According a survey conducted by UK telecom regulator Ofcom, almost half of UK broadband and fixed line customers feel that changing their service provider is "too much hassle".Ofcom said that 45 per cent of consumers were wary of...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has outsold rival consoles in the US market during August, a new report shows. According to a report published by market research company NDP Group, the sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 console have surpassed...

UPDATE, 17:01 GMT: Paywall appears to be back in place on all stories on The Times' homepage. Will keep you posted if anything changes. UPDATE, 16:41 GMT: Curiously, some articles on The Times' homepage are hidden behind its...

Oracle and NetApp have agreed to drop a three-year long patent infringement lawsuit.The lawsuit was first fought between NetApp and Sun Microsystems, but when Oracle acquired Sun, it vowed to keep fighting. Both firms have now...

According to Ofcom, nearly half of UK broadband users won't consider changing their ISP because it will be a pain. The communications watchdog is now investigating ways in which the onerous task of getting hold of a Migration...

It is a well-known fact that laptop makers have a really good time during early September, as they shift quite a lot of stock with people going back to school, college and university with a new computer. New products that were...

Audio expert SRS has teamed up with Microsoft to bring 5.1 surround sound to Silverlight video streaming. Silverlight has a long way to go to catch up with Adobe's annoyingly ubiquitous Flash media player, but adding proper...

The BBC led IP TV platform Project Canvas has received the support of the electronics industry.Around 40 manufacturers have shown interest in Project Canvas, and have said that they are willing to support it in any way they...

Instant search is Google's first step towards what can be considered as the holy grail of human/computer interaction, the one click interface, a paradigm that permeate recent significant Google innovations such as Chrome and...

Adobe has rekindled its Packager for iPhone tool, designed to turn Flash applications into iOS apps.The move follows Apple' removing the restrictions it had earlier imposed on the use of third part developer tools in applications...

Mozilla has announced it will delay the Beta 6 release by at least a couple of days in order to catch up with the rather long bug list that remains unattended and to fully integrate the Jaegermonkey javascript engine. The latest...

PC users around the world have been taken in by a booby-trapped email promising the recipient access to free sex movies, only to find their computers infected by an e-mail worm. The e-mail messages bear the subject line "Here...

Cisco Systems has released security updates to fix vulnerabilities found in its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) and Wireless Services Module (WiSM) devices.According to tech news site Softpedia, the software update has managed to...

The former CIO of Boston Chicken Inc. and, more recently, President of Microsoft's Business Divison has been snapped up by Nokia to replace Olli-Pekka Lallasvuo as CEO of Nokia. Elop had been at Microsoft heading the division...

Rockstar Games has announced that it will release a bundle of three Grand Theft Auto games on the Mac. The controversial games which send players on a one-man crime wave in a vast imaginary city will be released as the Grand...

A new image leak claims to reveal the user interface of HTC's upcoming Desire HD smartphone.Spotted on a German retailer's website by BestBoyz, the leaked shot is a large image, which the site claims is of HTC Desire HD.According...

I-Teco will exhibit at the VII International Exhibition “InfoSecurity Russia. Storage Expo. Documation'2010” (Moscow, Sokolniki ExpoCentre, pav. 4, November 17-19, 2010) and it welcomes everyone interested in its...

Apple has removed a ban prohibiting app developers from using Adobe's Flash software and other third party developer tools on their products. In a statement, the company said that it has removed restrictions placed on iPhone...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has outsold rival consoles in the US market during August, a new report shows.According to a report published by market research company NDP Group, the sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 console have surpassed all...

Hugo Barra, Product management Director of Mobile at Google, was the speaker at an event yesterday in the company's London HQ and although there was no major surprises during the announcement, it was pretty obvious, especially...

Ten people have been arrested in raids across Europe in connection to an investigation into illegal file hosting and distribution.The Belgian police have also seized 48 servers in over 12 countries, including France, Germany, the...

A new kind of e-mail virus, designed to delete all security software installed on a computer, has surfaced on the web.According to security software maker McAfee, the virus is spread by e-mailing everyone on the address book of...

Apple announced yesterday that it would clarify the rules on the App Store review process by publishing the full set of guidelines used by the approval team. Unfortunately for anyone thinking of joining the growing community of...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that it has extended its  Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) contract with BT.CIOL reports that BT and the MoD have agreed to extend the DFTS for another three...

