Geeks at Google have managed to get Quake II engine running in an HTML5 browser. In New Googlespeak, that means the port will run on its Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers. Not that one from Microsoft. Whatever it's...

IBM, a longtime defender and advocate of open-source software, took a shot over the bow of the open-source community in March when it sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind the OpenHercules open-source...

The Digital Economy Bill continued its inexorable path through Parliament today, and now looks set to hit the UK statute books before MPs have had a chance to fully debate it. The controversial Bill gives powers to copyright...

Western Digital is not giving up on mechanical hard disk drives despite the increasing number of solid state drives currently on the market and has announced two Velociraptor drives with 150GB, 300GB, 450GB and 600GB...

The dust of the iPad launch had barely settled when the Cupertino gadget maker announced that the iPhone operating system would soon get a major upgrade. iPhone OS 4.0 will get its first outing at a special event at the Infinite...

Samsung is re-entering the UK desktop market with a pair of all in one touchscreen computers, the U250 and U200 which will be exclusive available through DSGi's PC World (and possibly Dixons and the likes). The U250 is a 23-inch...

Get a head start on the technology happenings of the day, by browsing through today’s news@five, which includes details of HP Slate being leaked, Mozilla being on the verge of solving a decade long browser bug and Microsoft...

Telecoms watchdog Ofcom will oversee the gradual decrease over the next few years of calls from landlines to mobile phones as it wants to reduce the so-called mobile termination rates. The mobile termination rates (MTR) will have...

The Blu-ray Disc Association recently announced two new flavours of Blu-ray Disc technology which can hold up to 128GB of data. The specifications for BDXLTM (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs) and IH-BD...

The aftermath of Google's spat with the People's Republic of China has laid bare China's hacker factories, which, according to a veteran hacker, consists of thousands of hackers capable of creating new hacking tools and tens of...

The government of Vietnam has refused to acknowledge the 'groundless' accusations made by Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. They had both hinted that the government was involved in cyber attacks...

The developer team behind the popular web browser Mozilla Firefox has announced that they are close to fixing a decade-long bug which has affected every browser since the past few years. The issue, which is related to the web...

More information about HP's forthcoming Slate tablet have been leaked online courtesy of technology blog Engadget which happened to have obtained a copy of an internal presentation (for HP employers only) a few hours after the...

The Digital Economy Bill, which is designed to empower UK's media industry against internet piracy, will undergo yet another reading in the House of Commons before being given a green light by UK law makers. The controversial...

A study has shown that gamers are twice as likely to suffer from manky teeth as their non-gaming contemporaries. Because teenagers tend to sit in front of their consoles for hours on end, they don't eat properly, tending to...

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, has announced that the company will not continue to support Intel's Itanium platform, after the software giant releases its own line of server related tools and software. The...

HP has Youtubed a video of its forthcoming Slate device - the one Steve Ballmer brandished at CES this year in order to show Apple that the Vole is still scurrying about. More details of the device have slipped out too. And,...

Western Digital is making bold claims about having the fastest SATA hard drives on the planet. The Californian company reckons its WD Velociraptor enterprise drives are 'bigger, faster and hungrier' than the competition with...

It's probably the most anticipated device of the century and people queued in there thousands to lay their hands on one. But the hooligans at iFixit just couldn't wait to get out the spludgers and Torx drivers in order to rip...

Those looking to add extra capacity to their Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console will be happy to learn that the latest firmware update for the gaming console adds support for an external USB drive. Unfortunately - and...

Jay Adelson, the CEO of once popular social news site Digg, has announced his departure from the company via blog post on the official Digg blog, citing an undisclosed 'entrepreneurial calling' as the reason for the abrupt...

The Blu-ray Disc Association has unveiled a new format that will boost the recordable capacity pf Blu-ray discs from the current 50GB to a whopping 128GB and a slap the moniker BDXL on the format. Unfortunately, the new discs...

By any measure, the fact that Apple managed to sell more than 300,000 iPads in just one day together with more than one million apps and 250,000 ebooks is an excellent result for Steve Jobs, who masterminded the launch of the...

The European Commission wants countries to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to websites that contain material related to the sexual abuse of children. The move has been opposed by digital rights...

I’d quite like an iPhone but don’t want to be tied to a two-year contract. When looking at the TCO of most plans, you’re looking at something starting at £900 even for the most basic plans (75 minutes, 250 SMS and 1GB...

Apple will offer a sneak peek at its next generation iPhone OS, version 4.0, which will be rolled out ahead of the impending launch of the iPhone 4G (or whatever moniker it carries). It sent an email to selected members of the...

Microsoft plans to unveil its  new line of Project Pink mobile phones early next week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The misguided software giant is to hold an launch event on April 12th at which it is...

Apple may well launch the iPad on the 24th of April at least in the UK and in the Canada according to a number of rumours that have popped up over the past few days on the internet. iPad Canada reports nearly a week ago now that...

European Internet Explorer usage continued to drop in the first full month following Microsoft's browser choice screen roll-out, but its losses in March were nothing to write home about. Windows users in Europe were recently...

Until we get ours here in the UK, we thought we’d post something a little different.Originally published at OneMobileRing.com

 I have tried many touchscreen devices and always go back to numerical keys. Here’s why.I can touch type on a keyed device. A touch screen has no tactile feedback making it useless for non-sighted use.With a keyed device,...

When you first switch on the F107, there is an ominous sense of familiarity about the menu items and the structure of the device. Those of you who remember the early Nokia phones like the 5110 will be able to reflect on ‘warmer’...

Piper Jaffray, a leading middle-market investment bank, conducted a survey over the weekend, which has indicated that a significant number of consumers that have purchased an iPad are also owners of Macs and iPhone devices. Gene...

At first glance, it’s not hard to see why the Samsung i5700 can be so easily compared with the HTC Hero. Both handsets are Android devices and are fairly similar in terms of size, weight and specification. However, this is where...

Apple has revealed that they have sold more than 300,000 iPad on the first day on sale in the US, a figure that's both underwhelming and impressive, depending on what it is compared to. Some analyst, like Apple's oracle, Gene...

Search engine giant Google has announced that, come April 5th, the company's Buzz social networking tool will get a new privacy reset function, which will ask the users to confirm or change their current Buzz privacy...

XFX Radeon HD 5830 Video Card has been reviewed by Hardware Secrets which says that “Radeon HD 5830 is an excellent choice if you have around USD 270-USD 280 to spend on a video card.”  Vortez Hardware has...

Internet market research company comScore has released fresh mobile phone usage data which indicates that smartphones based on Google's Android OS are eating into Apple's and Microsoft's smartphone market share in the US. The...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Microsoft, the company behind the Zune media player, is all set to launch a brand new smartphone device, which will come loaded with social networking tools, targeted at young mobile...

Google said it is changing the way its completely crap attempt to create social network out of its Gmail users deals with privacy. A Googler confessed on the firm's offical bog that it had got it wrong. Or rather: "Shortly...

The Satellite L450 is a 15.6-inch widescreen laptop. It is ideal for those looking for value for money. The L450 delivers quality and good performance without breaking the bank. Also included is Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium,...

Lenovo crafted the Lenovo G550 15.6-inch laptop to offer business professionals reliable, affordable and straightforward PC technology. The laptop expands upon this value bringing users extra features, like style and design,...