The releases on the same day, of the Motorola Milestone XT720 and the Apple iPhone 4, give us the opportunity to compare a mainstream model from the Android stable with the best smartphone the Cupertino company can offer...

As the lights dimmed at this year's Apple Developer Conference, an unseen announcer asked the audience to turn off all mobile phones and PDAs. Surely it would have been simpler to ask them to turn off iPhones and iPads, as the...

Just days after two leading scientists quit the UK's advisory body on food safety amid allegations of pro-GM bias, a study has suggested the consumption of genetically modified crops may pose major health risks. Researchers at...

As South Africa gears up for the football World Cup this week, its government has announced plans to kick online pornography out of the country. The Internet and Cell Phone Pornography Bill, announced by Deputy Home Affairs...

Nvidia reckons there's still plenty of life left in its GeForce GTX 470 chips yet, but a new app purportedly from Asus could potentially sign its death warrant early. The executable has the simple name of 465Upgrade.exe, and it...

The award for the most beautiful tweet has been given to Marc Mackenzie, during the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts.The Hay Festival ran a competition to find the best tweet on its Twitter page, inviting entries from...

Subscribers to Apple's MobileMe may soon see it becoming a free service, if rumours are to be believed.MobileMe is a subscription-based online storage service for users of Apple's Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone and iPad tablet...

Software giant Microsoft is planning to discontinue the Bing Cashback scheme. The scheme entitled buyers to a cash rebate if they purchased a product using the Bing search engine.The Australian police force has launched a...

Foxconn has announced another wage increase increase for its Chinese employees.The Taiwan-based company has said that employees will be entitled to a 66 per cent pay increase - provided they meet their required targets.Earlier...

Oracle has decided to reduce the workforce of Sun Microsystems, according to a filing made by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).The company had denied reports of an anticipated lay-off last October,...

The Italian iDroid developer team has yet again managed to tame the super-successful iPhone 3G, installing Google's Android 2.2 release, Froyo, on the coveted smartphone.The developers have successfully ported the recently...

Despite heavy competition from smartphones using the Android OS, Apple's iPhone is still holding on to the biggest market share.According to data released by analyst Nielsen, Apple owned 28 per cent of the smartphone global...

Nintendo's forthcoming 3DS portable games console is set to have graphics rivalling those of the Sony PlayStation 3 games console.Technology blog IGN has reported that the device, which is to be launched at the Electronic...

Members of the European Parliament are being urged to sign Written Declaration 29 calling for the setting up of an early warning system whose creators claim will prevent child pornography and sexual harassment on the...

The 80plus Gold award is starting to become more of a standard tickbox than an elitist symbol these days. Not only have Corsair, Antec and Seasonic all joined the gold rush, but Thermaltake has now started tagging along as...

Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's server and tools business outlined a whole raft of new software and  tools at its annual Tech-Ed conference in New Orleans today. Muglia focused on cloud computing, claiming that...

Facebook yesterday bowed to political pressure, removing anti-government images in order to get itself unbanned in Bangladesh. The site's reinstatement comes not, as many sites have reported, after Facebook's agreement to remove...

Despite rumours of the impending release of a new iPhone 4G, demand for HTC's new Evo 4G smartphone has been overwhelming.The phone, which is being offered by US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel, follows HTC's previous...

Changes to mobile data limits recently announced by US mobile operator AT&T may affect the number of downloads for applications that consume a high amount of bandwidth.The New York Times reports that previously, when no...

Messages intercepted at Bletchley Park using the Enigma machine are now set to be digitised. The German military messages, after digitisation, will be made publicly available online.The future of the messages, which have lain in...

Featuring stunning, pixel precise HD and incredible sound, you can enjoy the thrill of big screen entertainment right in your living room with this Philips 42" LCD TV. Its Full HD 1080p display and super slim design ensures...

The E2240S-PN TFT LED monitor from LG pushes display quality to the limits! The E2240SPN includes VGA connectivity and DFC technology - exclusively developed by LG - to display 16 million colours and the deepest blacks, making it...

HTC Corporation said it has acquired Paris-based Abaxia, a maker of custom software for mobile operators and handset manufacturers.  "HTC is committed to creating the best possible mobile experience for our customers...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unleash its new iPhone 4G at the company's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco today.The event, which brings together Apple developers from across the world, will see Apple...

Sony has launched the official website for its PlayStation Move motion-sensing gaming peripheral.This site's debut comes ahead of the controller's launch, which is expected at the upcoming E3 games conference in Los Angeles.The...

Nintendo might have snubbed Nvidia's 3D Vision technology, but Toshiba clearly sees something in it. The company has just launched its first 3D laptop; the Satellite A665. Equipped with a pair of shutter glasses and a display...

