As expected, boxed, off-the-shelf copies of Microsoft Office 2010 are set to cost significantly more than their US counterpart in yet another example of rip-off Britain. The US version of Office Professional 2010 will cost $500...

Billing and multichannel self-care technology services provider, Convergys,and software giant Microsoft have announced a partnership in which the two companies plan to jointly develop a software product targeted at communication...

The BBC will be launching two applications for the iPhone OS in April to offer a more intuitive and user friendly experiments to the million of iPhone and iPod Touch users who use the platform to get news and sport content. Both...

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has laid into comedian Peter Kay after Kay was less than complimentary about the wannabe hard nut's performance at the Brit Awards bash last night. And, on a bad day for rock and roll, Gallagher...

An advert by Sony Ericsson that shows someone using a Satio smartphone to take photos and chatting with Facebook friends has been deemed misleading by the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA). A Satio owner complained to the...

O2 has confirmed that it will be stocking the HTC Smart exclusively as from April as the Telefonica-owned network tries to capture the lower end of the market where O2 has some compelling smartphones. T-Mobile, Vodafone and...

One of UK's biggest telecommunications groups, Vodafone, has been named by consultancy firm Brand Finance as the most valuable brands in the country ahead of banking and finance giant, HSBC. Vodafone came out seventh globally out...

It’s been the de-facto keyboard standard since Queen Victoria’s reign, and it’s already seen off fierce competitors such as the Dvorak layout, but plucky inventors are still attempting to usurp the old-fashioned...

Software giant Microsoft has announced that the company will dish out a social networking add-on for its Microsoft Outlook email client which will allow users to stay connected with their contacts on various social networking...

The company which once published the biggest magazine in the world has said its UK subsidiary has filed an administration proceeding. Reader's Digest UK filed for administration to speed resolution of the parent company's US...

Apple's imminent iPad will end Amazon's virtual monopoly on e-book sales according to international bean counters. The Internet bookseller - which until now has cornered a 90 per cent share of the electronic reader market with...

After the user backlash suffered by Google after the launch of its new social networking tool Buzz over suspected privacy flaws, the software giant appears to be in serious trouble. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has...

Apple Inc., the company behind the soon to be launched iPad tablet device, has apparently started banning prominent iPhone hackers from its popular iTunes app store in a bid to hamper the development of jailbreaking tools for its...

The BBC will jump on the app phone bandwagon in April with content fed direct to Apple's iPhone. Blackberry and Android versions of the news and sport streaming Apps will follow soon after as the Beeb tries to keep up with the...

After the launch on Monday of Windows Phone 7, I thought, maybe I’d even secretly hoped that we’d seen the end of Windows Mobile. Apparently not. Although a fine product, it became boring. Overshadowed by Android, out performed...

The Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone, Vittorio Colao, has voiced his concerns over the limited competition in the fast growing mobile phone advertising market, which is currently dominated by search engine giant Google with a...

Eric Schmidt has revealed at MWC 2010 that more than 60,000 Android devices were shipping every day, which is roughly twice the amount compared to the last quarter. However, Schmidt did not confirm whether these devices were...

A new online television service, Seesaw, has been soft-launched yesterday and goes live today; it aims at bringing together material from the main terrestrial channels, namely BBC, Channel 4 and Five. The three are,...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed an official complaint against Google's Buzz service which played fast and loose with people's personal details. The privacy watchdog has asked the US Federal Trade...

Phoney Ericsson as been rapped over the knuckles for producing a TV advert for a Facebook phone that couldn't do Facebook. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) agreed with a viewer who complained about the ad for a Satio...

A hacking contest is offering cash prizes totalling $100,000 to coders managing to break their way into virtually any operating system, either mobile or PC bound. The annual Pwn2Own contest is back for the fourth year running at...

Social networking giant Facebook has announced at the World World Congress in Barcelona that soon, the company will be launching an ultra light version of the popular social networking platform, designed specifically for mobile...

Google has made major changes to the way its new social networking service works after being at the centre of a storm of criticism claiming that the service had violated users' privacy. Google Buzz is the search giant's attempt...

Nvidia’s DirectX 11 hardware might still be held up by signal failures, but that hasn’t stopped the green team from teaming up with THQ and 4A Games to implement a goods train full of DX11 goodies into Metro...

Hegemonic software house Microsoft has launched the UK pricing for its range of Office software which will arrive in June. The company has simplified its once excruciatingly complex pricing structure down to just three paid-for...

