Incidents of credit card fraud and identity theft in the UK are increasing at an alarming rate, according to a survey conducted by Infosecurity Europe. Forty-four per cent of the 1,000 Londoners questioned in the survey said they...

UK users are less likely to infected by malware than their counterparts elsewhere in the world. That was the chief finding of Microsoft's latest six-monthly Security Intelligence Report, which also claimed that Microsoft Windows,...

A competition to find Britain's best cyber security experts has been launched by a UK-based consortium of companies, government organisations and academic institutions. The challenge, which will include a wide range of tasks, has...

The use of Android-based smartphones is booming, with more than 50,000 Android apps being installed, according to mobile advertisement company AdMob. According to data released by the company, which is on the verge of being...

Sony has announced that it will launch a new scrappage scheme that will allow Britons to swap their old gadgets for new ones from the Japanese electronics company. The scheme which will allow prospective customers to shave up to...

Hans Pandeya, the man behind last year's announced acquisition of The Pirate Bay, is having another crack at the deal, this time by reversing the BitTorrent site into a US shell company. A failed calendar maker called Business...

After proudly brandishing a new three-way Hydra driver for its Big Bang Fuzion motherboard earlier this month, motherboard maker MSI now has plans for its first mainstream motherboard to sport a Lucid Hydra chip. Lucid’s...

Korean manufacturer LG has announced the release of the Optimus GT540, another Android smartphone that follows on the steps of the InTouch Max GW620 and aims at a more mainstream audience compared to the HTC Desire. The Optimus...

Increasingly gleeful reports about a malware attack on Apple's tablet computer gadget the iPad are inaccurate and misleading. The virus piggybacks on an email targeting iPad owners, but it only attacks Windows systems through...

Plans to create a cybercrime task force with the power to seize web sites suspected of being used for illegal purposes were yesterday agreed by European ministers. The EU's General Affairs Council set the European Commission...

Microsoft has announced plans to expand the market for its Dynamics enterprise software. The company broke the news to the 8,000 customers attending its worldwide Dynamics Conference this week in Atlanta, Georgia. Upgrades to...

Swiss police have foiled an attempted terrorist attack on IBM's nanotechnology research centre in Switzerland. The lab in Rueschlikon, near Zurich, is scheduled to open next year. Police uncovered evidence of the plot during a...

A US senator has demanded action to protect the privacy of users on social networks. In a letter signed by four US senators, New York Democrat Charles Schumer called on the Federal Trade Commission to set out clear rules...

Microsoft has finally released an official preview of its latest Windows Home Server software, three months after details were first leaked to the press. The announcement was made on Tuesday morning by Microsoft's senior...

Telefonica owned O2 has finally released more details about its HTC Desire offer but has yet to even announce a preorder date for what is one of the most anticipated smartphones on the market. The team in charge of the official...

We already have at least two GPGPU standards jostling for attention from multi-core coders, but compiler developer PathScale has revealed that it reckons it can better both OpenCL and CUDA with a new open GPGPU standard, in...

Google has announced another acquisition this morning, this time, it is Labpixies, a small company that manufactures widgets and apps for several platforms including iGoogle, Facebook and the iphone. The small team join the...

RIM has posted a sneak peek video of its forthcoming Blackberry OS6 and it all looks a bit familiar. The video, which features funky young things jigging about to the Black Eye Peas track Boom Boom Pow looks to all the world...

Nokia has announced its first Symbian^3 smartphone, the N8. It's the first phone from the Finnish manufacturer to use the OS since it declared itself open source. The N8 has a uniblock anodised aluminium body and comes with...

As a part of its investigation regarding the theft of the iPhone 4G prototype, the San Monteo police has raided the house of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen and seized the computers present inside the house. Jason Chen had uploaded a...

British computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has married his long-time fiancee in a secret Las Vegas ceremony. The semi-retired British boffin - who pretty much single-handedly kick-started the UK's computer industry in the 80s...

Nokia has announced the launch of its first Symbian^3 smartphone, the N8, which the Finnish manufacturer will pit directly against the iPhone and the Android touchscreen competitors. The N8 has a uniblock anodised aluminium body...

The US International Trade Commission said it has begun investigating Apple over claims that its iPad and iPhone gizmos infringe patents belonging to a Taiwanese firm. Elan Microelectronics complained at the end of March that...

While we await the forthcoming $99 Opteron 4000 Quadcore processor, AMD has whet our appetite with the cheapest six-core desktop processor currently on the market. The Phenom II X6 1055T runs at 2.8GHz and costs $199 while...

Dutch GPS giant TomTom has announced a new stand-alone satnav system, the first with a capacitive touch-screen. The TomTom Go Live 1000 is powered by a 500 MHz ARM 11 processor, has an all-new webkit-based user interface and the...

Reading bedtime stories on Apple’s iPad tablet computer may affect your night’s rest, sleep experts reckon. Unlike Amazon’s Kindle and popular electronic book reader devices from Sony, which use a technology...

IT giant IBM has dismissed a claim that it is considering a 75 per cent reduction in its permanent staff. The company said the report, which appeared on human resources news website Personnel Today, was baseless. According to the...

Microsoft has released two new videos demonstrating Microsoft Office suite at work on soon-to-be-released Windows 7 Mobile smartphones. The existence of an Office suite for the phones came as a surprise to many, as it hadn't been...

Verizon Wireless, the biggest mobile phone operator in the US, will not stock the Google Nexus One as reported earlier today, which leaves Google and T-Mobile as the only distributors of the phone in the US. Looking...

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is to open a Twitter account, despite previously comparing users of the service to 'terrorists', according to reports. "Comandante Chavez is going to open his Twitter account soon to wage the...

Google has expanded its empire with the acquisition of Israeli outfit LabPixies, a developer of widgets used on iGoogle, Android and the iPhone. The Pixies say they started the company "to help our users express themselves in...

The contest to get the next “world’s fastest memory” out of the factory gates was already bordering on the ridiculous earlier this month, but it’s now taken a further step towards the inane with the...

Internet security software vendor McAfee has announced it will provide free technical support and compensation to users whose computers were affected by a faulty security update released by the company. The update, released on 21...

Users of Apple's iPad tablet computer have been targeted by hackers with an email offering a fake iTunes update that downloads malware to their Windows PCs, internet security firm BitDefender warned yesterday. The company...

European music streaming outfit Spotify has climbed into bed with social notworking giant Facebook. The online music service has added Facebook Connect to its user interface to allow subscribers and freeloaders to share...

Graphics card outfit Sapphire is trumpeting its upcoming HD 5970 4G Toxic Edition as the fastest graphics card on the planet. The firm says it has begun sampling the beast, which it first showed us at CeBit back in March....

Technology blog Gizmodo last night reported that the home of its editor, Jason Chen, had been raided by California police investigating the leaking of details about the Apple iPhone 4G on the site. Chen says that he and his...

Online music service Spotify has announced this morning the launch of a major update to its application which is set to radically transform it from a passive provider into a social network with a music slant, something that's...

Google issued a succinct blog post today on Nexus One's board saying that those waiting for the phone from Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile phone operator in the US, should instead consider another phone altogether. As a...

Game delivery outfit Valve has updated its Steam web portal with dozens of new and improved features. The major redesign which was announced some months ago is now available either through the 'Check for Steam client updates'...