The UK's biggest ISPs will have to collect personal details of Internet users who download copyrighted material from P2P networks from early next year, under proposals today from media watchdog Ofcom. Ofcom said downloaders...

Intel is going head-to-head with businesses like Coca-Cola to swallow up scarce water resources in the developing world, business newswire Bloomberg reported this week. According a 2009 report by California's Pacific Institute,...

Major Hollywood companies, including Time Warner and NBC, have refused convert their video catalogues into iPad format from the current Flash format. They state this is because the internet is a Flash-dominated market.Microsoft...

The European Commission's annual report on the Single European Electronic Communications Market has called for a consolidation of telecoms providers.The report advises having single telecoms market to provide a better and more...

The Apple iPad was officially launched in the UK today at the company's shop in Regent Street. It had everything you'd expect from an Apple launch: long lines of punters, grumpy-looking stewards, and an inevitable appearance of...

The driver fiddlers at Nvidia seem to have now decided to let gamers use an ATI GPU for 3D rendering and a second Nvidia GPU for PhysX processing. Nvidia had originally prevented PhysX from working if the drivers detected an ATI...

The chief executive of AT&T's business solutions division, Ron Spears, has revealed that out of every 10 iPhones sold, four are going to enterprise users.Cnet's All Things Digital reports that when the iPhone was launched in...

While Apple is basking in the sun with the iPad and the iPhone, Nokia has apparently managed to sell a mere 100,000 of its former flagship tablet computer, the N900, in the first three months of the year. Research company Gartner...

Google has refused to release one of the hard drives containing users' Wi-Fi information demanded by German authorities.The Financial Times reports that German prosecutors set a deadline for Google to hand over the hard drive as...

We spent most of the morning on the phone trying to source out the iPad across the country and what we learnt was rather worrying.  Apparently there were no iPad 3G 32GB left at all in any shops in central London. These and...

Broadband metrics group Ookla has ranked the United Kingdom 33rd in the world for broadband speed in its annual Net Index.  The rankings were compiled from the results of 1.5 billion surfers who had used Ookla's...

Motorola looks like it will release it own tablet-style device soon, just like the rest of the world and its pooch. In a cosy chat with money men, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha suggested a seven-to-ten-inch Android tablet may not...

Early last year, the laser sensor had became an industry standard with it being used on 97% of mice. Now while much better that inferred and ball mice, the average mouse is often limited to what surface it can be used...

The European Union has sent letters to internet giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, warning them that their search engine privacy policies are not compliant with European law. Under European law, search engines are supposed to...

Search giant Google has completed its acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob, after the deal was approved by the Federal Trade Commission. In a blog post, the company said it had officially completed the acquisition, and...

Sky has rolled out an iPad application that allows viewers to watch live TV sports for a jaw-dropping £35 per month, this compares very badly with the £6 per month that the satellite broadcaster is charging for the...

BT has quoted 71-year-old Beverly McCartney £150,000 to install a broadband connection to her home.The BBC reports that BT, which is now bringing fast Internet connections under the Regional Innovative Broadband Support...

Microsoft has dismissed reports of its CEO attending Apple's World Wide Developer Conference with a tweet on its official Twitter account.The rumour began the day after Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the world's leading tech...

We were wondering why the word's tallest couple were hanging about in the iPad queue earlier today, dressed in full wedding garb, but now all has become clear. The folks at the Guinness Book of Records cleverly realised that...

In a bid to take on AMD's Black Edition chips in the less affluent areas of the overclocking community, Intel today released two new CPUs with unlocked multipliers. As we reported back in March, the two CPUs in question are the...

So… back from the kerfuffle on Regent Street, we've taken one of the UK's first over-the-counter iPads back to THINQ towers for a first look.   We didn't fancy queuing with the hordes outside the Apple Store who'd...

Project Natal's proper name has been leaked and we've decided to take credit for the new moniker. THINQ has been describing Microsoft's camera-based, controllerless controller as a...

YouTube has launched Google Moderator for YouTube channels.Google Moderator is set to allow users to take part in live discussions and conversations while watching videos on the site.The Google-owned video sharing site wrote on...

More Brits are interested in early adopting Apple's new iPad than in buying big TVs to watch the World Cup on, according to the latest search statistics. The iPad, launched in the UK today, accounted for 24 per cent of all...

Microsoft Australia's chief security advisor Stuart Strathdee has said that Internet Explorer 6 was being used by several companies wanting to block access to sites like Facebook from the office.  The security expert...

Major Hollywood companies, including Time Warner and NBC, have refused to convert their video catalogues into iPad format.They claim it's because converting the footage to iPad format would be too costly, and that the internet is...

Symantec has announced its new Norton Domain Name Server (DNS) internet security software for Android-based smartphones.Norton DNS Beta is scheduled to launch in June, and will be available to download free of charge from here....

A source deep inside Apple UK told us how to find out exactly where the iPad has been stocked at launch. Obviously with significant stock fluctuations, the tool can and should only be used as a first step; then use your phone to...

Hon Hai Group, owner of the Foxconn factories at which workers are so happy they regularly jump from the windows in order to end it all, said it is considering increasing wages at its facilities, in order to try and keep some...

Computex doesn't officially kick off until next week, but Asus very kindly invited us to have a look at what it will be showing at the trade show a few days beforehand. The new goodies include Asus' first Lucid Hydra...

Dell's diminutive tablet/smartphone will go on sale in the UK as from the 4th of June, just days after Apple's iPad is released to the general public. The tiny device packs some significant firepower and should become a best...

Handset manufacturer Nokia is giving away free taxi trips across to customers in four cities across London until the 2nd of June. Users in London, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester will be able to hail and ride the taxis for...

Meego, the mobile Linux Operating system introduced by Intel and Nokia, has officially been launched with a netbook version ready to go. Version 1.0 of the MeeGo Core Software platform (CSP) and the Netbook User Experience will...

High Street retailers PC World and Currys have confirmed that they have stocks of Apple's iPad this morning. At exactly 9am today, a new banner popped up on the PC World web site which confirms rumours that the two outfits, both...

Google has missed the deadline German regulators had set for the snooping search engine outfit to hand over data it collected over private WiFi networks with its high-tech Street View vehicles. Missing the deadline means Google...

A data protection vulnerability has been found in the latest version of the iPhone OS which bypasses the device's PIN protection. A apir of researchers found that simply hooking a non-jailbroken iPhone 3Gs running the latest...

LIVE FROM THE APPLE STORE, REGENT STREET, LONDON An A-level student from Essex has become the first UK punter to buy an iPad at Apple's flagship UK store... after an epic 20-hour wait. Jake Lee, 17, of Theydon Bois in Essex...

The bunch that aimed to deliver a $100 a laptop for impoverished kids - OLPC - now have a cut-price tablet in their sights. The outfit said the computer will be based on Marvell's Moby tablet design, which the chip maker...

So good morning everyone... You can follow our live tweet about the event on twitter.com/itproportal That's the lucky guy who manage to get himself ahead of the queue. He was there since yesterday around mid-day and is part of...

The iPad launches around the world today having already been available to buy in Apple's home US market for some time. The device is on sale now in Australia and Japan and will soon hit Europe, heading for Britain, France,...