Google has released a finished version its Google Voice application.The company has finished beta testing of the voice call software, announced Craig Walker, product manager for Google Voice.The company has reported on its...

Skype has released a new software development kit that will help gadget makers install Skype on new mobile devices they are developing.SkypeKit provides electronics manufacturers with programming tools that will enable them to...

Chancellor George Osborne announced in his 'emergency budget' yesterday that the new coalition government had decided to scrap the 50p-a-month landline tax promised by the previous Labour government.The 50p charge was designed to...

Chip maker AMD has developed a number of new processors for cloud computing, servers and infrastructure systems.The Opteron 4100 range, previously code-named 'San Marino', is designed to provide similar performance to AMD's...

American people place more trust in technology giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft than in social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, a survey has revealed.In an interactive survey conducted by web-based market...

Google Voice is their voice over IP service which has just moved out of ‘invite only’ and is now widely available in the USA. This service offers a one-phone-number-for-all feature, cheaper calls from a computer or mobile phones,...

If you fancy signing up to the high-speed solid state drive club, but don't think your overdraft would forgive you, then Crucial may have the answer in the form of its new 64GB RealSSD C300. With support for the latest 6Gb/sec...

ASP.NET is a programming framework developed by Microsoft that enables the programmers to develop web applications, web services and dynamic websites. ASP.NET enables the developers to write code using any language supported by...

Abnormal service will be resumed in about  an hour and three quarters - or less if we go 3-0 down in the first half. 15:15 Tell you what, fifteen minutes in and we're looking more like it already. 15:22 Ha! One nil!...

The latest update to Nintendo's Wii console gets rid of that pesky Homebrew Channel, and nothing else at all according to those in the know. The Homebrew Channel allows Wii fans to play games not approved by the tot-friendly...

After baffling the tech world with a couple of cheap games consoles this year, chip-cooling firm Arctic (previously Arctic Cooling) is now taking a stab at the keyboard and mouse market. The recently rebranded tech company has...

German software house SAS said it has bought up British outfit Memex for an undisclosed sum. Memex makes intelligence management software designed to improve intelligence processes, enhance public safety, and prevent and deter...

Professional social networking site LinkedIn has added a 'Like' button to its Groups service, the company has reported on its official blog.By using the 'Like' button, users can show their appreciation for a discussion or shared...

Maker of TV dongles Elgato has announced a temporary update to its EyeTV software, which attempts to drown out the sound of those annoying plastic trumpets so beloved of South African World Cup crowds. You'll have to go through...

Apple specialist tinkerers iFixit have taken apart the Apple iPhone 4 in the latest of their regular teardown process and have exposed the innards of the hottest smartphone in town. The procedure, which was carried out live on...

Google is being investigated by UK police over its collection of data from unsecured Wi-Fi connections in the country.The Metropolitan police have issued the case with the crime reference number 2318672/10, indicating that the...

Barclays has predicted that US wireless carrier Verizon will start selling the iPhone from 2011, according to a report in Business Week. James Ratcliffe, an analyst with Barclays, said that if the company started offering Apple's...

We don't believe in politics so when Microsoft officially launched its much-vaunted Healthvault in the UK yesterday, we knew that something big was likely to happen over the next few months or so. The fact that it happened...

The release of Apple's new iOS 4 operating system has fixed over 65 security vulnerabilities present in earlier software for the company's iPhone and iPod Touch devices.The new OS, which was released on Monday at 1:00 pm EST,...

Silicon underdog AMD has denied that it's killed off the ati.com domain as part of a scheme to dispose of the ATI brand. Web surfers using the old ATI URL have recently been greeted by an error message on AMD's website, saying...

Apple announced yesterday that it has already sold more than three million iPad devices in 80 days with the first two million being sold in the first two months after it went for sale in the US. Netmarketshare reported earlier...

Those screwdriver-wielding maniacs at iFixit have done it again, pulling apart a brand new iPhone 4 just for the fun of it. You might have seen Gizmodo's ham-fisted attempt to crack open a stolen prototype of Apple's latest...

VirnetX has won its patent dispute with software giant Microsoft. The company announced on Tuesday that the two patents involved in its dispute with Microsoft have been confirmed as valid by the US Patent and Trademark Office.The...

Grocery giant Tesco has finally unveiled its iPhone 4 tariffs a few hours before the phone is officially launched in the UK and by the looks of it, it is possibly the best one as well. Tesco Mobile is backed by O2 which means...

While the big UK gaming heavyweights such as TIGA and ELSPA are condemning George Osborne's decision to cancel video games tax relief, indie games developers in the UK appear to be indifferent to it. British game dev Cliff...

Following the launch of its latest Opteronic server push, AMD also unveiled two new Firestream graphics products in the shape of the ATI Firestream 9350 and 9370. AMD calls these 'GPU compute accelerators' and says they are...

