Google plays such a big role in the lives of millions that it would be hard to imagine how to cope without one of the most pervasive technology firms in the world. Yet for millions of Google users in China, losing Google may be a...

Samsung has officially rolled out the Galaxy S, the most potent competitor to Apple's iPhone 3GS smartphone, at the CTIA 2010 event in the US and unsurprisingly, it runs on Google's Android platform. The device comes with a 1GHz...

Mozilla, the organisation in charge of popular browser Firefox, has confirmed that it will not be developing any mobile browser for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Series platform. Stuart Parmenter, the director in charge...

TiVo will be the exclusive provider of software and applications for Virgin Media according to the company's head of media relations (consumer) Asam Ahmad who was at the Ideal Home Show in London at the Earl's Court...

Microsoft wants to strengthen its position in the Chinese market to exploit the absence of Google  The software giant delivered a statement assuring Chinese users that it will continue to offer its services in the country...

Maker of small x86 chips, VIA Technologies, today announced the VIA VX900 media system processor, a media chip to be used with VIA's Nano-3000 Series CPUs. According to VIA marketeer Richard Brown the VX900 "represents the most...

Nintendo has announced that it will sell a new gaming console called the 3DS that will be an evolution of the current uber-popular DS console and will support support 3D games. What's even more impressive, according to what the...

French open source mainframe outfit Turbo Hercules has filed an anti-trust complaint against IBM with the European Commission. Paris-based Turbo Hercules accuses Big Blue of denying customers the ability to run IBM's mainframe...

The Conservative party was left red faced after hackers exploited a loophole on its 'Cash Gordon' website, redirecting users to pornographic websites. The party was eventually to take the web site down for a fix. It's back up...

Today we give the round-up of reviews for netbooks, gaming keyboards and sophisticated CPU tower cases for your hardware needs. Samsung N220 10-Inch Intel Atom N450 “PineTrail” Netbook has been reviewed at Future...

Here's the low down on the technology news doing the rounds today including the new Firefox security update, the Conservative party's website being hacked and Google's defiance of China's censorship laws.  The Cash Gordon...

The Labour government's £12.7 billion IT scheme for the NHS (National Health Service) is apparently on the verge of collapsing right before the elections, as the government has failed to successfully install the software...

UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is all set to examine the BBC-led Project Canvas, after its partners, determined to validate the nature of the controversial project, submitted their application to the regulator. They explained...

Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, has dished out the Firefox 3.6.2 a week before the due date after the German government released a warning highlighting a major security flaw in Firefox 3.6 web...

Cards based on Nvidia’s Fermi GPUs have proven to be remarkably camera shy until now. We’ve seen a few dodgy shots from leaked presentation slides, and we’ve seen some snaps of GTX 480 boxes. However, so far we...

Out fo China comes the first blurry snaps of what appears to be Nokia's next N-Series phone, the N8-00 which will be the first one that actually runs on the new Symbian^3 operating system that comes with, amongst other things,...

UK's Conservative party has been left red faced after hackers exploited a loophole on its 'Cash Gordon' website, redirecting users to pornographic websites, forcing the party to take the website down. According to security...

The Chinese government has expressed its disappointment over Google's decision to start providing uncensored search results to its users in China by redirecting them to their servers in Hong Kong. Calling it an attempt to...

"People say funny things when elections are looming", this is how Paul Marks of NewScientist qualified Gordon Brown's statement yesterday that fast internet access, commonly known as broadband, is now the modern day equivalent of...

Google is not legally responsible for trademark infringement on its Adwords network, the European Court of Justice has ruled at the end of a seven-year lawsuit. The search company was sued in France by Louis Vuitton™ in...

More technical details from Microsoft's motion-sensing controller Project Natal have emerged and, if you fancy one, you might want to look at buying a bigger house. According to Tech Flash, the minimum space required to get the...

Shortly after unwittingly revealing the details of AMD’s Phenom II X6 last week, motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has now shown an equal disregard for Intel’s secrets. The company has once again revealed the details...

Google's AdWords system does not break trade mark law but companies can still stop their trade marks being used in the system in some circumstances, the European Union's top court has said. The Court of Justice of the European...

A survey conducted by Derdack from randomly selected visitors at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona back in February, showed that the relevance of SMS and MMS messaging services and application is not in decline; rather...

Search engine giant Google has shut down its Google.cn website and has started redirecting users to a server in Hongkong, offering users uncensored search results, much to the disappointment and anger of the Chinese...

Storage specialist Sandisk has unveiled the world's first commercially available 32GB microSD card. It's smaller than a human nail and yet can store more than 22,000 floppy disks - if you can remember what they are. Sandisk says...

Microsoft saw a small but significant plunge in Internet Explorer's market share in some particular European countries since it rolled out the browser ballot screen. This solution is tailored to offer Windows users in the EU...

In an attempt to increase its influence in the desktop virtualisation domain, Microsoft Corp has implemented protocol acceleration of its signature remote desktop protocol, dubbed RDP, along with extending its collaboration with...

IBM’s LotusLive Cloud Service suite has received a major boost in the past couple of months, as the company has signed up agreements with as many as 200 channel partners in the last two months to sell the service. The...

Here we bring to you the latest hardware reviews culled over the past few days from aropund the wibblesome web. Intel's DP55WB "Whitesburg" motherboard has been reviewed by iXBT Labs which finds it "obviously not perfect."...

The ongoing tussle between Google and Chinese Government over the web search censorship issue gain in intensity on Monday, with the search engine behemoth decided to cease search filtering by re-routing the Chinese traffic to its...

The Pirate Party UK has launched its general election manifesto ahead of May's two-party bunfight. The manifesto, published by the political group which says it doesn't really support piracy, says that if elected PPUK will be...

Apple's legion of tame hacks will be getting a present in the post this Thursday. Silicon Alley Insider reckons that Apple is preparing to ship review models of its eagerly-anticipated tablet computer, the iPad, to an elite...

Mozilla has fixed a vulnerability in Firefox so serious that the German government yesterday advised users to stop using the browser until a patch was forthcoming. Firefox 3.6.2, which fixes this critical bug and makes a few...

Maker of motherboards Gigabyte has announced that it has shipped a million motherboards equipped with the new USB 3.0 superspeed interface. The Taiwanese company says it now holds one third of the market which, according to our...

Eight British retailers including the likes of Marks & Spencer, DSGi, Comet and John Lewis have confirmed that they will stop selling television sets that consume too much energy. The group, which accounts for more than half...

Storage specialist Sandisk has unveiled the world's first commercially available 32GB microSD card; it's smaller than a human nail and yet can store more than 22,000 floppy disks. The availability of such a card means that...

 Apple's handheld devices have made a much bigger dent in the mobile gaming market than most people expected. The iPhone and iPod Touch have stolen a march on the two giants of the hand-held gaming industry, Nintendo and...

Nintendo is working on a 3D version of its DS handheld gaming system, which it will launch at the E3 expo in June. The 3D DS will not require any mind-bending 3D glasses in order to see the action, apparently There's not much...

With a slim profile and one of the most compact chassis in its class, the VAIO E series notebook is easy to hold and carry around. It's also a pleasure to use with an edge-to-edge isolated keyboard featuring an integrated numeric...

Belkin's N Wireless Modem Router is perfect for setting up a wireless network that has the range to easily cover any-size home or office. The N Wireless Modem Router has the fastest speeds for handling applications that take up...