Apple has released its official Apple Store app for the iPhone OS, one which allows Apple customers to purchase products, accessories and services direct from their devices. It is quite surprising that Apple is belatedly...

Nintendo has unveiled its new 3D handheld gaming console, the Nintendo 3DS, at the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles.Scheduled for release later this year, the Nintendo 3DS will allow gamers to play 3D games without the need...

Google has updated Google Earth with a version for the iPad. The pair are made for each other. Google Earth is great for fiddling about with when you should be doing something other than trying to spot your car on your own...

As expected, Tesco, which surprised everyone last year by starting to sell the iPhone, has put up a registration page for the just announced iPhone 4 smartphone here while still continuing to flog the remaining stocks...

When ISP Orange tried to make money out of blocking file-sharing, it was only a matter of time before the hackers started digging about on the company's servers. Spurred by France's controversial 'three strikes' Hadopi...

It might look sexier and pack a more powerful punch than ever before but the new Apple Mac Mini device comes out as one of the worst value for money products from Apple in recent years. So much so that, even though it is...

Apple has refused to attend a conference on web privacy called by a group of US senators, who are now showing keen interest in what exactly the company has to hide.  Search giant Google also refused to attend the...

Search giant Google is preparing to launch an online music service to rival Apple's iTunes this autumn, if predictions made by market analysts are to be believed.Google dropped hints at its recent I/O conference that it might...

Now that TSMC's 40nm chip-drought appears to be over, rumours about a new top-end Nvidia chip called the GeForce GTX 485 are starting to trickle through. The German gossip miners over at Hardware.Infos (Google Translation here)...

Users of the Linux-based Unreal IRC server have been warned about a backdoor Trojan that can allow hackers to execute any type of command, regardless of user restrictions.According to a post on the Unreal IRCd Forums, the...

Twitter has been plagued by disruptions to its service for the second week in a row, as the micro-blogging site struggles to cope with the number of tweets being posted.Twitter and its third-party applications have gone down...

Just three months after it launched, the Apple iPad has a total of 10,000 applications available in its App Store.Apple developers are believed to be adding 1,000 new applications each week.This means that despite having some of...

Microsoft's much-trumpeted Office 2010 productivity suite has gone on sale in the UK  today. The full Home and Student edition costs £110 from Microsoft's UK store, and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote....

Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! ASP.NET is a powerful development platform for web applications, based on Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft .NET Framework is a software framework containing coded libraries that...

The iPad, while a new and shiny isn’t anything we haven’t seen before. Tablets have been out for years, and obviously so has the iPhone with its multi-touch display. The real need of the iPad isn’t very...

Researchers at security firm Sophos have issued a warning to the members of social networking platform Facebook against a 'likejacking' attack on the platform.A link takes users to a page promising photos of the '101 hottest...

Apple has forced a US publisher to censor a comic book version of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' before allowing it to be sold in the company's App Store.The creators of the graphic comic version James Joyce's novel, Ulysses "Seen",...

Micro-blogging giant Twitter has announced the launch of Twitter Places, a new location-based feature for the popular platform.Users will now be able to tag their current location in the tweets they send.Twitter Places will allow...

UK airline company Thomas Cook has plans to replace its in-flight entertainment system with Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming console.The handheld console is expected to come loaded with movies, TV programs and games.The...

UK internet service provider BT has announced plans to roll out fibre-based broadband to 87 per cent of London by 2011.Currently only three per cent of the capital has access to BT's fibre broadband network, including Muswell...

Further confirmation of the Xbox 360's stereoscopic 3D features has just come from Crytek, as the hardware-grinding developer announced that Crysis 2 will support stereoscopic 3D effects on all three of its target platforms. The...

Eight million UK broadband users are running the risk of having their access limited or being disconnected because of the Fair Usage Policies (FUP) and restrictions applied by UK ISPs.The survey, conducted by price comparison...

Acer has announced the imminent release of two new Android-powered phones in the shape of the Acer beTouch E120 and beTouch E130. Both run the now-surpassed Android 1.6 Donut, wrapped in an Acer-designed shell. The Acer ...

TripAdvisor, the world's biggest travel information website, has joined hands with social networking platform Facebook to allow users to ask their Facebook friends for travel-related advice.The company says that users who log in...

BT has revealed plans to connect 87 per cent of homes and small businesses in London to exchanges enabled for fibre broadband by spring 2011. The telco already said it would extend fibre broadband to around two-thirds of UK...

Having almost been driven almost to extinction, Typewriters may soon be back gracing desktops once again, thanks to Jack Zylkin's USB typewriter invention.The USB typewriter can be attached to devices via a USB port, and features...

For those who just can't get enough of the World Cup, a series of newly released applications will now help to bring the match-day atmosphere to both iPhones and Android-based smartphones.The applications Vuvuzela 2010, Virtual...

Vietnamese website Tinhte has published details of the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet device which should be available by the end of the year and whose picture has been recently posted on Samsung's own South...

Apple is in the process of launching an application to allow iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to purchase Apple merchandise straight from their devices.Citing sources within Apple, tech blog Boy Genius Report claims the company...

The biggest threats to productivity and security in UK organisations with mobile workforces are porn and social networking, a recent survey published by IT consultancy Damovo has revealed.The survey, conducted for Damovo by...

Apple has finally announced the prices for the SIM Free versions of the iPhone 4 and surprisingly, they seem to be relatively affordable for Apple products, at least when compared to their immediate competitors. The 16GB version...

Last time Tom Brand, service manager – cloud solutions for GlassHouse Technologies (UK), blogged on ITProPortal he asked: are organisations ready for the cloud? He explores this further below and discusses issues...

Microsoft's refreshed version of the Xbox 360 gaming console, the Slim, has gone on pre-order at Play and HMV for £199.99 including free delivery. This corresponds to the suggested retail price of the device and is likely...

