Google is a for-profit business so to some extent, the introduction of Instant search has to help Google make money and here's how Google plans to do it. Like Microsoft, Google has now reached a point where the search engine has...

Amazon has started to sell the popular Kindle Ebook reader in Best Buy stores in a bid to increase sales of the device amidst increase competition from Apple's iPad and other Android-based tablets. The main reason however why...

A few days ago, a little known Google feature surfaced again, which will almost certainly end up on Google Instant for mobile; Scribe as it is known bears an uncanny resemblance with the new functionality that was unveiled...

Not to let AMD steal all the thunder for CPU+GPU designs, Intel has come forward to announce that the star of the forthcoming IDF show in San Francisco will be its Sandy Bridge processor, with its multi-chip packaged graphics...

Members of the European Parliament have called for greater transparency in the global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).Around 377 members of the European Parliament have issued Written Declaration 12, which urges ACTA...

The UK government is to make cuts to the NHS IT upgrade that will result in savings of up to £700 million.The previous Labour government had made plans to create a national computer infrastructure that would connect all NHS...

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Google is likely to introduce Instant for mobiles within a few months. Google Instant, which was announced yesterday, is considered by many as one of the biggest changes that has happened to the search engine during the last 12...

UK supermarket giant Tesco has released a free application for the iPhone to allow users to do their grocery shopping on the go.The application, which is independent of all other Tesco applications available on the App Store,...

HP might have purchased Palm and its celebrated WebOS operating system, it doesn't mean that it won't cosy up with other players in the market. Indeed, the picture of the Zeen C510, HP's first Android-based tablet computer, has...

In a move that will (hopefully) send shivers down the spines UK-based corporate legal bullies such as ACS:Law, a notorious anti-piracy tracking company from Switzerland has been told to stop harvesting the IP addresses of...

A survey conducted by Sky News has shown that Brits are more willing to reduce their budget for food rather than give up their broadband connections during financial difficulties.The Sky survey, which questioned around 1,000...

Microsoft may be readying to launch the first Windows Phone 7-based device on 11 October.Citing multiple sources familiar with the matter, tech news site Pocket-Lint reports that the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone will be...

T-Mobile has unveiled a new G2 smartphone, one which is manufactured by HTC and is the direct successor of the HTC G1 Dream, the first Android handset launched almost two years ago. The phone, which many say is the new HTC Desire...

New OS comes to fruitionApple's latest update to their most recent operating system has arrived in the form of iOS 4.1, with many fixes to the previous version along with bringing in a few new features.The new version of the iOS...

Adobe has issued another zero-day bug warning for its Adobe Reader and Acrobat software.According to a security advisory posted by the company, the newly discovered bug affects the Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and previous versions...

Lacie has entered the golden Age of USB 3.0 with its release of two new external hard-drives named - you guessed it - the Rikiki and the Minimus. The sleek, trendy, Apple-like gadgetry will provide you with either 1TB (3.5-inch)...

Apple has announced that it is relaxing its rules on the use of third-party tools for iOS developers. Until this morning, Apple had banned the use of any developement tools other than its own - but the new rules still come with...

Google is likely to introduce Instant for mobiles within a few months according to numerous reports that have popped up over the internet; Google Instant, which was announced yesterday, is considered by many as one of the biggest...

The case of UFO hacker Garry McKinnon has prompted a review of the UK's extradition laws, but any changes to the law are unlikely to help the Asperger's sufferer to escape the threat of a 60-year term in a US prison. Home...

Shares in security software company Symantec rose sharply in US markets following rumours of a possible Microsoft acquisition.Symantec closed up 61 cents, or 4.37 per cent higher, at $14.58 on Wednesday, following rumours...

Apple's servers are probably still steaming hot from the rush to download iOS4.1 but hackers have already found a bootrom-based exploit which will could allow them to tinker with any device that uses the mobile operating...

Three UK mobile phone networks have already started to take preorders of the Nokia N8 with line rental prices starting from £35 per month on a two year contract, via the Nokiadirect website which is maintained for Nokia by...

It's difficult not to be wowed by ARM's latest offering, the Cortex A15, an architecture so powerful that it makes ARM's current mainstream chip family, the Cortex A8, look positively archaic. By 2012 ARM posits, a dual Cortex...

The movie industry is trying to beat hackers at their own game, employing so-called 'cyber hitmen' to launch attacks against pirate sites hosting illegal movies. In an interview, Girish Kumar, managing director of Indian IT...

Research In Motion's BlackBerry World application store now stocks over 10,000 apps.The 18 month old app store now houses more than 10,000 apps designed to cater to the millions of BlackBerry smartphone users around the...

Hackers have discovered a way to jailbreak the new Apple iOS 4.1 update within hours of its launch.Members of the iPhone Dev-Team have found a way to jailbeak the iOS 4.1 update in such a manner that, according to technology...

Adobe Systems has updated the list of Android-based mobile phones that will support the mobile version of its Flash software.According to tech news site Softpedia the software company has announced a new list of mobile phones...

Zotac has announced the imminent release of the world's first mini-PC with a slot-loading Blu-ray drive. Firmly aimed at the Home Theatre PC (HTPC) market, the Zotac Zbox is powered by an Intel Atom dual-core D525 processor and...

Mozilla has released patches to fix a number of vulnerabilities found on its Firefox web browser.Tech news site Computer World reports, Mozilla has patched 15 flaws in its Firefox 3.6 web browser, out of which 11 have been rated...

