Users of Google's web-based email service who are based in the UK can now use the suffix '@gmail.com' instead of the usual "googlemail.com", the search giant has announced on its official Google Mail account. The service ran...

Premium memory racer Corsair has expanded its Nova range of solid state drives at both ends of the budget spectrum, introducing versions in 32GB and 256GB capacities. The drives join the original 64GB and 128GB Nova units, which...

It's been more than one year now since we've discovered the ultra sexy, EEEKeyboard PC, from Asus and now it seems that Taiwanese behemoth is finally ready to launch it globally. The EEEKeyboard is an all in one...

Microsoft's social networking-based smartphone models, Kin One and Kin Two, could be available to as early as 13 May. US-based Mobile phone company Verizon is set to put the device up for pre-order from May 6. The Kin handsets,...

According to recent data released by web analytics firm Net Applications, the global web browser market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has dropped below 60 percent. This is due partly to the emergence of new...

Smart phones could see their battery life boosted by as much as 20 per cent, thanks to a new type of memory from Samsung. The new memory, announced last week, is made from 'phase-change material' (PCM), an alloy of germanium,...

You will be able to convert a WiFi-only iPad tablet into a pseudo 3G model thanks to a $10 App that converts a jail-broken iPhone smartphone into a WiFi hotspot to which an iPad (and in theory other devices) can connect...

Adobe is behind the recent decision by US competition watchdogs to look at Apple, according to a report just out on financial news site Bloomberg.com. Anonymous sources said Adobe had filed a complaint that Apple was hampering...

Laptop maker Eurocom has unwittingly staggered into the tech spotlight after spilling the beans about Nvidia’s next-generation mobile GPU a month before its release. After being tipped off by an eagle-eyed reader, the guys...

SandForce, a California based technology start-up, has successfully developed a new kind of chip controller which allows companies to develop solid state drives (SSD) using less expensive flash chips which are easy to...

Even before its launch, Apple's iPad had created a furore in the market owing to its hardware and software capabilities. However, the digital tablet has now managed to cross over the 1 million mark within four weeks of its launch...

There are signs that Telefonica-owned mobile phone operator O2 will be finally rolling out its home phone service to customers who have already registered to get the package which includes line rental and voice calls. A...

Virgin Media is on a roll, literally, as it managed to deliver a staggering 200 million on demand views for the first quarter of 2010, which amounts to an average of just over 2.2 million per day. More than two million customers,...

The iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, Apple's new 'magical' device, has managed to sell 300,000 units over the weekend, a respected Apple observer has confirmed, indicating at the significant demand which the device has been greeted...

IBM has launched its own version of the popular SimCity game in which users get their teeth into real-world problems. The real-life simulation, dubbed CityOne, is targeted at students, urban planners and academics among others,...

IBM has acquired cloud computer technology maker Cast Iron Systems to strengthen its position in the emerging cloud computing market. Cast Iron Systems, which was founded in 2001, offers technology that helps enterprise software...

The head of Doodle, the Google division that creates colourful home pages for the search giant on special occasions, has revealed that his artistic inspiration comes from scribbling on napkins and bean bags. The talented 29 year...

Figures show that sales of DVD players have fallen to their lowest point in seven years. Just 5.7 million DVD players were sold last year in the UK, according to industry analysts Mintel - the lowest annual figure since...

Amazon has announced upgrades to its Kindle e-book reader, aiming to head off competition from the Apple iPad and Barnes and Noble's Nook. The online retail giant, which launched the Kindle in 2007, has released major updates for...

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 will include the H.264 video codec used by Apple's Safari browser, and not Ogg Theora as used by Opera and Firefox. Writing in a blog post, Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's General...

Hackers have released software designed to break Apple's stranglehold on apps for its iPhone. The so-called "jailbreak" software for the iPad and newer versions of the iPhone, allows users to install applications that have not...

Apple has sold a million iPads in the tablet device's first 28 days on sale. Initial predictions that the Cupertino company's latest toy would be a flop because it had no USB ports, camera or Flash support seem to have done...

