China's decades-old 'one child' policy has led to labour shortages that could see an end to the country's reputation as a low-wage economy. The policy, introduced in 1978 to combat the country's rising population in the wake of...

Mobile phone maker Motorola has unveiled its latest Windows-based ES400 mobile device, targeted at business users.The smartphone comes integrated with barcode scanning and signature-collecting features.Motorola says the handset...

A group of leading companies including Microsoft, eBay and Citizens Bank have set up a service share information about cyber criminals. The programme will be administered by the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance...

A few more drips of gossip concerning Nvidia's forthcoming GF104 GPU have just dribbled out of the rumour tap, including a photo of the elusive chip. The snapshot comes courtesy of a chap who calls himself woaiamd123 on the Zol...

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that every smartphone it releases from 2011 onward will come with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, used among other things for making wireless payments.Speaking at the...

A security expert has warned that social networking sites such as Facebook pose a security threat to companies that allow their use in the office.Robert Schifreen, a former hacker, said that workers in enterprises that allow them...

Microsoft is suing Connecticut-based spammer Boris Mizhen for sending unsolicited email to millions of users on its Hotmail web-based email sevice.The software giant has accused three companies allegedly controlled by Mizhen -...

Users of online photo sharing website Flickr will now be able to put up their photos for sale by professional photo agency Getty Images.The BBC reports that nearly 40 million users registered with Flickr will be able to make...

Shoebox-sized PCs have garnered a reputation for being underwhelming when it comes to gaming, but mini PC maker Shuttle is attempting to overturn this with a Fermi-powered gaming box. The company claims its latest XPC J3-5800G...

If you've been racking up the points because of your leaden right foot, and are driving around like a myopic octegenarian in fear of The Flash, there's a simple way to prevent yourself from joining the ranks of the bus-travelling...

The Apple iPad appears to be so popular that Apple is ramping up its production as fast as it can, with initial orders of 700,000 units per month now set to increase to 1.2 million and later this year, depending on demand to 2.5...

It's been causing us a few moments of chin scratching, trying to work out why iMovie will work on the new iPhone G4 but not the recently-released and already stupidly- popular iPad. But it looks like the foks at Mac Rumours have...

Wireless technology company Broadcom has announced plans to acquire British-based chip maker Innovision Research & Technology.The all-cash offer is priced at 35 pence per share, 84.2 per cent above Innovision's closing price...

A Dutch academic has suggested that online privacy could be significantly increased if data was allowed to fade, the BBC has reported. Dr Harold van Heerde says that internet security is tough to maintain, due to the presence of...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is on the verge of completing a major revamp of its App World online application store, the company announced on its official website.App World 2.0 will allow users to add the cost of...

Acer expects to fulfil its dream of becoming the world's biggest PC company by the end of the year, chairman JT Wang said today. Wang told a General Shareholders’ Meeting in Taiwan that the company expects revenue in the...

Microsoft has what it takes to cope with changing trends in the technology market, says an industry watcher who expects the company to release competitive products for the tablet market.David Daoud, an analyst for market research...

Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4, apparently has the same amount of onboard RAM as some P4 computers in our offices, 512MB which shows how fast smartphones are turning into powerful yet tiny PCs. The first two iPhones had...

US telecoms watchdog the Federal Communications Commission has sparked a furious row over broadband by attempting to grab greater regulatory powers. The battle comes after a court ruling in favour of ISP ComCast threw into...

Vodafone has become the third mobile phone operator to release its iPhone 4 tariff and the least we can see is that the trend to offer the new iPhone for free on £60 or more package could come back to haunt mobile...

Microsoft has teamed up with eBay, Paypal, and a bunch of bankers, to set up a stolen credit card early warning system for consumers. The web-based whistle-blowing system will allow participating 'security researchers' to log...

Verizon Wireless, the mobile phone services arm of US telecom company Verizon Communications, has announced that the company will start paying dividends to UK wireless carrier Vodafone from 2012.Vodafone, which owns a 45 per cent...

Solid state drives are not only getting faster and more capacious, but they're also getting smaller. Memory, PSU and SSD maked extraordinaire OCZ has just unveiled two new lines of SSDs that not only slot into a 1.8-inch drive...

Microsoft is suing a serial spammer from Connecticut who found a way round the spam filters at the software giant's Hotmail online email service. Boris Mizhen is accused of circumventing the company's spam filters by creating...

The Apple Store has pushed back the delivery date of what we can only assume is the third wave of pre-orders of the iPhone 4 to July 14th. According to Apple, more than 600,000 of the company's latest app phone were reserved on...

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has confirmed that it will be helping to review the marketing strategies utilised by mobile broadband providers.The regulator's review will focus on mobile operators and network...

Google said it has updated its Commerce Search tool, allowing online sellers to better customise their retail site search offerings. Commerce Search was launched last year and allows online retailers use Google's ...

Google has launched the latest version of iits Commerce Search product, Commerce Search 2.0.The search giant announced the release on its Google Enterprise blog.The new Google Commerce Search 2.0 service, launched in the United...

UK telecommunications regulatory authority Ofcom has clamp down on the prices operators charge to prematurely end home phone and broadband contracts.The move has been supported by UK's biggest telecoms providers, and is set to...

The smallest of UK's mobile phone networks, 3 UK, has apparently confirmed that it will be the last one to publish its tariffs for the Apple iPhone 4 because it wants to undercut the plans offered by the rest of the...

Software giant Microsoft has released a new mobile phone operating system targeted at business and enterprise users.The Windows Embedded Handheld OS comes in two versions, Ruggedized devices and Enterprise handhelds.The former...

Seller of books Amazon is listing XBox 360 motion-sensing doodad Kinect at $149.99, despite Microsoft remaining tight-lipped about the official price. The Redmond company is insisting that is won't put a final price tag on the...

WordPress, the popular web publishing and blogging platform, announced the release of WordPress version 3.0 on Thursday. Wordpress is one of the most popular and widely used web publishing platforms in the world, and WordPress...

While most SSD makers are falling over themselves to get a slice of Sandforce silicon, Samsung has taken a different approach with its latest SSD. The new drive instead takes advantage of a new type of NAND flash memory, along...

Google Trends, the most popular and widely used tool to determine search trends, was hacked early Thursday morning.Politics Daily has reported that at approximately 9am Eastern Daylight Time users who visited Google Trends came...

Communications regulator Ofcom has leaned on telephone service providers to cut the rip-off charges customers are forced to pay to cancel land-line contracts early. The move applies to land-line telephones and to phone and...

U.S. chip outfit Broadcom Corp has made a pitch to buy out British mobile-phone chipmaker Innovision Research and Technology in a bid valued at £32 million pounds ($47.5 million). The offer is priced at 35 pence per share,...

Enjoy a wonderfully clear HD picture with this good value 50-inch Panasonic Viera TX-P50X20B. The TX-P50X20B uses 100Hz Double Scan to reduce flicker, and produce images that are more natural and gentler on the eye. It also...

With the RangeMax Wireless Router, your whole house becomes a "hot spot." NETGEAR's exclusive RangeMax technology gives you the longest range of any wireless device on the market today - up to 10 times the wireless coverage of...

A group of leading companies including Microsoft, eBay and Citizens Bank have set up a service share information about cyber criminals.Internet Fraud Alert will allow companies to share information about compromised accounts that...

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.Sony has announced it will be releasing a new firmware update for its...

The Thai Government has started a massive crackdown on web sites which it deems defamatory to the royal family and other national institutions. Having already pulled the plug on 43,000 unfriendly web operations, the country's IT...

Now that just about every airtime provider is rethinking its mobile data plans, with most putting an end to unlimited contracts, it looks like iPhone users are paying more attention to their bills, and in particular how much data...

The US Federal Communications Commission has commenced a three-month public consultation process into the future of America's broadband infrastructure.The organisation has asked for greater powers to help regulate high-speed...

Roamware said it has devised a service that enables bank customers to withdraw cash from an ATM without the use of a cash card.   Irish bank Permanent TSB (PTSB) launched the service as part of its mobile banking...

IBM has created the world's greatest pub quizzer: a supercomputer that the company reckons can match the intelligence of the best trivia buffs.The electronic mastermind, Watson, has been entered into popular American TV game show...

Shipments of touch screens are set to rise by nearly 5,000 per cent in 2010, thanks to manufacturers' desire to produce iPad-alikes, according to research produced by iSuppli. The screen counters expect 8.9 million touchscreens...