AMD has released more details on its calculated response to the growing threat of Intel's Atom range as it released an updated notebook platform roadmap in Singapore. OCworkbench says that next year, the Brazos platform, which...

Vodafone has confirmed today that it will be stocking both the HTC Legend and the HTC Desire, therefore confirming its status as one of the most Android-friendly operators in the UK. The firm is also set to get the Google Nexus...

Supermarket giant Tesco has marked the launch of its new Spring/Summer catalogue by unveiling a new, reworked version of its existing broadband packages. The cheaper of the two packages currently on offer costs £19 all...

Apple fans across the US will be able to place orders for their very own Apple iPad tablet devices from March 12th 5:30 am. Pacific Time or 8:30 am East Coast Time, the company has announced. According to an article on TidBITS, a...

English rock band Pink Floyd, which gave us songs like 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Wish you were here', has won a court case against music company EMI Group, preventing it from selling online downloads of single tracks taken from the...

Search engine giant Google has announced that users of its mobile product search service will now be able to see if a desired product is available in a store near them or not.  This new feature will not only allow users to...

News site Bloomberg has reported that the US competition watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, is likely to oppose Google's $750 million acquisition of mobile advertisement firm AdMob, as it believes that the deal could cause...

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) staff will be receiving optional tutorials on how to use popular social networking platform Facebook and other similar services including Bebo and Twitter, the Sun has reported. According to...

US-based bookseller Barnes and Noble announced plans to offer its online bookstore as well as a free e-reader application for the recently heralded Apple iPad tablet device. The popular bookseller released its free eReader app in...

Microblogging site Twitter has rolled out a new feature that would enable its users to include details relating to their whereabouts with their tweets. However, users would be required to opt for the feature in order to share...

Vodafone is offering its customers  five free ebooks under its 'Free Fridays' incentives scheme, but the offer ends today. Vodafone said customers will be allowed to download five ebooks from its catalogue, which includes...

ITProPortal brings you the round-up of all of today's tech news, keeping you updated with the world of technology and gadgets. What follows is a summary of today's top tech news. UK's Conservative Party has released its...

Some versions of beleaguered game company Ubisoft's new release Silent Hunter 5 have been recalled because they contain images of Nazi symbols which are banned in Germany. The recall only affects the collector's edition of the...

Intel is the best of a bad bunch when it comes to Solid State Drives according to research carried out by DRAM Exchange. The world's biggest chipmaker topped the polls in both categories, basically up to 100GB and over, but the...

Sky has announced that it will add three new channels to its High Definition line-up bringing the total to 40. The big news for football fans is that one of the new channels will be ITV HD, which is finally coming to fruition on...

Two influential figures from the gaming and Internet worlds have made separate pleas for media companies and game developers to stop adding crippling and ineffective copy protection schemes to their products and...

Vodafone, one of UK's largest telecom service providers, will offer its customers a chance to download five free ebooks under its Free Fridays incentives scheme, allowing them to save almost £37 in the process. According to...

Apple may be gearing up to release a new Mac Pro based on the new Core i7 980X processor which comes with six cores and runs 12 threads concurrently but we've got our doubts. The Mac Pro has historically stuck to Intel's Xeon...

Facebook is resisting UK Government calls to add the CEOPS panic button to the web site. The asocial notworking site is under pressure to improve protection for minors following the rape and murder of teenager Ashleigh...

ICANN has delayed the introduction of .xxx again, despite a ruling that the porn-only Internet domain should have been launched five years ago. The board of the Internet policy body voted this morning to push a firm decision on...

With the iPad pre-ordering feeding frenzy due to start in the next few hours, it's no surprise that the US Apple Store has gone into the now familiar 'We'll be back soon' mode. But the UK store is also showing the potent yellow...

Vodafone has announced that the Sony Ericsson Vivaz handset is now available on selected contracts both online and in its stores across the country. The network operator will sell the smartphone, which was announced at the Mobile...

If you're one of the millions of indolent wastrels who sit at home all day watching re-runs of The Jeremy Kyle Show on your tax-payer sponsored Sky telly, eating Pot Noodles, smoking weed and beating your illegal fighting dogs,...

Intel might have won the race to get the first six-core desktop CPU out of the doors, but AMD looks set to introduce not one, but three of its own six-core chips in just a few months. We already know that AMD’s forthcoming...

The New Zealand government has said the Internet filter it has built is now up and running. According to a civil liberties organisation down under, two ISPs are diverting traffic through the government filter. Thomas Beagle,...

Government IT procurement will stall after this year's general election if the Conservative Party wins power. Conservatives have pledged to put an immediate halt to all IT procurement and to try to make it harder to award...

Social networking giant Facebook has expressed anger over an article published on Daily Mail, titled “I posed as a girl of 14 on Facebook. What followed will sicken you”, which gave the impression that underage girls...

Apple may well be on the verge of adding multitasking capabilities to the iPhone, as recent spell of rumours suggest that the Cupertino-based company is in fact planning to introduce the last missing major feature of the...

The Conservative Party has brought out the technological aspects of their election manifesto, in which it vowed to provide "most of the population" superfast 100Mbps broadband access, as well as enhance access to government data...

Roy Chen from Brit chip shop ARM has predicted that as many as 50 new tablet devices will tip up next year in an effort to upset the Apple cart. Speaking at a press conference in Taipei, Chen said that most of the Apple-aping...

Google Inc. has rolled out Reader Play beta web based service which is designed to allow users to browse and read web content related to Google Reader news feeds. According to a post on the official Google Reader blog, the...

OnLive, an on demand cloud based gaming service, which was announced during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, will be available for US gamers in June, the company has reported. The online gaming service, which has...

Japan based consumer electronic giant Sony Corp. has unveiled the much-awaited motion sensing game controller for its Sony PlayStation 3, in an attempt to take-on the popular Nintendo Wii console, which comes with similar motion...

Clearly not satisfied with taking on Nvidia’s PhysX technology with an open standards project, AMD has now revealed that it’s planning to take on Nvidia’s 3D Vision system with its Open Stereo 3D Initiative. As...

The next generation of Apple's ground-breaking app phone will feature multi-tasking according to 'reliable sources'. Apple Insider is reporting that 'people with a proven track record' of predicting such things are saying that...

Streaming gaming service OnLive said it will begin delivering popular games over broadband this June. The online gaming service is supposed to take on traditional gaming consoles like Sony PS3,  and Xbox. It will allow...

Today will see an army of bleary-eyed American Apple fans getting up at the crack of dawn hovering over the online Apple Store to be first in the virtual queue to pre-order the company's much anticipated iPad. But it won't be...

This 37" HD Ready Samsung TV uses DNIe + technology to create stunning images with superior depth and detail. It also features the Wide Colour Enhancer 2 system, which produces an expanded range of natural colours with greater...

A comfortable fit for any budget, the Compaq 610 Notebook PC helps keep you connected and productive so your office goes with you. With its attractive design and a starting weight of only 5.5 lb /2.49 kg, the Compaq 610 is the...