Three weeks ago One Mobile Ring began a feature about the mobile phone operating system; where it's come from, how it's evolved to what it is today - all surrounding the various platforms found on different handsets.Today, the...

You know that you've made it as a company when a dip of 0.4 per cent market share makes headlines, and that's where industry giant Google finds itself now.According to figures released by search engine watcher comScore, Google's...

Facebook has launched its location sharing feature, Facebook Places, in the UK today. Facebook Places allows users to 'check-in' to a location they visit and update their status with their location.UK comedian and self confessed...

YouView has said that it will let its content partners manage the payment system for the upcoming IPTV platform.In an interview with Broadband TV News, the chief executive officer of You View TV Richard Halton has said that the...

Comedian and self-confessed gadget geek Stephen Fry has created a short film all about this new-fangled 3D TV malarkey. In it, he hopes to give us Brits a little helping hand - what with us being a little slow on the...

BT has made a surprise announcement which will come as a pleasant surprise to its retail broadband customers - a free upgrade to BT Infinity, the company's fibre service.The offer is available to any retail customer who has a...

O2 has suddenly updated its data plans for iPad users, with some contracts slashed by more than 30 per cent. The telecoms outfit is trying to weasel out of the sneaky backtracking by saying the original contracts were...

This past week held two much awaited mobile phone events, Nokia's annual symposium where the company announce their flagship handsets and also an HTC event where their own flagship phones were expected to be unveiled.Once upon a...

President Obama has declared that games are for more than training the next generation of anti-social shut-ins with a project that aims to promote their use in education.The project, as reported over on games industry site MCV,...

Apple is said to be developing a new version of its iPad tablet device, despite many fans across the globe still waiting to get their hands on the original model.According to a report published by tech news site Digi Times, the...

The heads of Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone will meet in Paris next month to discuss how they can get a slice of revenues from the burgeoning mobile internet market. Stéphane Richard, CEO of...

UK comedian and self confessed tech enthusiast Stephen Fry has produced a short-film about 3D TV technology, designed to make it easier for Britons to understand and accept it.The short-film, which has been produced along side TV...

The European Commission is investigating mobile broadband modem manufacturers Huawei and ZTE over claims that they failed to declare receipt of Chinese government subsidies.The accusation was made by Option, a rival manufacturer...

Intel took the opportunity at IDF this week to introduce a next generation of Classmate PCs that are now not only child-proof but it is also very much bug-proof. The new Classmate PC is based on the Pine Trail platform, but...

Anti-virus vendor Avast has made a slight change to its software ahead of International Talk Like a Pirate Day this Sunday - a Pirate English language option.Designed to, in the company's own words, "keep yer ship safe from...

Retail giant Best Buy has suggested that Apple's iPad has caused US notebook sales to fall by at least 50 per cent.According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive officer of Best Buy Brian Dunn has...

Facebook has launched its location sharing feature, Facebook Places, in the UK today.Facebook Places allows users to 'check-in' to a location they visit and update their status with their location.Users will be also able to view...

Motorola has announced the acquisition of location-based software firm Aloqa for an undisclosed sum.Aloqa makes location-based programmes for smartphones based on platforms, like Google's Android, which have been downloaded by...

Hundreds gathered for the official launch of Apple's iPad in China on Friday.Apple lovers queued outside the company's official retail outlets in Shanghai and Beijing to buy an iPad after a wait of eight months since its launch...

Pigeons have beaten UK rural Broadband services in a race. On Thursday, a race took place between ten carrier pigeons and two specific areas known for low broadband speeds in the country to highlight the need for faster broadband...

Reports suggests that the new Apple TV may soon become a target for hackers trying to jailbreak the device.According to tech news site Ars Technica the Apple TV, touted as the next generation TV add-on from Apple, is expected to...

Those who have bought in to the world of electronic books and got themselves a shiny new Kindle will quickly find that the surprisingly cheap hardware price belies an expensive habit: building a library of electronic books can...

Nvidia has its panties in a twist over AMD’s alleged 'cheating' in benchmarks... again. Well, to be honest it’s been a long time since we’ve been entertained by this type of accusation. In the good ol’...

