Japanese giant Sony has said that it will be stopping producing and selling floppy disk drives altogether from March 2011, ending a 30-year love affair with the magnetic storage media. Floppy disks were still on sale in Japan...

British Bookmaker Paddy Power is the first mainstream one in the UK to take a so-called Novelty bet on a Street Fighter match that will pit Ryan Hart against Femi Adeboye. The first one is currently favourite to win with 1/3 odds...

RIM launched the Blackberry Bold 9650 after presenting to us the Pearl 9100, both smartphones targeting two entirely different markets. While the second one will appeal to a younger, hippier market, the first one is squarely...

Mobile phone operator Vodafone is selling the HTC Desire for less than the Google Nexus one despite the fact that they are actually very similar models manufactured by the same company. The Nexus One has gone on preorder for...

Google's popular online video streaming service, YouTube, has launched its very own online video rental service. The scheme, which was released on a 10-day trial basis earlier this year, allows users to rent Hollywood movies and...

Smartphone maker HTC has issued an official apology for the delay in dishing out the latest firmware update for its highly popular Android based Hero smartphone, which will allow users to upgrade their phones to Android...

Sky just announced this morning that they are going to give 20Mbps internet access to all their customers with two offers on the table, a 2GB option for free and an uncapped monthly version for £7.50. Obviously, the deal is...

The grapevine has been buzzing with rumours about AMD’s forthcoming Zosma-based Phenom II X4 CPUs, and how they might really be hexacore chips in disguise. However, the gossip has now been confirmed by MSI, who says that...

The UK saw a significant dip in its number of Windows malware infections in the second half of 2009, according the the latest research from Microsoft. The company today released a 248-page door-stop of a report, which slices...

Canadian manufacturer RIM has announced the launch of the Blackberry Pearl 9100, an entry level 3G smartphone that sticks to a more traditional candy bar form factor. The phone, which measures only 50mm wide and tips the scale at...

That mainstay of computing storage throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the floppy disk, came a step closer to extinction today as Sony announced its decision to stop selling them by March 2011. Invented by Sony in 1981, the...

Japan's largest mobile network service provider NTT Docomo has announced it will be teaming up with Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC to develop an all-new mobile phone operating system platform, compatible with Symbian and Linux...

Only days after the alleged theft of Apple's top-secret iPhone 4G, a pair of never-before-seen iPod Touch music players, marked 'DVT-1 and DVT-2', have found their way on online auction site eBay. According to Apple related...

Mobile maker Sony Ericsson and phone network 3 Mobile have come together with Spotify to offer a free two-month subscription of the popular music streaming service to customers who purchase a Sony Ericsson smartphone. The move is...

Researchers have revealed that teenagers on social networks such as Facebook and Bebo are using a new kind of slang hide their activities from parents and people outside their social groups. The most popular slang used by...

A social network that allows users to share details of their purchases with each other has admitted leaking sensitive credit card information on to the internet. Californian company Blippy says it has corrected the problem and...

Microsoft has held talks with the former president and CEO of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, Peter Chernin, regarding an Xbox Live television channel. At the talks, which took place on 12 April at the software giant's Redmond...

Even before it hits the shelves of stores in the UK, owners of Apple's new iPad are under attack – this time from malware. Updated: Anti-virus company BitDefender reports that it has discovered links to a 'backdoor' virus...

Silicon Valley police are investigating allegations of theft after reports that a prototype of Apple's iPhone 4G which had been found in a bar was sold to popular tech site Gizmodo for thousands of dollars. The New York Times...

Keeping your laptop’s GPU drivers up to date has always been a tricky task, with laptop makers often only coming up with the goods several months after the equivalent desktop drivers. However, Nvidia says it’s going...

Insecurity outfit McAfee has promised to cover 'reasonable expenses' after a dodgy anti-virus update turned some customers' Windows PCs into little more than ugly desk ornaments. “If you have already incurred costs to...

A US gamer has been banned from buying iPads after reaching his lifetime limit. Apple made it clear that it was limiting iPad purchases to two per person per day, but until now it hadn't let slip that it had a lifetime limit. A...

Airtime provider Vodafone will be the first company to offer Google's Nexus One handset in the UK. The Android-based touchscreen handset, which has received mixed reviews from users in territories where the phone has been...

Vodafone will be selling the Google Nexus One from the 30th of April for as little as £35 on pay monthly contracts with customers being able to pick the smartphone from Vodafone stores. Interested customers will be able to...

AMD graphics wing ATI has just updated its line-up of professional workstation cards, bringing the whole range into the DX11 era. Following on from the FirePro V8800 are four new cards, designed to cope with the demands of...

Online bookmaker Paddy Power is taking bets on the outcome of an upcoming Street Fighter IV competition. The battle is being listed under 'Novelty Bets' alongside the possibility of alien invasion, and who will next date Cheryl...

Intel is preparing to launch two new Atom processors for mobile devices according to industry sources. Occasionally reliable moles at Digitimes have unearthed rumours of two new SKUs in Intel's low-draw netbook platform in the...

Israel has lifted a ban on personal imports of Apple's tablet device after more than 20 were confiscated in a row over Wi-fi specifications. Haaretz is reporting that the Communications Ministry is allowing the iPad to be...

Apple afficionados residing in Israel breathed a sigh of relief after the country's Communication Ministry lifted the ban on Apple's iPad tablet computer. This follows a technical review which established that the WiFi network of...

Sky said that it will offer only two broadband packages from June 1st as it becomes the first internet service provider to give free 20Mbps to its customers. The 20Mbps free service, called Sky Everyday Lite, comes with a 2GB...

With Facebook proclaiming its 'Open Graph' as the future of the web at its F8 conference in San Francisco last week, it was only a matter of time before developers showed the world what the social networking giant’s...