The first commercial augmented reality app to launch on a large scale, Layar is a free application which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality, through the camera of your mobile...

As the MWC came to an end this year, Google and Adobe announced they've struck up a partnership to bring Adobe products to Android handsets. Adobe Flash is a popular web format used for embedding video and animation and is used...

Iron Mountain, which specialises in records management and data backup services, has acquired archiving solutions vendor Mimosa Systems in a $112 million deal, which is aimed at enhancing its cloud-based archiving product...

Verisign has revealed that around 11 million domain names were registered during the last quarter of 2009 pushing the total number of domain name registrations to 192 million, 25 years after dotcom domain names were released. The...

Samsung has already announced that it will be launching a trio of new 3D LED-backlit television sets in March 2010 in the UK and it has also confirmed that Plasma sets will follow soon. One technology that will not...

The Dalai Lama has kicked off a Twitter feed. Is this news? it's the sort of thing that passes for news these days. What's he said? Not much. In fact it's pretty clear it's not really him. He must have minions. You can find...

ITProPortal, in association with Microsoft, have launched the Web Development  Hub. Over the coming weeks, we will be bringing you featured articles relating to the many facets of web development. We will be covering topics...

Apple has quietly proceeded to what can only be qualified as a massive cull as thousands of applications targeting an adult audience have been unceremoniously removed from the App store, depriving millions of customers of their...

ASUS reckons its new Protect 3.0 motherboard design "helps protect the earth, systems, and users". And you can't claim fairer than that. Asus said the technology cuts the generation and transmission of harmful radiation in half....

Professional web designers and developers need to be highly skilled technologically in terms of being able to understand programming and software issues in order to be able design compelling websites. However, website development...

Building a basic website is not hard. All that is required is a notepad application, a browser to check the look of the website and some files with code references for looking up how to program simple commands. But that is like a...

Small businesses form the backbones of many economies. In Europe, the EU estimates that small and medium enterprises constitute 99% of all firms (PDF file), with the average enterprise in Europe employing no more than six...

Microsoft, which revealed the Window Mobile 7 OS at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, has announced that the latest smartphone operating system offered by the company will come with a minimal hardware requirement which will...

Zmanda, the California based vendor of data back-up and recovery tools, has rolled out a software tool which will allow Tivoli Data Center users to integrate their systems with Zmanda Recovery Manager.  The Tivoli Storage...

IBM and Johnson Controls have announced a partnership deal under which both the companies will be working together to design and develop technology that will help corporations in reducing their energy costs and curtailing water...

Bletchley Park, home to the codebreakers of World War Two, has launched its 2010 programme of events. As well as many of the old favourites, new events for this year include a Vintage Computer Fair, Armed Forces Day and the...

Jonathan Ross was seen fiddling with Microsoft's forthcoming Project Natal motion-sensing set-up at a swanky launch last night. The presenter was filmed by his son as he wobbled about waving his arms in front of a giant TV...

Software giant Microsoft has rolled out version 4.6 of its Application virtualisation tool,also known as App-V 4.6, in an attempt to boost the rate of adoption of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and Office 2010 productivity...

The online book store formerly known as Shortcovers has undergone a brand overhaul, renaming itself Kobo, and launched a new UK-specific ebook store that claims to offer nearly two million titles for downloads. The books,...

The phrase “browser game” usually conjures up images of simple Flash games, retro emulators or the infuriating onslaught of Facebook games. However, the humble browser could soon be bringing us full-on DirectX 11 PC...

US investigators have zeroed in on the source of recent wave of cyber attacks that crippled the servers of Google along with 20 other companies, according to reports. Quoting a researcher working with the US investigators, the...

The Internet could soon see its first porn-only domain, after a landmark victory for the company behind “.xxx”. A panel of jurists has ruled that domain name overseer ICANN broke its own rules when it denied would-be...

The soon-to-leave BBC TV presenter, Jonathan Ross, has released some information through his Twitter account to more than half a million Twitter followers, about the launch of Microsoft's next generation controller otherwise...

