Intel today introduced the eight-core Xeon 7500 server chip, based on its Nehalem EX chip and built on a 45nm process. Intel said the chip represents the "biggest performance jump" its Xeon line has yet seen. The firm claims an...

The hard drive industry continued to battle against the increasing threat of solid state storage today, as Western Digital announced that it’s shipping its slimmest 750GB laptop drive yet. The latest 750GB Scorpio Blue...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Cupertino based Apple Inc. is developing a new CDMA version of its popular iPhone device, which will be able to run on the networks of US wireless service providers Verizon and...

Technology blog Endgadget has reported that Google is planning to end the fragmentation problem faced by its Android mobile OS by making its core features downloadable so that Android device users are able to access them on...

Search engine giant Google has confirmed that its mobile service operations in China have been partially blocked by the government, after it defied its wishes of running a censored search service and shifted its core backend to...

Apple Inc. has released a set of new videos explaining the functionality of its upcoming iPad tablet device, which will be available in Apple Stores from this Saturday. The company uploaded 11 new videos on its website, providing...

The HTC Desire has gone on sale at Carphonewarehouse where it is available on three different networks - Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone - for as little as £30 per month. The best CPW deal has to be T-Mobile's which offers...

The Times Online has explained why the venerable daily newspaper and its voluminous Sunday counterpart will be two of the first UK journals to be trapped behind a pay wall. A un-named Murdoch hack writes: "At the Sunday Times we...

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has won its court case against Newzbin this week, meaning that the Usenet indexing service is officially held liable for copyright infringement, even though it doesn’t host any...

London's High Court of Justice has ruled against popular online forum site Newzbin in a lawsuit filed by top Hollywood studios including Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Disney, holding it liable for the...

Virgin Mobile has unveiled a new set of prices for new and existing Virgin Media customers which comes as the mobile phone market enters Spring amidst intense competition between the six main mobile operators. Like O2's broadband...

Professor Tanya Byron who is in charge of Britain's current internet policies, has said that although UK is number one in internet security, it still has a lot do to if it wishes to stay abreast with the advancement in...

The BBC Trust, the body which governs the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has announced that it has halted the launch of BBC iPhone applications, which were scheduled for launch around the general elections and the World...

Microsoft Corp will issue an out-of-cycle security patch to address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 that has been exploited in the recent few weeks to wage cyber attacks. The security update,...

Communications watchdog OfCom has said that Britain's broadband service providers have failed to follow the voluntary code of conduct set up in agreement with ISPs. The regulator went "Mystery shopping" to check whether...

Apple has released a major update for its couple of latest OS releases, bringing a slew of security patches for Mac OSX 10.5 and Mac OSX 10.6, codenamed ‘Leopard’ and ‘Snow Leopard’ respectively. With its...

In response to the new spell of privacy changes slated for next month, comments from hundreds of users are inundating the world’s largest online social networking website, with a majority of them voicing their concerns...

Apple will continue its policy of releasing a new iPhone every year if rumours are to be believed. The fourth generation of the Holy Handset of Cupertino will, according to the Wall Street Journal among other sources, turn up on...

Telecoms regulator Ofcom will have the power to issue fines of £2 million for misuse of phone networks, an increase on current fines of £50,000. The Government has increased the upper limit of fines in a bid to deter...

You might think that the 32nm transistors buried inside your CPU are a wonder of the modern age, but they look like a veritable skyscraper compared to the world’s smallest superconductor. Discovered by scientists headed...

In a bid to crack down hard on the internet pirates, Warner Bros have adopted a rather innovative strategy - they are now looking to colleges for hiring students to spy on illegal file sharers and internet offenders. Generally,...

Microsoft will release an out-of-cycle patch for various flavours of Internet Explorer tonight. The update, which may be in response to security flaws uncovered by the recent Pwn2own hackfest, fixes holes in all iterations of...

The UK government's budget pledge to offer tax relief to UK game makers has been supported by all three main parties. According to Gamesindustry.biz, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are committed to helping out the UK...

AMD's server assault, launched today with the Opteron 6000 Series, will soon be backed up by infantry in the shape of the 4000 Series. With the many-cored Magny Cours pitched at the small-to-medium-sized undertaking, the 4000...