US regulators are to mount an antitrust investigation into the ongoing war between Steve Jobs and Adobe, after Apple ditched Adobe's Flash Player from its iPhone platform. According to a report in the New York Post, the US...

Google has added the ability to remotely disable its cloud-based applications. The change has been made to protect business users who expressed concerns about lost or stolen mobile devices which could contain sensitive data...

Enterprise software developer SAP has settled a lawsuit with customer Waste Management, over allegedly a failed software solution. According to reports, SAP settled with Waste Management for an undisclosed sum after it accused...

Amazon has announced an update to its Kindle e-book reader in a bid to head off competition from the Apple iPad and Barnes and Noble's Nook. The online book seller has released major updates for both standard and DX versions of...

A string of emails exchanged between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and open source advocate Hugo Roy revealed that the Cupertino based iPhone maker is assembling a patent pool to go after the Ogg Theora open source video codec which is...

YouTube is developing a system to allow video uploaders to charge users to view their films, according to a MediaPost report. Since being acquired by Google, the video streaming service has been trying to figure out how to...

Some of us jumped in early when Google launched it's Gmail service and got snappy little email adresses suffixed "gmail.com. That was before Goggle ran into a legal roadblock over the use of Gmail in Europe - a company...

Twitter is planning to launch a feature later today that will enable bloggers and other web sites operators to embed other people's tweets in their pages. The company blogged that it will offer small snippets of code that can...

IBM has launched its own version of the game SimCity, in which users get to sink their teeth into the real-life adventure of… urban planning. Jokes aside, CityOne - which is due to premiere today at the IMPACT 2010...

Nvidia’s chief scientist, Bill Dally, has warned that the long-established Moore’s Law is in danger of joining phlogiston theory on the list of superseded laws, unless the CPU business embraces parallel processing on...

Micro-blogging giant Twitter has dished out the official Twitter application for Google's Android mobile operating system and is designed to run on the 2.1 version of the popular OS, currently available on the HTC Desire,...

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) is calling on the Conservative party to show its hand on tax breaks for the UK videogame industry. Labour and the Lib Dems have already promised UK gaming...

Popular technology blog TechCrunch has reported that computer maker Hewlett-Packard has decided to drop Windows 7 OS from its 'Slate' tablet and use a variant of the webOS platform it acquired when the company bought smartphone...

Apple has announced that the company will be closing down the online music streaming service, Lala, by the end of this month, hinting at the unveiling of the iTunes streaming service in the near future. Lala was acquired by Apple...

Mozilla, the outfit behind the popular Firefox web browser, has rolled out a fresh version of the browser's add-on manager, which resembles Google's Chrome own version. Industry experts believe that the new add-on update will...

According to a regulatory filing, Yahoo paid a whopping £30 million ($47 million) to new CEO Carol Bartz last year. Her salary includes $29 million in stock options and $13 million in stock rewards. Carol Bartz joined the...

Apple said that on Friday, it managed to sell its one millionth iPad device which happened only 28 days (or four weeks) after its launch on April 3rd. We already know that the first 24 hours of launch saw more than 300,000 of the...

Social networking website Facebook has suspended the account of a man who relentlessly tracked down thousands of sex offenders and paedophiles twice in the last two days. The Sun reports that Chris Wittwer, a 34-year old...

An online vigilante who posted details of nearly 6,000 alleged sex offenders on social networking site Facebook has had his page suspended twice in the last 24 hours. Chris Wittwer, 34, of Exminster in Devon, spent two and a...

Venture capitalist outfit Apax Partners LLP is to buy a 70 per cent stake in insecurity outfit Sophos The money men will fork out $400 million and shoulder some of Sophos' debt for in exchange for the majority share of...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser has a lower percentage of the market at any time since it overtook Netscape back in the olden days. Those of you old enough to remember back to a time when Yahoo ruled the earth and...

Apple may face an antitrust inquiry into its recent directive forcing iPhone and iPad app developers to ditch Adobe Flash Player. According to a report in The New York Post, the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade...