The Office of Fair Trading has given its approval to Project Canvas, the name given to the ambitious joint venture from some of the biggest names in telecommunications and media which aims at building an "open internet-connected...

A survey - yet another - carried out by Tesco mobile amongst 4,000 people puts the iPhone in the top ten of the most important inventions ever launched and was indeed the only brand to be named on the list at number eight. Other...

Pakistan has banned Facebook from today after a nationwide outrage over a competition launched by members of the social networking website that incites people to submit drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. Illustrations of the...

App developer Untangle has released a tool that allows users to turn all their Facebook profile settings back to private. The application, SaveFace, allows users to reverse changes made by the company when it announced its Open...

Figures published by research powerhouse Gartner show that Android is now the fourth most popular operating system in the booming smartphone market behind Symbian, RIM and iPhone OS. Google's mobile platform was on 9.6 percent of...

A German court has ordered Google to hand over the hard drive containing the private Wi-Fi data they collected whilst gathering information for their Street View feature or face legal action.Mayor of London Boris Johnson has...

The British Library has announced it will digitise over 40 million newspaper pages to create a public archive of print journalism. The 40 million page archive will come from local, regional and national newspapers dating back as...

The Liberal Democrat party has announced that it will push for amendments to the controversial Digital Economy Act.The party has asked its MPs and ministers to push for a repeal of some sections of the Act which it says threatens...

Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against enterprise software maker Salesforce.com, accusing it of using nine Microsoft patents in its products.The lawsuit intensifies an on-going war as the two software makers...

The average Briton spends 65 per cent more time online each month than they did three years ago, a recent survey shows. The survey revealed that the average Brit now spends 22 hours and 15 minutes online each month.The research...

A court in Pakistan has placed a temporary ban on social network Facebook after a page encouraged users to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, according to a report by news agency AFP. Pictures of the Prophet are regarded...

What's brown and sounds like a bell? The answer, as any Monty Python fan will tell you, is "dung," and according to HP it could also be the future source of power for data centres. HP Labs has just presented a paper to the ASME...

On a visit to Britain, Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, confessed his company has had fireside chats with Rupert Murdoch in a bid to halt hostilities. Murdoch recently branded Google a bunch of thieving gits who use...

Novell and Vodacom have announced a partnership that will integrate Novell’s software with Vodacom's cloud infrastructure. The partnership is aimed at helping businesses across Africa to manage and monitor multi-tenant...

A Vietnamese tech site has pulled off yet another Apple leak scoop having laid its hands on a camera-equipped iPod Touch. The seemingly-genuine prototype brings tinhte.vn's total of embarrassing Apple leaks to three, having...

Social network Facebook and games company Zynga have announced a five-year deal to put an end to their long-running feud. The two firms have reached an agreement on the issue of the virtual currency, 'Credits', that Facebook has...

Seagate is to launch new 3-terabyte capacity hard drives for businesses.The storage device maker will launch a pair of 3TB hard drives, UK tech web site Thinq has reported. The announcement comes alongside that of a flash...

A poll has found that 60 per cent of Facebook users have considered quitting the service over privacy concerns. The non-scientific poll of 1588 users, conducted by security firm Sophos, found that 30 per cent were "highly...

O2 has announced that it will be launching the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus in the UK on the 28th of May, the same Friday when the iPad will be launched. Whether this will spoil Apple's party remains to be seen as both smartphones...

The British Library is about to start a ten-year project which will create a publicly-accessible archive of 300 years of print journalism. The national library - which is in St Pancras, London - will oversee the scanning of 40...

Ofcom is to exempt Internet Service providers with less than a 400,000 users from the terms of the Digital Economy Act.Timico reports on its blog that Ofcom has said the DE Act will be limited to ISPs with 400,000 subscribers or...

London's Mayor Boris Johnson has promised that London will get a blanket WiFi coverage by the 2012 Olympics, turning the city into the world's biggest internet hotspot. Evening Standard's Mark Prigg reported that the flamboyant...

