Virgin Media is set to use the good old telegraph poles (no not the other Poles) to bring high speed internet to scattered rural communities. It will begin a trial later this month that will last till the end of September in...

The Internet's critical domain name system is under constant attack and could buckle at any time, according to ICANN president Rod Beckstrom. His remarks, made at a meeting between ICANN's board of directors and...

Opera Software, the company behind the popular Opera web browser, has released the beta version of Mini 5 for Google's Android smartphone OS, bringing the powerful web browser for the users of increasingly popular...

UK government's popular employment service, Jobcentre Plus, has produced a mobile application that tries to simply the process of looking out for a job by allowing people to perform job searches straight from their smartphone...

Memory specialist OCZ has announced that it will launch a new entry-level solid state drive called Onyx which will be the cheapest on the market. Not surprisingly, the Onyx will use MLC NAND to cut down cost and will start with a...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will be reviewing a petition filed by the ICN Registry in order to let adult entertainment websites use the .xxx domain instead of using the traditional .com...

The Khronos Group has announced a new version of its OpenGL specification. OpenGL 4.0 specification is a significant update to the most widely-used 2D and 3D graphics API, and includes the GLSL 4.00 update to the OpenGL shading...

Apple has released the fourth beta of its new SDK (Software Development Kit) for the iPad and the iPhone and surprisingly, there are no signs in the code of a camera for the company's forthcoming tablet. There were rumours in...

Microsoft has failed in its attempt to get a judgement against it overturned in a $290 (£160) million patent dispute with Canadian firm i4i. Toronto-based i4i sued Microsoft back to 2007 for infringing on its XML editor...

Intel has released its first six-core processor, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, that is aimed at the consumer market and will be a direct replacement of the Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. Apart from the fact that it comes with...

Virgin Media has announced a trial to deliver ultrafast 50Mb broadband to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton using telegraph poles. Homes in the village will be directly to Virgin Media's fibre optic...

Search engine giant Google has finally had a headway with its Google Books project by striking a major book scanning deal with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Google will scan millions of ancient Italian books that are...

According to the latest US search engine statistics released by comScore, Microsoft's Bing search engine has been slowly and steadily expanding its US search market share in the past nine months. Yahoo search, on the other hand,...

Business software vendor CA has announced on Wednesday that it will cough up $350 million in cash to acquire the IT performance monitoring outfit Nimsoft sometime this month. The move would give CA a firm hold among the small and...

The Internet has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, backed by a handful of tech industry luminaries. The Nobel Institute does not release its annual list of nominations, but told the BBC that this year 237 nominations...

A little known company, Smartphone Technologies LLC, has filed legal suits against smartphone heavyweights, including Apple, Samsung, LG, Motorola, AT&T, and Sanyo, accusing the companies of infringing upon the patents held...

 Android-powered handsets continue to lure the smartphone enthusiasts in the US, as the company’s share in the smartphone market has more than doubled in the quarter ending in January 2010, according to data released...

Search engine mogul Google has unveiled its brand new Google Apps Marketplace, which will offer applications developed by other vendors for enterprise use and will be integrated with Google Apps and Google's cloud storage...

Software giant Microsoft has launched its multi-million pound ad campaign for its Bing search engine in the UK, in order to take on Google search, which has held the dominant position in the UK search market for a long time. The...

In what could be seen as an ominous sign, mobile phone network O2 has cut the price of the monthly cost of the Palm Pre from the initial £44 per month on an 18-month contract to a more palatable £25 per month, albeit...

Getting beyond the thermal conductivity of copper would currently involve creating a bling heatsinsk using silver or diamonds, but a new discovery at MIT could result in an altered form of polythene being used to conduct heat on...

Mainsoft, the company which develops interoperability software for Microsoft Windows, has released a Microsoft Outlook plug-in that allows it to integrate with Google Docs, a service which provides users with the ability to work...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has retrieved Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, under the US Freedom of Information act and it seems that the agreement has more to it than Apple wants people to know...

Facebook, the world's biggest social networking web site, is all set to dish out a brand new feature on the social networking platform, which will allow users to share their locations with their friends via news feed. The New...

Western industrial countries are becoming more willing to spy on their citizens, according to an analysis of snooping that says that the UK is sixth in a world ranking for electronic state surveillance. Privacy technology company...

O2 is giving to customers that take on its Premium or Pro fixed line broadband service a £50 credit on their mobile bill. The Premium offer comes with a free wireless router, up to 20Mbps download, McAfee security software...

ARM's worldwide mobile computing ODM manager Roy Chen told an audience at a press event in Taipei that the company expects more than 50 tablet PC devices to be launched by the end of 2010. This means that until Christmas, we...

The Dell Mini 5 tablet computer is set to be christened Streak as it is launched in the US and some more details have emerged online. Technology blog Engadget has published a marketing flyer of device which shows that the device...

LG, Samsung's Archrival, is set to launch a number of 3D television sets as well as a 3D Blu-ray player in May including one model which it says, will be aimed at pubs across the country. The Korean electronics giant has teamed...

Intel is showing off its latest Extreme Edition chip, a 32nm a six-core beast it's named the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor. Previously, codenamed Gulftown, the chip is getting an airing at the Game Developers...

The European Parliament has told the shady cabal of politicians and entertainment industry insiders currently working behind closed doors on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to open up its secret negotiations to...

Poor Bill Gates has been demoted to the second richest person on earth thanks to a Mexican telecoms tycoon. In the Forbes Magazine annual greedfest, which ranks deep-pocketed individuals in order of ther personal wealth,...

Chip maker AMD has announced a new name and identity for its game developer relations programme. AMD reckons its Gaming Evolved scheme will cement the firm's standing in the gaming community. The oufit even claims that, although...

Sony's much-predicted motion controller has finally been officially anounced and named. The Playstation Move, which 'borrows' heavily from Nintendo's familiar Wiimote controller, looks to all the world like a shapely, black...

Internet search giant Google has hinted that talks with the Chinese government over the company's future in country are coming along nicely. Speaking at a news conference in Abu Dhabi, King of the Googlers Eric Schmidt said,...

Dell is selling an upgraded version of its Studio 15 laptop that is not only as powerful as a fully fledged desktop but also comes with a 5 percent discount for a limited period, bringing the price of the laptop from £769...