Many British newspapers have dedicated their headlines yesterday over the link between the rise of Syphilis in some areas of the United Kingdom with the usage of Facebook. Details of the whole affair have slowly unravelled. BBC's...

The Culture Secretary, Ben Bradshaw, has announced that the British Government will provide Bletchley Park, the site of some of the first steps of modern computing, with a £250,000 funding for urgent repairs. The money...

It's looking very much like Apple's forthcoming iPad will have access to 30,000 free classic e-books if reports are to be believed. The folks at App Advice say they have seen a working beta of the iBook Store which includes a...

Intel announced today that its netbook application marketplace now supports Linux and will soon be coming to Europe. The service, AppUp Centre, which offers cut-down games, entertainment and social media apps built especially...

Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has announced today that Little known CE manufacturers Cello and 3View are set to integrate the online video on demand player from Sky, Sky Player into their future products. 3View had already...

Francois, a French "hacker" who apparently gone into the Twitter account of US President Barack Obama as well as dozen of others, has been arrested by the French police who teamed up with FBI agents. The 25-year old, who goes by...

Companies are falling over themselves to join the iPad wagon train as Apple's argument for not supporting Adobe's Flash format gathers strength. The Wall Street Journal today announced that it would be selling subscriptions on...

Colombia's dot-co domain name will be opened for general availability this summer, and the company behind the move wants you to know it's not just a .com typo. .CO Internet, a joint venture between Colombia's Arcelandia and...

London Metropolitan's police is seeking the help of owners of Internet cafes as well as owners of public WiFi connections - like restaurants - across the capital to help them fight the threat of home-grown terrorism. The BBC...

3M has released the follow up to the MPro 110 micro projector that we previewed back last year; the MPro 150 promises to be a better all rounder which solves its predecessor's shortcomings. The device has an autonomy of around...

The CanSecWest security conference has witnessed the fall of two of the most popular internet browsers, Firefox and Internet Explorer 8, on the first day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest. The two browsers were hacked on Windows 7...

A shady and secretive cabal of European government lackies and Big Media lobbyists which has been operating behind closed doors has had all of its secrets exposed by a French web site. Snippets of information about the...

Opera has posted a Youtube video of its Opera Mini browser for the iPhone and it looks like it's blazingly fast. The video (below) shows two identical handsets loading pages from the New York Times. Opera Mini manages to render...

The unofficial Oracle of Apple, Gene Munster, who also happens to be a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, has sent a note to his clients arguing that the company might be planning to enter the highly competitive television...

The Metropolitan Police has broken out another weapon in the war on terror: screensavers. Under a scheme launched this week, Internet cafés and libraries in London are being encouraged to display posters and screensavers...

Peripheral specialist Belkin has launched four new routers bearing the monikers Surf, Share, Play and Play Max which aims at integrating more features to a device that was until now only used to manage internet access. All models...

With an inevitable election looming, it looks as though the Government is working hard to court the tech vote. Not only has Alistair Darling announced tax breaks for the UK game developers, but now Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw...

BT will have to open up the telegraph poles and under-street ducts that make up much of its network structure to competitors under plans published by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The former state monopoly will have to provide...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will be releasing the next iteration of its unified communications server, codenamed as Office Communications Server (OCS) by the second half of the next year. The new version, which has a...

T-Mobile has confirmed on its customer forum that the HTC Desire is already available for order from their website and will have a 7-day lead time which means that the first ones should reach customers as from the 5th of...

Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopaedia, has suffered a serious service outages for a couple of hours yesterday, apparently for the first time in its long history of existence. The website was down for around...

You can expect to see lots of smug reports from anti-Apple hacks today about how the iPhone was hacked in just 20 seconds. As usual, CanSecWest's infamous Pwn2Own hackfest will generate hundreds of posts wittering on about how...

The ongoing tussle between Google Inc. and China has taken a new interesting turn when two other US-based technology companies, Dell and GoDaddy.com, are apparently pondering over plans to pull out of the Chinese market following...

A 25-year-old has been arrested in France, accused of hacking Twitter. The bloke, thought to be Hacker Croll, was carted off in a black van after a joint operation invloving the FBI. Croll - his real name has not been released -...

Server and computer maker Dell has announced host of novel solutions, systems, as well as services tailored to assist customers in making cost-effective cloud computing and large-scale datacentre installations. The company, at...

Random House, one of the world’s leading publishing houses, is dithering on the decision of distribution over Apple’s latest tablet computer, the iPad, as well as its companion iBooks Store amidst price-related...

In an attempt to address one of the soaring concerns pertaining to the reliability of cloud computing services, Google has beefed up the security capability of its email service Gmail with the incorporation of an ‘intruder...

Toshiba has announced two additions to its line of teeny spinning platter HDDs and reckons one of them is a record breaker. The Japanese tech giant says its 2.5-inch MK7559GSXP HDD has the highest density of any old-school hard...

China expects its number of domestic Internet users to exceed 500 million within three years. Qian Xiaoqian, vice minister in the State Council's press office, claimed as much, according to agency reports. Today China has...

Top-spending 'enthusiast-class' gamers account for almost half of world-wide gaming hardware revenue, Jon Peddie Research reckons. Peddie estimates that 46 per cent of the cash spent in 2009 on PC gaming hardware was lashed out...

Adobe has announced that its pant-wettingly expensive suite of image manipulation tools will be updated on April 12th. Creative Suite 5, known to its close freinds as CS5, includes the ubiquitous Photoshop, Quark Xpress klller...

A California-based trade body for the porn industry has come out against the proposal to launch a .xxx internet domain. The Free Speech Coalition's executive director, Diane Duke, has written to ICANN to complain that the...