The Sony Ericsson Elm has been ranked the most sustainable handset on sale at O2 according to the eco-rating system set up by the mobile phone operator. Six manufacturers are included in the list but notable absentees include RIM...

Chances that Apple will be unveiling a new version of its Apple TV device, possibly under the moniker iTV, are high and is likely to happen during an event in San Francisco scheduled for September 7th. Bloomberg reports that the...

Google has finally added voice support to its popular Gmail email service which means that users will soon be able to call landlines and mobiles worldwide for free or for extremely low prices. The announcement was made at a press...

O2 has just released an eco-rating scheme but it did not include what is certainly the most eco-friendly model of them all, the Samsung E1170, one which comes with built-in solar panels. The phone is currently available for as...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to create 700 new jobs in Scotland by establishing an IT service unit in Erskine, near Glasgow.The new HP facility will be set-up using the £7 million the company received in government...

Global server sales posted the biggest jump in revenue since 2003.According to data released by IT market research group IDC, global server sales rose by 11 per cent in the second quarter to end up at $10.8 billion.IDC also...

The stereoscopic 3D fad may be pulling in punters at the flicks, but the head of Id Software reckons gamers don't want to stick on a pair of 3D specs just to play a game. Speaking to Eurogamer, Id's co-owner and CEO Todd...

Since the launch of Facebook Places, users' interest has grown in the emerging geo-social networking market, location-based service provider echoecho has claimed.According to tech news site The Register, echoecho has said that...

Dell has announced that it has cut more than 18.2 million pounds of packaging from its products since 2008.The feat was reported by the company as a part of its annual 2009 Corporate Responsibility report, which explains exactly...

O2 has launched a new eco-rating scheme for mobiles sold in the UK. The scheme determines the overall ecological impact of the phone over its lifespan, factoring in the materials needed to make it, its energy efficiency and...

Motorola has acquired web application firm 280 North in a bid to fuel the development in its Android smartphone vertical.Citing internal sources, Tech Crunch reports that Motorola has paid around $20 million for the start-up,...

Popular iPhone game 'Angry Bird' may soon be making an appearance on the big screen - if talks between the game's developers and Hollywood studios come through.According to The Telegraph, Finnish game developer Rovio, the team...

Valve may have effectively minimised piracy of its own back catalogue via Steam, but over a third of the download store's users have a BitTorrent client installed too. The figures come from the first collation of...

Apple has blocked its iPhone from being part of the new eco-scheme launched by UK wireless carrier O2.According to UK newspaper The Guardian, the O2 scheme determines the ecological impact of a phone throughout its lifespan and...

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange today hit out at critics of his organisation's record on exposing secrets in a live broadcast on Swedish TV channel SVT. The WikiLeaks founder was speaking to a gathering of journalists at a press...

A recent study has determined that spam the conversion rate on social networking platform Facebook is 47 per cent.According to a report prepared by Sean Sullivan, a security adviser at anti-virus firm F-Secure, nearly half of...

Microsoft has unveiled accessories for its upcoming motion sensing gaming peripheral Kinect.The Redmond-based company has named Performance Designed Products (PDP) as the only official provider of accessories for its forthcoming...

Apple is reportedly planning to hold a media event on 7 September in San Francisco to announce latest additions to its line of products.The annual September event has become a platform for unveiling new products over past few the...

iPhone maker Apple and BlackBerry outfit RIM are refusing to take part in the UK's first ever scheme to rank the environmental impact of mobile phones.   Mobile network O2, which launched the scheme today, says it will...

Microsoft has announced a number of significant improvements to its Office productivity suite including updates to its Facebook applications.On Tuesday, Microsoft showcased the changes it has made to two features in Docs and an...

Apple has posted a security update to its OSX operating system which patches a well-publicised flaw in Adobe's PDF software. OSX Security Update 2010-005 - which is available via Software Update or direct from Apple plugs a hole...

Lexmark has asked the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to place a ban on the manufacture and sale of print cartridges, citing violation of its patents.The Kentucky-based company has urged the ITC to bar the sale of...

Back in July 2010, there was a slide in the Apple presentation by Steve Jobs which said that every iPhone 4 purchased through the 30th of September will receive a free iPhone 4 and a refund if you bought a bumper. The initial...

The Japan Sumo Association (JSA) has given Apple iPads to Sumo wrestlers.Sumo wrestles have long struggled with typing text and e-mail messages on mobile phones and computers due to the size of their fingers. The JSA believes...

Samsung's often-predicted answer to Apple's pioneering iPad is coming closer to fruition. A teaser video for the as-yet-unseen tablet device, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, has appeared in all of its dark, moody blurrycam secretness...

If you think typing on the iPhone's tiny on-screen keyboard is a painfully slow affair, you might want to get in some practice. The world record for text messaging, which was previously held by 27-year-old British woman Melissa...

An advert by telecommunications giant BT that says it is rolling out "up to 20 meg speeds" to give "consistently faster broadband" has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after it received 17 complaints. The body...

Google's Android Licensing Service (ALS) has been hacked.The news of the vulnerability was unveiled by Android Police, who have noted that Google has responded quickly, announcing that the company is already looking into the...

