The acquisition of McAfee by Intel is one of the biggest such moves in the last couple of years and may well trigger a new wave of M&A, a sign that the economy is returning back to normal. However, Wall Street has been...

Orange will no longer be charging a one off £75 from prospective customers looking to buy the 16GB iPhone 4 handset on a two year, £50 per month contract. The total cost of ownership of the handset during the whole...

A slew of technology related terms have joined the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, earning their place amongst the 2,000 new words to enter the OED this year. Amongst the more surprising entries are the words...

Somehow, slides showing RIM's forthcoming smartphone, the Blackberry Bold R020, have been leaked online showing a rather conservative, if unimpressive, handset. Three images published by BGR show that the phone is likely to be...

Pictures of the next generation Nokia N9 have emerged courtesy of mobile phone genius Eldar Murtazin, the Russian blogger who always seems to be getting the engineering samples before anyone else. The owner of Mobile Review...

US advertisers are expected to spend around $1.68 billion placing adverts on social networking platforms in 2010, with half being spent on Facebook.According to the latest predictions made by research firm eMarketer, the amount...

US Department of Defense chiefs have accidentally branded their own legal team incompetent, it was revealed today by documents mischievously leaked by whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. Acting on the mantra of "deny first and then,...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced the acquisition of Fortify Software.Fortify Software creates tools for developers to test their software code for security vulnerabilities.According to tech news site Computer World, Fortify...

Realising that most punters looking to join the solid state society can't afford the megabucks needed for 250GB drives, memory maker G.Skill has followed Corsair's lead and added a 40GB unit to its Phoenix range of...

Security agencies in India are testing methods to help them access and read encrypted e-mails sent by Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry devices. According to Indian telecom officials, RIM has told them that the only way to...

Facebook has launched a fresh batch of updates and features, hours after the release of Facebook Places on the platform.The new Facebook features include Facebook Questions, which will allow users to pose questions to the...

Social gaming platform OpenFeint has introduced a new set of features that will allow cross-platform gaming.The OpenFeint 2.6 update will also allow users to send out of network game invites via text messages.Android and iPhone...

Nice, free South Korea has blocked access to naughty, rogue North Korea's Twitter account complaining that the feed contains 'illegal information' that its citizens shouldn't be allowed to see. The account is here, but we're...

Intel is set to acquire security software vendor McAfee for £5 billion ($7.68 billion) in cash.BBC News reports that Intel has decided to pay McAfee $48 per share, more than 50 per cent higher than its closing price on...

News is breaking that Sony's PlayStation 3 games console has been hacked using a USB dongle. Very little technical information is available at the time of writing but three videos have tipped up on Youtube which appear to show...

Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the internet, a report by security software firm McAfee has shown.In its annual 'Most Dangerous Celebrities' report, the anti-virus maker has found that one in every...

Just as we predicted a few weeks ago, the teaser snaps of Microsoft's new "touchy" piece of hardware did indeed show a part of a new touch-mouse, and not an "iPad killer" as some people would have you believe. Full photos...

Linux has patched a dangerous security flaw in its Linux Kernel.The flaw could have allowed hackers to access the root directory through X server if exploited, tech news site Softpedia reported on Wednesday.The flaw was...

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has given Ubuntu 11.04 a codename - Natty Narwhal. Tech news site The Register has reported that Shuttleworth wrote on his blog that Ubuntu 11.04 has been named after the Arctic whale, Narwahl, to...

Chip maker Intel said it was prepared to open up its bulging coffers and lash out some  $7.68 billion (£4.9 billion) on insecurity outfit McAfee. The firm said it would fork out $48 per share in cash to acquire the...

Sony's next Playstation Portable gaming platform will likely be of the same size as the PSP-3ooo and have touch controls on the reverse of the unit according to three separate development sources that spoke to a UK-based news...

Mac gamers got a massive boost when online gaming hub Steam started supporting the platform a few months ago. The arrival of the online service, which allowed Mac-toting gamers to play the same games as their PC brethren, in...

RIM may well turn to popular real-time OS, QNX instead of its Blackberry OS 6. to power its forthcoming Blackberry tablet computer according to three separate sources close to the plans of the Canadian company. Bloomberg's...

A report has revealed that outdated and insecure Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) continues to be used in businesses, despite security issues.Tech news site The Register has reported that, in a quarterly security report published by...

Microsoft is set to release an update for Xbox Live avatars with the launch of its Kinect motion sensing gaming peripheral.Since their introduction on Xbox Live, avatars have become increasingly popular with gamers. and have been...

John Pilger, the award-winning documentary maker and stalwart of left-wing journalism, has leapt to the defence of fellow Australian Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks In a piece published today by the New...

Intel has  expanded its share of the global server market at the expense of rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), according to data released by market research outfit IDC.IDC said that Intel has expanded its market share to...

Each week, we will crawl in Google's Insights For Search (IFS) section in four different categories (Social Networks & Online Communities, Telecommunications, Computers & Electronics & Internet) to let you know what...

It seems that demand for the Microsoft Kinect Controller in the UK is apparently stronger than in the US at least when it comes to figures disclosed that can be extracted from Amazon's bestsellers list. The Kinect sensor on its...

Svelte laptops and tablets won't have to make room for a full-size 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD in the future, thanks to a miniscule new SSD from SanDisk that weighs less than 1g. Imaginatively called the iSSD, the new chip is the...

Adobe Systems has announced additions to an out-of-band update set to patch vulnerabilities detected in its Reader and Acrobat software.The company is set to release the out-of-band update to fix flaws revealed by Charlie Miller,...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed the Pentagon is ready to talk about the 15,000 unreleased documents held by the site. The whistle-blowing site has asked for US military help in reviewing the papers, so that...

