A group of eight music companies is suing the file-sharing outfit Limewire after a court ruled it had broken copyright laws last month. The eight companies, which include EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner, have been circling the...

Microsoft says it has no plans to pursue 3D gaming because it's just too expensive.Speaking at the E3 conference earlier this week, the company it planned to take gaing in a different direction.Neil Thompson, Microsoft’s UK...

Sony has announced it will be releasing a new firmware update for its PlayStation 3 games console.The update, v3.40, scheduled for release on 29 June, will add a number of new features, including a cross-game voice chat...

Australia's government faces criticism over plans to force ISPs to retain information about users' surfing habits – and sources suggest it may even tie that data to users' passport numbers. The Australian...

Toshiba and Fujitsu have announced plans to merge their mobile phone businesses in an attempt to carve a niche in the emerging Japanese smartphone market.The electronics makers are set to take on entrants like iPhone maker...

The FBI has arrested one of the Goatse Security members, involved in exposing the flaws in AT&T's iPad customer database, for possesion of drugs.Lenovo has launched its first 3D laptop, the IdeaPad Y560d.  The new...

In a bid to show off its latest AI technology, IBM has challenged the public to a battle of wits against its Watson supercomputer. Watson will be taking part in the US gameshow Jeopardy later this year, but in the meantime IBM...

Lenovo has launched its first 3D laptop, the IdeaPad Y560d.The new notebook features a 15.6in screen land comes with 3D glasses and software to enhance the user interface.The demand for 3D products has boomed ever since the...

A beta version of the Swype input software for Android-based smartphones is now available to download.Swype allows users to input text by gliding a finger from one letter to another using a virtual keyboard on the smartphone's...

Telefonica owned O2 has become the second UK mobile network operator to post details of its iPhone 4 plans and it seems that the operator has hiked up prices with the iPhone 4 available for free for £60 per month for the...

The United States is incapable of defending itself from cyber attack, according to a report compiled by the US Department of Homeland Security. The report revealed that the government agency responsible for the protection of...

Search giant Google has added a cloud-based video editing tool to its popular online video sharing website, YouTube.The YouTube Editor is designed to allow users to cut and combine several videos into a single presentation.The...

Apple has released iTunes 9.2 for the iPad, iPhone and iPod.The media management software has been released in advance of the launch of Apple's iOS 4 operating system, in order to ensure better compatibility between the software...

Nintendo says its worried by motion-sensing games hardware recently launched by rivals Microsoft and Sony.Speaking at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) taking place in Los Angeles, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told...

Twitter has rolled out its 'Promoted Trends' advertising service, featuring Disney Pixar’s Toy Story 3 as its first promoted trending topic. Tech Crunch reports that when visiting the Trending Topics section on Twitter.com,...

Apple has released iTunes 9.2 and OS X 10.6.4 in anticipation of the launch of the iPhone 4 next week. The OS X Snow Leopard update contains all the usual security fixes and performance tweaks, includes Safari 5 for those who...

Software maker Oracle has announced the release of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) version 6.9 with JavaFX Composer, a visual Java editor and layout tool.IDE 6.9 is a platform framework for Java applications,...

The big cheeses at Microsoft and EA reckon it's going to take a long time for stereoscopic 3D gaming to take off, but that hasn't stopped every tech firm and its mutt from trying to clamber on to the wagon. The latest company to...

Apple has pushed the release date for the SIM Free version of the iPhone to the 2nd of July for those customers who have purchased either versions of the iPhone since yesterday in the UK and in France. These are the only two...

The UK's Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) will not be getting its proposed £1 million boost this year to fight cyber crime.According to a PCeU spokesperson, the cutback will hamper the unit's ability to tackle the...

Software maker Oracle is being sued by the US federal government for overcharging on services it provided.According to a petition filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Oracle has allegedly...

Microsoft's top man in the UK, Neil Thompson, has said he reckons 3D gaming is too expensive and won't become mass market for some time yet. According to After Dawn, the exec whose company is just about the only gaming big...

Online retail giant Amazon has slashed the prices of the newly launched Microsoft Office 2010 productivity suite by 13 per cent.The company said that the Home and Student Edition of the software was available from the website for...

Japanese giants Fujitsu and Toshiba have agreed to merge their mobile phone businesses as we suggested earlier. The Wall Street Journal confirms that Fujitsu will effectively take control of Toshiba's mobile phone business,...

Yahoo has extended its partnership with consumer electronics giant Sony to make its Widget Engine available on internet-enabled Sony Bravia televisions in more than 100 countries around the world.Yahoo's Widget Engine allows...

Therese Coffey, Tory MP for coastal Suffolk seems to have upset someone. Either that, or she's left her password book lying about as her blog, FaceBook page and Twitter account all appear to have been hacked. The third...

Prices of 3D Television sets continue to plummet even during the World cup with Dixons now selling the Samsung LE40C750 model for as low as £837.05 including delivery, a far cry from the £2000 or so that the first 3D...

Mameo has launched a new version of its Mameo Connect platform.The Mameo 2.0 beta is equipped with features and functions that will make Google Docs more user-friendly, and allow advanced synchronisation options between Google...

