Just a couple of months before Civilization V is set to take over the lives of turn-based strategy enthusiasts, 2K games has handed out pink slips to a good chunk of workers at the game's studio. After swallowing a marketing...

Apple is already working on a minor update to the iPhone OS 4.0 mobile platform but the firmware upgrade is likely to be delayed as Apple engineers scramble to patch holes that have been used to jailbreak the existing iOS 4.A...

Gadget manufacturer iRiver has unveiled a new ebook reader called the iRiver Wi-Fi Story and which is already available in the UK with a suggested retail price of £250.iRiver, which is better known for its superb media...

Google's share of the US search market fell by one per cent in June, according to new research by online search anaytics firm Hitwise.The sophisticated encryption code used by Skype to protect its network has been exposed by...

Sales of Nintendo's portable gaming console, the DSi, have grown by nearly half week-on-week as the Japanese company launched a price cutting campaign called "price crash".The price reduction, which doesn't apply to the DS Lite...

Now that plans for video games tax relief have been decapitated and kicked around in the dust, the Nova Scotia government has revealed plans to visit the UK and persuade British game developers to move their business across the...

Apple's Apple TV product will be offering $1 video streams instead of downloads, if the latest rumours are to be believed.According to an article posted on tech blog NewTeeVee, the move will be the next step in Apple's...

Networking equipment maker Netgear has launched its ReadyNAS Ultra 4 and ReadyNAS Ultra 6 network-attached storage devices, which will allow users to stream videos to game consoles, TiVo devices and Android powered smartphones...

Google will soon start to collect data for its Street View service in further European countries and in South Africa, news agency Reuters reported today.According to a post published by the search giant on its European Public...

Microsoft's upcoming 'Patch Tuesday' security update will contain a security patch for the Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability that was publicly disclosed by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy.The Windows Help and...

Japanese people are unsatisfied with the 3D technology that's currently booming in their country, according to a recent survey reported on technology news website TechWatch.According to results of the survey, nearly 67 per cent...

Facebook has bought a little-known travel recommendation company by the name of Nextstop, Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday.According to a blog post on Nextstop’s website, the social network plans to close the...

Microsoft has issued a version of its Silverlight web application framework designed for mobile phone handsets based on the Symbian mobile OS.The company released a Silverlight port for Nokia 5800, N97 and N97 mini devices...

Mobile phone application developer Fring has brought out an iPhone 4 application that enables video calling on the latest Apple handset over 3G, where Apple’s iOS 4 only natively offers video calling over WIFI. A company that’s...

Leaked pictures of an unfamiliar Apple-branded touch screen module have tipped up on a Hong Kong web site, leading to the kind of frenzied speculation which only the Cupertino company can generate. Blurry snaps of the two-inch...

Seven years after AMD first unleashed its Athlon 64 desktop chips, it looks as though the 64-bit revolution is finally about to kick off. Microsoft has revealed that out of all the Windows 7 installations out there, a massive 46...

At a speech yesterday at the Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference, the UK’s culture minister, Ed Vaizey said that the coalition Government would continue the policy of the Labour Government and ‘aspire’...

The Internet Service Providers' Association has announced its Internet Villain and Hero of the year at what we can only suppose was a swanky awards ceremony in London, as we weren't invited. To no-one's surprise, the two...

Patent-holding company NTP has filed an infringement suit against Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG Electronics and Motorola over email technology these firms use in the smartphones they make. NTP managed to squeeze a $612.5...

Now that T-Mobile has finally announced its pricing for the iPhone 4, we're embarking in our iPhone 4 Buying Guide; this is your ultimate document regardless whether you want to hack your existing SIM to death, whether you want...

Apple is set to open a new retail outlet in Shanghai on Saturday, the New York Times has reported.The shop is the first of 25 retail outlets the iPad maker plans to open across China over the next two years. It will be the second...

Intel is planning to kill of the Celeron chip that still makes its way into notebook PCs  - but not for long if a report over at Dodgytimes is to be believed. According to the Taiwanese wire, Intel is winding down Celeron...

Samsung’s Galaxy S is their latest and third Google OS Android handset, with the original i7500 ‘Galaxy’, and I5700 ‘Galaxy Portal’ all coming before hand and all running a vanilla version of the Google mobile OS. This new model...

Retail giant John Lewis has leaked details of the next generation iPod touch during a staff event which looks forward to the Christmas sales period. Apple is well known for its almost Stalinist approach to secrecy, but the High...

MySpace owner News Corp has denied rumours that it is looking to sell off the ailing social network. An article in UK newspaper The Guardian suggested that News Corp was looking to abandon the platform, and planned to put it up...

