As it was the case last year, the 24th of March marks the Ada Lovelace day, a day of remembrance to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science through blogging. The day was launched last year by Suw...

Go Daddy, the runaway leader in the domain name market, is to stop selling .cn names, after claiming China pressured it to gather more data on customers. Speaking to the US Congressional Executive Committee on China, company...

A fossilised finger found in a Siberian cave contains mitochondrial DNA that may come from a previously unknown human ancestor. Research published online today describes mapping the DNA from what appears to be a youngsters...

ITProPortal brings to you all the dirt on the latest news doing rounds today including Google's boycott by its Chinese users, Twitter's success in campaigning against internet spam and the launch of a latest Wi-Fi SD card. Search...

Apple Inc., the company behind the revolutionary iPod music player, has dished out a new service for its iPhone App Store, which will allow users to "gift" applications to their friends and family, instead of purchasing a gift...

Search engine giant Google has been served with a hefty fine by a Brazilian court in the state of Rondonia for inadequate monitoring of pages on its Orkut social networking service, which contained dirty jokes. The court has...

Internet czars Yahoo and Google have criticised Australia's plans to enmesh the nation into a sophisticated internet censorship structure, which, according to some, will restrict freedom of internet by prohibiting access to...

Search engine behemoth Google has been lambasted from a section of its own Chinese web users, who have started boycotting the search engine and switched their allegiance to rival Baidu.  This comes after Google has been...

ITProPortal brings to you the latest reviews on the latest gadgetry, designed to enhance your computing performance. Read on to get the best advice on what hardware to buy.  Benchmark Reviews has tested the QNAP TS-459 Pro...

A magical mystery tour of all the latest hardware reviewed by people who just love to tinker with tech. The Guru of 3D has the longest review in the history of technology journalism with its 24- page dissection of the iCooler V...

The UK's video game industry will be popping corks after the Government announced a programme of tax relief to help future game development. Dr Richard Wilson, CEO of Tiga - the industry's trade association which has been...

Google's billionaire boss Sergey Brin has tried to deflect attention away from his disastrous decision to pull out of China by having a pop at Microsoft. Brin, who is currently lobbying the Obama administration to come to the...

Boffins at Stanford University are asking computer users to gather data about earthquakes by using the accelerometers built into their laptops. The gadgets, which are designed to park hard drive heads in milliseconds if the...

The Government has outlined its plans for a reform of libel law, but said that it will not be possible to pass the proposed new law before this year's general election. The Government has outlined its plans for a reform of libel...

Peripheral manufacturer Eye-fi has announced the launch of their latest hybrid memory card called the Eye-Fi Pro X2 which combines a 8GB SD card with Wireless transferring capabilities. Three versions of the card will be...

Mobile data has overtaken voice across the globe for the first time ever according to Swedish telecoms outfit Ericsson. The findings were based on measuring live networks internationally and show that data traffic grew by 280...

A pair of boffins with nothing better to do have analysed 52 paintings of the Last Supper painted in the millennium between 1000 and 2000AD. The startlling revelation they came up with is that the food on the table grew to...

Micro blogging giant Twitter has announced that the company has successfully reduced the level of spam in the service to an impressive one percent from the previous figure of 11 percent, which was reported in August last...

Opera Software, the company behind the popular Opera web browser for desktops, has officially filled an application with the iPod maker Apple Inc., in order to get approval for its Opera Mini browser for the iPhone. However,...

O2 has joined Vodafone and Orange in selling the brand new Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 but only in black; the device is not officially available from their website but can be sourced from online partners like Mobiles.co.uk or...

Microsoft has confirmed it will offer an external 250GB hard drive for the XBox 360 console. Until now, the 250GB drive has featured as part of an Xbox bundle featuring Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and other games. Now...

It's not too late to get your hands on the cheapest Windows 7 edition for students. The official Ultimate steal deal direct from Microsoft that offered Windows 7 Home Premium for £39.95, has ended although you can still buy...

The cartoon produced by Theoatmeal illustrates very well the phases through which consumers go after they purchased a computer, from being enthused to feeling slightly bored and let down (ed : theoatmeal uses slightly...

UK's Pirate Party, which is a part of the Belgium based Pirate Parties International organisation, has released its election manifesto in which it has vowed that if elected to power, the party will advocate copyright reforms,...

Skinflint tweakers who get hold of one of AMD’s forthcoming Phenom II X4 chips could be in for a silicon surprise, as it looks as though you’ll be able to transform them into six-core CPUs. Cast your minds back to...

Cases of Syphilis have risen dramatically in areas where Facebook is most popular and it didn't take long before someone came up with a correlation. That man is Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, who...

A teenage girl has been left 'traumatised' and 'shocked' after Carphone Warehouse, a popular mobile phone retail chain in the UK, returned her Nokia phone filled with pornographic videos containing 'saucy romps, group sex and...

Virgin Media's broadband service in Leeds has been targeted by vandals for the third time in 2 weeks, disrupting the broadband connections of almost 30,000 Leeds users, including homes and businesses. According to an official...

Yet another Facebook story this morning, a teenager, Chelsea Taylor, was fired by her boss who left a message on her Facebook page, a growing trend and one which shows how popular the social networking website has become. Rather...

You never know what you might catch if you're addicted to social networking websites; according to Professor Peter Kelly, an NHS trust chief, cases of Syphilis have risen dramatically and blamed it on Facebook and other such...

More than 50 Tibetans have been arrested and some bunged in jail since March 2008 for sending reports, photos or videos abroad. According to information gathered by Reporters sans Frontieres and verified with the Tibetan...

Users of a hacked Finnish trivia site were most likely to choose 'password' as their password, according to a list leaked by malicious hackers. Älypää, which roughly translates as 'Smart Alec'*, was recently...

A Senate bill proposed this week would see the USA imposing financial sanctions on countries which fail to crack down on hackers and other digital undesirables. The legislation will target countries which are seen as "safe...

Product MSI GT640-30UKPrice £1,257.92 Part of MSI’s G family of gaming notebooks, the well-specified GT640, packs quite a punch fitted as it is with one of Intel’s mobile i7 quad-core processors and a...

Former chairman of the Samsung Group Lee Kun-hee - who was a convicted swindler before getting a handy presidential pardon - is to return to the Group as chairman of Samsung Electronics. Lee Kun-hee's father founded Samsung and...

Sprint has unveiled the HTC Evo 4G which is the operator's first smartphone that supports WiMax technology at the current CTIA 2010 event in Las Vegas. The handset, which will be available this forthcoming summer, shares some...

Sagemcom has launched two Freeview HD PVRs, the RTI90-320 T2 HD and RTI90-500 T2 HD which only differs from one another by their hard disk sizes. The first one has a 320GB model while the second one packs a 500GB one. They both...

A Chinese newspaper has dismissed Google's retreat from the country as the insignificant act of a single company. The Internet search virtual monopoly, which has been accused of becoming too big and powerful for its own good on...

OCZ Technology has shut down its Hypersonic business unit. The business made high-end PCs for the US market but it has now disappeared from the shopfront that is the Internet. The firm is to focus on solid-state drives, power...

HTC Desire delivers intense brilliance, sharp contrast, and true colors on the expansive 3.7-inch AMOLED display. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive as you multitask from app to app...

The BlackBerry Storm 2 smartphone has the power and performance to drive your desires. Find out how you can connect to your world.The BlackBerry Storm2 uses next generation SurePress technology. Type on a virtual, full QWERTY...