Western Digital's WD Elements Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drive is the right answer for simple, reliable add-on storage. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving your photos, music, video, and files.  Clean lines,...

Belkin Wireless G, or 802.11g, refers to the networking standard that transfers data at up to 54 Mbps using the 2.4 Ghz band. It is ideal for homes and offices that require a flexible solution to download music from the Internet...

Apple has announced that the iPhone 4 antenna issue is software related.In a letter addressed to iPhone 4 users, Apple has explained that the algorithm used by the company to display signal bars was wrong, and has been since the...

Former PC gaming big boy Epic could soon be returning to its roots, according to vice president and co-founder Mark Rein. Speaking to gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Rein dismissed talk of Epic abandoning the PC in favour of...

Social networking giant Facebook has updated the Photos feature on the platform, adding face detection technology to the photo tagging feature.Facebook's Sam Odio wrote on the company blog that majority of Facebook users spent a...

UK telecom firm Talk Talk has hired the BBC's former controller of TV platforms, Rahul Chakkara, as its new director of online, The Guardian has reported.Rahul, who left the BBC on 30 June, had contributed to the development of...

LG has launched an online application store aimed not only at smartphone users, but owners of feature phones too.The newly launched LG Application Store currently has just over 3,000 applications catering to all mobile phones.The...

Microsoft Corporation has announced a new bipolar battery technology that will allow users to insert batteries into devices without worrying which way round they go. We cornered a senior engineer from Seagate during a late night...

Apple's public relations division has claimed that the recently reported email exchange between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and a distressed iPhone 4 customer was fake, Fortune has reported.The email exchange was reported by tech blog...

The UK's new coalition government is seeking advice from British businesses on how to combat cyber-crime.According to Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, the Home Office minister for security, the government plans to utilise the...

The comments made by Kevin Russell, CEO of 3 UK, about the chances of Facetime to succeed as a video conferencing medium are legitimate as the feature is currently only available on the iPhone 4 and use Wi-Fi rather than...

Apple has sent a letter out to journalists admitting there is an issue in the iPhone 4’s reception, it’s in the calculations used to show the signal bars and not a fault in gaining reception.The letter is now publically available...

Garbage collector is a memory manager that's part of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which lies at the heart of Microsoft's .NET Framework. Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! CLR manages lots of different jobs such as...

Dell  has announced the acquisition of data centre software manufacturer Scalent Systems.  Dell is set to integrate Scalent technology with its Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM).Brad Anderson, Dell senior vice...

We managed to get hold of some saucy details about the company's latest and biggest storage device, the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive. So here we go; the drive comes with five platters of 600GB each with ten heads....

In what might seem like a bout of number fudging worthy of a Tory MP's expenses claims, Apple has explained away its antenna woes in a letter to iPhone 4 owners. It turns out that people aren't getting reduced signals when they...

Despite the advent of online game stores on all three consoles, most UK console gamers apparently still prefer to hoard collections of gaming discs than download games. A recent survey conducted by Ipsos revealed that 64 per...

IBM has announced the acquisition of security software organisation BigFix.California-based BigFix develops enterprise-level IT compliance and management software that allows company administrators to manage security on up to...

Chip maker Intel has denied suggestions that the company is to abandon the WiMax industry.The chip giant has been quick to rubbish rumours that began after the company closed its WiMax Program Office in Taiwan.Writing on the...

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI is set to launch the successor of the popular Wind U160 netbook, the U160DX, which will come with the new Intel N455 processor clocked at 1.66GHz. The netbook will come with up to 2GB RAM, a 160GB hard...

A new amendment to a law passed by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned "Zionist companies" Intel and IBM from Iran.The Jerusalem Post reports that Coca Cola has also been banned from the country.The amendment, signed...

Facebook is borrowing a clever bit of digital camera technology in order to make tagging your friends in your snaps a bit less of a chore. Sam Odio, who is the outfit's new product manager for photos, reckons 99 per cent of the...

Be broadband, the O2-owned mobile phone provider, is set to start tests for a new landline service and is actively looking for 70 people to take part in the trial with the closing date for those willing to take part on it being...

IBM has partnered with medical device manufacturer Roche to develop a low-cost tool capable of analysing the human genome.Business Week reports that the device will allow doctors to analyse a patient's genetic makeup within a...

Much of the previous week's headlines were dominated by the Apple's iPhone 4, where it was good to return to a week where the news was much more evenly balanced out between various companies and not just the one.This week, we saw...