Everybody's favourite open source video player, VLC, has been given a major update and a new lick of paint. The multi-codec movie muncher, which is famous for having a go at playing just about any video format on the planet on...

Yesterday, we saw how three of the biggest mobile phone operators in the country came together to test a TV broadcast service which would allow them to broadcast television services over their existing 3G networks...

Software giant Microsoft has warned enterprise users of its Windows XP operating system Service Pack 2 to upgrade, as the company will cease to support the software after July.Microsoft will be offering a break-fix scheme to...

Red Hat announced a 20 per cent boost in quarterly revenue over last year's Q1, having raked in some $209.1 million in its fiscal quarter that ended May 31, 2010. The open source outfit said net profit stood at $24.1...

Vodafone said it has added three new Android-running handsets to its roster of mobile phones available on the UK. Google's own phone OS is certainly emerging as flavour of the moment with mobile phone buyers un-wooed by the...

Get the beauty of full high definition visuals when you have this 25 inch widescreen LCD serving up your computing environment. The 2ms video response time ensures rapid moving action scenes are rendered brilliantly. Clarity is...

This DVD home cinema package offers a brilliant combination of up-to-date features and rock-solid performance. Pumping out 5.1 channels of finely calibrated surround sound. With three HDMI 1.4 inputs you also get a seamless,...

Professional social networking platform LinkedIn has laid out plans to expand through a series of acquisitions.The company wants to increase its presence on mobile devices, reaching out to new users as well as introducing new and...

The UK Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to to scrap the research and development tax relief scheme used by the UK video gaming industry.The announcement has not been well received by the gaming industry, which had...

Apple has released iBooks, its e-book-reader software, and the iBookstore e-book shop for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The application comes as a part of Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS 4.Grenoble Ecole de Management,...

Most programmers can write code for working applications, but getting those applications to work in the most efficient way possible is no easy task. Following a few best practice guidelines greatly reduces the chances of...

Despite struggling to keep up with demand, Apple has announced the sale of its three millionth iPad. The milestone came 80 days after the iPod Touch on steroids was released to an adoring public, and it looks like pundits'...

The European Parliament has voted to put more pressure on member states to improve collection and treatment rates of the growing volumes of discarded fridges, phones and computers in the European Union. Member States should...

Hewlet-Packard (HP) has announced that its data back-up software StoreOnce will be integrated into all of its future storage products.HP's data duplication software StoreOnce was announced with the EVA Cluster and P48000...

Valve, the company behind game distribution system Steam, has warned that Mac users should avoid upgrading their operating systems to 10.6.4 if they have an Nvidia graphics card. Valve is currently working with Apple and Nvidia...

Chip maker Microsemi has announced it has entered a cross-licensing agreement to share technologies with networking giant Cisco Systems.Orange County Business Journal has reported that California-based Microsemi, a leading...

Microsoft is taking on Google in the fight for online search supremacy by introducing new music-related features from Zune marketplace to its search engine, Bing. Users in the US will be able to play tracks from within the search...

A recent study conducted by price comparison website Broadband Expert has indicated at fall in mobile broadband subscriptions in the UK.Broadband Expert suggests that the reason for the drop is that the do not live up to users'...

Licensed gaming and gambling companies in the UK will not be allowed to buy adverts on the country's most popular online video website, Youtube, for the first time. The adverts will be targeted at those who are 18 and over based...

Grenoble Ecole de Management, a French educational institution, has announced that they will be testing the "pedagogical advantages of the iPad" on 40 or so of their students from the beginning of September 2010 as part of their...

Is it the beginning of the end for the Pre? Well, we've noticed that at least one online retailer is offering the Palm smartphone which one stood as the most potent iPhone rival, for as little as £249.99 unlocked and...

HTC’s latest flagship mobile phone arrives carrying the appropriate name of Desire, where the uptake for the device merits its moniker – if sales are anything to go by.The Desire looks and feels very much like another of the...

Vodafone has announced a trio of new Google OS driven devices for their network, with prices attached for the first time as they go on sale today. The new handsets are from HTC and Samsung, along with a Vodafone branded Huawei...

Salesforce.com has officially launched its new enterprise service social networking application named "Chatter" at its Cloudforce event.The company claims that Chatter will bring a 'Cloud 2' networking experience to the world of...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced a new rack and blade ProLiant servers.Announced on Tuesday, the servers are designed to produce more performance and combine hardware and software capabilities to improve reliability.This new...

The Plymouth City Council has been fined after the Environment Agency complained that the council had allowed unauthorised third parties to take discarded electronics products from its waste disposal plants and sell them.The...

Apple has released iBooks, its e-book-reader software, and the iBookstore e-book shop for iPhone and iPod Touch users.The new e-book reader application, announced at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) earlier this...

AMD announced availability of its Opteron 4000 Series platform (formerly 'Lisbon') at the GigaOm Structure Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure conference, today. The 4000 Series offers four- and six-core chips which...