Pentagon hacker, Gary McKinnon has called on the newly-elected British government to put its money where its mouth is and tear up his extradition order. US prosecutors have been trying to get McKinnon before a New Jersey court...

Ian Livingston, the CEO of BT, has announced in an interview that the telecommunications giant will be releasing a tablet PC that can apparently make and receive phone calls. The Telegraph reports that the device will come with a...

Pictures of a near-final release candidate of Windows Phone  7 OS has been leaked online. Paul Thurrott posted a number of pictures of the  leaked version - build 7.0.0.6077 -on his  "Win SuperSite". Windows...

The British government has announced that it will scrap the controversial ID card system voted in by the previous Labour government.Examination of legislation proposals reveals that the Digital Economy Act is unlikely to be...

BT plans to launch its own touch-screen, tablet device which, it said, will have nothing in common with Apple's iPad. Apart from being touch-screen, tablet computer, that is. The device was shown off at BT's annual strategy day...

Artisan and designer, Stuart Hughes, of UK-based company Goldstriker International has released an Apple iPad that is made up of solid gold and comes with encrusted diamonds and costs a cool £129,995. At this price, it is a...

Virtualisation software vendor Citrix has unveiled its Xen Hypervisor-based XenClient platform.The XenClient platform will offer enhanced virtualisation features to enterprise desktops and mobile phones.The new product enables...

Facebook has released a fresh security update in an effort to stop users' accounts from being hacked.The update will allow users to register the machine they access their Facebook accounts from and to receive text/email...

Microsoft has announced the world wide release of its SQL Server 2008 R2, which will come with enhanced integration cloud computing.SQL Server 2008, released to manufacturing last month, has been made available to download for...

O2 has been the last major mobile phone network in the UK to launch the popular Android-based smartphone from HTC, Desire, and the least that we can say is that the wait was not worth it. The Telefonica-owned operator charges...

Facebook continued to face criticism over its recent changes to user privacy this week.The social network has come under fire from a group of US senators who have complained to the US Federal Trade Commission about the...

Consumer Electronics giant Samsung has announced the launch of its e-book reader, the SNE-60, which falls short of being what some might consider to be an iPad killer. Launched in February 2010 in Korea, The device, which will be...

Valve, the company behind the Steam online gaming portal, is in the process of launching Steam for Linux OS, following the release of the Mac version a few days ago.A report in The Telegraph reveals that Valve has hinted at a...

The Digital Economy Act, passed by the defeated Labour government in its last session of parliament, caused outrage among online freedom campaigners.Online protesters were disappointed by the passing of the law, championed by...

Facebook has played down the significance of an emergency staff meeting it called at its San Francisco headquarters to discuss privacy. The get-together, which we reported yesterday, took place at around midnight UK...

Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that New Labour's controversial identity card scheme is to be abolished by the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government.The scrapping of ID cards is one of the many changes...

Microsoft has announced that users running its Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 operating systems will not receive security updates after 13 July.The company has advised users to upgrade to the latest Microsoft software...

After trampling through a boggy patch last year with the loss of Activision, the PC Gaming Alliance has now welcomed four new members to its list of contributors. The new roster includes memory and SSD specialist Corsair,...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called the social network’s earliest users at Harvard "dumb f***s" for trusting him with their data. The revelation comes in the form of an instant messenger transcript published at...

The upcoming update to Google's mobile OS Android, codenamed Froyo, will get a massive increase in speed. Despite the fact that Google hasn't actually announced the launch yet, the folks at Android Police say they've had the OS...

The next major upgrade to the most popular game on earth is about to start, according to Blizzard. A surprisingly secretive posting on the company's US World of Warcraft portal reminds players that now is the time to sign up for...

A group of programming students from New York University have raised more than $100,000 to create an alternative to Facebook. The creators of the open-source project, called Diaspora, raised the sum from donations using...

One-time king of search, now everywhere wannabe Google, has posted up a job advert seeking a Product Management Leader for Games. The US-based vacancy now exists for "a flexible, results-oriented, and experienced senior leader...

European privacy guardians have told Facebook it should give its users more control over their personal data and allow them to decide who else gets to see it. Social Networking site Facebook works on the principle that everyone...

Enthusiast memory maker Patriot may have arrived late to the SandForce party, but it’s now tracking the footprints of Corsair and OCZ by releasing its own solid state drives using SandForce’s acclaimed SF-1200 line of...

Following their success in Bournemouth and Dundee, Fibrecity Holdings has announced that it will be bringing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband to another five towns.The company has said that Derby, Halton (Cheshire), Nottingham,...

A German-owned ISP has hit out at an injunction forcing it to stop hosting The Pirate Bay. The judgment, handed down by a district court in Hamburg, ordered Cyberbunker to pull the plug on the controversial file-sharing search...

California memory maker Corsair claims to have set a new world record for memory clock speed on AMD processors. Memory makers have been squeezing their chips recently in a tit-for-tat game of who can go the fastest. Now, using...

LG Electronics has launched a wi-fi-enabled Blu-ray player in the UK, in the form of the BD570. The player connects via wi-fi to the computers on a home network or DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) - compatible storage...

Although there have been plenty of rumours about Nvidia’s forthcoming mainstream Fermi-based GPUs, a more convincing slice of gossip has now just turned up in the form of supposed benchmarks of a GeForce GTX 465. Chinese...

Diaspora, the social networking platform being built by four New York University programming students, has raised $100,000 in funding from supporters and other organisations.Following the controversial and confusing privacy...

IP telephony service provider Skype has said it has no current plans to develop software for Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 phone OS.Speaking at an event this week, vice president of Skype for the Asia Pacific region, Dan Neary,...

To no-one's surprise, Apple has rejected an app which allows users to sync iDevices over a Wi-Fi network. The app, which was submitted to the iTunes store by developer Greg Hughes, allows the iPhone and iPod Touch (though not...

Users of Office Mobile will be able to download the new Office Mobile 2010 upgrade from Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace for free.Microsoft has announced that its Office Mobile 2010 suite offers new and improved versions of...

Online reference site Wikipedia has been updated to improve its user interface and add functionality.Owner The Wikimedia Foundation says the Wikipedia update is the result of a year's worth of beta testing and feedback from over...

Modern cars are susceptible to attack from malicious hacks which could be used with fatal consequences. Using a laptop and custom software, researchers were able to demonstrate how they could fiddle with a car's diagnostic port...