Amazon.com published a list of requirements for prospective Kinect players and apart from the fact that they will need a Kinect compatible game, an Xbox 360 console and the Kinect itself, they apparently need to be 6 feet (around...

Microsoft has confirmed that they are targeting casual gamers first and foremost after they announced that they will be launching hard core Kinect Games in 2012, 18 months from now. Speaking to industry news outlet...

Taiwanese computer manufacturer Lenovo has unveiled a tablet computer based on Google's Android operating system. Provisionaly named the LePad, the device is scheduled for launch by the end of the year.Lenovo hopes to make the...

The Swedish Pirate Party has launched its own broadband internet service provider, the Pirate ISP. The company has been created to protect users of file-sharing sites from being hounded by authorities for allegedly beaching...

Mozilla has released a new and updated version of its Firefox web browser, which comes complete with fixes for a number of vulnerabilities.Firefox 3.6.7 fixes 14 security vulnerabilities in the web browser, of which eight have...

Parents, teachers and authorities in the US have been getting hot under the collar about an alleged teenage craze called 'i-Dosing'. The craze involves teenagers slipping on some headphones and turning up the music for a...

With Nvidia's 40nm Fermi production line finally in full swing, it looks as though the company is now preparing to unleash all its low-end and mid-range chips. We've already seen the GeForce GTX 460 this month, but the word is...

Apple has posted a bunch of videos which demonstrate that the iPhone 4 is not alone when it comes dropping carrier bars when gripped in a particular way. The clips, which were part of Steve Jobs' press conference presentation...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has hinted that hacker Gary McKinnon could serve a jail sentence in Britain instead of being extradited to the US.McKinnon, who suffers from the Asperger's syndrome, was charged by the US...

Inspired by a joke made at Apple's 'Antennagate' conference, two Brooklyn-based designers have created a fix for the iPhone's antenna problems.Discussing the problems at the conference, Steve Jobs joked: "Maybe Eminem will come...

The rumour that Apple is planning to charge iPad users for upgrading to the new iOS 4 are false, AppleInsider reports.Online blog Stuff.tv had cited an anonymous source that claimed that the company planned to charge iPad users...

Flipboard, a new iPad application that compiles users' social media streams into a personalised magazine, has been launched today.The newly launched Flipboard application will directly synchronise with users' profiles on social...

Google has increased the maximum cash reward for finding a security bug on its Chrome web browser to $3,133.The move follows an announcement by rival browser maker Mozilla that it had raised its own cash reward to $3,000.Google's...

Adobe has hit back at iPhone maker Apple by unveiling its Flash Time application for Google's Android platform.FlashTime will allow users of Android-based devices that have front-facing cameras to make video calls, like Apple's...

Memory specialist Corsair has just unveiled a tempting prospect for anyone looking for a high-speed solid state boot drive, but doesn't use money for bog roll. The company's new Force F40 drive not only features a high-speed...

The European Commission yesterday published a comprehensive overview of the way data is collected, stored and shared throughout the EU by governments, law enforcement agencies and other bodies. Presenting the Commission's...

The Swedish Pirate Party has launched its own broadband internet service provider, the Pirate ISP.The company has been created to protect users of file-sharing sites from being hounded by authorities for allegedly beaching...

The original source code for vintage computer program MacPaint has been released for download by the Computer History Museum in California.Developed by programmer Bill Atkinson, MacPaint was released in 1984 for Apple's first...

Yahoo has posted an increase in profits and revenue during the second quarter of 2010.Net income was up 51 per cent to $213 million for the quarter.The firm's increase in revenues fell short of predictions, rising just 2 per cent...

Viglen is one of the last British computer manufacturers to have survived the glorious era of the late 1990's and is best known for being acquired by Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad back in 1994. The company, which will be 35 years old...

Google has added a User Policy Management feature to its Google Apps service.The new tools allows IT administrators to group users in terms of which Google Apps they're allowed access to.The company wrote on the official Google...

Research In Motion has listed in a blog post the rich multimedia features in the upcoming new BlackBerry OS, whilst at the same time mentioning in passing it will soon be released.The post passed out to the press in an email, in...

Vodafone in the UK has confirmed in an email they will soon be rolling out the update to Android for their Nexus Ones, according to the technology website Android Central.The update that brings in the ability to natively view...

After proudly sampling its first 30nm 2Gb DDR3 memory chips back in February, Korean tech conglomerate Samsung has just announced that it's kicked off mass production of the intricate chips.  According to Samsung, these are...

