HTC HD2, which will run on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will feature...

Future Publishing, the company behind the official PlayStation magazine, has announced that soon, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to watch a brand new HD interactive service on the PlayStation Network.  The program, named...

Orange has announced that it will be selling the HTC version of the Nexus One smartphone for only £35 per month on a 24-month contract from April 2010 according to a press statement released by the France Telecom owned...

Microsoft has launched an interactive demo site for its recently-announced Windows Phone 7 Series. The site - which seems to be struggling to keep up with the weight of user traffic judging by several reports of outages - gives...

UK-based ARM Holdings has announced a strategic partnership at the Mobile World Congress 2010 with chip maker GlobalFoundries to churn out products based on the latter's 28nm manufacturing process, which is 20 percent smaller...

Bioshock 2, the much anticipated FPS follow-up game, has straight away claimed the top spot in the UK’s all format charts, outshining Mass Effect 2 to become the year’s biggest release in the gaming world so far. The...

The surging addiction for social networking sites is spawning troubles even for the government, as two government agencies have admitted to disciplining their staff for the improper use of online social networks, it has been...

Boss of Vodafone, Vittorio Colao, has told a gathering at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that Google's growing power could damage consumer choice. During his keynote speech at the event, Colao said he was preturbed by the...

If the early buckets of silicon from your childhood are gathering dust in the garage, then have a sort through your old gaming wares, as you could be sitting on a veritable gold mine. At least, that’s what a 39-year-old Mum...

Shoppers will have internet adverts displayed to them based on their offline shopping habits in a new scheme being developed by internet publisher Yahoo! and customer loyalty scheme Nectar. The two companies will link their...

After Sony Ericsson and Nokia, it is the turn of HTC to launch the mini version of its flagship handset, the HD2 but then even the HD Mini is not as small as its name suggests, especially compared to the iPhone. The HTC mini has...

HTC has let out yet another Android-based smartphone, this time it is Desire, formerly known as Bravo and unofficially known as the Nexus 2 although some might say that apart from the specifications, there's not much resemblance...

Acer is claiming to be the first box builder to offer a netbook featuring Nvidia's ION 2 GPU and a discrete graphics chip in the same diminutive shell. The Aspire One 532G, which was unveiled at MWC in Barcelona, intelligently...

Orange will be launching the Android-powered touch-screen HTC Desire in the UK. Available this spring across all Orange consumer retail and business channels, the HTC Desire will be free on selected consumer pay monthly and...

HTC has released the HTC Legend, which is supposed to be the successor fo the popular HTC Hero, at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Interestingly, the phone adopts Apple's unibody design that was introduced...

Sony is to stop selling ultra-thin organic light emitting diode (OLED) televisions in Japan, citing poor demand. The Japanese giant will stop shipments of the XEL-1 tellies by the end of March, a spokesman said. A promised...

An Nvidian marketing director faces charges for telling a flight attendant he had a bomb in his jacket. Yushing Lui, 47, pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge in a San Franciscan court following an incident aboard a Cathay...

MSI, the other Taiwanese hardware company, has pushed out an all in one PC which wants to combine a Hi-Fi powerhouse with a touchscreen desktop PC, albeit one with a rather hefty price tag. The Wind Top AE2220 Hi-Fi introduces...

Adobe Systems, the US based software maker, has announced at the World Mobile Congress trade show in Barcelona, that the company will be introducing its Flash 10.1 platform to smartphones in the first half of 2010.  The...

Church leaders are asking people to give up technology for Lent in an effort to ease global poverty. Senior bishops say we should stop using energy-sapping gadgets for 40 days and send the money we save on the power bills to...

The European Commission, the EU's competition watchdog, has approved Hewlett-Packard’s bid to acquire networking equipment maker 3com in a $2.7 billion deal as the EC concluded that the deal will not threaten the...

South Korean giant Samsung Electronics is poised to give a stiff competition to Apple’s much-touted iPad device by launching its own signature tablet computing device in the near future, Bloomberg has reported. Dropping a...

With Gartner predicting the mobile phone overtaking the PC as the premier device for web access by 2013, the big Internet giants put the mobile device into the very center of their strategies. Today, Google’s CEO, Eric...

A recent report published in The Los Angeles Times is suggesting that Apple will employ FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) protection for preventing privacy theft of e-books sold through its devices, iPad included. This...

High-tech industry pundit Canalys reports that more than half of all smartphone shipments during the last quarter of 2009 featured touchscreens. According to its figures, for the first time ever 55% of the devices worldwide were...

Canadian smartphone company Research in Motion is offering free Blackberry server software to small and medium sized businesses. Blackberry Enterprise Server Express wirelessly and securely synchronises the company's handsets...

Airport scanners which see through passengers' clothing may be breaking the law according to the Human Rights and Equality Commission. The giant microwave ovens, which clearly show bombs, parcels of drugs, and your meat and two...

In the middle of rumours suggesting growing dissension between Apple and Google over the latter’s reported decision to go for Microsoft’s Bing for the iPhone, a high-profile Google executive has called Apple a...

An insurance company is reporting that some iPhone enthusiasts, in their quest to lay their hands on the latest model of the blockbuster device, are indulging in insurance frauds. Insurance firm, Supercover Insurance, which...

Telecoms giant Huawei has demonstrated that mobile download speeds could soon reach 600 Megabits per second. Using next, next generation technology, LTE-Advanced - which is around 20 times faster than current 3G connections -...

UN agency, the International Telecommunication Union expects the number of mobile phone subscriptions globally to reach five billion in 2010. The ITU says growth is driven by advanced services and handsets in developed...

More operating system news at the MWC today as chipset maker Intel and phone giant Nokia declare a merger of their Moblin and Maemo platforms to create MeeGo. Intel will also source HSPA tech from Nokia and the relationship is...

A hacker believed to have caused traffic chaos  by hacking into a huge electronic billboard in Moscow and playing a porn video on it during rush hour has been arrested. Russian news agency Interfax said the 40-year-old...

Microsoft must certainly be quite annoyed by the fact that Intel, its long time partner, has now committed human and financial resources to a competing mobile platform that could one day morph into a desktop rival, taking on...

At an incredibly low price, here's an impressive invitation into the world of flat-screen televisions. Rich visuals are delivered thanks to the 6000:1 contrast ratio from the Hannspree ST321MBB.  It's ready to display all...

Type more comfortably with the Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 6000. This ergonomist-approved keyboard features media keys that allow you to easily control your music, with next track, previous track, play, pause and volume control...