Game publishing powerhouse Blizzard managed to keep up the tempo after selling one million copies of Starcraft II in the first 24 hours by adding another half a million units the following day. The feat makes of Starcraft II the...

Depending on how you look at various data, Apple may well be considered to be the third biggest laptop manufacturer in the world ahead of Dell, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba but behind Acer and HP. To achieve this, Chris Whitmore, an...

Michael Reagan, the son of former US President Ronald Reagan, has launched what it calls the first conservative email service, in a bid to challenge competing online services. Mr Reagan considers that the other online email...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has agreed to the Indian government's demands to allow its security agencies to monitor all e-mails and chat messages sent from its BlackBerry smartphones in India.The country's...

IT spending on servers will continue to fall for the rest of 2010, the latest report by server analysts TheInfoPro has revealed.TheInfoPro said that the fall is because of increasingly restrictive IT budgets and the rise of...

Mozilla's Firefox web browser is losing market share, recent figures released by web analytics firm Net Market Share reveal.According to the figures, Firefox had held over 24 per cent of the market in May, but slipped to 23.81...

Research In Motion has announced today their BlackBerry Torch 9800 - their first device with a touch screen and a keyboard, that slides out from underneath the display. The new handset arrives with the latest BlackBerry 6.0 OS,...

Research in Motion (RIM) is expected to unveil the new BlackBerry 9800 at a press event today. The smartphone is designed to compete with Apple's iPhone and an army of Google Android-based devices.Virgin Media has filed an...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced that it has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) which accused the company of paying kickbacks to Accenture in exchange for government contract recommendations.The...

Blizzard's latest Zerg-busting romp has now officially stomped on Command & Conquer, rubbed Civilization's nose in the compost and taken Company of Heroes to the cleaners. After selling a bumper stack of 1.5 million copies in...

Canadian manufacturer RIM has announced the arrival of a new smartphone which it hopes will allow it to compete more effectively with the growing number of Android devices and the threat of the iPhone as a platform. The device,...

The leader of the Leicester City's Conservative Group, Ross Grant, came out fighting in a post on his website defending his decision to choose an iPad as his main portable computer amidst the ruckus caused by the potential...

A new Google 'question and answer' page has become inaccessible to users in mainland China on Tuesday.The news comes less than a month after the Chinese government renewed the company's internet licence, after Google promised to...

Multifarious tech firm Samsung has just upped the ante in the whale-sized storage arena, introducing a new 2TB drive that spreads its capacity over just three platters.  While other 2TB drives split their collection of...

Research in Motion (RIM) is expected to unveil the new BlackBerry 9800 at a press event today.  The smartphone is designed to compete with Apple's iPhone and an army of Google Android-based devices.With the release of the...

German chip maker Infineon is looking to sell its wireless business for €1.5 billion and is currently in negotiations with several prospective buyers.Citing two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions, financial...

Virgin Media has filed an official complaint with telecom regulator Ofcom, urging it to put a stop to the BBC led IPTV initiative, Project Canvas.BBC News reports that the company has stated that the project could seriously...

LG has announced a trio of touch screen phones in their Cookie series that are all aimed at ‘Generation Z' users. These handsets are the Cookie, Cookie Style and Cookie 3G, which are geared up for the youth market where text,...

Samsung has released a 2TB hard disk drive as part of its Ecogreen family with three platters rather than four, a change that will reduce the power consumption of the storage device while improving reliability. The F4EG is...

Versatile memory maker Kingston is attempting to court liquid-cooling enthusiasts with its latest line of HyperX H2O DDR3 sticks, which can be hooked up to a standard water-cooling loop.  The new modules feature a...

Sony's PlayStation Move controllers will outsell rival Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 peripheral in the UK, a survey reported by gaming website Now Gamer has revealed.According to the survey, conducted by sales...

So Leicester City Council may well be looking to get 54 iPad devices as we reported this morning for the princely sum of £37,746 if purchased directly from Apple. Although we share some of their concerns about traditional...

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is set to be launched by O2 in September and at least one online retailer has started taking preorders on the phone albeit at a rather steep price. Handtec says that the phone will cost a whopping...

The recently-released 'legal' jailbreak for the iPhone family has already been upgraded. The web-based hack, which uses a flaw in Adobe's PDF file format to unlock the full range of Apple mobile devices, had issues with both...

Amazon has announced that it has sold out of third-generation Kindle e-readers less than one week after launch, tech news site The Tech Herald reports.Both the latest models, the 3G/WiFi Kindle which is priced at $189 along with...

Google has rolled out the Android 2.2 over-the-air update for HTC Evo 4G smartphone a day before its scheduled release, tech news site Geeky Gadgets has reported.HTC’s Evo 4G handset is the first phone to receive the...

Google's Android operating system has overtaken Apple's iPhone in terms of system share for the first time in the US according to number crunchers at Neilsen. The inexorable rise of smartphone penetration in the US of A, which...

Canadian mobile maker Research in Motion (RIM) will allow the Indian Government to snoop on Blackberry users in order to avoid having the gadgets banned outright. The United Arab Emirates has already outlawed some of the...

