The first previews of the Blackberry Torch have landed and, as expected, present a mixed picture with a sense of déjà-vu blended with a feeling of could-have-been-better. Fortune's Seth Weintraub goes for the...

Six suspects in UK and Ireland have been arrested in an attempt to end an ongoing banking scam that has hit more than 20,000 bank and credit card accounts and netted around £3 million. The sophisticated phishing scam...

The HTC Glacier could well become the fastest Android smartphone yet to be released if a slew of benchmarks and screen captures posted by a little known website are to be believed. Alienbabeltech says that it has proof of the...

Rdio, a new music streaming service, is now available to anyone in the US and Canada.Previously only available by invitation as a private beta version, the service is now accessible from both Windows-based PCs and Mac computers,...

The UK music industry grew by 4.7 per cent in 2009, new data by PRS for Music has revealed.According to the data, music industry revenue rose to £3.9 billion last year, in part due to the increased popularity of live...

A security expert has devised a method which can pin-point the exact location of a person's home to attackers by accessing location data from Google’s Street View service. The exploit discovers the location details by...

By all standards, Ross Grant, the leader of Leicester City's conservative group, appears to be a very well versed guy when it comes to technology and managed to explains his view on why he chose the iPad and why it might actually...

If you've been tempted to venture into the esoteric realms of liquid-cooling, but find yourself bewildered by all the kit, then Corsair's new Hydro Series H70 could give you a friendly introduction.  Rather than threatening...

The Internet is flapping its gums about a flaw in Apple's iOS4 mobile operating system which can open up the system to abuse if directed at a web site containing maliciously coded PDF files. At least one Chicken Little at a well...

The iPhone Dev Team has released the UltraSn0w 1.0-1 tool designed to allow users to jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G handsets running on iOS 4.0.1.According to the iPhone Dev Team blog, the jail breaking tool is compatible with...

Germany's Federal Office for Information Security has doled out an official warning about potential security issues that might affect a number of Apple devices running on Apple iOS mobile platform. The entity, which at the...

Vonage has announced an application for mobile phones that allow for free voice calls to Facebook friends, over both 3G and WIFI.Voice over IP company Vonage's latest application for Android and Apple devices provides the ability...

Google is to change the rules of its Adwords online advertising scheme, allowing firms to register other companies' brand names as keywords - even those of competitors. The move was announced at a press conference today in...

Amid confusion over the future of a streaming iTunes music service, Apple has secretly updated its iDisk online storage service to allow users to stream audio files stored online on internet enabled devices.According to a report...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has said that it will not allow Indian security agencies to monitor encrypted e-mail messages sent over its network.Instead, RIM said that it is working towards finding a solution to the...

An elusive version of Nvidia's Fermi chip with the complete set of 512 stream processors may have just reared its head in China.  An anonymous source has reportedly leaked some photos and benchmark screenshots from a GTX...

UK media regulator Ofcom has urged the Competition Commission to investigate the role of BSkyB's premium Sky Movies channels in the Pay-TV market.Ofcom believes that Sky's dominance of the market is affecting the competition in...

Security firm Trusteer has uncovered a new Zeus 2.0 botnet, specifically designed to siphon financial information from customers of UK banks.The malware was discovered by Trusteer security researchers after a six-month long study...

Canadian builder of industrial computers Stealth has launched its teeniest ever PC which will fit in your palm if your hands - if your hands are rather large. The company, which is best known for its ruggedised kit, says this is...

Britain's ruling coalition wants to be seen as the listening government. But it appears ministers are only hearing what they want to hear. After a series of online campaigns aimed at encouraging the British public to offer its...

Research in Motion announced the Blackberry Torch, also known as the 9800, yesterday during a live event which was broadcasted online and is likely to dislodge the Blackberry Storm 2 as the flagship handset of the company. The...

Britain's Girl Guide Association is calling for the government to make the labelling of "touched-up" images in the media mandatory.Girlguiding UK claims that the photoshopped images have a "devastating" effect on young women in...

Sony has released a new version of its 3.41 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 games console.The update is designed to fix the hard drive problems encountered by some users.The original PS3 3.41 firmware update was causing...

If you were hoping to find a copy of Crysis 2 in your Christmas stocking this year you'd better think again. Buried deep within a bunch of boring stuff about money published by game publisher Electronic Arts, Kiwi tech site Top...

With a raft of new Intel chipsets and sockets waiting in the wings for next year, it looks as though the chip maker is already planning to cull its Core i7 chips. According to the latest rumours, Intel's top-end Core i7 975...

Japanese consumer electronics firm Sharp has announced that it is developing a 3D enabled smartphone to compete with Apple's iPhone.The company has said that the smartphone's screenwill allow users to view 3D images without the...

Microsoft has released two cropped photos of a mysterious device on its newly created Twitter account.The company further teased gadget fans with a hint written at the bottom of the final uploaded image, indicating that the...

Microsoft is set to launch a new version of its Visual Studio, aimed at simplifying the manner in which applications are developed on the platform.According to PC World, the company has simplified the platform to a level at which...

