US technology behemoths Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard have confirmed that they will look into the modus operandi of Hon Hai Precision Industry otherwise known as Foxconn, the largest of the many Taiwanese electronics...

Invite the 3D TV revolution into your home and change the way you view the world forever.  You'll scarcely believe your eyes as the Samsung 63in 3D Full HD plasma TV PS63C7000YKXXU brings cinema-quality 3D pictures into...

Many netbooks seriously cramp your style. But the NB300 mini notebook has a full-size keyboard and touchpad to comfortably type e-mails and update your Facebook page without skipping a beat. Its diagonal 10.1” screen size...

Facebook has revamped its privacy model in response to criticism that it was selling its users out in an advertising-fuelled power grab. CEO Mark Zuckerberg this evening announced a simplification of privacy controls that he...

In a dramatic U-turn, Nick Clegg yesterday said the Government may have no power to prevent the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to the US. The Liberal Democrat leader's comments came in a radio interview on Five Live. It's...

Firefox creative team leader Aza Raskin has warned users of the new Firefox browser about a new kind of phishing attack that replaces one web page with a fake log-in page of another.Facebook is set to bow to pressure from users...

Sony has developed an OLED display so flexible it can me wrapped around a pencil. The new screen material is just 80 µm  thick - thinner than a human hair - and so flexible that it can rolled into a cylinder just 4mm...

Government departments can lower costs with better green credentials according to storage solutions provider Quantum. In the wake of the announcement that the ConDem coalition will be swinging the axe on all new projects costing...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has suggested that the government may not have the power to halt the extradition of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon.Contradicting statements he made during the election saying that the then Home...

Apple has given the clearest indication yet that it has EOLed the "old" iPhone 3G smartphone; the 8GB model, which is was on sale at O2 and Orange, can no longer be purchased from Apple's website in the UK. The smartphone is...

Google has announced the full release of its Chrome 5 web browser for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms, moving the browser's status from a beta to a final, stable version.According to a post on the company's official blog by...

Dr Mark Gasson, a research fellow at the University of Reading, has claimed to be the first person personally infected with a computer virus.Gasson says he 'contracted' the virus after he implanted an infected RFID computer chip...

BT will integrate Ribbit, the telecommunications company that it acquired back in July 2008, in its Onevoice VPN business solution turning it into an integrated voice system for the corporate market. Ribbit was bought for $105...

International investment outfit DeVere is going mobile with Apple's iPad and iPhone. The money-moving outfit - which reckons it is the largest international financial consultancy in the world and has over 50,000 clients - will...

Nvidia's PhysX technology may have ruled the hardware-accelerated physics kingdom for the last couple of years, but AMD has now nabbed the guy who started PhysX in the first place. The chap in question is Manju Hegde, formerly...

VIA, the technology company owned by Formosa Plastics Group and former Intel partner, has told Businessweek that it expects a number of manufacturers to release a number of iPad rival tablets for as little as $100 using its...

The president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, Robbie Bach, has announced he is to retire this autumn after 22 years with the company. Bach will be best remembered as the business driving force behind the...

BT looks set to suffer disruption to its telephone and broadband services as it faces its first strike in 25 years. The industrial action could affect a large number of suppliers who rely on BT's broadband infrastructure to...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer urged action, claiming software piracy in China is affecting thousands of jobs in the US.Bloomberg Businessweek reports that the CEO of the world's largest software company said that the measures of...

Exceptionally high demand for the iPad tablet in the UK has forced Apple to postpone the expected delivery date of the device for the second time, pushing it from the 7th of June to errr... June. This could mean that Apple has...

The chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, has called Microsoft a "patent troll" after his company was served with a patent infringement lawsuit by the software giant.In a report by PC World, Benioff assured customers...

Microsoft has sold its Expression Media photo cataloguing software suite to digital camera maker Phase One.Expression Media, previously marketed by Microsoft as a part of the Office for Mac software suite, was developed using...

