Several US technology companies and privacy groups have come forward in asking the US government to update the country's privacy laws, as the government has a free access pass to a lot of private online data. The Digital Due...

A significant number of writers, journalists and activists in China have claimed that their Yahoo Mail accounts have been targeted by a cyber-attack which was carried out with the intention of procuring sensitive information. The...

According to a recent research conducted by Google, a new cyber-attack, somewhat similar to the one that targeted the search giant, has been reported. It was implemented with the intention of hacking into the computers of critics...

BT, one of the most prominent internet service providers in the UK, has announced that it will start to roll out super fast fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) broadband internet to 300 new exchanges mainly in the South West, later this...

Two more players have joined the growing ranks of Freeview HD devices currently available on the market as the content platform gradually builds up momentum towards its first major event, the FIFA World Cup 2010. Freeview HD was...

Despite opening its arms to the console market, Crytek claims that the graphics in its forthcoming graphical showcase Crytek 2 will be the “best you’ve ever seen.” The claim was made by Crtyek’s executive...

Apple Inc., the company responsible for bringing the iPhone into the lives of millions, has dished out iTunes 9.1 which is compatible with Apple's much hyped iPad tablet device that will be up for sale from Saturday in the...

Red Hat has announced the availability of the latest update to its Enterprise Linux 5, release 5.5. Highlights of the release include hardware enablement for the Intel Boxboro-EX platform, AMD's Magny-Cours processor and IBM...

Seven counties in the leafy shires of south-east England have created a consortium which will share the cost of services including IT. Following the lead of a similar system developed by Lancashire County Council which split...

An Illinois eye doctor has sued Microsoft saying the software company added his patented idea to its Zune media player after he tried to flog it to them. Dr Edward Yavitz, who was obviously once a Zune fan, says Microsoft stole...

O2 will apparently cut the cost of its electronics fridge door/post it device, otherwise known as the Joggler, to a third of its initial launch price (down to £49) for 14 days only starting from the 2nd of April. This means...

Social notworking idiot farm Facebook has once again proved that it can't be trusted with even the most basic personal data, let alone your deepest, darkest secrets. Late last night the fake friend emulation website decided to...

The global semiconductor industry has shrunk for two years in a row but still performed better than expected. Figures published by number crunching outfit Gartner reveal that total worldwide semiconductor revenue fell by $26.8...

While most mere mortals would struggle to scrape together the half a grand needed to buy a single 200GB Corsair Force F200 SSD, the tech heads at Corsair decided to take advantage of their access to hardware by building a...

Taiwanese giant Asus has confirmed that it will be delivering at least two competitors to Apple's iPad over the forthcoming months and the first models are likely to be unveiled at Computex in June 2010. In an interview with...

The announcement by News Corp a few days ago that it will charge a fee for content that appears on the Times and Sunday Times must be seen as a calculated risk by Rupert Murdoch rather than a deliberate attempt to destroy one of...

Greenpeace is piling the pressure on Dell, which it accuses of continung to use toxic chemicals willy-nilly, while competitors are wising up. On Monday, Greenpeace took the fight to Dell offices in India, Denmark and the...

Apple spent one day as the third most valuable company in the US this month thanks to the iPad launch. March 9th, which was the day on which Apple announced the touch-screen device's launch date, saw the Cupertino company reach...

Google China users were faced with error messages when they tried accessing the site for queries in what has been touted as the Beijing’s rejoinder to Google’s last week blatant move in which the search company leave...

In an unexpected move, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped the illegal file distribution case against 20 year-old Matthew Wyatt, who had been charged with sharing copyrighted material on Oink, a BitTorrent based file...

Famed hacker Geohot (known to his mother as George Hotz) has thrown down a Gauntlet to games console giant Sony. The Playstation3 maker recently announced that it would be removing the ability to install various flavours of...

Micro-blogging giant Twitter, has revamped the homepage of its website, adding a host of new sections including Top Tweets section and a Hot Trends section. This is the lattest attempt by the company to position itself as a...

