Alternative browser bunch Opera has posted up its own HTML5 showcase. Not to be outdone by Apple and its partisan Safari-only shenanigans, Opera as a new build up its sleeve. Opera 10.60 supports Google’s WebM open media...

Microsoft has announced a redesigned version of its Xbox 360 gaming console which should allow it to compete more effectively with the Sony Playstation 3 Slim when it comes to general design and storage capacity. The new model -...

As the BBC Trust decides the fate of the corporation's Project Canvas, people are already speculating that the platform could be launched as early as September. If the plan gets the green light, Project Canvas will bring...

UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom has given the green light to a BBC proposal to implement digital rights management (DRM) tools to restrict the number of times its HD shows can be copied when recorded from its Freeview HD...

Adobe Systems has released a critical security patch for its Flash Player 10.1, fixing 30 bugs that had been reported in the web tool. The patch also fixes a crucial vulnerability affecting .swf files, which allowed hackers to...

Following the release of its Promoted Tweets advertising programme, micro-blogging site Twitter has announced plans to introduce Promoted Trends. The service will allow the web site to sell information about popular Twitter...

Microsoft's Bing search engine has managed impressive growth over its first year, in spite of stiff competition from rival search giant Google. Bing's share of the US search market increased by nearly 3.4 per cent, taking it...

Electronics giants Best Buy and Wal-Mart have announced that they will sell the iPhone 4 in thousands of stores across the US as the pre-ordering process for the Apple iPhone 4 starts tomorrow ahead of the launch of the device on...

Popular gaming blog Kotaku has uploaded leaked photos of what seems like an upgraded Xbox 360 gaming console, ahead of the E3 conference.Italian site Console Tribe, stated that over the night the leaked pictures appeared on a...

Apple has announced that applications designed for the iPhone 4 using its new iOS 4 will be able to fill the screen of an iPad. These applications designed for the iPad will automatically adjust to work with the new Retina...

The Sony Ericsson X10 smartphone has been out for nearly three months now and while a number of contenders have appeared on the market lately, it still ranks amongst one of the best Android-based smartphones thanks in part to the...

Skobbler, a maker of video and audio navigation systems, has released a free satellite navigation application for the Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS.The new application, which incorporates the OpenStreetMap navigation service, has been...

Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) is a programming methodology used for converting data between object-oriented programming languages and relational databases. Every object has an...

The Telegraph World Cup iPhone application has been downloaded more than 100,000 times over the last week, the paper has reported. The Telegraph app is designed especially for iPhone and iPad users, and has been developed to keep...

A renowned psychologist in the United Kingdom has called for a ban on young school children using computers.The Telegraph has reported that Dr Aric Sigman, a UK-based psychologist, has criticised rules implemented in 2008 that...

Gaming site Kotaku has leaked the design and specifications of the new Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming console prior to its expected launch at the E3 conference.  Although not confirmed by Nintendo, the Telegraph reports that...

Goatse Security, the outfit that cracked and exposed AT&T's iPad security, has released a statement defending its posting following AT&T's published attack on it. Escher Auernheimer's missive states that AT&T's...

To be honest, there is nothing noticeably different between the mid 2010 MacBook Pro’s from the 2009 models they have replaced. Yet is there any real need to change the design? It still remains one of the sexiest laptops to...

Online video streaming service Boxee has announced that the launch of its Boxee Box, a cube-shaped device capable of streaming online video onto HD TVs, has been delayed until November.  The Boxee Box, which is being...

Apple owns the platform, the store, the content… now, it seems, the company wants to tell you what you can and can't read using its devices. A US publisher has been forced to remove 'obscene' images from a manga comic...

Nokia has launched a new smartphone, the X5 as well as a special version of the existing X6 smartphone which comes with 8GB rather than the usual 32GB. The X5-01 is rather interesting since it is similar to the Microsoft KIN as...

The Guggenheim Museum, New York, is set to stage an exhibition of creative art using videos uploaded onto YouTube.The Guggenheim will show to the public 20 of the most creative videos found on the Google-owned video sharing...

A psychologist wants schools to ban children under the age of nine from using computers because the technology is damaging their brains. Dr Aric Sigman told at a conference of childcare reformers Open Eye, that technology can...

Samsung is churning out Android smartphones at an increasing rate with the latest one, the Galaxy Apollo i5801, making an appearance on the website of Orange UK with a raft of functionalities that point to the fact that it will...

Much has been made of the new Retina Display used in Apple's latest iPhone but, in this case, it really is true that the camera doesn't lie. Apple says the screen's 300-plus pixels per inch is as good as the eye can see at a...

The share price of chip maker ARM Holdings rose to an all time high on Friday after rumours of a fresh takeover attempt by Apple.The Financial Times reports that ARM's share price jumped 32 per cent on Friday, rising to more than...

Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has given the BBC a green light to cripple High-Definition broadcasts with copy protection. The ruling will restrict access to broadcast Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) data to only those High...

