Now that all the major UK mobile phone operators have confirmed that they will be stocking Windows Phone 7 devices, the quest to find the perfect model has started. HTC is set to be amongst the ones who will benefit the most from...

Nokia phones account for nearly 50 per cent of the global mobile advertising market according to InMobi, the world's largest mobile advertising network. The firm published a report called "Global View of Mobile Advertising" and...

The UK government is seeking to speed up departmental IT service standardisation and procurement through an app store available through the G-Cloud programme. The App Store for the Government (ASG) will contain standardised apps,...

Korean manufacturer LG has announced the availability of the new C300 Town QWERTY handset with the likes of Orange, Phones4U and Tesco set to offer it soon. The C300 Town resembles an entry level RIM Blackberry device and comes...

After shutting down its SearchPerks and Cashback programmes, Microsoft has come up with another offer you just can't refuse: the Bing Rewards. Currently available in the US only, users are invited to use the Bing search engine...

The Indian government is in talks with Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion to gain access to corporate emails sent on its network in readable format. Citing an unidentified source within the government, Reuters said that...

The Better Business Bureau has issued a warning about a new Facebook 'clickjacking' attack, which has wrecked havoc on the platform in the last 24 hours. The new 'clickjacking' spam attack involves unsuspecting users clicking a...

Apple and Facebook were in talks for more than 18 months, after which Apple eventually launched Ping, its social networking feature embedded in iTunes, without Facebook integration, sources reveal. According to The Financial...

A survey carried out by the Wi-Fi Alliance shows the majority of 18-to-29 year-old Americans, Chinese Japanese and Koreans increasingly rely on Wi-Fi to keep in touch with friends and family. Calling on a sample of 1,000...

Software giant Microsoft has increased its quarterly dividend amount per share to 16 cents, a rise of 23 percent from the previous rate of 13 cents per share. The move comes at a time when large technology companies are being...

Microsoft has warned that a recently disclosed vulnerability on its ASP.Net applications is being actively exploited in the wild. The company said that attackers were exploiting the critical vulnerability to intercept and modify...

Search engine giant Google has dished out the stand-alone version of its popular Gmail email client for the Android mobile phone OS, already available for download from the Android Market. Initially, Gmail came integrated with...

Online video ad firm VideoEgg has acquired Six Apart for an undisclosed sum to form a new company focused on the lucrative online ad market, called Say Media. VideoEgg, which started out by helping non-profit organisations create...

Anti-virus software maker McAfee has dished out its very own URL shortening service, which will prevent users from visiting a malware ridden website as it is the case for some of its competitors. URL shortening services are used...

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has claimed that companies would have to explain the benefits of smart energy systems for the new technology to take-off. Speaking at the GridWise Global Forum in Washington D.C, Palmisano said that...

The public sector has come under fire for its seeming lack of data security in recent times.With top secret documents left on public transport, lost NHS memory sticks and anti-terror files discovered on a street outside a police...

Microsoft claims that Windows Phone 7 devices will be available on all the UK networks when gadgets armed with the OS update launch later this year. According to the ex-phone maker, Orange,Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile and Three will...

Google released yesterday a new service called the Transparency report which allows users to see the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to "take down" or censor content altogether. The...

With planned spending cuts set to hit the public sector, the UK government is turning to the cloud to help it achieve more, with less. G-Cloud, a cloud-based government app store and data centre consolidation strategy, aims to...

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Microsoft has stopped adding new users to the second beta version of its Windows Intune cloud based desktop management tool, after releasing it for 10,000 users for testing in July. The company said that even if it will not take...

Software engineers over at Microsoft are working hard to fix a critical vulnerability discovered in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which could allow hackers to attack Windows Server to get 'hints' on how to crack the...

The launch of Halo : Reach, the latest in the Halo video game series, has resulted in a significant rise in the sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console in the UK. According to latest metrics released by UK gaming chart...

Canadian Manufacturer RIM is holding a developers-only event next week and may well launch a tablet device on that day according to a number of reports online. According to Phred Dvorak And Ting-I Tsai from WSJ, the company...

French anti-piracy law Hadopi went live this week prompting copyright holders to send out thousands of IP addresses belonging to suspected copyright infringers to French Internet Service Providers. The French law is based on a...

Cloud computing is the latest buzzword in IT, however, our research shows that a significant percentage of IT executives - 36 percent on average - are either “a little unsure” or “really don’t know about...

3 UK has confirmed that the Symbian^3-based C7 smartphone will be available on its network; it is the third mobile phone operator in the UK after O2 and T-Mobile to do so. The C7 was announced last week during Nokia's World...

Aardman Animations has broken the record for the smallest character ever to appear in a stop-motion animation with its new film, Dot. It's a sad fact that few people are ever driven to creativity these days unless they've got...

Apple's iOS 4.2 is now available in beta form, but early adopters installing it on their iPads are finding an unwelcome surprise waiting for them - disconnection from the Internet.The issue, which was first spotted by THINQ's own...

Social networking giant Facebook is planning to simplify the user experience of non-gamers on the platform, by revamping the manner in which game notifications and stories are shared on the platform. Facebook has introduced new...

Micro-blogging site Twitter has come under fire from security experts after it was revealed that the security exploit that allowed a number of worms to cause havoc on the site on Tuesday had already been fixed, but was...

