The world's largest social networking website, Facebook, might have changed its privacy settings but this doesn't seem to be enough to calm down privacy campaigners worldwide. According to the Guardian, Privacy International said...

The TruLink USB to VGA with Integrated Audio kit includes everything you need to wirelessly stream video and audio from your computer to a remote monitor, projector, or television. Utilising Ultra-Wide Band technology, the USB to...

The Spinpoint M7 utilizes Samsung's proprietary SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies to minimize the noise-level of the mechanical drive operation. The halogen-free drive complies with the European Union's Restriction of the...

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, dismissed the news that arch-rival Apple managed to surpass the software giant in terms of market capitalisation, amidst rumours that he might attend the Apple's Worldwide developer conference event...

When Dr Mark Gasson of Reading University injected himself with a chip containing a computer virus in a bid to capture some media attention, little did he know the fury he would have caused to more serious security experts...

The Apple iPad goes on sale tomorrow and here is the low-down on the iPad Data charges based on information that we've compiled over the last few weeks. There is no universal data plan unfortunately but you should be able to pick...

The man behind the One Laptop Per Child project, Nicholas Negroponte, claims that there will be a working prototype of the XO3-tablet available by the end of the year, two years before the product was actually scheduled to...

At the close of trading yesterday, Apple had pushed past rivals Microsoft to become the world's largest technology firm. Apple are also now the second most valuable US company after Exxon Mobil.Microsoft has released a new online...

Mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced that it will be selling the Nokia N8 smartphone, the latest model from the world's biggest phone manufacturer and the first one to make use of the new Symbian^3 mobile operating...

Is this the year for everyone to think twice about the supreme dominance that is Apple? Is this yet another fairytale story featuring the glorification of the supposed ‘iPhone’ killer? A handful of ‘Palm pre’ owners nod...

Analytics firm Point Topic has predicted that superfast broadband could push the number of UK broadband connections well past the 25 million mark by 2014.The speculated number of broadband connections by the end of this year has...

Intel has found itself in hot water over its apparent opposition to US legislation outlawing materials gained from a central Africa war zone. IT companies and mobile phone makers have been accused of fuelling civil war in the...

One of the most important aspects of the new BBC iPlayer interface, which was demonstrated yesterday by Erik Huggers, the man in charge of future media and technology at the Beeb, is its ability to deliver content from some of...

The countdown to the year's biggest Apple launch so far has begun and in less than 24 hours, thousands of Britons will have received their first UK iPad devices or buy them from the device from either Apple stores. Currys and...

UK Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that the national ID scheme and the National Identity Register scheme will be scrapped within the next 100 days.The Guardian reports that the bill to abolish the ID card scheme will...

Sony is in talks with Samsung to set up a joint enterprise making a tablet PC to take on Apple's iPad. Sony Chief Financial Officer Nobuyuki Oneda told the Wall Street Journal that the two companies would soon start making LCD...

Symantec is to offer users of Android-based phones software to remotely wipe their devices via text message. Norton Smartphone Security for Android, a beta due next month, is one of several products the company has announced as...

Abu Dhabi's Executive Affairs Authority and the German Free State of Saxony signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) this week. The two were brought together by the ex-AMD fab, now run by GlobalFoundries in Dresden, Saxony,...

Broadcaster Sky has lashed out over the BBC's plans to link content from rival broadcasters to its streaming iPlayer service. Rupert Murdoch's TV service claims that by approving the BBC's plans, regulators have effectively let...

AMD has just officially confirmed yesterday's reports about nabbing Ageia founder Manju Hegde from Nvidia. However, it looks as though Hegde is going to have very little to do with hardware-accelerated gaming physics after...

Mozilla developers are working towards bringing the Firefox Home application to Apple's iPhone.Announced in a post on the Mozilla blog, the application will be released to expand Mozilla's presence on the iPhone.  Firefox...

The Sony PS3 is set to sell 14 million units over the next 12 months, according to a report compiled by Strategy Analytics.According to the analysts, this predicted increase in sales is due to Sony cutting the price of the games...

We met with Nick Kyriacou, Director, EMEA at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to get some updates from him on the latest storage announcements from the consumer storage arm of Japanese conglomerate giant, Hitachi. Apart from...

Blizzard founder, Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company - which is responsible for the biggest videogame of all time, the worryingly-addictive online fantasy role player World of...

Cloud computing will only take off once the uncertainty surrounding it is addressed, experts have warned.Cloud computing and storage has long been hailed as a way to cut enterprise IT costs. But despite its cost-cutting...

