Google will redirect mainland Chinese users to its uncensored Hong Kong-based search engine, after talks with the Chinese government failed. The company said tonight that visitors to Google.cn will be bounced to Google.com.hk,...

AT&T is set to introduce two Palm smartphones the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus after Verizon Wireless and Sprint. The mobile operator has also announced the introduction of the Dell Aero, also known as the Mini 3. Palm has been...

T-Mobile has started selling the Android-based Sony Ericsson X10 for as little as £35 per month on a rather long two year contract. For the price you get 900 minutes, 500 texts, a flexible booster and unlimited internet....

A recent security update released by anti-virus software BitDefender has caused 64-bit Windows operating systems to crash and unable to reboot after the anti-virus allegedly deleted important Windows files, which were identified...

Popular game developer Electronic Arts (EA) has been criticised by users after the DRM tool used to secure the latest Command and Conquer game caused the game to crash, prohibiting hundreds of users from enjoying the...

A quarter of British school-kids have tried their hand at hacking, a survey suggests While "hacking" in the is case means trying to access other people's Facebook accounts, some twenty per cent of those admiiting to trying it...

Gordon Brown has surprised quite a few by announcing that the government will invest £30 million towards the creation of a new entity called the "Institute of web science" which will be based in Britain. Interestingly, Tim...

Today's line up of reviews consists of motherboards, high performance media cards and hard drives. Hexus brings to us the review of Scan 3XS SMART pre-overclocked Core i3 530 bundle and adds that "the Scan 3XS SMART is a decent...

AT&T has officially confirmed via its Facebook page that it will be selling the Android-based Dell Aero otherwise known as the Mini 3 handset, marking Dell's comeback in the smartphone/PDA market ever since it canned its Axis...

A German government department called Bürger Cert had warned that users of the Firefox web browser should not run the software. Mozilla's Firefox has an unpatched Zero Day vulnerability in version 3.6 and German users are...

Asam Ahmad, the head of Virgin Media's Consumer media relations, has disclosed at the Ideal Home Show 2010 in Earl's Court, London that the cable company won't be launching its 200Mbps for at least two years. We already...

The company behind .xxx has ramped up the pressure on ICANN to approve its application for a porn-only internet domain. ICM Registry chairman Stuart Lawley sent a stiff letter to his counterpart at ICANN this weekend, saying...

Apple Inc., the company behind the blockbuster iPhone device, has started accepting applications developed specially for its much-awaited iPad device, due for an April 3rd launch. The company, which has given a March 27th...

The UK Labour government has launched its new 'MyGov' initiative which will allow UK citizens to access a host of government services like tax payment and password application, from a single 'dashboard' or a online service,...

Vodafone Spain, the second largest telecom services provider in the country, has reported that the company had shipped around 3000 HTC Magic smartphones with memory cards infected with malware that went on to infect the PCs of...

Software developers who want to have a fiddle with Apple's overgrown iPod are having to comply with the company's paranoid non disclosure demands. According to Business Week, anyone who wants to make software for the...

InVisage Technologies, a US based IT company, has devised a new image sensor used in mobile phone cameras which is based on quantum dots instead of silicon, enhancing the quality of the photographs in the process. According to a...

Sony will bring two more E series laptops soon which should be available over the next few weeks and will both be sporting Microsoft's Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. The smaller model has a 14-inch screen that has a...

Image manipulation and animation outfit Adobe has released two new developer tools for multi-platform Internet applications. Adobe Flash Builder (formerly known as Flex Builder) is and Eclipse-based developer tool for building...

T-Mobile is aggressively selling the HTC Desire and has set the standard that the five other remaining mobile phone networks will have to follow by launching it on a £10 per month contract albeit with an initial outlay of...

The founders of video sharing service YouTube not only knew that their service was being swamped by copyright-infringing videos but one of them actually uploaded many of them himself, according emails released in a court battle...

After surpassing Google as the most visited site in the US in the second week of this month, Facebook has added yet another medal to its tally, as the social networking site is reportedly have more loyal news readers than that of...

  Nvidia has cut back on the number of cores its GeForce GTX 480/470 (Fermi)-based graphics cards, if reports from Digitimes are to be believed. The wire service is located just down the road from the Taiwan Semiconductor...

German computer manufacturer Neofonie has released a new tablet computer that could be a major competitor to Apple's iPad thanks to a beefier configuration although price is still an unknown. The device runs on Google's Android...

Google has released Skipfish, a new free web application security testing tool, under an Apache open-source licence. The software can be used to automatically scan apps for dozens of vulnerabilities including SQL injection and...

Bit Defender anti virus software caused a storm over the weekend after a borked update bricked thousands of 64-bit Windows operating systems. Apparently the problem was caused by a dodgy virus definition which falsely identified...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to democratise the Internet by offering publicly-subsidised super-fast broadband connections to every family in Britain. The PM will outline plans today, ahead of Wednesday's budget,...

In a bid to spruce up the capabilities of its Chrome web browser, Google has come up with a novel project for it that will enable the browser to run a wide range of 3D graphics without forcing the users to download additional...

Media watchdog Ofcom is expected to open up the the pay-TV market by forcing the likes of Sky to broadcast premium content - such as Premiership football - on Freeview. Ofcom will lean on Sky to reduce its prices and allow...

Apparently adhering to its popular “be no evil” motto, the search behemoth Google is working on a plug-in for its signature web analytics service that will enable users to opt out of being tracked by the service, it...

Search engine giant Google's controversial Street View service has earned itself a slap on the wrist by the UK government after it was discovered that the company had managed to take photographs of secret government...

Virtualisation specialist Ncomputing says it has developed a $20 system on chip which can easily turn any device into a virtual multimedia PC. The Californian company has announced the launch of its Numo family of SoCs wich...

Californian company Invisage says it will revolutionise the way mobile phone cameras are made with a new sensor technology. Quantum Film uses a quantum dot technology to replace silicon in CMOS image sensors for the first time,...

It seems Google may have removed images of military and security bases from its Street View service after realising some fell foul of the Official Secrets Act. A spokesGoogles' claim that Street View "is only made up of ...

Verbatim's External Hard Drive provides high capacity storage back up for all file types offering high performance and reliability to both the professional and home user. Store thousands of digital photos, videos, music and other...

The Compaq Presario CQ61 is an affordable 15.6” widescreen LCD laptop, built as a better option to the CQ60 for budget-conscious shoppers. The 15.6-inch Compaq Presario CQ61 puts the versatility and productivity of notebook...