Motorola has announced the release of a new handset called the Flipout which is unlike any handset that the manufacturer has on the market and loosely resembles Microsoft's Kin smartphone. The US manufacturer choose a square form...

The Government has asked UK Internet users to share their views on Ofcom proposals for a new 'three strikes' rule on illegal file sharing. In an article on its YouGov web site entitled 'Online copyright infringement: have your...

Component maker MSI has issued a call to the world's pluckiest liquid nitrogen pourers, volt-modders and clock fiddlers, in a bid to find the master overclocking champion. The Masters of Overclocking Arena (MOA) contest...

Novell has announced its plans to launch SuSE Meego, a complete Linux-based operating system for netbooks.The director of client preloads at Novell, Guy Lunardi, has announced that SuSE Meego is expected to be available within an...

Microsoft was once regarded as the arch-enemy by devotees of the Linux open source operating system. Now, for many companies, Windows and Linux are becoming unlikely – but successful – bedfellows. Microsoft and...

The newly launched Samsung Wave smartphone has been shipped with a microSD card infected with malware.Technology blog Mobile Burn reported that the memory card that comes pre-installed on the phone contai a virus named...

Google wants European privacy regulators to compromise over the amount of Wi-Fi data it has to submit, claiming that to hand over the data would further compromise the privacy of the people concerned.The Office of the Privacy...

Satcaster and Triple Player BSkyB has told technology website, Pocket-lint, that it will be launching a video on demand service in the last few months of 2010,. called Sky Anytime Plus. The service will be available to Sky...

IBM has announced the acquisition of AT&T subsidiary Sterling Commerce, for $1.4 billion.The deal is expected to be finalised by the end of 2010.Sterling Commerce, the business-to-business trading partner and management...

Asus has announced the release of its EeePad EP101TC tablet devices at the Computex 2010 trade show. Two versions of the EeePad are planned for release. One features a 10in screen, and is set to run Microsoft's Windows Compact 7...

Video sharing website YouTube dominated online video traffic for April, receiving a massive 13.09 billion page views.83.5 per cent of all internet users viewed YouTube content over April, making its viewing figures the highest...

The most widely used application on nearly all smartphone platforms is Facebook, says a report compiled by Nielsen Wire.  The only exception to Facebook's dominance was on Android-based devices, where the most-used...

Loyal Nvidia partner EVGA has announced that it plans to re-launch its Step Up program in Europe, which will enable owners of some of its cards and motherboards to get a free upgrade in the future. The company first expanded its...

Usenet indexer and NZB pioneer Newzbin has been revived, despite losing a battle against Hollywood's copyright cops. The binary search engine, which links to pirated files (and occasional legitimate ones) uploaded to Usenet...

Several unrelated mobile news outlets have reported that the HTC Mondrian smartphone could be the first handset to use Qualcomm's just released MSM8x60 solutions, which are the third generation ARM-based chipsets. For example,...

A company boss will be sticking to his trusty Mac after a brief dalliance with Windows cost him $100,000. David Green, who runs a party supplies outfit in Oklahoma, normally accesses his company bank accounts from an Apple...

Microsoft has lashed out at Google after the search giant announced it would be banning its employees from using Windows.A post on the Windows team blog by Microsoft spokesperson Brandon LeBlanc yesterday described Google' plan...

Sony is to slash the price of many games for its handheld PSP console.The company hopes that by cutting the price of games sold on its Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, it can boost sales of the Playstation Portable device. The...

Nintendo has decided to cut the price of its Nintendo DS handheld games console by 21 per cent in Japan. The price drop will bring the cost of a DS down to around 15,000 yen - significantly lower than its current price of 18,900...

Apple boss Steve Jobs has insisted that a factory which makes iPods is "pretty nice". Responding to questions about a spate of suicides at the Foxconn assembly plant, Jobs said, "This is very troubling to us. So we send over our...

After seeing all the big clock speeds handed out to dual-channel RAM kits earlier this year, overclockers with triple-channel X58 systems are now getting a taste of the big numbers. Memory maker Kingston has just announced the...

Hon Hai Precision Industry, the parent company of Foxconn, has seen its shares fall to an all-time low after releasing details of a wage rise for Chinese employees.The company's shares fell 2 per cent on the Taiwan Stock...

Apple has finally shut down Lala, the online music streaming service it acquired late last year, according to a message posted on the music service's website.The LA Times reports that the closure has come nearly six months after...

Basefarm, one of the leading providers of web-based services in Northern Europe, has shifted its working platform from CentOS software to Red Hat's Enterprise Linux.Red Hat (RHT), the maker of Linux-based software, signed a deal...

Microsoft said it is beefing up security in an upcoming version of its Windows Live Hotmail service. Volish anti-spam and anti-phishing chief John Scarrow said security is the "number one concern of people who use email and a...

IBM has unveiled two new enterprise storage products capable of running on both x86 storage systems and System x mainframe systems.  System Storage DS3500 Express and System x3620 M3 Express will target companies that have...

Speaking at the annual Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference, Apple's charismatic CEO, Steve Jobs, revealed his belief that the desktop computer will die out soon and will be replaced by the tablet format as...

