A newly built Derby County Inner Ring road has been named after famous video game and movie character Lara Croft, after a public poll in which almost 89 percent of the population voted for Croft, who incidentally was portrayed...

Novell, Inc. today said it made profit of $21 million in its first 2010 fiscal quarter ended 31 January, 2010. This was up from $10.7 million in the same quarter of last year, while overall sales revenue slipped to to $202.4...

The abandoned former web site of Hertfordshire police has been found spreading malware, according to Sophos.  The anti-virus company said that an old Hertfordshire Police Authority site, set up to redirect users to...

All Facebook, a blog dedicated to reporting news about social networking giant Facebook, has reported that the company has patented its 'News Feed' technology which was first featured on the social networking site.  The...

Virgin Media, one of UK's biggest cable services providers, has announced plans to offer BSkyB's live Premier League Football broadcast for cheaper, provided that Britain's telecommunications regulator and competition authority...

Some of Ed Milliband's mates might have been excited to learn that the environment minister had improved his performance in the sack. Unfortunately for the junior half of the Bandybrothers double act, the missive was spam, sent...

Korean electronics superpower Samsung has announced that it has teamed up with VoiP specialist Skype to offer video and voice calls through a range of new TV sets. The forthcoming LED 7000 and 8000 series flat screens will have...

Skype has stopped offering downloads of its software for the Windows Mobile platform. Both Skype and Skype Lite versions of the VoiP and instant messaging software have been removed from the company's download portal, with the...

A recent report released by UK's Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), an organisation which keeps track of newspaper and magazine circulations, has revealed that Mail Online has emerged as the most popular newspaper website in the...

Microsoft and Panasonic have announced a patent licensing deal in which Microsoft will share its extended file sharing system, a technology designed to allow devices with flash memory to run multimedia rich...

Mild-mannered Microsoft withdrew its copyright complaint against secrets-busting web site Cryptome after it realised the tactic wasn't helping. Cryptome is now back up and running as you can see here. If Microsoft wanted to...

Social networking giant Facebook has reported that due to a glitch in a software update, some of the email messages sent by unsuspecting users ended up with the wrong recipients, raising questions about user privacy.  The...

With stories of Fermi delays, not to mention the dismal initial supply of Radeon HD 5800-series chips, it’s fair to say that the 40nm revolution hasn’t taken the world by storm. However, TSMC, which provides AMD and...

The BBC has plans to close down half its sprawling web site and will also close two radio stations, according to the Times. The corporation will promise to cut spending on imported American junk in a far-reaching review of its...

The company behind “.xxx”  has sent a thinly-veiled legal threat to ICANN, demanding its Internet domain proposal be approved sharpish.  ICM Registry, which has been fighting with the domain name overseer...

Derby Council has named its new £36 million ring road Lara Croft Way in recognition of the city's connection with the spectacularly pneumatic game character. 27,000 people took part in the vote to name the road, and an...

Crucial is now shipping its super-fast 256GB 2.5-inch SATA solid state drives, but all of that speed comes with a hefty price tag. The RealSSD C300 raises the bar for SSD throughput with read speeds of of to 335MB per second...

An Italian court has convicted three Google executives of violations of the country's privacy code, handing them a six month suspended prison sentence over a video hosted on the site which shows an autistic child being...

Microsoft has withdrawn the copyright complaint which was made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against Crytome.org, a website which is popular for publishing information about freedom of speech, cryptography,...

Search engine giant Google will soon start indexing status updates from Facebook Pages as a part of its real-time search feature, the company has announced via Twitter, which also has a real-time search indexing deal with...

Palm Inc, the company behind the Pre and Pixi devices, has warned that its smartphone sales for the year are likely to fall short of the projected target owing to the fact that its smartphones have failed to pick up momentum due...

Cisco Systems seems poised to capitalise upon all the hype being generated by Google’s recently heralded super-fast broadband 1Gbps networks, as the networking giant has reportedly been working on rolling out this...

While Google has been the search engine of choice for an umpteen number of users in the traditional search market domain, it hasn’t been a slack in the rather unexplored mobile search domain, a recent has study claimed. A...

Search engine giant Google has come up on Thursday with rather strong-worded defence in order to tackle the looming queries to be made by EU officials. This comes amidst the incessant buzz over the blogosphere about Google being...

The UK Met Office will ferret back through 150 years of global temperature records to see if it missed anything first time around. The decision was prompted by the East Anglian University kerfuffle that may have put doubt of the...

Eagle-eyed forum posters have spotted clues in the newly released beta that Steam could be coming to OSX. The online game delivery service released a new UI client recently and, hidden within the files are a number of references...

Apple overlord Steve Jobs yesterday told shareholders that they wouldn't be getting a windfall from the company's huge reserves of cash. Following last year's annual investor gathering - at which everyone's primary concern was...

Google has been warned about breaching Europeans' right to privacy and it has received a stiff letter warning it of what it can and can't do in the European Union. The letter was sent earlier this month by the...

Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 Network Storage offers content sharing with advanced security, and is ideal for small and remote offices, workgroups or home networks. Based on enterprise-class EMC storage technology, the StorCenter...