We believe that Apple buying ARM Holdings for $8 billion would be the best decision ever taken by the Cupertino-based company and one which would deal a fatal blow to the competition. Apple's iPhone has overtaken the Mac range as...

Insecurity specialist McAfee is still scratching its head trying to figure out how its software managed to bork hundreds of PCs owned by its customers. Systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3 went apeshit bananas, crashing and...

Nvidia really doesn’t like gamers using ATI cards for graphics, with a second Nvidia card for PhysX. In fact, its drivers automatically disable GPU-accelerated PhysX if an ATI card is present. Never fear, though, as the...

Always willing to be groovy and get down with the kids, Apple has announced the first three dates of the iTunes Music Festival. Applepalooza, as we've decided to call it, will take place at the venerable Roundhouse in London's...

A survey from comparison site Broadband Genie suggests that the UK's mobile internet coverage is getting patchier - and that some providers are significantly faster than others. Experts from the site took broadband dongles from...

Could Google's decision a few hours ago to buy hardware startup Agnilux have anything to do with the fact Apple MIGHT be considering buying ARM Holdings which owns the rights to the ubiquitous ARM processor...

We may have to wait till tonight to see the party leaders slug it out in Bristol, but New Labour election heavyweight John 'two jabs' Prescott has already taken the fight to the Tories on Twitter. Prescott accused local...

A mobile ISP with built-in content filtering has launched, offering UK parents the chance to limit their kids' web access to age-appropriate sites only. The £19.99 service from Tibboh classifies web sites in the same way...

Adding exclusive content to boxed software is one way the gaming industry is adding value to genuine products and fighting piracy, and Bungie is about to take the idea to a whole new level. Hardcore Halo fans with deep pockets...

Dell is set to enter the smartphone market with a bang with the Lightning smartphone which will be a Windows Phone 7 model with a proper QWERTY keyboard. According to Engadget, the phone, a slider-model which is set to be...

If you fancy upgrading to one of Intel’s next generation of CPUs next year, then it looks like you’re going to be forced into a buying a whole new motherboard too. The rumour cauldron has been bubbling over with...

As the web becomes increasingly dominated by relationships, Facebook yesterday laid out its plans to topple Google. Speaking at the social network’s F8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told developers: "We...

After an intense scrutiny of almost 24 months, the member nations of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have finally come forward with the consolidated draft of the deal, however the final agreement will take a few months...

A fake survey claimed that iPhone owners tend to come across as more appealing and attractive to women than their counterparts who use other handsets. This was apparently the result of a recent survey supposedly carried out by...

Running Google's Android platform on the Apple iPhone is now possible thanks to the work carried out by Planetbeing, which is David Wong's nickname. The guy was credited with running a barebone version of Android on the first...

The next time you fire up your PlayStation 3 console, you will probably be asked if you would like to install the latest firmware. Like most PS3 owners, you'll be keen to get on with the business of shooting the hell out of...

In an attempt to venture into the Managed Print Services market, Hewlett-Packard, the world leader in computer and printing technology, has dished out a new enterprise software suite which is designed to help businesses to manage...

During the F8 Facebook developer conference in San Francisco, the company's Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg announced a surprising collaboration with software giant Microsoft for an online document sharing service known...

Oracle Corp., one of the largest vendors of business enterprise software, has announced that the company has acquired medical software maker Phase Forward in a $685 million deal, which is predicted to be closed around middle of...

In an attempt to overthrow search engine giant Google, social networking behemoth Facebook has dished out a new and sophisticated online system, which is designed to connect its users and their friends with the web in a more...

John Lewis has started selling the Samsung UE40 C7000, the first LCD 3D television to be available to the general public, for a mere £1799 with a free five year guarantee. At the time of writing there were only two left...

Although a handful of DirectX 11 games have been released, we’ve yet to see a game that really pushes the new features of the API. This is all a bit frustrating if you’ve forked out for a DirectX 11 card, but you can...

Sony has quietly updated the its Playstation 3 gaming console to version 3.30 making it 3D ready even if until now Sony doesn't officially have any 3D games for sale. The update will also add a number of trophy enhancements,...

Salesforce.com, a vendor of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), has announced that the software firm will be acquiring cloud based business contact data maker Jigsaw, in an all-cash deal for $142 million, making it the...

Intel recently showed off its new convertible classmate PC design in a London school, or academy, or whatever these things are called these days. The chip firm invited hacks and to St Matthew Academy, Blackheath, London, where...

Apple's newly-released 17-inch MacBook Pro has shown some worrying CPU heat issues under full load. Zara Baxter over at Aussie tech site PC Authority pushed the CPU to breaking point by running a Cinebench in Windows under Boot...

An update from the anti-virus software company McAfee has caused thousands of enterprise desktops, running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, to crash or reboot repeatedly after administrators installed the...

The HTC Hero was the mobile phone that helped to make Android mainstream but it will probably be the last one to receive an update to Google's Android 2.1. Numerous news outlet have reported that the firmware upgrade that was...

Gizmodo has done an excellent job in unpacking the iPhone 4G and revealing its innards to the world although we have yet to know what are the exact hardware specifications of the device. The screen resolution appears to be much...

British mountaineer George Mallory was once asked why on earth he wanted to climb Everest. His reply, which is now arguably one of the most familiar phrases in the English language, was, "Because it's there". Doing something...

Forget about Apple buying AMD, there are persistent rumours in the square mile that Apple is looking to acquire ARM Holdings, the owners of the ARM IP, which is found in almost all recent smartphones and many feature phones as...

Google has finally announced the availability of its free turn-by-turn service, also known as Google Maps Navigation for mobiles, for those using Android smartphones in the United Kingdom. The service, which could mark the slow...

Cambridge-based chip shop ARM saw its share price shoot up yesterday on the back of rumours it may be snapped up by Apple. ARM's microprocessor and micro-controller designs find their way into around 80 per cent of the world's...