Virgin Media's announcement that it is going to release a 100Mbps by the end of the year means two things; firstly that the company could release it now if it wanted to and secondly that the competition is really heating up,...

The UK Telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has awarded a contract to research, analyse and collect internet data in the UK to Samknows, a website that has collaborated in 2008 with the industry watchdog to create a method to...

Samsung 55-inch 3D LED HDTV television sets have already gone on sale on Amazon with only one left at $3300 including free shipping at the time of writing and that even that price is undercut by Vann's, another lesser known...

Gaming champion and Labour MP Tom Watson has called on the government to offer tax relief to the UK games industry in an Early Day Motion. Watson said on his Gamers' Voice Facebook group that he's managed to get MPs from all...

Economic Jenga fumbler Gordon Brown has tried to cosy up with UK games devs this week, saying that the UK is “by far the biggest producer of computer games in Europe,” and that we’re, “leading the way in...

UK residents annoyed about the lacklustre speed of their broadband connections will be able to put the lie to their ISPs' advertising claims under a new Ofcom scheme.  The regulator is looking for volunteers to install...

There was a time when laptops were the expensive, much slower and feature-limited cousins of desktop computers, the reserve of a wealthy elite and this only changed over the last few years or so. The prices of laptops have almost...

A confidential Microsoft document, the Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, was leaked all over the internet by Cryptome.org, an organisation that focuses on publishing secret government documents. The 22 page 'spy guide'...

There's a bundle of graphics card reviews kicking about now, funnily enough many feature Daamit's 5830 cards launched today. Before we get to those, though here's a look at ASUS' EAH5670 1GB card, which is great if you're...

Intel's UK Twitter feed has been, rather embarrassingly hacked, the feed itself says. And it looks like it's been delivering the "this you" phishing scam that's been bouncing about the short-message whittering service. In fact,...

The British Library has warned the UK government that the country's web heritage will soon be lost if appropriate measures are not taken to archive Britain's web sites.  The institution has asked the government to grant it...

IT services provider CA Inc. has acquired cloud computing technology and vendor 3Tera, in an attempt to expand its product portfolio and carve a niche in the lucrative enterprise cloud computing market. According a statement...

In an attempt to curtail the spam epidemic affecting the world wide web, Microsoft has secured a federal court order which allows it to axe 277 domain names that are being used by hackers to control a massive network of PCs,...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced the launch of its government-specific cloud computing service, which has been tailored to address the privacy, security, as well as compliance needs of the government agencies. In its annual...

A copyright complaint from Microsoft has succeeded in getting whistle-blowing site Cryptome.org taken down. The move will please the US government as stuff it would prefer to keep under wraps is often exposed on the site. A...

Two Microsoft Australia officials have given away details of the hardware designs the company would use for its recently heralded Windows 7 mobile operating system, it has been reported. According to the details that have...

Apple has sold ten billion* songs through its record-breaking iTunes service. That's a lot of money for Apple, the record companies, and the artists involved, considering the fuss everyone made when digital downloads took over...

The Wintel axis is being resuscitated in order to sell more computers. Intel is plugging its range of new Core blimey chips like there's no tomorrow. Maybe that's the point. Perhaps there will be no tomorrow. In London...

Virgin Media has confirmed today that it will be launching a 100mbps broadband service by the end of the year, making it by far the fastest widely available commercial broadband in the country. The company has increased the speed...

Google has apparently put on rest the soaring concerns over its looming exit from the Chinese market, as the search engine behemoth has placed advertisements for 30 positions, including software engineers, sales professionals,...

Cellphone outfit T-Mobile is launching a new product aimed at people who want to use their mobile broadband whilst travelling. The new service, called Euro Broadband Boosters, bolts additional European access onto existing...

Cards sporting Nividia's upcoming Fermi technology are unlikely to be available in any volume at the end of March, Digitimes reports having been tipped the nod by makers of the cards. The cards will be called Nvidia GeForce GTX...

Microsoft has filed a for a patent for a newly developed wireless charging device, which, according to the patent filing, is designed to wirelessly charge devices such as tablet PCs, smartphones and other wireless computer...

Microsoft has revealed plans to dish out a revamped version of its Windows Terminal Services (WTS) thin client platform dubbed Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, which will allow IT managers in schools to run several PCs from just...

The Compaq Mini 110c-1110 is a compact and stylish companion. Light and slim, tuck it under your arm or in your bag and go. This tiny communications powerhouse is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Processor N270 and with Microsoft...

Almost a third of online companies come under regular attack by criminal hackers, according to survey results released this week by Symantec. Questioning security staff at 2,100 companies in 27 countries, Symantec found that...

IBM has announced that it is adding data deduplication features to its mainframes via an advanced gateway appliance that involves the capability to compress tape data of up to size 25TB into 1TB worth of disk space. Big Blue is...

UK government has finally bowed to the pressure exerted by the online privacy advocates and people who are against the contentious ‘three strikes’ strategy laid out in the Digital Economy Bill that purported to...

China's leading search engine claims a shocking lack of security nous at its chosen domain name registrar was responsible for a prolonged outage last month. China's Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was...

A number of online retailers have started taking preorders on Samsung's 3D television sets ahead of the official launch which is set to happen next week, coinciding with the CEBIT event in Germany. A report by Reuters says that...

Retailers whose prices fluctuate in line with demand and with competitors' prices should not use printed brochures for advertising, according to the UK's advertising watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said...

Apple’s phenomenal iTunes Store has just crossed another milestone, as the store sold 10 billionth music track yesterday afternoon, the company announced. Apple launched the store back in 2003, when it was exclusively...

Google has already said that it will appealing against the decision by an Italian court to charge three of its employees of not respecting the privacy of the Down Syndrome's victim. The search engine giant might have...

Virgin media has announced that it will start rolling out its 100Mb broadband service at the end of 2010. The company already offers 20Mb speeds on its fibre optic network, and reckons it does much better than most suppliers...

Telecommunications firm aql has announced that it will be rolling out a fibre optic service in The Calls area of the city of Leeds with plans to cover the rest of the city within one year. Although the download speeds offered by...

H2O Networks, which has now become i3 Group, has announced that three ISPs have signed for its FTTH (Fibre to the house) scheme in seaside town of Bournemouth and will offer broadband speeds starting from 100mbps. There's also an...

There are a number of similarities between Google and Toyota, the Japanese car manufacturer. A few hours ago, an executive told US congressmen that the world's largest car maker might have grown too fast. Now the European...

AMD has added yet another number to its swelling line-up of 5000-series GPUs today, as it announced the Radeon HD 5830. Sitting between the Radeon HD 5770 and the 5850, AMD’s product manager Dave Baumann says that it "hits...

So Smart PVR is a multimedia player and recorder hard disk drive with an iPod dockstation compatible iPod, iTouch and iPhone. Includes HDMI, LAN, Wifi 802.11N that permit you to see videos and movies in high definition (1080i) on...

The WD TV Live HD Media Player from Western Digital has everything you need to play your HD media collection and the fun stuff you find on the web in brilliant HD 1080p on your big screen HDTV. Because it supports a wide variety...