Google will apparently launch its first Chrome OS tablet device on the 26th of November, the day of the so called Black Friday, which is traditionally one of the busiest shopping day in the US. According to a Downloadsquad...

Hybrid-digital terrestrial television service provider, IP Vision, has formally lodged a complaint with Ofcom over the fact that Project Canvas may "stifle industry innovation, inhibit competition and ultimately restrict consumer...

Nine people have been arrested in London as the authorities scrambled to stop a premium number scam that may have cost O2 hundreds of thousands of pounds. The scheme was devilishly simple and involved using dozens of iPhone...

UK-based video on demand aggregator, SeeSaw, has announced that it has signed an agreement with NBC Universal, a partnership that will allow it to deliver a wider variety of programmes. NBC Universal shows includes the likes of...

Google Android-based devices are likely to see the biggest growth in the smartphone market, new research has revealed.The study, revealed by online research company DigiTimes, showed that smartphone shipments in 2010 are expected...

Google's Android platform has registered a 47 per cent month-on-month rise in advertising requests in July, the latest data revealed by mobile advertising firm Millennial Media has shown.The data also showed that Apple's figures...

The four men convicted for their role in running file-sharing site The Pirate Bay have come under scathing attack from the chief executive of UK-based anti-piracy body the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST). In a press...

HTC Desire fans should rejoice as both Virgin Mobile and Vodafone have confirmed separately that they will be rolling out updates for the HTC Desire that will bring Android OS 2.2 goodness to the popular Android handset. Vodafone...

Sandisk has just announced the arrival of the world's smallest SSD with storage capacities ranging from 4GB to 64GB and which will be part of the company's integrated SSD range of products. The storage company said that the iSSD...

Google is said to be readying to launch the Chrome Web Store around October, indicating that Chrome OS-based devices will be released soon. Google also gave a presentation to developers attending the Game Developer Conference in...

Half-Life creator Valve has finally revealed the release date for the brainteasing sequel to its first person puzzler Portal. The renowned game developer unveiled the official date at the Gamescom show in Germany, saying Portal...

There are already rumours of a $99 iTV device that have emerged and Gene Munster, the oft-quoted analyst from Piper Jaffray says that a flat panel HDTV, Apple-branded set would be the next logical step. If ever Apple were to...

Toshiba has announced that it has made a breakthrough in storage technology that will allow for the development of a hard disk with much greater capacity than currently possible.Covering the announcement, tech news site IT World...

Apple has been granted the patents for its 'slide-to-unlock' feature in iOS and for the keyboard effect of letters getting larger as users type.The two features have been present on the iPhone since the original device was first...

3 UK has quietly reduced the price of its Samsung Galaxy i5700 Spica monthly contract to a mere £11.38 per month although the deal is not even available from their website. Instead, you have to go to one of the many mobile...

If your collection of, ahem, fully-legally-downloaded movies and music is swelling beyond the confines of a 2TB drive, then you'll be thrilled by Toshiba's plans to unveil the blueprint for 10TB hard drives later...

Japanese gaming giant Sony has announced two new versions of the increasingly ancient PS3 with the added incentive of... slightly bigger hard drives. We know the news won't exactly set the gaming world alight but Sony was...

Smart phones running Google's Android operating system will soon dominate the world market according to research carried out by Digitimes. The Taiwanese tech news site reckons global smartphone shipments will reach 280 million...

The Swedish Pirate Party has inked a deal with WikiLeaks to host new servers for the controversial whistle-blowing website.Tech news site THINQ reported that the Pirate Party had already offered to host Wiileaks' servers back in...

Spain has become the latest country to take search giant Google to task over the unauthorised gathering of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars. The country joins a queue of territories already investigating claims that the...

Yahoo's share of the US search market has grown last month at the expense of current market leader Google, new data released by web analytics firm comScore has revealed.Financial news site Bloomberg reports that, despite the...

As the countdown to the launch of the Microsoft Kinect has already started, prices of the Xbox 360 4GB console bundled with the motion controller and the Kinect adventure game are on the way down with at least one online retailer...

Google is said to be readying to launch the Chrome Web Store around October, indicating that Chrome OS-based devices will be released soon.According to games news site 1UP, Google gave a presentation to the developers attending...

An influential US newspaper has condemned alleged plans by the US Department of Justice to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917. In an editorial published today, the Washington Post claimed...

Google has been ordered to appear in Spanish courts this October as a part of a government' investigation into determining if the information collected by Google for its Street View service was illegal.According to the New York...

Japanese software outfit Lunascape has launched a web browser specifically designed for Apple's iPad. Surprisingly, given the device's focus on all things Internet, iLunascape is the first browser custom-built for users of the...

Google and Adobe have partnered to make Google's Android operating system a long term market leader.Technology news website Cnet reports that, in a presentation to media representatives, executives at Adobe elaborated on how the...

UK watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has declared that Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console delivers sharper images than Microsoft's Xbox 360.The ASA came to this decision after it was notified that PS3...

Sony has announced that ITV Player and video streaming service Mubi will be available to watch on its PlayStation 3 games console in the UK by October.Speaking at the GamesCom 2010 gaming expo in Germany, Sony said that come...

Now that Nvidia finally has a Fermi GPU that doesn't spew out ridiculous amounts of heat, Zotac has taken the opportunity to launch an overclocked GeForce GTX 460 with a sensibly-sized cooler.  Unlike the company's GTX 480...

A shareholder revolt organised by trade unions gave Michael Dell a kick in the pants at Dell(the company)'s annual general meeting last week. Documents compulsorily filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission show that...

Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) will now maintain Oyster card system for Transport for London (TfL).The move comes after the Transaction Systems Limited (TranSys) contract was cancelled, technology news website Computer World...

