HP said it has created "development-ready architectures" for memory chips using memristors and believes devices incorporating the element could come to market within the next few years. HP researchers have also...

Facebook's most popular game, Farmville, turned to Farm Vile as a 12-year old child spent nearly £300 of his own savings to purchase the game's own virtual currency before using his mother's credit card to add another...

Apple showed off its iPhone OS 4.0 software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members today. As you can see from our live blog, the updated SDK includes over 1,500 new APIs and over 100 new...

Steve Jobs has announced at the iPhone OS 4.0 event that more than 450,000 iPad devices have been sold as of today, which means that an additional 150,000 iPads have been sold in the four days following the launch on...

Apple is announcing what's coming next in the iPhone OS 4.0 and we'll be updating live as it happens. Just keep hitting the refresh button. Steve Jobs strides onto the stage in his traditional garb. Jeans, black polo neck and...

In an attempt to widen its data analytics portfolio, International Business Machines is planning to expand its Smart Analytics Systems by developing separate versions of the platforms, which are compatible with mainframes and...

Google's controversial online book project, Google Books, has been slapped with yet another lawsuit, this time from the American Society of Media Photographers. The entity claims that Google had been scanning and uploading their...

CA Inc., the global computer software maker, has announced that the company will be firing 1000 people from its work force of 15,000 worldwide, in an attempt to reduce the costs and make the company more focused and...

Lane New, a 16 year old resident of Arkansas, has sued his own mother, accusing her of 'hacking' into his Facebook accounting, posting slanderous comments and changing his password so he may never be able to access it. The boy's...

Sources in Taiwan have apparently confirmed that Apple will be launching a 5 to 7-inch version of the iPad next year which will apparently be focusing on those customers who are more interested in being passive users. Mingchi...

Microsoft, the Redmond based software company, announced that the company has decided on a June release for the beta version of its Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1, which will include an enhanced user interface and better...

Orange, one of UK's biggest telecommunication service providers, has released its annual Orange Digital Media Index report, which has suggested that men use their mobile phones to access social networking platforms and watch...

Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman and Managing Director of News Corporation, which is the second largest media conglomerate in the world, has asked Google and Microsoft to refrain from using news sites owned by News Corp., for their...

The bloke who knocked off his secretary and biffed voters on the hooter, the incomprehensible John Prescott, has outlined a cunning election plan he's cooked up to bankrupt the Tories. As the rotund bulimic outed on his Twitter...

NetApp, the California based storage and data management services provider, has announced that the company is all set to acquire Bycast Inc., the Canada based storage software company, for an undisclosed amount. Bycast Inc is a...

At least two retailers in the UK are today selling Apple iPads. You'll be paying a premium of you want to get your hands on one before the Uk launch. Whenever that may be. Purelygadgets has confirmed to ITProportal that it has...

Software giant Microsoft has rolled-out a redesigned version of its Microsoft Dynamics DRM software, which will be targeted specifically at non profit and non governmental organisations, in order to widen the user base of the...

Microsoft Corp., the company behind the popular Windows 7 OS, has released the beta 2 version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, which is the company's first offering in the high performance computing market. According to...

Microsoft said the long-awaited European launch of Alan Wake will be brought forward a week According to the proclamation, the game will now hit European shelves on May 14th, 2010, rather than May 21st. "Fans in the UK have...

According to Chinese site xpreview.com, Nvidia will introduce another Fermi iteration on June 1. The product will be hawked under the GTX 460 label and is pitched at AMD's HD 5850 in terms of price and performance, the sources...

Geeksmack has managed to download what appears to be the first service pack for Windows 7, aptly named build 7061, a shorter name compared to the exact build string: 6.1.7601.16537.amd64fre.win7.100327-0053. The build dates from...

If you're itching to get your mitts on an iPad, can't wait till the end of the month for the official product launch and Ebay is not your preferred route, then there are at least two retailers in the UK that are selling Apple's...

3 Networks has unveiled a new kit that will allow users to add wireless hotspot capabilities to their cars by means of a MiFi modem. The £60 kit consists of the MiFi Huawei Wireless modem, a mains and an in-car charger, a...