A consortium involving as many as 30 international security organisations has divulged ‘25 most dangerous programming errors’, as a part of its efforts to make the software development business more accountable. The...

Vittorio Colao, the chief executive of Vodafone, has expressed concerns that the rapidly surging influx of smartphones could soon lead to the outstripping of network operators’ capacity to ensure smooth flow of data across...

AMD's quad-core Athlon II X4 635 represents "for the money the best bang for your dollar" in Techwarelabs estimation, over here. MSI's Radeon HD 5670 puts in an amazing performance as Ultimate Hardware's tests give it ten out of...

Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has taken the wrappers off from a new faster, smoother web browser for its highly popular smartphone on Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Tailored to match the...

Today sees the launch of yet another service offering a way to watch UK telly programmes old and new online. SeeSaw - which cobbles together offerings from the BBC, Channel 4 and Five - has struck deals for shows from both the...

Newspaper and magazine publishers are reportedly finding it difficult to derive any tangible benefits from it, a report published on Financial Times indicated. This is despite the fact that the Apple iPad has brought a bevy of...

Microsoft has released the official price list for its flagship business suite, Office 2010, and has significantly discounted the prices of its consumer versions in a bid to counter the threat of online office suites such as Zoho...

Yesterday, Facebook’s Chamath Palihapitiya (Vice President of Growth, Mobile and International) announced an upcoming Facebook SMS service that is expected to deliver 90% of the Facebook experience via SMS. It would be a...

AMD has announced new ATI Catalyst driver features coming in a pair of updates. The first, version 10.2 is available here, now. The second is scheduled for release in March. With the releases AMD is introducing a...

The second most popular video website in the US, Hulu, will need to iron out some serious licensing issues before it can launch the video on demand service in the UK later this year. The Telegraph has reported that the video...

Verizon Wireless has become the first major US mobile network provider to allow anyone with a data service package to run popular VoIP package Skype (and possibly others as well). The deal will see Verizon Wireless bring the...

Google Inc. on Tuesday attempted to placate mobile operators by portraying itself as their ‘friend’, dismissing rumours that it is planning to foray into mobile operator business in the foreseeable future. Responding...

Beleaguered social networking company MySpace has added to its appeal by partnering with Google, which would now start showing the former’s status updates into its real-time search results. MySpace has incidentally...

Previews of Microsoft's latest mobile platform, Windows Phone 7, have been mixed until now and largely futile because the platform can still undergo a number of changes over the forthcoming months. One thing though that left us...

Social engineering headcounter Nielsen has come up with the startling conclusion that people who are getting free stuff now might be a bit iffy about paying for it in the future. The company surveyed 27,000 people who were...

Acer Aspire One 751 Price £245 So, if its got a 10-inch screen and Atom power it’s a netbook right? Well Acer would like to disagree with the first assumption and, to prove the point, the firm produced the Aspire One...

Apple has admitted that a batch of Macbook laptops were shipped with defective hard drives. The Cupertino company says that "a very small percentage" of hard drives used in MacBook systems sold betweeen May 2006 and December...

It appears that Facebook is to launch a stripped-down, picture-free version of its social notworking site called Facebook Zero. "We are discussing it... as an option to make Facebook on the mobile web available to everyone,...

In its first product announcement for 2010, Sony Ericsson introduce us to the fresh and distinctive curves of the Vivaz. Its designer look and feel immediately captures the imagination in a way previous models failed to do....

Google chief executive, Eric Schmidt faced a feisty crowd in Barcelona today at what he called the "centre of the computing world." The mobile Internet represented a "convergence point," Schmidt said in his keynote address to...

The eMachines EX1831 desktop computer delivers great performance and expansion possibilities with the eMachines quality and price you expect. With reliable Intel performance, Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 3GB memory and...

The Aspire Z5600 Series features next-generation touch screen technology and no-compromise performance in a space-saving all-in-one PC design. Experience the satisfaction of finer, more intuitive contol of your social network,...

The Aspire M3802 sports a striking glossy black exterior that will add a touch of class to any room of your house. What's more, this desktop packs a powerful processor, top-level graphics and a host of practical features to...

Surf the net, edit video or photos, or play games with super smooth Nvidia graphics and 14'' X-black widescreen display.Get online at the touch of a button, and use the multi touch trackpad to scroll, flick and zoom. Go straight...

The BenQ LED monitors come with an ultra-high dynamic contrast ratio of 5000000:1 to add colour depth and definition to darkened and complex visuals, so that everything you see - from the brightest white to the darkest black - is...