Police have drafted a plan to watch over the 340 trillion trillion trillion Internet addresses being issued under IPv6, the root and branch reform of addressing being done to stop the internet running out of space. The proposal...

Virgin Media, one of Britain's most popular internet service providers, has announced that in order to mark the 10th anniversary of broadband internet in the UK, the company has ordered a prominent arts and design firm to create...

American electronic retail giant Best Buy is opening four massive outlets in the UK. The first - due to open in Thurrock, Essex, in May - will copy the American model of buying computers, home movie systems, mobile phones and...

Chip-maker AMD has launched its new 6000 series of server  processor with eight- and 12-core server offerings. The firm said are the chips are pitched at the "high-volume 2P" and "value 4P" server market. The processor...

The Public and Commercial Service Union (PCS) has called off a pre-planned strike which was to be staged by dissatisfied Hewlett-Packard workers on 20th and 30th March, thanks to the intervention of Advisory, Conciliation and...

According to research conducted by UK telecommunications regulator OfCom, it has been revealed that Britain's broadband service providers have failed to follow the code of conduct set-up by the regulator. The report by OfCom...

Sony Corporation, the Japan based consumer electronics maker, has announced that after the next firmware update of its PlayStation 3 gaming console, users will not be able to install other operating systems in the gaming...

During today's even in Milan to mark the launch of the new AMD Opteron 6000 series, one slide of Pat Patla's presentations caught our eye for all the right reasons. Patrick Patla is the Vice President and General Manager, Server...

Former Nvidia golden boy XFX is apparently not that impressed with Nvidia’s new Fermi architecture, and has instead decided to focus on AMD’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 technology for its latest top-end Black Edition...

Apple has sold all of its current inventory of the iPad to early-adopting pre-order customers. Anyone wanting to get their hands on the company's game-changing device will now have to wait until April 12th, nine painfully long...

US retail giant Best Buy has announced that the company will be opening its very first store in the UK during the month May in Thurrock, Essex, which will stock a wide range of electronic products relating to entertainment,...

The BBC has suspended its plans to launch free iPhone Apps for news and sports after complaints from paid-for providers. The Newspaper Publishers Association has asked the broadcaster's governing body, the BBC Trust, to stop...

Nvidia may have stolen everyone else’s thunder at PAX 2010 with the frenzy surrounding the Fermi launch, but AMD has apparently also used the event to confirm some of the hearsay surrounding its Phenom II X6...

According to an article on popular marketing and advertisement technology blog Media Post, Apple Inc., the maker of the much awaited iPad tablet device, is planning to roll out its very own mobile advertisement platform sometime...

We're in Milan attending an event where AMD will be delivering its first 12-core, Magny-cours based AMD Opteron 6000 processor family in Acer (actually Gateway) servers. Other vendors including the likes of HP, Dell as well as...

BBC led Project Canvas, an upcoming video on-demand service for Freeview channels, has announced that companies wishing to acquire a stake in Canvas have until 23rd April to 'show at least an expression of interest in taking a...

Intel is hanging on to its title as world's largest chip maker measured in terms of revenue, fighting off the rising challenge from Samsung. The Gartner Group reckons that that despite an overall decline in the global chip...

Weekday morning magazine programme GMTV With Lorraine broke Ofcom's Broadcasting Code by allowing its consumer affairs expert Martin Lewis to continually direct viewers to his own web publishing business for details of deals he...

The proposed dot-xxx top-level domain is back on the table at Icann, with the organisation now seeking comments on how to approve or reject the porn-only name-space. Over the weekend, Icann published a set of...

Now that the official GeForce GTX 480 shindig is out of the way, the tech grapevine has already sprung into action with juicy gossip about the next chips based on the architecture. In particular, rumoured details have started...

It seems that Apple’s recently harbingered tablet computing device, dubbed iPad, is quite successful in grabbing the eyeballs of the gizmo enthusiasts. The company is apparently out of stock for its pre-stated 3rd April...

As speculated by analysts, following Twitter’s announcement about adding geo-location tagging to its users updates, Facebook is also planning to bring crucial updates to its privacy settings to add location tagging along...

Nokia is all set to up the ante in smartphone web browsing domains, as the Finnish mobile phone giant has purchased the Chicago-based mobile web browser outfit Novarra. The move apparently aims to step up Nokia’s bid in the...

Research In Motion has snapped up a Toronto-based smartphone software developer firm, named Viigo, for an undisclosed sum, according to a weekend post on Viigo’s official site. Announcing the acquisition, Mark Ruddock,...

Apple has started shipping its much-trumpeted tablet device, the iPad, around four days earlier than expected. The highly-desirable touch-screen gizmo was supposed to start shipping on April 3rd but those members of the Mac...

Sony intends to release a patch which will prevent the installation and use of third-party operating systems. The 'Install other OS' feature, which is widely believed to be the route by which well-known hackers are attacking the...

Korean tech behemoth Samsung is the first company to market with 32GB memory modules built from 40nm chips. The high-density, high-performance but low power DDR3 modules, which are destined mainly for server applications, are...