Apple's impromptu press conference to address the issues over signal problems with the iPhone 4 resulted in the offer of a free case, to all purchasers of their latest handset.The case, or what looks more like the rubber bumper...

Q&A session finished... So Apple's pride is safe and customers should be happy with free gift... or should they? Jobs says, don't believe to anything you read in the press about the steve jobs emails... Case giving is...

Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has unveiled a quartet of LED monitors as part of its S1 series, which it claims are the slimmest in the world, with a thickness varying from 13mm to 15mm and diagonal sizes going from 18.5-inch to...

The European Commission has raised no objections to Google digitising books in the national Library of the Netherlands, news agency Associated Press reported on Thursday.Google had previously announced a fund of $1 million to...

Apple’s latest iOS 4 update has been jailbroken within hours of its release, technology news website The Inquirer reports. The Cupertino-based iPhone maker had released the software update for its existing iPhone operating...

A revolutionary Linux-based computer could see users in developing nations gets their hands on a device with the capacity to store the entire contents of Wikipedia - all for as little as $20. The prototype device made its debut...

Mozilla, the outfit which is best known for the popular Firefox web browser, is offering hackers $3,000 to poke holes in its software. The outfit has increased how much it pays 'security researchers' to reveal flaws in its...

Valve's Steam hardware surveys have frequently provided an intriguing insight into the hardware people really use, and now the software developer plans to achieve the same feat with a software survey.  In much the same way...

Apple’s latest iOS 4 update has been jailbroken within hours of its release, technology news website The Inquirer reports.The Cupertino-based iPhone maker had released the software update for its existing iPhone operating...

UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has warned that repeatedly flouting Britain's data protection laws could land offenders in jail.Graham said that companies that breached the Data Protection Act not only risked...

Google UK organised an "open house" get-together yesterday which was entitled "The Science of Search : Thoughts on the Perfect Search Engine"; it turned out to be an informal presentation by Amit Singhal who joined Google back in...

Computer gaming magazine PC Zone is set to shut down after it releases its 225th issue on 2 September 2010, the BBC News reported on Wednesday.Launched 17 years ago, PC Zone was the UK’s first ever magazine dedicated to PC...

It's just a few short hours before Steve Jobs will stand in front of the world's press to explain exactly what is wrong with the iPhone 4, but the company's woes just keep on building. Since Apple released an emergency update to...

In a bid to keep disgruntled UK game devs happy after the cancellation of games tax relief, the government has unveiled a £5 million investment project for the country's games businesses.  Culture Minister Ed Vaizey...

A member of the House of Lords charged with overseeing rural broadband today expressed his fury at being turned away from yesterday's Government Industry Summit to decide strategy on broadband 'not spots'. The Ulster Unionist...

Mozilla has disabled a third-party add-on called “Mozilla Sniffer” for security reasons, technology news website Cnet reported on Wednesday.Mozilla issued a statement to all Firefox users that the Mozilla Sniffer had...

Privacy is still a significant concern for the majority of US social network users, two separate surveys have revealed.According to a telephone survey conducted by The Marist Institute for Public Opinion, around 50 per cent of...

Apple has increased its share of the laptop market, will nearly one in ten notebooks sold in teh second quarter of 2010 bearing the company's logo.Research firm Gartner revealed that Apple's share of the US laptop market had...

It has emerged that as many as 16 companies were involved in the race to snap up ailing PDA pioneer Palm earlier this year but all of them let HP slip in and snap up the company's valuable IP. Business Insider says that some of...

ZTE has long been associated with the very low end of the mobile phone market with the likes of the ZTE F102 or the ZTE X760 (AKA T-Mobile Vairy or Orange Vegas) gradually cementing the Chinese brand as a great entry level mobile...

Apple has approved Mozilla’s Firefox Home for use on its iPod Touch and iPhone devices, the Telegraph reports.Firefox Home, submitted for approval on 30 June, allows users to synchronise their history, bookmarks and...

Never a company to shy away from graphical excess, tech conglomerate Asus has just shown us the successor to its Mars graphics card, which features two GeForce GTX 480 chips on a single PCB.  This means you effectively get...

Google and advertising firm Omnicom Media have entered a two year online advertising partnership, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Under the two year global partnership deal, Omnicom is set buy hundreds of millions of...

