One detail in the list of the biggest mobile companies in the world published earlier today by Gartner piqued our curiosity, the presence at number ten of a mobile phone company we've never heard before. G'Five sold more than...

Research In Motion has been given until 31 August to allow the Indian government access to messages sent from BlackBerry devices, or face a suspension of services.Indian government officials held a closed-door meeting with mobile...

The 'report abuse' button on Facebook has been declared a success following a rise of abuse reports by 650 per cent.Investigating agencies have reported a seven-fold increase in the number of abuse reports  since the tab was...

Second quarter mobile phone sales are up 13.8 per cent to 325.6 million, a new study compiled by research firm Gartner has revealed.According to the research, Android-based mobile phones have emerged as the top market grosser in...

In an attempt to address the labyrinth of pitfalls involved with setting up EyeFinity, ATI partner Sapphire has created a graphics card that can hook up to three standard DVI monitors out of the box. EyeFinity is AMD's...

Viacom has filed a lawsuit to appeal against a previous court ruling that exempted Google and YouTube from charges of copyright infringement. The media company, on Wednesday, filed a case to appeal against a 23 June ruling by US...

Security firm VUPEN Security has issued a warning about a newly discovered flaw in the Windows Kernel that could allow hackers to crash or gain administrative privileges on a computer system.According to the security company, the...

More than 200 Facebook users have fingered suspected nonces since the social notworking site finally relented and installed a 'Panic Button' which allows kids to report suspicious behaviour. After months of badgering, The Child...

Samsung has released the world's first portable 3D Blu-Ray player, as well as a 3D plasma HDTV.The Samsung BD-C8000 is the first portable Blu-Ray player to offer support for 3D movies and comes with a 10.1 inch display and...

The frustration of hearing a good track on the radio but then never hearing it again could soon be a forgotten memory, thanks to a new music service from the digital radio wizards Pure. The king of DAB is launching a service...

An image on Google Street View of a girl lying on the pavement has created furore among the residents of Worcester. Concerned Residents of Middle Road, St. John's in Worcester contacted Google to ensure that the company had not...

Should Apple sell the rumoured iTV set top box for $99, it will not turn out a profit, our preliminary research on the bill of material found out. The Apple iTV is expected to be based on the iPhone 4 whose preliminary bill of...

Computers could soon be writing your daily news, if a scientist interviewed on the BBC's Today programme has his way. Dr Kristian Hammond of the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University in Illinois told...

Research conducted by Gartner has shown that there were 325.6 million handsets sold in the second quarter of the current financial year.Gartner said that the increase is a 13.8 per cent According to the Wall Street Journal,...

Mobile virtual network operator Tesco mobile has just unveiled a £6 tariff, with 100 minutes of calling and unlimited text messages - aimed squarely at those who SMS rather than talk.The SIM only monthly contract comes in at the...

Apple yesterday released an update which patches two vulnerabilities that are exploited in the Jailbreakme hack for iOS 4 devices.Comex, the creator of the hack, has responded by publicly releasing the source code to the exploit,...

The official London Tube iPhone application has been updated to add 'Boris Bikes' information.Users who purchase the "Leisure Points of Interest" pack will be able to view London Cycle Hire information with the application. The...

OKCupid's article about sexual activity by smartphone brand has been widely reported on the internet and the fact that female users of an iPhone handset have twice the average number of sexual partners at 30 is telling. Put that...

The hacker behind the jailbreakme.com exploit has posted the source code for the hacks just minutes after Apple plugged the hole. In what seems to us like the worst case of sour grapes we've seen for some time, the hacker behind...

Google has launched a new beta version of its Chrome 6 web browser.Tech news site The H Open has reported that the beta has a 15 per cent speed increase based on the V8 benchmark, a synchronisation capability, enhanced sun spider...

Tesco is aiming to challenge Virgin Mobile as the biggest MVNO on the market by unveiling this morning a SIM only, monthly contract package that offers unlimited texts and 100 anytime, any network minutes for a mere £6 a...

Vodafone has agreed to remove the Vodafone 360 update it prompted HTC Desire owners on its network to install following a severe consumer backlash.Unsuspecting HTC Desire customers, thinking they were being sent the Android 2.2...

In a move that could have you yearning for the simpler days when CPUs had a simple megahertz rating, Intel is rumoured to be complicating the Sandy Bridge model numbering system even further.  The Nehalem family of CPUs is...

A Greenpeace executive has lashed out at a law suit brought against the organisation by Indian steel giant Tata for defamation and trademark infringement, after the company was ridiculed in an online game. Tata, India's largest...

Microsoft made a big deal of its upcoming attempts to beef up the security of its Hotmail service in a major update scheduled for this summer. Now that the update has rolled around, the outfit's support forums have begun...

Dell is planning a new handset, which is turning out to be the smaller version of the Streak, and which will carry the sweet name of Thunder. Engadget has the pictures complete with a video of the handset and it looks as if it is...

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) has announced plans to launch a UK download chart for online PC game sales.ELSPA has convinced games publishers to provide it with download sales to help it...

Russian Antivirus giant Kaspersky has uncovered a virus for the Google mobile OS named Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, which contacts premium phone numbers and amasses a large phone bill for the mobile owner.This is the first...

US IT giant IBM has dropped a lawsuit filed against a former employee Joanne Olsen after she quit the company to join rival firm Oracle in June.In response, Oracle launched a lawsuit of its own in the US District Court in San...

