iOS 4 is now live and can be downloaded via iTunes for free for the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone family and is set to bring more than 100 new features to the trio of Apple devices. The most important feature that the iPhone OS 4...

More information about the yet to be announced Samsung Galaxy S Pro smartphone have been revealed a few hours ago by Android Central. The mobile news website said that a "tried-and-true tipster" managed to send them a snapshot of...

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year old CEO of Facebook, the world's largest social networking website, came to London for the company's Facebook Developer Garage (video below). He also used this opportunity to meet with Culture...

The Apple web site is still stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the news, but the iOS4 update is currently available through iTunes. The software update, which includes over 100 new features including multitasking, smart...

Google plans to launch a system that will allow publishers to charge users for content. The news was revealed at the end of last week by Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "Later this year, Google will launch an integrated...

If you're planning on building yourself a decent-spec Core i7 system in the near future, then it may be worth holding back the shopping urges until the end of August, as it looks as though there's a big price cut on the...

The UK's new coalition Government is to hold an open day to discuss ways it can provide broadband to so-called "not-spots" in rural areas - for little or no extra cash. The consultation day on 15 July will bring together...

Telecommunications giant BT has announced that it will be giving unlimited Wi-Fi access to its Total broadband customers via BT Fon and BT Openzone wireless hotspots acrsoss the country. There are currently around 1.5 million...

Dell appears to be distancing itself from Microsoft's Windows operating system.It is believed that Dell might drop Windows and forge ties with Microsoft rival Google as it prepares to launch its Chrome web-based OS to compete...

Orange has announced via Twitter that it will be giving microSIM adaptors for its iPhone 4 customers for free, one which allows the diminutive card to be converted to a regular sized one. Customers will therefore be allowed to...

Apple is set to release the new iOS 4 operating system for its existing iPod Touch and iPhone devices - just in time for the launch of the new iPhone 4, which also uses the new OS.Internet security firm Sophos has revealed that...

We're minutes away from the release by Apple of the fourth iteration of the iPhone OS and it is indisputable that the software platform would have been very different had it not be for the mounting threat of Google's...

Now that Nintendo has officially revealed its new 3DS console to the masses, we're starting to get an insight into the specs of the new handheld gizmo. The GPU has just been revealed, and it's not made by Nvidia, ATI or even...

Cupidtino, the recently launched online dating website for Apple lovers, has 16,000 users.Launched a month ago, the site is the brainchild of former Microsoft employee Mel Sampat, who came up with the idea when arguing with his...

Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger application for the iPhone is now available for download.The application, which will be free to download, is the fourth application developed by Microsoft for the iPhone.The iOS 4 application...

We've been tipped by a furious O2 corporate customer who told us that the Telefonica-owned company has transferred its iPhone users to a company called Azzurri Communications which became an O2 strategic partner (aka 3rd party...

The new UK government has decided to allow internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox to retain her role as the country's 'digital champion'.The government has asked her to focus on ways to reduce government costs by taking its...

Apple will be unleashing iOS4 later today, but you don't have to own an iPhone 4 to get some interesting new goodies. The free update, which should be available through iTunes at 5pm UK time today, includes a raft of new...

A Kent police officer has been subjected to disciplinary action after confidential papers were stolen from the boot of his car.The BBC reports that the briefcase was stolen from the boot of the officer's car while it was parked...

Research company Gartner has put desktop virtualisation software vendor VMware in the Leaders quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure.The Magic Quadrant is Gartner's graphical representation of...

You have probably seen the Dell Adamo, and after seeing the swanky design you are probably interested in getting one, however the £1099 price tag has put you off right? What if I could tell you that you can have the...

Virgin Media and Sky are the two most recommended ISPs in the United Kingdom, a study has revealed.The study conducted by Satmetrix, a internet promotion company, says that subscribers to internet service providers Virgin Media...

We've seen how the Toshiba Libretto W100 dual screen tablet that the Japanese manufacturer has launched, may end up costing nearly £900, a price that will undoubtedly deter a number of prospective...

Open source cloud-based technology maker Eucalyptus Systems has released the Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition.Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition will allow users to run enterprise tools on the Eucalyptus cloud.The company says that the...

Hewlett-Packard is set to launch a new social networking website for IT professionals around the world.The company announced the site, called 48Upper, at its software conference in Washington. 48Upper includes similar features to...

IT giant IBM has announced that it will include its Power-7 line of mid-ranged servers in future trade-in deals.IBM's trade-in deals allow customers to exchange their old servers and CPUs for new ones at a discounted rate.By...

Acer has predicted that it will surpass Hewlett-Packard to become the world's largest laptop seller by the end of the year.The Wall Street Journal has reported that the announcement comes after the company's first-quarter results...

Orange has just made public the news that a SIM adaptor will be bundled with its iPhone 4, all in order to allow regular phones access to the much smaller SIM card that now accompanies the new Apple handset. This information came...

Intel's next-generation server processor, code-named the Westmere-EX, is set to integrate more cores than any other server chip currently offered by the company.Computer World has reported that news of the server chip's...

If you are looking to buy a big 3D television set, larger than your average 50-inch model, then, there's Panasonic is, for the time being, the only manufacturer offering a model above 60-inch. Both Sony and Samsung will be...

