Microsoft announced that the Kinect would go on sale on the 10th of November earlier today and already prices of the Xbox 360 motion controller have started to fall down significantly. While Game, HMV and Amazon are selling the...

The HTC Vision has appeared for a few hours on the Amazon UK website on the page listing of the HTC Desire HD as the Desire Z before being pulled down. Techradar reports that the phone carried a preorder price of £455 but...

Research in Motion's BlackBerry Torch 9800 has only sold 150,000 units since its launch last week, market analysts have claimed.Citing analysts at RBC Capital Markets and Stifel Nicolaus, the The Wall Street Journal reported that...

ASUS has announced that the company expects to see a decline in its netbook sales during the third quarter owing to the launch of Apple's iPad.During an investor meeting, the company said that it expects to ship 1.4 million units...

Following George Osborne's balls up with games tax relief, Canada has now nudged the UK's games development industry into fourth place. Canada now sits at number three, behind the US and Japan in first and second place...

Microsoft has announced 10 November as the UK launch date of its highly anticipated Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 gaming peripheral. The company has said that the next few months will be a critical time for Microsoft's gaming...

Android's rumoured partnership with online payment giant Paypal may well spell big trouble for Google's own Checkout payment service. The potential move comes as rumours emerged of a recruitment drive by Apple that may convert...

Nokia has finally released the X3 touch and type handset, one which comes both wiht a touchscreen and the bog-standard 12 button numeric keypad, a strange but appealing combination. The phone - which is a smaller version of the...

The September issue of trendy US tech mag Wired is boldly declaring 'The Web is dead'. And based on the figures it has unearthed, it has a point. That doesn't mean you'll wake up tomorrow to find a blank void in your browser...

Microsoft has announced plans for releasing 50 games on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphones.Speaking at the Gamescom 2010 in Cologne, the company said that users will offered 50 Xbox Live games when the first Windows Phone...

The Indian government has sent notices to mobile operators in the country, ordering them to install equipment required to monitor BlackBerry services on their networks by 31 August.According to a letter provided to BBC News by...

The familiar red square and friendly curved lettering of the ATI logo could soon be axed, according to the latest word on the tech grapevine.  The news comes from the graphics tech heads over at German tech site ATI-Forum,...

The Samsung i909, a new smartphone from the growing Galaxy S family, has surfaced on a Chinese website under the brand name Anycall, one which was established by Samsung and exclusively focuses on South Korea and China. According...

Virgin Media will launch the Alcatel VM202 handset for a mere £39.99 on pay as you go, a price that includes £10 credit. The GPRS-capable phone which is presented as a stylish, functional and entertaining addition to...

Ongoing talks between BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) and the government of U.A.E over allowing security services to monitor all message and e-mail traffic sent fromt eh smartphones is said to be proceeding...

One more peripheral allowing the humble iPod Touch to turn into a pseudo Apple iPhone has emerged, one which carries the sweet name of tPhone. The tPhone looks like another competitor the Apple Peel 520; it is essentially a hard...

Sainsbury's has entered the mobile e-commerce market with the launch of two new iPhone applications.According to the company, the Sainsbury's application is free to download and will come with a store locator, latest news,...

Rumours of a cut-down Apple iPad are ramping up as Taiwanese news outlet the Economic Daily News names a host of component makers pegged to partner Apple on the project. The often-reliable Chinese language newspaper - which...

Adobe has released the final version of Adobe Flash 10.1 for Android 2.2-based smartphones.Currently the software update to Flash 10.1 is only available for Nexus One, but other phone makers, such as Motorola and HTC, will have...

Apple's iPhone 4 is set to launch on China Unicom's network in the populous republic, AFP said Chinese state-run media. The network will also try and flog Apple's iPad in China, where folk with any sense could probably buy a...

Music made by drug-addled rockers, Pink Floyd has been disappeared from Apple's over-rated iTunes music store in a kerfuffle over licensing. A lot of the old stuff is still there as the band flogged their output up until Dark...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has suggested that people may have to change their names to escape the embarrassing personal information and photographs they post on social networking platforms as teenagers.In an interview with The...

