Adobe has started an advertising campaign and a letter from its co-founders that aim to respond to Apple's recent onslaught on its longtime partner regarding Flash technology, possibly Adobe's most important asset. Jobs described...

Telecommunications giant BT has announced that it will be investing an extra £1 billion over the next five years to bring next generation broadband to nearly 70 percent of British households. A quarter of them will have...

Japanese manufacturer Sony could launch a new version of its popular Playstation Portable gaming console at next month's E3 gaming event. According to MCV, the fact that a number of gaming publishers have ringfenced a significant...

Google's next version of Android codenamed Froyo will be up to five times faster than the current version, nicknamed Eclair, a feat that has been just revealed after an intensive benchmarking session on a Nexus One...

HTC has accused Apple of infringing on five of its patents and has called for the ITC to ban the sale, marketing and import of related devices in the US.Research conducted by Simpson Carpenter suggests that, apart from with...

The Chartered Institute for IT, BCS, is conducting a survey amongst its members to determine the top five IT agendas the new UK coalition government need to deal with.BCS hopes to influence the IT policies the new government...

A German court has fined an unwitting wi-fi user €100 for having an unprotected connection to the Internet. The court ruled that, although the owner of the connection was on holiday at the time, somone had dowloaded...

Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock have hit out at Apple's 'walled garden' approach in an open letter on the software company’s website. The pair, now co-chairmen of Adobe's board of directors, protested that...

We appreciate that this might be a niche market, but if you’re the sort of tech-head who has a stack of surplus graphics cards lying in wait on the shelf, then Gigabyte’s new GA-X58A-UD9 could give up to seven of them...

Indian jailbirds will soon be the latest addition to the country's massive outsourcing industry. A new unit is to be opened in the Charlapally Central Jail, near Hyderabad, where up to 2,000 inmates will be put to work around...

UK Apple fans who want to pre-order an iPad will be disappointed to hear that the company will ship the device over a week after its official launch.The 'magical' iPad tablet computer, whose release has already been delayed once...

Security researchers have discovered a new type of botnet that uses web servers instead of individual users' machines to launch its attacks.The botnet, capable of launching a sophisticated Denial of Service (DoS) attack, was...

Japanese media giant Sony has finally made a profit on its flagship PlayStation 3 games console. The game system - which has been a cash-sucking money pit ever since it launched in November 2006 - recently justified its...

New research conducted by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, shows that the use on IT is directly related to happiness - and women benefit more than men. The BBC reports that the research was conducted by interviewing 35,000...

An international commission is to consider how broadband networks might be extended into the poorest regions of the world. The Broadband Commission will report to the United Nations in September with recommendations intended to...

US car manufacturer General Motors is currently working with Google to design new computer systems for its cars.Motor Trend reports that GM and Google are attempting to develop an in-car Android-based computer system that will...

Mozilla has released a 'Plug-in Check' security tool for web browsers.The tool allows users to perform a security check on any plug-ins they install, and is available for Apple's Safari 4, Google's Chrome 4, Opera 10.5 and...

There are now more UK internet domain names than Chinese, as registrants continue to abandon the .cn name-space in droves. There were 8,254,681 .cn domains at the end of April, compared to 8,483,010 under .uk, according to the...

Facebook has called a meeting today of all staff at the social network’s headquarters in San Francisco. The meeting, due to take place at 4PM Pacific Daylight Time (around midnight UK time), has been called to discuss the...

Telecoms giant BT has announced earlier today that it will form a strategic partnership with Silicon Valley based cloud computing video game company Onlive and purchased a 2.6 percent stake in the company for an undisclosed...

Facebook’s privacy chief has rejected criticism of recent changes at the social network. The rebuttal came in a Q&A session conducted by Facebook's vice-president for public policy, Elliot Schrage, with readers of the...

BT has signed a deal with revolutionary cloud-gaming firm OnLive that gives the telecoms provider exclusive rights to bundle the OnLive Game Service with its broadband packages. The deal sees BT buying up 2.6 percent of the...