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced that it has begun to investigate IT giant Apple as a part of a copyright infringement lawsuit against the company, filed by mobile phone maker HTC. HTC filed the case...

A Vietnamese web site has leaked details and photos of Samsung's forthcoming iPad challenger, the Galaxy Tape. We're not sure if the whole 'Tape' thing has been somehow lost in translation, but we'll have to wait for the...

Bill Gates has urged the government of United States of America to overhaul its annual investment in research and development for clean energy.Gates hopes that by investing in researching into renewable energy, America can be...

Dell has been selling Ubuntu-powered PC systems for quite some time  - since 2007, in fact - but it appears the once-direct firm, currently embroiled in a controversy over financial shenanigans, has now gone all-out in a bid...

St Andrew's Church, Bo'ness, West Lothian, is set to broadcast its services in real time on the iPhone and iPad.The church, which has been screening its Sunday services online for several years now, plans to stream videos of its...

Beleaguered US telecoms giant AT&T has sent an apology to the 114,00 iPad owners who had their email addresses exposed. The email, which describes the perpetrators of the exploit as "hackers" rather than the security experts...

US wireless carrier AT&T has blamed a company of self-styled "hackers", Goatse Security, for an e-mail leak that exposed the personal data of over 100,000 US iPad 3G users, including top-ranking officials at the White...

IT giant Cisco is developing an enterprise communication app for iPhone and iPad mobile devices running Apple's newly released iOS 4.The newly developed Quad application is set to enhance the way enterprise users communicate with...

The Google Chrome OS team is working on a new feature that will allow users to run Microsoft's legacy PC applications on a Chrome OS-based device.The process of running legacy PC applications on the Chrome OS has been dubbed...

Microsoft has demonstrated a number of motion-sensing games for its new Kinect controller-free Xbox 360 gaming peripheral.The company unveiled the peripheral, previously known only by the code name Project Natal, at a press...

ITV viewers were left furious after a technical glitch ruined the channel's live HD coverage of England's first match against the USA.The match was interrupted by a car advertisement, cutting in just before England captain Steven...

Google is publishing World Cup scores, fixtures and group stage standings into its search results pages, so users do not need to leave Google to quickly look up statistics. In a move sure to annoy newspaper sports editors, the...

Hewlett Packard has announced plans to enable its Halo enterprise videoconferencing service to run on desktop computers and regular internet connections within organisations.Previously, Halo users have had to purchase an...

Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! Building and maintaining software can be a risky business. Most enterprises rely on software – so extra cost, delays, or the inability to realise goals can have serious...

Details of Microsoft's slimmed-down Xbox360 have been leaked by an Italian web site ahead of today's expected E3 announcement. We're not sure if this is the real deal, or yet another elaborate fake, but the pictures posted on...

Apple has announced that applications designed for the iPhone 4 using its new iOS 4 will be able to fill the screen of an iPad.The company has also announced that applications using the new operating system that are designed for...

Vodafone has already started to stock the new Samsung Galaxy S smartphone with the mobile phone operator expected to ship the first orders on the 15th of June and with monthly contract prices starting from £35 per...

Motorola has confirmed that it plans to release a 2GHz smartphone by the end of 2010.  The Android-based smartphone is expected to contain a number of cutting-edge features including a gyroscope, Nvidia Tegra-based graphics...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has bought assets from Phoenix Technologies, including the 'instant-on' operating system HyperSpace, for $12 million.In addition to HyperSpace, the products HP has acquired include Phoenix's HyperCore and...

Low-power server firm SeaMicro, has launched an 'Internet-optimised' x86-server based on 512 Intel Atom processors. The firm reckons the hardware reduces by 75 per cent the power and space used by servers.  Silicon...

Microsoft has bundled a Bing toolbar add-on along with its Patch Tuesday security update.The download adds the Bing toolbar to the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers of certain users without their...

The Motorola Milestone XT720 is expected to replace the Droid as the flagship smartphone at the US manufacturer as the firm quietly changed a number of vital hardware specifications that makes it a tad more appealing. The XT720...

Microsoft's Applied Science Group has demonstrated a new type of lens to be used in television screens, which allows viewers to see images in 3D without the need to wear special glasses.Researchers at the Applied Science Group...

O2 announced a few days ago that it is canning its unlimited mobile data plans with users now having to choose between 500MB, 750MB and 1GB per month data allowance depending on their monthly contract cost. The Telefonica-owned...

Seamicro, a little-known hardware startup, has launched a server that manages to cram a whopping 512 Intel Atom microprocessors into a 10U chassis that manages to deliver supercomputer-class performance but consumes only a...

Phoenix Technologies said that HP will purchase all assets related to its HyperSpace, HyperCore and Phoenix Flip instant-on and client virtualisation products. The firm said it flogged the lot for $12 million in cash and...

Microsoft today finally unveils Kinect for Xbox 360 - the device formerly known as Project Natal. Microsoft said it is positioning this "controller-free gaming device" as an entirely new way to experience entertainment in the...