Microsoft’s new Kinect motion controller will cost £130 when it is released in the UK later this year, the company has announced - a mere £20 less than the cost of its new 4GB Xbox 360, due to launch on 20...

270,000 Apple iPad have been sold between the 22nd and the 26th of June 2010 inclusive according to data gathered from yesterday's Apple's third quarter results and a press release published on the 22nd of June in which Apple...

Search giant Google has signed a deal to power its data centres using wind energy for the next 20 years. The company yesterday revealed that its Google Energy unit, created last December, had inked the deal with renewable...

T-Mobile is offering the HTC Wildfire from as little as £15 per month, undercutting the competition by as much as £10; the deals though are online only and surprisingly cannot be obtained directly from T-Mobile's...

Despite the tech news industry's best efforts, Apple has reported yet another record quarter boosted by the iPad and iPhone. The Cupertino company reported revenue of $15.7 billion in the fiscal quarter ending 26 June, a huge...

Adobe Reader is to get a new Protected Mode with its next major update, which the company hopes will cut down on the number of malicious attacks. The PDF-viewing software has hit the headlines on what almost seems like a daily...

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, Founder's Fund, has raised $250 million in funding.The additional funding will allow the company to make strategic investments in innovative technology start-up companies.The...

A lawyer for Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the Facebook founder did have a contract with a man who claims to own 84 per cent of the social networking platform.According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook's legal team...

Market analyst Juniper has predicted that around 25 billion mobile applications will be downloaded from online app stores by 2015.The company said that just 2.6 billion had been downloaded in 2009.Juniper based its predictions on...

In what could be a major threat to the future of Intel's Atom architecture, ARM and TSMC have signed a long-term agreement with the goal of mass-producing 20nm ARM-designed chips.  Mike Inglis, executive vice president and...

Apple has reported a 78 per cent rise in year-on-year profits for the second quarter of 2010, despite the iPhone 4 antenna debacle.The company, boosted by increasing sales of its iPad and iPhone devices, posted a revenue of...

Following in the footsteps of Mozilla, Google has increased the bounty on bugs for its Chrome browser. In an effort no doubt to amuse the terminally nerdy, Google has set the upper limit of its Chromium Security Rewards to...

Google's biggest search rival in China - homegrown market leader Baidu, is to develop a Linux-based smartphone to rival the Californian search giant's Android-based devices. Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua today reported a...

Market research firm iSuppli has almost doubled the estimated number of iPad units Apple will sell in 2010, PC Mag reports.Previously, the company had predicted that Apple would sell 7.1 million iPads in 2010, but has now revised...

The Chinese government has announced that it is satisfied Google now complies with Chinese law, after the search giant altered the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page.Microsoft has announced today that it will be...

Microsoft announced that the official suggested retail price of the Kinect, its next generation motion controller, will stand at £130, a price that includes one game. And as Matt Peckham form PC World puts it,...

Yet another mobile music streaming service has been launched on the iPhone and the Android platform; MOG is now available for both with unlimited music, on desktops and mobiles for $9.99, from a catalogue of more than 8 million...

Asus may have swapped Windows 7 Embedded for Windows for Google's Android operating system for the smaller of its Eee pad devices, the 10-inch EP101TC. According to Netbooknews, The Taiwanese manufacturer has apparently decided...

Adobe Systems is developing a new security tool for its Acrobat Reader program.The company has announced that Reader will soon be integrated with a new sandbox feature that will protect the application from an increasing number...

Unfortunately, you can't. There are experimental systems that convert 2D broadcasts into a kind of pseudo-3D, by using complex maths to 'guess' the distances between objects on screen, and digitally tweaking the image in order to...

Google has signed a 20 year agreement to buy power from an Iowa wind farm.The 114 megawatts of energy the search giant purchases from NextEra Energy Resources will be used to power several of Google's data centres and will aid...

Google has revamped its image search function, updating the user interface and adding a host of new features.Writing on the Google blog, the company said that the Google Image search will now come with an enhanced user interface...

Councillor John Dixon may face disciplinary action from the Welsh public standards authority over an "offensive" tweet aimed at the Church of Scientology.The Guardian reports that the Welsh public standards watchdog has said that...

Microsoft has released the beta version of its Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 tool.The tool is set to come highly integrated with the Internet Explorer web browser for tighter web security.Writing on the Windows Team blog, the...

Dell has released the secure and sandboxed version of Firefox 3.6.The Dell Kace Secure Browser uses Kace's Virtual Kontainer to create a virtualised version of Firefox, separating the web browser from other parts of the computer,...