The organisation behind the Bluetooth format, known as the Bluetooth SIG, has unveiled the specification of the next version of the universally accepted short distance wireless connectivity technology. That said, this iteration...

The New York Times (NYT) has reported that the hackers behind the sophisticated cyber attack on the corporate infrastructure of search engine giant Google were after the company's internal system which manages the one-password...

Google has unveiled a new querying tool that allows users to find out what the number of times any government formally requests information from the search engine giant. The service, which is available at...

Yahoo Inc., reported a net income of $312.27 million for the first quarter of the year 2010 as opposed to $118.69 million for the same period the last fiscal year along with the revenue of $1.59 billion for the first quarter of...

US based information technology behemoth IBM, has announced its end quarter results which indicated an increase in the net income to $ 2.6 billion, from the previous figure of $2.3 billion. This works out to $ 1.97 a share...

Microsoft's much awaited Dynamics GP 2010 enterprise software, which will be targeted at mid-sized companies, will launched on the 1st of May, the company has announced. The software, which was first unveiled by the company on...

Forget The Beatles’ back catalogue reissues, Harry Potter or the last Star Wars films. The most successful entertainment launch of all time has now been confirmed as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. According to Guinness...

Social networking giant Facebook has closed its Lite version which was announced back in August 2009 and rolled out one month later without saying why it went down that route. Facebook lite was introduced in order to satisfy the...

Free turn-by-turn navigation is now available to users of Android handsets in the UK with today’s roll-out of Google Maps Navigation 4.1.1 Beta First launched in the US last November, the latest version of Google’s...

Software company Adobe Systems, the company behind the popular Acrobat Reader, has announced that it will be no longer developing an iPhone software compiler for its upcoming Flash CS5 creativity suite. The decision to forgo any...

Google has revealed the number of official government requests for data it receives. The figures, which are split into data requests and removal requests, include court orders and applications from "other" government...

The Guardian is reporting that UK's privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, has reprimanded search engine giant Google for not adhering to the privacy norms and has asked to improve the privacy...

Nvidia’s already brought us two-way SLI, three-way SLI and a fudged flirtation with four-way SLI using four GPUs on two graphics cards. Now, however, the graphics chip firm has enabled a true graphics card foursome, by...

In an attempt to carve a niche for itself in the social networking and online gaming market, US based Warner Bros film studio is all set to acquire online gaming company Turbine, which is behind the highly popular 'Dungeons and...

A report released by internet security firm Symantec has claimed that fake internet security software continues to remain the primary source affecting computers the world over. Hackers are apparently succeeding in exploiting the...

The Lower Merion school district, a high-end institution in the US state of Pennsylvania, is being sued by two of its students for having invaded their privacy without their consent. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of the...

British electors rushed to the Internet yesterday in a bid to beat the deadline for registering to vote in the general election on May 6. The Electoral Commission reported that 50,000 registration forms were downloaded from its...

According to a UK wide experiment conducted for a program on the BBC, certain brain power enhancing exercises available online and on gaming consoles like the popular Nintendo Wii and DS, have no positive effect whatsoever on the...

According to a study conducted by the US based Pew Internet and American Life project, an average American teenager prefers text messaging to social networking, instant messaging or making an actual conversation on the mobile...

Adobe won't be investing any more time or money in the development of Flash for the iPhone, the company has announced. Writing in his personal blog, Adobe's Mike Chambers takes a bitter swipe at Apple's policy of excluding a...

After wooing the modding crowd with Mini-ITX, tiddly chip firm VIA then seemingly abandoned enthusiasts in favour of the embedded market. But the Taiwanese processsor designer is now returning to the consumer throng, introducing...

European competition chiefs yesterday announced a change in trading laws that could threaten the existence of online-only retailers. The new rules, which are set to come into force in June, will allow manufacturers to insist...

Several pictures of the forthcoming Blackberry OS v6.0 have been leaked online and show a rather attractive new scheme that RIM, the Canadian manufacturers behind the Blackberry family, have adopted. BGR, who got the exclusive,...

In what we suspect is an early shot of many, News Corp's Dow Jones has sued a site called Briefing.com claiming "hot news misappropriation". Dow Jones accused the site of "piracy" in its complaint to a federal court in New...

Google may be on track to launch its own Google PC soon after it emerged that the search engine giant has acquired a little known startup called Agnilux for an undisclosed sum. Dan Primack of PEHub says that Google must have been...

Apple Inc., the Cupertino based consumer electronics and computer maker, has announced its latest quarterly results ending on March 27th. It turned out to be a record breaking three-month window for the iPod maker, thanks to the...

The United Nations has rejected a Russia-backed treaty on cyber crime, preserving a deadlock that has hampered UK and US efforts to harmonise international computer law for the past 10 years. Developments such as cloud...

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has revealed that he expects netbooks and other devices based running the company's forthcoming Google Chrome OS to be available for between $300 and $400. Addressing an audience at the Google's...

Apple has unveiled the second beta version of the iPhone OS 4.0  and the accompanying software development kit as the release date of the iPhone 4G approaches. The update comes a mere 12 days after the original launch of the...

Samsung appears to be the first to have open the flood gates with an "affordable" 3D television model, the 50-inch Samsung PS50C7000, that's currently on offer for as little as £1264. The set, which is part of the Series 7...

A new study has shown that brain training games do little to exercise the grey matter. Millions of people who have been prodding away at their Nintendo DS portable consoles, smug in the knowledge that they are giving their...

Apple reported its best non-holiday quarter ever with a 90 per cent increase in profit over last year. The Cupertino company raked in £13.5 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2010 and a net profit of £3.07...