A company offering to sell USB dongles which break the PlayStation 3's security has been ordered by an Australian court to stop doing so. Ozmodchips, which had offered the devices for sale for around £100 on pre-order has...

YouTube has launched a new on demand film service for users. The free service offers users more than 400 full length movies to choose from, including such cinematic delights as Cathy Come Home, The Clan Of The Cave Bear and cult...

No one misses the screeching tape drives, primitive graphics and 20-minute load times of the 8-bit home computing craze, but you have to admit they don't make keyboards like the Commodore 64's anymore. Until now, that is, as...

Cisco has announced the acquisition of Content Management Systems (CMS) service provider ExtendMedia for an undisclosed sum.ExtendMedia offers technology will allows service providers to deliver video content on a pay media and...

Facebook rival Diaspora has announced 15 September as the launched date for the new social network.According to BBC News, the developers of Diaspora have announced in a blog post that the platform is ready, and will go live in...

You know we're building up for a big new hardware release when the leaked benchmark results start rolling in, and a mysterious screenshot of a 3DMark Vantage score from a Radeon HD 6800 card has just bobbed above the...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the first service pack for its Exchange Server 2010.The new improved service pack one comes with a selection of new features, improvements and extensive additions, tech news...

YouTube has launched a new on demand film service for users.The free service offers users more than 400 full length movies to choose from, including such cinematic delights as Cathy Come Home, The Clan Of The Cave Bear and cult...

Sony has predicted that video games will continue to come on discs for another 10 years.Talking to gaming website MCV, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai said that he expected game discs to survive another ten years before they are replaced with...

Screenshots of Microsoft's Kinect beta have shown a revamped Xbox 360 dashboard, set to accompany the new motion sensing gaming peripheral.Games news site Joystiq reports that the company recently unveiled the first beat version...

YouTube UK has launched a new movie service populated with the good, the bad and the ugly of bargain bin video goodness. The new service - which unsurprisingly contains a mix of B-movie horror, straight to DVD drama and old...

Microsoft will spend at least $500 million to launch its new Windows Phone 7.According to tech news site Apple Insider, Microsoft will spend more than half a billion dollars to help its Windows Phone 7 to catch up with Google's...

Diaspora, the open-source alternative to Facebook that was announced in the wake of Facebook's privacy mess early this summer, has confirmed it will launch on 15 September. The "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ruled against a marketing firm which had used its own employees to post favourable testimonials about a video game on Apple's iTunes store.The FTC found that online marketing firm Reverb...

Google has fixed a bug on its Gmail service that automatically resent e-mail messages.The move comes after users flooded Google's forums with complaints, saying that multiple copies of each e-mail written were being sent from...

Solid state drives have already been squeezed into 2.5-inch boxes and spread out over PCI-E circuit boards, but Viking Modular Solutions has just surprised us by sticking one on a standard 240-pin DDR3 module. The memory maker's...

Apple has distributed the third beta version of its Mac OS X 10.6.5 to registered developers for testing.The company has seeded the third beta version of its upgraded security and maintenance update, 10H531, to developers for...

Notably absent from this week's news were the multitude of Nokia leaks from last week, in which we are thankful for they've stopped - as at least they'll be something to report upon, at their press conference in September. In...

The dominance of Adobe's Flash video player over the Web could be coming to an end. Mpeg LA, the standards body which oversees multimedia standards for the Internet, has announced that the H.264 video streaming codec will be...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has again upped its offer to acquire 3PAR, outbidding Dell for the second time as the two companies fight to buy the storage vendor.HP has increased its bid from $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion only a few hours...

Google's Street View is used by 34 per cent of Brits to spy on celebrities, a new survey conducted by the Central Scotland Joinery has revealed.The Central Scotland Joinery revealed that Playboy boss Hugh Hefner's mansion, Apple...

Google has confirmed that more than one million calls have been placed via its new Gmail service in the first 24 hours after it was launched in the US. The company posted a tweet on Thursday afternoon thanking everyone who used...

Vodafone has managed to convince Nokia to give it the exclusive on the forthcoming N8 smartphone in one colour only ... lime green. Why Vodafone choose the green version rather than a more neutral colour like white, black or grey...

UK DVD rental service LoveFilm has signed a deal with MGM to allow its customers to watch the Hollywood studio's films online.The deal will allow LoveFilm customers to stream older MGM movies for free, while the newer titles will...

We've seen the chip, pored over the PCB diagrams and we've even had a glimpse at the clock speeds. In fact, the only bit of information missing from the GeForce GTS 450 puzzle was the number of stream processors, and even...

Google has launched a search engine dedicated to delivering real-time search results from social networking sites and other live feeds. Google Realtime began life as a feature integrated into the search giant's standard search...

IBM and the European Union (EU) have teamed up to digitise major European historical texts and documents, dating back hundreds of years.The company will work with 24 research institutes, libraries, colleges and other centres...

Chinese manufacturer Lenovo will build a video gaming console for the Chinese market and has already spun off a company called Eedoo Technology with a team of 40 engineers with the task of developing the platform. The new...

Media executives have predicted that the new iTunes music service will focus heavily on social capabilities instead of streaming media content.Citing media industry executives, Media Memo reports that, as Apple has failed to...

US Video on demand service, Netflix, has released an app for the iPhone and the iPod touch which allows users to watch movies and TV programmes online via Wi-Fi or 3G. The free App requires a Netflix subscription at the cost of...

Rumours have emerged about a new completely design for Apple's smallest iPod member, the Nano, a move that could reaffirm Apple's intention to keep the classic iPod audio players alive and kicking despite growing internal...

European server sales are lagging behind the rest of the world, data released by research firm Gartner has revealed.Gartner said that server spending in Europe was moderate due to the prevailing economic conditions in some...

A mobile phone's operating system is a necessary evil when it comes to the handset. The OS is needed in order to provide the vital link between the handset's hardware and the other hardware the phone has to contend with - its...

IBM has launched a new social media training initiative to instruct partners in SMM (Social Media Marketing) tactics to help develop and expand new revenue streams. The new partner initiative comes after an IBM survey found that...

Google has launched a separate search engine service committed to delivering real-time search results to users across the world.The California-based company has announced a dedicated web page offering real-time search results to...

Two Apple Stores have been the victims of smash and grab raids in the USA within a fortnight according to reports. The first burglary, which took place in broad daylight in Dallas, netted the crooks eight laptops and every one...

IBM has signed a deal to provide managed business process and application support services to Sunoco.In a statement, IBM said that it will help Sunoco to improve a number of back office services by streamlining its operations...

IBM has launched a new social media training initiative to instruct partners in SMM (Social Media Marketing) tactics to help develop and expand new revenue streams.The new partner initiative comes after an IBM survey found that...

Mobile phone network Vodafone has made public via Twitter it's exclusively going to have the upcoming Nokia N8, in the lime green casing that's been seen on countless preview models.Vodafone announced in a tweet that reads: "The...

A PR agency which represents a number of games developers has settled a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission. Reverb Communications was accused of getting its staff to write positive reviews of its clients' games,...

American broadcaster ABC has announced that it is to launch its Video on Demand (VoD) service outside of North America for the first time.ABC has signed a deal with UK-based broadband and telephony service provider BT Vision to...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has proposed to create an industry forum to provide data to Indian security agencies.The move has been proposed in order to avoid its BlackBerry services being banned in the country.The...