Social gaming giant Zynga has released a Chinese version of its 'Zynga Texas Poker' game.The move is a part of its strategy to make a mark in the Asian markets.According to ABC news, the company has launched a Mandarin language...

Orange has revamped their Apple iPhone 4 tariffs to include a better data allowance, whilst reducing the minutes for calling on their packages along with adding free mapping to make the deal more attractive.The new Orange iPhone...

The US Department of Justice is planning to use the Espionage Act to bring down the whistle blowing website WikiLeaks.The move follows the posting of around 76,000 confidential US government documents on the Afghan war by the...

Online video sharing platform Vimeo has introduced a new video player capable of showing either Adobe Flash or HTML5 video.The company said that the new hybrid video player was designed to detect the hardware from which the...

Facebook may announce the launch of location-based services on its site during today's press conference, market analysts have predicted.According to Businessweek, analysts suspect that Facebook will introduce the new feature on...

The Government's U-turn on a promise to review tax on fibre optic networks is putting smaller companies at a disadvantage, and risks stifling the very rural expansion it has pledged to support, a UK network service provider has...

As the improbability drive in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy nobly demonstrated, being able to calculate probability can make a drastic difference, and a DARPA and venture-funded spin-off firm from MIT called Lyric...

Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad devices are set to be launched in China by mid-September.A source from within China Unicom has told the state run news organisation Caixin that the Cupertino-based gadget maker has signed an exclusive...

Apple has bowed to pressure from music industry lawyers and has removed music-streaming App Grooveshark from the iTunes Store. The free App - which allowed users desktop users free access to millions of tunes for nowt if they...

Officials from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) have rubbished reports suggesting that Amazon has cut the price of BlackBerry Torch 9800 to $99 owing to low sales figures.According to news agency Reuters, a RIM...

A US-based startup, Lyric Semiconductor, is seeking to revolutionise the world of computing with the introduction of a new processor that only calculates probabilities, but does so at a much faster rate than traditional solutions...

Video game publisher THQ is set to release the uDraw Game Tablet add-on feature for Nintendo’s Wii.The uDraw gaming tablet is a 7”X9” peripheral that enables gamers to draw pictures and play games when attached...

Microsoft has unveiled the first spate of Xbox Live games that will be available for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS, which can be played on a mobile phone running that very platform.At Gamescom, one of the largest game...

Microsoft earlier announced that the Kinect will be released on 10 November, and prices for the Xbox 360 peripheral have already started to fall. While Game, HMV and Amazon are selling the peripheral for £130, Zavvi.com is...

Researchers have developed a new mobile tool set to allow people with hearing impairments to communicate over a smartphone device American Sign Language.News agency Reuters reports that researchers at the University of Washington...

The Samsung Galaxy i9000 S is an utterly brilliant device that places Samsung right back at the cutting edge of smartphone technology. With its 9.9mm slimline body and huge, 4 inch ultra-bright, super-sharp screen it feels like...

Handle your workload a whole new way with the HP 2310ti multi-touch monitor. This Microsoft Windows 7 certified monitor provides an intuitive and instinctive way to interact with the multi-touch capabilities within Win 7, helping...

With the Kinect now available for preorder, Microsoft has decided to make it more affordable to get the new Xbox 360 250GB gaming console, the one that offers native support for the motion controller. Until the 26th of August...

Dell has agreed to acquire enterprise data centre storage technology maker 3PAR for $1.15 billion.According to news agency the Associated Press, Dell plans to pour investment into 3PAR's engineering and sales division.3PAR offers...

Microsoft has released the second beta version of its Windows Live Essentials 11 application bundle.Technology news website Ars Technica has reported that the second update for comes with a pack of free accessories, called the...

In a bid to revive the FM Radio, broadcasters and music labels have appealed to the US Congress to force manufacturers to build FM receivers into all smartphones and portable devices.Tech news site Ars Technica reports that the...

More rumours have surfaced about the potential launch of a 7-inch Apple iPad device later this year according to newspapers in Taiwan. Citing anonymous sources in the Taiwanese ODM/OEM market, Chinese-language Economic Daily News...

Sony will sell two new versions of the Playstation 3 in the US within weeks, one with a 160GB hard disk drive and the other with a 320GB one. The latter will be sold as part of a bundle comprising of the Sports Champions Move...

Mobile phone maker Nokia has revamped the existing X3 musical slider phone from 2009 with a new mobile, known as the X3 ‘Touch and Type' where they've dropped the slider but have kept the keyboard and added a touch screen.Nokia's...

Yahoo has axed its Search Monkey platform in the wake of a deal to use Microsoft's Bing to power its web searches.The company has put a stop to its platform, barring third party web developers from developing, managing and...

Popping his head above the parapet recently, Wikileaks chief pain in the posterior Julian Assange signed a deal with the Swedish Pirate Party for it to host several new servers on behalf of the whistle-blowing outfit. The Party...

Top US lawmakers have slammed the "legislative framework" proposed by Google and Verizon on net neutrality, claiming that the companies would use the internet to suit their purposes.Democratic members Jay Inslee of Washington, Ed...

Intel and Micron say they are now sampling 3-bit-per-cell NAND flash memory on 25-nanometer process technology. The pair teamed up to create joint venture IM Flash Technologies, in a bid to keep a nose ahead of...

Researchers at the London School of Economics have launched a new iPhone application designed to allow them to determine that happiness of Brits in relation to their immediate environment.UK newspaper The Telegraph reports that...

Apple has pulled the Grooveshark application from the App Store following a complaint from the Universal Music Group UK.Grooveshark for iPhone allows users to stream unlimited music on their smartphone by paying a fee of $3 every...

Scottish games company Realtime Worlds has gone into administration. The outfit  was founded in 2002 by David Jones who developed the popular franchises Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings. Up until last week it employed around...