The news that BT will increase its line rental and call charges may well prove to be a decisive argument that competitors like Virgin Media, Sky and Talktalk will use to convince BT customers to jump ship. However, BT customers...

Netgear DG834G 54 Mbps 802.11g Wireless ADSL Firewall Router adds considerable power and flexibility to your network. Five products in one, it combines an ADSL modem, router, 10/100 LAN switch, 802.11g access point, and SPI...

The new Microsoft Xbox 360 Slim has apparently managed to become the biggest selling revised gaming console of all times, outselling the likes of the Playstation 2 Slim and the PS3 Slim in their opening sales figures. According...

Hewlett-Packard has updated its MagCloud cloud-based printing and publishing platform.The platform, which has been developed by HP Labs, offers an online market place in which publishers can reach a wider audience by offering...

Enterprise networking giant Cisco has acquired digital signal processing (DSP) solution maker CoreOptics in a $99 million all-cash deal, the company has announced. CoreOptics develops DSP solutions for high-speed enterprise...

Location-based social network Foursquare is currently talking major search companies including giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft about a check-in data partnership, The Telegraph reports.In an exclusive interview with The...

Demand for Microsoft's redesigned Xbox 360 S has outstripped supply. Microsoft had launched the new console in the UK on 16 July, but within a day the device had sold out in many retailers across the country.Millions of Muslim...

The European Commission is set to lay down software purchasing guidelines for the governments of its 27 member states, the New York Times has reported.The Commission’s European Interoperability Framework guidelines are...

Internet searches for The Vatican via Google Search have been directing people to a link to www.pedofilo.com, the Italian word for paedophile, indicating that the site may have been hacked.However, some Italian reports suggest...

Storage company Seagate has unveiled a new home networking storage system called the GoFlex which is essentially a NAS drive with some clever features added on. The device, available either in 1TB or 2TB capacity, is made up of a...

The white version of the iPhone 4 is set to be available in the UK before the end of July, technology news website Tech Watch reported on Saturday.While addressing a press conference at the company's Cupertino headquarters, Apple...

Sometimes, quality is better than sheer quantity as Rupert Murdoch's paywall experiment with the Times newspaper proves it to some extent. Hitwise published a report which showed that the new Times Online news website had...

BT has announced that it will be increasing the prices for its fixed home phone lines by 10 per cent, increasing the minimum call cost to 17.3 pence.The company has said that the rise in charges is needed to help the company...

Nvidia's highly exclusive 3D Vision Surround technology has finally escaped from the Beta dungeon, as Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) has just given it the thumbs up.  If you're lucky enough to own three...

A comment about a Verizon mobile phone tower on Apple premises has led to hopes that the iPhone 4 will be coming to the network provider in the near future, technology blog LA News Monitor has reported.While addressing a press...

Microsoft has hired the former head of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as the director of its Research department.Dr Peter Lee, who is also responsible for innovative development at the military Defense Advanced...

Feargal Sharkey, former front man of punk legends the Undertones, will almost certainly end up with a permanent seat in the House of Lords, according to reports. The one-time singer, who has more recently made a name for himself...

Data centre and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace Hosting has released the development codes for its open-source cloud platform, OpenStack. The company hoes that by releasing the codes, it will be able to create a...

Google has announced the HTC handset made specifically for the Internet search giant which runs their own OS will no longer be available, after the current shipment arriving this week runs out. The Google website that sells the...

The average price of super large capacity hard disk drives is rapidly plummeting as we noticed this morning that the cost of 1TB hard disks had slipped under £40 price barrier, in other words, £1 now buys you 25GB...

Taiwanese tech conglomerate Asus has just launched a 23-inch 3D-capable monitor, which it claims will eliminate ghosting in games.  According to Asus, the new VG236H has a two millisecond (grey-to-grey) response time,...

The UK government today announced it will axe a number of advisory bodies, including intellectual property watchdog SABIP and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body. The bodies are all associated with the...

BT has entered a partnership with Arqiva and Detica to bid on a multi-billion government contract for the installation of smart meters in homes and small businesses, The Guardian has revealed.The companies will bid for the...

Read and write Blu-ray discs at 10x with the BH10LS30 Blu-ray rewriter that allows you record files, photos, or business documents onto a single dual layer BD-R Blu-ray disc. Play HD content from BD Video discs or record up to...

Apart from the free bumper cases, the other big announcement Steve Jobs made on Friday was that the company had managed to flog more than three million iPhone 4 since the phone was launched three weeks earlier. This means that on...

Coca-Cola has pulled a promotion on Facebook for the soft drink Dr. Pepper, after one mother discovered the company had posted a pornographic reference on her daughter's profile page, the Guardian has reported.  The soft...

Microsoft has reported the first critical 'zero-day' vulnerability in the Windows 7 Service Pack 1.The company advised developers testing the SP to update their systems before the vulnerability can be exploited.In an advisory,...

There are anecdotal evidences that retailers across UK are aggressively clearing out stocks of the old Xbox 360 "fat" gaming console as Microsoft hikes up its campaign to get sufficient stocks of the new Xbox 360 Slim...

