As from the 1st of March, Microsoft will allow users of its popular Windows operating systems to choose web browsers other than Internet Explorer as it takes steps to comply with an agreement it struck with the European...

Apple has apparently decided to kick out apps that carry an "overtly sexual content" as the Cupertino-based company has started to send emails to developers of such applications to tell them that they are no longer welcomed on...

An intriguing iPhone app called ASBOrometer has been launched for the iPhone and will reveal to its users the percentage of their neighbours that have what some people call "badges of honour" otherwise known as ASBOs. The...

DRM has become the source of a lot of vitriol recently, which is a shame, because some companies (well, okay, just Valve) manage to get it right. One pirate-hating publisher that certainly hasn’t got it right, however, is...

Memory maker, Corsair has introduced a new ultra-secure thumb drive with a built-in keypad. The Flash Padlock 2 has a user-definable PIN number up to ten characters long and data on the drive can't be accessed without entering...

Apple's plans to take over the mobile application world are coming closer to fruition with the announcement that it has extended its reach into 12 new countries. The addition of Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya,...

As the result of the intense rivalry emerging between the two companies, Cisco Networks has suspended Hewlett-Packard from its elite group of companies who receive confidential information regarding Cisco’s product road...

IT Services Powerhouse Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company plans to further expand its information technology services by offering a new set of ‘Cloud Design Services’. Industry experts believe that the...

Search giant Google has been given the green light to become a power broker and will from now on be able to buy and sell energy on the wholesale market through a wholly owned arm called Google Energy. The US Federal Energy...

Big Blue has dished out the beta version of a Firefox add-on developed by the company, designed to record the web activity of a user so that they can be automatically viewed or printed out by other people as tutorials. The...

A security expert investigating the cyber-attack on Google, that had targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human right activists, has claimed that the hackers behind the attack were also responsible for the cyber-attacks made on...

It’s now been over three months since Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang first paraded what turned out to be a fake Fermi card on stage. At that point, we thought we might see the first Fermi products in 2009, but this then...

San Diego chip shop Qualcomm plans to launch a new display technology which mimics the way butterfly wings reflect brilliant colours. According to The LA Times, the display works by reflecting ambient light using tiny...

Apple is in the process of removing material with sexual content from the iTunes App Store, according to an email sent to one developer. Jon Atherton, who developed Wobble iBoobs (we'll leave it up to you to ponder what that...

The Broadband Computer Company has launched a solution, called Alex, that claims to help novice computer users to do basic tasks like using the web, emails and more without any formal training. Harry Drnec, marketing...

Valleywag, the technology blog of Gawker.com, has reported that Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who had recently revealed the iPad tablet PC, continued his streak of Flash-bashing while he was at a private meeting with Wall Street Journal...

Android-based Desire, the HTC smartphone that's a twin to Google's Nexus One, has popped up for sale at an authorised third-party mobile contract phone retailer and will cost as little as £30 per month. Mobilephonesdirect,...

Technology website CNET has reported that search engine giant Google is considering the acquisition of Los Angeles based Catch Media. The latter offers solutions aimed at making it simple for consumers to enjoy their digital...

Yet another well-meaning startup is trying to get computers into the hands of the techno-illiterate. The Broadband Computer Company has launched Alex, a Linux-based GUI which aims to simplify common computing tasks by offering...

The controversial domain name Sex.com will be auctioned off in New York next month.  The sale price will likely put this week's $1 million sale of Poker.org in the shade.   Sex.com last changed hands in 2006 for...

Over the next few weeks software megacorporation Microsoft will offer a number of choices of web browser to new and existing users in line with a European Union anti-competetive lawsuit. In December, the European Commission told...

A router snafu knocked 10 million blogs hosted by Wordpress.com off the web for almost two hours last night, the company's worst downtime in four years. The crash affected both free and premium blogs and caused about 5.5...

Facebook has shown a phenomenal growth in around six years of its existence, and it just added another feather to its cap by outpacing Yahoo to become the second most-visited website in the US, according to data released by an...

Sony Ericsson’s chief executive Bert Nordberg made a striking revelation in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan, when he said Google first asked his company to build Google Nexus One smartphone, but it...

Google Inc. may be raking in a massive $500 million a year from the companies and individuals who register misleading domain addresses, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by a noted Harvard Professor Ben Edelman,...

Connect One's WiReach allows 3G mobile broadband users share their connection using Wifi, but it won't make service providers happy if it ever reaches the UK. The $99 device which has a USB port into which you plug your 3G...

Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that the reason why some Windows systems unexpectedly rebooting after users attempted to install the latest security patch was a rootkit program. The malware was present on the affected systems which...

Facebook and PayPal have joined forces to offer online payments system to users for helping them buy several virtual goods on the social networking website. The partnership would also let the advertisers buy adverts on...

As many as 75,000 personal computers in around 2,500 organisations worldwide have fallen prey to a botnet based on a new variant of the infamous ZeUS Trojan, codenamed Kneber, it has been emerged. The botnet, which was unearthed...

The US district court hearing arguments in the case over Google's plan to fillet the world's books and put some of them online can't yet make a decision. "I am not going to rule today. There is just too much to digest," Judge...

Sony's uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves has picked up ten gongs at the AIAS awards, despite stiff competition from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Awards, which were held in Las Vegas...

Issues surrounding Google’s latest social network tool, Buzz, haven’t apparently settling down, the search company is now facing a class action lawsuit for its alleged privacy invasion after facing the wrath of users...

Google Books, the search engine giant's attempt to create a massive online digital library by scanning millions of books, has often come under fire from governments, authors and publishing for scanning literary works of thousands...

The US International Trade Commission has announced that the agency will investigate the makers of the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphone after camera maker Kodak complained to the ITC that Apple and Research in Motion have...

It looks like Steve Jobs is on a one-man crusade to rid the world of Flash even trying to persuade the Wall Street Journal that getting rid of the web animation and video software on its own Internet sites would be...

The Product Key Card editions of Microsoft Office 2010 might carry a lower selling price (see here) than the retail box versions but they come with two significant disadvantages which means that, under most conditions, you will...

The strategic search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo has been formally approved by law makers on both sides of the Atlantic as both scramble to catch up with market leader Google. The 10-year deal that both companies...

IBM Research has built a tool that can record every click of the mouse or keyboard that you make when online with Firefox. CoScripter Reusable History records your online comings and goings at the level of interactions, such as...

The recent hacks on Google and other corporations in China emanated from a school and  university in China, the New York Times reported. According to the paper's sources, the schools involved are Shanghai Jiaotong...

You will never be bored again with the Sony Ericsson W995. This is the ultimate multi-media phone and possibly the best Walkman phone yet. The stylish brushed metal black casing is just a sign of what's inside. The 8.1 Megapixel...

The Nokia X6 mobile phone could possibly be the ultimate entertainment mobile experience.  Have thousands of music tracks, countless video clips and stunning photos, literally at your fingertips with the 3.2 TFT...