Nokia has hired Microsoft's former business head as CEO following a recent slump in profits. Stephen Elop, the former head of the business division at Microsoft, has left the software giant to join Nokia as its new chief...

Concerns over the US economy increased yesterday as two of the country's chip-makers posted gloomy forecasts for the months ahead. Texas Instruments blamed falling demand for PCs for its disappointing financial targets, while...

Mozilla has released the preview version of its upcoming Firefox 4 web browser, set will be powered by the JägerMonkey JavaScript engine.The new JavaScript engine will replace the TraceMonkey, which was first introduced in...

Microsoft has announced the availability of the beta version of its next-generation Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product.The software giant has made its new CRM software product, Dynamic CRM 2011, available for testing,...

1100W RMS output for the ultimate home cinema experience. Enjoy superior home entertainment with Blu-ray discs that have more than twice the resolution of standard DVDs, not to mention superior sound. DLNA to access music, photos...

Microsoft has apologised for the series of outages that have plagued its cloud hosted services in the past few weeks.In a blog post by Morgan Cole, head of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, he acknowledged that the...

WD Livewire powerline AV network kit extends the Internet to any room using your home’s electrical outlets. Stream the highest quality HD video, play games, and transfer files within the home or over the Internet using...

The first Galaxy Tab tablet is yet to be sold and there are already rumours about the next generation model which is said to be launched in 2011 and could well sport a major display upgrade. According to Mingchi Kuo, Digitimes...

Adobe has described Apple's decision to allow third-party developer tools to be used to create iOS4 software as "great news". In an official blog post, and Adobe spokesman says, "Apple’s announcement today that it has...

Social networking platform Bebo has hired former Microsoft employee Kevin Bachus as the new Chief Product Officer.Kevin Bachus, the co-creator of the Xbox games console, will be responsible for developing Bebo's social network...

Acer founder Stan Shih has labelled Apple products as "mutant viruses", currently cannibalising the PC market. Shih said that Apple products, the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, were eating away the PC market at an alarming rate,...

iFixit regularly reduces shiny new gadgetry to its base components even before we get to see them retail. The new iPod Touch is no exception to the rule. Right now you can give the blow-by-blow account of the teardown a look...

More shots of a smart phone running Windows Phone 7 have appeared on the Internet. The shots of what appears to be a Samsung GT-i8700 were sent to Gizmodo by an anonymous tipster who ironically snapped the pics using an iPhone....

Teardown specialist iFixit has yet again opened up another Apple gadget, this time the iPod Touch 4G and found out that it does share a lot with the iPhone 4. The complete process can be found here and shows that the front facing...

Apple may well be considering ditching Infineon baseband solutions for the iPhone 5 (or whatever the next generation iPhone is called) for Qualcomm's after the former was acquired by Intel. Chinese newspaper Chinatimes reports...

Apple has announced today that it will be making some important changes to their iOS developer program license with the aim of "relaxing" some restrictions that were introduced earlier this year. More specifically Apple says,...

A couple of days ago, a search on Google would use around 0.0003 kWh of energy and produced around 0.2 grams of CO2 according to Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations at Google who presented those figures back in...

Google has released a pair of new widgets for Android Phones to aid quick and easy access to Google Voice.The internet search giant has introduced Google Voice Widgets in a recent update to enhance the ease of access to Google...

Acer founder Stan Shih has labelled Apple products as "mutant viruses", currently cannibalising the PC market.In an interview Shih said that Apple products, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, were eating away the PC market at an...

Sony has celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its PlayStation games console.The PlayStation's birthday, on 9 September, was celebrated in high spirits, with Sony laying out a new roadmap of things to come, gaming news site...

Web hosting services provider Rackspace has pulled the plug on two websites belonging to the pastor of a US church planning to burn the Koran on the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 AttacksThe company has claimed that the Dove World...

Google has updated its Google Maps for Android application to include the beta version of the Walking Navigation tool.According to Google, the Walking Navigation tool will allow mobile users to receive walking directions for...

Microsoft has released the details of its upcoming Patch Tuesday security update for September.The software giant plans to release at least nine security bulletins to patch 13 flaws reported in the Windows OS, Office suite and...