Mobility in style. Showcase your style with the HP Mini 210's sophisticated look and design. Get the trendsetting HP Imprint Finish and a choice of five cool colours. Easy to use, great to own. So many uses for such a small PC....

One now expects a phone to be more than a voice device and the Dell Streak, this five-inch tablet-cum-smartphone, illustrates this desire for more features perfectly. It is somewhat ironic that the device is being launched by O2,...

The very British Times and Sunday Times have been given a major overhaul ahead of their impending transition from being free to paid-for entities that charge £1 a day to read their content. News International reckons that...

3 UK might be by far the smallest mobile phone operator in the country, this doesn't prevent it from punching above its weight and it is proving it once more by launching a pair of data plans for Apple's forthcoming 3G iPad...

The Queen's Speech this morning set out the new coalition Government's legislative plans for the current parliament. But what do they mean for IT? The speech, marking the State Opening of Parliament, was delivered this morning...

Following an accidental leak last week, Futuremark has now officially announced 3DMark 11, and provided a tech demo to show off the new engine's features. The move follows last week's leak, where a photo of an MSI presentation...

The coalition government's decision to axe the infamous IR35 tax guidelines has been welcomed by IT contractors.Contractors believed the tax guidelines were more of a hindrance than an effective way to tackle tax frauds.The IR35...

Almost 450,000 Facebook users have signed up to play a Farmville spoof based on the cultivation and sale of what Howard Marks might call "medicinal herbs". Pot Farm has a distinctly northern Californian hippy vibe to it. The...

In an attempt to reduce administration costs across Whitehall, the Treasury has decided to cut its IT spending by £95 million. The measure is a part of the government's plan to make £6.2 billion in savings to reduce...

In the wake of yesterday's revelation that new public sector IT projects costing over £1 million were to be frozen, the Government has unveiled the hitmen who would deliver the cuts. The Efficiency and Reform Group,...

After the huge success of the Pac-Man Google Doodle on Friday, Google has decided to permanently make the game available to users wishing to kill a dull ten minutes.Google may have opened the doors to a new form of advertising...

The iPad is set to be officially launched in the UK on the 28th of May 2010 at 8am and the good news is that we will be giving away £500 worth of iPad accessories for those of you lucky enough to have an iPad. Entering the...

Hewlett-Packard and French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent have jointly decided to release solutions that allow unified communications (UC) between clients.According to the new contract, HP will assist in the...

Vodafone is set to add the HTC Wildfire to its growing selection of phones running Google's Android OS on its network. The HTC Wildfire offers HTC Sense and Android 2.1 in a smaller, cheaper device than the popular Desire. The...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has lashed out over claims that her company is slow to recover its market standing. In an interview with Silicon valley blogger Michael Arrington, Bartz railed at critics who expected her to perform an...

E-mail marketing agency Constant Contact has announced its acquisition of NutshellMail, a small company from Menlo Park, California that makes social media monitoring software.  NutshellMail allows users log in to different...

With the launch of the iPad only a few days away, we explore some of the best accessories available on the market for Apple's tablet device and most importantly, where to source them at the best possible price. We've also...

If you want any more proof that overclocking is on the road to becoming as mainstream as Ant and Dec, then look no further than Asus' plans for Computex. As well as proudly displaying its latest wares, Asus tells us that it also...

One month after the launch of Promoted Tweets, Twitter has banned any paid advertiser from placing adverts into its network via a third-party network. Making the announcement on its official blog, Dick Costolo, Twitter's Chief...

The Government's closure of Becta is set to cost schools and colleges hundred of thousands in increased IT costs. The scrapping of the Government agency, which promotes the use of IT in education, was announced yesterday. It's...

In an attempt to promote its Outlook .pst file format, Microsoft has released two new software tools that allow developers to use the file format in third-party applications. The Data Structure View Tool and the .pst File Format...

The ToughDrive is a drive that is specifically designed to resist the wear and tear of being carried about, with capacities ranging from 250GB all the way to a staggering 640GB you can be certain that you’ll never run out...

Most of the flannel you'll next to an HDTV on display in a shop is complete twaddle according to a bloke who should know. Founder of leading display-calibration company DisplayMate Technologies, Raymond Soneira, suggests that...

Many organisations believe the cloud is not ready for widespread adoption, with the majority of concerns based around security and compliance. Tom Brand, service manager – cloud solutions for GlassHouse Technologies (UK),...

Twitter has followed yesterday's announcement that it plans to ban third-party ad services by saying it will now charge publishers to use the micro-blogging site. The move to block third-party ad networks using Twitter sounds...

