We already know that Google doesn't want to get a Nexus Two smartphone out of the stable door and now, Eric Schmidt has confirmed that it is likely that there won't be any tablet PC sold by Google. Schmidt told the...

A UK court has fined a man £5,000 for 'shill bidding' - artificially inflating the prices of the products he put up for auction - on online retail service eBay.Paul Barrett drive up prices by bidding on his own ebay...

Korean electronics giant Lucky Goldstar has launched a new category of phones and devices under the titleof Optimus, running various operating systems that include Google’s mobile OS and also Windows Mobile. Optimus will be LG’s...

Software giant Microsoft has said that Xbox Arcade games will be ported to its upcoming Windows Phone 7 using the XNA framework, Tech Radar has reported.The XNA framework is used to develop Xbox Arcade games.Oded Ran, the head of...

UK game developers are hitting out at Canadian game publishers, who are apparently attempting to Hoover up business from British game studios now that tax relief plans have been shelved. Games dev site Develop reports that...

Korean manufacturer LG Electronics will apparently debut an Android-based tablet by the end of the year, following the footsteps of its archrival, Samsung.Adobe's Flash has been made available to iPad users, thanks to software...

Multi-touch was a big selling point for Windows 7, but you're still not going to get a look-in unless you've specifically bought a new multi-touch PC or display. However, in a bid to get more people in on the road to multi-touch...

Search giant Google has released security patches for the stable version of its Chrome web browser.The company has also updated the interface of the developer version of the browser.Google Chrome stable 5.0.375.99 comes with...

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia went down for several hours after suffering from a failure at one of its data centres in the US.Visitors to the website, ranked among the top ten most visited websites in the world, were greeted by...

Apple's iTunes App Store contains more paid-for applications than its rival Android Market, according to research conducted by application store analytics firm Distimo.The company found that 80 per cent of the applications...

Research conducted by the UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM) suggests that broadband internet has become more widespread in the UK - and that older users now make up the majority of new surfers.The company said that the number...

Activision Blizzard's big cheese says he wants to see an industry-wide effort to connect gaming PCs to TVs, hoping that it will break the dominance of online console subscription services such as Live and PSN. Speaking to the...

A survey by Ipos MediaCt has revealed that console gamers prefer to buy discs rather than downloading digital copies of games.The poll showed that as many as 64 per cent - nearly two-thirds - of those surveyed expressed a...

A County Durham man is thought to be the first person to ever convicted and sentenced for fixing an online auction in the UK. Paul Barrett was convicted of shill bidding, where a seller bids on his own items (or gets others do...

Lenovo chairman Liu Chuanzhi has said that his company is fortunate that Apple has not focused on the Chinese market.Speaking to The Financial Times, Liu Chuanzhi's said: “We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper...

A single picture of the what appeared to be a HTC Desire smartphone with a slide out QWERTY keyboard has been leaked online, this beast already has a name, the HTC Vision, one which we met back in May 2010. The phone, which looks...

Video sharing site YouTube has fixed a vulnerability that allowed hackers to lure unsuspecting users to adult websites by clicking on fake pop-up windows.The hackers placed code snippets in the comments section of a number of...

ITN has signed a deal with Iliffe News and Media to feature its video news content on websites owned by Iliffe, The Guardian has reported.The deal, part of ITN's Premium News Network, will allow video news relating to business,...

Google UK CEO Matt Brittin has claimed that there is still room for another social networking platform to challenge Facebook's dominance.In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Brittin said that even though Facebook was an...

Supercomputers that use accelerators, such as separate graphics chips, to relieve some of the load from the system's central processor are more energy efficient than those that don't.The finding is revealed in the new Green500...

When celebrity homosexualist, Apple evangelist and national treasure Stephen Fry announced on an episode of Top Gear that he was a fan of Grindr, the iPhone App's fate was all-but sealed. Grindr, which is a cruising application...

The Toshiba Satellite L670-12J is capably driven by the Intel Core i5-430M Processor, and smoothly runs Microsoft's Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. A roomy 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM add to a formidable home...

Although Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, already said that there won't be a follow up to the Nexus One, nothing is set in stone especially with the resurgent competition from Microsoft, HP (Palm) and RIM coming towards the end...

