The Dell Streak, which some might view as a diminutive tablet or a supersized smartphone, will go on sale across UK from this Friday at Carphone Warehouse on O2.We played with it briefly last Friday at an informal event and we...

Data published by web analytics companies Statcounter and NetApplications show that the market share of Internet Explorer 6 in the US and Europe has shrunk tremendously over the last twelve months. Statcounter reports that IE6...

Exactly one year ago, I wrote on how Qualcomm's smartbooks will outgun netbooks but truth be said, I've been thoroughly disappointed by the whole saga ith very little, if any, hope in sight. On paper, ARM-based netbooks are an...

Reports that Google is actively looking to get its own employees off Microsoft's Windows OS and onto other operating systems like Mac or Linux. As we noted earlier today, the FT quoted multiple sources from within the company...

The US ambassador to the EU has urged legislators to pass an international anti-piracy agreement, saying that transparency comes second to the need for action. William E. Kennard made the remarks concerning ACTA, the...

New customers of internet service provider Talktalk will be able to get free broadband and home phone services for one whole year worth £83.88, a bargain that's conditional to terms and services. There is an initial charge...

Tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will be squeezing out 9,000 jobs from its Enterpriese Services segment as part of a $1 billion "investment" plan. HP enterprise services SVP, Tom Iannotti, argued that "Over the...

Qualcomm has announced that it has sampled its first dual CPU Snapdragon chipsets, the MSM8260 and the MSM8660, which support speeds of up to 1.2GHz, a slight improvement on the existing 1GHz. Both models are part of what...

Lucid's GPU-uniting Hydra chip might have been lurking in the underground doldrums for the first few years, but it's now well and truly becoming a mainstream bit of silicon. So much so, in fact, that MSI has just unveiled two new...

Hot on the heels of Intel's recent Pine Trail revelations, Chipmaker Qualcomm has unveiled the details of its first dual-core chip at Computex, but won't actually show it to anyone. The Mobile Station Modem MSM8260 and MSM8660...

A Los Angeles resident has filed a lawsuit against Google for issuing directions that led to have an accident. Lauren Rosenberg followed directions on Google Maps telling her to walk down a state route without pedestrian...

A draft proposal by UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has been strongly criticised by many internet service providers, as well as by the Open Rights Group.The proposal aims to curb illegal file sharing within the UK.According to the...

Gene Munster, the unofficial Apple oracle, has published some interesting estimates as to the number of iPad sold by the end of this year; he says that more 6.2 million iPad units will be flogged by the end of the year although...

iPad maker Apple and rival Amazon are now going head-to-head in a bid to dominate the e-book market.According to publishers at the annual BookExpo in America last week, the electronic books market is still in its infancy. In...

Opera Software has launched the alpha version of what it claims is the fastest web browser on the planet, with enhanced functionality and user interface. The latest version, 10.60a, comes with an updated interface - the highly...

Mozilla Firefox has released its first ever Windows browser designed specifically for 64-bit processors.The 64-bit browser hasn't been launched for consumers, but Mozilla has made it available for developers to test drive and...

PlayStation3 console owners will be soon be able to take advantage of 3D games over the PlayStation Network, Sony has announced.Mr. Pain, the human catapulting game, will be the first game on PlayStation Network to get the...

Google's Chrome web browser is making big in-roads into the browser market, threatening the dominance of market leaders Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.Market watcher Net Applications has reported that Chrome has...

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) has revealed that the company is working on PlayTV 2, the next version of the PlayTV platform for its PlayStation3 gaming console.Mark Green, the Senior Producer of Sony Cambridge Studio, told...

UK residents may be gearing up for a summer that's more on-and-off than Lindsay Lohan's love life, but thanks to climate change the Met Office says steamy nights could soon become a killer. The number of nights when the...

Hungary's newly-installed Government has added a new home page to all of its official web sites calling them unworthy. Hungary's center-right Fidesz party formed a new government Saturday and party leader Viktor Orban was sworn...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed that despite giving a half-hour speech on the prospects of cloud computing at a conference, he still wasn't able to get the message through.Speaking to 100 CEOs at the company's...