Brits spend around half of their waking hours using mobile phones, browsing the internet and watching TV, a new study has revealed.UK telecom regulator Ofcom has revealed that the average Brit spends nearly 45 per cent of his...

Finnish phone maker's Nokia has had another handset leaked; this time around it's the Nokia C7 that appears to be a high-end smartphone that has yet to be announced by Nokia.Chinese website Zol.com.cn has managed to capture on...

The North Korean government has created its own account on micro-blogging platform Twitter, despite not allowing its citizens to access the platform.The move follows the launch of a north Korean YouTube channel last month.The...

Italian American organisation UNICO National has called for a ban on Take-Two Interactive's forthcoming game Mafia II calling it "a pile of racist nonsense". According to Gamasutra, UNICO's Andre DiMino has pondered, "Why would...

The security agencies in India are testing methods to help them access and read encrypted e-mails sent by Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry devices.News agency Reuters reports that a senior level government official has...

A few months before BFG became a burned out shell, eagle-eyed readers may remember a rumour that the apparently disgruntled GeForce associate was opening its arms to AMD. Well, it turns out this was more than just idle...

Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd has apparently been discussing his predicament with chums, some of whom have been bending the hairy ears of Wall Street journalists, who in turn have passed Hurd's words on to us to ponder over. The latest...

Facebook has launched the Facebook Places application, allowing users to share location-based information with their friends.The application, which is currently available only in the US, lets users broadcast their location and...

Rock has-been John Cougar Mellencamp has launched a scathing attack on digital music, declaring that the Internet had killed the music industry. Speaking during a seminar at the US Grammy Museum, the 58-year-old singer told his...

T-Mobile is having a flash sale today and is slashing the price of its pay as you go smartphones by 20 per cent until 10pm tonight. Those looking to buy an Android handset should take a look at the T-Mobile Pulse mini which...

Microsoft has made changes to top level executives in its MSN division.The changes have brought in former AOL Chief Technology Officer Ted Cahall to head the development of the platform.An internal memo, procured by All Things...

Yahoo has released an HTML5 compatible version of its e-mail service for use on Apple's iPad.The move follows a similar one by Google, which recently launched an HTML5 compatible Gmail service, tech news site Mac Rumours reported...

Brit game god Peter Molyneux's latest demo of Milo and Kate has finally made its way onto the web. The creepy kid simulator, which uses Microsoft's forthcoming Kinect motion-sensing controller to manipulate the mind of a virtual...

An Apple App Store director has been discovered selling applications under using a company called 'Gray Noodle'.Tech news site Wired has discovered Apple’s director of applications technology, Philip Shoemaker, selling...

Microsoft has released the preview version of its Vail Windows Home Server and Aurora Windows Small Business Server.The Aurora Windows Small Business Server is targeted towards small and medium sized businesses and is designed to...

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...

A gang of nine people has been arrested and accused of carrying out a sophisticated scam involving up to 1,000 stolen iPhones. The East London gang, all of whom are of Pakistani origin, used illegally-obtained iPhones to rack up...

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini retains its big brother's stylish casing making this phone a beautifully compact handset that weighs a mere 88 grams.  Running on the Android operating system and powered by a beefy 600Mhz...

Microsoft has outlined two new features set to appear in the soon-to-be-launched Office for Mac 2011.The company has said that the features will enhance the compatibility between the Windows and Mac versions of the productivity...

Foxconn has announced plans to increase its workforce by 40 per cent to 1.3 million in one year’s time.A subsidiary of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn will raise its total workforce in mainland China from...

Canadian mobile phone manufacturer RIM is apparently looking to buy a mobile ad network in a bid to catch up with archrivals Google and Apple. The WSJ reports that the Blackberry maker is in discussion with Millennial Media which...

The Toshiba Libretto W100, a dual screen laptop from the Japanese manufacturer that went on sale on Amazon on Monday on Amazon, has sold out within 48 hours. The US retailer now has a page up saying that it doesn't know when the...

Japanese manufacturer Toshiba is set to start selling its first Android-based touchscreen tablet device within weeks according to a Taiwanese news website. Digitimes cites Taiwan-based makers who say that Toshiba's tablet will be...

Google is said to be experiencing problems finding content partners for its Google TV service, which is due to launch this autumn.Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has met with representatives of...

Virgin Media's mobile phone outfit has announced they will be rolling out the Google mobile OS Android 2.2., on HTC Desires and Wildfire handsets running on their network in September.The mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...

Apple has announced that it will be introducing a revamped version of its support forums.The new version will be designed to make asking questions on the platform a more simplified and social process.According to Apple, the new...

Google has launched a new feature that allows users to search their Google documents through their Gmail account.Google has added an application into its long list of Gmail Labs experiments, the ‘Apps search’, to...

A massive SQL injection attack has hacked and infected 500,000 legitimate websites with malware.Tech news site The Register has reported that the SQL injection attack attempts to install hidden code in the websites database,...

HBO and mobile network carrier Verizon are set to develop exclusive applications to stream live content online for Apple's iPad.According to a report on Bloomberg, HBO is unwilling to enter a deal with Netflix as the television...

German authorities were initially reluctant to allow Google to set up its Street View service in the country over privacy concerns. That didn't stop the outfit sending its cars around German streets anyhow, mapping and...

Facebook has launched its Places app on the iPhone in US, allowing users to tell their mates - and advertisers - where they are. Facebook users with the holy handset will be able to "check in" at given places and find out of...

The EOS 500D sets your creativity free and lets you bring every side of your story to life with a choice of stunning 15.1 Megapixel resolution photos or pin-sharp Full High Definition video.  Driven by the powerful DIGIC 4...