There are a few smart steps that Apple took which have helped the iPhone 4 sell more than 1.7 million units in only 72 hours. (a) Simultaneous launch in the US and ElsewhereApple has managed to release the device in four other...

The European Parliament is seeking legal advice before mounting a challenge to a deal signed today between the EU and US which will allow vast amounts of personal data describing people's interbank financial transactions to be...

Dell has start selling the the Streak for as little as £449 unlocked according to the manufacturer's updated website with customers limited to only two units each; the device will come with a one year collect and return...

Mobile maker Nokia has mocked Apple's iPhone 4 and its gripping tale of dropped connections with a tutorial on how to hold a phone properly. Entitled, 'How do you hold your Nokia?' the post on the company's official blog has a...

The release date for Nintendo's revolutionary 3DS handheld 3D games console has been put back until 2011. The 3DS console was unveiled during the E3 conference, but Reggie Fils-Aime, American president of Nintendo stated that 3DS...

Google is apparently preparing to launch a new social networking service to compete with Facebook.According to a tweet by Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google plans to launch a service named Google Me in the near future. He wrote:...

Dell has written to what it calls its ‘valued' suppliers to tell them that it is ‘standardising' its payment terms from 50 to 65 days, citing ‘current economic conditions' as an excuse for making them wait two...

UK game developers were given a swift slap by the coalition government last week, when Chancellor George Osborne axed plans for video games tax relief. However, the games industry is confident it can still get the proposals...

A grass-roots movement spearheaded by the 'Enough Project', is increasing pressure on electronics manufacturers to stop using minerals bought from mines under the control of militia groups in central African...

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced plans to make Wi-Fi internet connections available to the city's commuters.Johnson made the announcement last week at the Greater London Authority's annual 'State of London'...

The Blu-ray Disk Association has done a spot of research into boosting the capacity of Blu-ray disks and will now license the technology to manufacturers. The snappily-entitled BDXL specification details specs for triple-layer...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has failed to decrypt five hard drives protected by the open-source encryption software TrueCrypt.Brazilian news site Globo reports that the hard drives belong to Daniel Dantas,...

Maker of teeny PCs Shuttle, has come up with another tiddler. The 'ultra-compact' Shuttle X350 is just 1.5 inches thick and built around a dual-core Intel Atom D510 processor with on-board Intel graphics or an optional Nvidia...

Google has announced that it has moved its encrypted search service from https://www.google.com to https://encrypted.google.com in order to provide better services to its school partners.Google's encrypted search service allows...

Amazon has updated its Kindle for iPhone application, adding support for e-books with audio and video embedded.The company is offering 13 new e-book titles with audio and video content, priced at $9.99 each.Amazon reports that...

US-based networking giant Cisco has stuck a deal with the government of Abu Dhabi to train locals in advanced telecommunications.Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (Adsic), the information and communications technology arm...

Google has integrated Adobe's Flash player into its new Google Chrome web browser.Chrome 5.0.375.86 is now available to download for Linux, Windows and Mac systems. It's the first time that Flash has been incorporated directly...

Google has revealed it can remotely install and uninstall any application on a user's Android smartphone.Termed the "Kill Switch", the Remote Application Removal feature has recently been used to remove two applications developed...

ICANN has approved the creation of domains that only use Chinese characters.The inclusion of Chinese characters in web domain names is a part of ICANN's initiative to create internationalised domain names from languages that...

Cisco Systems has hired former Sun Microsystems employee Lew Tucker as its chief technology officer for cloud computing.Experts believe the appointment indicates Cisco is looking to expand its cloud computing services, but could...

Apple has announced that it has sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 smartphones in the first 72 hours, setting a new world record for a mobile phone; the device has been on sale in the US, UK, Japan, France and Germany on the 24th of...

Apple is rumoured to be developing an update for its new iPhone 4 smartphone.The update is expected to overcome the antenna design flaw that results in low network reception when then device is held in users' left hands.Apple...

Apple has sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s in three days according to Steve Jobs. In a statement, the charismatic leader of the Church of Apple decreed: "This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. Even so, we...

Stroke victims could benefit from playing games on Nintendo's family-friendly Wii consoles according to a  doc down under. The chief executive of Neuroscience Research Australia, Peter Schofield, is looking for 50 recent...

Columbia Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming film, 'The Social Network'.Based on the book 'The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal' by Ben...

The sprightlier readers among you probably don't remember King's Quest, but it's likely to set the nostalgia strings vibrating among crustier Thinqers. The latter group will be pleased to know King Graham is donning his...

Component Analyst firm iSuppli says that the parts that went in the Apple iPhone 4 will have cost as little as $188, a figure that does not include the actual manufacturing, research and development or sofware costs. The figure...

Many developers use JavaScript and VBScript to fudge HTML and DHTML content. Netscape created JavaScript for Navigator 2.x in order to make web pages more interactive. Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! It's a simple,...

