GlobalFoundries has asked local government officials to withhold details of a taxpayer-funded deal to upgrade a chip fabrication plant in the upstate New York town of Malta. The chip maker is to receive $650 million in public...

Apple has announced a revolutionary new display technology for its new iPhone 4 during the company's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Retina Display technology makes the pixels of the display denser, improving image...

Apple has filed a patent for embedding solar cells into the touchscreens of handheld devices, suggesting the company may be working toward developing a solar-powered iPhone or iPad.Apple chief Steve Jobs has unveiled the...

A new book claims to lay bare the internal working of the world's biggest social networking site.'The Facebook Effect - The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World' is written by former Fortune Magazine columnist...

Apple has launched a version of its iMovie video editing suite for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad at the company's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC).Randy Ubillos, the developer behind the previous update of the...

The iPhone has confirmed its dominance over smartphones based on Google's rival Android OS, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told attendees at the company's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Jobs dismissed reports that Andriod sales...

You might have missed it what with all the chatter surrounding the release of the new iPhone 4, but Apple quietly slipped a new version of its HTML5-compliant web browser into the mix last night. Safari 5 once again claims to be...

Novell has announced a licence scheme targetting Sun Microsystems identity-management and Solaris customers Novell is also offering incentive programmes for Sun partners to join the Novell PartnerNet channel community. Novell...

Microsoft has made its Office Web Applications (OWA) available to UK users.The company has added the OWA platform to users' SkyDrive web service accounts, allowing them to access the applications from their systems.The OWA suite...

The People's Republic of China has defended its controversial online censorship policies.In a white paper released today, the Chinese government has claimed that censorship laws are necessary to protect the rights of its...

UK mobile providers Orange, O2 and Vodafone have announced that they will be selling the iPhone 4 after the device waas launched yesterday at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). Despite the fact that O2, Vodafone and...

AMD's prize piece of kit at Computex was undoubtedly its new Fusion CPU architecture, but the word is that AMD also has big plans for its high-end GPU division this year. German tech site Computer Base (Google translation)...

Apple has launched the latest version of its Safari web browser, Safari 5, during its annual World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco.Apple claims that Safari 5 is 30 per cent faster than the previous Safari browser,...

Chip fiddlers at analyst group UBM Tech Insights have discovered that the Samsung Wave S8500 phone sports the same ARM Core processor as Apple's iFad. The processor in question is the 1GHz ARM Cortex A8. This core is based on...

The Yamaha NS-P280 is the ideal speaker package for a separates home cinema system. With five matching satellite speakers, you're guaranteed a consistent and even sound, right around the room. Their compact size also makes the...

The LG GB102 is a no-frills, simple to use talk and text mobile phone.  Leaving out high specification to make room for over 6 hour talk time and maintain it’s budget price tag. The LG GB102 is a simple and...

The release of the iPhone 4 is set to delight wannabe rock-stars and virtual farmers alike with the announcement that Guitar Hero and Farmville will be made available for the device.Announced during Apple's World Wide Developer...

BinaryNow last week released a new version of Kingsoft Office 2010. This alternative office suite for Microsoft Windows is composed of three applications: a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation package. The latest...

Apple has posted the full video of the WWDC keynote given by Steve Jobs yesterday. During his speech, Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, gave details of iOS4, the company's newly renamed operating system for iDevices, previewed...

Apple yesterday announced it would offer its iBook e-reader application to the users of its iPhone and iPod Touch devices.Speaking at the company's World Wide Developers Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said a phenomenal increase...

Sony has announced that it's having another try at the all-in-one computer market which has always been dominated by Apple's iconic iMac. The Japanese electronics superpower made a first foray into the discrete desktop sector...

Adobe Systems has partnered with mobile advert developer Greystripe to create Flash-based advertisements.The partnership will create adverts that are compatible with the HTML 5 web standards used by Apple's Safari browser on the...

Software giant Microsoft has announced that the company's Expression Studio 4 software development suite has been released as a trial. The software, which is a set of development tools aimed at creating more visually appealing...

Apple has announced the launch of its iAd mobile advertising platform.The news came during Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Steve Jobs said iAd would "combine...

Apple chief Steve Jobs has unveiled the operating system for its new iPhone 4 at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) yesterday.Jobs said in his keynote speech that the new operating system, first seen in April this year,...

Apple has announced that Microsoft's Bing search engine will become a search option for the new iPhone 4.Bing comes in addition to Google, which has been the default search enginge since the release of Apple's first iPhone.CNet...

