The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has confirmed that the software giant will be pushing Windows 7 slates towards the end of the year with the help of strategic PC partners such as Dell, Asus, Samsung, Toshiba, Sony or...

After months of pressure, Facebook has announced that it will allow the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) to create a 'panic button' app for the platform.Called ClickCEOP, the app will provide Facebook...

The latest rumour surrounding RIM is that they have developed a BlackBerry iPad-esque tablet, according to the analyst company Rodman and Renshaw. Details relating to the devices specifications have been noted in a recent report,...

Apple has announced it will either replace or repair faulty Time capsule storage drives sold between February and June 2008 with serial numbers that start XX807XXXXXX or XX814XXXXXX.More than 70 per cent people in the world...

Online music streaming service Spotify has released a native version of its client for the Linux platform, although the release seems to be a beta version that still contains a few bugs. Interestingly, Spotify has been supporting...

Grocery giant Tesco has fired the first salvo in what is turning out to be the biggest price war for the few months before Christmas by slashing the cost of the new, yet to be launched Xbox 360 Slim from £200 to £189,...

Ubisoft claimed last week that 3D TV would be mainstream by 2013 in a move that might suggest that the French gaming powerhouse is looking to capitalise on the growing interest that is being generated by 3D hardware and...

A website designed by security firm Symantec to warn users about scams surrounding the FIFA World Cup 2010 has been hit by spammers, security news website The H Security has reported.The 2010NetThreats website, designed to...

Apple has issued a worldwide product recall for its Time Capsule wireless back-up hardware dues to power problems. The company says it will offer replacements or do out-of-warranty repairs free of charge on an undisclosed number...

Google has produced an application creator called ‘App Inventor' that simply allows for the easy creation of Android mobile phone apps, all without the need for any previous experience of developing mobile phone software or for...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today highlighted the key role of cloud computing would play in the company's innovation strategy. Speaking to Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington DC, Ballmer...

Apple has announced it is to recall faulty Time capsule storage drives sold between February and June 2008, the Telegraph reports.Apple has said in a post on its official support page that the company will either replace or...

With the gaming giants threatening to desert the UK, the country's two main games industry bodies, TIGA and ELSPA, have joined forces to persuade the Government to reintroduce video games tax relief. The new steering committee...

Nvidia has released its GeForce GTX 460 graphics chipset, technology news website PC World has reported.The new GeForce GTX 460 has almost all the power of the high-end GTX 480, but comes at a significantly lower cost.Nvidia says...

More details have emerged about the next generation Apple iPod Touch media player which should be available in September 2010, this time purporting to a builtin 3.2-megapixel camera. Sources told 9to5.mac that the new iPod Touch...

Google's Android OS has increased its US market share in May as rivals suffered, the latest data from comScore reveals.The data, which reveals the proportion of America's 234 million mobile phone users on each of the rival OS...

Fring has released an updated version of a smartphone application that allows two-way video calling over 3G and Wi-Fi networks, technology news website PC Mag has reported.The application is designed to run on Android, Symbian...

Google has released a set of tools which will allow anyone to build applications for Android mobile devices with no programming knowledge at all. The Android App inventor uses a familiar tabbed interface and drag-and-drop...

More than 70 per cent people in the world subscribe to a mobile connection, according to data recently released by telecommunications company Ericsson.The company said that the global mobile phone market totalled five billion...

Music streaming outfit Spotify has announced a preview build of its cleint software for Linux users. The company describes the release as one of the "the fun ideas and projects that our developers have been working on - mostly...

Rumours of the impending doom of Wikileaks are part of a campaign against the whistle-blowing outfit, according to an insider. The original report, which appeared on cryptome, said no more time or effort would be put into...

HP Labs India has developed a new cloud-based platform, SiteonMobile, which is set to provide users with easy access to content and web-based transactions.PC World reports that the technology, first announced in 2008, is designed...