Networking giant Cisco Systems plans to create more than 3,000 new jobs at its Indian base in Bangalore, according to an article on Wednesday in India's Economic Times."We are quite happy about our Indian operations. As Bangalore...

US senator Robert Dvorsky's yahoo e-mail account has been hacked by a group of online scammers.Members of the Iowa senator's e-mail contacts list received a message claiming that Dvorsky had been stranded in Scotland and urgently...

A rather quiet week was had by the mobile world, with America's Independence Day on the Sunday leading to the Monday being a public holiday. This often has a roll on effect into the week, where many companies usually end up...

Steve Jobs says that he sees Apple TV as a hobby for the company, but the rumour mill is spinning faster every day as tech news outlets try to outguess each other over the Cupertino company's next move into the living room. No...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been invited by the Consumer Electronics Association to give the opening key note address at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in January next year.The CEO, who had been rumoured to be speaking at...

Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing four 'Patch Tuesday' security updates, including a fix for the Microsoft Help and Support Centre vulnerability disclosed by Google researcher Tavis Ormandy.Ormandy had publicly...

Microsoft has filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office, relating to the virtual 'page-turning' technology used by many e-book readers, tech news website The Register has reported.Microsoft's application for patent...

Console gamers have traditionally only had to wait five years between new consoles, but but games publisher Ubisoft reckons we may not see the next generation of consoles for another three years. Euro Gamer recently caught up...

A study by a French sports science college has concluded that playing sports video games can 'increase participation' in real sports, especially amongst young men and boys. According to the study, 38 per cent of males under 21...

News blog The Upshot was launched this week by IT giant Yahoo, according to a report on Tuesday by technology site TechCrunch.Writing on his blog, Upshot Editor Andrew Golis said that the blog is based on Yahoo’s search...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) is set to launch its 'Perfect Citizen' programme, designed to identify and prevent web attacks on American organisations, the Wall Street Journal has reported.The Wall Street Journal said...

The sophisticated encryption code used by Skype to protect its network has been exposed by cryptography expert Sean O'Neil.O'Neil believes that the code is already being exploited by Skype spammers.Skype's encryption code, based...

Troubled maker of software and one-time maker of mobile phones Microsoft has been crafting a plug with which to patch up two zero-day vulnerabilities in a fix to be released on this coming 'Patch' Tuesday. The update will be...

Google's share of the US search market fell by one per cent in June, according to new research by online search anaytics firm Hitwise. The data shows that the percentage of searches that were carried out using Google declined...

Verizon Communications will telecast Major League Baseball in 3D, the company has announced on its official website on Wednesday. Verizon is planning to telecast the matches for its FiOS TV customers across New York state and...

A study has revealed an increasing number of women are becoming addicted to Facebook, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday.According to research conducted by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research...

Asus will start shipping a trio fnew EEE PC netbooks, the 1015p, 1016p and 1018p by the end of next month although Asus has yet to say when they will land in the UK.Some online retailers have already started to take preorders of...

Acer has updated its family of high end all in one computers by swapping the Core 2 Duo processors for Core i3, i5 and i7 processors while tweaking a few features.Two new models, the Aspire Z5710 and the Aspire Z5700, have been...

iOS game developer OpenFeint has announced that the company will be bringing its open-source gaming platform to Google's Android OS.According to recently released data by analytics firm comScore, Google's Android OS is the...

According to a new study, watching 3D TV is no more damaging to eyes than viewing a normal television, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. According to research conducted by Professor Colin Clifford from the University of...

Asus has launched a monster gaming card in the shape of the limited edition Republic of Gamers Ares card. The Taiwanese outfit has stuck two Radeon HD5870 cores overclocked to 850MHz onto a single humongous board, suitably...

An Argentinian hacker has hacked into The Pirate Bay, extracting emails and IP addresses of 4 million Pirate Bay users in the process.Hacker CH Russo clarified in a blog post that he hacked the website not for commercial purposes...

No, you won't. You only need to wear the active shutter glasses when you want to enjoy 3D Blu-ray or TV broadcasts. If you fancy curling up on the sofa and enjoying an episode of EastEnders in 2D, you can leave the glasses...

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has criticised three local authorities for breaching the Data Protection Act.The West Sussex County Council, the London Borough of Barnet and Buckinghamshire County Council were...

Verizon Communications will telecast Major League Baseball in 3D, the company has announced on its official website on Wednesday.Verizon Communications, one of the largest providers of broadband and wireless communication...

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC looks to have another winner up its sleeve in the shape of the updated HD2 called, surprisingly enough, the HD3. Digital Reviews has stumbled across some details of the upcoming handset and it...

Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, said Google broke the law with its misguided Street View Wi-Fi snooping shenanigans. Having investigated the matter Curtis said; "On the information available I am satisfied that...