A tool-kit designed to make it easy for botnet operators to use Twitter as a command and control centre has been discovered. Security firm Sunbelt Software said that the malware, TwitterNET Builder, can allow hackers to launch...

The HTC Evo 4G, the first 4G phone to land in the US, will be released on the 4th of June overtaking the HTC Incredible and the Desire as the flagship handset in HTC's expanding Android portfolio. PC World reports Sprint CEO Dan...

US networking and enterprise communication technology vendor Cisco has posted exceptional third-quarter financial results, indicating that the US economic situation may be improving, as companies increase their IT...

Smug owners of one-button mice* can finally get a taste of proper gaming, as Valve has released the Mac version of Steam, complete with over 60 games. Both Mac owners and PC owners can download the client now from here. Valve...

European privacy regulators are to look at whether some of the changes to user privacy made by Facebook may be illegal under EU law.This move comes soon after a number of US senators complained to the Federal Trade Commission...

Apple is to issue a software patch for the iPad to fix ongoing problems with the device’s Wi-Fi connectivity. Reports had emerged of hundreds of iPad users in the US complaining of weak or dropped connections, and the...

Enterprise software vendor SAP is set to acquire rival Sybase in a $5.8 billion deal, as it attempts to strengthen its product portfolio in a bid to take on rival Oracle.Sybase is a California-based software maker offering...

We've notice a surge in the number of online retailers now offering Samsung's cheapest 3D television set, the LE-40C750, for as little as £907 including delivery. Micom currently shows that the item is out of stock with...

Online gaming company Valve has released its online video game portal, Steam, for the Mac. The Steam application for Mac, which is available as a free download on the Steam website (http://store.steampowered.com/) is only...

Limewire has been found guilty of supporting the copyright infringements of its users.A New York federal judge has ruled that the popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client is guilty, and has declared it liable for the...

Smartphone maker HTC has accused Apple of infringing five of its patents, and has asked the International Trade Commission to ban the sale of the Apple handset in the US, as well as the iPod Touch and iPad.The five patents in...

Microsoft today announced the release date of its Office 2010 suite to consumers. The software giant made its new suite available to businesses yesterday. Today, it was consumers' turn to learn when they’d get their hands...

As expected, the launch of Office 2010 has been met with a barrage of criticisms from rivals with Google leading the onslaught with Salesforce going as far as extending sympathy to Microsoft. The Register met up with...

The company behind Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker is reportedly ready to sue tens of thousands of individuals, claiming they used BitTorrent to pirate the film. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hurt Locker maker Voltage...

One-time king of computers, Dell has unveiled a bunch of "solutions", aimed, it said, at simplifying desktop virtualisation deployments. The outfit is working with Citrix to validate its Dell Latitude laptop and Dell...

BT has announced it will spend an extra £1 billion rolling out super-fast broadband to two-thirds of the UK within the next five years. The company plans to roll out its Infinity network, which uses fibre optic cables to...

Research carried out by a team of Simpson Carpenter researchers led by Mike Stevens about the potential sales characteristics of the iPad showed that the device is unlikely to become a mass market phenomenon soon. Stevens said in...

Taiwan-based maker of mobile phones, High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) said it has  filed a patent infringement complaint against Apple. The firm claims the US toy maker's products infringe five of its patents and wants...

Korean electronics giant LG has pulled the curtains on its first Android-based smartphone, the Ally, which will unfortunately be available only in the US for a foreseeable future. Verizon Wireless has snatched the exclusivity on...

Vodafone has announced that it will offer the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone as an exclusivity to its UK customers. The phone is an Android-based model that comes with 16GB onboard storage (that can be expanded to 48GB thanks to a...

YouTube is now allowing users to  discreetly share videos with an unlimited number of online friends. The online video site  said on a post on the YouTube blog, that the number of people who can see users'...

The UK will reverse and restrain many of the surveillance systems that have marked its citizens out as the most watched in the world. The agreement on which the UK has formed its first coalition government since the Second...