Apple's latest UK store opens in a few hours in Covent Garden and chances are it will be one of the most prosperous as well given the amount of tourists that land near one of London's most famous landmarks at any time. Located at...

The US Federal Communications Commission has called off negotiations with major players in the Internet industry aimed at reaching a compromise on Net neutrality. Net neutrality has been an abiding principle behind the...

China Unicom is set to release Apple's iPhone 3GS with enabled Wi-Fi capabilities in China on Monday. Citing sources within the company, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company is planning to bring Wi-Fi functionality...

Research In Motion's BlackBerry Torch 9800 slide phone was launched this week at an event in New York on the AT&T network, where RIM held a similar unveiling in the UK. One Mobile Ring attended the UK launch and managed to...

Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Chinese internet games developer Handseeing Information Technology. Speaking to the state-run Xinhua news agency, Handseeing deputy general manager Tian Bo said that negotiations were still...

This week began with HTC rolling out Android 'Froyo' 2.2 to unlocked and SIM free Desires, whilst news arrived the recent Samsung Galaxy S will be getting an update to the same OS at the end of September. LG went on to expand...

Far from gasping for air on its deathbed, PC gaming appears to be alive and well and defiantly fending off the threat from consoles. In fact, according to research from the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) sales of PC gaming kit are...

Facebook game developer Zynga has announced it has acquired Japanese social game developer Unoh. The acquisition marks Zynga's first entry into the Japanese online gaming market, as the company begins to expand its global...

After alluding to a quirky gaming project with a mammoth games company last week, it now looks as though film maker Guillermo del Toro has teamed up with multi-platform gaming titan THQ  Although this hasn't been confirmed...

HM Treasury is looking into the possibility of replacing government spending monitor the Combined Online Information System (COINS) with a new system being developed under the code-name Project Oscar.The new system aims to...

Apple has added the 'Try before you buy feature' to its App Store, giving users the opportunity to to try out a free or 'lite' version of an application before purchase.The feature has been launched to make up for the lack of a...

UK government ministers have pulled the plug on the £224 million ContactPoint child protection database set-up by the Labour Government after the murder of 8 year-old Victoria Climbie in 2000.The ContactPoint database was...

Channel 4 is planning to brings its on-demand services to Sony's PlayStation 3 games console.Tech news site Tech Radar reports that the company is currently in talks with Sony to offer its 4OD on-demand video service on the...

It looks as though there's still plenty of life left in Intel's LGA1366 socket for the moment, as we've just received some sneaky snaps of a new Asus overclockers' board for Intel's top-end Core i7 chips.  Called the...

Security researchers have found that the private browsing modes on most web browsers leak user data.Private browsing mode is designed to automatically delete all the logs of the websites that have been visited by the user in this...

Leaked documents have revealed that the UK's National Health Service wastes £86 million a year on thousands of useless websites. According to a report on public sector news website Public Technology, a leaked version of...

Digg is set to investigate claims that its conservative members are actively seeking to censor content deemed to be 'leftist' or 'progressive' on its site.An independent undercover investigation conducted by online magazine...

Oracle may have to pay $1 billion in damages if the US Department of Justice can prove that the company overcharged the US government on software contracts.The lawsuit, filed by the Department of Justice (DoJ) on 29 July, is...

Hot on the heels of recently leaked pictures of a supposed case prototype for the next generation iPod Touch new images have emerged. The pictures which were sent to Mac Rumours by a component manufacturer, purportedly show an...

Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Chinese internet games developer Handseeing Information Technology.Speaking to the state-run Xinhua news agency, Handseeing deputy general manager Tian Bo said that negotiations were still...

The private modes on many current browsers are close to useless according to a study conducted by Stanford University. Commonly known as 'Porn Mode' because it is most often used when users are doing a bit of surreptitious...

Microsoft is giving up on Money. All support and online services for the financial software package will be withdrawn as of the end of January. But, for those willing to forego such dubious 'features' it appears that Microsoft...