Samsung has revealed the future of television with an ultra-thin, Internet connected, 3D capable 55-incher. The Series 9 is infeasibly thin at just under 8mm at its fattest point, but the compromise is that all of the ports and...

Social networking giant Facebook is to launch an online campaign to celebrate reaching 500 million global users.The company is expected to officially announce the half-billion milestone next week.According to reports, Facebook...

Gizmodo editor Jason Chen has been reunited with the goods seized by police in April looking for evidence in the case of an allegedly stolen iPhone 4 prototype. The San Mateo district Attorney granted the withdrawal of the search...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 has entered its Tech Preview stage.The Tech Preview stage means that the product has passed its beta testing, but is still not regarded as finished.The Windows 7 OS has been made available to a select...

The Motorola Milestone XT720 has gone on sale in the UK with a release date due for the 20th of July 2010. UK retailer Play is selling the SIM Free device, which is also known as the Motoroi, for £360 including...

Motorola's Milestone XT720 Google OS based handset is now on sale, SIM free and unlocked from a range of on-line resellers. This sequel to their keyboard based Android mobile phone, with HD recording and an HDMI socket has...

Google has announced that the next batch of Nexus One smartphones will be the last to go on sale, technology news website Tech Tree reports.The search giant stated on its official Nexus One blog that HTC will deliver the last...

Google has announced the acquisition of five-year-old internet database startup Metaweb, in an effort to improve its search services.The company said in a blog post that Metaweb technology will allow it to offer results for more...

Intel might be milking its hexacore farm for all the cash it can eke out of it, but the chip maker has also just slashed the prices of some of its cheaper processors, cutting the cost of some of its Core i7 and Xeon chips by...

Let's be clear about it, Apple is having a hard time with the press, especially with outlets based in the US and the press conference on Friday over issues related to the iPhone 4 antenna reception only seemed to have strained...

Connect your wired and wireless desktop computer and notebooks to your Belkin N Wireless Modem Router to share your broadband Internet access. Now you can quickly exchange documents, share resources, and distribute large video...

Booth babes will always be a contentious issue for the tech industry. Scantily-clad ladies clutching naked motherboards are as much part of the tech conference grind as overpriced beer, inedible food and crappy hotel...

Motorola plans to sell its wireless network business to Nokia Siemens Networks for $1.2 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported.According to the Wall Street Journal, sources familiar with the matter have said that Motorola...

It's not unusual for major web sites to disappear without explanation, but when two social service sites went down within days of each other in mysterious circumstances, alarm bells started ringing. Cnet News reported yesterday...

Could mobile phone networks be looking to clear stocks of the HTC Desire before an updated model swoops in? Possibly as the price of the phone on a monthly contract continues to fall down. The number of deals on £25 per...

If you were hoping Intel's next hexacore chip wasn't going to cost you the best part of the proverbial arm and leg, then gear yourself up for some disillusionment. Intel has now officially launched the non-Extreme Core i7 970,...

Millions of Muslim Facebook users are threatening to quit the social network after Islamic pages were removed.The 2.5 million protesters have threatened to switch to an Islamic social network 'Medina' if Facebook does not restore...

Demand for Microsoft's redesigned Xbox 360 S has outstripped supply, gaming news site Electronic Theatre reported on Saturday.Microsoft launched the new console in the UK on 16 July, but within a day the device had sold out in...

At Apple's emergency press conference, held to discuss the iPhone 4's antenna issues, the company announced that the company would be giving out free bumpers to all iPhone 4 owners worldwide.MySpace has revamped its profile...

Leading rivals of iPhone 4 maker Apple have hit back at claims made by the company's CEO, Steve Jobs, at a press conference on Friday that all smartphones were dogged by reception issues. Smartphone makers Nokia, HTC and...

Virgin is set to release an 'iPad-only' magazine, according to The Guardian.Maverick, which is headed by Richard Branson's daughter Holly Branson, will be initially available for the iPad in October, but versions for the iPhone...

A Taiwanese news outlet has created an animated video to better illustrate the Apple Antennagate affair, complete with a light sabre battle between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Jason Chen having his back door kicked in by the cops...

Microsoft has started to offer the Zune Pass subscription in the UK in preparation for the launch of Windows Phone 7 towards the end of the year. As first mentioned by Liveside.net, you can already sign up for the service here...

UK newspaper The Times has lost 66 per cent of its online readership following the introduction of a paywall, the Guardian has reported.Rupert Mudroch, head of News International, the media group that controls The Times last year...

Unfortunately, no. 3D TV works in a very different way from conventional TV. For more 3D content & featured articles, go to Welcometo3d.tv For a start, it has to send twice as many images to your TV screen as a standard TV...

Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) have criticised Apple for calling antenna issue affecting its iPhone 4 “a challenge for the whole industry,” the Telegraph has reported.Apple CEO Steve Jobs, while addressing a press...

Lawyers representing dance music label Ministry of Sound have sent letters to thousands of suspected illegal file sharers in Britain, threatening to take them to court.The label seeks to extract substantial damages from the...

Intel said it has hired former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell to act as vice president and director of its smartphone product development. The chip maker is as desperate as a desperate thing to get into the smartphone market....