Google is placing a huge bet with Google Instant, the most radical overhaul yet to the way the search engine work, one that could potentially affect revenues generated by Adwords. Dan Friedman from the Inside AdWords team...

Google's legal head has urged the US government to pressure countries that censor the internet, arguing that censorship restrains US trade.News agency Reuters has reported that Google Chief Legal Officer (CLO) David Drummond has...

The secretive global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - ACTA, for short - has come under fire from the European Parliament, after 377 MEPs yesterday voted to adopt a written declaration demanding greater transparency and...

Microsoft has won its case against the Waledec botnet to acquire its 276 web domains, previously used to spread spam and viruses across the internet.A US District Court in Eastern Virginia has ruled in favour of the software...

Apple will sell around 28 million iPad tablet computers next year, a market analyst has predicted.Maynard Um, an analyst at research firm UBS Investment Research, said in a note to investors that global consumers are likely...

The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC - which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind...

Microsoft has continued to release information on the development its Office 2011 for Mac.Mac Rumours reports that the software giant has leaked more information about the forthcoming version of its Office 2011 for Mac in a...

Symantec and Trend Micro have announced new versions of their security software products.Tech news site PC World reports that, on Wednesday, Symantec unveiled both Norton AntiVirus 2011 and Norton Internet Security 2011, and...

The Orion SoC that Samsung announced a couple of days ago comes with some pretty unusual GPU specifications as it says that the yet to be named GPU will be five times faster than the current PowerVR SGX540 found on the...

Microsoft has hired a Samsung Europe executive as its new chief marketing officer for the UK.The software giant has appointed Mikah Martin-Cruz, currently working as director of marketing for Europe at Samsung, to head its...

Everything you wanted to know about Google's Instant Search, but were afraid to ask... 1. Will Google instant search slow down your Internet connection? Even though Google's new Instant Search feature effectively submits a new...

ARM has pulled the curtains on its next generation "Eagle" processor family, one which is set to replace the Cortex A9 one as the company's top-end solution as early as 2012. The UK-based chip designer says that the Cortex A15...

Riding an already-burgeoning portfolio of licensees, ARM has announced the birth of its latest microprocessor, the Cortex-A15 MPCore - that will challenge AMD and Intel directly in the low-power device market.Codenamed Eagle, the...

Apple has provided patches for a number of security issues on its iPhone and iPod Touch devices in the recent iOS 4.1 update.Apple's latest update iOS 4.1, launched on Wednesday, offers fixes for a number of security issues...

Anyone who downloaded yesterday's iOS4.1 update from Apple expecting to jump straight into multi-player games will have been sorely disappointed. Apple's new social gaming service was included in the update but, unfortunately,...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has introduced a new low cost server line for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).In an attempt to win over businesses with no more than 8 to 10 employees, HP has announced a new micro server under its...

Microsoft has apologised to an Xbox user in West Virginia for suspending him from the online gaming service.Tech news site Tech Herald reports that Microsoft had banned 26 year old Josh Moore from all Xbox Live after he listed...

Google has is now allowing Yahoo users to sign-in to Google services by using OpenID. By using the OpenID technology, Yahoo users will be able to sign-in and access Google services such as Gmail, Docs, Google Groups and Google...

A recent update to Starcraft 2 meant that players were no longer able to play the single-player elements of the game without a persistent Internet connection, leading to a tide of angry comments from fans. Game maker Blizzard...

Chip maker Qualcomm has confirmed that it will be launching a pair of dual core processors next year which are likely to end up in mainstream and high end devices. The 8260 is a 1.2GHz part that will be available in designs as...

Amazon has acquired music retail start-up Amie Street in an attempt to strengthen its foothold in the online MP3 retail download market.In a e-mail notification to its customers, Amie Street said that the company was on the verge...

3 UK has announced that it will be selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab without disclosing when and for how much; it will also offer SIM-only voice and data packages for the world's largest smartphone. The cheapest offer costs...

Rugged computing specialist Getac has pulled the curtains on the V200, a rugged laptop that boasts some pretty impressive specifications. Out in October, the V200 is not your normal laptop, it comes with IP65 and MIL-STD-810G...

Apple has launched the new iOS 4.1 software update, first previewed by CEO Steve Jobs during a music event last week, on iTunes.The update, which available on iTunes for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2nd...

UK mobile customers may not be interested in the long term evolution (LTE) mobile network planned by the Orange and T-Mobile joint venture Everything Everywhere, an expert claims.Everything Everywhere, which has a combined user...

Mobile phone network Three has revealed it will also be getting the Samsung Galaxy Tab along with Vodafone, with tariffs starting from just £10 a month.Three has only announced the SIM only tariffs at this point, on a...

Google has announced Google Instant search which produces search results as soon as your fingers hit the keyboard.The search engine dynamically displays and updates search results with every key stroke and predicts results based...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced upgrades for a number of its products catering to small and medium enterprises (SME).Among the announcements include an upgrade for its 10Gbit per second Ethernet ports, part of HP's P2000...

Ofcom has decided to allow UK wireless carriers to enhance their 3G services to provide customers with better coverage and download speeds.The move will allow mobile operators to better cope with the boost in demand for data...

The Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) has urged the UK government to give priority to creative, digital and IT (CDIT) industries or risk loosing out on a multi-trillion pound opportunity.The announcement comes...