American adults are more prone to typing and reading text messages while driving than teenagers, according to a new study by Pew Research.The study, which was a conducted as a part of Pew's Internet and American Life Project,...

BT has just announced that its broadband users will get unlimited access to all of its Wi-Fi hotspots. As every other telco in the world moves the goalposts to restrict access to mobile data, BT is bucking the trend by offering...

The newly announced Libretto W100 dual screen tablet computer from Toshiba will apparently carry a price tag of $1100 or nearly £870 once value added tax is added to the price. The device, which was launched to mark the...

Samsung has announced plans to release variations of its Bada operating system for tablet PCs and TV set-top boxes.Justin Hong, Bada platform chief, said that following the success of the Samsung Wave, the first smartphone to...

Apple has announced that video calls on its new iPhone 4 won't eat up users' free minutes.Business Insider reports that an Apple representative has confirmed that the video calling feature will not use the free minutes on a...

Consumers have reported being told they will receive their pre-ordered iPhone 4 by 4:30 pm on 24 June.A number of customers have updated their Twitter accounts to say they have received shipment e-mails from Apple, stating the...

Tory education minister Michael Gove is to dip into a fund reserved for technology in schools to fund his flagship 'free school' scheme. Swedish-style 'free schools' have been the centrepiece of the new Tory education strategy...

The new iPhone OS 4 is set to be launched later today, a major platform upgrade that comes a few days before the launch of the iPhone 4, Apple's latest smartphone and which will include a slew of improvements for existing mobile...

Intel looks set to finally lift the lid on its Westmere-EX architecture in August, when the chipmaker is planning to reveal its plans for a ten-core server CPU. As IT World reported yesterday, the timetable for the annual...

Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane Fox has managed to hold onto her job as the UK Government's Digital Champion. Despite the ConDem Coalition swinging the axe in the direction of just about every IT project in sight, Fox has not...

The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have released a new Firefox extension.The new extension will allow users to encrypt the information they share on social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter.The...

Dell has been joined at the hip to software monopoly Microsoft for so long now that the two seemed inseparable. But all of that might be changing in the near future with the revelation that high-ranking Dell execs have been seen...

Google is looking for publishers to test its new 'Newspass' paywall service.Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that the search giant has been contacting publishers to explore their willingness to participate in a trial...

Search giant Google has released a new tool that allows programmers to perform Google searches directly from a terminal window, instead of accessing the browser. GoogleCL is available to download now, and can also be used to...

The number of schools using plagiarism-detecting computer software to catch A-level students cheating in their coursework has shot up, the Guardian reports. But despite the increasing policing and paranoia in academia, there...

Google has once again been asked to release details of the data it collected while gathering information for its Street View service.According to a report in the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Attorney-General Martha Coakley and...

The iPhone 4's Face Time video calling function won't eat into your voice minutes, according to Apple. It wasn't made entirely clear how Face Time calls would be billed during Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote a few weeks ago. Apple...

AMD has so far been content to watch the ARM and Atom architectures clean up in the netbook and mobile Internet device (MID) markets, but AMD is now looking at making Fusion-based MID chips. Tech site Xbit Labs recently sat down...

The royalty-free VP8 open compression codec, developed by Google, is set to undergo substantial changes just a month after it was launched.Google is planning to add support for Ogg Vorbis audio code to VP8 and bring both codecs...

Apple is set to release the new iOS 4 operating system for its existing iPod Touch and iPhone devices - just in time for the launch of the new iPhone 4, which also uses the new OS.In addition to the new iPhone 4, the OS is...

The Apple iPhone 4 is due to be released in 48 hours in the UK and is likely to break all records, assuming that there will be enough supply across Apple stores nationwide and at partners' outlets. However, for those who would...

Internet security experts have revealed that Apple has secretly updated the malware protection for its Mac OS X.The Mac OS X 10.6.4 update included a fix for the Pinhead-B trojan, a virus distributed by hackers disguised as...

Toshiba has produced a dual-screen touch-controlled laptop called the W100 which will soon be available for around $1,000. If you can't quite get your head around the concept, just imagine the bastard love child of an Apple iPad...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has found 706 planets that look like they could be similar to earth having gazed at some 156,000 stars in one small speck of the sky. NASA scientists released data last week from the first first 43 days...

For the first time ever, a big brand has announced a netbook that runs something different; Toshiba has come up with the AC100, a netbook that runs Android 2.1 on an Nvidia Tegra SoC, instead of the usual Intel Atom/Windows 7...

Japanese powerhouse Toshiba has unveiled a new laptop, the Libretto W100, that combines two touchscreen displays and runs Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. The W100 uses two 7-inch display capable of each displaying...

Last week, the information technology industry achieved a rare honour in being bestowed a Royal Charter in an official ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral. The industry in this guise is represented by a guild, the Worshipful Company...

Internet criminals could become the victims of the shonky software they use to attack innocent web users according to a French insecurity expert. Lauren Oudet from Tehtri Security reckons that some of the off-the-shelf malware...

An Italian priest has developed an iPad app which allows him to use the gadget to celebrate mass, instead of having to rely on an old-fangled book. The app contains the complete Catholic missal, which details every word spoken...

Product: Asus Crosshair IV FormulaPrice: £171.42 Asus has been busy adding more motherboards to its Republic of Gamers (ROG) range. Hard on the heels of the Intel-based Rampage III Extreme comes the latest addition...