Sega is investigating a massive fraud by the former head of mobile content at its Segatoys division in Japan.  The news came as the Sega group reported its profits were up by 200 per cent to £151.8 million, despite a...

A German regulator has threatened Google with legal action if the snooping giant fails to hand over a hard drive containing the private Wi-fi data it claimed it collected by "mistake". Google last week confessed to having...

The HTC Desire has reached a quasi-mythical status amongst some users not because of its fantastic set of features but mostly because the six networks that sell it are doing whatever it takes to get it going. We know for example...

The department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) could see the appointment of a new broadband minister as early as this week according to a report by the BBC. Malcolm Corbett, the Chief Executive of the Independent...

Online retailer Amazon may be looking to move from its proprietary Kindle platform to a more open architecture after it announced that it will be launching a free Kindle app for Android. The app will allow customers to buy,...

Apple has just released its new white Macbook and we were underwhelmed by the fact that the company had decided to push up the price of the laptop to £849, which is a mere £150 less than the MacBook Pro. This however...

The new Unlimited option now available from Spotify has been welcomed by some as a great way of enjoying unlimited music without having to pay massively over the odds. £4.99 a month is a reasonable amount for an unlimited...

Virgin Media have allowed us to review the new V HD Box. The new set-top box aims to allow viewers to watch HD TV for free, so long as they already are paying for Virgin television services.Research firm NDP have released data...

Shortly after a German court forced ISP Cyberbunker to take it down, torrent tracker The Pirate Bay is back up and running.UK tech site Thinq received a comment from an anonymous reader stating that the website was back...

Imagination Technologies said it has signed a multi-use licence agreement with Texas Instruments for  multi-processor silicon from its new POWERVR SGX Series 5XT GPUs for use in smartphones. TI will plug the graphics...

The wellbeing of workers at a Chinese factory that makes IT products for leading brands is under the spotlight again, after the apparent suicide of another factory worker.The worker was found with four knife wounds to his body...

The mother of Gary McKinnon, the autistic British man wanted in the US for hacking into the Pentagon, has expressed confidence that the UK's new coalition government will stop her son being extradited to the US.McKinnon has...

Despite monumental advances in technology, many gamers still have a craving for chunky pixels and bleepy tunes. If you want any more proof, then just take a look at Hyperkin’s New RetroN 3, which features a Sega Genesis...

A new version 5.0 of Puppy Linux has been made available by the developers. This small and easy-to-use Linux distribution is also referred to as 'Lucid Puppy' as it is the first to be built from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx binary...

The Pirate Bay is now being hosted by the Swedish Pirate Party according to a press release from the Party's MEP. As we reported earlier, torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay was out of action for less than 24 hours before it...

According to the tech grapevine, AMD’s supply of 55nm chipsets is apparently now entering the stage of emergency rations, because the company has instead focused production efforts on GPUs. Taiwanese tech site Digitimes...

Microsoft has released its Dynamics ERP Two-Tier Connector for SAP, allowing customers to link up Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP's Business Suite.The move comes as many enterprises are applying a two-tier ERP model, using two...

Business planning software vendor SAP has launched its Business ByDesign suite, targeted at mid-sized companies, at its Sapphire conference in Orlando, Florida.Business ByDesign is a 'software-as-a-service' suite, enabling...

Apple assembler Foxconn will ship 24 million iPhone 4Gs in 2010 alone according to some creative guesswork. Digitimes, which probably spends a lot of time digging through dumpsters outside Taiwanese assembly plants, has gazed...

The UK could get a new Broadband Minister within a week, according to the Department for Business, Innovation and skills. Following calls from the Community Broadband Network, the newly-installed coalition government is rumoured...

Virgin Media will introduce the diminutive HTC Widlfire fairly soon according to its PR department although we have yet to see a press release from them on the matter. Strangely enough, unlike the HTC Desire or the Legend, mobile...

Apple's entry-level laptop, the 13-inch MacBook, has had a minor tweak. In fact, the refresh is so minor that the outfit didn't even bother to close down the Apple online store, as is traditional. Indeed, it seems that the...

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that users can once again sign up to listen to the service for free. The company allowed users to join for nothing when it launched, but last year ceased to offer free accounts to...

Popular online music service Spotify has announced today that it will be offering two more listening options called Spotify Unlimited and Spotify Open which will complement the Premium and Free editions that are currently on the...

Google has acquired Oslo-based audio and video streaming technology maker Global IP Solutions.The search giant bought the company for $68 million, according to a Reuters report. GIPS, which is backed by Kistefos Venture Capital...