Piracy is bad. That - with a certain amount of paraphrasing, we'll admit - is the conclusion of a new report from market analysts IDC. Hardly surprising, given that the sponsor and co-compiler of the report is the Business...

UK Retailers are bracing themselves for the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 Move motion-gaming controller.PlayStation Move is a motion-sensing controller for the PS3 games console. The controller has a round orb at its top which...

Touchscreen manufacturers say they are completing product validation processes with Apple, ahead of the launch of the iPad 2 early next year.Industry rumour-mill DigiTimes quotes Taiwanese component suppliers as stating that the...

Sony will release support for 3D Blu-ray movies for its PlayStation 3 games via a new firmware update.The Japanese consumer electronics giant has announced 3D Blue-ray support for its PlayStation 3 consoles while addressing a...

Intel has confirmed that the recently leaked HDCP key is real and legitimate.The HDCP technology has been developed by Intel.The chip giant, on Thursday, confirmed that the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDPC) key,...

Real Time Works (RTW) has decided to close the lid on its massively multi-player online game All Points Bulletin (APB) only three months after its launch.The closure comes after the company announced that it had gone into...

A flaw in advertising software first exploited to spread malware on popular torrent index The Pirate Bay is now being used to attack other servers worldwide.One of the first big sites to fall victim to the vulnerability in the...

The SCO Group has announced that it plans to sell virtually all of its assets in the Unix business line, including UNIX system V software products and related services.The company announced via press release, that potential...

Yahoo is planning to revamp its web services, including e-mail and search, in a move to increase its market share.The internet search company has just announced that it is planning to give most of its services and products a...

Sony's motion-sensing controller for the PS3 goes on sale in the UK today. The Wiimote clone for Sony's flagship console comes in a Starter Pack including an Eyesight camera, one controller and a starter disc for £49.99,...

HTC launched a new version of its Sense user interface, one which has a number of features that lead us to believe that the Taiwanese firm is indeed preparing a table. Sense UI will be DLNA compatible, arguably something that can...

Microsoft has announced that all Windows Phone 7-based smartphones will only be compatible with GSM mobile networks until 2011.The software giant said that CDMA support will come next year.This means that Windows Phone 7 will not...

There's no denying that Apple's iPad is a successful product, but claims that it's forging a new market might be somewhat off the mark - instead, it seems it's eating away at an existing one.The claims come from Best Buy chief...

Oracle has posted a 20 per cent rise in profits for the first quarter of their fiscal year, boosted by the sale of Sun Microsystems products and software licenses.According to the Wall Street Journal, Oracle shares also rose by...

We were warned that open-source Facebook alternative Diaspora had a few security problems, but the true scale of the issue is rapidly becoming apparent.Following the release of the source code for the Diaspora social networking...

A leaked T-Mobile accessory inventory has revealed a mysterious HTC HD7 device.Rumours suggest that the HD3 device has been re-branded as HD7 because of the Windows Phone 7 OS running on it.The HD7 device appears on the T-Mobile...

Facebook's geo-location service Places went live in the UK some time this morning. iPhone users will be greeted with a new message when they log into Facebook's mobile App, and conspiracy theorists and tinfoil-hatted nutjobs...

IBM has released new chip making technology, designed to allow clients to manage their power usage more efficiently in smart grids and smart buildings.According to the company, researchers have developed a new chip making process...

T-Mobile will be offering a slew of Google's Android-based devices, a leaked inventory sheet reveals.TMO news, a blog dedicated to news about T-Mobile, has procured a T-Mobile inventory sheet, which contains names of the upcoming...

Intel has used its annual Developer Forum to hint at the future of its low-power Atom chips - and they're heading for 15nm.In its presentation, Intel unveiled the future of the product range - and revealed that it will be making...

Samsung has officially launched its Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet computer at  a press event in New York.The company will take on the Apple iPad by offering the device across all the four national wireless carriers in the...

T-Mobile has revealed its tariffs for HTC's Desire HD Android smartphone.The network carries has said that the smartphone will be available for free on a two year contract for £40 per month.The HTC Desire HD, which was...

A file circulating the Internet which claims to contain the master key to the HDCP anti-piracy system has been confirmed as genuine.The key, which has been shared on Pastebin since Tuesday, contains a string of hexadecimal code...