Following on from the TXSR508, the TXSR578 offers video processing via Faroudja DCDi. In addition to improving the pass-through video quality, this gives the ability to upscale signals to 1080p. Added to that is HDMI...

The smart Toshiba L500-1XC is an ideal choice for everyday computing. A 2.13GHz Intel Core processor combined with 2GB of RAM ensures efficient performance. And with a 320GB hard drive you’ll be able to store plenty of...

The sale of Virgin Media TV to archrival BSkyB has been completed today for £105 million after regulators gave their green light to the transaction. An additional £55 million will be paid when the Office of Fair Trade...

Steve Ballmer is confident that Windows 7 based Tablet PC (or Slates) will be a roaring success when the first wave of devices come to market by the end of the year but we do not share his enthusiasm for a Windows-based tablet...

A day after we brought you news that Research In Motion has developed a security application for its phones known as BlackBerry Protect, Microsoft has made public a similar set of features will be in Windows Phone 7.These native...

Microsoft has announced that it allow companies to keep running Windows XP until 2020 through its downgrade rights policy; only Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate will be downgradable to Windows XP Professional. This...

Music streaming service We7 is set to add a rolling news station, UK newspaper The Telegraph reported today.We7 has teamed up with The Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) radio division to offer its users news tracks that can be...

Microsoft has launched the beta version of Developer Tools for Windows Phone 7, technology news website Gadget Venue reported today.Andy Lees, senior vice president of Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft announced the...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the smartest CEO in the world of technology by Fortune magazine. The list, "The 50 smartest people in tech", also features Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt and Alibaba...

US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel is shifting towards 4G wireless technology, indicating at a possible merger with T-Mobile USA, the Financial Times has reported.Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse told the Financial Times that the company...

Epic electronics conglomerate Sony has asked the public for its retro gaming wish list, in a bid to find out which classic PlayStation romps gamers want to see on the PlayStation Plus network.  Over on the PlayStation blog,...

New research has found that the widespread use of technology is damaging human memory, UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports.The survey, conducted by Michael Lynch of Credit Card Protection company (CCP), has found that as...

Photo sharing and printing website Snapfish has acquired video start-up Motionbox.Snapfish, which was bought by Hewlett-Packard in 2005, aims to facilitate video sharing on the platform using the newly acquired...

Amazon Web Services has released Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, Canadian market news website The Financial Post reports.The company said that Cluster Compute Instances had been specially developed to providce companies...

Apple has deleted at least six threads on its official forums which relate to damning evidence provided by independent watchdog Consumer Reports. As we reported earlier, the customer champion has slapped a big fat FAIL sticker...

Apple has filed a lawsuit against three major US computer equiptment sellers for violating design patents related to its power chargers, Bloomberg reports.The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of...

Microsoft has integrated Facebook into its Outlook e-mail system, technology news website Mashable has reported today.Outlook users will now be able to view their e-mail contact's Facebook profile photos, news feeds, status...

Mobile technology firm Ubiquisys, a manufacturer of 3G femtocells, has raised $9 million in a new round of funding, technology new website Electronics Weekly reported on Monday.The funding round was led by the 5 Continents...

Business software developer Oracle is seeking to raise $3.25 billion worth of finance with a two-part sale of bond notes that began on Monday, The Wall Street Journal reports.The sale of bond notes, which is to be completed on 19...

The mass invasion of Sudoku knock-offs and Bejewelled clones apparently only makes up a fraction of the online games market, according to sales statistics. Speaking at a lecture called "Five Big Things Publishers Don't...

Microsoft has added Facebook to its Outlook e-mail system in an yet another attempt to ride the social media wave. The software giant made a half-hearted attempt to steal the social notworking leader's thunder when it introduced...

Microsoft has unveiled the latest version of its customer relationship management (CRM) software, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. The announcement came at Microsoft's ongoing Worldwide Partner Conference. The software, previously...

Smartphone owners who use geotagging are worried about loss of privacy, according to a new survey reported on technology news website IT PRO.The survey, conducted by internet security portal Webroot, is based on the responses of...

Apple products suffer from the greatest number of security vulnerabilities, new research by security firm Secunia shows.But security flaws are increasing across the market. The research found that the number of vulnerabilities...

Microsoft has announced the release of the beta version of its Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1), technology news website Digital Trends reports.The public beta release was announced yesterday by Tami...

Facebook has had is assets frozen by a New York Court after a web designer filed a lawsuit claiming he owns 84 per cent of the company. New Yoiker Paul Ceglia went to the Supreme Court of Allegany County with piece of...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the smartest CEO in the world of technology by Fortune magazine, the Economic Times reports.The list, "The 50 smartest people in tech", also features Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Demand Media CEO...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has outlined the company's plans for the upcoming Patch Tuesday security update release, the Inquirer has reported.Microsoft has said that two of the security patches will address outstanding...

Plans announced by the UK's coalition government to work with Facebook to promote policy ideas have been criticised by a leading analyst.According to an article in Web User magazine, the UK government intends to promote the...

