Apple's Camera Connection Kit for the iPad is so rare that it's selling for silly money on Internet auction sites. The £25 accessory - which consists of two 30-pin dock connector dongles sporting a USB port and a card...

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is expected to gain almost $1 billion from a lawsuit brought against Verizon Wireless and AT&T.The lawsuit concerns the infringement by the US telecoms...

Google has dismissed Adroid fragmentation as a myth created by the media and industry pundits and that different people writing about it have different definitions for the term.Former US president George W Bush has set himself up...

Nokia has revealed its latest weapon in the war on climate change: a pedal-powered phone charger. The charging kit is aimed at developing countries where mains electricity is scarce, but two-wheeled transport plentiful. The...

Researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University have made a breakthrough in quantum computing, involving a new kind of LED technology.The scientists reported that they have managed to create 'entangled light' by the means of a...

We've received information from a source that O2, which will start selling the Dell Streak from tomorrow, will be offering in-contract upgrade on the smartphone, presumably on the smaller 16GB model, for as little as...

Internet-based travel search site Expedia.com has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a trial application for Internet Explorer 8.The application, Webslices, will be available for Microsoft's new IE8 browser, and will allow users...

Sony has predicted that e-book sales will surpass those of traditional books within the next five years.Speaking to The Telegraph, Steve Haber, the head of Sony's e-reader division, said: “Within five years there will be...

Diaspora, the social networking site being developed by students at New York University, has raised more than $200,000 via the online fund raising site Kickstarter.The students had originally given themselves 39 days to raise...

Microsoft has demonstrated its upcoming Xbox 360 peripheral, code-named 'Project Natal', at the D8 technology conference.Project Natal is Microsoft's answer to the Nintendo Wii gaming console, complete with motion- and...

Networking giant Cisco has predicted a fourfold increase in internet traffic by 2014 in its Visual Network Index Forecast 2010-2014.According to Cisco, this significant increase will be due to the quantity of video content...

O2 has published the detailed tariffs of the Streak, the smartphone/tablet device that it is launching yesterday and which we have thoroughly analysed here and here. Like the iPhone 3GS, it will be available in...

Memory maker Crucial has just refreshed its Ballistix range of enthusiast memory, with a new kit that features a redesigned heatsink and a thermal sensor. Crucial has adopted the comb-shaped design that we first saw on Corsair's...

Hewlett Packard boss Mark Hurd has revealed that he has no plans to make any new Palm smartphones. HP snapped up the PDA pioneer at the end of April for $1.28 billion and the common consensus was that the computer giant wanted...

The D-Link DIR-685 Wireless N Storage Router meshes style with technology to offer a simple yet sleek design, ideal for deploying in the home. This all-in-one desktop device combines the functions of an wireless Internet router,...

This is a 60" HD 1080p Plasma TV with freeview HD, 600Hz, 4 x HDMI and USB connectivity The LG PK590 Plasma TV series provides superb picture quality with a stunning razor frame design.  Convert your living room to a sports...

Hewlett-Packard has released a new series of IT products for the emerging small and medium-sized business (SMBs) market.The products, launched at a company event in California, focus on networking and storage services for SMBs -...

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been posting onto the Web videos and photographs it confiscated from members of the international flotilla, after hi-jacking the convoy and apprehending those it left alive. The Foreign Press...

Nokia has unveiled a new method for charging mobile phones using the power generated by a bicycle.The charging kit is specifically aimed at developing countries where bicycle usage is more widespread.The kit will still use...

ARM, Freescale, Samsung, IBM, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have come together to form not-for-profit software company, Linaro.Linaro is dedicated to developing Linux software solutions for hardware based on ARM chips,...

The founders of IP telephony service Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have launched online music service, Rdio. The service will allow its subscribers to access a music collection of more than five million songs, and is...

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has defended the privacy settings of his website, claiming that they were necessary to cope with the increasing number of application on the platform.Speaking at the 'All Things Digital'...

A group of tech heavyweights have joined have joined forces to speed up the process of developing ARM-based devices running Linux. ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have formed a new company called...

Nokia has rolled out a pair of dual-SIM mobile phones named the C1 and the C2 and is the first time the Finnish manufacturer has launched two-card phones in the UK. Both phones are squarely aimed at the very lowest rung of the...

