The Apple iMac MB950B/A is powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E7600 and comes with the advanced Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard operating system. This all-in-one desktop computer also boasts a 500GB hard drive and 4GB of...

No need to get tied down by your mouse. Now you can access and interact with your favourite media simply by touching the multi-touch screen. Scroll and open files, drag and drop programs, flick navigate to your latest home video...

Computing took a page from the book of life this week when scientists designed storage device made out of synthetic strands of DNA. A team at Reading University synthesised a molecule using the principles by which DNA works:...

Dell sold millions of PCs that were liable to break before their three-year warranty expired. Yet the company continued to flog the systems even though it was aware they were blighted with dodgy far-eastern capacitors and even...

It looks like Steve Jobs is no longer alone in his crusade to rid the world of Adobe's video player software Flash, as the adult video industry turns towards the open HTML5 standard. Conceivably Tech has spoken to the founder of...

ProgrammableWeb, a popular repository of APIs (Application Programming Interface), has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Alcatel Lucent, a global telecommunications firm that provides the backbone to the mobile phone...

US-based law firm Kershaw, Cuttiner and Ratinoff is rallying users affected by the iPhone antenna problem to bring a class-action lawsuit against the iPod maker.Kershaw, Cuttiner and Ratinoff, a firm that describes itself as...

The German justice minister has demanded that Apple informs her exactly what data it is collecting from users of its products, and what it intends to do with it. According to German privacy laws, it is illegal to collect user...

A report by UK games industry trade organisation ELSPA, and the Interactive Software Federation of Europe, says that 32 per cent of UK adults - nearly one in three - have played a computer game in the last six months.According to...

The wait for Nvidia's new mid-range Fermi chip could soon be over, as some sites now claim the launch date has been officially confirmed as 12 July this year. Turkish tech gossip site Donanimhaber (Google Translation) says the...

Google has commemorated the award-winning author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on the 110th anniversary of his birth, with a special Google Doodle.The search giant has turned the author's best known character, the...

Android OS 2.2 has been officially released to the general public and the first handset to receive it is, unsurprisingly, the Google Nexus One which, unlike the likes of Sony Ericsson or HTC, do not require any custom...

The move to 3TB hard drives may have been thrown off track by problems with the PC's festering legacy, but Seagate has managed to patch enough of the issues to knock out the world's first 3TB hard drive. Given the issues...

Storage giant Seagate has announced the launch of a 3TB external hard disk drive as part of the new FreeAgent GoFlex family and shows a clear trend of launching new hard disk drives as external models first and before flogging...

Details of Microsoft's plans for its Windows 8 operating system has been leaked on the internet.A PowerPoint document, allegedly part of a Microsoft presentation given to a Hewlett-Packard executive and dated April 2010,...

The man behind the development of Google's Chrome OS has left the company to join social networking giant Facebook.Matthew Papakipos, who joined the company in 2007, has previously worked with graphics giant Nvidia and parallel...

Nokia has made public it will stop deploying Symbian on its N Series handsets, instead the Finnish phone makers will be using MeeGo as the main platform for their flagship mobiles. MeeGo is the joint operating system venture by...

Dell’s much-acclaimed Android tablet has just gone on sale unlocked and SIM free via the company’s own website, free from the shackles of a contract at £449. Previously the device was exclusive to O2 and the Carphone Warehouse,...

MSI has added to its Wind series with the U135DX netbook. The 10-inch Wind U135DX comes equipped with Intel’s Atom processor N455, which supports DDR3 system memory and works with MSI’s TDE turbo drive technology,...

Researchers at Core Security Technologies have warned that users of a Cisco Systems wireless access point could compromise the security of their Wi-Fi network if they fail to disable a WPA migration feature.The company said that...

Mobile phone operators have cut charges for services to other European countries by almost as much as three quarters in recent years, but only because they were told to. A report by the European Commission today tells how the...

German security experts have warned that cyber criminals are targeting popular instant messaging services to spreading spam and procure account information from unsuspecting users.G Data's SecurityLabs has revealed that IM users...

New research conducted by security firm Qualys has revealed that only 3.17 per cent of secure web sites have valid Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates.The company said that it had scanned 119 million domain names, of which...

Apple's new iPhone comes with some great new features, a fantastic screen, two much improved cameras and the ability to edit HD videos on the fly. But Apple has insisted that its home-grown mobile editing suite iMovie will only...

Sony has released the new system software update v3.04 for its PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console.The update will bring Facebook integration to the console, as well as launching Sony's new premium PlayStation Network (PSN)...

Apple has announced that it has sold more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 in the three days of sale, a figure that makes it the fastest selling mobile handset of all times, a leap from the million or so handsets that its predecessors,...

Private equity firm Elevation Partners has purchased $120 million worth of shares in social networking platform Facebook, valuing the company at $23 billion.Elevation Partners had previously acquired shares in the company worth...

