Two US Congressmen have launched a privacy inquiry into a recent change to Apple's user terms of service, which require users to agree to the company sharing information about their location.Micro-blogging giant Twitter has...

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, Apple's most quoted research analysts, published a report saying that 77 per cent of iPhone sales were upgrades, a clear indication that, indeed, fans of the Cupertino-based company flocked to buy...

The announcement that Ofcom was going to look into Net Neutralilty and open a discussion on how the traffic management can be controlled and monitored, mirroring the way as these solutions monitor traffic for internet service...

Project Canvas has been given the green light by the BBC Trust after extensive consultation, the BBC has announced.Canvas is a partnership between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT and TalkTalk to develop a common internet TV...

With Skype already announcing that it will be charging for 3G VoIP calls, Truphone has released an updated version of its own VoIP client that will allow consumers to place and receive calls over 3G networks as part of their data...

The sun might be doing its best to lure you outside of the house, but Valve is attempting to coax you back in front of your PC by slashing the prices of loads of games on Steam this week. From today until Sunday 4 July, there...

Microsoft Visual C++ (VC++) is a programming environment used to develop applications for Microsoft Windows and the World Wide Web. Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! VC++ has lots of flexibility and power but in turn,...

IT giant Intel is set to release a native x86 version of Google's Android 2.2 operating system, for laptops and netbooks based on Intel's Atom chipset.The x86 version of Android 2.2 will make the smartphone OS available on PCs,...

Make the Samsung LE40C530 40" Full HD LCD TV the centre of your home entertainment.  Thanks to powerful image processing from Samsung's HyperReal Engine and its 1080p resolution, the LE40C530 produces an incredible picture,...

Premium memory maker Patriot has just announced a new range of triple-channel memory kits for X58-based LGA1366 systems, boasting speeds of up to 2GHz. Patriot says the new Sector 7 Edition kits are an extension of the...

iPhone App coders are furiously beavering away to get updated apps on to iTunes as iPhone fans get to grips with iOS4 and the latest handset from the Cupertino company. With a baziliion Apps out in the wild, developers seem to...

Hewlett-Packard has launched a promotional campaign, "HP LaserJet Pays You Back", to market its latest range of HP Color LaserJet multifunction printers.The campaign, developed by Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, integrates...

Games developer Zombie Cow has uncorked a video of its 'Privates' game, an 'educational' shoot' her up in which little, er, things wearing condoms and carrying, er, shooters journey deep inside teenagers' bodies in a mission to...

Cisco Systems has promised Russian president Dmitri Medvedev a financial investment of $1 billion to help develop Moscow's answer to Silicon Valley.According to market analysts, Russia is now one of the most up-and-coming...

Want to get an iPhone but can't afford to fork out a whopping £499 outright for it? Well, there's a sneaky way of actually getting your favourite phone for as little as £16.10 per month albeit over a three year...

Japanese memory maker Elpida has just announced that it's finished the development of its first 2Gb GDDR5 chips, paving the way for consumer graphics cards loaded with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The new chips are fabricated on a 50nm...

Cabinet Office ministers have pledged to scrap hundreds of unnecessary and expensive Government web sites and slash the cost of the remaining sites to save millions of pounds. Of the 820 existing Government-funded web sites,...

Red Hat and Cisco Systems are to enter a joint venture to expand their virtualisation network offerings.Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, will work to integrate its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV)...

IBM has taken legal against former employee Joanne Olsen to prevent her from taking up a job with rival company Oracle.Oracle wooed Olsen, previously general manager of IBM's services division, away from IBM after 31 years with...

Microsoft's first attempt to improve Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with a service pack was shown off to some chums recently, one of whom appears to have made it available to all and sundry on the wibblesome web The...

Adobe has been busy with the sticky tape and scissors, crafting a patch for its holed Reader and Acrobat software which it aims to release this coming Tuesday - everyone's favourite day for spending half an hour faffing about and...

Sony is on the verge of signing up Hulu to provide pay-to-stream video services to PlayStation 3 users via the company's PlayStation Network.Citing two sources acquainted with the talks, Bloomberg reports that a partnership...

