Rumours of a March release for the Apple iPad have been swept aside as the company has formally announced that the tablet will be available from the 3rd of April, which is a Saturday. Many major Apple launches have taken place on...

Popular microblogging website Twitter has revealed that it has served its 10 billionth tweet last night at 1am GMT, one which was sent from a protected profile and which shall remain a mystery forever. Unlike the marketing...

Several senior UK media industry members reckon that the controversial Digital Economy Bill might be passed before the parliament is adjourned in the beginning of April, ahead of the General elections which will take place in...

A shake-up could be imminent in the cosy land of Nvidia-exclusive board partners, as BFG is rumoured to be planning to open its doors to ATI. The rumour comes courtesy of [H]ardOCP’s founder Kyle Bennett, who says "The...

Google may launch a more affordable version of its Nexus One smartphone with less features to attract users from emerging economies like India and Russia. After an short interview (or editorial meeting) with the Managing Director...

Apple today officially announced that the iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. All models will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany,...

Korean Chaebol Samsung has rolled out four new camcorders that will join others as part of the H-series and are all full HD, SSD-packed, CMOS-equipped, low light capable devices. The HMX-H200, HMX-300, HMX-H204 and HMX-H205 have...

Intel wants its uses to use Atom processors in network attached storage (NAS) and other low-power devices in a bid to dislodge Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) from one of its traditional segments. LaCie, Qnap, Tandberg, Lanner and...

The HTC Desire will apparently come with 720p encoding and support DivX content as well, which would put it on par with other members of HTC's smartphone portfolio. The phone has the same capabilities as the HD2 which officially...

RealNetworks, the company behind the popular Real media player, has decided to end the 17-month long legal battle with some prominent Hollywood studios, which had launched a lawsuit against the company over its RealDVD...

Popular online video sharing service YouTube, has made available a nifty auto-caption feature to all its users, which will enable them to watch their favorite YouTube videos in the language of their choice, but for now, the...

The mastermind behind the biggest auction fraud ever carried out on eBay, has been punished with a four year prison sentence by the Snaresbrook crown court, whose Judge Jacqueline Beech, described the fraud as a 'highly...

The latest Nvidia driver has been blamed for overheating graphics cards after game beta testers experienced problems with inoperative cooling fans. Several gamers carrying out beta testing for Blizzard's forthcoming Starcraft II...

Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's Chief Executive Officer, criticised the BBC-led Project Canvas and the poor handling of the whole issue by the BBC Trust, the governing body behind BBC, while speaking at the Cable Congress convention...

A high profile Microsoft executive has announced that the company is planning to shell out a whopping $9.5 billion for research and development in 2010. In his keynote speech at the Cebit trade expo, Microsoft's chief operating...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a self-proclaimed 'psychic' for fraud, alleging that he milked suckers for $6 million in a phony investment scam. Sean David Morton, who calls himself 'America's Prophet'...

The European Commission has pledged to defend EU nations' rights to decide how to deal with online copyright infringement, saying that it will not allow a secret global treaty to erode nations' powers. The Anti-Counterfeiting...

Just within a few days after striking a patent cross-licensing deal with the online retailing giant Amazon, Microsoft Corp has announced that its has penned a similar agreement with a Japanese computer peripheral...

While Intel tinkers with 22nm wafers, and TSMC struggles to supply 40nm chips, scientists at the University of Wisconsin have developed a new lithography technique that could shrink circuits below the 10nm level. Called...

Memory maker Kingston is flogging an unfeasibly large thumb drive with an equally unbelievable price tag. The Data Traveller 310 includes security software which allows you to lock down all or part of the diminutive drive's...

Google has rolled out automatic speech-to-text captioning to all YouTube videos, in an effort to make the site more enjoyable for the hard of hearing. The site-wide push follows an extended test of the service that started on...

John Herlihy, Google's VP of Global Ad Operations, has claimed that desktop PCs would become "irrelevant" in three years down the line, as reported by Silicon Republic. Addressing the Digital Landscapes Conference in Dublin,...

Acer has quickly become one of the biggest computer manufacturers in the global market and is looking forward to expand in other emerging markets. We have managed to put some questions to Walter Deppeler, Senior Corporate Vice...

Google is ditching its one-year-old SearchWiki service for a new feature that would help web searchers to personalise their search results in an easier and more interactive manner. The new feature allows users to tick a star...

A recent study conducted by the European Interactive Advertising Association has revealed that the use of mobile internet is on the rise as Europeans become more conscious about the fact that they can surf the internet on the...

Penguin Books, one of the world's biggest publishing house, has showcased an interactive eBook platform, designed to exploit the advanced functionality offered by Apple's iPad tablet device.   Explaining the significance of...

Texan peripheral maker Econokeys has announced the EK-97-TP, a full-size keyboard with a built in touch-pad which is aimed at hospitals and other places where nasty fluids could be flying around. The company reckons that the...

Intel launched its first embedded Atom processor-based platform optimised for networked homes and small office storage devices in Hangover yesterday. The  platform consists of either a single-core Atom D410 or a dual-core...

It has been revealed that evidence given to a parliamentary enquiry into the Climategate hacking scandal came from an industry consultant who believes that global warming is a religion. The evidence - which was presented as part...

Sony will be releasing a string of high profile products that, the company hopes, will help it regain the edge against the likes of Google and Apple. The Wall Street Journal says that the Japanese consumer electronics giant is...

Microsoft will be working with Verizon Wireless to bring out the first smartphones, which have been designed as part of Project Pink, that are supposed to bring the Redmond behemoth back in the mobile game. Gizmodo has some...

The "disgraceful" injustice that has led police to take DNA swabs from three-quarters of all young black British men should galvanise black voters enough to swing the general election, community leaders heard at a parliamentary...

Transcend showed off a new external USB 3.0 hard drive here at CeBIT this week The Storejet Superspeed 25D3 USB hard drive is a two-and-a-half-inch drive, initially available in a capacity of 640GB. It takes advantage of the...

Show your personal style with the HP Pavilion dm3 notebook. The slim, edgy aluminium finish is both eye-catching and durable. The dm3 offers a full range of entertainment and communications tools, in a light and easily portable...

Step up to plasma quality with the Panasonic Viera TX-P50U10B 50" Full HD Plasma TV. Despite its enormous 50-inch screen and superlative image quality, this HDTV is offered at a very attractive price. If you've never witnessed...