This is Kingston’s latest generation of SSDNow V series drive giving all the performance gains and power consumption reductions of a new system, at a fraction of the price.  At up to 200 MB/s. the V series offers twice...

The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has hinted that Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, will simplify its privacy settings panel to make life easier for its users. Facebook, which is the second largest...

Semiconductor giant Intel has announced the release of new Core i3, i5 and i7 ultra low voltage processors that pile even more pressure on smaller rival AMD. The processors, which are all built using Intel's 32nm manufacturing...

If your computer's internal hard drive is bursting at the seams, ease the strain with the Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive. With its giant 500GB capacity, this sleek black machine is capable of holding up to 500 hours of...

Major contractors are still in the dark over the future of a number of public sector IT projects in the run-up to the new coalition government's spending review. The coalition's joint policy document, released last Thursday,...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated his belief that the Windows Mobile operating system is much better than Google's Android OS. Ballmer also claimed that Android isn't as free as Google says it is.Studies by researchers at...

Yahoo! has announced a surprising partnership with the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, as they see to offer to tens of millions of users what the pair call "rich experiences that keep them connected to their...

As expected, storage specialist Seagate has released its Momentus XT Hybrid hard disk drive, one that brings together the best of solid state and traditional magnetic storage technology. The drive is currently available in...

Software giant Microsoft has launched the release candidate for its upcoming Windows Server AppFabric.Windows Server AppFabric is expected to play a key role in establishing Microsoft as a major player in the private cloud...

Intel has expanded it Core processor line with new-up 32nm offerings designed to be wedged into super slim laptops. The company reckons its new CPUs are 32 per cent slimmer and offer 32 per cent better performance, which all...

I first encountered J Allard at a pre-launch gathering introducing a gadget called the XBox to a mixed bag of UK hacks.  Some were spotty and overexcited. Most of us cynical, as is our self-appointed role in...

While retro console games are prime wares for the virtual consoles on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, it's not always easy for PC gamers to get a 16-bit fix. However, Sega has opened its arms to PC gamers by announcing that it plans...

Apple's charismatic CEO, Steve Jobs, has confirmed that he will attend the company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference which will take place from the 7th to the 11th of June, in the Moscone West centre in San Francisco. Jobs...

The Chief Experience and Technical Officer for Microsoft's gaming division, J Allard, is rumoured to have quit the company.The CTO has been consistently absent from public appearances made by Microsoft since the release of its...

The London Evening Standard has released its official application for smartphones.The application, developed in association with US-based developer Handmark, will allow readers to browse all the latest London news.The sections...

A photograph of a new Apple iPhone 4G prototype has been leaked on to the internet.The image, which pictures the hotly anticipated handset in an all-white shell, was posted by Taiwanese technology website Apple.pro.The emergence...

Hard drive maker Seagate has stepped in to fight off the onslaught of SSDs, by combining a high-speed hard drive with an SSD, which it says will offer performance close to an SSD without the prohibitive cost. The 2.5in Momentus...

A press release from Apple HQ has made it almost certain that the company will announce the new iPhone 4G on June 7th, in our opinion, at least. The missive from Cupertino simply states that Steve Jobs will kick off the...

3 UK has announced that the Samsung S3370 touchscreen smartphone will be available on its network on PAYG and oddly enough, not on more lucrative pay monthly contracts. The phone comes with a 2.7-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen...

The Cloud, one of UK's biggest independent Wi-Fi hotspot providers, is mulling plans to deliver promises made by the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, to blanket cover London with hotspots before the 2012 Olympic games. The company's...

Two Canadian privacy campaigners have announced that 31 May will be "Quit Facebook Day", urging users across the world to shut down their accounts in protest against recent changes the social networking giant has introduced to...

HTC will be releasing a new smartphone called the Vision which will be a cross between the HTC Desire and the HTC Touch pro it seems, one which adds a full slide out QWERTY keyboard to the slim frame of the HTC Desire. It is not...

Slow broadband connections and 'unfriendly' customer support staff have topped a list of Britain's daily annoyances, according to a recent survey by mobile operator O2.The survey is a part of the company's Niggles and Narks...

A ninth employee has committed suicide at the Taiwanese-owned Foxconn factories.Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports that Nan Gang, 21, jumped to his death from the top of one of the factories at Foxconn's industrial complex,...

Pictures of the the LG Panther, the company's first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, have emerged online courtesy of Pocket-lint's Rik Henderson who managed to get a glimpse and play with the phone at a recent Microsoft...

US anti-trust watchdog the Federal Trade Commission has approved Google's acquisition of mobile advertisement company AdMob.The move has surprised some industry watchers, who believed that the FTC would halt the $750 million...

Experts in social networking, data management and bereavement last week called for sites such as Google, Facebook and MySpace to agree a common policy for dealing with users' data after their death. The Digital Death Day...

Irish ISP Eircom will start cutting off Internet access to subscribers accused of persistent file sharing from today. Despite legal action by the Data Protection Commissioner to prevent the move, the ISP has been forced to...

Hewlett Packard has expanded a battery recall first announced in May 2009 to include a number of additional laptop models. The voluntary recall and replacement programme was imposed by "various government agencies" according to...

Facebook is to overhaul how its users configure their privacy settings, after facing a media and user revolt over how it handles personal data. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a Washington Post editorial today, said that the company...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed that the company's Windows Mobile operating system is far superior to Google's Android OS, saying that the Android OS was not as "free" as it appeared to be.In an interview with CNNMoney's...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has decided to recall 54,000 lithium ion laptop batteries installed in 25 of its laptop models worldwide. The PC maker believes that the batteries may be prone to overheating and could explode, potentially...

Apple's forthcoming iPhone 4G handset has been rumoured to come with video conferencing capabilities.Technology blog Boy Genius Report has published screen shots received from an anonymous firmware tester for the device's iPhone...

Full-spec PC components took a further step towards miniaturisation today, as Gigabyte unveiled the first Mini-ITX motherboard to be kitted out with USB 3 ports. Measuring just 170mm x 170mm, the GA-H55N-USB3 features an NEC...

The UK's Chief Information Officer, John Suffolk has given advanced notice to a number of Government departments that spending on Information Technology projects is about to be seriously curtailed. A high-ranking Government IT...

The stylish and minimalist ST series of Full HD LCD HDTVs takes your audio-visual experience to a whole new level in clarity and smoothness by upgrading all video to 1080p High Definition. The black mirror surface bezel is a...

Contrary to some opinions, women are not less tech-savvy than men. That's the conclusion of research published by two English universities, which reveals that women will overcome just about any technological hurdle just to keep...

Google has implemented Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on its search page to prevent it gaining access to user data, following its 'accidental' collection of private information from unsecured Wi-Fi networks around the...

Apple's iPad devices are now selling at a faster rate than Mac computers according to RBC Market analysts. Currently 200,000 iPads are sold in the US each week.The iPad is set to surpass the iPhone 3GS as the most popular Apple...

Women online are twice as likely to snoop on their other halves than men, according to a recent study of middle-aged couples. Researchers found that 14 recent of wives questioned confessed to checking emails, 13 per...

Having given their crystal balls a firm rub, soothdsayers at IDC predict that by 2014 tech firms will be shipping more than 46 million tablet-style computers a year. Quite how many of these will be Apple flavoured...