We caught up with Matt Cantwell, the Head of Demon Broadband and asked him a few things about the newly revived company including how they are going to tackle the cut-throat competition on the market. Can you briefly run us...

With the current steady flow of DX11 chips streaming into shops, it looked as though the worst of the 40nm chip shortage was over. However, the grapevine is currently buzzing with reports that AMD is facing supply constraints...

A new type of malware is specifically targeting UK online banking customers, security experts have warned.The malicious software retrieves online baking information and credit details from unsuspecting customers, and uses them to...

An email exchange between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and and angry iPhone 4 user has been making waves on the web for a few days now. We first started following the thread of intrigue when the normally-reliable Boy Genius Report (BGR)...

The Swedish Pirate Party has said that if it manages to sneak into parliament in the upcoming elections it will have the Pirate Bay's servers hosted in the parliament building, where it may come under the protection of...

Microsoft Corporation has announced a new bipolar battery technology that will allow users to insert batteries into devices without worrying which way round they go. InstaLoad will allow existing standard cylindrical batteries to...

After many months of losing market share, Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer, has clawed back a few fractions of a percentage point according to click counters at analyst firm Netmarketshare The outfit reckons Exploder can...

Microsoft has released a workaround for Windows XP users affected by a critical vulnerability that has already been exploited by hackers in the wild.The vulnerability relates to a bug in the Windows Help and Support Centre, and...

The Satellite L550 with its sleek glossy premium design and 43.9cm (17.3") 16:9 ratio widescreen display is ideal for entertainment whether it be DVD movies or online multimedia. The display is also LED backlit which improves the...

Microsoft is busy working on the first service pack for Windows 7 and the SP1 Beta has already appeared on a number of legitimate websites with the software giant showing no intention of shoring the leak. The current build...

Yahoo has released app versions of its Mail, Search and Messenger services for Google's Android mobile operating system. The company has also updated the iOS 4 versions of the applications, increasing their HTML 5 compatibility...

Apple is rumoured to be on the verge of announcing a cloud-based version of iTunes, allowing users to sync and access their music files over an internet connection.Citing reliable sources within Apple, tech blog Boy Genius Report...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has refused to attach great importance to the company's on-going tiff with Chinese authorities until a conclusion is reached, Sky News reported today. Schmidt was speaking about the issue at the Guardian...

Data released by analyst firm Netmarketshare points to a surprising growth from Internet Explorer as the Microsoft web browser manged to grab an additional 0.57 per cent of the global browser market in June 2010. This is the...

Latest figures by Netmarketshare show that Apple's latest device, the iPad, has managed to overtake both the iPod Touch and the Android platforms in June 2010, a clear indication of the success of the gadget as a...

Industry Market Analyst DFC Intelligence has issued a note saying that Microsoft's flagship gaming console, the Xbox 360, has already passed its peak and is set to weaken over the next few years. The brief, Gamasutra reports,...

Google said it wants to spend $700 million in cash flight information software company, ITA Software, and has persuaded the board of said company to take the money and run. "ITA's very talented team has created...

A group of high profile consumer electronics giant including the likes of LG, Samsung and Sony, have come together to push a new A/V cable standard called HDBaseT that, they hope, will replace HDMI one day. Surprisingly, HDBaseT...

Microsoft has announced a new terminal technology which means that you don't have to worry about which way you insert your batteries. If you've ever struggled in the dark to replace four AAs in your camera, for example, you'll...

Intel appears to have bought struggling Israeli outfit Comsys Mobile Communication and Signal Processing Ltd for $30 million back in May, but kept quite about it, according to reports. ''Intel has not published a news release...

IBM has named Mozilla's Firefox as its default web browser, the company announced in a blog post. Writing on the blog, Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president for Linux and open source software, wrote: "While other browsers have come and...

Yahoo has released app versions of its Mail, Search and Messenger services for Google's Android mobile operating system.The company has also updated the iOS 4 versions of the applications, increasing their HTML 5 compatibility to...

Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has completed the $1.2 billion acquisition of smartphone maker Palm.HP has also confirmed that it will be using Palm's WebOS in future tablet devices.In a statement on its website , HP said: "Palm...

Walt Disney has agreed to buy a leading mobile gaming company Tapulous, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Tapulous, a start-up organisation based in Palo Alto California, is known for developing mobile games such as...