Saudi Arabia has ordered a ban on services provided by Research In Motion for its BlackBerry mobile phone, Bloomberg has reported.The Telecommunication Authority of Saudi Arabia has ordered mobile network carriers to stop...

Apple's cloud-based iTunes project may be delayed due to video streaming issues, tech news site Cnet reports.Following the company's acquisition of streaming music website Lala.com eight months ago, industry experts had predicted...

The Australian government is backing away from plans to snoop on individual users' surfing habits in the run-up to the country's forthcoming general election. The administration had come under fire after it censored 90 per cent...

A number of renowned laptop makers have already lined up several Fusion-based netbooks and ultra-thin laptops for the beginning of 2011, according to the latest word on the tech grapevine.  The Taiwanese gossip dredgers...

Security software vendor AVG has reported that cyber criminals have succeeded in stealing 60 GB of data by using a botnet that has affected around 55,000 computers worldwide.The company released a report, stating that the botnet,...

A court has ruled in favour of Microsoft after the software giant had been accused of infringing upon patents related to multiplayer gaming, financial news group Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.The lawsuit, which was filed by Peter...

Chip giant Intel's ten-year battle with the US Federal Trade Commission has come to an end and details of the settlement will be published later today. The world's largest chip maker has been embroiled in a series of damaging...

Google has released the 'Canary Build' of its Chrome web browser tech news site The Register reported on Tuesday.The company has said that Canary Build, which was released last week, is the most unstable and experimental version...

A hacker has found a way to discover a user's location - down to a few metres - and all it takes is for the unsuspecting user to be tricked into visiting a bogus website. The trick was demonstrated by hacker Samy Kamkar at the...

Vodafone has released an over-the-air firmware update for the HTC Desire smartphone, adding a set of Vodafone-branded applications.Tech news site Cnet reports that the company forced the update on users as part of its operating...

Apple has been selling the iPhone 4 unlocked in the UK as well as a number of other countries since launch, but our colonial cousins in America are still shackled to the much-maligned AT&T with its shonky network and shoddy...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has unveiled a handset named Torch, aimed at the iPhone generation. The smartphone features the new BlackBerry 6 operating system and is the first offering to combine a keyboard with a full...

A security expert has devised a method which can pin-point the exact location of a person's home to attackers by accessing location data from Google’s Street View service, BBC News reported on Tuesday.The exploit, devised...

Two-thirds of people believe that cyber-espionage is necessary for maintaining a country's economic and political standing, a survey reported by tech news website Computing has revealed.The survey, which was conducted by security...

The new Sony PS3 gaming consoles, which sport 160GB and 320GB hard disk drives, could land in the UK as early as October, four months after being released in Japan. According to Playmag whose been tipped by a "reliable source in...

Vodafone and Orange have both announced they will be carrying the first BlackBerry slider phone from Research In Motion - since its launch event in America on the AT&T network.The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the first slider...

Games 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...

Juniper Systems has announced the acquisition of smartphone and tablet device security vendor SMobile for $70 million, tech news site Network World reports. SMobile offers protection against viruses, spyware and identify theft...

Google is rolling out a new service that allows users to sign-in into multiple accounts simultaneously, The Washington Post has reported.According to a recent post on Google’s operating system blog, the new multiple sign-in...

Mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced that it will sell the just announced Blackberry Torch 9800 handset in the UK with those interested in the smartphone able to pre-register. The page which is available...

At least one analyst has said that sales of Activision Blizzard's record breaker, Starcraft II, were slightly underwhelming even though more than 1.5 million units were sold in the first 48 hours. Lazard Capital Analyst Colin...

Telecom companies and trade groups around the world have criticised the new security regulations implemented by the Indian governments on foreign telecommunication companies.The foreign companies have urged the Indian government...

Motorola and Verizon Wireless may be looking to launch a tablet computer that will compete with Apple's iPad and will feature native support (and tight integration) with Verizon's own FiOS digital TV service. According to a...

Yes. 3D Blu-ray discs are encoded using a standard called 'Multiview Video Compression', which Panasonic helped to invent. The standard has been agreed by all major makers of Blu-ray players, and the studios that publish the...

Cisco has settled a two year old lawsuit with software maintenance firm Multiven.In 2008, Multiven had sued Cisco for releasing critical security patches and software updates only for the customers of its SMARTnet services and...

Apple devices can be hacked through a flaw in the way iOS 4 deals with PDF files, tech news site Gizmodo reported on Tuesday. According to Gizmodo, the bug is capable of infecting all iOS 4-based Apple devices, and allows hackers...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has accused Wikipedia of illegally reproducing the FBI's seal, BBC News reported on Tuesday. Wikipedia received a letter from the FBI, asking it to pull down the image of their official...

An application on Microsoft’s Bing Maps now allow users to calculate taxi fares between two addresses, tech site Gizmodo reported on Tuesday.The taxi fare calculator, after users to highlight their start address and their...

Research in Motion pulled the curtains on the new Blackberry OS 6, its latest mobile platform on which the Canadian manufacturer is pinning its hopes as it tries to play catch up with Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android...