The enthusiast memory wizards over at GeIL in Taiwan have just launched a new flagship line of dual-channel memory that can hit speeds of up to 2.5GHz. The new Evo Two DDR3 series picks up from the original Evo One DDR2 range,...

US-based banking giant Chase has declared that Microsoft's ageing Internet Explorer 6 web browser still offers better security for users than Google Chrome and Opera.The bank has announced that its online services will continue...

After some years of rapprochement, boosted by the Beijing-friendly policy instituted by Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou after he came to power in 2008, China and Taiwan have today signed a trade pact, which recognises the...

Milo and Kate, the creepy kid simulator which was used to demo the Xbox 360's Kinect system, will never see the light of day according to a Microsoft Executive. Spokesvole Aaaron Greenberg told an Australian TV show that the...

Sony has updated its Playstation 3 console to firmware version 3.40, adding a new Facebook app and basic video editing among a raft of other tweaks and improvements. There's also a new subscription-based service called...

After teasing us with tradeshow demos and preview pictures, the memory gurus at OCZ have finally given their PCI-E RevoDrive SSD the official blessing. We caught our first glimpse of the drive earlier this month, but OCZ has now...

Smartphone maker HTC is to roll out a firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) update to upgrade European owners of its Hero smartphone to Android 2.1.The 80MB update will bring some of software features available on the newer HTC Legend to...

Google has announced it will be taking a "new approach" in order to continue operating in China.The Chinese government has warned the company that it could lose its licence to operate within the country if doesn't stop...

The maybes are barely worth pondering. Barely. The biggest one is worth a bit of a wistful glance, however. Maybe if Frank Lampard's goal had counted and England had gone in 2-2 at half time instead of having to chase the game...

The German justice minister has demanded that Apple informs her exactly what data it is collecting from users of its products, and what it intends to do with it.According to German privacy laws, it is illegal to collect user...

One of the major features in the iPhone 4 is the new camera, a 5-megapixel model that comes with a LED flash. This is a significant improvement over the 3-megapixel one from the iPhone 3GS and the 2-megapixel camera on the 3G and...

Microsoft has announced that it believes the Kinect motion-sensing games peripheral for the Xbox 360 console will appeal first to hardcore gamers.Kinect enables gamers to control Xbox 360 games using just the movements of their...

Motorola has announced that its Droid 2 Android-based smartphone will be released in the US on 23 August, available from Verizon Wireless. Previously, the company had announced that it would be released on 19 July.Search giant...

Apple announced yesterday that it has managed to sell a whopping 1.7 million iPhone 4 worldwide, a feat that means that the smartphone has become the company's most popular device ever, far outclassing the iPod, the iPad and...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has released sophisticated new security solutions for physical and virtual environments to prevent data leaks from a converged infrastructure.The new security solutions are aimed at providing a secure...

A former Facebook executive has fanned the flames of rumours which suggest that Google is getting into the social networking game. Yesterday we reported that Digg CEO Kevin Rose had tweeted about a new Facebook-like service...

Enterprise networking giant Cisco has selected Emulex Corp's OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) to provide 10 Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity to its Unified Computing Systems.Emulex said...

The LG PK590 Plasma TV series provides superb picture quality with a stunning razor frame design. Convert your living room to a sports stadium or cinema with this large experience perfect for watching sport and movies in crystal...

Samsung's stylish, compact WB500 is bulging with fantastic features, including an enormous 24-240mm zoom (35mm equivalent).  Its incredible Schneider-Kreuznach lens is supported by a dual digital and optical image...

Finnish manufacturer Nokia has published a step by step tutorial, clearly aimed at the recent discussion surrounding issues related to poor signal linked to antenna issues and reported by scores of early iPhone 4 adopters. The...

Motorola has announced that its Droid 2 Android-based smartphone will be released in the US on 23 August, available from Verizon Wireless.Previously, the company had announced that it would be released on 19 July.It has been...

Search giant Google has released a mobile version of its Google Docs viewer.In addition to standard plain text and RTF formats, the new viewer allows users to view .doc, .docx, .ppt and .pdf files on their smartphone devices,...

Dodgy snooping outfit Google said it has come up with a 'new approach' in dodgy snooping country China, as it tries to both shoe-horn its way into the People's Republic and stay friends with the CIA. Google started redirecting...

Apple has released a troubleshooting support page for users of its new iPhone 4. The page is aimed at helping users to identify and fix any problems affecting the newly launched device and has been launched in response to many...

A new study by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) reveals that social networking sites may have been compromising the location of their mobile users.According to the study all of the 20 sites researched, including 13 mobile...

Italian Windows site Windowsette seems to have stumbled across a bunch of Microsoft slides that were apparently shown to the software outfit's PC partners back in April. One of the slides is entitled "How Apple does it: A...

Cloud-based entertainment services provider mSpot has released its music streaming service for Android-based smartphones.The service allows users to upload their music collections onto its cloud server and access them via 3G or...