Humax has announced that it is partnering with BSkyB to offer the Sky Player on its Freeview HD set top box - the HD-Fox T2 - something which to be honest puzzles us slightly because while Sky Player is essentially free, you...

Google is enabling users to plumb the depths of every Twitter user's historical feeds with a new search tab. Google Updates, available here ahead of its official launch, lets users search tweets by date and time, accompanied by...

  New DisplayPort to VGA Adapter from StarTech.com Bridges Cutting Edge Video Connectivity with Older Display Technology   DisplayPort VGA Adapter interfaces next-generation DisplayPort-based desktop and laptop ...

HTC Corp., the Taiwan based smartphone manufacturer has plans to develop its own mobile phone operating system. Google and Microsoft, which have flooded the markets with smartphones running their operating systems. All...

Intel is talking up its 'Tunnel Creek' Atom processor in Beijing, leaping onto the tablet bandwagon by positing the chip in a tablet-style device it calls a media phone. Doug Davis, corporate vice president and general manager...

Apple Inc., the company that launched the iPod, has announced that the international launch of its 'magical' iPad device, which witnessed frenzied buying on the first day of the launch in US, has been delayed until further...

While G.Skill is boasting about its latest DDR3 memory hitting 2,500MHz, the extreme overclocking community has demonstrated just how far you can push 4GB of DDR3 memory if you’re prepared for a bit of adventure. Over on...

HTC Corp., the Taiwan based smartphone manufacturer, is planning to develop its own mobile phone operating system, with the intention of giving direct competition to Google and Microsoft, which have flooded the markets with...

A group of researchers over at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany have developed a prototype multi-touch digital interactive floor which is capable of allowing users to interact with the digital floor by just using the...

Telefonica owned O2 has announced on its official Twitter account that it will be selling the HTC Desire from the end of the April and has also confirmed that it will not planning to sell the Google Nexus One. There's already a...

Nvidia and AMD’s 3-way SLI and CrossFireX technologies have just been given a competitive smack from MSI. The company has just released a driver that can combine the power of any three graphics cards, regardless of the GPU...

Oracle Corp., which recently acquired Sun Microsystems, has decided to invest heavily into the popular MySQL open source database software which it had come to own from the Sun acquisition, in an attempt to target Microsoft's SQL...

The Labour Party has said that it will further reform intellectual property law if it is returned to Government in next month's general election. The Conservative Party has said it will introduce independent oversight into the...

Check Point, an IT security software vendor, has dished out a new data loss prevention (DLP) tool, which, according to the company, will be more focused on educating workers about DLP procedures part from offering sophisticated...

SpringSource, a Java-based management solutions provider, has announced that the company, which was acquired by VMware a few months back, has bought UK based open source software maker Rabbit Technologies. According to a...

After several leading telecom players failed to bring high-speed broadband to UK villages due to profitability issues, residents of Lyddington, Rutland, have decided to take matters into their own hands by raising almost...

Police Tasered a man from Manchester after he ignored their requests that he stop having an epileptic fit. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said in a statement that paramedics called police to the scene of a 40 year...

LG has rolled out another Android smartphone, the LU2300, which looks like a slightly modified LG BL40 Chocolate with a QWERTY keyboard thrown in and will replace the GW620 which was launched late last year. The smartphone comes...

The rest of the world will have to wait a little while longer to get its hands on the iPad because America is eating up every one the company can make. A statement from the Cupertino company said "Although we have delivered more...

Apple's Second Coming of the portable computer has been denied access to the Holy Land. Border guards are confiscating the tablet computers at border crossings and airports because the oversized iPod's wifi hardware doesn't...

Opera Mini tried to take on Apple at its own game by ousting Safari from its best browser for the iPhone perch. It was touch and go for nearly three weeks whether Apple would even allow the young pretender into the arena, what...

At Intel's China IDF in Beijing, co-general manager of Intel's architecture group, David  Perlmutter, said that Intel's successor to Nehalem, Sandy Bridge  will appear in late 2010. Sandy Bridge is a new chip...

Taiwanese silicon presser TSMC has announced that it’s not going to bother with the 22nm manufacturing process that everyone else is shouting about, and will instead skip straight to a smaller 20nm process. The chip...

Teenagers work 15-hour shifts and feel like “prisoners” making mice and webcams for Microsoft at a Chinese manufacturer, according to a National Labor Committee investigation. The human rights group has released a...

Sony says that it has no intention of reimbursing retailers if they offer fat PS3 users partial refunds because of the removal of the Install Other OS function. Last week, the first PS3 user successfully secured a partial refund...

Google CEO says company tends to create enemies   Google Inc's chief executive Eric Schmidt said the company's "disruptive" business created enemies for world's No.1 search engine, and he said that governments were keeping...

Korean authorities want to control under-age access to a list of online games in order to fight related health problems. The 19 games, which include Dungeon Fighter and Dragon Nest, are all role playing games with persistent...

Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker in the world, has dished out its own range of social networking centric smartphones, in an attempt to win back its lost market share by cashing in on the social networking phenomenon. The...

Microsoft, the company behind the Windows 7 OS, has announced that it has awarded a 3-year IT contract to Indian IT consultancy Infosys. The deal will see the latter take over Microsoft's internal IT responsibilities and will...

Despite the rumoured hostility between Apple Inc. and Google, the latter's Mobile App has made an appearance on Apple's app store, designed specially for the iPad, the latest tablet PC device to hit the market. However, people...

Telecom giant BT is gradually transforming itself from a disparate provider of multiple related telecommunication services into one with a more integrated range of offers. It is starting the push by emphasizing on its Talk...

The successor of the HTC Desire, also known as the Incredible, will be launching soon according to leaked information that has appeared on the internet over the past 48 hours. The phone will apparently be rolled out by Verizon,...

Software giant Microsoft has dished out a total of eleven patches for 25 Windows, Office and Exchange vulnerabilities, nine of which were rated 'Critical' by the Redmond based company. However, security experts were prompt to...

The meeting between Jim Gamble, the CEO of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and Joe Sullivan, the chief security officer of Facebook did not influence the social networking website to implement the "panic...

We've been contacted by an ITProPortal reader who told us that he was given a 16GB iPhone 3GS by Hutchinson Whampoa's 3 UK for keeping his custom. The unnamed customer - who had been with 3 UK for several years - was apparently...

Intel has reported its best quarterly results ever, after launching a complete refresh of nearly all its main product lines since January. The chip maker's profit after tax rose by mere 288 per cent to $2.4 billion, or 43...

The Nokia N97 is a cutting-edge smartphone with a large touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. The landscape web browser makes it perfect for using the mobile internet, and you can customise the homescreen with your favourite...

The HTC Touch 2 is a fantastic touchscreen phone running the latest generation of the Windows Mobile operating system. The HTC Touch 2 lets you take control thanks to its 2.8" full touchscreen. You can capture the moment when...