Market strategy group iGR has revealed that the majority of software developers work towards building applications for Apple's iPhone rather than its competition.The market strategy group has shown that nearly 53 per cent of...

Britain's new coalition government is to publish the details of all new IT contracts it signs from July 2010, in a bid to deliver what prime minister David Cameron calls "greater transparency". The publication of details on...

We saw it, we played with it and we loved it. However the Dell Streak, a device that blurs the boundaries between the smartphone and the tablet, is still a rough diamond that needs some polishing. The frameWe hate frames and the...

Yet another survey of IT security professionals has discovered that half of them aren't adverse to a bit of hacking. Of those who admitted hacking, 73 per cent said they were doing so to test the strength of their own network's...

IBM has been asked by UK charity Start to lead a nine-day long summit to discuss key environmental issues.Start, the charity organisation initiated by the Prince of Wales in February 2010, plans to bring the public together with...

AMD has demonstrated earlier today a working version of its Accelerated Processing Unit or APU technology codenamed Fusion, during an event at Computex in Taipei. Fusion will bring together an x86 processor combined with a...

Steve Jobs has come out in full support of Foxconn, the Taiwan-based company that provides manufacturing and packaging services to Apple, following the recent string of suicides at its Chinese factories.Speaking during a...

Users of social networking platform Facebook have been once again targeted by a sophisticated malware attack.  Security firm Sophos has come across a new method used by scammers to hijack users' profiles on the social...

Linux-powered smartphones will comprise a third of the world-wide smartphone market, by 2015, trend watchers at ABI Research reckon. Google’s Android is leading the charge the soothsayers said. They reckons that with more...

Globalfoundries' parent company Advanced Technology investment Company (ATIC) has decided to increase its budget for the planned expansions at its plants in Dresden and New York.The budget for the operation has been increased by...

Publisher Conde Nast has unveiled an iPad reader application for its US-based tech magazine, WIRED - and it's based on Adobe Flash.The application enables users to view interactive digital magazines and is compatible with Apple's...

Dell has launched a new mono laser printer and a series of wireless printing solutions for mobile devices.The Dell 5350dn printer is a mono laser printer capable of printing 50 one-sided pages per minute, and comes with the...

Novell has announced that it will launch Suse Meego as a fully-supported operating system for netbooks and other portables. The company is expecting a number of major but as-yet-unnamed OEMs to join the Linux-based project,...

Software maker Intego has warned that some applications currently available for Macs may contain a new form of spyware that will infect the whole system if installed.Mac World reports that according to Intego, the spyware can...

Mozilla's Weave Sync add-on has graduated from the experimental stage, and has been re-branded Firefox Sync.The add-on is designed to synchronise Firefox content and preferences between desktop and mobile devices.Currently...

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards have already picked up a reputation for being hot and power-hungry, but it turns out that some graphics card makers are already working on marrying up two Fermi chips on a single PCB. Hot...

Want to make your own personal protest about BP's oil spill in the Mexican Gulf – to yourself? That's the thinking behind one web developer's (seemingly pointless) protest against the oil giant, after an explosion aboard...

Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has begun an investigation into the Wi-Fi network traffic data 'mistakenly' gathered by Google's Street View cars.The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has requested...

Google will release its Chrome operating system in the final quarter of 2010 according to one of the project's leaders. Sundar Pichai told tech hacks at Computex that Chrome would be delivered some time in "late fall" and that...

Google wants European privacy regulators to compromise over the amount of Wi-Fi data it has to submit to them.The Financial Times has reported that the search giant doesn't want to hand over as much data as the European privacy...

Google may launch Chrome OS, its second consumer operating system, by the end of the year according to a senior executive who is managing the project. Sundar Pichai, Google's head of Chrome, told reporters at Computex 2010 (as...

Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will be cutting 9,00 jobs from its Enterprise Services segment as part of a $1 billion investment plan. HP states that it will 'encourage' employees to walk away by legal means.Internet...

Apple supremo Steve Jobs has pronounced that the era of the PC as we know it is coming to an end. The Cupertino gadget-maker's 90-minute sermon at the All Things D gathering in La La Land once again touted the iPad as the...

China's Nebulae supercomputer now ranks second in the latest Top500 list of supercomputers.Its new standing in the list indicates that China has finally risen to the standards of High Performance Computing, and has the technology...

Storage specialist Sandisk has unveiled a range of solid state drives at Computex which doubles the capacity of the previous generation to a whopping 256GB. The G4 comes with capacities ranging from 64GB to 256GB with read and...

Portuguese tech site iPhone Portugal has released two videos showing the aluminium chassis of something that looks like Apple's next-generation smarthphone. The site makes no claim that the parts are real, or that they had been...

LG has demoed a new tablet device called the UX10 which appears to be a bog standard mobile internet device based around the usual Wintel platform, that is the equivalent of having a netbook without a keyboard. Specification...

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC may be readying the Aria, yet another Android smartphone after the just announced Wildfire., one which is bound for the US market, at least for now. Aria has been described by some as the...

AMD has shown off a version of its hotly-anticipated Fusion chippery in public for the first time at the Computex tech extravaganza in Taiwan's capital city Taipei. AMD calls the mix of CPU and GPU on a single die an Accelerated...