Microsoft may already be planning for the next generation Xbox 720 (or Xbox 3) gaming console based on separate news nuggets that have emerged over the last four weeks and lead us to believe that the next CPU powering the console...

Apple is said to be holding advanced talks with content providers to offer TV shows for 99 cents on its iTV platform.A recent report published on Bloomberg suggests that Apple is trying to strike potential deals with media houses...

Controversial scenes depicting naked girls and drug-taking will not be cut from a forthcoming film about the early days of Facebook. The Social Network, directed by Fight Club's David Fincher and due in cinemas on October 1st,...

With its toasty 108W total board power, dual-slot reference cooler and 850MHz GPU, you'd have to be a brave thermal engineer to consider passively cooling a Radeon HD 5770, but that hasn't deterred Gigabyte from having a go. The...

Security software vendor Symantec has found that the volume of spam sent from botnets accounted for 95 per cent of total spam sent in August.This has increased from 84 per cent of spam sent in April.The company also said that the...

Former Lucent/Bell labs partner Alcatel has launched the low cost keyboard based OT-802 phone, on a pay as you go deals with mobile retailer Phones4u.The pocket sized Alcatel OT-802 is the successor to their One Touch handset and...

Apple has released a security update for its Mac OS X operating system.The update fixes 13 critical vulnerabilities on the platform, including the one which can allow a malicious PDF file hand over control of a system to a hacker...

Google is testing a new Gmail feature, set to allow users to make voice calls from Google Chat.According to tech news site CNET, users will be able to place or receive voice calls to and from their Gmail contacts, making Gmail a...

Microsoft business data centres suffered access issues for nearly two hours following performance flaws in the US.The cloud-based service for Microsoft's business clients in the US went down for almost two hours thanks to...

Scientists believe that constant exposure to high-tech gadgetry is robbing our brains of the downtime needed to actually make sense of all that information. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, say that...

Chinese internet company Tencent has acquired Google-backed social network Comsenz for $60 million.The move is being regarded as a bid to expand its presence in the emerging social networking market in Asia and comes after the...

O2 has launched a new eco-rating scheme for mobiles sold in the UK.The scheme determines the overall ecological impact of the phone over its lifespan, factoring in the materials needed to make it, its energy efficiency and...

Microsoft has said that it made a mistake when it criticised the open source way of life, undermining its importance in the software market in the past decade.Almost nine years ago, Microsoft's chief executive officer Steve...

The Advertising standards authority has banned an ad for BT Broadband because it made false claims about the potential speed of the service. The ad in question, which is one of a soap opera-style series of slots featuring a...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has acquired California-based application store developer Cellmania.The move is a bid to enhance the capabilities of its App World application store for its BlakBerry devices.Cellmania...

Microsoft's Bing is now powering Yahoo's search engine in the USA and Canada, one year after the 10 year search pact was signed between the two companies.On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that its search engine Bing is now running...

The web is whipping itself into a frenzy over a rumoured Apple event tipped to happen on September 7th. Bloomberg and CNN are among the normally sober news outfits getting their collective knickers in a twist over a possible...

AMD's new fresh-faced GPU generation isn't due to venture out of the factory for a couple of months yet, but the first rumoured specs lists have already started to trickle off the grapevine. The German graphics gossipers over at...

The Entertainment Retailers' Association will ignore the call by Defense secretary Liam Fox to boycott EA's Medal of Honour for allowing gamers to play the role of the Taliban. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has also...

US digital rights advocacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has slammed Apple's latest attempts to stop the jailbreaking of its devices, describing its planned method as 'Traitorware'.Apple has applied for a patent...

Electronic Arts' Medal of Honor is soaking all the publicity, good or bad, that it can find in the wake of the call for a countrywide ban by British Defence Secretary Liam Fox. The request was not only amplified by the...

Research In Motion's latest BlackBerry Curve 3G phone has arrived on Vodafone, where they're the first UK network to have the phone.RIM's BlackBerry Curve 3G is available on a 24-month £25 contract, which includes 500 minutes,...

The UK's Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has ordered Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law to appear before a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal following a complaint by UK consumer magazine Which?.According to Which?, the consumer...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba is set to release a TV set that will allow users to experience 3D content without the need for expensive and often cumbersome stereoscopic glasses. Sources close to the company told...

Asus has partnered with sound experts Bang and Olufsen to produce the N73 and N73 laptops, two models which feature the technological expertise of B&O's thanks to the SonicMaster technology. The Taiwanese behemoth claims that...

Dell has released its second smartphone, the Android-based Aero in the US, a few months after it launched the Streak in the UK and days after its release in North America. The handset will cost only $99.99 with a two year...

Mozilla has released the fourth beta version of its Firefox 4 web browser, introducing two new features designed to simplify internet browsing on the platform.The company has said that the updates are designed to allow users to...

The UK arm of Zurich Insurance has been hit with a £2.275 million fine for losing sensitive financial information on 46,000 British customers in 2008.According to the Financial Services Authority, the data breach occurred...