Wikileaks has attracted severe criticism from US government officials after it leaked classified Afghan war documents last week, with politicians now trying to find a way to gag the website.American politicians have urged the US...

Paul Ceglia, the man who is claiming in a US court case that he owns 84 per cent of Facebook, has said he had forgotten he still held the contract that proved his claim.According to UK newspaper The Telegraph, Ceglia said that he...

The iPhone Dev Team's jailbreakme application allows users to make 3G FaceTime calls from their iPhones, Apple focused tech news site Apple Insider reported on Monday.Officially, Apple does not support 3G FaceTime calls, but the...

Figures released by the Nielsen company in the United States show that the Google-backed Android platform is winning the war against RIM's Blackberry and the Apple iPhone. Data looking at what people purchased during the previous...

UK cable broadband and TV provider Virgin Media has made a formal complaint to Ofcom, urging the communications watchdog to investigate Project Canvas. In a 74-page document submitted to Ofcom yesterday, Virgin argues that the...

(ed : Learn how you can get the HTC Wildfire free and enjoy truly unlimited Wi-Fi hotspot usage on it courtesy of The One Plan from 3 UK, from a mere £25 per month). Google and HTC have begun rolling out the Android 2.2...

Nvidia can now stop ribbing ATI about its lack of support for anti-aliasing in StarCraft II, as AMD's Canadian graphics wing has already released a fix to smooth out the game's jagged edges.  Blizzard's Zerg-filled RTS...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has been asked block pornographic websites on its network by the government of Kuwait, Reuters has reported.According to the al-Jarida newspaper in Kuwait, RIM has agreed to a request from the...

Carphone Warehouse has unveiled a new music service called Music Anywhere that allows users to play up to 500 music tracks from the cloud and synchronise the most played ones to their devices. For £30 per year, customers...

The iPhone Dev Team, the developers of the new Jailbreakme iOS 4 jail break application, has released an update for the tool.The update is said to fix an issue that disabled FaceTime and MMS in jailbroken iOS 4-based...

O2 has confirmed that the Android 2.2 update for Motorola's Droid smartphone will be released in Europe late this September, tech news site Euro Droid reported on Monday.The mobile network service provider stated on its official...

A prankster has snuck into his local Apple temple of consumerism and footled with one of the display models. Just days after the US Copyright Office announced that jailbreaking you iPhone is legal, Ethan Zachary Andrew filmed...

Buffalo’s MiniStation USB Hard Drive offers a compact, lightweight and portable storage solution for all. The MiniStation securely protects your data from prying eyes through hardware encryption and has excellent shock...

Pegatron, one of the biggest hardware manufacturers in Taiwan, may well release a new tablet computer based on Windows 7, called the Masterpad, and which is supposed to be launched in August. The device, whose existence was...

Barclays bank has teamed up with three US-based wireless services providers to test new technology that allows customers to make payments from their smartphones.According to The Telegraph, the bank is working with AT&T,...

Samsung is "gunning for" Nokia's position in the mobile phone market, according to market analyst ABI Research. Despite both companies suffering poor second-quarter results, Nokia has maintained its position as the market...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform will be launched in Europe, Engadget has reported.The company said that the platform is set to be released in October, and will be released in the US in...

In one of the more shocking examples of how money should not be spent, Leicester City Council may be on the verge of spending around £40,000 worth of public money to buy 54 Apple iPad devices for its councillors. The...

Amazon has stated that it occupies majority of the digital books market, tech news site Cnet reported on Monday.In an interview with David Cornoy of Cnet, Amazon’s vice president for Kindle Ian Freed stated that between 70...

Despite its massive popularity, Apple's iPhone has always struggled to gain traction within the business community. Potential enterprise users have been put off by the reports of poor security in the past, and the iPhone -...

Samsung is "gunning for" Nokia's position in the mobile phone market, according to market analyst ABI Research.Despite both companies suffering poor second-quarter results, Nokia has maintained its position as the market leader,...

Despite the rise and rise of digital downloads, punters still prefer physical media according to a trade association. The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) has published a report which says that transactions for...

Sadly, not all 3D TVs are able to display a true 1080p HD picture. For more 3D content & featured articles, go to Welcometo3d.tv Most models that are based on polarised screen technology can only display an effective...

Apple and Amazon are under investigation from the attorney general of the state of Connecticut to determine whether their digital book deals with publishers affect market competition, the New York Times reported on...

Microsoft has issued a response to reports that stated it chose to overlook Internet Explorer 8's privacy to make money from web adverts over privacy, tech news site The Register has reported.In response to the report, first...

Over a quarter of all smartphones purchased in the first half of 2010 ran on Google's Android operating system, new research by Nielsen shows.The study found that 27 per cent of phones purchased were Android-based, and that 23...

Microsoft has released a patch for a critical shortcut flaw in its Windows operating system, the Telegraph reported on Monday.The software update will be able to fix the vulnerability that enables hackers to remotely control...

The Pirate Party has submitted its detailed response to Ofcom's consultation of the Digital Economy Act (DEA), news site PR Fire reported on Monday.The digital freedom advocates submitted a stern response to the consultation,...