Plastic Logic, a UK based company which pioneered a promising ebook reader that used plastic electronics, has confirmed that it has abandon plans to ship the device, called the proReader to prospective customers. In a statement,...

Customers looking to buy a white iPhone 4 may have to wait until next year according to Orange. TiPB reports that the mobile phone operator replied to a customer email saying that there won't be any white iPhone in the UK until...

As physical media looks more and more like a dusty relic of yesterday's PC games business, UK gaming trade body ELSPA has announced plans to provide a UK download chart to track sales of PC games...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has agreed to supply the code for its BlackBerry Messenger service to Saudi security agencies.The move will allow the company to avoid a ban on its services in the country.Citing sources...

Apple's Japanese division has agreed to replace all overheating first generation iPod Nanos following a request filed by Japanese authorities.News agenct the AFP reports that the move is part of Apple's plans to deal with the...

Research In Motion launched their first ever BlackBerry Torch slider handset last week at an event in New York on the AT&T network, where RIM held a similar event in the UK in which One Mobile Ring attended.We managed to...

Twitter is preparing to offer its promoted tweets products to third party developers for testing and trial purposes. The micro blogging platform has offered developers of third party websites access to two of its promoted...

BT has rolled out a super fast fibre-based broadband service in Dalgety Bay, Fife.The company said that the move will allow around 4,000 businesses and households in Dalgety Bay to access download speeds of up to 40 Mbps, and...

Project Canvas has invited interested manufacturers to develop hardware to deliver the internet television service to UK homes.Tech news site Tech Radar has reported that the IPTV project, headed by the BBC, has formally invited...

Apple has inked a deal with a Delaware company that currently makes strong and light metal alloys for tennis rackets and medical equipment. Liquidmetal Technology owns the intellectual property rights to a non-crystalline alloy...

Verbatim is best known for its blank media, but the global storage company has started to diversify its business lately with various consumables, such as LED lights, headsets, speakers, batteries, mice and even printer...

The traditional semiconductors that currently rule nearly every area of our digital lives could be replaced in the future by spintronics devices, which read and write data via the "spin" of electrons, rather than switching...

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had awarded a $100 million grant to IT giants, commissioning them to build a new breed of supercomputer.The US Department of Defence has provided the grants a part of the...

Apple has launched a new App Store program to allow schools and colleges to buy iOS 4 applications in bulk.The App Store Volume Purchase Program will offer an easy way for educational institutions to purchase applications in...

Facebook has criticised the Google-Verizon pact on Net neutrality, as other disappointed business leaders in Silicon Valley begin to respond to the deal.The social networking giant, one of the members of Open Internet Coalition...

The BBC has answered 3,701 Freedom of Information requests since they were introduced in 2005, at a cost of millions to the taxpayer. The extent of the disclosures was revealed in another FoI request made at the end of July by...

China’s biggest chip maker the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation posted its first profit in more than three years and claimed the future's bright. SMIC said it made $96.03 million in the second quarter,...

The European Commission has joined the ongoing US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation into Apple's allegedly monopolistic business strategies.According to sources cited by the New York Post, EU regulators are...

Want a top spec Mac Pro loaded up with all of the available goodies? Better get saving. Just for laughs we decided to price up one of Apple's recently-announced twelve-core beasts with all of the most expensive options just to...

Google is facing fresh criticism from privacy regulators in Germany over its plans to launch the Street View service in the country.News agency Bloomberg reports that, on Tuesday,  Google announced the deadline of the first...

Russia is holding advanced talks to acquire leading British display screen manufacturer Plastic Logic.The state-owned Russian Corporation Nanotechnologies (Rusnano), a non-profit organisation, reportedly aiming to buy Plastic...

Facebook is on the verge of launching its own geolocation check-in Foursquare competitor feature.Citing sources familiar with the matter, CNET reports that the company will be soon launching a geolocation API which would allow...

BSkyB has launched a legal challenge against the registration of the trademark Skype, claiming that it is too similar to its own brand, Sky. Partially owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, BSkyB is contesting the use of the...

The games industry's most renowned piece of vapourware, Duke Nukem Forever, is rumoured to be back in business, courtesy of Borderlands developer Gearbox.  Claiming to have spoken to sources close to the situation, gaming...

Twitter has launched the "Fast Follow" SMS feature, designed to allow users to receive tweets directly to their phones - despite not being registered with the site.The Micro blogging platform has invented a new way by which both...

iPhone owners have more sex than other smartphone owners, a new survey compiled by online dating platform OKCupid has found.The survey, based on the interviews of 9,785 smartphone owners aged 30, found that men using Apple's...

Adobe has released a security update for it Flash Player software which fixes six critical flaws in the popular video and animation software. The latest in a long line of security bulletins from the much-maligned outfit suggests...

Recognising the growing use of iDevices in education, Apple has launched a Volume Purchasing programme for schools and colleges wanting to use iOS4 Apps. According to Apple, the iTunes Volume Purchase scheme makes it easy for...

Twitter is preparing to offer its promoted tweets products to third party developers for testing and trial purposes.The micro blogging platform has offered developers of third party websites access to two of its promoted...

Enterprise software vendor Oracle has outlined its roadmap for the development of the Solaris platform.Oracle plans to incorporate Solaris with the Unix operating system.The company informed that the next version of the OS,...