A wave of cheap chip sets for Android devices could see global markets flooded with Chinese knock offs. Taiwanese chip shop Mediatek has said it will start churning out low-cost Android capable chip sets in the third quarter of...

Recent figures from online market research firm comScore show that Google has continued to lose its share of the search market to Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo. The figures show Google's US market share has fallen from 63.7 per cent...

Facebook is facing a lawsuit filed by a new York web designer claiming to own an 84 per cent share in the company, the Wall Street Journal has reported today.Paul D. Ceglia has filed a lawsuit in the Allegany County Supreme...

UK Broadcaster Virgin Media has announced that it will add one HD channels starting from today courtesy of beleaguered terrestrial content provider, Channel Five. The new channel, Five HD will join Fiver, Fiver +1, Five USA &...

Hot on the heels of the first 3D Vision Surround Beta driver comes Nvidia's new 258.96 driver, which is currently going through Microsoft's WHQL-certification process.  Assuming Microsoft gives it the thumbs up, the driver...

Anyone who has ever watched a 3D movie will know that playing tricks on your eyeballs and brain can cause all sorts of problems, ranging from feeling a bit squiffy to full-on migraines. As we pointed out in our recent report, as...

Microsoft has announced that it has signed up a number of partners for its newly developed Azure platform, the Wall Street Journal has reported.The company has stated that technology manufacturers Hewlett-Packard, Dell and...

Overclockers looking to get more than an anaemic dose of RAM have just been given a big present by OCZ. The memory maker has just hammered out a 4GB module that can be clocked at 2133MHz.  The new Flex EX PC3-17000 module...

Microsoft has extended to 10 years the period during which Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users can downgrade to Windows XP Professional.The company made the announcement in a blog post. The move comes after the company...

A US consumer watchdog has said it cannot recommend anyone buy the iPhone 4, according to a report in today's Los Angeles Times.Consumer Reports, which is an independent, non profit reviewer of consumer electronic products, has...

Skype has announced that it will no longer support mobile VoIP service Fring, and has threatened the company with legal action after Fring removed Skype from its iPhone application. Fring explained that it would...

The Motorola XT720 is unashamedly a media phone. Running Google's Android, Motorola have taken an 8 mega-pixel camera and paired it with a Xenon flash (like proper digital camera's), which means it can take amazing photo's in...

Microsoft has announced changes to the planned roll-out of its forthcoming remote desktop management tool Intune, which will be launched in 2011.The company says the cloud-based tool will be available on subscription for $11 per...

US web site Consumer Reports, which is very much like Which? in the UK, has given the iPhone 4 a big fat fail because of its poor reception. The outfit put the popular handset through its paces in a series of rigorous tests and...

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...

Microsoft is looking for iPad-toting students to take part in a study which will no doubt shape the future of any forthcoming Microsoft tablet PCs. The Redmond outfit, which was recently beaten into second place in the most...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled a free security application for its smartphone devices.The application, BlackBerry Protect, allow users to locate lost or stolen devices over the internet.The app can display...

An easy, affordable way to supersize your digital media on your big screen TV. Simply connect the player to your TV, plug a USB drive into the player and you're ready to enjoy all your digital media in DVD quality playback,...

RIM has published official videos of its next generation Blackberry OS 6 mobile operating systems and provided with a deeper insight on how the Canadian mobile company aims at competing with Android and the iPhone. The new BOS...

UK-based charity Eyecare Trust has claimed that almost 12 per cent of Britons cannot view 3D images due to poor binocular vision.The charity says that around 6 million people in the UK suffer from headaches after viewing a 3D...

Adobe may receive an unexpected boost from RIM whose rumoured Blackberry tablet is expected to support its much lauded rich media platform, Flash. Although RIM has yet to confirm the existence of the device, Ashok Kumar, an...

Online retailer Littlewoods is offering an introductory one-off £25 discount for new customers who can put it forward to buy a Microsoft Xbox 360 Slim console which the company sells for £199 bringing the price down...

Research In Motion has developed a security application for its phones called BlackBerry Protect, where someone will be able to locate a misplaced phone easily or remotely wipe the phones' contents if permanently lost.This...

Ever since audience members fled from an approaching train at the first public showing of the Lumiere brothers' new cinematograph in 1896, film fans have been fascinated by the prospect of watching moving images break out of the...

Microsoft's most successful operating system ever, Windows XP, has been given a reprieve just as its ageing neck was heading for the chopping block. Microsoft officially ends support for XP SP2 today, marking the end of an era...

UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will appeal to the UK telecoms industry for help in increasing the availability of broadband in the country at the government's forthcoming Industry Day summit in London.Around 80 companies are...

Microsoft has officially launched a public beta of Windows 7 SP1, giving interested users a chance to download the test software. The service pack was leaked online in June, along with a beta of the Windows Server 2008 R2...

Microsoft failed to grasp the surging importance of the mobile market and missed an entire generation of mobile users according to Steve ballmer the CEO of the Redmond based computer behemoth. Talking to more than 14,000 partners...