Hewlett-Packard has made a surprise $1.2 billion bid for troubled mobile maker Palm. The deal would give Palm, which has struggled to regain its first-mover momentum in the face of competition from the likes of Apple, a...

The Vodafone 845, the mobile phone operator's first Android smartphone, could be a precursor of things to come as it is the first 360 smartphone to come out since Vodafone launched the Samsung H1 and M1. There are currently only...

Apple has confirmed earlier today that it will be holding its annual third party developer event, Worldwide Developer Conference 2010, from the 7th to the 11th of June 2010 at the Moscone West Center. Oddly enough, the Moscone...

US site Hulu announced that it will be pulling out of the UK after failing to agree on terms with British broadcasters, leaving thousands of potential viewers sorely disappointed. The official stance is that Hulu and...

Taiwan-based smart phone maker HTC has signed a patent-sharing deal with Microsoft, allowing the company to use Microsoft technology in its Android-based smart phones. The deal, worth an undisclosed sum, will allow HTC direct...

The National Health Service is the worst organisation in the UK when it comes to protecting sensitive data, privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has revealed. The ICO reported the NHS had suffered more...

(ed : A spokesperson from Vodafone contacted us and confirmed that the email was sent by mistake and they contacted the customers affected. He added that they are seeing encouraging orders for the Nexus One and will make sure...

Google has confirmed that its soon-to-be-released Android 2.2 mobile phone operating system will come with full support for Adobe's Flash Player software, which has been labelled "old and buggy" by Apple, maker of the rival...

Canonical, the UK-based distributor of Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, says its UEC enterprise on-premises cloud-based storage system is catching on, despite heavy competition from Amazon's EC2. Industry experts believe the...

Android has apparently passed the Apple iPhone OS to become the operating system responsible for sending the most mobile data traffic in the US during March, a report from mobile advertisement company AdMob has...

Apple has traced the person who had found its lost prototype iPhone 4G in a bar and sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000, claims technology magazine Wired's Threat Level blog. The report suggests that the company traced the individual,...

The improbably named tablet PC, Joojoo, has gone on sale in the UK courtesy of startup Fusion Garage shortly after it went on sale in the US and will be available in the whole of Europe from today. The device, which cost $499 in...

Controversial BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has denied that it is to be acquired by a US company, calling the claims “lies”. As we reported yesterday, a failed calendar printer, Business Marketing Services,...

An anonymous source has revealed that it was Apple, not police, who first traced the person who found its iPhone 4G prototype in a bar and sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000. The claims were made in technology magazine Wired's Threat...

Spintronics is a word often touted by silicon soothsayers as the future of computing, but it’s a phenomenon that until now hasn’t even been photographed in action. However, physicists at the University of Hamburg have...

America's Federal Bureau of Investigation has revamped its web site to make information requests simpler and quicker. The Feds have been adding millions of files under the Freedom of Information and Privacy acts over the past...

Apple has formally announced that its Worldwide Developer Conference will kick off on June 7th. The event, which traditionally turn into a slightly nauseating love-in for the Mac Faithful, runs from June 7th to 11th at San...

AOL has sold its ICQ instant messaging service to Digital Sky Technologies, a large Russian internet investment firm, for $187 million, less than half the price it paid in 1998. The deal comes as part of AOL's ongoing...

Facebook has offered to meet the US senator who has called for a curb on the social network’s power to share users’ personal information. The offer came after New York senator Charles Schumer sent an open letter to...

Facebook bosses have contacted a US senator who has called for a curb on the social network's power over users' data. Top executives got in touch with Senator Charles Schumer of New York to explain the finer points of the social...

Desktop virtualisation firm VMware and cloud-based technology vendor Salesforce.com have come together in a joint venture named VMforce, which will offer cloud-based Java applications for enterprise users - in direct competition...

A UK-based maker of Xbox 360 accessories has been given permission to go ahead with an anti-trust lawsuit Microsoft after the software maker decided to stop supporting third-party accessories for its games console. The Federal...

A small British ISP claims to have identified loopholes in the new Digital Economy Act that would allow it to ignore its anti-piracy provisions in many cases. Andrews & Arnold reckons its business and residential...

Following the success of its iPad tablet computer, Apple has announced it has acquired Texas-based chip manufacturer Intrinsity for an undisclosed sum, in a venture that suggests it plans to move into the chip...

Microsoft has announced that a cut-down version of Windows 7 is now available to OEMs for embedded applications. The company says it has now finished work on Windows Embedded Standard 7 which will soon appear in thin clients,...

The maker of the Blackberry is to launch a new smart phone operating system later this year in an attempt to take on Apple's iPhone and Google Android-based handsets. Research in Motion (RIM) announced the launch of BlackBerry 6,...

The saga of the prototype Apple iPhone 4G found in a Redwood City bar has now turned into a tortuous debate on the nuances of Californian law. And now that the identity of the person who “found” it is known to...

Microsoft has released Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system, allow manufacturers to embed the OS into TVs, interactive digital signs, set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices. The software giant also announced...

The Pre-alpha version of Firefox for Android, also known as Fennec, has been launched by developers at Mozilla Foundation for smartphones with Android 2.0 and above. This is a very early version, which means that there are issues...

Greenpeace has poured scorn on Sony's green ambitions describing its recycling initiative as a marketing exercise. The tree-hugging organisation has told Tech Eye that scheme could encourage people to part with their perfectly...

Hulu has surprisingly announced that it has abandoned plans to launch the online video service in the United Kingdom and arguably in any territories outside the United States. According to the Telegraph, the entity, which is a...

Vodafone announced this morning the launch of its fifth Android-based phone, the Vodafone 845, which is an own-branded model based on the Google mobile platform. The device runs on Android Eclair (v2.1) and is hidden from view by...

California police have confirmed they have interviewed the person who 'found' a prototype Apple iPhone 4G in a restaurant and sold it to tech blog Gizmodo for $5,000. "We’re still not saying it’s a crime," San Mateo...

Another heavy user of Adobe's video streaming software Flash is now pandering to the all-powerful iPad. Everybody's favourite waste of time, social notworking monster Facebook, is now streaming user videos to Apple's second...

Despite the minimal stock of GeForce GTX 480 cards at retailers, Nvidia insists that yields of the 40nm chips from TSMC have met expectations, and that UK stock of Fermi cards will be in plentiful supply next week. Speaking to...

China is no longer one of the world's most egregious spam-sending nations, according to the latest numbers from Sophos. According to the security company's first-quarter 'Dirty Dozen' spam report, China was responsible for just...

Phone maker HTC has agreed to compensate Microsoft for the use of patents used in the Android smartphones it builds. The move suggests Google, which put the Android OS together and then offered...

Members of the team at Infinity Ward, which created cash cow Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, are suing publisher Activision. The 38 complainants, some of whom have since jumped ship whilst others are still on the Infinity Ward...

Apple has bought Texan firm Intrinsity, a maker of chips for mobile devices. The firm likely had a hand in the chip that ended up in the iPad but Apple won't talk about that. Indeed, it bought Intrinsity in March, according...