The Sony PlayStation 3 games console has outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 by 28 per cent, gaming news site VG247 has reported.Figures released by Sony show that the company sold 14.3 million PS3 consoles in the financial year ending...

More than 80 applications downloaded from Google's Android Market have been secretly gathering personal information from millions of users and sending it on to third parties in China.Sony has yet to release the Move in the UK but...

Recently, we began a feature that surrounded £15 a month tariffs, comprising of what exactly they can offer within minutes, texts and data allowances. This also takes into account the free handsets accompanying those deals, in...

Telefonica-owned O2 has announced that it has reached the three million iPhone milestone, having managed to top 2 million iPhone sold in February this year and one year after it sold its first millionth iPhone. O2 said that the...

Microsoft is giving its customers a chance to experience its Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 peripheral before buying it, tech news site Techradar has reported.Microsoft is conducting demo sessions across the UK until December.The...

UK authorities have cleared Google of collecting data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks, the Telegraph has reported.According to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the search giant's Street Cars did not collect...

The other Korean Electronics Behemoth, LG, has officially confirmed the release of an Android based tablet computer as it mentioned its existence in a press release before stating that it will be based on the Optimus brand and...

A five-minute halt in trading on Cisco Systems shares has highlighted a major flaw in the way the New York stock exchange works. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company stopped trading for five minutes on Thursday after...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes that the company's Android mobile OS can earn the company $10 billion each year, the Wall Street Journal has reported.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt said that the Android...

Korean Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy tablet will be available in Q3 2010 which ends on the 30th of September and as already reported, will carry the name Galaxy while being based on Google's Android...

UK's largest consumer broadband provider, Talktalk, has announced that it will sign a strategic partnership with Vodafone to launch its own mobile phone service and use its huge user base of more than four million customers to...

More than 80 applications downloaded from Google's Android Market have been secretly gathering personal information from millions of users and sending it on to third parties, the Wall Street Journal reported on...

T-Mobile is the latest wireless carrier to sell Apple's iPhone 4 in the UK, tech news site Tech Radar has reported."Bringing iPhone 4 to our customers in the UK is a fantastic move for T-Mobile. With a range of value plans we're...

Microsoft has signed a licensing deal with anti-hacking outfit Cryptography Research. The San Francisco outfit specialises in preventing Differential Power Analysis attacks which apparently involve monitoring the fluctuating...

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, is set to refocus the company's resources on developing tablet computers that can rival Apple's iPad device; the move comes after the cancellation of Courier, Microsoft's proposed rival...

Sony has yet to release the Move in the UK but already, like the pre-announced Kinect, prices of the motion controller are already falling down across the board. Most major UK retailers have alerady started to take preorders of...

Google accounts for 98.29 per cent of the global mobile internet search market, web analytics firm Pingdom has revealed. Citing data released by StatCounter, Pingdom said that Google's internet search market share was grossly...

Google has said that the blocking of its services in China could have been the result of a technical glitch, the Telegraph has reported.The search giant reported on Thursday that its search engine and other web services were...

Right about now, the BBC is broadcasting its very last edition of long-running news and personal finance programme Working Lunch. The show, which has been going for 16 years, has finally run its course thanks to changes in...

IT giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that America's Purdue University is using one of the company's Performance-Optimised Data (POD) centre to house a 1,000-node high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.The university was...

Oracle has announced that Dell and HP will be certifying and reselling its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems, as well as Oracle VM platforms on their x86 servers.The company said that customers who have purchased the...

Microsoft has announced that the beta version of its Internet explorer 9 web browser will be released in September, tech news site Computer World reported on Thursday.Speaking at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting...

Apple began the week by announcing there will be a delay in delivering the iPhone 4 in white, where HTC also made public they will be dropping the AMOLED screens in favour of the Super LCD displays instead. A couple of new...

When Andy Warhol postulated that in the future we would all be famous for 15 minutes, he must have foreseen the rise of YouTube. Nowadays chubby kids with light sabres and people doing dirty dances at their weddings can become...