Apple has released another upgrade to its Mac Mini just nine months after the last update back in October 2009.  On the face of it, the upgrades are not so significant especially given that the price of the entry level model...

Apple has announced off-contract prices for the forthcoming iPhone 4. A 16GB model will set you back £500 minus a quid and the 32GB version adds another £100. Cheapskates can still pick up an old school 3Gs for...

The British Government exaggerated the charges against Gary McKinnon after approving a request by US prosecutors for the autistic hacker's extradition. US prosecutors had charged McKinnon with hacking US military computers and...

The screen of the new iPhone 4 is what separates Apple's new smartphone from the rest of the bunch and stands out as being the only one that offers a 326 pixels per inch display, that's nearly 13 dots per millimeter. The 3.5-inch...

Researchers at hacking collective Goatse Security have accused AT&T and Apple of irresponsibility, following last week's iPad e-mail security leakUS wireless carrier AT&T publicly apologised to nearly 114,000 iPad users,...

Microsoft's new Office 2010 productivity suite has gone on sale today.The full Home and Student edition costs £109.99 from Microsoft's UK store, and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It can be installed on up to...

Now that the Fermi production lines are finally in full swing, all sorts of rumours are starting to pop up concerning this summer's mid-range parts. We've already seen plenty of talk about the GeForce GTX 460, but the latest...

Microsoft has announced the 15 games which will work with its new controllerless controller Kinect. The gadget formerly known as Project Natal, which is expected to sell for around $150 when it launches in the USA on November...

Microsoft has officially unveiled the new-look Xbox 360 games console. Imaginatively named the Xbox 360 S, we can only imagine the 'S' stands for 'slim', although this is not quite the feat of anorexification we saw when Sony...

Tesco is set to launch Digital Locker, an online cloud storage service that will allow users to store movies and music and access them from any internet-enabled device.UK magazine Home Cinema Choice reveals that the UK-based...

Security company Trend Micro it to buy UK-based cloud storage and data synchronisation firm Humyo. Humyo offers data synchronisation and online data backup services to users of internet-enabled devices. Trend Micro has announced...

Google's Android mobile phone OS has shown exceptional growth for the year ending May, according to new data from market researcher Quantcast.  The data clearly shows Apple's iOS out in front, with a share in mobile traffic...

Electronics conglomerate Samsung has just updated its top-end line of Spinpoint hard drives with the F4, which the company says is quicker and more reliable than its predecessors. Although the Spinpoint F1 was praised by...

Apple has updated its new Mac Mini range and shrunk the thickness of the device by more than half compared to the original design that was released five years ago. The new 36mm-thick iPad mini now sports an aluminium unibody...

IBM is on the verge of acquiring Israeli data storage technology vendor Storwize, Reuters has reported.Storwize has developed real-time data compression software that it claims can increase storage capacity by up to 90 per cent...

Apple has refused to attend a conference on web privacy called by a group of US senators, who are now showing keen interest in what exactly the company has to hide.Search giant Google also refused to attend the...

IBM, ARM, Synopsys, Samsung and GlobalFoundaries have announced the latest 'high-k' metal gate technology at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in California.The "fab club" of chip makers announced a vertically optimised...

A new OpenCL framwork regarding parallel processing standards has been approved by the standards organisation Khronos Group.The update will allow OpenCL to improve its inter-operability with activities on OpenGL, and will also...

IT networking company Enterasys Networks has released its new S series switches, aimed at optimising the management of data centres.Since its merger with Siemens Enterprise Communications in June 2008, Enterasys has been working...

The BBC may transmit a 'vuvuzela-free' version of its World Cup coverage tonight, as viewers tear their hair out over the buzz reverberating around eardrums world-wide. The BBC has been on the receiving end of 545 complaints...

Virgin Media has hinted that it wants to join the BBC-led Project Canvas, after months of apparent opposition.Project Canvas is set to bring together major UK terrestrial broadcasters and internet service providers (ISPs) to...

Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 peripheral, unveiled last night at the E3 conference, is targeted toward the emerging casual gaming market, experts believe - leaving Sony's PlayStation Move to cater to hardcore...

Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! Linq ('Language Integrated Query') is a Microsoft programming model that adds formal data querying capabilities to .NET-compliant languages. You can project, filter and traverse data in...

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...

Canadian manufacturer Research in Motion is reportedly preparing a few devices that it hopes will help it catch up with touchscreen devices from competitors like Apple or HTC. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company...

Apple has quietly announced a major redesign of the Mac Mini, the cheapest way to get OS X into your life. The Mac Mini, which Apple says is the most energy efficient desktop computer available today, starts at £650 and is...

Vodafone apparently leaked out the iPhone contract prices yesterday on a test website but later canned the website and posted a comment on its official Twitter account saying that the site nothing has yet to be confirmed or...

Ubisoft is to release a performance game based on the music and dancing of Michael Jackson. Proving once again that the King of Pop can generate more cash for his 'estate' dead than alive, Ubisoft will release the Xbox 360 game...

Maker of BlackBerries, Research In Motion, is beavering away on designs for touchscreen communications devices that may bear a spooky similarity to Apple's iPhone and iPad, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the...

The heavyweight chip-making alliance of IBM Samsung Electronics and GlobalFoundries joined with Synopsys, to say it has delivered the industry's first complete, vertically-optimised 32/28 nanometre design platform. The...

Apple's iPhone 4 is available for pre-order in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan from  today and Vodafone UK seems to have leaked its price plan for all to see - if briefly - before pulling down from the web. An...

Facebook has been hit by another scam that exploits the social network's 'Like' button, reports security firm Sophos. The scam, which has been dubbed 'likejacking', updates user profiles with a message saying that the user likes...