Software giant Microsoft has advised people to adopt an efficient hybrid computing model to ensure a smooth transition towards a cloud-based infrastructure.Speaking at the company's TechEd 2010 event in New Orleans, Bob Muglia,...

BT and the Welsh Assembly are set to bring broadband to four welsh 'not-spots'.The four areas, Beulah and Ystrad Meurig in Ceredigion and Cil-y-Cwm and Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire, are expected to have access to broadband by...

UK mobile provider Orange has unveiled a pair of eco-friendly boots that will allow users to charge their mobile phones using the heat generated by their feet. Created in collaboration with eco-experts GotWind, the Orange 'Power...

Mobile operator Orange is to show off its new 'green' phone charger at the Glastonbury festival – Power Wellies. The boots come hot on the heels of Nokia's bicycle-powered charger, reported on THINQ last week. They're the...

It's the one major part of the PC that's still reminiscent of the PC's primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly-clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it's now making...

The days of off-shore call centres in countries such as India may be numbered if legislation introduced in the United States congress succeeds. Senator Chuck Schumer has proposed a bill to impose a 25 cent tax on any US customer...

Japan's Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association has made up some mightily impressive numbers which show how much damage pirates are doing to the portable console industry. The organisation counted every download of the top...

File-sharing service Limewire has been given two weeks to file papers supporting its legal argument that it shouldn't be shut down. Recording industry lawyers are insisting that the P2P network does irreparable damage to the...

UK-based Internet service provider Zen Internet has announced plans to offer broadband connections of up to 40Mbps.The Rochdale-based ISP is to offer fibre-optic broadband to both residential and business customers from...

HTC has acquired French mobile application developer Abaxia for $13.2 million.The deal is seen as a strategic move on the part of HTC to increase its software design capacity.HTC believes that by having an in-house software...

HP has agreed to pay BSkyB some £318 million to settle a lawsuit over a failed CRM implementation undertaken by EDS a decade ago. The total settlement includes £230 million in damages, as well as £40 million in...

Apple has filed a patent for embedding solar cells into the touchscreens of handheld devices, suggesting the company may be working toward developing a solar-powered iPhone or iPad. Expert Apple-watching site PatentlyApple...

The iPhone 4G was last night announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC).Jobs said customers would be able to pre-order the long-awaited iPhone 4G from Apple's online store by 16...

Following the launch of its C1 and C2 devices, Finnish phone maker Nokia has released its new C3 handset.The C3 is set to be released in the UK from 18 June and will be available to buy from Nokia's UK online store for...

The UK's Internet Service Provider Association has named its 2010 Internet Hero and Internet Villain award nominations, and not surprisingly the Digital Economy Act dominates. Parliament itself is among the five Internet Villain...

Samsung has released its Samsung Restore handset in collaboration with wireless carrier Sprint.The phone, which features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, is being touted as the world's first green phone.Available in two colours,...

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...

Ofcom has once again warned broadcaster CNN that it breached UK TV rules banning the sponsorship of news programmes. The regulator received a complaint over CNN's Connector of the Day, a seven-minute section in the outfit's...

IBM has released the Mote Runner software development kit (SDK) at the Sensors Expo & Conference 2010. Named after motes - wireless sensor nodes that gather information such as temperature, light and movement and send it back...

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a new feature for its all-in-one printer line, allowing users to to print emails and documents from any device with access to the internet.  HP ePrint will allow users of the iPad, iPhone,...

Ex-chipmaker AMD spent $210,000 lobbying the US government in the first quarter of 2010, a recent federal filing reveals. The firm's lobbying expenses have been creeping slowly up. It spent $200,000 in the last quarter of 2009...

In an attempt to attract more developers towards Apple's iPhone platform, developer firm AND has launched a monthly competition for developers.The prize for the winning entries is a publishing deal with Teletext Mobile, AND's...

A university boffiin, having assessed the condition of a bunch of top gamers, concluded that while some may have the reflexes of a fighter pilot they may also have the body of a sixty year-old chain smoker. Dr Dominic...

As this device is being launched in a little over two weeks, I thought the major carriers in the UK would be a bit better prepped than their websites are showing.O2 wins (barely!) as they have a big splash on their home page...

According to a Turkish media report, Turkey has blocked access several Google services, including Google Docs and its dodgy translation service. YouTube has already been banned from the country for two years now, after videos...