Some extremely heartening news for me that I wanted to share with you. A large part of my career has been spent dealing with, and training others to deal with complaint escalations. A very satisfying role, but there have been few...

As expected, Consumer giant Apple plans to use its popular iPhone OS solution coupled with custom silicon like the newly released A4 to equip new platforms that have yet to be announced. Computerworld unearthed a job post at...

UK-based online music streaming service We7 has said that it will be releasing an iPhone App in a few days that will offer similar features compared to the popular Spotify paid-for service. At £9.99 per month, the We7 offer...

The Google executives who were accused of 'violating privacy' by allowing the transmission of a video in 2006, which showed an Italian boy being bullied by his classmates, have been served with a 6 month prison sentence by a...

A recent study conducted by Government backed Consumer Forum has revealed that almost 73 percent of consumers in Britain are unaware of the fact that under British law, it is illegal to copy music files from CD onto iPods,...

A new BBC documentary, Virtual Revolution, has named Sunderland as the Facebook capital of Britain as researchers have found that the percentage of Sunderland residents who were more likely to log onto to Facebook was the highest...

Google's increasing dominance over the growing internet market has managed to attract the attention of the European Commission, which has announced a full-scale anti-trust inquiry on Google following complaints from three...

Semiconductor giant Samsung has announced that it will be mass producing 4Gb DDR3 memory modules using advanced 40nm manufacturing process. The memory, hailed by Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president of memory marketing at...

Meedan a new sophisticated translation web site which is designed to allow users to view translated versions of Arabic news in English and vice versa has become operational.  Based in San Francisco USA, the website aims to...

Three companies have lodged formal claims with the European Commission that Google is acting anti-competitively. Two of the complaints relate to the way that it ranks web pages. The Commission has asked Google to explain its...

Criminal gangs are apparently using increasingly sophisticated devices called jammers to disrupt satellite navigation signals that guide sat-navs and other navigational devices with potentially devastating consequences. GPS...

Yahoo! and micro-blogging giant Twitter have announced a partnership deal in which Yahoo will introduce real-time Twitter feeds into its search engine results and email service initially. In a joint statement released by the...

Google is apparently trying to tap into the lucrative commission-based market by offering what it calls the Adwords Comparison Ads and is likely to start the pilot project in the UK itself. When a search is done on credit cards,...

The Taiwanese tech wizards at MSI have revealed a new member of its all-in-one PC family, which not only includes a multi-touch screen, but also has a 120Hz refresh rate. Combine this with the supplied shutter glasses and...

Apple's COO, Tim Cook, dismissed the TV market as of no interest to Apple and the Apple TV as a hobby before adding that the company still believes that there is something in there Cook said that sales of the device grew by 35...

One of Google's top legal eagles has hit back at the Milan court which sentenced three of the company's executives to six month suspended prison sentences over a video of a disabled child being bullied. Matt Sucherman, Google's...

Intel has disclosed that it also faced a “sophisticated” hacking attack on its systems, just around the same time when Google reported that its servers had been attacked by Chinese hackers, it has emerged. The...

Chip behemoth Intel has admitted that it was the subject of an online security attack at around the same time as the infamous Google China hack, but is remaining vague about any connection between the two occurrences. The...

Valve has announced that its giant gaming portal Steam is getting a lick of paint and a new beta version of the client is available to testers. Valve reckons that Steam has grown over 200 per cent in the last 12 months and now...

Microblogging phenomenon Twitter is expected to monetise its growing popularity and massive user base, as rumours about the company launching its own advertising platforms on its website are doing rounds. The revelation came from...

Microsoft Corp., in collaboration with UNESCO, has launched an initiative of its own kind to save several rare languages from being lost after they have been falling victim to the ever-changing cultural landscape. The company has...

Xerox has filed a lawsuit against Google, Yahoo, and YouTube, accusing the companies of infringing on a couple of patents it owns and relating to web search and integration, it has been reported. The document copier and printing...

Market research firm Gartner has reported that the global mobile phone sales in last year reached around 1.21 billion units, showing a marginal decline of 0.9 percent compared to the sales figures in the year 2008. The year,...

Amazon and Microsoft have just entered into a cross-licensing patent agreement which would enable both the companies to access each other’s portfolio; the deal encompasses a wide array of products and technologies. The...

Intel has announced it intention to forge partnership with 24 venture capital firms to invest $3.5 billion in the US technology market to nurture the technical start ups in the Silicon Valley over the next couple of years. The...

Three Google executives have been handed six-month suspended jail sentences over a Youtube video which showed an autistic Italian boy being beaten and abused by four students. The video was eventually removed after complaints...

Yahoo is to help nudge Twitter towards inevitable ubiquity by integrating its full feed throughout its web properties.  While the ailing portal already publishes tweets amongst its regular search results using an open...

Three companies involved in Internet searches have complained that Google's search algorithms deliberately demote their sites because they are direct competitors. The complaints have sparked a preliminary antitrust inquiry into...

The latest iPad SDK documentation, still in Beta 3, confirms that the iPad comes with Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX graphics hardware rather than ARM's own MALI solution. Apple and Intel have both invested massively in...

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI is set to release a desktop all in one computer range called the Wind Top HD which will comprise of four members, the AE2420, AE2280, AP1920 and AE1920. The first model is one with a 24-inch multi touch...

Vodafone UK has announced that the new Sony Ericsson Vivaz handset will be available for sale from the 9th of March for as little as £30 per month on a 24 month contract. Vodafone's offer includes 600 minutes, unlimited...

Internet search giant Google has dished out an updated version of its ad publishing platform which incorporates DoubleClick's ad publishing technology, which was acquired by the company in a $3 billion takeover in 2007. According...

Faced with criticism that its board is a bit of a crusty Old Boys' club, Apple has appointed a glamorous token girl to Cupertino's inner circle. Andrea Jung, who is also Chief Executive of door-to-door cosmetics giant Avon, will...

A 22-year-old student managed to clock up an £8,000 Internet broadband bill after using a dongle on his mobile phone abroad. Nottingham University student, William Harrison, was beginning a six-month placement in France....

Three out of four Brits have no idea what digital media they are allowed to copy or record, according to research from Consumer Focus. The outfit is calling on the UK Government to reform the UK’s outdated copyright law...

A firm made famous for copying, Xerox, has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo, Google and YouTube claiming infringement of search patents it owns. Xerox said Google's AdWords and AdSense services violate a Xerox patent on...

If you think camera phones are all the same, think again. With the Nokia N86 and its 8 megapixel camera, not to mention 8GB of memory to hold all those photos, you'll be snap-happy in no time. Of course, it's not all about pretty...

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