Speaking at the Search Marketing West Expo in California, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that the software giant might buy micro-blogging giant Twitter in a not so distant distant future.  He also discussed the future...

Microsoft, the company behind the Windows Mobile OS, has produced an Android-based version of its Tag application, which uses the phone's camera to allow users to read hidden information in barcodes. Considering the fact that...

Music magazine Billboard has reported that iPhone maker Apple Inc. has advised several music labels against taking taking part in Amazon MP3 Daily Deal, threatening to remove marketing support for their releases from its popular...

Popular movie streaming service NetFlix is planning to develop an application for the iPhone smartphone, which will allow users to view their favorite movies and TV programs right from their iPhone device without paying extra...

Opera Software, the company behind the popular Opera desktop web browser, has announced the launch of the native Opera Mini 5 beta for smartphones based on Windows Mobile 5 and 6. The native Opera Mini browser is designed to...

Opera Software company has announced that the number of downloads for the newly launched Opera 10.5 browser have 'tripled' since Microsoft launched the Windows browser ballot, which allows European users of Internet Explorer web...

Beard-scratching number fumblers at research outfit Gartner have looked into their magical crystal ball and decided that the desktop computer has had its day. The company's analysts have drawn a line through the rocketing sales...

Details of Sony's forthcoming Vaio M series netbook have emerged online and points to a rather affordable model which will cost around £299 at none other than Tesco where it will be available from the end of March...

Acer has started to sell its first 3D laptop, the Aspire 5738DZG, which currently costs £546 including delivery at Amazon, a price that is surprisingly low given the 3D capability that it integrates. The laptop uses a...

At an event at the Wales Millennium Centre, the nation's First Minister Carwyn Jones unveiled a countdown clock to indicate when Wales will be switching off its last analogue system, therefore completing the country's transition...

Microsoft may finally have laid the ghost of Vista to rest having announced that the Redmond company has 'sold' 90 million copies of its latest operating system. Perhaps 'sold' isn't exactly the right word as the vast majority...

Game developer Ubisoft's first release featuring a controversial new phone home DRM, submarine sim Silent Hunter 5, has been cracked on the day of its release. Ubisoft has played down the breach in its anti-piracy measures,...

Few phrases work better than a Star Wars reference if you want to get in with the geeks, and Corsair appears to be putting this to the test with its new range of Force SSDs that the company launched today. The moniker...

Sean Maloney, the guy whom many predict could become the head honcho at Intel one day, has suffered a stroke during the weekend and will take a prolonged medical leave of absence. Mr Maloney has been working at the world's...

It looks like rumours that Steam's Valve game delivery system is, indeed, coming to the Apple Mac, if teaser pictures sent to a number of top tech websites turn out to be genuine. The images, which were reportedly sent by the...

A court in the US has for the first time outlined the basis on which people there can claim damages when a copyright owner makes a groundless claim of infringement and demands that material be taken offline. Under US law a...

A recent report by a security firm is claiming that the recent wave of hacking attacks on Google, along with dozens of other firms, pilfered and modified crucial system source code by intruding into the employees' PCs via...

A recent study commissioned by Sky HD has revealed that the average British citizen utilises only about half of the functions available on the hi-tech gadgets purchased by them.  The study, which was carried out amongst a...

Google has dumped its unpopular SearchWiki feature in favour of a simplified system of flagging search results with stars. SearchWiki was rolled out in late 2008. It allowed logged-in Google users to change the order of...

Google has issued a comprehensive report that gauges the search engine optimisation (SEO) on a number of distinct properties, and estimated that it was actually falling short on many of them. Dubbed as "SEO Report Card", the...

The first ever third-party application for Google's new social networking tool, Buzz, has been released on Apple's popular iTunes App Store and goes by the name of Buzzie; it is designed to offer iPhone and Gmail users a chance...

A new government body has started work on a commitment to deliver 2Mb broadband to every household in the UK by 2012, and 'next generation' access to 90 per cent of the country by 2017. Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) has been...

Microsoft Corp. has reissued a critical security patch that had reportedly left several users with rebooting problems and a galling technical glitch, the famed 'Blue Screen of Death' commonly known as (BSoD). The security patch,...

A group of security and web services firms will provide login identities for government web sites under plans outlined at the RSA Conference this week. The new Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is backed by Google, Paypal and...

Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with the supercomputing bellwether Cray Inc. to trim down the costs it incurred in running its cloud computing-based datacentres and increase their overall efficiency. The supercomputing giant has...

After a complaint was filed with the European Commission by Opera Software company, Microsoft was forced to present its European users of Internet Explorer web browser with a ballot box that allows them a chance to replace IE...

UK's Liberal Democratic Party has called for certain amendments in the Digital Economy Bill, which would force internet service providers in Britain to block websites that contain a massive amount of copyright infringing...

Viewsonic is a brand associated with monitors and carries the same pedigree as great names such as Iiyama, Mag Innovision, Tatung and Taxan (remember them?) in this field. But while the aforementioned firms have all but...

IBM boffins have created a device which could replace copper interconnects between chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate at the speed of light. The device, called a nanophotonic avalanche photodetector, is the...

Samsung has launched a new handset called the S7070 (or the Diva as it is better known), one which puts more emphasis on appearance and looks than on features and specifications. The phone, released whilst the Korean...

Little-known manufacturer Coby has launched a new netbook at Cebit in Germany called the NBPC722 that doesn't impress much when it comes to its specifications but did caught our eye because of its price, a mere $85 or just above...

 engine giant Google has made it unsurprisingly clear that it will be backing HTC against Apple as the latter has filed an unexpected lawsuit against the former for infringing on 20 of its patents pertaining to the core of...

Changes to the Digital Economy Bill forced through by Lib Dem politicians could have dire consequences for the World Wide Web. The amendment - which gives courts the power to force ISPs to block access to sites which host 'a...

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