Leaks do not normally happen haphazardly and the news that Palm may have put itself up for sale might have been outed by people who want to see any potential bidder foot more for Palm than it is currently worth. Shares of the...

Search engine giant Google, the California based company behind the popular Android OS, has acquired mobile visual search technology maker Plink, making it its first UK takeover ever. The acquisition is a part of Google's plan to...

Sharp Corporation, the Japanese electronics major, is all set to roll-out a four color 3D LCD TV, which will be available to the masses later this year. The launch of the 3D televisions will catapult Sharp in to the lucrative 3D...

Britain's premier intelligence agency, MI5, has started firing those staff members who don't know how use social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter, which have become a major communication hub for extremists planning...

Primary schools in Liverpool are using Grand Theft Auto, a violent but popular video game, in order to teach the children the consequences of violent and improper behaviour. The viewing of the A-rated video game is a part of the...

The row between Adobe and Apple is reaching epic proportions with Apple going on the offensive by preventing its own developers from specifically porting Flash applications onto its popular iPhone OS platform. Earlier this year,...

Taiwanese motherboard maker Gigabyte has just released a software update to solve the problems with recharging iPads on PCs. The company claims that this is the result of its motherboards' “unique USB power design,”...

Representatives of the social networking platform Facebook are all set to meet with the heads of Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP), to discuss the measures that are going to be implemented on the website in order to...

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has dished out the final iterations of its Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 web development platforms, which will be soon be followed by the launch of Silverlight...

The Telegraph has reported that the Cupertino based iPhone maker, Apple, will soon venture into the emerging portable 3D device market, by developing 3D spectacles, which will allow users to watch 3D videos on the move. An...

AMD’s Phenom II X6 still hasn’t been officially launched yet, but it’s turning out to be one of the worst kept secrets since the iPad. The latest missile to hit the AMD gossip train is a collection of photos of...

Even as the market is rife with rumours about smartphone maker Palm Inc. being up for sale, the ailing company's CEO Jon Rubinstein has assured that it is only a matter of time when the company starts to see some...

Google said it has has bought a UK-based mobile visual search outfit Plink for an undisclosed sum. The outfit was started by PhD students Mark Cummins and James Philbin and produced PlinkArt, a mobile phone app that...

Product  Acer EasyStore H340-MPrice £399.99 inc. VAT Windows Home Server (WHS to its mates, and the OS that powers the Acer EasyStore H340) is the Marmite of NAS operating systems. Some swear by it, others are...

Smartphone manufacturer Palm may be looking for a quick exit as it has reportedly sought the help of Goldman Sachs Group and Qatalyst Partners to identify a potential white knight. Sources close to the situation have told...

The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (Immi) has announced that it intends to set up a safe sanctuary for investigative journalists and whistle blowers alike. Following the country's financial meltdown a parliamentary decision...

The first device to run Android was the HTC Dream. Since its launch in 2008 the OS has had a number of updates which have fixed bugs and added new features. The updates have all had quirky alternate names associated with them in...

Tesco Mobile has clearly demonstrated its intention of becoming a major iPhone reseller by announcing that it will be offering unlimited iPhone contracts for as little as £45 per month on a two year contract, down from the...

Nokia Inc., the Finland based mobile phone manufacturer, has announced that the company has acquired location-based mapping software maker MetaCarta, in order to offer location based services to its device users. According to a...

Not content with introducing two new CPU sockets in less than two years, Intel apparently already has plans for a brand new CPU socket to be released next year. The guys at fellow UK tech site bit-tech dug up the gossip while...

Trade body the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will mediate in what it says are frequent disputes over the rights to television formats. It will mediate disputes based on its existing film and media arbitration...

Malware is exploiting confusion about digital anti-piracy rules in an attempt to extort money from Internet users, it has emerged. A new Trojan, which F-Secure is calling DotTorrent, pretends to be from a law firm and demands...

James Gosling, the creator of the popular Java programming language, has announced his resignation from Oracle Corp., which had recently acquired Sun Microsystems, the company which originally distributed Java. The computer...

In an attempt to tighten its grip on the mobile application market, micro-blogging giant Twitter has acquired Atebits, the developer company behind the highly popular Twitter client for the iPhone, Tweetie. According to an...

Adobe, the company best-known for its Photoshop image manipulation software, has announced the latest version of Creative Suite. The Master Collection, which is a big box of tools for digital designers, has now reached version...

Well, we know now that Windows 7 Service Pack One (SP1) has already been released on torrent websites. The final version is expected to come by the end of the year, possibly in the last quarter as Microsoft and manufacturers ramp...

Apple Inc.'s newly released iPhone 4.0 OS beta SDK, which was made available to application developers a few days ago, has been successfully 'jailbroken' by the same iPhone Dev Team member who did the same to the iPad, Apple...

Janis Sharp, the mother of UFO hacker Gary McKinnon, has announced she is to stand in the General Election against Jack Straw. Straw, the former Labour Home Secretary and current Minister of Justice has an 8,000-vote majority...

Schools are using video games and to teach children that real-life violence is wrong. Kids in eight Merseyside schools are being shown clips from ultra-violent games like Grand Theft Auto - in which players can gleefully chop up...

Research in Motion, the leader of the US smartphone market, has unleashed its very first Twitter application for its blockbuster BlackBerry smartphone devices, after being tested internally for the last two months. The...

Software giant Adobe has announced the launched of the fifth version of its Creative Suite in a subdued market that is still recovering from the current economic downturn. The suite of products, which includes household names...

A poll carried out by voucher site Myvouchercodes.co.uk discovered that nearly half of those surveyed though that the iPad, Apple's latest mobile device, was actually a mobile phone. Six percent of those questioned thought it was...

If like us you have dreamt of an accessory that can convert an iPad into a netbook, then look no forward as the LapDock which does just that, has been announced. It acts as a docking station for an Apple iPad and a An Apple...

Head of the British online child protection agency has flown to Washington to hassle Facebook about installing its child protection button on its site. Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) boss Jim Gamble, said he...

HTC Desire is the superphone you have been waiting for and the HTC un-branded version of the Google Nexus One with a couple of extra camera features thrown-in. The 3.7-inch AMOLED display presents you with an unmatched viewing...

Is it a camera? Is it a phone? It's both! With an 8 megapixel camera the Samsung Pixon is packed with photo functions found in standalone cameras. With this you also get an integrated photo browser that lets you share and see...