Microsoft has released updates for its Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 platform. The updates are aimed primarily at users of the company's Windows 7 operating system, but users of the previous version of Windows, Vista, are also...

Google has updated its search function for mobile phones to include mobile applications in its results.The company has said that owners of iPhone and Android smartphones will now be able to search for links to application...

Google has acquired online advertising technology company Invite Media.According to a  report on technology blog AllThingsD, the search giant hopes the acquisition will strengthen its market position and help to produce new...

Once a common sight inside windowed PC cases, the garishly-tinted slots, baffling overclocking options and fancy packaging of DFI's LANParty motherboards are now set to be a thing of the past. Although DFI hasn't made an...

Hewlett-Packard has claimed that its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm was not about entering the smartphone market.ZDNet reports that HP CEO Mark Hurd, speaking at the ongoing Bank of America Merrill Lynch technology conference,...

Skype has announced plans to charge iPhone users for calls made over AT&T's 3G network later this year.The company has also stated that it has no plans to introduce charges to Verizon Wireless' smartphone customers who use...

Yahoo hopes to enter the world of social networking by adding a new 'sharing' option to its e-mail service.In an attempt to avoid the criticism levelled at Facebook over recent changes to user privacy, Yahoo sent a message to all...

Fears have grown over political tinkering with science, after a second member of the UK Government's food technology group resigned in protest at Government interference. Professor Brian Wynne, vice-chair of the Government...

Apple boss Steve Jobs has openly accused tech blog Gizmodo of extortion in an interview with Walt Mossberg. The accusation arose when Jobs was inevitably asked about the iPhone G4 saga, in which a prototype of Apple's next...

Crooks are using the upcoming World Cup to hoodwink Brazilian football fans into handing over their bank account details. A new phishing attack contains a poorly Photoshopped image of a badly beaten Dunga, Brazil's coach, and a...

Former US president George W Bush has set himself up on the social networking site Facebook. The official Bush fan page contains a photo of the ex-president by himself, and another with his wife and two dogs.'Dubya' has joined...

Google has dismissed Android 'fragmentation' as being a figment of people's imagination.Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager for Google Android, called fragmentation a myth created by the media and tech...

Former US President George Dubya Bush has joined the Facebook revolution just as everyone else is getting out, it seems. Bush's Facebook account, which was opened recently, has had 61,331 positive responses so far. But it seems...

In a bid to push inquisitive fiddlers as far away from the BIOS as possible, Taiwanese component maker Gigabyte has just unveiled a system that it says enables cloud-based overclocking. Called Cloud OC, the technology enables...

AdMob has released a new and improved version of it iPhone OS software development kit (SDK).Mac Rumors reports that the Google-owned ad platform is set to bring new advertising publishing features to Apple's iPad tablet...

Chinese telecom giant Huawei will partner with Telefonica-owned O2 to sell its handsets in the UK with the first model to make its way to our shores being the G7002, a £40 touchscreen device. Don't expect anything fancy at...

The newly launched Samsung Wave smartphone has been shipped with a microSD infected with malware called 'slmvsrv.exe' and people have been advised not to plug their phone into Windows-based computers.Novell has announced its...

Google is set to allow users to customise its search engine homepage by enabling them to add their own photo and wallpaper backgrounds.This will be the most complicated change Google has made to its search engine user interface -...

BT has been asked by the European Commission to allow competitors access to its overhead poles and underground ducts to increase access to faster broadband services in the UK.BT is already providing its competitors with 'virtual...

Scientists at Punjab University have found that mobile phones can cause drastic behavioural changes in bees - and may even lead to the death of hives. Researchers in India conducted a test using two beehives, fitting a mobile...

Today is the day when I am finally getting rid of my desktop computer and switch entirely to a laptop computer. This comes 24 hours after Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, announced at the D8 event that the tablet format would...

There are signs that Sky's just announced Anytime Plus service will be one of the two competitors to the BBC and BT backed video on demand platform, Project Canvas. We've already reported on how a Virgin Media spokesperson let...

After repeatedly hitting its product strategy with a wacky stick, Arctic Cooling has decided to chop off the second half of its name and rebrand itself as Arctic. The move makes perfect sense, given the esoteric nature of some...

Sonic Solutions has taken over the digital video company DivX for $323 million.The company hopes that the acquisition will help to increase its share in the internet sharing and content delivery market.DivX shareholders were...