Canadian handset manufacturer, RIM, has launched an updated version of its Blackberry Curve 9300 smartphone which now sports 3G functionality; sadly though RIM will ship it with Blackberry OS 5 despite the fact that it will be...

High Tech Computer Corporation upcoming handset that is codenamed HTC Ace has been caught on video, in addition to images showing up on websites over the weekend.The mobile phone that many have called the HTC Desire HD has...

Canonical has released the third alpha version of the new Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat operating system for download.The Ubuntu release team has advised users that the Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3 is still unstable as it is still in the...

The US State of New York has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against major LCD screen manufacturers.The New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has accused the companies, including Sharp, Samsung, LG and Toshiba, of illegally forming...

Popular torrent-tracking website TorrentReactor has 'bought' a town in Russia for around $150,000 and has changed its name to 'Torrent Reactor'. The popular torrent tracking website purchased the rural village without any outside...

The shabby state of the UK's broadband infrastructure was revealed yesterday, as NetIndex unveiled the results of millions of international speed tests. The UK was ranked number at number 34 out of 162 countries, which is...

Google is set to use drone aircraft mounted with cameras to capture clearer images for its Google Maps service in Germany.According to tech news site Geek, the internet search giant has taken delivery of a camera-equipped...

BitTorrent has released a new application for its uTorrent client, set to allow file sharers to hold discussions on Twitter.According to BitTorrent, the Torrent Tweet application will let users hold discussions about individual...

Social search engine Wowd has released the new Social Discovery Client tool, set to allow users to search Facebook for status updates and content from other users.According to Wowd, the new search tool will let users create their...

Popular torrent-tracking website TorrentReactor has 'bought' a town in Russia for around $150,000 and has changed its name to 'Torrent Reactor'.According to TorrentFreak, the popular torrent tracking website purchased the rural...

Korean memory master Hynix has squeezed the size of its NAND transistors all the way down to a piddly 20nm, and the semiconductor firm says flash chips based on the new tech are already in the mass production phase.  Hynix...

3 UK, the smallest mobile network operator in the UK, will get the Blackberry Torch after RIM's latest flagship handset was announced on Vodafone and Orange. The phone, which was released last week, features a slide out QWERTY...

Nokia has dismissed the possibility of launching an Android-based smartphone in order strengthen its weakening position the global smartphone market.During a question and answer session on Twitter, the company's executive vice...

RIM has announced the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300, their latest consumer orientated Curve handset that succeeds the 8520 and is the first in the Curve series with 3G access.Research In Motion's Curve 3G 9300 is their Qwerty keyboard...

Superbrain scientist Stephen Hawking has said that humankind must colonise new planets within the next 200 years, or face extinction. The world-renowned astrophysicist, who came close to mowing down this writer as a young...

Google has acquired web entertainment company Slide.The acquisition is set to help Google to develop an online gaming division for its upcoming social networking platform.According to a report by Silicon India, Google has paid...

Google, as part of its Google Books Project, has estimated that there are around 130 million books in the world.According to Google, there are roughly 129,864,880 in the world - and the company plans on scanning each and every...

Blizzard's Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty has slipped down the UK video game chart to fourth place.Sales of the game dropped by 72 per cent from its first week, allowing for Disney's Toy Story 3 to return to the top spot after a...

Apple has become the preferred laptop manufacturer of choice for students around the world, replacing rivals Dell, Toshiba, Sony and HP.The research, conducted by New Jersey-based research company Student Monitor, has shown that...

Virgin Media is set to sell its 50 per cent share in UKTV after deciding that the TV content business is not a strategic investment for the company to make.The company is seeking to raise £350 million for its stake in UKTV,...

The Samsung R530 Notebook PC (NP-R530-JA0DUK) is a powerful, yet affordable style leader. It offers great all-round value by combining outstanding quality and performance in an ultra-stylish “New Touch of Colour” red...

The HTC Desire HD has surfaced yet again, this time on an Italian website and looks very similar indeed to the model that popped up on an Asian website. The handset, which also goes by the name Ace, appears in a 90 seconds video...

Make the change from inkjet and bulky laser printer to the Samsung CLP-310N A4 Colour Laser Printer (CLP-310N/SEE). Now you have the perfect reason to upgrade to the smallest colour laser printer.  BLI lab test certified...

O2 will swap the older Android OS 1.6 found on the Dell Streak Tablet smartphone for the newer Android OS 2.1 by next month but did not give any reason why it did not press ahead to upgrade to Android OS 2.2 instead. A...

At last, home network storage that’s comprehensive and easy to understand. NETGEAR Stora lets you store, share and protect music, movies, photos and data using any device on your home network. Share a private photo album...

We've just caught our first glimpse of what could be the specs and model numbers of Intel's Sandy Bridge CPU line-up, and it looks as though Intel's decided to start everything off above the 3GHz line this time.  The German...