Two years ago, Designer Chris Messina, came up with an article with a new Apple concept products called the iPad Touch and which, spookily enough, was published two days before the iPad got mentioned in the now infamous...

Eager punters who pre-ordered their iPads on the first day of availability could be getting a nice surprise in the post this morning. Pocket Lint's news editor Rik Henderson says his iPad arrived at 9.28 this morning and that...

Two years after releasing a security patch for its Safari for Windows web browser, Apple has refused to release a patch for the browser's Mac counterpart.  The Safari flaw, first reported by security researcher Nitesh...

The BBC has announced that there will be a specially designed version of the iPlayer for Apple's iPad, one that will be launched this coming Friday when the device is officially launched in the UK. Speaking to the Evening...

Microsoft has released an new online service that helps users analyse their energy usage.Launched on Wednesday and currently only available to US residents, Microsoft Hohm is a tool designed to catalogue and score the power...

Apple has surpassed rival Microsoft to become the largest technology company in the world by market value.At the end trading on Wednesday, the total value of Apple stood at $222 billion, $3 billion more than Microsoft, which...

The minimalist pair of blue USB 3 ports seen on current motherboards could soon expand to a block of four ports, thanks to VIA's new VL800 controller chip. The tiny square of silicon is the first USB 3 host controller to support...

Business networking site LinkedIn has introduced a new feature, "Connections", which enables users to keep a track of their LinkedIn profile via Twitter. Updates will appear once users have added their Twitter accounts to their...

Google has added two new tools to its Google Analytics services in an effort to prove it cares about user privacy. Google Analytics gives advertisers and marketeers information about specific web sites based on the browsing...

Microsoft's eagerly--anticipated Project Natal motion-sensing controller will hit the UK at around the £120 mark, according to rumours doing the rounds this morning. Edge Online says that a trusted source has revealed that...

Apple has said that it is "saddened and upset" after another suspected suicide at one of its assembly suppliers. Taiwanese TV was reporting yesterday that there had been a tenth fatality at the Foxconn plant, which assembles...

AMD bolstered its commitment to the Open Stereo 3D Initiative today, as it announced that the latest Catalyst 10.5 driver will support 120Hz displays on older Radeon HD 4000 and 3000-series GPUs. The high refresh rate is needed...

Vodafone says the Symbian-powered Nokia N8 is coming to its network soon. The handset is the first smartphone based on Nokia's freshly-acquired Symbian ^3 OS. Through Symbian ^3, the N8 supports features such as multi touch,...

A British company is working with Sony to distribute PlayStation Portables to airlines. Cheshire-based IFE Services, which specialises in in-flight entertainment, says that passengers will soon be able to get their hands on a...

Global PC shipments will rise by 22 per cent in 2010, a 2 per cent increase than the 20 per cent previously predicted in March, according to new research by industry analyst Gartner.The company says shipments are set to rise due...

Taiwanese mobo and graphics card maker, Gigabyte claims its HD 5870 SOC has busted another world record. The firm recently claimed a GPU/CPU 31298 3DMark Vantage score with its top-end HD 5870 SOC. Now the firm says its HD 5870...

Technology giants Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard have confirmed that they will look into the welfare of workers at the Hon Hai Precision Industry owned Foxconn factories on mainland China.Samsung have released a 63 inch D...

Japanese manufacturer Sony has showed a prototype of an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) that is so thin - 80 microns - that it can be rolled around a pencil and could herald a new generation of ultra flexible displays. The...

BSkyB has attacked BBC plans to allow users to view content from competitor broadcasters on its iPlayer TV streaming service.Sky have claimed that by allowing the service, regulators have effectively let the BBC turn its iPlayer...

Social network Facebook has bowed to public pressure, simplifying its controversial privacy settings into a single page.Admitting that the site's user privacy settings had "gotten complex", Facebook CEO and founder Mark...

Intel has bitten back at Nvidia after its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang ridiculed Intel's Atom processor, likening it an elephant on a diet. Intel's latest Moorestown Z6 Atom processors was too power hungry, he claimed: "You could give an...

According to an unsourced report over on Taiwanese news source Digitimes, Taiwanese vendors such as Asustek and MSI are being leaned on by Intel and Microsoft in an effort to promote Windows 7 systems running on Intel's Atom,...

The US Justice Department has begun looking into Apple's dominance of the digital music market, according to Reuters, which spoke to three people who have been approached by the men from the regulator. Reuters' secret sources...

The irrepressible Apple has become the world's largest technology company in terms of market capitalisation, having ousted Microsoft into second place. Share trading yesterday put Apple's total value at $222 billion (£154...