Google has been dubbed the "King of Malware" by security firm Barracuda Networks after it found that the search engine linked to more sites containing malware than Yahoo, Bing and Twitter combined.The study, which analysed in...

Oracle has been accused of overcharging for its software services by the US government.The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Oracle Corp. and Oracle America Inc., claiming that the organisation defrauded the...

When we reported that the details of 100 million Facebook users' accounts had been published by enterprising coder Ron Bowes, the reaction in some quarters - including, notably, that of the social network itself - was, "So what?...

Google has announced that it will be including a new and improved Web Timing tool to its Chrome 6 web browser.The Web Timing feature will allow developers to determine how much time a web page actually takes to load.Writing on...

Motorola has taken to ridiculing Apple's iPhone 4 signal issues, whilst promoting their own handsets at the same time in the USA. Moto has taken to raising the issues that ‘No Jacket' is required for using their own handsets, as...

With the appearance this week on a torrent site of a list containing the user names and profile addresses of more than 100 million Facebook users, attention has returned to the thorny business of keeping your private details...

Microsoft has unveiled a video of its robotic 'avatar', capable of interaction with humans, tech news site PC Mag reported on Thursday.According to a demonstrative video presented by Microsoft's chief research strategy officer...

Microsoft top dog Steve Ballmer has said that toppling Apple's iPad tablet device is the company's top priority. Speaking to financial news site Bloomberg, the Redmond software outfit's bullish CEO said, "Today, one of the top...

Many US iPhone owners have reported witnessing a large data transfer taking place over night, every night, tech news site TG Daily reported on Thursday.They allege that the data transfer that takes place without their prior...

The move to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a big change affecting both users and developers and migration to Windows 7 may well be the catalyst. However, VDI can also be used to enhance the user experience and reduce...

Sony has announced the UK price for its upcoming motion-sensing controller, PlayStation Move. Sony said that the Move motion controller will be available for £35, and that the PlayStation Eye camera and sub-controller will...

Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has increased the maximum video length from the current 10 minutes to 15 minutes.Writing on the YouTube blog, the company said that the extension of the length of videos has been made...

Independent game developer Jeff Vogel waxes lyrical about game piracy and how it's sometimes OK to steal a game, even if it's one of his, in his refreshingly pragmatic blog post. Jeff admits to being a bit nervous about coming...

Motorola has reported strong second quarter results amid rising sales of its Android-based smartphones.The company announced revenues of $5.414 billion, higher than the $5.19 billion predicted by the analysts.Motorola has...

Apple is advertising to hire a senior software engineer to help the company is developing new features for its operating systems, tech news site IT Wire has reported.According to a job offer posted on Apple’s jobs web page,...

Apple has today started selling the iPhone 4 in 17 additional countries, and it looks like the whole 'antennagate' affair has done little to dampen enthusiasm for the popular device. PC Authority reports that hundreds of people...

Big companies like Apple or BBC have started to download the goldmine that is the huge database comprising of the public profiles of more than 100 million Facebook accounts compiled by a security expert. A Gizmodo reader used an...

Mobile phone network Three has unveiled a trio of new handsets on their new One Plan tariff, the Sony Ericsson Zylo, Nokia E63 and Nokia 5230.These new smartphones are all free on Three's £25 a month One Plan tariff, which allows...

No. You'll only get the 3D experience from your TV when playing movies that have been created specially in 3D. True stereoscopic 3D must be created from the outset using two separate images, one for the left eye and one for the...

Microsoft's top priority in its rivalry with Apple is to develop a range of tablet computers, news agency Bloomberg has reported.Microsoft’s chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has stated that tablet PCs based on the...

The senior vice president in charge of Worldwide Digital Media at Amazon has confirmed to two different UK news outlets that the company is considering adding a colour screen to the Kindle ebook reader while discarding the idea...

The UK government has directed telecom regulator Ofcom to conduct the auction for the 2.6GHz and 800MHz broadband spectrum.The auction will allow phone companies to offer improved mobile broadband services to a wider range of...