The elitist age of enthusiasts fiddling with jumpers, making electrical connections with pencils and tinkering with BIOS settings is gradually fizzling out, and just to prove it, MSI has launched a Windows utility to unlock...

Vodafone has announced changes to its roaming data charges.The new changes will benefit those who useless than 5MB of data per day while abroad.The network's daily charge in Europe from 15 June will be £1 per megabyte for...

Carders.cc, a German web forum devoted to the black market trading of stolen credit card details, has been hacked, and the entire contents of the site leaked. Whoever compromised the site has published a 100MB SQL dump of the...

Apple has been roundly battered for its policy of keeping an iron grip on what you can and can't install on its iDevices. Steve Jobs has regularly been publicly pilloried for protecting his precious toys within a protective...

The rocketing price of gold could see chip packagers passing on costs to end users according to a report. Digitimes is saying that at least one chip packager, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has started to raise its quoted...

German regulators have told Google to hand over the hard drive containing private Wi-Fi data the search giant says collected "mistake", or face legal action.Data protection officer for Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, has given Google...

Following a sampling programme earlier this year, Intel-Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) has now announced that the move to 25nm is now in full swing, with the first batches of 25nm NAND chips now entering mass production. The...

A third-party developer of Facebook applications has created an app that allows users to comprehensively protect their personal data.The application, SaveFace, allows users to restore their privacy by changing the settings that...

Surveys conducted last month shows that girls have named Facebook as one of the most important things in their lives.The 1,000 girls aged between eight and fifteen surveyed said that only Friends and Family were more important...

Toshiba says it has developed a new LCD panel for 3D glasses which will cut down on headache-inducing 3D crosstalk. The new OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) LCD panels will be used for shuttered 3D glasses which trick the brain...

Best Buy is set to venture into the online film and television market with the launch of its new CinemaNow service.Best Buy is offering CinemaNow in partnership with technology vendor Sonic Solutions and it will be available...

Both 3 UK and T-Mobile have announced that they will be bringing the newly announced HTC Wildfire Android-based smartphone to their existing and prospective customers. While 3 UK did not actually say when the phone would be...

The new white Macbook has just been released with an inflated price. We compare the new Macbook with a similarly priced and configured older Macbook pro.The new British coalition government is set to appoint a new broadband...

The fourth iteration of iPhone OS 4.0 Beta has been released by the developers from Apple and it does offer from interesting insights as to what's coming next to the iPod Touch, the iPhone and the iPad. First and foremost, it...

Apart from Froyo and Google TV, the search engine is rumoured to be finally launching its own online storage service at a developer event that starts today in San Francisco. Google Storage for developers as it is tentatively...

Yahoo has announced that it will be acquiring Associated Content, a producer of content for the web that stands alongside the likes of Demand Media and AOL's Seed. The details of the deal have yet to be made public but at least...

Microsoft has warned that the 64-bit version of Windows 7 is vulnerable to remote code execution. The company said it is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll). Although...

Google's Android smartphone OS has overtaken Microsoft's Windows Mobile in the smartphone sales chart produced by Gartner's crystal ball rubbers today. Android knocked Windows Mobile into fifth spot in the chart for the first...

No doubt Microsoft thinks it can't lose with SharePoint 10. If past revenues are anything to go by, SharePoint's strengths as a collaboration environment have made it one of Microsoft's shining stars with sales of $1.3...

NEC Display Solutions said its NP115 and NP210 projectors from are now capable of displaying images in 3D. NEC said the devices' DLP Link technology with a refresh rate of 120Hz allows 3D images to be projected with the aid of...

HP reported a 28 per cent increase in profit over last  year's comparable quarter,  as revenue rose 13 per cent in the three months to April, the firm said.   HP raked in $2.2 billion, or 91 cents per share, in...

Nvidia customer, BFG Technologies said it is quit to selling graphics cards. The company recently shut down its European operation and has begun dabbling with new product lines. But it seems that the tight margins in the...

Microsoft said it has filed a lawsuit against customer relationship management outfit  Salesforce.com, claiming its software infringes upon nine Microsoft patents. Microsoft accuses Salesforce of using its patented...