Google's Android Market will soon pass the 100,000 application mark, according to a report by technology website Fudzilla.The site reports that Android Market currently contains around 90,000 applications, but that statistical...

Tired of playing sophisticated 3D games with incredible graphics on your Apple iDevice? Nostalgic for 20-year-old games with real playability? Well now you can harken back to your youth and play some of the best games of the...

Internet giant Google has released a beta version of its Google App Inventor tool, which will allow anyone to create apps for their Android-based smartphones.App Inventor, a part of Google Labs, allows users to create anything...

According to the rolling rumour wagon, Intel plans to retain its current Core i3, i5 and i7 brands for its forthcoming Sandy Bridge CPUs, but will introduce a new model number scheme to signify the new architecture. The tech...

WikiLeaks has denied reports that it is being abandoned by its parent company. On 10 July, an anonymous message entitled "Wikileaks Website to be Abandoned", attributed to a WikiLeaks insider, was posted on anti-secrecy site...

Sony has announced it will release a firmware update for its PlayStation 3 in September that will allow users to watch 3D Blu-ray films on the console.Pocket-Lint reports that the 3D Blu-ray update will also provide support for...

The UK government has launched a 'Networked Nation' scheme aimed at getting 10 million Britons who have never used the internet online by 2015.Government digital champion Martha Lane Fox said: “Networked Nation is a...

After months of unfathomable negotiations with the Child Exploitation and Online Resource Centre (CEOP), social notworking behemoth Facebook has finally relented and included a panic button for younger users. Sort of. Launched...

A California woman has been sentenced to one year in jail after it was discovered that she was sending threatening text messages to herself and blaming them on her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law.Jeanne Mundango Manunga had...

Google has invested $100-200 million in web-based games developer Zynga, to help launch Google Games, TechCrunch reports.Citing unnamed sources, TechCrunch says that the investment is a part of a month-old deal between Google and...

A California Judge has granted class action status to an anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple and US wireless firm AT&T over a deal signed between the two to exclusively supply the iPhone in the US, ZD Net has reported.The...

The latest Fermi countdown has finally run down to a neat line of zeroes, and Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 460 is now an official slice of silicon. Nvidia claims the new GPU hits "the gamers' sweet spot", with a refined...

Joel Tenebaum, the unfortunate college student randomly chosen by the RIAA to be the poster boy for P2P file sharers, has had his ridiculous $675,000 fine reduced by a factor of ten by an appeal court judge. Calling the original...

Controversial video on demand platform Project Canvas has suffered a setback as Channel Five pulled out of Project Canvas after saying that it no longer considers the BBC-backed project as a "priority investment".Auction...

A judge in the US District Court of Boston has slashed the $675,000 file imposed on a Boston University law student for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online.Student Joel Tenenbaum was accused by the Recording...

A research note published by Ashok Kumar, a research analyst at Rodman and Renshaw, mentions that RIM could launch a tablet computer not unlike the Cisco Cius but smaller than Apple's own iPad.The device, which is likely to be...

Details about HTC's first Windows Phone 7 smartphones have been leaked online through a XML database from HTC' official MMS setup webpage itself which said that both will be running Internet Explorer Mobile 7.No firm information...

Yes! Since the release of James Cameron's 3D opus Avatar last December, Hollywood has gone into overdrive, producing a succession of 3D titles including Coraline 3D and Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs. Upcoming movies planned...

Microsoft and Fujitsu have signed an agreement to work together in the cloud computing segment, The Wall Street Journal has reported.Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that the companies have...

Patent company NTP has filed six patent infringement lawsuits against major smartphone makers including Apple, Google, Microsoft, LG, HTC and Motorola.The lawsuits allege that the companies used NTP's e-mail technology without...

Facebook is set to shut down Facebook Gifts on 1 August, CNN has reported.Facebook Gifts was one of the earliest applications developed by the social networking giant and allowed users to send virtual gifts to friends and family...