A San Francisco system administrator has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after being convicted of locking other authorised users out of the city's network.Terry Childs developed an alternate set of passwords to prevent...

American online classified advertising site, Craigslist, has been accused of facilitating the trafficking of women and children. Two young women placed an advert in The Washington Post, appealing directly to the site's founder...

Microsoft has launched an investigation into a critical vulnerability discovered in the Windows kernel driver.The vulnerability could allow a hacker to run malicious code on the system in the kernel mode.According to Computer...

A Tory MP has said that he doesn't want constituents to contact him by e-mail, and has threatened a political lobbying website with legal action if they continue to publicise his address. Dominic Raab, the newly elected...

Online classified advertising service Craiglist has been accused of promoting prostitution and child exploitation in its "adult services" list.The platform, founded by owner Craig Newmark, is alleged to have become a hub for...

More evidence pointing to the existence of Nvidia's mysterious full-spec Fermi has just rolled up, with benchmarks apparently showing the difference made by the extra 32 stream processors. As with the first glimpse of the card,...

Cathie Lesjak, Hewlett and Packard's (HP) new, temporary chief executive officer, will have to deal with both slow growth and look for a new CEO following the sudden departure of Mark Hurd.  Lesjak, the 51 year old chief...

BBC staff have lost £241,019 worth of laptops and mobiles over the past two years, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.The Freedom of Information request was made by security firm, Absolute Software.According to...

The Mozilla Foundation is planning to provide discreet updates for its Firefox web browser via a dedicated update channel.According to Computer World, is a somewhat similar fashion to Google Chrome, Mozilla will automatically...

BBC staff have lost laptops and mobile phones worth a total of £241,019 over the past two years, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The broadcaster mislaid a total of 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17...

A computer repair engineer has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment after being caught in an undercover sting operation initiated by Sky News.The sting operation was investigating the service offered by computer repair...

The Apple executive who oversaw the development of the iPhone 4 has resigned only a few weeks after the “antennagate” issue hit.The BBC reports that Mark Papermaster had been head of Apple's iPhone and iPod...

Following allegations of a price-fixing cartel operated my far-eastern LCD screen manufacturers which lead to the U.S. Department of Justice imposing millions of dollars in fines on some of the alleged cartel members, the State...

Saudi Arabia has decided to delay ban on BlackBerry services for another 48 hours, ending Monday, in the hope of reaching an agreement with manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM).According to Saudi regulators, the agreement...

Apple has promised to improve warnings related to the overheating of iPod Nanos on its official Japanese website.According to a statement released by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the company has presented...

Frash, the application that brings Adobe's Flash software to jailbroken iPads, has now been ported to work on iOS 4 powered Apple devices.The application has been altered by iPhone developer Comex, the person 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...

An insecurity researcher from Tel Aviv who goes by the nickname "arkon", has uncovered a heap overflow vulnerability lurking in the Windows kernel. Arkon, whose real name is Gil Dabah, posted a proof-of-concept to...

Verizon Wireless is set to offer the iPhone 4 in its stores from January next year as AT&T's exclusivity deal with Apple comes to an end.Tech news site PC Mag reports that AT&T has hinted in a filing with the US...

MP3 players have been one of the biggest revolutions for listening to music on the move in the past two decades and the AA's latest report seems to unfairly highlight the role of the iPod in what it calls "pedestrian inattention"...

US Consumer Electronics giant Best buy will be selling tablets under its own inhouse brand, Rocketfish, according to details posted online by its CTO. Robert Stephens posted photos of the device on Twitter (via Crunchgear)...

Activision has announced that it is to join the ranks of publishers taking a stand against the pre-owned games market by providing additional DLC content for its popular titles.The company hopes that the measures will limit the...

The chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Mark V. Hurd has resigned his position following accusations of sexual harassment and the submission of forged expense claims.HP initiated an internal inquiry on Hurd after a female...

Microsoft Research has apparently been working on what looks like a new mobile platform, called Menlo, whose features could be integrated in mainstream devices in the future. The phone, which has been described in a research...

Snoop and search outfit Google has acquired Slide, a San Francisco-based social software outfit for a cool $182 million, plus an extra $46 million forked out to retain the outfit's employees. Google reckons Slide is "a social...

A single snapshot of the HTC Desire HD has appeared online on a Hong-kong based website and it looks as if it will not have a front-facing camera like the EVO 4G. The device, which can be seen here, comes with a very thin bezel...

3D TV is more complex than standard television pictures, because broadcasts have to include information used to create both the left-eye and right-eye images necessary for the 3D effect. For more 3D content & featured...

The Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company’s iPhone, Mark Papermaster, has left the company. Neither Apple nor Papermaster would say whether he jumped or was pushed, but he certainly seems to be carrying the...

The woman who cost HP CEO his job has stepped into the limelight to say she's  "surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job." Jodie Fisher, a salesperson and actress, said in a statement released yesterday through...