Thermaltake SpinQ Six Heatpipe CPU Cooler has been reviewed at Legit Reviews which has stated that “ The Thermaltake SpinQ is for anyone who wants a great looking cooler to show off.”  Ozone Strato 5.1 Surround...

AMD is attempting to defy the economic downturn today by launching a graphics card that can play games across six monitors. The Radeon HD 5870 EyeFinity 6 Edition features very similar specifications to the standard Radeon HD...

Vodafone has announced the availability of the HTC Desire from the 13th of April 2010 as it starts taking orders from today and officially launches it on the 8th of April; pay monthly plans will start from as little as...

Interpol is planning to upgrade its database so police forces around the world can better track the Internet addresses of suspected cyber crooks. The upgrade of the international police agency's database is scheduled to happen...

A company which indexes and sorts postings to Usenet groups is liable for the copyright infringement of its users when they download films, software and television programmes, the High Court has said. The ruling for the first...

Taiwanese outfit Elan Microelectronics claims it owns a patent on multi-touch technology which Apple is infringing in many of its products including the upcoming iPad. The firm has slapped Apple with a lawsuit which urges the US...

Consumer demand for Internet TV is moving so fast that manufacturers can't keep up. Web-connected TVs are slowly starting to become available, but it seems like the public is so keen to bring the Internet into their living rooms...

Microsoft Corp. is all set bid farewell to some of its most popular operating systems of the past decade or so, as the software maker has announced that it will cease support for the likes of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2),...

The Indian branch of the Durex company has been the source of some unpleasant leaks according to the Office of Inadequate Security. Seriously folks. We're not making this up. Apparently, the company's website allowed users to...

Taiwanese outfit Acer chose to latch on to AMD’s launch of its latest range of business processors, to reaffirm its presence as a server company. The 6000 platform and 6100 series processors encompass eight- and 12-core...

A jury in the District Court of Utah has decided that Novell owned certain Linux copyrights that SCO Group was complaining about. The jury's decision confirmed Novell's ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to...

Apple has reportedly been slapped with a lawsuit by a Taiwanese firm which urged the US authorities to cease the Cupertino-based electronics giant from selling devices boasting touchscreen capabilities, such as iPhone, iPod, as...

Apple has given away more details regarding operating system upgrades for the iPad in the future, under which the company will reportedly charge the iPad users for major OS upgrades after providing them with the first such...

Autonomica, manager of one of the Internet's DNS root servers, has removed its Beijing node from service following reports of Chinese censorship leaking into the western world. It was noticed last week that users outside China...

A long-running legal tussle between Novell Inc. and Santa Cruz Operations, better known as SCO, over the ownership of UNIX software code has eventually ended on Tuesday with a federal jury giving decision in favour of Novell. The...

The New York Times has reported that Tony Fadell, the man who created the legendary iPod music player, has formally quit Apple Inc., after a highly eventful 9 year stint. Fadell, talking to the New York Times, said that he wanted...

Google and Adobe will be soon joining hands in order to make Chrome browser and Chrome OS more compatible with Adobe's popular multimedia platform, Flash, which is widely used for adding videos and animation to...

The Foreign Correspondent's Club of China has confirmed that at least eight of its members have had their Yahoo mail accounts hacked in recent weeks. A warning email, which was circulated to the organisation's members today, is...

24 hours after AMD Launched its 12-core processor, archrival Intel has unveiled its new Xeon 6500 and 7500 processor series that's build on the updated Nehalem EX architecture. The processors, which have up to eight cores, will...

Freeview HD has formally been rolled out in the UK as high definition content becomes more widely available for a broader audience with no monthly outlay. Apart from the initial costs, which consists of a Freeview HD device (STB...

Reports that Google will offer Flash as an integral part of its Chrome browser will do little to ease the spat between the search giant and Apple. The King of Cupertino Steve Jobs has made it quite clear that he thinks annoying...