While waiting for the elusive Galaxy S tablet PC, Samsung will release a white version of the i9000 Galaxy S handset as this particular version has been spotted on the Spanish version of the Carphone Warehouse website. GSM Arena...

LG will launch a new range of Cookie smartphones in the UK in September but unless LG offers the new handsets at an extremely competitive price or come up with some pretty convincing features, it is likely to face competition...

Starcraft could well be a superb award winning game but it is apparently causing a few hardware problems as well for gamers who are unaware of how taxing it can be on graphics cards. Blizzard, the game's publisher, issued a...

O2 has put up the specs page for the forthcoming Xperia X8 smartphone which looks a lot like a simpler, less expensive version of the popular X10 handset and says that the device will go on sale in September. The X8 comes with...

The Linux Foundation has released the Linux 2.6.35 kernel, packed with a number of improvements and support for the latest hardware.The new Linux kernel comes with native power saving features on the latest AMD and Radeon...

Microsoft has announced that it will release the Mac version of its Office 2011 productivity suite in October.The company said that the software will be available in two versions - Office for Mac Home and Student 2011, priced at...

Microsoft has proved once again that it can't market a product to save its life, with an excruciatingly embarrassing demo of its Kinect motion-sensing game system. The footage below was shot at a Hong Kong animation festival and...

Korean manufacturer LG has swapped the name of its entry level range of smartphones, Cookie, for somethine equally cute, Wink, in Korea but the company will stick to the name Cookie in the UK. The new Cookie smartphone models...

Apple has removed videos highlighting antenna problems on rivals' smartphones from its website. The company had posted videos on its "antenna campaign" web page, attacking the antenna performance of competitors' smartphones to...

Office for Mac has been given a rather vague launch date and price structure that could only have been created by Microsoft. The software monopolist has announced that the ubiquitous productivity suite will get a new outing on...

Canadian handset manufacturer RIM has chosen to stand by its customers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia by not flinching at attempts by these governments to convince it to provide with more access to its smartphone...

Microsoft's Kinect has failed to impress the audience at a Hong Kong animation festival - despite being played by a pair of half-naked Asian models, tech news site Geek has reported.Local models Jessica C and Chrissie Chau...

The UK's digital champion Martha Lane Fox will attempt to bring the UK's remaining Britons online despite budget constraints, the Telegraph has reported.Lane Fox has said that the current coalition government has not provided her...

Apple has filed three patent applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office relating to three shopping and travel apps to be made available in its iTunes App Store, tech news site Unwired View reports.According to the...

Microsoft chose profit from web advertisements over automatic privacy settings in its Internet Explorer (IE8) web browser, the Wall Street Journal has reported.While developing the web browser in 2008, Microsoft's product team...

The iPhone Dev Team has made the jailbreakme iPhone hack available for users online, BBC News has reported.The new Jailbreakme 2.0, which allows iPhone users to run and install applications that have not been approved by the...

Rapper Kayne West has chosen to follow only one of his 379,311 Twitter account followers, The Guardian has reported.Kayne West recently set up an account on the micro-blogging site, immediately gaining hundreds of thousands of...

IT development charity One Laptop Per Child has declared its backing for a plan to equip school children in India with tablet computers costing as little as $35 - but urged political leaders not to follow the example of Apple's...

Hot on the heels of a change in US law which makes it perfectly legal to modify phones to allow the installation of third party software, the infamous iPhone Dev Team has released a web-based hack for the first time. Living at...

Richard Garriot has won $28 million in a lawsuit against former employer and publisher NC Soft, tech news site TechWatch has reported.Commonly known as Lord British, Garriot had alleged that NC Soft had sacked him, but that the...

Owners of older iPhones experiencing poor performance after upgrading to iOS4 have been offered some relief in the form of a simple, reversible fix. Following widespread reports that Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS4...

Vodafone has confirmed that it is working with HTC and Google to develop an Android 2.2 firmware update for its HTC Desire customers.Android 2.2 had been released for unlocked versions of the HTC Desire, not bought from a...

Nvidia is losing market share to rivals Intel and AMD, a report compiled by market research firm John Peddie Research has revealed.According to the report, AMD has overtaken Nvidia as the second largest chip manufacturer in the...

The money spent on cloud computing is expected to grow in the coming years, tech news site CIOL has reported.According to the report, the International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted that revenue for cloud computing server...

Data released by web analyst firm Statcounter shows that Windows 7 OS has overtaken its maligned predecessor, Windows Vista, as the second most popular operating system worldwide. In the first 24 hours of August, Windows 7 hit...

Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, have invested in technology start-up Recorded Future.Recorded Future has designed a Temporal Analytics Engine for web monitoring that could predict the future.Tech news...

Hackers attending the Defcon security conference have proved that smooth-talking is the easiest way to obtain sensitive information from employees of some of the world's leading IT companies. The conference played host to the...

