News that Apple had managed to sell more than three million iPad tablet devices in around 80 days came just a few hours after Barnes & Noble and Amazon slashed the price of their ebook readers by around a...

Adobe has announced their new version of the Flash Player 10.1, for the upcoming release of Android ‘Froyo’ or version 2.2. New support has been promised for many more devices, along with new landscape and portrait modes running...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has praised the UK government's initiative to make official data available to software developers, allowing them to create applications that will assist UK citizens.In a meeting with UK prime minister...

Apple has just published a press statement stating that they sold more than three million iPad devices within 80 days of its introduction in the US but the company did not state how many iPad have been sold in the eight other...

Intel is in talks to settle a long-running anti-trust lawsuit brought against the company by the US Federal Trade Commission.The regulator has agreed to call a halt to administrative trial proceedings against Intel for...

Testing software is a way to provide stakeholders in the development process with brief information about the product under test. It’s a process that’s often carried out in the field of software engineering and...

Apple has modified its user privacy policy so that it can collect real-time geographical location information about users of its iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone devices.Some Apple customers who had pre-ordered the new iPhone 4 have...

Top UK mobile phone companies are testing a new mobile TV broadcast service that will allow their customers to watch TV on their handsets.Vodafone, O2 and Orange have teamed up to test the platform for a period of three months,...

If you were on of the 600,000 Apple fans who pre-ordered an Iphone4 on the first day of release, you'd better not go anywhere tomorrow. Apple has sent out email announcements to a large number of early adopters telling them that...

Microsoft has made its web-based personal health information storage service, HealthVault, available to users in the UK.The service allows users to store their own and their family's health information in a secure Microsoft...

After wooing travelling gamers in the US with its Fermi-touting shoebox last week, Shuttle is now offering the same machine in the UK. There's just one twist... you can't have a GeForce GTX 480 card over here. According to...

Recent research conducted by NSS Labs has revealed that security firms take an average of 92.48 hours to tackle the malware threats faced by users every day on the internet.The results of the study were compiled by analysing...

Lenovo has announced five new desktop PCs including a 23-inch all-in-one desktop, aimed at businesses. The once IBM and now Chinese-owned computer maker is also introducing what is says are two 'first of their kind' monitors:...

Infamous iPhone hacker George 'Geohot' Hotz has announced that he has already discovered a way to jailbreak iPhones, perhaps even permanently. The 'pwn for life' hack, which exploits the the device's boot rom, was announced at...

Apple has modified its user privacy policy so that it can collect real-time geographical location information about users of its iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone devices.The company will be able to use this data to target users with...

Microsoft has announced the price of its Kinect motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360 games console.Kinect will be available in the US for $149.99, the same price as Microsoft's Xbox 360 Arcade Spring 2010 Bundle.  The...

Opscode, a Seattle-based company that specialises in automating the infra-structure for cloud computing projects, has raised $11 million in its second round of funding.The funding round was led by finance company Battery...

UK games developers have just been dealt a financial blow by Chancellor George Osborne in his first budget, which sees the coalition Government scrapping the video games tax relief plans promised by Labour. In his speech today,...

The trade body representing the UK music industry, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), has demanded that Google remove links to nine file-sharing websites containing illegal download links to thousands of songs.In its...

Some Apple customers who had pre-ordered the new iPhone 4 have been told they will receive the device a day before it is officially launched in the US and Europe. An article on the USA Today web site revealed that some users have...

Software maker Adobe Systems has released Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 for Android-based devices.Users with smartphones running Android 2.2 will be able to download the new Flash player from Google's Android Marketplace. Users...

Sony is producing its first AMD-powered laptop in five years for two of America's biggest online outlets. Both Fry's and Best Buy have listings for AMD Athlon II X2-powered machines at lower prices than comparable machines with...

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard says he believes that technology is the cause of a decline in reading among children.Sir Tom said that as more technologically advanced products come into homes, children find themselves devoting more...

Yesterday's iOS4 update to Apple's iDevices didn't only add lots of new toys for iPhone users to play with, it also plugged more than 60 security holes found in previous versions of the mobile OS. The flaws include problems with...

As expected, given the number of users that have tried and downloaded the iPhone OS4 or iOS 4, there were always bound to be problems and already dozens of users have complained about their upgrade with some very worrying trends...

We've had vibrating joysticks, rumbling game cartridges and even bottom-shakers buried in our gaming seats, but now Asus reckons there's also room for a vibrating gaming headset. We've just received these shots of the CineVibe,...

A Sri Lankan software engineer has been sentenced to four years in jail for his part in a 'chip and PIN' scam that stole £725,000 from petrol station customers in the south of England.Theogones De Montford made modified...