A consumer report has revealed that both Apple and PC makers have managed to satisfy their customers in the United States although the Cupertino-based company still comes on top. According to latest American Consumer Satisfaction...

Twitter will now help advertisers target a group of people on its website more effectively by developing a list of their interests, which will be based on the people they are following. According to the Telegraph, micro blogging...

Microsoft has sided with Apple in a rare case of solidarity between the two companies, and declares that Blu-ray will be "passed by" as a high-definition format.The company is making something of a habit of declaring this or that...

Just in case you think AMD has exclusive rights to the multi-display market right now, Zotac has released the Zotac Geforce GTX 460 3DP, a quad-display enabled Fermi-based graphics card. As of yesterday, Zotac claims to have the...

Microsoft has revealed today that it has received the backing from all the five major mobile networks in the UK as well as support from the Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U. It is, we believe, the first time that a platform...

Users of the Android-based Samsung Galaxy S smartphone may have to wait until October 2010 to get the Froyo update if the company's Facebook page in Spain and a tweet from Samsung India to be believed. The update will come...

Taiwanese mobile phone manufacture High Tech Computer Corporation has let slip their inaugural Windows Phone 7 handset will be arriving next month, by mistake in an interview.HTC's regional director for Middle East and North...

Anti-virus specialist and recent Intel acquisition McAfee has decided that the market for free URL shortening services isn't crowded enough, and has launched McAf.ee.URL shortening services - like Bit.ly, Is.gd, and Twitter's own...

MetroPCS has become the first company to launch its first 4G LTE carrier network in the United States with the release of Samsung’s Craft. According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, MetroPCS Communications...

Verizon Wireless has finally rolled out the much warranted operating system update to the Droid X smartphone. Android version 2.2, codenamed Froyo, has been released by network carrier Verizon for its Android based smartphone,...

Microsoft Corporation has announced yesterday that its Internet Explorer 9 web browser has been downloaded more than 2 million downloads within 48 hours of its launch. Last week, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft released the...

The head of Nokia's smartphone division has taken a parting shot at Google's Android OS, a few weeks before he is supposed to leave the company. Anssi Vanjoki, the current head of Nokia's dwindling smartphone business line,...

Google has updated its Google Earth service to version 3.1 for Apple’s iOS, in order to support Ocean layer in Apple’s new range of devices. Search engine giant Google has updated Google Earth with features including...

Google has announced a new project which it hopes will highlight government censorship and influence in how the Internet runs across the globe.The Transparency Report project combines two existing Google projects - the...

Europe's single market is so splintered that its citizens can barely manage to trade with one another online.The European Parliament yesterday presented a ludicrously long list of measures required to create a single European...

There are plans to release multi player video games based on the self-proclaimed 'King of Pop', Michael Jackson, more than a year after his death. Developer team, See Virtual Worlds, has revealed details about a new video game,...

Just over one in every three UK call centre workers has a graduate degree, a new survey has revealed. The survey, which was conducted by HR firm Hays along with 'Top 50 Call Centres for Customer Service', found out that 35...

According to a report, one in five university students has hacked into social profiles, email accounts or online shopping accounts. The survey, which was conducted by IT security services provider Tufin Technologies, found that...

Nokia's often outspoken executive vice president has made some disparaging comments about Google's Android platform, likening it to peeing in your pants.The comment came during an interview with The Financial Times, in which...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion looks set to unveil its new iPad rival at the BlackBerry Devcon developers' conference in San Francisco on 27th September, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Rumours about the...

The head of Microsoft's Kinect controller-free gaming platform, Kudo Tsunoda, has risked the ire of the PC gaming community by claiming "hardly anyone" plays PC games.During a Kinect-related interview with gaming site...

Web-based frauds have become a major issue of concern for social networking giant, Facebook. Palo Alto, California-based Facebook is vying to find ways to out do hackers and scammers involved in money fraud with the data...

Amazon UK is now selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab for £599.99 rather than the ridiculously high £799 it was initially pitched for. Other online retailers have announced preorder prices for the Samsung tablet from...

Sony is looking for a London-based senior server engineer with experience in the mobile platform and in Android to become part of its Online Technology Group according to an online advert. He or she will also be required to know...

Mobile phone network Orange has unveiled the Google mobile OS Android 2.2 is being rolled out to HTC Desires on their network, from today onwards.One of the two networks that make up Everything Everywhere unveiled over Twitter...

Nvidia has announced that the next generation of its mobile-oriented chipset, Tegra 3, is imminent - and that work has already begun on Tegra 4.Speaking to attendees at the GTC 2010 conference, Nvidia's chief executive Jen-Hsun...

Having snagged as much of the gaming market as rival AMD will permit, Nvidia's focus appears to have shifted to its CUDA GPGPU technology - and the GTC sessions this year confirm that.The supercomputing sector clearly forms a big...

Nvidia surprised attendees at its GTC 2010 conference with a sneak preview of its next-generation replacement for Fermi, codenamed Kepler.During his keynote speech, Nvidia's Jen-Hsung Huang announced that Fermi's replacement will...

CUDA technology promised a move from the CPU to the GPU for high-speed number crunching, but in a bizarre twist the technology looks to be going back to its roots with the announcement of CUDA-x86.As part of the keynote speech at...

Students reckon hacking is 'cool' and 23 per cent of the blighters love nothing better than to fiddle around with other people's boxes, according to new research. The research, published by Tufin Technologies, reveals that 23...