Microsoft's updated Xbox 360S went on sale today and one retailer is reporting that 'hundreds' of people are queuing to get their hands on the new console. The new, slimmer version of the gaming hardware, imaginatively named the...

Microsoft has officially launched the new version of its flagship gaming console, the Xbox 360, and added a new moniker to it, Slim, to describe the physical changes that have been made to it. Apart from the fact that it has lost...

The follow up of the wildly popular HTC Desire could come to the UK in October 2010 according to the details published by a UK-based online retailer. SuperEtrader says that the phone, which carries the codename Ace, will have a...

Microsoft has unveiled its Azure on-premise cloud computing appliance at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC).The company says that it will be offering the appliance to enterprises who wish to buy it in large...

It has been a busy week in the mobile world, which makes for a much welcomed change from last in which it appeared the world had a quiet one following on from Independence day in the States.This week's news mostly surrounded...

Sales of video games and consoles in the US fell by 6 per cent in June to $1.1 billion worth of revenue, new research by the NDP Group shows.Although overall US console sales for June rose by 5 per cent, sales of video games...

At an event held at Google HQ in London, Amit Singhal, one of the four Google Fellows worldwide, hinted at what comes next in the convoluted world of online search from the biggest search engine around. Singhal is one of the most...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the world's 37th richest man, has promised to donate the majority of his $13.5 billion fortune to charity.Allen, who was previously diagnosed and treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, said that he...

Google said  its second-quarter profit was up 24 per cent over the year - to a healthy $1.84 billion - while sales revenue rose to $6.82 billion from $5.52 billion in Q2 last year. Snoop-in-chief Eric Schmidt said Google...

AMD's next generation of DirectX 11 GPUs could be rolling up as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, according to a representative from AMD board partner HIS.  Speaking to Funky Kit, the graphics card maker's senior...

Hundreds of staff across the public sector have been caught illegally snooping on a government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. The Customer Information System (CIS), a central resource of the...

Microsoft has announced it will be supporting software development projects on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform, Network World has reported.The company has said that it is willing to co-fund development.According to the...

An electromagnetic engineer who has spent much of his career working on the kind of problems currently plagueing Apple and its iPhone 4 has dismissed the findings of a respected consumer research outfit as bad science. Bob Egan...

Apple was a key player in the race to snap up ailing smartphone maker Palm earlier this year, but was outbid by HP's $1.2 billion offer, Business Insider reports.Citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter, Business Insider...

We've just been through the hottest June ever recorded on Earth, if  the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is to be believed. The combined average for global land and ocean temperatures during the month...

Apple is planning on equipping future iPads and iPod Touches with front facing cameras to bring FaceTime video conferencing technology to the devices, according to a report on Boy Genius Report.The BBC News website has undergone...

Apple has released the iOS 3.2.1 software update for its iPad tablet device.The iOS update is set to fix problems that have been reported by some users concerning Wi-Fi connectivity.Shortly after launch, many iPad owners...

Apple has issued iOS4 version 4.0.1 which changes the way the handset displays carrier bars and not a lot else. It was widely predicted that Apple would offer a software fix for poor carrier reception, despite the company's...

Tariffs, deals and choosing a handset can be a minefield for anyone - even for the most knowledgeable and thoroughly researched of consumer. We thought we would ease the headache and bring you what each major mobile phone network...

Go high-def for free! Panasonic's VT20 series televisions come with Freeview HD and Freesat HD tuners built in, which means you can access top-notch high-definition TV broadcasts for free, either via satellite or using a standard...

Search engine giant Google has maintained that it is satisfied with its second-quarter financial results, and will continue to make investments in its main and emerging businesses, the Wall Street Journal reports.The company's...

Apple has released the iOS 4.1 SDK to developers, which the company claims will fix the iPhone 4 'death grip' problem.The company has also scheduled a hasty press conference to be held at its Cupertino headquarters today, to...

Apple is planning on equipping future iPads and iPod Touches with front facing cameras to bring FaceTime video conferencing technology to the devices, according to a report on Boy Genius Report.According to a BGR source within...

Apple engineers were aware of problems with the new antenna design on the iPhone 4 a year before the smartphone was launched, The Wall Street Journal reports.Citing internal sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street...

A couple of days after Intel claimed to have achieved its best financial quarter ever, rival chip maker AMD managed to make less of a loss than many observers were expecting. Indeed, the outfit might have made a profit were it...