It's easy enough to get passive CPU and GPU coolers, but most passively-cooled PSUs have so far failed to churn out enough power at full load without doing anything inconvenient, such as blowing up. Acclaimed PSU maker Seasonic...

Lenovo has decided to install Google's Android operating system in its upcoming U1 Hybrid and Skylight smartbooks.The company hopes that by installing the Android OS instead of the Linux OS will increase the performance and...

Amazon.com and publisher Penguin Books have stuck a deal to allow Amazon Kindle users to purchase 150 Penguin titles previously unavailable on its online store.An earlier fallout over mutually agreeable pricing caused Penguin to...

An eminent British scientist has hit out at the lack of understanding of science and technology demonstrated by UK politicians. The comments were made by Professor Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Astronomer Royal,...

Despite receiving worldwide coverage, the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, carrying food and medicine to the Gaza strip, seemingly failed to grab the attention of Twitter users.The #flotilla hashtag abruptly disappeared...

Hewlett-Packard said it has earmarked a billion dollars (£686 million) to spend on getting rid of 9,000 jobs world-wide over the next three years. HP's cunning plan is to fully automate its commercial data centres,...

While most new SSDs come in a 2.50-inch laptop-friendly block, OCZ has just demonstrated what can be achieved if you spread out an SSD's components over a PCI-E card. The company's new RevoDrive features not one, but two of...

While Intel has offered a preview of its next generation of Oak Trail-based architecture, the hardware behemoth has also quietly announced four new processors, a pair for mobile platforms and the other for desktops. The...

Those of you ancient enough to remember Tomorrow's World, the BBC's original science and technology TV spot, will be familiar with homes of the future. In the seventies the programme's presenters promised us that we'd all be...

Intel has announced, at Computex 2010, a new range of Atom processors codenamed Oak Trail that could bring on a new generation of laptops which will make the Mac Book Air look positively obese. The new range of laptops and...

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and Irish Internet service provider, Eircom, have come to an agreement which will see them combine their efforts at hunting down illegal file sharers of IRMA's copyrighted songs.Despite...

Taiwanese PC manufacturer, Asustek, has showcased its latest tablet device, the Eee Pad, a diminutive PC that runs Windows 7 and will be pitched against Apple's popular iPad which has already sold more than two million units...

Chip maker Globalfoundries is to upgrade its manufacturing plants in New York and Germany in a bid to boost production output.Globalfoundries, co-owned by AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Co., intends to produce 80,000...

Anti-Facebook campaigners have claimed that more than 30,000 people quit the social networking platform as the part of the 31 May 'Quit Facebook Day'.More than 27,000 people signed up to the site QuitFacebookDay.com, which was...

The Telecommunications Authority of Pakistan yesterday lifted its ban on Facebook.The social networking website had been blocked in the country since 19 May over accusations of blasphemy, after caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed...

Software vendors Microsoft and Novell have released better interoperability options and enterprise solutions for business users of their High-Performance Computing services. A statement released by the companies suggests there is...

Our meeting with Nick Kyriacou, Director, EMEA at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies last Thursday, might not have yielded much about any breaking technologies but it was clear that the owner of the once-reviled Deskstar...

Hitachi LG Data Storage (HLDS) has announced the launch of a hybrid drive at Computex called the HyDrive that merges together old and new technologies; on one side, you have a bog standard optical drive (slot-in or tray, either a...

Microsoft's chief technical officer Ray Ozzie has claimed that personal computers are still a vital part of the technology market, despite the emergence of alternatives such as smartphones and tablet devices.In an interview with...

Following the launch of its iBookstore in UK on Friday, Apple has announced the release of "self-publishing" services for the US version of the online bookstore.Tech news site Ars Technica has reported that the new service is...

The NHS has come number one in a list of UK organisations responsible for leaking user data, with 305 reported incidents of data loss. This figure was followed by a private organisation with 288 incidents.HM Revenue and Customs...

Observers of the tech industry will be well aware that Intel is a lean, mean fighting machine. Ex-boss Andy Grove's maxim that "only the paranoid survive" has stood the chip maker in good stead over the years. You might express...

Facebook is the most visited website on the internet, according to recent web traffic data released by Google. The site got a whopping 540 billion page views durign April - significantly higher than the 70 billion page views...

