Sky and Virgin Media customers will get ITV HD channels on the 2nd of April in the build up to the world cup 2010 event in South Africa without spending a penny extra it seems. Sky HD viewers however had been able to get the...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Nintendo may well showcase a completely new version of its popular DS handheld gaming console at the forthcoming E3 event in June 2010 with a potential release date towards the end of the...

Google kept mum on whether or not its first smartphone will be delayed or not although the Guardian has spilt the beans citing "serious" problems which will delay the phone by a few weeks. The official website for the Nexus One...

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC may launch the third iteration of its popular Touch Pro smartphone in the third quarter of this year in Europe according to persistent rumours. A member of the XDA-developers who is based in the Czech...

Today's News@Five round up brings to you the latest about Apple's war with Google, which is on verge of leaving China for good. Software giant Microsoft has announced in an advisory released with last weeks Patch Tuesday, that...

Telecom firm Vodafone has announced that the company will soon scrap its mobile GPS navigation paid service, spawned from the acquisition of Wayfinder, after it failed to take-off due to competition from Nokia's in-built...

Hewlett Packard has been forced to extend the warranties on an undisclosed number of laptops sold in China after their graphics cards overheated. The move is seen as an effort to head off potentially costly lawsuits heading its...

Social networking giant Facebook is all set to open its development centre in Hyderabad, India, the country's technology capital, in an attempt to expand its global presence, as 70 percent of its 400 million users are outside the...

During the SXSWi festival in Austin, Texas, search engine giant Google has confessed that Gmail can at times be painfully slow and has promised to fix the problem as soon as possible. Speaking at the festival, Google's 'Behind...

Any illusions geeks may have fostered about president Obama being a bit of a lefty are slowly crumbling to dust. The US president may have a bit more African blood than all of the previous incumbents of the White House put...

Nvidia has launched a software application which will allows its range of GeForce GPUs to drive the next generation 3D capable television sets. 3DTV Play will be available later this spring for around $40 and will allows PCs...

The infamous ZeuS botnet has suffered a significant drop in its servers after an internet service provider in Kazakhstan, Troyak.org, was disconnected from the internet. Cisco security team confirmed that the world's largest...

The Dotcom domain name will celebrate its 25th birthday today, as computer maker Symbolics was the first company in the world to adopt the domain name on 15th March 1985. Although its rise to popularity was slow, the Dotcom top...

Apple has confirmed that iPad users will have to buy another iPad at a discounted price when their old one can no longer hold a full charge at a later stage in the product's lifecycle. Because the iPad is a sealed unit, it is...

The UK launch Google's Nexus One app phone has been delayed until the middle of next month which could well kill off the rapidly-expanding company's first foray into the UK mobile telecoms market before it even starts. While the...

According to the Top 500 Supercomputer sites, Linux is powering nine of the ten largest supercomputers in the world. Six of these are running Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Novell is pleased to point out.  According to the...

The world's longest-running investigative news show, Panorama will tonight take an in-depth look at the issues surrounding illegal file sharing. With governments around the world considering draconian measure including ISP...

The term Web 2.0 was coined in 2004 to describe a new generation of tools for the internet that enable greater interactivity among users. Examples of Web 2.0 applications include wikis, which are collaborative websites, of which...

Apart from staff costs, the upfront technology expenditure for micro web design agencies can be daunting. This requires software licences to be purchased - as well as the hardware to house the tools. Among the most common...

For a small company, attracting new business and finding an effective forum to showcase its abilities are key challenges.  In creating websites, developers and designers working for agencies pride themselves on the design...

The Performing Rights Society announced today that the rise in revenue from downloaded music outweighed the fall in traditional CD media for the first time. PRS for Music - which collects cash on behalf of 65,000 UK musicians,...

Google is preparing to leave China over its hacking and censorship row with the Chinese government, if you believe recent reports. The company has detailed mothballing plans for its Chinese business and is 99.9% certain to use...

Professional chip rebrander Nvidia has already snapped back at AMD, after an AMD spokesperson told us that most game developers only use GPU-accelerated PhysX because they're paid to. Speaking to Xbit Labs, Nvidia’s...

The New York Times believes that Apple CEO Steve Jobs feels betrayed by its former ally Google, since the company has ventured into the smartphone market with its own mobile operating system and smartphone device. When Apple had...

Car-flogging mag Auto Trader has jumped on the iPhone bandwagon with an app that uses image recognition technology to read car number plates. The mag's publishers say the app enables users to quickly search for details of the...

A host of new, short domain names will be made available under the body responsible for domain names ending in .uk, Nominet. It plans to allow the registration of previously-banned domain names consisting of one or two...

According to an article published by the Wall Street Journal, Google is indeed planning to put an end to its China operations as talks with the Chinese government have failed to provide the company with a favourable working...

Google has apparently been forced to delay the launch of its first consumer smartphones, the Nexus One, by a couple of weeks according to some reports. The Guardian claims that Google encountered more difficulties that it would...

According to a recent poll undertaken by discount website myvouchercodes.co.uk, people in the UK believe that Google's Street View service is highly intrusive and a 'service for burglars', the Telegraph has reported.  The...

Microsoft is rushing to release a security patch to address critical vulnerabilities in IE6 and IE7 that could enable hackers to dump malicious codes into victim’s computer and seize control over the system’s...

When Apple announced a whle back that some of its laptop range would come with built-in batteries, Mac detractors have been complaining about the move. The forthcoming iPad has also been criticised for its lack of a...

The Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) will spend $2.5 billion to boost its 300-mm wafer manufacturing at Global Foundries fabs by 50 per cent this year. The Abu Dhabi outfit has laid out its plans buy out fab partner...

Amazon customers are coming under attack from criminals sending out convincing looking emails asking them to check their account details or order status. The emails, which begin "Dear customer, your order has been succesfully...

This affordable Celeron Laptop is perfect for use at home, in the office or on the move. Equipped with a huge 4GB of RAM and an amazing 320GB hard drive, there is plenty of storage space for all your films / music / pictures,...

The Belkin F5D7632uk4V2 54Mbps ADSL Wireless Router is an all-in-one-box solution that lets you share your ADSL Internet connection, files, and peripherals, without cables. The Belkin F5D7632uk4 combines two essential networking...