The gruelling wait for Nvidia’s first DirectX 11 GPU is finally over. The company has now officially unleashed the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 at PAX East 2010; nearly six months after it first unveiled the Fermi architecture...

The Flip MinoHD has been announced in the UK, months after its release in the US and will be the company's main offering against other HD-capable devices from rival firms. The company behind Flip Video, Pure Digital Technologies,...

Patients recovering from traumatic events are likely to benefit from playing computer games like Tetris if findings of a study carried out by researchers at Oxford are to be believed, though it may sound slightly far fetched. The...

The Broadband Industry in UK is apparently falling behind its peers in Europe and has managed to add just 963,000 new broadband lines during last year according to figures revealed by research firm Point Topic. The firm which...

ITProPortal's news@five offers the round-up of what's happening in the technological world today, which includes reports of internet traffic exceeding 21 exabytes each day, AdMob establishing iPhone's supremacy and Microsoft...

Oil demand will soon outstrip supply leading to calls for accelerated research into alternative energy sources. A report on Science Daily says that world oil reserves are at 'a tipping point' as they have been overestimated by...

Social networking website Facebook won't go after The Sun and others over allegations that it "caused" a significant rise of Syphilis in some areas of the United Kingdom. We were issued with a statement from Facebook's PR...

Microsoft Inc., the company behind the popular Windows 7 desktop OS, will be unveiling its Project Natal Xbox 360 component at a 'World Premier' at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, much to the excitement of avid Xbox 360 users, who...

Popular US-based video on demand service Netflix will launch its service on the Nintendo Wii gaming console in the US over the next few hours. The most popular current-generation gaming platform will therefore become the third...

We bring to you the review round up of recently launched video gaming cards, portable LCS TVs and processors among other new hardware devices on the block.  ATI Radeon 5870 2GB 3X2 Eyefinity Gaming Experience video card has...

Cisco System’s chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, during her keynote address at the CTIA, has painted an exciting picture of the growth of internet traffic in the coming few years down the line, both on wired as...

Mobile advertising company Ad Mob has released recent mobile usage data which suggests that the Android mobile operating system is growing in popularity. However Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices still hold a commanding...

Asus has announced that its full range of existing M4 motherboards are AMD Phenom II X6 compliant. The company says that all that is required to get AMD's latest six core CPUs, codenamed Thuban, up and running on the mobos is a...

Microsoft has quietly seeded an update which removes or replaces files which allow pirated copies of the operating system to work. The anti hack detection update has already been rolled out to anyone using the company's...

Software giant Microsoft Inc., will roll out new features for its recently revamped Bing search engine, including Quick Tabs, a new Answer box and Foursquare integration with Bing Maps, adding real-time mapping functionality to...

The online versions of the Times and the Sunday times newspapers will be hidden away behind paywalls from June and readers will have to pay either £1 per day or £2 per week to access their content. News International...

The soon-to-be-expensive online paper the Times has already engaged a reporter for every occasion. So the Editor of the paper, James Harding, knew exactly who to put on the story that ended up under the headline: "Vienna...

Readers will have to pay to access the websites of The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers from June, parent company News International has announced. The papers will become the first UK national titles to charge for access to...

Memory maker Walton Chaintek has finally caught up with RAM speed leaders Corsair and Kingston with a brace of new super-fast memory kits. The company has launched its Apogee DDR3-2400 marque which, as the name suggests, run at...

The long standing grumblings about AT&T’s substandard voice and data reception at homes could soon become a thing of the past, as the US-based mobile network operator has announced plans to roll out its 3G MicroCell...

With Internet relations with China already strained, nerves were jangled further this week when a key part of the domain name system infrastructure was found giving out bogus addresses for popular web sites. A post on the...

Computer expert Albert Gonzalez has been jailed for 20 years in the US for his part in steaming more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers. The Judge who sentenced him described the case as "the largest and most...

Graphics chip champion Nvidia has confirmed the details of its second conference aimed at getting developers to use its GPUs for something other than gaming. The GPU Technology Conference will take place at the San Jose...

The smart-grid infrastructure and management has continued to catch the attention of the networking giant Cisco Systems, as the company has snapped up a stake in a smart grid start-up firm, named Grid Net, for an undisclosed sum,...

After Wikipedia, it was YouTube that suffered a minor outage yesterday morning that lasted for around a couple of hours or so, leaving many users temporarily unable to access the video portal for that span of time. The...

We remember a time when journalists used to have at least a teacup-full of respect for AMD’s NDAs, but that now appears to have been poured down the sink too. The latest leak to hit AMD is the exposure of its desktop...

Subscription video service Netflix is bringing streaming video to the Nintendo Wii. Until now Netflix has offered a dual mode service whereby subscribers can either receive physical disks in the post or can watch movies and TV...

With the launch of the Apple’s much-hyped iPad tablet computing gadget is just around a week away, the electronics giant is increasing efforts to make the launch a success, as it did in past with the iPhone. Along the same...

A French firm has slapped IBM with an antitrust lawsuit in Europe, accusing Big Blue of preventing users to run IBM mainframe operating system on its machines other than IBM's, thereby seriously impacting the competition in the...

A report on the New York Times has revealed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has increased the frequency of replies he sends to customers who inquire about new Apple features by emailing him on his official Apple ID. Recently, a Sweden...

The UK government has sounded out plans to set up an exclusive group of technology and innovation centres across the country. They will focus on developing technology and methods that will help Britain commercialise its...

Development Charity Practical Action is asking the tech addicts to give up gadgets for a day this Saturday. The tech cold turkey event is intended to make people think about how privileged we are with all our expensive toys...

Cash cow Camelot, operator of the state-sponsored fleecing that is the National Lottery, has flogged itself off for £400 million. The business is straightforward sysadmin job. Keep the till machines functioning and the...

Murdoch rags, the Times and the Sunday Times are to begin charging for access to online content from June. The titles currently share a web site - Times online - but this will be split into two come May. Users can sign up for a...