A petition, calling for Lord Mandelson to cancel his plans to ban individuals from the internet based on their (legal or illegal) use of P2P file sharing, has apparently convinced the current government that there is no need for...

Government plans to operate a three strikes and you're out system for persistent file sharers have been shelved in response to a public petition which compared blaming ISP's for piracy to forcing the Post Office to search through...

The UK's .uk namespace is the fastest-growing of the world's country-code internet domains, according to the latest statistics from VeriSign.  The .uk zone grew 11 percent last year, the company said in its quarterly...

A copy of the first comic in which Superman appeared has been sold for $1 million (£646,000) in an Internet auction. The very first issue of Action Comics was published in 1938 and only around 100 are thought to be still...

Bloom Energy is all set to unveil its highly anticipated and slightly controversial fuel cell box, the Bloom Box, which according to the company, is capable of generating massive amounts of clean energy from resources such as...

A latest UN report is advising developing countries to be prepared to deal with a spate of e-waste materials, such as used mobile phones, computers and other gadgets, unless they put into force some effective recycling...

The case of a Pennsylvania school official remotely monitoring a student at home that emerged last week has gained so much of attention that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is stepping into the matter to sort out the...

America's Federal Trade Commission has sent scary letters to close to 100 organisations warning them that personal information inclding some sensitive data has been leaked into the public domain through careless use of peer to...

Mobile network operator Orange has slapped a 22-year-old university student with a hefty internet broadband bill, £8,000 to be more precise, for using its mobile broadband dongle abroad, The Guardian reported. A Nottingham...

Retail giant WalMart has announced plans to acquire online video sale and rental service Vudu Inc. in a bid to strengthen its stand in the online media content market, which has players like Apple and Amazon offering media...

Kobo has launched its cloud-based e-book service in the UK allowing anywhere access to recent bestsellers and free classics. The service, which was previously restricted to the US, is now open for business in the UK and features...

A recent survey commissioned by O2 to estimate broadband speeds performance in the UK has revealed that the network carrier was in fact the fastest operator in London, while results for the rest of the country were a little...

A secret global negotiation over how to stop individuals breaking copyright law threatens to undermine people's rights to privacy and to the protection of their personal data, according to the European Union's privacy...

Twits on Twitter are now crafting more than 50 million Tweets per day, a spokesman for the outfit blogged. "Tweets grew 1,400 percent last year to 35 million per day," Kevin Weil, a member of Twitter's analytics team, said in a...

A phishing attack apparently originating from China has hit Twitter users all over the world as genuine accounts from the popular micro blogging websites are being sought by criminals to roll out spamming campaigns that involve...

Samsung says that it will be the first consumer electronics firm to launch a full HD LED-backlit 3D television set in Europe, with the release month likely to be March 2010. Three versions will go on sale over the forthcoming...

Following grumbles from the Bioshock community, game maker 2K is releasing a patch to fix the screen resolution problems with the underwater adventure shooter. Players who were using widescreen displays at 16:9 and 16:10 were...

BBC's popular iPlayer platform has managed to smash through the 120 million programme requests milestone in January 2010, its third consecutive highest month. Not surprisingly, the  bad weather and the long winter nights...

The latest patent spat between memory makers sees Infineon AG, seeking to block imports into the US of memory chips made by Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. Infineon filed a patent infringement complaint last week with the US...

The inexorable rise of everything 3D continues unabated with Korean electronics giant Samsung announcing that it will be the first company to deliver proper 3D capable LED TVs to the UK and the rest of Europe in March. "The...

Get ready to be seduced by the sexy and curvaceous Sony Ericsson Satio! This jaw dropping smartphone is not only a multimedia powerhouse but packs a gob smacking 12.1 megapixel Cyber-Shot hires camera complete with Xenon flash,...

Note that you will have to pay £100 for the handset initially. T-Mobile price plans come with Flexible Boosters. This Internet plan is configured with the Unlimited Internet Booster. This can be switched to any of the other...