Former Apple supply manager Paul Devine has pleaded not guilty to charges of taking kickbacks from Asian hardware suppliers brought against him Apple and Federal authorities.According to PC Pro, Devine is facing 23 counts of...

Intel, as one of the biggest supporters of WiMAX technology, is set to suffer as mobile equipment makers announce plans to shift to long term evolution (LTE) technology to offer 4G speeds to mobile customers.According to The...

McAfee has said that it has registered record levels of new malware threats over the first half of 2010.The security company said in its quarterly report that it had been indexing 55,000 new malware threats every day during the...

Intel has already started sweeping the path for the entrance of its new six-core Xeon X5690 chips, as sample CPUs have just started surfacing.  In particular, an engineering sample has already found its way it into the...

IBM and German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies have announced the sale of their respective stakes in Altis Semiconductor to Altis International, ending the joint venture.According to statement released by the...

India has told mobile operators in the country that they must install equipment to monitor Blackberry services by 31 August. India's largest mobile company, Tata Teleservices, told BBC News that it had received a letter stating...

HP executives, wondering what CEO Mark Hurd was getting up to with actress Jodie Fisher, had a snoop through the boss's Internet log and were horrified to find he'd been Googling her on the sly. Fisher had filled roles in some...

Microsoft has announced 10 November as the UK launch date of its highly anticipated Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 gaming peripheral.The company has said that the next few months will be a critical time for Microsoft's gaming...

Virgin Media has announced that it will be sending warning letters to customers whose computers have been infected with malware.The company said that it would send out warning letters using a list compiled by Shadowserver...

Google has released an update to the voice searching abilities of Android, where actions such text messaging, calling and navigating are now possible through the Voice Actions application and without entering any text.Announced...

Intel has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Texas Instrument's (TI) cable modem manufacturing unit.The move is aimed at boosting the deployment of Intel's Atom microprocessors in consumer electronic devices.The...

Rivals were today crowing about a decline in traffic to The Times newspaper's website since parent company News Corp introduced a paywall - but if anything, figures released today by US market research company comScore represent...

The HTC Desire HD has appeared briefly on Amazon UK under the moniker HTC 99HLZ001-00 ACE/Desire HD before being pulled down fairly quickly. The listing, which has since been removed, was discovered by Electricpig and shows that...

The Samsung Epic 4G will launch on Sprint Nextel in the US on the 31st of August and will be the first model from the Korean Chaebol to include 4G capabilities. The handset costs $250 after rebate and is already available on...

If you thought your quad-core CPU was a modern day technical marvel, then you've got some catching up to do in the world of high-end servers. IBM has just unveiled its 256-core monolithic Power 795 UNIX server, which can...

An Android game called Tapsnake could be used to spy on the movements of smartphone users according to insecurity outfit Symantec. The free game, which uses the same basic game elements as the original 70s arcade game Tron and a...

IBM has released new systems based on its Power7, including a server capable of scaling up to 256 cores, for its Unix business.The server, which is said to be the biggest Unix server ever released by the company, is aimed at...

Gene Munster, the unofficial Apple oracle from analyst firm Piper Jaffray, reckons that the soon to be released Apple iTV may well be the company's first step towards a full blown attack on the $35 billion television...

Symantec has said that the IT industry needs to increase security beyond the use of traditional anti-virus software.The security firm said that as cyber criminals are applying new methods of exploiting consumers and enterprises,...

Microsoft has announced that its Kinect motion-sensing controller will go on sale in the UK on November 10th this year. The 'wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don't-care' controller, which has received a...

Anti-virus software vendor Symantec has issued a warning about a free Android game application which secretly uploads the users' GPS location to a third party server.According to the advisory, the free Android game, Tapsnake,...

