The National Press Association is clearly unhappy about the launch of a number of news-oriented iPhone Apps by the BBC by April 2010 and this is certainly an opinion that has to be respected. However, they are likely to...

Maggie Brown of the Guardian asks a very pertinent questions about the business model of SeeSaw, the latest free video on demand service to come to the increasingly crowded UK market. Seesaw will offer 3000 hours worth...

3 UK is the latest mobile phone network in the UK to confirm that it will be selling the Desire, HTC's own take on the Google Nexus one smartphone, in spring 2010 in store, online and via its telesales team. Spring starts on the...

Eurocrats have rubber-stamped Microsoft and Yahoo's bid to buiild a "search alliance" to combat the might of Google. Both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission have give the companies their blessing following...

Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular open source Firefox web browser, has dished out security patches for its browser that cater for five critical vulnerabilities in the older versions of the web browser; the...

Search engine giant Google has acquired the developer firm behind the popular iPhone email search app reMail, which allows users to download and index their emails into the iPhone and perform local searches. Immediately after...

We’re now so used to ATI and Nvidia’s bickering that it’s easy to forget that there are other players jostling for attention in the graphics business too. Not only that, but some of them are even dabbling with...

Over three quarters of domain name registrants fail to hand over enough personal information to satisfy ICANN's strict requirements, according to recent research. A sample study of 1,419 domains in the global Whois database...

Industry experts have predicted that Apple's Safari web browser will be the first to succumb at next month's Pwn2Own hacking challenge in Vancouver. The event sees hackers from the world over take a crack at the latest web...

A recent survey by a market research firm has given a glimmer of hope to newspaper and magazine publishers even if a majority of users prefer accessing online content for free. They have stuck to web properties as they look to...

The vast majority of PCs running Windows 7 are under-performing according to research conducted by XPnet. A blog posting reveals that 85 per cent of PC systems monitored by the outfit are running 'alarmingly low' on physical RAM...

An Internet forum which simply provided links to films and TV shows amongst other online things has been raided by Polish police who arrested three people. The Filmowisko forum was investigated by Polish anti-piracy Foundation...

A bloke called Boy has caused a bit of a kerfuffle with his web site called PleaseRobMe.com The site trawls the likes of Twitter on which folk like to whitter on about what they're up to and where they are. Many Twits like to...

CRM software vendor Salesforce.com has rolled out the beta version of its Chatter application, which is designed to integrate enterprise collaboration with cloud computing and social networking, for around 100 customers to try...

As expected, the UK Newspapers Publishers Association issued a statement that severely criticises the BBC for launching free iPhone news applications that could undermine their own plans to generate revenue by doing the...

Attendees are pulling out of a key Internet policy conference after suicide bomb threats were made against the venue.  Market-leading domain name firm Go Daddy this week vowed to keep its troops at home, rather than ...

The Newspaper Publishers' Association, is trying to stop the BBC from launching its news and sports iPhone Apps, just 24 hours after the announcement was made The NPA reckons the free apps will undermine traditional newspapers'...

The Google Nexus One raised expectations for Android smartphones significantly and set the benchmark by which all mainstream to high end models based on this platform will be judged in 2010.  Yet, even before it reaches our...

Japanese electronics firm NEC has announced the development and successful demonstration of a new technology for next-generation high-speed serial communication interfaces. NEC's new interface allows chip-to-chip data rates of...

Adobe Systems has been busy defending its stand ever since Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs has reportedly lambasted Adobe in an employee conference by calling it “lazy” and its Flash technology...

We received a direct message on Twitter yesterday from the entity managing the Twitter account of Project Canvas, the internet, on demand video service that is backed by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 amongst others, over an article...

After grabbing a significant share in the desktop web browser share market, Mozilla Foundations seems all set to make a mark in the smartphone domain. One executive at the high-profile foundation’s indicated that the mobile...

Microsoft will announce next month that the development platform for Windows Phone 7 Series, the successor to Windows Mobile, will be Silverlight. Developers close to the project have apparently told CRN that the move, which...

Google Inc., arguably one of the most profitable company on the internet, has given a massive $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind the comprehensive user-generated online encyclopedia, which carries...

A new website which has a bantering name, “Please Rob Me”, has been purportedly designed to showcase the pros and cons of the social media platforms that divulge whereabouts of its users. The website apparently...

Sources familiar with the merger deal between France Telecom owned Orange UK and T-Mobile, which is owned by Deutsche Telekom, have reported that the two companies have offered concessions to the European Commission in an attempt...

On the last day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona I had another look at fancy mobile gadgets. While some famous handsets manufacturers like Nokia are missing at this year’s congress others left a great impression....

According to a couple of Harvard University click counters, Google could be earning close to half a billion dollars a year out of adverts placed on typo-squatted sites. The Harvard researchers Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman...

If Facebook wants to reach its first billion users as its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, envisions, the world's biggest social networking website will have to massively expand its user base beyond those who have a computer, a nice...

Apple Inc. has launched a Repair Extension Program, under which the Cupertino based company will extend the warranty on some of the defective MacBooks that were sold from 2006 and 2007 and has also said that any defective hard...

Software maker Adobe Systems has released update patches for two critical security vulnerabilities for its popular PDF editing software Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, fulfilling the promise which company made last week when the...

Companies in Europe may have to negotiate fewer contracts when they send data to foreign suppliers as a consequence of terms published by the European Commission. An expert says that the new rules, in force on 15th May, simplify...

France Telecom - owner of Orange - and Deutsche Telekom - owner of TMobile are wooing the European Commission with concessions in an attempt to get  approval for a merger of their mobile phone businesses in the...

Microsoft confirmed earlier this year that it will be pre-installing trial versions Office 2010 on selected computers and allow users to convert them to fully functional applications imply by activating them via a product key...

Amazon.com has released a Kindle application for Blackberry users, giving them access to their e-books on a smaller screen. The application allows users to access the Kindle shop and read one of its 400,000 books on a small...

Google has bunged $2 million in the direction of Wikipedia, the home-made on-line encyclopedia. The Wikians will spend the grant on hardware and making the site more accessible and easier to use. Google.org offered the grant to...

The Toshiba NB200-10G is an ultra portable notebook, with some great handy features. An affordable way to get to the internet wherever you are, it could also be used for education, as its small size and easy to use interface is...

The R530 is a powerful, yet affordable style leader. It offers great all-round value by combining outstanding quality and performance in an ultra-stylish “New Touch of Colour” red diamond and metallic hairline...