In a bid to curb digital piracy, the producer of The Hurt locker have decided to sue over 5,000 internet users who illegally downloaded the the Oscar-winning film.The move from the film's producer, Voltage Pictures, comes after a...

Google is to stop using Windows because, it says, of concerns over security, according to reports. The ever-expanding virtual search engine monopoly has dropped the ubiquitous operating system as a result of a number of...

The US Department of Justice is set to launch an inquiry into Apple's dominance of the music industry in the States.Apple's market share amounts to 70 per cent of US sales. The initial inquiry is based on a report presented by...

If you thought that last decade's willy-waving fad of packing PCs with a Star Trek sets' worth of flickering lights had died out, then think again, as Corsair has just revealed its latest LED memory display at Computex. But the...

Apple is to offer financial incentives to Foxconn factory workers following the suicides of 10 employees.Foxconn came under scrutiny from global human rights groups following a number of unexplained suicides at the company's...

Latest figures published by Netmarketshare show that the the operating system market share of the Apple iPad has jumped from 0.03 to 0.08 percent for the month of May 2010. However, a detailed analysis of the last three days of...

Microsoft and Telus have announced a joint venture in the healthcare sector, aimed at creating an online medical database for Canadian consumers. The database will incorporate the Health Vault software developed by Microsoft, and...

Microsoft has been accused of misrepresenting data from analysts IDC at its ReMIX conference.A slide shown at the conference showed figures suggesting IDC predicted sales of its upcoming Windows Phone 7 device would reach 30...

Sony has announced the first three games to get the 3D treatment but they are all updates to existing titles. Wipeout HD and Super Stradust HD will both get free upgrades, but Pain will cost ¥300 (£2.28) to add the...

Carphone Warehouse has spilled the beans on the forthcoming Streak tablet computer/smartphone which will be released on the 4th of June on O2 exclusively. The mobile retailer said that the device will be available either on a...

Google has barred its employees from using Microsoft's Windows operating system on company premises.An article in The Financial Times claims a Google employee had revealed that the company had begun to get rid of Windows in...

Ultra-slim hard drives for netbooks and tablet PCs have been around for a while now but they have gained a reputation for being slow and limited in capacity. Spinning-platter drives have also been playing second fiddle to...

Semiconductor giant Intel has announced that it will be shipping a 32-core server processor that combines traditional x86 technology with cores that specialise in parallel workloads. The prototype was demoed during a speech by...

A resident of Los Angeles, California, has filed a lawsuit against Google for issuing directions that led her to have an accident.Lauren Rosenberg used her Blackberry to ask Google for walking directions from 96 Daly Avenue to...

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has detailed his vision for bringing 3D technology to the masses while speaking at a press conference in the run-up to the Computex trade show.At the two-hour gathering, the company's 3D Experience...

Ofcom has revealed today that internet service providers across the UK are being required to maintain a detailed list of users who frequently pirate copyrighted content. The BBC has announced it will release a High Definition...

A recently released book highlights the weirdest and funniest URLs in the history of the web.'Slurls: They Called Their Website What?', written by Andy Geldman, details 150 URLs that were the product of two particularly normal...

Since its launch in the US, Apple has sold two million units of its iPad tablet.The figures released by Apple come three days after the device was launched in the UK, Germany, Japan and six other international markets.The iPad...

The London student who started flirting website FitFinder has been fined £300, after university officials felt his website tarnished the reputation of the establishment.Rich Martell, a student at University College London,...

GlobalFoundries, the AMD chip-making spin-off, announced some aggressive expansion plans at a press conference in Taipei today, backed by significant investment from its Abu Dhabi owners. The firm said it intends to build an...

Hitachi has announced today the widespread availability of its new ultra-slilm range of laptop hard disk drives called the Z-series which feature a single 320GB platter and come with a 7mm thickness. When we met Nick Kyriacou,...

A survey carried out by the share trading division of an Australian bank (ed : where's the link with the iPad?) found out that the iPad is most expensive in UK and European countries. Speaking to Reuters, the chief economist at...

Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun-Huang come out boldly behind Google's Android OS in a pre-Computex address yesterday, backing the search outfit's offering over those from Microsoft. "Windows is too big and it's too full-featured for ...