Apple has made major changes to its iTunes End User License Agreement (EULA) which some might find disturbing. In order to use yesterday's major free iOS4 update to Apple's iDevices, users will have first needed to download and...

Albert Einstein may or may not have said: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!" The message is chilling...

iPhone application developers have begun to integrate Apple's new iAd mobile advertising platform into their applications.The move follows the release yesterday of Apple's new iOS 4 operating system, which comes with support for...

After four generations, it is paradoxically more difficult to find out exactly what to expect from Apple for a simple reason. Unlike the iPod, Apple now has to face a real and serious threat, Android, whose presence on the mobile...

Here's a pixellated treat for anyone who remembers drawing out graphical game characters on graph paper in the 8-bit computing days. Thirty years after Pac-Man was created, the ghost-gobblers's creator Toru Iwatani has revealed...

Cisco has confirmed that its 100G Ethernet router, currently undergoing trials at AT&T, is compliant with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3ba standard set for high-speed Ethernet...

Microsoft's .NET Framework is a software framework that contains huge library of coded solutions to general programming problems, and a Virtual Machine (CLR) that manages the execution of programs. The CLR (Common Language...

Internet giant Google has released a new PDF plug-in for the Windows and Mac versions of its popular Google Chrome web browser.The company said on its Google Chrome blog that the plug-in, which is also available for download on...

Apple has released its iOS 4 operating system software for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch.The move comes ahead of the 24 June launch of its new iPhone 4 device, which comes pre-installed with the new OS.The new...

Japanese video game maker Nintendo has said that fluctuations in global exchange rates could have an significant impact on the company's profits.In an interview with BBC News, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata expressed his fear...

Facebook has released the version 3.1.3 update for its official iPhone application.The new version will allow the 55 million Facebook for iPhone users to view videos and upload 720 pixel-wide photos on the platform.The company...

Online retail company Barnes & Noble has slashed the prices for its Nook e-book reader by $60, initiating a price war in the e-reader market.The Barnes & Noble Nook, which was launched this year with a list price of $259...

HTC Desire delivers intense brilliance, sharp contrast, and true colors on the expansive 3.7-inch AMOLED display. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive as you multitask from app to app...

The Powerline AV Network Adapter lets you easily create a high-speed, HD video capable network, using the existing electrical outlets in your home. Now you don't have to drill holes in walls and climb through the attic or cellar...

I just finished updating my Apple iPhone 3G smartphone to the latest iOS 4 and things went smoothly; however there are a few things to bear in mind to reduce the number of potential issues. (1) Make sure you have already...

Search giant Google has updated its Gmail service for users of Apple's iPad tablet device.Google has significantly changed the user interface for those accessing Gmail from the iPad, as well as fixing several bugs that hindered...

A Sri Lankan national has been jailed for his part in a £725,000 chip and pin machine rigging scam which cloned the cards of petrol station customers all over the south of England. Software engineer Theogenes De Montford,...

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 OS.Telecommunications...

Despite continuing bluff and bluster from Microsoft insiders, it looks like the controller formerly known as Project Natal has been priced up. Volish management types have been swearing blind that the million and one retail...

"I've got a feeling", the single released by the Black Eyed Peas just over one year ago in the UK has been downloaded more than one million times since then, the first time this milestone has been reached. The song spent a total...

Connecticut attorney-general Richard Blumenthal has said that his office will lead a US multi-state probe into whether Google illegally gathered data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks while collecting information for its Street View...

The world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, is likely to launch an ARM-based tablet device towards the end of the year, one which, according to a Taiwanese publication will be powered by none other than Meego. According...

French data protection agency Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) has reported that Google stored passwords and e-mail IDs from unsecured Wi-Fi data connections in France while collecting data for...

The price war for standalone ebook readers continues as Amazon has cut the price of its Kindle from $259 to $189, a $70 cut (or 27 per cent), which comes after rival Barnes & Noble reduced the price of its Nook reader to...

Adobe Systems said it will release a final version of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones today The firm is aiming to put the digital video player on devices ranging from desktop PCs to smartphones, including tablet PCs, but not...

Apple’s latest operating system for their handsets arrived late last night and is ready for downloading from the usual source of iTunes. IOS 4 replaces version 3.1.3 and brings a whole new set of features to the iPhone 3G, 3GS...

The National Museum of Computing has organised the very first Vintage Computer Festival. The exhibition will include items ranging from World War 2 code-breaking machines to a ZX Spectrum machine running the micro-blogging...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, have filed a joint motion to suspend trial proceedings in the matter of FTC's complaint against Intel, which alleges it indulged in all sorts of...