Kevin Russell, the CEO of mobile phone operator 3 UK, has admitted that he's not a great believer when it comes to video conferencing and the use of the iPhone 4's just released FaceTime application. Speaking at an event...

The joint venture mobile operating system by Nokia and Intel has just been given a public viewing on an actual working mobile phone, with aspects of its expected feature set seen that will likely be in the final version.Nokia’s...

Orange and T-Mobile in the UK have officially merged today where all their employees now work for the new company – Everything Everywhere Limited. This now creates the country’s largest communications company and they hope, the...

The decision by Amazon to cut the price of the Kindle DX ebook reader by 22.5 per cent to $379 could well be an indication that the giant online retailer is feeling the heat from the Apple iPad whose current price, $499, was too...

Mobile phone network Three has launched its smartphone friendly ‘One Plan’ tariff squarely aimed at mobiles that use lots of bandwidth, at a lower cost. The tariff starts from £25 a month, with a 1GB data allowance - which is...

Cisco has released the Hosted Collaboration Solution, designed to allow IT partners to offer cloud based Cisco enterprise collaboration software to their customers.The platform, launched at the Cisco Live! IT event in Las Vegas,...

Yahoo has updated its distribution of the Hadoop open-source server platform, making it easier for mainstream businesses to adopt the platform.The company announced the enhancements during the third annual Hadoop Summit in Santa...

A cracking tool which has been released by a Russian company can extract cached passwords from a wide range of Microsoft applications. The £49 tool can retrieve user names and passwords entered using all versions of...

Over 60 years after computing godfather Alan Turing first proposed the Turing Test, the 2012 Loebner Prize competition is set to come to Turing's wartime workplace at Bletchley Park. The annual competition sets out to find the...

Apple is set to officially launch its iAd mobile advertising platform today, according to a report in MediaWeek. Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC conference last month that a number of companies, including Sears, Citigroup, and...

Online gaming retailer Game is not taking any bets with the Kinect and has become one of the first online retailers to take preorders on the Kinect for a refundable deposit of £10.  Microsoft has yet to announce the...

Microsoft has unceremoniously killed Kin, its range of smartphones/feature phones that was aiming to recapture the heart and mind of a younger audience, but never really achieved to reach its goal. The company cut the price of...

The company HTC has been around since the late 1990s, producing devices and handsets for many companies, although you might not have been aware you were using their products as they didn’t carry the HTC name. Instead, those...

UK's smallest mobile phone operator, 3 UK, has unveiled a new mobile tariff, called the One Plan, that could well be the best value for money offer on the market if you're after a SIM only deal with tons of minutes, texts and...

Orange UK and T-Mobile UK have completed the integration of their operations, forming a new company, Everything Everywhere Limited.Everything Everywhere is set to become the largest telecom services provider in the UK.The new...

Max Alexander, Senior director for TV at TalkTalk, told an attentive audience at the annual Future of Broadcasting event that the country's largest consumer internet service provider, may provide with free Canvas set top boxes on...

The European Commission's today brought into force new limits on roaming mobile data charges, aiming to prevent users from running up large mobile bills while travelling abroad.The new rules will mean that users will be...

HDMI's short-lived reign over the TV cable racks could soon be over, thanks to a new usurper that combines several connections into a single, standard network cable. Designed by a coalition of consumer electronics manufacturers,...

Finland has made access to broadband internet services a legal right for all of the country's citizens.The move makes Finland the first country in the world to give broadband access the status of a legal right.The BBC reports...

Data protection firm Sepaton has released version 5.4 of its software for cloud-based security appliances.The company said its Storage Pool and de-duplication technology DeltaStor will allow public and private cloud service...

Firefox creator, the Mozilla Project, has submitted a new application, Firefox Home,  to the Apple App Store for testing on Wednesday, tech web site Beta News has reported.The company is seeking approval from Apple to allow...

Apple is set to officially launch its iAd mobile advertising platform today, according to a report in MediaWeek.Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC conference last month that a number of companies, including Sears,...

The RAM clocking masters at Corsair have once again taken the lead in the DDR3 clock speed race, announcing a new memory module that's guaranteed to run at 2.65GHz. The new Dominator GT GTX6 sticks aren't intended for your...

Today marks the first day of what could become a wonderful relationship between plucky little PDA pioneer Palm and the biggest technology company in the world, Hewlett Packard. As we roll into the third quarter of 2010, Palm...

Two iPhone 4 owners from Maryland have filed a lawsuit against Apple and AT&T, Computer World has reported.The lawsuit, filed by Kevin McCaffrey and Linda Wrinn in the federal court of Maryland, alleges that Apple and...

Networking giant Cisco Systems has showcased its latest energy management solution at the Cisco Live show in Las Vegas.Cisco announced that the new Network Building Mediator Manager 6300 is part of its solutions to help...