BiTtorrent has open sourced an update to its popular peer-to-peer  file-sharing protocol. The outfit released the micro transmission protocol (µTP) enhancement under the MIT licence. µTP is an upgraded...

UK Customers looking to buy an iPad from this Friday will have another outlet to go to. DSGi, the parent company behind PC World, Currys and Dixons, has told the Times that it has secured a 60-days exclusivity period to...

Dell has launched its five-inch Android-based Tablet, the Streak, in Europe. The device is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 1GHz chip and connects using the built-in Wi-Fi or 3G with added Bluetooth thrown in for most...

Yahoo and Nokia announced yesterday that they would be collaborating together to create an entity that could, in size and depth, rival RIM, Google, Apple and Microsoft in the mobile market. The four aforementioned companies are...

Dell has announced that it will roll out its Streak mini tablet PC on O2 exclusively in the UK from early June with the device available on Dell's website later that month. Ten days ago we reported that Michael Dell made the...

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft's appeal against a lower court's decision to allow mobile maker Alcatel-Lucent to seek damages worth $358 million.The lower court had found that the date-ticker function present...

Internet company AOL, which introduced the concept of e-mail and instant messaging, turned 25 on Monday. The company, which has been struggling for some time now, is largely responsible for bringing the internet into the lives of...

The UK coalition government has decided to close the ICT education agency Becta within the next month, leaving its 240 employees jobless. The decision has been made as a part of a £6 billion cost-cutting programme across...

A top Firefox programmer has figured out a scary new way to carry out phishing attacks, this time using browser tabs. Aza Raskin, who was appointed Firefox's creative lead in March, has designed a JavaScript-based social...

Never afraid of hurling out cans of whoop-ass, Nvidia has been crowing about its Tegra 2 platform, dissing the likes of chip minnow Intel over its Moorestown Atom and adding Apple to mix with jibes at the weediness of the...

CNN broke British broadcasting regulations when it screened a debate that looked like it was sponsored by YouTube, Ofcom has ruled. The debate, which aired during the Copenhagen summit on climate change last December, featured...

Ireland has become the first country to implement a 'three strikes' rule on piracy, cutting off users' Internet connections for copyright theft for the first time. Eircom, the Republic's largest ISP, has committed to consider 50...

High Street electronics retailer Currys and computer megastore PC World will both be selling Apple's iPad this Friday, if reports of a leaked memo are to be believed. In break from tradition, Apple is allegedly relinquishing its...

Nvidia has announced the first release of the 256 drivers for GTX 400 GeForce graphics cards. Version 275.15 beta is available for download now and a WHQL certified version is expected to arrive within a few days. The new...

Industry studies show that over 70 per cent of business transactions are conducted via email. Yet locked away inside thousands of messages, order information, customer dialogues, proposal updates and historical conversations...

Google has announced that it has safely retrieved and secured the Wi-Fi data that company said had been "accidentally" captured by its Street View cars. The announcement comes after the company was served with a class-action...

Google has revealed the revenue sharing policies used for its AdSense online advertisement product. In a blog post, Google said that the company had decided to unveil the revenue shares in the "spirit of greater transparency". By...

Sony's ultra-realistic driving sim Gran Turismo 5 has been further delayed, but this time it could be good news. The rumour mill is alive with chatter that the latest hold-up to the game, which has been in development for...

American retail giant Wal Mart has announced that it will start flogging off the old iPhone 3Gs for less than $100 from today, further fuelling rumours that the next-generation handset is imminent. The stack-'em-high, sell-'em...

Walmart is set to cut the price of the Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB by more than half to only $97 when purchased with a two year contract.Businessweek says that the move is yet another confirmation of Apple's impending release of a new...

Jobbing actress Vi Flaten may (or may not) regret the day she twattered about an impending audition for an Apple commercial. Flaten, who has appeared in loads of TV and print ads as well as a couple of low-rent movies, probaly...

Google may have crossed a thin line last week by putting Pac-Man on its front page, its most prized asset, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the legendary game.This may well be the beginning of a new kind of marketing with...

Google has decided to offer its Pac-Man Google Doodle game permanently to users after such a positive response to the game.The Pac-Man Google Doodle game was released to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Pac-Man video...

May 25th is International Towel Day, when fans honour the memory of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams. Towel-based events are happening all over the world in an bizzarely apt tribute to the author,...

A Japanese research team has discovered that titanium oxide - a material most commonly used in white paint and sunscreen, of all things - could be used in future optical storage disks. Boffins at the University of Tokyo said...

Last Friday, Google changed its logo on the search page into a playable pac-man game to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic game. Now, an outfit called RescueTimehas done a bit of analysis of the happening...