The BBC today unveiled a new version of its iPlayer that it claims is "simpler, more personal and connected". The new beta version of the Beeb's on-demand player enables users to share and recommend content via Facebook and...

Intel's CEO Paul Otellini may think there's still life in Intel's Larrabee discrete graphics project, but the other guys at Intel don't appear to share his optimism. Intel's director of product and technology media relations,...

Facebook is set to bow to users' demands, simplifying its privacy settings.Vice president-products Chris Cox made the announcement at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York yesterday.Cox said that the previous week, in...

Lacie has thrown down the gauntlet to hackers with a new hard drive which it claims has 'unbreakable encryption'. The Rugged Safe All Terrain hard disk is, according to the storage specialist, "the most complete mobile storage...

A British computer scientist believes he is the first person ever to infect himself with a computer virus. Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading says he has demonstrated a means for an RFID tag implanted in his hand to...

Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee and academic Professor Nigel Shadbolt have expressed their disappointment that the proposed Institute of Web Science will never see the light of day. The Department of Business, Innovation and...

Scientists are seeking to build a silicon-based nanoscale system which aims to harness the 'spin' of electrons to boost the processing power of future computer systems. A three-year project, which has just received funding of...

Yahoo has acquired Indonesian location-based service provider Koprol.According to a blog post on the Yahoo blog, the company has bought Koprol in an attempt to offer more localised services to its users. Yahoo stated that...

Mobile phone maker Nokia has released a software update for its flagship N900 smartphone.The version 1.2 software update will bring new and exciting games for the smartphone, joining the line up of games already available from...

Plans for an 'Experiential video game theme park and resort' have been announced according to a new web site. Frankly, the 'plans' seem more like a vague idea, and are quite possibly the dribbly fantasies of a bedroom-dwelling...

Adobe Systems has announced the release of its official PDF reader application for Android-based smartphones at the Google I/O developer conference.The application, now available as a free download from the Android Marketplace,...

The team behind the Firefox browser has warned users about a new kind of phishing attack.The new phishing attack replaces an inactive browser tab on the Firefox browser with a malicious phishing page designed to steal user names...

Owners of Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards can now use their monstrous graphics cards for more than just churning out frame rates. A new BETA client for the distributed computing Folding@home project has just been launched,...

Mobile phone operator 3 UK has launched a pair of data plans for Apple's 3G iPad, costing £7.50 per month for a 1GB package and £15 for a 10GB package.The Times and Sunday Times newspapers have been given a face lift...

Government-sponsored boffins-in-chief, Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, issued a statement yesterday expressing their disappointment over the fact that they might not be so sponsored any more, now that the Tories...

Environmental campaigning charity Greenpeace has taken a swipe at Nintendo, Microsoft and Toshiba, as it named the best - and worst - in green IT. Nokia and Sony Ericsson received the highest praise in the Guide to Greener...

Bill Kirkos, the director of global communications for semiconductor giant Intel, has written on the company's Technology@intel blog that they will not release a discrete graphics products at least in the short...

There's no denying. If you are looking for the best mobile broadband package in the country, then look no further than 3 UK's just released microSIM package which gives you 10GB for £15. The best part of the deal though is...

Vodafone has become the third UK mobile network operator after T-Mobile and 3 UK to offer the entry level HTC Wildfire, which is a smaller but stockier version of the popular HTC Desire. The smartphone's page has already appeared...

Lost in yesterday's announcement that Dell will ship the 5-inch Streak device to O2 is the fact that there will be other Streaks coming to the market soon. They will feature 7-inch and 10-inch displays which will make...

Organisers of this week's CeBit business bash in Sydney Australia will be monitoring the attire of so-called booth babes in an effort to make sure that everything stays on a nice tasteful footing. According to Aussie tech portal...

3 UK is the only mobile phone operator in the UK to offer free Skype to Skype calls.  We're not sure whether they will actually allow Skype calls to be made over the iPad but given the fact that Skype has already released an...