The growing number of complaints about HP laptops that are failing Chinese users  has prompted legal action against the US giant in the Populous Republic. Lawyers have asked the Chinese government order a recall...

Microsoft will launch its MSN Video player tomorrow, nearly seven months after having been announced and launched in the UK as a beta service. More than 1000 hours of video content will be available at launch, a significant...

Google will be officially rolling out Street View in the next 24 hours as it promises to put online images for "almost all of the UK's roads, both rural and urban". Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist for the EMEA,...

Google has added cycling details to its popular Google maps online services to help those that use their bikes to move around. A new "bicycling" layer has been added to Google Maps but it seems that the...

Overtaking Nvidia’s established champion GeForce 8800 cards in terms of popularity was always going to be a tough challenge for AMD. However, the latest Steam Hardware Survey has revealed that the company’s Radeon HD...

Apple executives are in UK this week to determine which mobile phone network in the country will be launch partners for the iPad device which will go on sale at the end of April. There have been rumours that the three big...

A new Netbook from Asus, the 1005PR, is set to offer a Broadcom HD Decoder which might be considered as a cheaper (but as effective) alternative to Nvidia's ION platform. The Broadcom BCM70015 HD Decoder was announced in May 2009...

Microsoft is set to roll out a new version of its popular portal page, MSN.com, which will be available over the next few weeks to more than 100 million customers in the US, starting from today. The software giant has yet to...

In a bid to plug the skills deficiency in the UK gaming business, the UK games industry’s trade association, TIGA, has publicly called on the government to increase funding on higher education and abolish the cap on tuition...

It is difficult not to be impressed by the Acer Aspire Revo Nettop, a diminutive yet powerful computer that could potentially have the same impact on computing as the first Asus EEE PC. The R3610 that we are reviewing today is...

US broadcaster NBC is teaming up with browser game maker Bigpoint to bring Sci-Fi blockbuster Battlestar Galctica to life in the form of a massively muliplayer online role playing game. Bigpoint will be demonstrating the...

Consumer Focus, an organisation that rallies for consumer rights in England, has released a report in which it has urged the UK government to revamp its strategy related to the nationwide roll-out of broadband internet, if it...

Microsoft has warned of a new security vulnerability in IE6 and IE7 browsers that are being exploited in the wild, just a couple of months after the company admitted to a critical weakness in its web browser that was exploited by...

Microsoft engineer Charles 'Chuck' Thacker has been given this year's Turing Award - the techie equivalent of a Nobel Prize. The award, which is named in honour of computing pioneer and wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, was...

Google has opened an Apps Marketplace, its most aggressive move yet in selling cloud-based business applications and competing with the likes of Salesforce.com. The move is being billed as a new channel for developers to reach...

Google and Facebook have been sued in New York  by a company claiming to own software patents that put social networks on mobile phones. Bloomberg reports that Wireless Ink Corp., which runs a mobile notworking service...

Search engine giant Google has announced that the company is planning to equip Street View users with the ability to edit the service, in order to make it more accurate and tailored according to their needs. According to a post...

A recent study report has revealed that Britain's online gamers spent nearly £195 million on Massive Multiplayer Online games (MMO) in 2009, playing highly popular games like the World of Warcraft and Runescape.  The...

There are claims that Microsoft could release the first Service Pack (SP1) for its newly released Windows 7 operating system fairly soon, possibly in the final quarter of this year itself. This time, a Malaysian site,...

Microsoft browser ballot screen, which was launched this month in response to the European Commission's antitrust charges, has already started bearing fruits for the company's competitors, it has emerged. Two of the Internet...

Google's recently heralded translation tool for the Android-powered smartphones has been growing by leaps and bounds since it was launched in January, and is set to add spoken forms of several new languages in the near...

Google users have offered a collective shrug to the inclusion of Twitter feeds in search results, a new survey has revealed. Almost 60 per cent of consumers said they were “indifferent” to tweets in their...

Cisco Systems has announced that it is pulling shutters on its WiMAX base stations manufacturing business, and said it would instead continue to build Internet Protocol (IP) core and other technologies, such as femtocells. This...

We'll soon have tablet-style devices coming out of our ears, with the world and his hound jumping on the bandwagon stealthily engineered by Apple. Whether there will any real demand for flat, touch-screen electronic coffee-table...

Microsoft has announced a major overhaul to its mid-market server product range, which includes discontinuing the development of its Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) aimed at mid-sized businesses. The move has primarily...

Maker of Application Delivery Controllers, A10 Networks, has expanded its AX Series to deliver IPv6 migration boxes for carriers and Internet Service Providers. A10 says demand for Internet Protocol addresses is rapidly...

Networking giant Cisco has unveiled a new routing system that is claimed to triple the internet content delivering capacity of its predecessors as the company seeks to significantly speeding up the way internet data has been...

According to a report on the Wall Street Journal, search engine giant Google is testing a new TV search service in partnership with Dish Network, which will be capable of allowing users to search for TV programs and online videos...

Plans to introduce a law that will force internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content have been condemned by ISPs, publishers, consumer groups, user rights groups...

Steam, the popular online multi player gaming platform developed by Valve Corporation, is also set to debut on Apple's Mac platform next month and will allow Mac users to play multi player games with Windows users. According to...

Panasonic Corp., the Tokyo based electronics giant, is all set to roll its brand new line of 3D enabled television sets for the US markets in partnership with US retail giant Best Buy Co. The company will look to create...

Online banking losses rose last year by 14%, according to the UK Cards Association, although overall losses card fraud fell. Fraudsters are targeting individuals rather than banks these days, now that banks have shored up their...

Broadband supplier Sky has put the Bedfordshire town of Dunstable back into the Dark Age by wiping out its broadband connection. Sky has said nothing officially, although tech support personnel at first blamed local problems...

British players spent nearly £200 million on massive multiplayer online games in 2009, while the worldwide market topped £3 billion, research suggests. One and a half million Britons million spent an average of...

South Korean manufacturer LG has unveiled another budget touchscreen smartphone, the Cookie Fresh GS290, which it hopes will be as successful as the original Cookie version. The handset, which was revealed at last week's CeBIT,...

HTC's Legend, the Android smartphone that some compared to Apple's own Macbook, will be available SIM Free in the UK as early as the 23rd of March, a few days before the HTC Desire is released to market. Techradar reports that...