The Nokia 5250 smartphone, which is set to be the company's next sub £70 star, may well turn out to be a major disappointment according to the official manual which is available on Nokia's website. The phone, which was...

UK-based internet security firm MWR Infosecurity has discovered a zero-day flaw in Palm's Pre operating system, which allows the phone to be turned into a bugging device.According to Alex Fidgen, director of MWR, the flaw allows...

Apple has issued an emergency update for devices running the iOS4 mobile operating system. iOS4.0.2 plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 and its manifold...

Current GPGPU runner-up AMD has updated its ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK), providing support for the latest open GPGPU standard, OpenCL 1.1.  Designed to help software developers get the most out of AMD GPUs,...

Mozilla has released the third beta version of its Firefox 4 web browser, bringing multi-touch capabilities to touch enabled Windows 7 systems and improvements to the browser's JavaScript rendering.The new beta version of the...

The Internet produces 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to everyone in the UK flying to America and back, twice over. According to an article published today by UK newspaper The Guardian, data centres...

Social Networking Giant Facebook has already reached saturation point according to data from Google Ad planner and Google Trends. On Tuesday, Experian Hitwise, a web monitoring firm, reported that Britons spent only an average of...

Cisco CEO John Chambers has announced that the company expects its fiscal first-quarter sales to rise by 18% to 20% over a year ago.The Wall Street Journal reports that Chambers said that the economy may take longer than...

The HTC Wildfire bears a close resemblance to its bigger brother, the HTC Desire, and yet packs nearly as much tech in its downsized case. Its smaller size makes for a more comfortable user experience whilst the slightly reduced...

Sony Ericsson have put a lot of effort in to the Xperia X10, their first Android phone, and it has really paid off with this stunning device. The huge 4 inch display really makes the most of the slick user interface with great...

A mightily-miffed Viacom has filed an appeal against a previous court ruling that found Google's YouTube not guilty of charges of copyright infringement. The media company filed a case to appeal against a 23 June ruling by US...

Microsoft has filed a trademark application to register the name 'ONIT' for a website dedicated to men's interests.First reported by Tech Flash's Todd Bishop, the website will offer content on entertainment, sports, fitness and...

Viacom has filed a lawsuit to appeal against a previous court ruling that exempted Google and YouTube from charges of copyright infringement.The media company, on Wednesday, filed a case to appeal against a 23 June ruling by US...

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

Microsoft has released a new add-on for its Premier Mission Critical Support services, allowing enterprise customers to get personalised support from the company in an instant.The software outfit said the Premier...

The decision by Talktalk to align the price of its monthly line rental tariff on that of BT, by raising it by 55p to £12.04 a month may prompt some of us to look at competitors, especially as Talktalk is raising the price...

Sony Ericsson is working of a PlayStation-branded mobile gaming phone based on Android 3.0, according to a report on tech blog Engadget. It sounds an unlikely move for the company, which has yet to even release an Android 2.0...

Cloud service provider Rackspace Hosting has rolled out its new cloud servers for Microsoft Windows, targeted at SMBs, .NET developers and system administrators.The company said that the Windows dedicated cloud servers will not...

In a move guaranteed to cause confusion on this side of the Pond, Apple is apparently going to update its TV device, re-branding it iTV. Engadget reports that the Apple iTV, will cost just $99 and come with the internal ...

Apple is set to hold its annual September musical event, but no exact date has yet been confirmed.Tech news site All Things D reports that the event, which mainly focuses on iPod and iTunes, was held for the first time in...

Microsoft has back-tracked on its promise to continue the development of .NET dynamic languages.Software engineer Jimmy Schementi, in-charge of the development of open source .NET dynamic language Ruby, called IronRuby, has left...

Microsoft has released a new add-on for its Premier Mission Critical Support services, allowing enterprise customers to get personalised support from the company, instantly.The Premier Mission Critical add-on will let customers...

John Gruber, the nearest thing Apple has to an oracle, has revealed today that Apple indeed has a CDMA iPhone 4 in the works, one which carries the sweet (internal) name of N92. Gruber, from Daring Fireball, says that the phone...

Finally, Sony Ericsson appears to be committing itself completely to Android with rumours of a gaming platform based around the third version of the OS, together with a PSP-like phone, having emerged online. Engadget's Joshua...

It looks as if Apple will update its Apple TV device fairly soon and will not only make it way cheaper but also significantly change the very fabric of the gadget. Engadget reports that the Apple TV, soon to be renamed iTV (ed :...

Microsoft has announced plans to open a new studio dedicated to developing mobile games and applications for its upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform.The company has posted a job listing on its website, advertising for game...

Microsoft may have recently ditched support for its Windows XP SP2, but Finnish anti-virus software firm F-Secure has developed a hack to allow the ageing operating system to still receive security updates.The hack can trick...

Apple has announced that it has released a patch for a critical iOS flaw that allowed hackers to install malicious applications onto iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads.The vulnerability were found by the iPhone Dev Team whilst...

Microsoft has attracted the ire of Hotmail users around the world as persistent issues preventing them from accessing their accounts, e-mails, contacts and messenger.Tech news site Computer World reported on Wednesday that...

The new UK coalition government has backtracked on its pre-election promise to review tax on fibre-optics-based broadband lines.The Minister for Communications, Culture and Creative industries Ed Vaizey has announced the...