Taiwanese sources have apparently confirmed that Apple's next smartphone, the iPhone 4G, which will ship in June 2010 may have the highest screen resolution of its generation but will still fail to deliver HD quality content...

Google might be looking to partner with Intel and Sony for a menage a trois to launch a WebTV venture during Google's developer conference, I/O 2010 which will happen from the 19th to the 20th of May in San Francisco. The...

Research In Motion needs to be worried as it emerged that bankers are apparently keen to switch from their old time favourite smartphone range, the Blackberry, to the more entertaining and relaxed Apple iPhone. Reuters reports...

The Pirate Bay has been sunk by a German legal manoeuvre against its ISP, an outfit called CB3ROB. Torrent watchers will be expecting the anarcho-syndicationists to pop up elsewhere any time soon. A bunch of Hollywood film...

Popular online video sharing website YouTube has been receiving two billion hits a day, according to its parent company, the search engine Google.Google said the website registers more than double the prime-time viewing figures...

Update: Jimmy Wales has responded to the rumours that he has given up his editorial rights.Writing on his Twitter account that the Fox News story is nonsense he stated that he is "still actively editing, every single day"...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reacted angrily to criticism of his iPad from Gawker editor Ryan Tate, prompting a late night e-mail debate between the two.Court documents suggest that Apple may have used corporate leverage to get...

Google has initiated a new PR war over the launch of Microsoft's Office cloud service.In an attempt to protect its own share in the online services market, Google has claimed that Microsoft has entered the cloud market too late...

Speeding fines issued by roadside cameras have dropped by 60 per cent according to a Scottish newspaper report. The Scotsman reckons that speed cameras north of the border are failing to pull their weight when it comes to...

The number of Scottish motorists caught by speed cameras has reduced significantly over the last year.The fall is being attributed to a rise in sales of satnav systems over the same period, The Sun has reported.Dumfries &...

A new site has surfaced that allows people to search for embarrassing posts made on Facebook. FacebookSearch allows users to search for status updates made by Facebook members using the flimsy privacy control protocol implemented...

Hewlett-Packard has revealed that it had to fight off four other bidders to acquire Palm.Rumours suggest Palm had approached 16 companies in its search for bidders.HP and Lenovo surfaced as the two front-runners. Three other...

DVD postal service LoveFilm has nudged the faithful optical disc a step closer to the crematorium today, as it announced that nine models of Samsung TVs will have immediate access to its online TV and film archive. Owners of...

Court documents unsealed over the weekend suggest that Apple used its corporate influence to get Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house raided.According to the documents, Apple attorney George Riley told detectives that the...

Nintendo is to unveil the Wii Vitality today, in conjunction with the American Heart Foundation.The two organisations are to show the new Vitality gaming peripheral at a joint press conference in New York, according to a report...

The founder of whistle-blowing site Wikileaks says he was recently relieved of his passport by Aussie border plod. Julian Assange - the Australian ex-hacker who created whistle-blowing, authority-bating web site Wikileaks - had...

Electronic Arts has let loose a teaser video for its forthcoming Crysis sequel. The short gameplay movie, which features EA's Nathan Camarillo waxing lyrical about Crysis 2's New York setting and upgradeable powers, looks pretty...

Smartphone manufacturer HTC has sneakily unveiled a new smartphone called the HTC Wildfire which looks like the HTC Desire only stockier and smaller and popularises the trend seen with the N97 (and the N97 Mini) and the X10 (and...

After a few weeks of rumours, Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig has confirmed to Thinq that “we are announcing a 3TB drive later this year,” but the move to 3TB of storage space apparently involves...

Albatron Technology said it will launch an external multi-touch module, that allows users to turn a stanard LCD monitor into a touch panel display The firm will introduce the gadget at next month's Computex show in Taipei. The...

A survey of more than 1,000 Brits has shown that most of us are still resisting the move to an all-digital media lifestyle. The survey, conducted by Hewlett Packard, showed that the majority of punters still wanted their music,...

Insecurity outfit Sophos said thousands of Farcebook users fell prey to an adware attack over the weekend, which promised a link to the "sexiest video ever". The malicious posts, appeared to come from users' Farcebook friends,...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has lashed out at criticism of his beloved iPad in an e-mail.The burst of anger followed an e-mail from Gawker editor Ryan Tate, in which Tate expressed his shock that Apple called the iPad a "revolution",...

Google has come under criticism from European privacy regulators for its Street View project.The swipe came after Google was forced to disclose that since 2006, it had been collecting private data about wireless networks while it...

Japan's Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue have become at the first couple in the world to be married by a robot.At the wedding in Tokyo the couple exchanged their vows and wedding rings all in the presence of an I-Fairy robot...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has denied reports that he has stepped aside as the site's uber-administrator following a Fox News-led porn witch hunt. Fox, citing “sources”, reported on Friday that Wales had...

Google has made its Google Voice application available to students.A statement announcing the launch, posted on the Google Voice Blog on Friday, states that users will be required to register with their .edu domains before Google...

Facebook has announced it is considering simplifying its security settings, following widespread controversy over the social network's handling of user data.Facebook's vice-president of public privacy, Eliot Schrage, revealed to...

Taiwanese manufacturer Asus is apparently working on a new Netbook which will offer the possibility of using a mobile phone as a 3G dongle although this approach might yield a few compromises of its own. The most important one is...

Ubergeek, Linus Torvalds has released Linux version 2.6.34. The new release adds support for two new file systems as well as some new and upcoming graphics chips from both Nvidia and AMD. The kernel also adds some support for...

Three fourteen year-old girls from the UNRWA school at Askar refugee camp in Nablus have won an award at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California. Aseel Abu Aleil, Noor Alarada and Aseel Alshaar...

Marvell has said it's planning to ship quad-core ARM-based systems on a chip later this year and reckons the silicon could be used to power datacentre servers. Such a design would use a fraction of the power of the greedier x86...

Google has quietly stopped selling its Google Nexus One handset on its own website and stressed that it would be flogging them instead through retail outlets and high street stores. The search giant reluctantly admitted that...

Steve Jobs has entered into a dialogue with a tech blogger once again defending Apple's anti-Flash policy. Messianic Apple leader, Jobs has personally answered emails from his publicly-known steve(at)mac.com address before now,...

BT has announced that it will be releasing a tablet PC with the ability to make and receive telephone calls. It has not been released to compete directly with the iPad.Sony are mulling over whether to enter the tablet PC market...

We caught up briefly with Chris Adams, Office Product Manager at Microsoft UK, between two events in the wake of Microsoft's biggest announcement of the year yet, the official launch of Microsoft Office 2010 and Sharepoint...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has started asking citizens to grass up black market currency traders by messaging his Twitter account, according to reports. Chavez blames illegal speculation for the falling value of the...

Apple has announced that it will SIMlock its iPad 3G making it exclusive for its local partner, Softbank Mobile and did not say what was the motivation behind the move. Japan will be the only country where the popular tablet...

After the iPhone 4G teardown, the guys at Tinhte.com have brought us some more information about a forthcoming Macbook white laptop which would replace the existing entry level model. The new Macbook would apparently sport a new...

We've dreamt about it and Clamcase made it; this little known accessories manufacturer came up with an iPad case that turns the iPad into a netbook by adding a keyboard to it. It also conveniently transforms itself into a...

Eidos Interactive has confirmed that the voice of Lara Croft in a forthcoming romp will be provided by British actress Keeley Hawes. Hawes will voice-over the part of posh, chesty Lara in her new adventure, Lara Croft and the...