Nintendo's gaming innovation wizard who first brought us Donkey Kong, Mario and Zelda says he's hoping to introduce a new game character next year. According to Sankei-Kansei (Google Translation) in Japan, yesterday Shigeru...

Yahoo has announced that it has partnered with IBM to expand its customer service operations in the Middle East and Europe.IBM is to offer multilingual customer care services for Yahoo’s products from its Cairo-based...

The baseline source code for the MeeGo operating system has been released to developers as  part of 'Day 1' of the MeeGo Handset User Experience project.Developers will now be able to play with the platform's source code and...

Software giant Microsoft has released the PivotViewer data visualisation software for its Silverlight platform.The tool, developed by Microsoft's LiveLabs, provides sophisticated tools for users to visualise data, making complex...

Location-based social networking platform Foursquare has closed its second round of funding, having amassed a total of $20 million in funds.CNN Money reports that the start-up will go into a hiring spree, but will need to find a...

Intel has denied that the trashing of its internal WiMAX group means that it is going luke-warm on the wireless technology. Certainly not, a spokeschipper said, assuring us that Intel's committment to WiMAX is unchanged. It's...

Internet retailer Amazon is believed to have lost millions of dollars in trade due to a "technical difficulty" affecting its web site on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal has reported. For more than three hours, US customers were...

Google has had one of its search features blocked by Chinese authorities as the company awaits the renewal of its Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence, Associated Press reports.  In an e-mail, Google spokesperson Jessica...

The Finnish government has declared that access to the Internet is a fundamental legal right alongside access to food, clean water and shelter. The BBC is reporting that, from today, every Finnish citizen has the right to demand...

Sleuths at the FBI have admitted their attempts to crack the open source encryption software TrueCrypt have come to nowt. America's finest have been banging away at hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008...

Amazon has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Woot.com, Reuters has reported.Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, says its acquisition of the Texas-based deal-a-day web-based retailer will pave the...

Amazon has announced the launch of an updated version of the Kindle DX ebook reader which comes with a better screen and a lower price tag of only $379 down from $489. The new Kindle DX has the same 9.7-inch screen but now claims...

Online video streaming Hulu Plus will only be available to PlayStaion 3 (PS3) users with a PlayStation Plus subscription.IT mag PC World reports that the Hulu Plus platform will be available only to PlayStation Plus subscribers....

.... is Sharon Lee, who wanted the iPad accessories for her boyfriend whose birthday is incidentally coming up very soon. When we contacted her, she told us that she was in shock before adding that she was actually shaking at the...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will stop producing its Kin social networking phone, the Telegraph has reported.According to the report, Kin One and Kin Two, released in the US in April this year, will not be launched the United...

IT insecurity outfit Sophos, has urged Adobe to begin disabling JavaScript in its products by default. The suggestion comes following the most recent security update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader which fixed a serious...

Facebook has released a new feature that will allow users greater control over what personal information can be accessed by third-party applications.The new permissions on the platform are a sign that Facebook is trying to please...

Perpetual search engine runner up Yahoo has launched a couple of new apps for Google's Android operating system. The Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail apps for Android are the first to be released by Yahoo. They can be downloaded...

Amazon has increased the royalties paid to authors who publish using its Kindle Digital Text Platform.Amazon announced on Wednesday royalties that it would increase the royalties paid to authors on the self-publishing platform to...

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has ordered Orange to remove an advert claiming that the company "covers more people in the UK than any other operator".Apple is looking for experienced antenna engineers to cure its iPhone...

If you're a World of Warcraft fan and you signed up to beta test the forthcoming expansion Cataclysm, you might want to check your in-box for an invite. Closed beta testing, for invited players only, has started today on what...

Adobe has brought forward a scheduled security update by two weeks in order to fix 17 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat and Reader packages, all of which have been branded 'critical'. The security holes have been found in Mac, Unix...

The decision by Advertising Standards Authority to ban Oranges's advertising that states that its 3G network covers more people than anyone else has caused the mobile phone operator to come out fighting. Orange said in a...

Microsoft might have made a major mistake by pricing the Microsoft Kinect as high as $149, a price that means that the peripheral could well carry a suggested retail price of around £129.99 in the UK. Shopto has already...

Details of the forthcoming Android OS 3.0, otherwise known as Gingerbread, have been revealed by the editor of Mobile-review.com, Eldar Murtazin, during his regular Russian podcast. Murtazin is a well-known figure in the world of...

BBC-led Project Canvas will not be released in 2010 as originally thought.Speaking at Intel's Shaping the Future of TV conference in London, the chief technology office of Project Canvas Anthony Rose has said that that the IPTV...

Sources in Taiwan say Intel is calling a meeting to dissolve its WiMAX Program Office which it set up to promote the development of  WiMAX technologies. Intel has been banging the WiMAX drum for years now and was...

Microsoft has discontinued Kin, its smartphone for kids, after giving it just 48 days in the playground. Sales of the phone have been poor and will be hugely disappointing to Microsoft. The gadget was two years in development,...