Microsoft has issued an online advisory to Australian users of Internet Explorer 6, asking them to upgrade to the latest version of the browser.The online advisory released by Microsoft compares the Internet Explorer 6 web...

The Pirate Bay is up and running again just 24 hours after it was shut down by Hollywood lawyers. An injunction filed by the Motion Picture Association in a German court forced the torrent tracker's German ISP Cyberbunker to...

Browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give away enough info for web sites to accurately identify you up to 94 per cent of the time, according to recent research. Peter Eckersley, senior staff technologist at the...

Microsoft announced this morning that it will be rolling out a number of enhancements for its Windows Live Hotmail service, focusing on helping people to reduce the clutter in their inboxes. The software giant will be looking at...

Research In Motion is set to launch its BlackBerry smartphone in China.  The Canadian outfit has hooked up with China Mobile, which will provide CDMA network support for the device in 14 provinces across the...

Swedish BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay is down today, following an injunction against its ISP by a German court.The regional court in Hamburgh issued the injunction following complaints from major Hollywood studios,...

Scientists at Cambridge University have revealed the cause of many cases of spontaneous battery fire worldwide, after studying the processes that take place inside the lithium ion batteries.The researchers found that the...

Despite spending over five years as the face of corporate hardware sponsorship, it looks as though gaming champ Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel’s mug still has the power to win over PC gamers. The latest bit of kit to feature...

Apple has refreshed its new Macbook as widely expected and the improvements are superficial rather than radical; the only major change is the price which is bumped to £849, a £33 increase from the price only 24 hours...

A recent survey conducted by Hewlett-Packard has revealed that three-quarters of Britons still prefer DVDs, CDs and books to their digital counterparts. The Daily Telegraph has reported that the survey, conducted among consumers...

Apple's Mac desktops have seen a 39 per cent rise in sales despite the release of the iPad.In the period from April 2009 to April 2010, sales of Macintosh computers have increased, despite fears that Apple's new iPad tablet would...

Google is sniffing around VoIP specialist Global IP Solutions (GIPS), waving its fat wallet under the noses of the owners of the Norwegian outfit. In a joint statement, the firms said: Google Acquisition Holdings Inc. would...

Software giant Microsoft has paid $200 million to settle two patent infringement lawsuits filed by network security software maker VirnetX.VirnetX claimed that Microsoft had used VirnetX's patented virtual private network (VPN)...

Research In Motion has announced it is set to launch its BlackBerry mobile phones in China.  Network services for the BlackBerry handsets will be provided by China Mobile.The move into China indicates that RIM plans to...

Geeky British Sun employee Lewis Thompson reckons he's found a way in which the "incognito" mode in Google's Chrome browser - the mode you use when you don't want people around you to know where you've been - isn't quite as...

Virgin Media sent us a V HD Box a few days ago so that we could investigate the cable's company new proposals; high definition content for free, something that rival companies likes Sky are unable to offer for now. In a nutshell,...

Figures published by UK media watchdog, Ofcom, as part of their media literacy support, shows that only 20 percent of adults that are on social networking websites like Facebook or Myspace allow people other than their family and...

Bankers at Standard Chartered are switching from Research In Motion's Blackberry to the more relaxed iPhone.Taiwanese sources have confirmed that the iPhone 4G will have the highest screen resolution of any samrtphone - but still...

Users can try out Office 2010 for 180 days instead of the usual 30, thanks to a little-known trick designed for corporate users. The tool enables systems administrators to ‘re-arm’ the product’s 30-day grace...

Korean electronics giant Samsung plans to invest more than half of its liquid assets into the semiconductor sector. According to Korea's free market news source The Hankyoreh, the company has about 20 trillion Won sloshing about...

Boffins reckon they have discovered why lithium batteries in laptops and mobile phones may overheat, fizzle and occasionally catch fire. Researchers at Cambridge University laid the blame on lithium dendrites which can form on...

Windows 7 comes with a new feature that allows computers that run it to be converted more easily into a virtual WiFi hotspot, a hub to which other devices including smartphones and internet appliances, can connect seamlessly. So...

Marvell's implementation of multi-core ARM processors with a view to plugging them into low-power servers with which to run data centres has attracted interest from the likes of Dell and IBM, according to a report. Dell is...

Microsoft said it would pay VirnetX Holding some $200 million to settle patent-infringement claims against it. The out-of-court deal comes after jury in Texas decided in March that Microsoft willfully infringed on two VirnetX...