USB 3 ports could soon become a ubiquitous sight on PC motherboards, as the price of controller chips is rumoured to be gearing up for a plunge.  The gossip comes courtesy of Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes, which claims to...

Microsoft has reported a 48 per cent increase in profits for the fourth quarter of the last  financial year, BBC News reports.The software giant declared profits of $4.52 billion for the quarter ending 30 June, an increase...

Apple's supposedly impregnable iPhone application screening process has been breached by a 15-year-old application developer.The teenager managed to sneak in a free 3G application, disguised as a customisation application, into...

The BBC has launched a News application for Apple's iPhone and iPad in the UK. The application was launched after the corporation's ruling body, the BBC Trust, decided that the application would not affect market...

Microsoft has launched an all-new corporate slogan, “Be what’s next”, the Seattle Times reported on Thursday.The software giant announced the new tagline at its Microsoft Global Experience conference, currently...

Apple has begun offering refunds to customers who purchased bumper cases for their iPhone 4, tech news site PC World has reported.Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer of the Cupertino-based company, announced at a press...

AOL has released a new HTML 5-based mobile portal, and an application exclusively for Android smartphones.The company has launched them as part of its plans to enhance its presence in the online mobile content market.AOL said...

The BBC has launched a News application for Apple's iPhone and iPad in the UK.The application was launched after the corporation's ruling body, the BBC Trust, decided that the application would not affect market...

If you were wondering how Apple was going to get more than three million free Bumper cases into the hands of disgruntled iPhone 4 users... there's an App for that. No doubt keen to stop their sacred stores being invaded by...

Computer maker Dell has agreed to pay a fine of $100 million imposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in relation to charges of accounting fraud, business newswire Bloomberg reports.According to the deal made with the...

If you fancy knocking together a dinky, quiet and cheap media centre PC, then Asus' new AT5IONT board could quite happily form the backbone.  The diminutive motherboard measures just 170 x 170mm, meaning it conforms to the...

Apple announced today that it was still encountering difficulties in manufacturing the white version of its iPhone 4, and its release date was being pushed back to "later this year". Demand for the black version of the iPhone 4...

Despite vociferous complaints from newspaper publishers keen to make money out of iDevice news Apps, the BBC has launched its own free service today. Originally planned for an April outing, the BBC News App was delayed until...

Microsoft has announced the five partners that will be manufacturing Windows Phone 7-based handsets on its release later this year.In a meeting with Pocket-Lint, Microsoft's senior product manager Greg Sullivan said that Dell,...

Walt Disney is on the verge of acquiring Facebook game developer Playdom for around $600 million. Citing "oh, about seven" independent sources familiar with the matter, TechCrunch reports that the companies are in the final...

Google has announced that it is ramping up the release cycle for its Chrome browser, and will punt a stable version to users every six weeks. Programme Manager Anthony Laforge says the new schedule will see a new release roughly...

If Chancellor George Osborne thinks he's still short on reasons to reconsider axing games tax relief in the UK, he only needs to look at the government of the US state of North Carolina, which has just agreed to award economic...

Chip maker Qualcomm is reported to be considering selling its ailing MediaFLO mobile TV business line, after it failed to match the company's expectations.During a conference call with analysts, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs, laid out...

A week has passed since the world was holding its collective breath, waiting for the news of what Apple would say in their impromptu press conference over the iPhone 4's signal issues. This was closely followed by the rest of the...

India has unveiled a tablet computer that costs only $35, a twentieth of the cost of Apple's more expensive iPad models, and comes as part of a nationwide push by the Indian government to improve the literacy rate across the...

The Safari web browser's AutoFill feature is capable of revealing personal user information to cyber criminals, a security researcher has warned.Jeremiah Grossman, the chief technology officer of WhiteHat Security, wrote on his...

BT-owned broadband service PlusNet has connected the first UK customer to its 100 Mbps fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband connection.PlusNet user 'herbiejhopkins' reported on PlusNet's forums that his average download speed...

You Tube has launched a revamped 'music discovery' web page, designed to help users find music videos more easily, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.The page is divided into categories, including Today’s Hits, World...

Microsoft has signed an architectural licence with Brit chip shop ARM, but both companies are staying tight-lipped about the details. The Redmond outfit has had a long association with the UK chip designer, but until now that...

The majority of web users still mostly use internet for e-mailing, according to a survey reported on tech news site Web User on Thursday. The TouchPoints hub survey, conducted by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising...

Foxconn, which assembles hardware for leading US and European electronics firms, has announced that it will be increasing its prices to customers in order to help cover recent wage rises for its employees.The company, a...

A rather pleased Ian Drew, EVP of marketing at ARM, spoke to ITProPortal.com a few hours after the company announced that Microsoft had become the fourth company to license the ARM architecture prompting speculations that the...

Broadband network services in the United Kingdom are better than those offered in the United States, according to a survey reported by the British Computer Society on Thursday.The Broadband Composite Index, compiled by market...

Microsoft has announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $16.04 billion for the quarter ending June 30, 2010, a 22 per cent increase on the same period last year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for...

The Australian government has censored more than 90 per cent of a key consultation document on its forthcoming plans for web snooping. Government censors got busy with their black marker pens on the document - which was obtained...

Nvidia's grip on its secret plans appears to have slackened again, as more details have emerged about a graphics card based on the company's forthcoming GF106 chip.  Just a couple of days after rumours appeared about the...

The Indian Government has confirmed months of rumours by announcing that it is releasing a tablet computing device which it hopes will eventually sell to students for $10. The Sakshat touch-screen tablet currently costs $35 to...

Microsoft is planning to replace the term “responsible disclosure”, with "coordinated vulnerability disclosure" as the default term for discussing vulnerability reporting, tech news site eWeek reported on Thursday.The...

Amazon has announced an increase in its second-quarter revenues and net profit, the New York Times reported on Thursday.The company said that second-quarter profits were up 45 per cent on the same period last year.The internet...

Dell said it is coughing up a "civil monetary penalty" of $100 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The charge relates to a conspiracy it cooked up with Intel to keep AMD chips out of its computers, and to...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he is “quite sure” that he did not sign any agreement with a web developer that would entitle the man to 84 per cent of the world’s largest social network.Security...

ARM has announced this morning that Microsoft has become the latest technological company to license its ARM architecture, a significant step which could have some deep consequences in the tech ecosystem. Both companies have been...

UK regulator Ofcom has ordered ISPs and mobile service providers to notify customers that they can take their complaints to a free, independent resolution service.Ofcom set up the two approved resolution services - the...

No. British satellite broadcaster Sky will be launching a full 3D TV service this autumn – but existing subscribers to its Sky HD service won't need to replace their Sky HD boxes to take advantage of the new broadcasts. For...

Freedom of internet advocacy group, the Open Rights Group, has criticised the draft code compiled by UK regulator Ofcom, desgned to combat illegal file sharing in the UK.According to The Guardian, the Open Rights Group claims...

Dell is set to overhaul its hardware testing process to ensure that motherboards infected with malware are not shipped to customers again, tech site PC World has reported.The computer giant, on Wednesday, admitted that some of...

A recent disclosure of data under the Freedom of Information act has revealed that hundreds of laptops, mobiles and storage devices have been lost by government officials across all departments over the last two years.According...