Semiconductor giant Intel is set to send computers containing their single chip cloud computing (SCC) 48-core experimental processor to academic institutions although this roll out is possibly going to be limited to the US...

Apple is planning to make a smaller tablet device which would sit neatly between the iPod Touch and the iPad, according to an overactive rumour mill. Occasionally-accurate Taipei electronics industry mole-tamer Digitimes reckons...

Intel said it is releasing ‘limited quantities’ of an experimental 48-core processor, mainly to academic institutions. The prototype CPU is a product of Intel's Tera-scale research unit, although Intel tech...

A twelve-year-old boy has run up a £900 bill playing what is advertised as a free game on Facebook. The light-fingered scamp carved his way through £288 of his own savings to buy add-ons for the agriculture-em-up...

The UK Government pushed through the controversial Digital Economy Bill last night, in a two-hour debate that exposed as many holes in MPs' knowledge and the legislative process as it did in the Bill itself. The final vote was...

Windows 7 SP1 has leaked and is worming it way through Torrent sites now for those that fancy a fiddle. The build is recent - March 27th - according to Geeksmack which stumbled across the code. They report that the full build...

We know that Office 2010 will be launched in June 2010 and we now have confirmation from one popular online retailer that the launch date is likely to be the 30th of June, that is the last day of the Q2 2010. Play.com lists six...

The Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons and will become law before the general election. The Bill was passed amidst criticisms from inside and outside of Parliament about the lack of Parliamentary time...

Those looking to secure their Apple iPad devices can look forward to purchasing a security case from a company that markets them for a surprisingly affordable price and surprisingly enough, shipping it to the UK will not cost...

Market research firm iSuppli carried out one of its famed teardown parts analysis of the cheapest Apple iPad and guesstimated the total price of its parts to be as low as $259.60. Not surprisingly, the most expensive item on the...

Despite numerous attempts by Google to control the damage caused by its controversial privacy settings in its newly launched social networking tool Buzz, it has again been targeted by a lawsuit yet again. This time from one Barry...

In what seems like a massive blow to the net neutrality campaign, a US federal appeals court has declared that the Federal Communication Commission has no authority to force internet service providers (ISPs) into treating all...

A viral advertising campaign is having a pop at Apple's latest iDevice with a porno pastiche of an iPad unboxing. It's actually pretty funny. We particularly like the comment about the iPad not needing a Flash if it doesn't have...

Sony-bating hacker GeoHot reckons he can restore the ability to run Linux on Sony's flagship console, despite the fact that the company has removed the functionality. A recent firmware upgrade to version 3.21 killed the 'Install...

Deals for the HTC Desire and the HTC Legend, two of the most anticipated mobile handsets on the market, have started to appear in growing numbers, online in the UK. Vodafone has just slashed the cost of its cheapest HTC Legend...

In the UK, we’re fairly well known for the amount of cloudy weather we have but it now seems we want more cloud – not only does it give us plenty of rain but apparently it also brings savings on a huge scale! Well...

The CEO of 3 Networks, Kevin Russell, has announced that the smallest independent mobile phone network in the UK would start to "aggressively" increase its customer base following the announcement by the Ofcom of cuts to the...

Nvidia CEO Jen-hsun Huang has admitted that the firm's Fermi architecture is struggling to get out the blocks, as it is having trouble making the 40nm chips. At an Nvidian analysts' day yesterday, Huang was forced to admit what...

What with people buying computers again, unit prices of DDR2 and DDR3 memory may move above the US$3 mark. That's what Scott Chen, vice president of the APAC Business Division of Kingston Technology reckons. Chen said sales...

Game delivery giant Steam is offering frag fans the chance to play the mulitplayer version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for free. Penniless punters can download the first person shooter WW2 game's code now and start blowing...

Quite simply innovation at its best: This TV is a keeper. The V5810U series delivers the next generation in picture excellence with unrivalled depth, richness and clarity. What's more, you can connect to your favourite digital...

The Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600W A4 colour laser printer is the perfect choice for students or the home office. Fast, reliable and durable, it also benefits from low cost per page printing. With a chic design and compact build,...