Brits are wasting more than £800 million on mobile phone calls they don't make because they can't work out which tariff they should be on, self-serving research from mobile phone price comparison site Top10.com...

The BBC has accidentally uploaded an unfinished 2012 Olympics microsite, which has labelled Facebook users as 'Saddos'.The Media Blog reports that now altered 'Follow Us' section on the microsite prompted users to either follow...

South Korean maker of most things digital, LG Electronics, has said to will deliver an Android-powered tablet device before the year is out. Most electronics firms hurriedly scribbled 'tablet computer' on their roadmaps for this...

A recent study conducted by online price comparison website Top10.com has revealed that Britons waste £800 million every year by choosing unsuitable mobile phone contracts.The study revealed that more than half of mobile...

Adobe's Flash has been made available to iPad users, thanks to software developer Comex.Comex, the team behind the Sprint untethered jailbreak tool, has created an unofficial workaround that users can install in order to access...

Google Earth user Zach Evans yesterday found an image of Jesus Christ in a Hungarian field.The Sun reports that Evans, a sales executive from Southampton, discovered the image in satellite images of farmland in Puspokladany,...

Korean manufacturer LG Electronics will apparently debut an Android-based tablet by the end of the year, following the footsteps of its archrival, Samsung. According to a report published by the WSJ (subscription required), the...

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro smartphone might be a brand new phone but its price has already been slashed with the nimble handset available for sale from Very for as little as £199 on O2's network. The device is...

The thermal engineers at cooling firm Asetek have unveiled a prototype of a full-spec PC in an iMac-style chassis. The liquid cooled all-in-one manages to accommodate a Core i7 920 CPU and a GeForce GTX 280M into a stylish...

Apple's iTunes App Store has been attacked by rogue developers from Asia in an effort to steal money and put fake applications at the top of the store's rankings. The Next Web is reporting that more than 30 readers have...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have shelved plans to release a desktop of the Google Voice VoIP client, prompting users to petition the company for its release.The company has apparently dropped the desktop version...

3View Commercial Director Robert Blackwell provides us with some interesting insights about the company's future plans regarding their promising Freeview HD personal video recorder. To start up with, can you please present...

According to recent research, reading ebooks is slower than reading a printed book.The study, carried out by research firm Nielsen Norman Group, asked 24 participants to read a short story written by Ernest Hemingway on the...

Toshiba has branded a version of the intel-specced Classmate PC, the CM1 for launch in Japan. The Atom-driven CM1 sports a rotating touch-screen display that can turn it from netbook to tablet with a twist, and is designed with...

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...

Apple has announced that it has axed the restocking fee users have to pay to return their iPhone 4.The company has decided not to charge users the restocking fee of $20 for the 16GB iPhone 4 or the $30 for the 32GB version, in...

Despite the best efforts of Apple CEO Steve Jobs to make his company's iDevices a Flash-free zone, jailbroken iPads are now able to run a version of Adobe's video and animation software. According to Redmond Pie, a port of the...

Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will be developing a number of new mobile devices based on the WebOS it acquired after purchasing Palm.HP and Microsoft had previously showcased a jointly developed tablet device, the Slate,...

Users of the popular HTC HD2 smartphone will now be able to install Google's Android 2.1 Eclair on their Windows Mobile 6.5-based handsets.The feat has been made possible by the people at XDA Developers, which report that Android...

Google's online video sharing service YouTube has become the subject of a hacker attack.Hackers have exploited a vulnerability in the comments section claiming to redirect visitors to singer Justin Beiber's fan page, but instead...

Semiconductor giant Intel is set to launch a slew of new desktop processors over the next few weeks as part of a massive range refresh that could see the introduction of seven new processors. According to Digitimes, the first...

Lenovo has started shipping its first 3D laptop, the Ideapad Y560d, a few weeks after announcing it. The device will only be available in the US for now with prices starting at round $1499. The computer manufacturer has chosen...

Apple's iTunes App Store has been hit by a wave of fraudulent purchases, as many users report suspicious activity from their iTunes account.Engadget reports that there was a surge in sales of book applications by the developer...

So Apple responds to the distress iPhone 4 owners are experiencing by "holding it wrong" by issuing a statement saying that it has been measuring signal strength wrongly since its very first iPhone. "In many instances," the firm...