Virgin Media says it will use volunteer malware trackers to identify customers whose computers have been infected by malicious hackers. The company is turning to organisations like the Shadowserver Foundation which snoops on...

US broadband and mobile services provider Verizon Communications has successfully tested its 1Gbps FiOS broadband connection.The company said that it had tested the service with an existing FiOS customer in Taunton on a local...

Microsoft has announced a list of 50 games it intends put on Windows Phone 7. At Gamescom 2010 in Cologne, the outfit said the games will be aimed at both the casual and hardcore gamer. The company also announced that its...

Security software vendor Sophos has warned users of a new survey scam on Facebook that offers to install a 'Dislike' button onto users' profile pages.Scammers are luring unsuspecting users into installing a rogue application,...

Finnish phone makers Nokia have leaked their upcoming X5-01 handset on their own Ovi application store, weeks away from their annual Nokia World symposium when it's reportedly due to be announced.The Nokia X5-01 has appeared on...

Four US lawmakers have appealed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to scrap the net neutrality plan proposed by Google and Verizon. The politicians have claimed that the two companies should not be able to decide how...

Wikileaks has said it will not be intimidated into not releasing further controversial documents in the future."This organisation will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group," Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange told...

Go ultra mobile without compromise. The 11.6" HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC weighs less than 1.5 kg and is just 19.8 mm thick for the ultimate balance of size, weight and performance, plus the battery life you need to work and play...

The EOS 550D not only lets you take superb still shots but it also allows you to explore your creativity to the full by shooting great movies in pin sharp, Full High Definition. The powerful DIGIC 4 processor delivers many of the...

Apple's mobile advertisement platform iAd has failed to take-off as well as analysts expected, thanks, in part, to the tight control exercised by Apple over the creative process.Citing advertising executives in-charge of creating...

Vodafone announced yesterday the availability of three new mobile Mi-Fi packages with a starting price of £15 per month for the 3GB one, on an 18 month contract and a £49 initial outlay. The two other packages on...

Adobe has claimed that its yet unreleased AIR platform has been downloaded by 7,000 developers planning to create applications for the Android OS.Previously Adobe had released AIR to allow developers to create web-based desktop...

Four US lawmakers have appealed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to scrap the net neutrality plan proposed by Google and Verizon.The politicians have claimed that the two companies should not be able to decide how a...

Google is the most visited site for online video with more than 143 million unique viewers in July, new research by web analytics firm comScore has revealed.Social networking giant Facebook saw the most growth in unique viewers...

Mobile phone network Vodafone has launched a rival to Three's MIFI product under the name of mobile WIFI, with a cost of £25 a month with a 5GB data allowance ceiling.The Huawei R201 is also made by the same people behind Three's...

Microsoft has released a new set of tools for users wishing to migrate to an SQL Server from MySQL, Access, Oracle and Sybase.The software release contains 4 free-for-download tools and are a part of the Microsoft SQL Server...

Intel has added two new Intel Atom processors to its line of tiddly chips aimed at networked storage appliances for the home and small business. The new chips are 1.8GHz Atom processor, the D425 being single-core and the D525...

Canonical, the outfit behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu OS, has released the uTouch 1.0 multi-touch and gesture API pack to developers.The company is aiming to encourage developers to incorporate multi-touch...

Intel said it has signed an agreement to acquire Texas Instruments' cable modem product line. The chip maker reckons the deal will enhance its focus on the cable industry and related consumer electronics market segments,...

The Times website has traffic fall by 1.2 million visitors since parent company News Corp implemented a pay wall on the site.Previously, when the website's content was free to access, The Times attracted a dedicated following of...

Canadian crooner Justin Bieber got his own back on a hacker who posted his phone number online by reciprocating. On Saturday night Bieber stuck up a tweet that read “Everyone call me... or text” appending a mobile...

Google has bought Jambool, a company that manages virtual money for virtual goods sold on gaming and social networking sites. Google, of course, has plenty of the real stuff and is intent on buying up companies at rate of two a...