3UK has announced that it will be bundling 60-days worth of Spotify premium membership with all its Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and Vivaz smartphones from today, a deal worth £19.98 and which will allow the smartphone users to...

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 has been reviewed by Guru 3D which says that “it actually works really well.”  Pure Over Clock has written about the ECS H55H-I Mini ITX and has stated that “There's a pretty good...

In today's edition of News@Five, we present you with the round-up of top tech happenings during the day, which include YouTube's cost-saving overhaul and Apple's iPhone 4.0 OS roll out.  Google's popular video sharing...

Maker of motherboards, Gigabyte will hold its now annual brag fest for overclocking geeks in Milton Keynes this year. The Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship will take place at the Milton Keynes Xscape (that's the indoor ski...

BT issued a statement earlier today saying that most of the water that had flooded the exchange building overnight had been pumped out and power has been restored to most of the site during the day. A spokesperson said that "We...

LG has announced that they will be offering their first 3D-ready television set, the LD950, which is based on passive technology, in a bid to lower the entry price of 3D viewing devices. The television is a 47-inch model and is a...

The UK MD of former console big shot Sega has stuck up for PC gaming, saying that the often reported decline in sales figures doesn’t tell the whole story. In a conversation with games business site MCV, Sega UK’s...

The Barnet Council has reported that it has lost records of almost 9,000 school children residing in the Borough, following a burglary at the home of a council employee, who had downloaded the sensitive data on an unencrypted USB...

Apple has struck a deal with Fujitsu to retain the rights to name its iPad tablet device, which will be launched on Saturday but did not disclose any details about any financial agreements between the two. The Tokyo based company...

Search engine giant Google has upgraded its Google Message Security tool, an email filtering feature based on pre-set policies and secures email systems against spam and virus. The update includes two new features, namely, Dual...

The free Ordnance Survey (OS) data  put online on the Government-funded OS OpenData web site has proven so popular the site's fallen over. The new online portal offers free and unrestricted access to much of the Ordnance...

The US District Court of Baltimore has dismissed a lawsuit against software giant Microsoft, which was being pursued by software maker Novell, that had claimed that Microsoft had deliberately sabotaged Novell's WordPerfect...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will be extending the Windows 7 Enterprise edition trial till the end of this year In an apparent bid to increase the adoption of the operating system amongst corporate and enterprise clients...

Nvidia is allegedly experiencing manufacturing delays which are impacting the production of its Tegra 2 chips. A report on Slashgear says that a trusted source reckons hardware and software technical problems mean that Tegra 2...

In what could be seen as a prelude that the iPad has already started grabbing eyeballs on US college campuses, the Pennsylvania-based Seton Hill University has announced that it will distribute iPads to all the full-time students...

YouTube's player page has received a major facelift on Wednesday, which according to the world's most popular online video company, would help lengthen the time visitors spend on the platform as well as reduce bandwidth...

The next major iteration of the iPhone operating system, dubbed iPhone OS 4.0, is expected to support executing multiple third party apps simultaneously, something that has been missing from the iPhone since the beginning. This...

Japanese manufacturer Sony has announced the forthcoming launch of a new range of home cinema products that use the so-called Audio Laser technology, one that promises to change the way music is transferred. Audio Laser, known...

A new internet service provider has unveiled what it says is UK's first "Up to 1Gbps" broadband service although it is likely to attract publicity for all the wrong reasons. The ISP has been founded by a group called IIM...

A recent research has forecasted that the tiered pricing structure for mobile web will be indispensable in the near future, particularly owing to the presumed dramatic hike in the mobile data traffic - mostly due to mobile videos...

Consumer Electronics giant Apple is apparently set to stun the financial world by announcing a strategic partnership with American Express to launch its own credit card later this year. Separate sources have confirmed that the...

Copyright flouting video junk yard Youtube has had a lick of paint much to the chagrin of its millions of users. A blog on Youtube's official blog insists that the redesign is the result of eight months of user research,...

Virgin Media has made a startling revelation that may leave engineers at other cable providers scratching their heads, as the cable giant, in a press release, said that they have employed specially trained ferrets for more than a...