It has not been clear who Dell's previous laptops have been targeted at. However, with it's new design and Intel’s Core i5 processors, it becomes apparent that Dell's Vostro range is aimed at Small and Medium sized...

Nokia's Maemo-based N900 smartphone has been hacked to run Google's latest Android 2.2 Froyo operating system.Tech blog Engadget has posted a video of an N900 device running the Android 2.2 OS, codenamed Froyo.The Nokia N900,...

After iFixit's initial teardown carried out hours before the iPhone 4 was initially released, UBM TechInsights opened up its own iPhone 4 and carried out an even more detailed analysis of the innards of Apple's latest...

Verizon Wireless has managed to grab the Samsung Galaxy S which has been renamed as the Fascinate with the phone being sold by the three other main networks in the US under three other different names. In a bid perhaps to confuse...

Chip maker AMD has just introduced a low-power hexacore processor that consumes a maximum of just 95W, but the company says it has no plans to bring the cooler chip to the UK retail market. The first glimpse of the chip appeared...

Acer has announced an addition to its Predator gaming PC range in the form of the AG7750-U2222. The 'Monster machine' comes with Acer's familar sci-fi styling complete with an utterly unnecessary but rather cool drop-down...

Finnish phone maker Nokia has decided to stop using the Symbian operating system in its future high-end smartphones.Instead, new Nokia N-series smartphones will come loaded with the Linux-based MeeGo mobile OS, the company has...

An iPhone 4 user has found a way to solve the recently reported problems with the device's reception - using sticky tape.Tech news site PC World had reported that due to an antenna design flaw on the new iPhone, the device...

Broadcaster BSkyB has agreed a deal with BT to provide its Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels to customers of the company's BT Vision on-demand TV service.The BBC reports that the channels will be available for BT Vision...

A tweet from Digg founder Kevin Rose suggests that Google is planning to take on Facebook with its own vanity service, which may or may not be called Google Me. Rose twitted: "Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook ...

More than two-thirds of workers ignore company security protocols by using unauthorised social networking platforms and personal devices at work, according to a survey conducted by InsightExpress on behalf of networking giant...

The Chinese-based technology manufacturer Foxconn has announced that it will be outsourcing the management for its workers' dormitories to two local Chinese property companies.Foxconn Group, a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based Hon...

Salesforce.com, a supplier of cloud-based business software for managing customer relationships, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft accusing the software giant of infringed one of its patents.According to the complaint filed...

Microsoft has announced plans to develop its upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS as an "ad serving platform".Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, Microsoft senior executive Kostas Mallios said that...

iPhone 4 early adopters who have reported dropped carrier signals caused by an apparent fault in the handset's design could get a fix as early as today according to rumours doing the rounds of Apple forums. The problem, which is...

Chinese soldiers have been banned from blogging after the authorities realised it could help those pesky capitalists and the Dalai Lama find out what they're up to. State media organ Xinhau said the People's Liberation Army has...

A grass-roots movement spearheaded by the 'Enough Project', is increasing pressure on electronics manufacturers to stop using minerals bought from mines under the control of militia groups in central African warzones.The...

Shareholders of mobile device maker Palm have announced that they have accepted an acquisition offer from Hewlett-Packard. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that the merger would be...

The inevitable has happened... the iPhone 4 has been embraced by the sex industry. Just about every new technological innovation finds it way into smut sooner ot later, and the porn industry quite often blazes a trail for new...

Sales of Apple's iPhone 4 may have already surged past the 1.5 million mark if a report by investment banking firm, Piper Jaffray, is to be believed. Apple has already announced that 600,000 iPhone 4 were sold in the first 24...

Some smart guy has come up with the business idea that combines the best of technology - Apple's iPhone 4 - with one of the most lucrative ventures on the internet; sex. An advert on craigslist mentions the fact that the woman...

Shareholders of mobile device maker Palm have announced that they have accepted an acquisition offer from Hewlett-Packard.In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that the merger would be...

A man with a horse head that became an internet phenomenon last week has finally been unmasked as a Youtube user by the name of TheHumanHorse. The Horse Boy, as he calls himself, has been on the popular video streaming website...

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a distributed communication technology first released as a part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, then enhanced in Framework 3.5. Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! WCF lets...

Apple's new iPhone 4 smartphone has been hit by an increasing number of problems according to reports from users of the device, which launched last week.Problems include yellow discolouration of the phone's Retina Display,...

Sony has said that it has no plans to launch a 3D version of its hand-held games console, PlayStation Portable.It was speculated that Sony will launch a 3D version of the PSP to rival Nintendo's 3DS, unveiled earlier this month...

The government of Pakistan is monitoring seven major websites and has blocked 17 others for allegedly hosting blasphemous material.A spokesperson for the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has announced that the websites...

Kids under seven who are tempted to play with Nintendo's upcoming handheld the 3DS could end up with eyes permanently boggled, Nintendo of America president, Reginald Fils-Aime confessed. In an interview with Kotaku, Fils-Aime...