US internet users are spending an increasing amount of time on social networks and games, a recent report by research firm Nielsen reveals.Nielsen revealed that US users currently spend 23 per cent of their online time using...

Samsung has confirmed their recent Galaxy S smartphone will receive an update to the Google mobile OS 2.2 at the end of September, and to all networks as well.The announcement was made over twitter, with the news of the update...

Blizzard has responded to complaints about Starcraft II melting graphics cards by blaming the issue on poor PC ventilation. The hotly-anticipated game has drawn fierce criticism on user forums after a number of gamers reported...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will release an emergency patch to fix a short cut vulnerability in its Windows operating system.The Telegraph reports that the vulnerability allows hackers to gain remote access to PCs via a...

Twitter launched the "Suggestions for You" feature on Friday, designed to help users find and follow those with similar interests, news agency AFP reports.The feature compares users' profile information to find and suggest people...

Apple has quietly removed a number of videos from its international web sites which suggested that all smart phones have attenuation problems when held in a certain way. The videos, which aimed to expose 'death grip' weaknesses...

Two security experts have released a tool for attacking Android-based smartphones.The tool can be used by hackers to exploit a vulnerability in Google's Android mobile operating system, allowing them to steal sensitive user...

Microsoft backtracked on a plan to give users a simple and effective way to protect their privacy in Internet Explorer 8, after the company's marketing men decided they'd rather make money selling advertising. Back in 2008,...

Apple has removed videos highlighting antenna problems on rivals' smartphones from its website, Apple Insider has reported.The company had posted videos on its "antenna campaign" web page, attacking the antenna performance of...

The UK government has ruled out upgrading from the nearly outdated Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), web browser, the Guardian has reported.In an official statement to an online petition of more than 6,000 internet users, the governemnt...

Troops in the British Army are using a special application designed for the iPad to train for fire missions. The application, which is being trialled at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire, allows the troops to learn the...

BlackBerry users have been barred from accessing a number of services in the  United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, The Telegraph has reported.The ban, commencing 11 October, will prevent users from e-mail, internet...

A temporary fix for the Apple iPhone 3G's performance issues has been released by Neowin.net. Although Apple has announced that it has begun to investigate the problem, a user on the web portal Neowin.net has published a...

Apple has confirmed that it will open a new London store in Covent Garden.The store, set to open on 7 August, is said to be one of the biggest Apple stores in the world and will be the company's 22nd store in the UK.The company...

High Tech Computer Corporation rolled out the latest Google OS version of 2.2 to their Desire devices this past weekend, starting with the SIM free and unlocked models first and foremost.Other mobile phone network dependant HTC...

The 'Golden Era' of 3D began in 1952 when a gory low-budget flick, Bwana Devil, became an overnight sensation, with audiences queuing round the block to see man-eating lions feasting in 3D. For more 3D content & featured...

The Gulf States are ganging up on the Blackberry, as the device's security means that it can't be intercepted by Government agencies keen to keep and eye on what their subjects are talking about. Yesterday Saudi Arabia followed...

Troops in the British Army are using a special application designed for the iPad to train for fire missions.The application, which is being trialled at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire, allows the troops to learn the...

A security expert has demonstrated how to impersonate a GSM tower to snoop on mobile phones using equipment costing around $1,500 at the Def Con security conference in Las Vegas.According to PC World, security expert Chris Paget...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is the most used web browser in the world, new statistics reported by tech news site PC Mag have revealed.The new metrics, compiled by web analyst company Net Market Share, show that...

Ubergeek Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.35, less than three months since the previous release. Even the mighty Google has chipped in some new features to the release, with additions that improve the performance of the...

Twitter has passed a significant milestone on Saturday after the sending of its 20 billionth Tweet.Sent around 3.44pm, the Tweet, posted by a Japanese graphic designer with the username GGGGGGo_Lets_Go, seemed to be an innocuous...

Microsoft  is delivering an out-of-band security bulletin today. The bulletin addresses an unspecified security vulnerability in all supported editions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server...

If you want to enjoy digital life, rely on the Samsung R620. One of the lightest 16" notebooks but it's still packed with the latest communications and multimedia technology for maximum performance on the move.  This...

Whether you are a professional or home user, these days it is essential to be able to carry your valuable data anywhere with you. Ultra compact, easy-to-use and secure, this USB 2.0 powered portable hard drive makes transporting...

Western Digital's WD Elements Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drives are the right answer for simple, reliable add-on storage. Simply plug one into a USB port and start saving your photos, music, video, and files. Designed with the...

As entertainment content becomes more available, the need for hardware technology to maintain increasing volumes of software content becomes more important. Combining this 3D technology with Samsung's LCD monitor creates an...

In a stylish design, Toshiba USB 2.0 External HDDs are the perfect storage solution for your digital videos, photos and music files. The light-weight portable 2.5" USB powered external HDD range is for use anytime and anywhere,...