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini has gone on sale in the United Kingdom.Little bigger than a credit card, the Xperia X10 is the world's smallmost compact Android-based smartphone, weighing in at just 88 grams.In spite of its...

Internet company Yahoo has announced that its users will now be able to view and share content with each other on social networking platform Facebook.The deal with Facebook is a part of the company's strategy to get back to the...

Apple is expected to release its new Safari 5 browser at the company's annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), which starts today in San Francisco.Safari 5 is expected to provide better support for HTML 5 and an increase...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has blamed the search giant's "mistaken" collection of Wi-Fi traffic data on the actions of a rogue Google software engineer. The Financial Times reports that Schmidt believes the error occurred after one...

A class action law suit has been filed against Sony and game maker Square Enix after a number of PS3 consoles permanently broke down whilst playing the game Final Fantasy XIII. The suit, which has been started by Californian...

A US Army intelligence officer who allegedly leaked classified video of a helicopter assault in Iraq has been arrested by military police, according to reports. Specialist Bradley Manning is accused of providing the "Collateral...

Facebook has helped to reconnect Prince Segala with her children after fifteen years apart.Her children, aged two and three at the time, were kidnapped in October 1995 when her estranged husband Faustino Utrera took the children...

The UK's new coalition Government has been accused of encouraging councils to snoop on householders, after it backed plans for incentives to homes who recycle the most rubbish. The criticism comes as Communities secretary Eric...

Koch company Deep Silver has today announced an exclusive agreement with Simon Cowell's FremantleMedia Enterprises to produce a console game based on "talent" show The X Factor.  The outfit plans to produce versions for the...

Adobe have announced that cyber criminals are exploiting a major flaw in their Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash player software.It is assumed that this bug is similar to the Zero day vulnerability, which had affected Adobe in July...

Three words are guaranteed to send Apple fans into a feeding frenzy at a Steve Jobs keynote presentation... "One more thing". Jobs has become famous for holding back on major announcements at his WWDC keynotes until the very...

The Australian police force has launched a criminal investigation against Google to determine whether the company has violated Australian privacy laws.Australia joins Germany, France, Canada, Spain and the Czech Republic in...

Software giant Microsoft is planning to discontinue the Bing Cashback scheme.The scheme entitled buyers to a cash rebate if they purchased a product using the Bing search engine online.Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Online...

Days after announcing that it was looking for a partner for its search engine, reports are surfacing that AOL may be sold to Micorsoft. The Business Insider reports that sources close to the CEO have claimed that Armstrong is...

Millions of secret documents which haven't seen the light of day since World War II are about to be scanned and uploaded to the Internet. The archive - which was created by 10,000 military code-breakers at the Bletchley Park...

There's already been a lot of creative conjecture concerning whose hardware will be packed into Nintendo's next-generation handheld, but one company that is apparently out of the picture is Nvidia. The green goblin's ARM-based...

To precisely no-one's surprise, Gizmodo has been banned from Apple's WWDC shindig today. The tech site has been removed from the Apple guest list, possibly on a permanent basis, after paying for a stolen prototype iPhone which...

The Motorola XT720, an updated version of the popular Milestone handset, has been unveiled by the US-based handset manufacturer and comes with a seriously overhauled design. Like the former, this model comes with a Qualcomm...

Samsung has released it s Wave smartphone on Vodafone and Virgin Media on a 'free on contract' basis. Prices start at £24 per month for 300 minutes, unlimited texts and 500 MB data on Vodafone, and 600 minutes, unlimited...

Workers at a factory which has been plagued with a cluster of unexplained suicides are to get a 70 per cent pay rise. The Foxconn assembly plant - which builds a large proportion of the world's gadgetry including Apple's iPhone...

Photos of the speculated successor to Motorola's Droid smartphone have appeared on the internet.Mobile tech blog DroidLife has reported that the upcoming smartphone, previously thought to have been code-named "Shadow", is to be...

Arm boss "tenpole" Tudor Brown reckons Apple's iPad success doesn't necessarily herald a rosy outlook for tablet PCs of any flavour over the coming years. It's "too early to tell" Brown told the Financial Times in an interview...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G smartphone today at the company's World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco.Jobs is expected to take the stage at 6pm UK time to announce the launch of the new...

Facebook could be forced to install a panic button on every page if an international law enforcement panel gets its way. The social notworking site has thus far resisted calls from organisations like the UK's Ceops (the Child...

Microsoft is to cancel its Bing Cashback programme. The attempt to woo searchers away from Google by offering cash incentives to buy through Bing is two years old but won't get any older. From July 30 there will be no more cash...

It seems that hackers are exploiting the critical vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player and  Reader software that the firm warned about on Friday. Adobe said that the bug affects the latest version of its Flash Player...