As we entered the week, it was obvious Apple would dominate the headlines with the release of the iPhone 4 on Thursday, with column inches being gained each and every day by various networks baying for the public's attention from...

Compiler developer PathScale has just unveiled a new GPGPU (general purpose GPU) programming model, which it reckons will do a much more efficient job than Nvidia's own CUDA technology. PathScale previously told THINQ it was...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given initial approval for a .xxx top-level domain for adult websites.ICM, the company behind the campaign for the domain, explained that the introduction of a...

Microsoft says it is "going forward immediately" with the construction of a new data centre in West Des Moines, Iowa.The data centre is set to go live in spring 2011.The governor of West Des Moines, Chet Culver,  announced...

Early iPhone 4 adopters have been reporting problems with mysterious dropped carrier signals. It turns out that Apple's clever idea to turn the outer steel rim of the iPhone 4's admittedly beautiful case into the handset's...

Microsoft has announced that two leading executives are to switch roles as part of a reshuffle in its Worldwide Partners group.Allison Watson, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Partners Group, becomes corporate vice...

STC.UNM a subsidiary of the University of New Mexico, said it is charging Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited and Samsung Electronics Company Limited with patent infringement over a technology designed to ...

Two US Congressmen have launched a privacy inquiry into a recent change to Apple's user terms of service, which require users to agree to the company sharing information about their location.Texas Republican Joe Barton,...

Micro-blogging giant Twitter has settled a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission over alleged privacy breaches, the Wall Street Journal has reported.The FTC filed a lawsuit against the social networking platform over...

Microsoft has updated its Ultimate Steal page and swapped the former Office 2007 Ultimate and Vista Ultimate package for Office Professional Academic 2010 and Windows 7 Professional. The home page, which can be found here, offers...

Mobile phone maker Nokia aims to make its Ovi application platform more attractive to developers by dropping the cost of developer licences to €50 and approving applications for free.Andy Rubin, the VP in charge of the...

Chip giant Intel is preparing a native x86 version of Google's mobile operating system Android. The open source operating system, which has until now been restricted to CPU architecture designed by Brit chip shop ARM, will be...

In what is possibly the biggest development in TVs since widescreen, the Philips 56PFL9954 is the first commercially available TV with a genuine, cinema scale TV screen. The 21:9 aspect is, for the first time on a TV, to the...

Apple knows about the iPhone 4 reception problems, one that seem to be one of the phone's "features" rather than a fatal issue and Steve Jobs, the company's CEO, has stepped into the debate with a flurry of emails. Jobs replied...

Twitter yesterday resolved Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk. The site got a slap on the wrist and was bound over to live up to its promises for 20 years, after which time...

Game developer Zygna has released a version of its virtual farming game Farmville for Apple's iPhone.The iPhone game, first announced at WWDC last month, has been specially tailored to work on Apple's new iOS 4 platform.Farmville...

Search giant Google has announced in a blog post that it has remotely uninstalled two applications from Android phones as they did not comply with its Android Market terms and conditions.Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead,...

Samsung has announced its aim of doubling its share of the smartphone market.According to the report on Business Week, Samsung plans to increase its share in the smartphone market by 10 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010,...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is one the most hotly debated topics in IT today. It's hardly new, but it's still one of the most misunderstood concepts among developers – mostly because of its fairly vague...

Microsoft has announced that it has sold 150 million licences for its Windows 7 operating system. The company calculates that seven copies of Windows 7 are being sold every second, making it the fastest selling operating system...

Missed out on the first wave of the iPhone 4? Fear not... we went and stood in the queue for you, waited patiently until we got home to have a first peek in the box, and filmed the whole thing for your viewing pleasure. Having...

A man dressed in a purple jumper and black jeans, and wearing a horse mask has become the latest internet sensation after being photographed by a Google Street View car gathering data in Aberdeen. BBC News reported that the...

The Metropolitan Police has held arrested London-based teenagers on suspicion of being members of a cybercrime gang.The gang are alleged to have stolen thousands of credentials from credit cards used online. According to the...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbering is set to approve the .xxx top level domain for adult web sites – a decade after it was first proposed. The move is reckoned to make it easier to separate porn...