It’s April Fool’s day, which for us means that we have to automatically filter out anything that looks like it may be genuinely interesting, as it’s almost certainly a scarlet-coloured herring. However, one...

A leaked report prepared by the WPO, the organisation that regroups the main players of the global pharmaceutical industry, says that its members is pinning hope on the success of 3D worldwide to boost the sales of their...

Despite the fact that potential England squad members for the World Cup are dropping like flies, there will still be a wee bit of interest once the world's biggest festival of footie kicks off in just a few short weeks. And if...

Following the approval of Palm's handsets by the Global Certification Forum, the company is set to launch the Pixi Plus & Pre Plus - otherwise known as the P101UEU and P121UEU - in the UK. The two handsets had been officially...

Google, Microsoft, eBay, telecoms companies and civil liberties groups in the US have called on the US government to update electronic privacy laws to take account of the internet and protect citizens from state snooping. The...

While there are plenty of slim all-in-one PCs that punish you with weedy Atom CPUs and feeble integrated Intel graphics, Asus has decided to buck the trend with a new line of skinny all-in-one PCs with proper AMD CPUs and DirectX...

Tens of thousands of consumers in London and Home Counties have been left without broadband and telephone services after a major flood rocked BT’s exchange in Paddington area. Broadband customers in north and west London...

San Diego chip shop Qualcomm has opened a new research facility which will develop augmented reality in Austria. The new lab - which will house staff from recently acquired outfit Imagination Computer Services - will look into...

Apple's iPad will launch in the UK and possibly the rest of the world on April 24th if the rumour mill is to be believed. Multiple reports are insisting that Apple retail store staff have been told to not even think of taking...

The Samsung Galaxy S has just been launched but already there are rumours of a new version coming up soon and adding the suffix Pro to the name as well as a QWERTY keyboard. According to Italian mobile website, HDBlog.it, the...

Yahoo is to close its contextual ad service for small web publishers after a bafflingly long 'beta' program. The Yahoo Publisher Network Online, which competes with Google Adsense, will stop serving ads at the end of April, the...

Google is set to emulate Microsoft's trial two years ago of a cashback offering that will allow people to earn tax-free money simply by purchasing products listed in Google Shopping (formerly known as Froggle), from any of the...

Twitter will add a brand new beta feature to its popular microblogging website by the end of next month called "Avatar" which could potentially change the way people interact online. Avatar will literally "learn" how Twitter...

Acer has announced the launched of three laptops in its Timeline X range which is actually an update of its popular Timeline range, previously built on Intel's CULV platform. The two Timeline X laptops unveiled are the X745 and...

Corsair Nova V128 SSD has been examined by Guru 3D which has stated that “The Corsair V128 is a really nice product.”  Hardware Cannucks has written about Lamptron FC5 Fan Controller and has stated that...

It's still two days to go before the official launch of Apple's riskiest product ever, but plenty of hands-on reviews are showing up already. PC Mag has an in-depth look at the potentially game-changing iDevice and, despite...

Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Forbes that his company will deliver "at least two" tablet PCs soon. "Between netbooks and smartphones and e-readers, we think there will be a space for something like a tablet or slate PC,"...

Communications watchdog Ofcom will be asking mobile phone companies to cut charges for calls between networks. The regulator is proposing to cut the "mobile termination rate" - the wholesale charges that operators make to...

Taiwanese manufacturer Acer will launch a computer crammed a keyboard at the forthcoming Computex event in Taipei, months before Asus gets its own EEE PC Keyboard out of the door. Sources close to the world's third biggest...

Search giant Google is on the verge of cleaning its giant index and is set to introduce a new version of its algorithm called "Super Caffeine" (more about Caffeine here). According to snippets of information gathered from sources...

This Powerline twin pack with PLC passthrough product for transmitting data up to 200 Mbps across the household power line, and every power socket becomes a connection, which is suitable for use in a wide range of both...

Samsung's Solid State Drive (SSD) - the MMCRE64G5MXP-OVB - is an advanced NAND flash-based solution for traditional storage, leveraging the company's longtime leadership in memory technology. This next-generation solution offers...