Vodafone announced its own PAYG deal for the iPhone 4 yesterday, one outclasses the rest of the competition by providing more Wi-Fi quota. Orange gives 250MB worth of data and 750MB of BT Wi-Fi Openzone each month for one year....

Online handset retailer MobileFun.co.uk has released the shipping date of the upcoming Nokia flagship N8 mobile, even before the Finnish phone makers themselves have confirmed its arrival date.The handset reseller has let slip...

Google has implemented a number of major changes to its web-based email service Gmail, technology news website Tech Crunch reported on Tuesday.In particular, the search giant has given Gmail's contact manager tools a much-needed...

The Linux Foundation has released a new open-source software compliance program for software makers who are willing to incorporate open-source offerings into their products, but are concerned about software licensing issues.The...

The non-profit-making Linux Foundation has issued an Open Compliance Programme to help organisations get their open source offerings in order, monitoring components which may be subject to intellectual property claims. The...

After realising that most power supplies don't have the stamina to deal with the demands of its flamboyant Classified SR-2 motherboard, EVGA has decided to do the job itself, releasing its own power supply with the same brand...

Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player for Mac which enables hardware acceleration of high definition video for the first time. The Flash Player 10.1.82.76 release requires OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and only uses...

Satellite TV company BSkyB has launched a bizarre legal challenge to a well-known IP telephony service provider, claiming it owns the 'Sky' in 'Skype'. The broadcaster - part-owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - is...

UK games developers are increasingly looking to create games for Apple's iPhone platform, turning away from producing games for consoles.According to The Financial Times, a survey conducted by trade body Tiga has revealed that...

Google has sent invites for a Google Mobile event to be held on the 12th of August in San Francisco, one where it will unveil a couple of "cool new mobile" features. Gizmodo, which received one of the invites, says that the last...

Search giant Google has said that it won't be using drones anytime soon to generate much detailed photos for its Street view and maps online services. The fact that a Google executive who has an interest in robots purchased one...

The Samsung Wave uses new Super AMOLED touchscreen technology resulting in the brightest and sharpest display ever seen on a mobile phone.  Running Samsung's new Bada operating system, the S8500 Wave can be customised with...

Boasting NVIDIA Hybrid SLI graphics and the AMD processors the Aspire X3200 series is truly dynamic entertainment center. Stunning graphics, an HDMI port, a multi-in-one card reader, nine USB 2.0 ports and 7.1-channel audio...

For the ultimate digital viewing experience, choose the high- resolution, ultra widescreen HP 2710m. Get remarkable image clarity, bright colours and a range of features to make work and play easier and more fun. Now you can see...

Nintendo's Wii has become the fastest selling games console in US history.The company has sold over 30 million units in just 45 months since its US launch.The Japanese gaming giant said in a statement that its popular Wii games...

Apple has released a new developer initiative, “Single Day Pass”, to allow registered developers access to one of its compatibility labs.The company has started the new initiative for developers registered with its...

Users of Apple's iPhone have more sexual partners than any other app phone according to a survey. The utterly unscientific poll conducted by dating site OK Cupid discovered that iPhone-toting men had an average of ten sexual...

TalkTalk has attracted criticism from experts and customers alike following a hike of 55 pence for its monthly fixed line rental charges. The phone and broadband service provider has revealed its new monthly rental plans, raising...

Pedestrians can be removed from images on Google Street View thanks to a new program developed by a graduate student at the University of California.The still unnamed computer program replaces photographs of people captured by...

The UK Communication Workers Union (CWU) has secured a two year pay deal for O2 employees following seven months of continuous negotiation and discussion.Member of CWU’s staff working for Spanish-owned network service...

Online retailing giant Amazon may be looking to extend the range of hardware carrying its brand and possibly exploring options other than the Kindle. People with direct knowledge of Amazon's internal plans told Nick Bilton of the...

Dell's Streak tablet goes on sale in the USA this week, finally giving Apple's iPad something to compete against. The dodgy Texan outfit said the flat touch-screen phone gizmo will go on sale for $300 with a two-year contract...

The next Apple iPod Touch may well come with two cameras and the iPhone's famed Retina display if John Gruber is to be believed. The owner of Daring Fireball, one of Apple's most vocal commentator, pulled out the statement while...

Japanese manufacturer Nintendo will apparently launch the second version of its uber popular Wii console in 2011 according to rumours that have surfaced online. Vikki Blake from GGS received intel from one source that validates...

Website Jailbreakme.com offers a simple way of jail breaking an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad by just visiting the website and letting them do all the hard work - so that non-iTunes App Store applications can be run from the...

Netflix has inked a deal worth $1 billion over the next five years for the streaming rights to films from three of the biggest Hollywood studios.According to news agency Reuters, Netflix has made a deal with the Epix pay TV...

VMware has released the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance e-mail and collaboration software solution on Tuesday.The Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance, available at $625 for 25 mailboxes, has been designed for enterprises...

Insecurity researchers at M86's Security Labs say they have uncovered a Zeus v3 Trojan botnet that has managed to steal over £650,000 from customers of an unnamed UK bank. The "sophisticated" attack by cybercriminals uses...

Microsoft  stopped supporting  Windows XP SP2 last month, urging users to move to SP3 or - preferably - Windows 7. But a simple hack rediscovered by an insecurity researcher at F-Secure means users determined to stick...