Dutch police are teaming up with a database management outfit to create an open source football hooligan tracking system. Holland's Centraal Informatiepunt Voetbalvandalisme (CIV) is working with Californian company Ingres...

The FBI has arrested one of the Goatse Security members, involved in exposing the flaws in AT&T's iPad customer database, for possesion of drugs.Andrew Auernheimer, also known as Escher and his hacker name Weev, was arrested...

Apple's much-hyped iPhone 4 might be limited to a maximum storage space of 32GB, but the next generation of smartphones could be equipped with up to 128GB of flash storage, thanks to Toshiba. The versatile Japanese tech firm has...

Social web browser Flock has decided to ditch its Firefox core in favour of Chromium, the open source version of Google's Chrome web browser.The company announced the change on its blog, as it unveiled the Flock 3.0 beta...

When Microsoft CEO and King of the Nerds Bill Gates pronounced to the world way back in 2001 that the future was tablet-shaped, it seemed that no-one was really listening. Tablet PCs never really gained any mainstream traction,...

The UK government is to get a £55 million refund on money it handed over to promote the switchover to digital television. Digital UK, the not-for-profit organisation formed by British broadcasters to help consumers convert...

ATI's Catalyst team is now ready to share the fruits of its latest monthly driver grind, and has released Catalyst 10.6 to the world of Radeon owners. While previous driver updates have focused on 3D features, this time it's...

Facebook users can now 'Like' individual comments, the social networking site announced on its blog.  Facebook users have been able to post comments on news feeds since 2008, and the site introduced its 'Like' feature in...

Microsoft SQL Server is a ‘relational database’ server, with T-SQL and ANSI SQL as its primary query languages. The product marked the beginning of Microsoft’s entry into the enterprise-level database market,...

Now that Microsoft's Kinect control system is out of the bag, people are wondering whatever happened to Peter Molyneux's creepy virtual boy demo from E3 2009, Milo and Kate. The 'game', which was the the showcase demo at Project...

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is said to be readying footage of a US air-strike in Afghanistan that may have killed as many as 140 civilians, including 92 children. The development comes in the the wake of the release of the...

Google has filed a patent application for technology designed to identify under-covered topics on the internet.The Financial Times reports that sources familiar with the Google patent have described the technology as an algorithm...

Search giant Google has released an iPad version of its popular Google Earth application, following the launch of Google Earth 5.2.The company wrote on its Lat Long Blog that Google Earth for iPad offers an advanced user...

Apple announced yesterday that it has managed to flog 600,000 of its iPhone 4 smartphone, not just preordered but also getting new customers and extending the contracts of existing ones, a ripple effect that multiplies the...

At last, home network storage that's comprehensive and easy to understand. NETGEAR Stora lets you store, share and protect music, movies, photos and data using any device on your home network and over the Internet. Listen to your...

The Dali Fazon 5.1 is a shapely speaker package with glowing reviews. The Fazon satellite speakers are small but perfectly formed and, more importantly, sensational sounding. The Fazon's are a proper two-way design with 1.1" soft...

Sony's new PlayStation Move motion-sensing controller will go on sale in the US on 19 September, the company announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) show.A researcher studying the health effects of mobile phone use...

Google has been asked by the Illinois Attorney-General to submit details of all private traffic data it had collected from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in Illinois and Massachusetts while gathering information for its Street View...

Social networking giant Facebook has been urged to take more substantial steps to improve user privacy.A number of privacy advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier...

YouTube has added a basic editing tool to its video viewing site which allows uploaded clips to be cobbled together. The YouTube Video Editor isn't going to give Final Cut Pro anything to worry about, but it will allow users to...

Samsung is beefing up its Android-based offering by adding two more Galaxy-themed smartphones following the Beam; the Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 now means that the Korean manufacturer has the biggest Android range, second only to...

Graphics card maker Sapphire Technology has added to its mainstream range of ATI-based graphics cards with the introduction of several new models in the HD 5500 series and a new bundle deal with ArcSoft. The Sapphire HD 5550 ...

IBM has unveiled its plans to expand further into the mobile computing software market.As part of its plans, IBM announced the release of the Lotus Notes Traveller collaboration software for Android-based mobile devices, adding...

We've purchased an Apple iPad for inhouse use and the feedback we've got from users in the office when it comes to business usage is mixed. On one hand, the device is unbearably sexy and attractive and earns kudos for its...

AOL Inc. is preparing to sell off its social-networking site Bebo according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The firm is prepared to flog the site for a small fraction of the $850 million it paid for it two years ago,...

A South Korean bloke left a suicide note on Twitter before wandering off to hang himself from a ferry dock on the Han river in Seoul. Police said it was the first time that Twitter had been used in such a way in Korea, as far as...

Orange will be the only UK network to offer Samsung's new Galaxy Apollo smartphone when it tips up. The Android-based handset goes large on social networking and will be targeted at younger users, or those who refuse to grow...

Samsung has announced a new Blu-ray combo disc drive, the SH-B123, which it reckons is the world’s fastest, boasting as it does a 12X read speed. The internal-mount drive also reads CDs at up to 48X and DVDs at up to 16X...