The UK's ruling coalition continued its programme of cuts in government IT spending with the closure today of a £224m database containing details of all 11 million children in England. The ContactPoint database - which...

Nvidia's low-end Fermi bucket is springing leaks all over the place now. Just a day after we first glimpsed a GF106 die in the wilderness, a photo of Nvidia's GF108 has now turned up on the scene.  The picture has been...

Amazon has opened the UK branch of its Kindle e-book store weeks ahead of schedule. Originally slated to throw open its doors on 27 August to coincide with the launch of the outfit's latest reader hardware, the UK Kindle Store...

Cisco has issued a security advisory reporting multiple vulnerabilities in its Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM).The company warned that the vulnerabilities could allow hackers to launch an Denial of Service attack.According...

It's a fact of life that, whenever a company is preparing to release a new product, it is forced to send engineering prototypes to third-party manufacturers in order to allow them to design accessories which will be available on...

Despite installing safety nets on its dormitory blocks, Chinese electronics factory Foxconn is reporting another suicide, this time at its Kunshun assembly plant rather than the Shenzen complex which has been at the heart of the...

The Pentagon has demanded that WikiLeaks hand over a new stash of 15,000 new documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, and called on the whistle-blowing site to remove all classified information already posted. In...

Google's fleet of Street View cars are back on UK roads - only this time they don't have the equipment to 'accidentally' collect personal data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.Writing in the Google Privacy Europe blog, the company...

Amazon has opened its official UK Kindle e-book reader store. The online retail giant has said that the store will offer over 400,000 titles for download, with prices for bestsellers from as little as £1.89. The company is...

Google has released a new report highlighting the levels of 'fragmentation'within the user base of its Android mobile OS across the range of currently available Android-based smartphones, Information Week reports.The study shows...

HP has refreshed its netbook range by introducing a new model, the Mini 5103, which will replace the Mini 5102 and which sports DDR3 RAM rather than the DDR2 memory we're used to. The device comes with an Intel Atom N455 or a...

The first mainstream personal 3D camcorder, the Aiptek 3D-HD, will go on sale tomorrow on Firebox.com for £200 after being unveiled at Computex in June. The device has two lenses and a pair of image sensors which can record...

Dell shareholders are being urged a withhold their votes from chairman and CEO Michael Dell at the company's annual shareholder meeting to be held on August 12, 2010.  The meeting was postponed from last month to give...

Two pictures of what appears to be key components of the next Apple iPod Touch - set to be released in September 2010 - have been sent by an iPhone parts supplier, iPhonerevivers to an Apple news website. Macrumors published the...

No need to worry. Whatever type of 3D content you want to view, with a Panasonic Full HD 3D TV, you can. For more 3D content & featured articles, go to Welcometo3d.tv The format used by 3D Blu-ray discs has been agreed by...

Google has been ordered to defend against an age-bias lawsuit by the Supreme Court of California.The company had attempted to have the case dismissed by citing the 'stray remarks' clause.The 'stray remarks' clause includes...

Google is offering an unlocked version of its Nexus One smartphone to developers, billing it as the official Android Dev Phone.The company said that developers registered with the Android Community can buy an unlocked version of...

Adobe Systems is preparing to release an out-of-band patch to fix a critical vulnerability in its Acrobat and Reader applications.The flaw was first reported during the Black Hat security conference.A vulnerability has been found...

Microsoft has announced that it is planning a massive Patch Tuesday release scheduled for next week.The release willl comprise of 14 security bulletins covering 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft software such as Windows, Office,...

The UK's Royal Society is launching a study to investigate the declining number of students taking up information technology courses in school.According to the Royal Society, the UK's premier institution for scientific research,...

As pressure mounts on whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks, a huge encrypted file named 'Insurance' has appeared on its pages. The 1.4GB file is lurking there ready to burst open should something unsavoury happen to...