Put yourself in this situation: you're just two weeks from the end of the business quarter, and you're facing the task of making up a large deficit on sales forecasts.  What do you do? The answer is use your intelligence....

The Windows Phone 7 app marketplace has crossed the 1,000 app milestone within 3 weeks of its launch. According to WMPowerusers, Microsoft's fledgling app store now houses over 1,000 apps. The news comes after Google announced...

Security firm F-Secure has warned of a new type of malware spreading across the web, posing as a genuine download for a Microsoft Security Essentials anti-malware tool. According to F-Secure, the malware is a Trojan file...

Apple iPhone and iPad owners can now have a version of our favourite 'have-a-go' video player, VLC. Apple's iTunes software is notorious for being overly picky about which file formats it will play, and many common file types...

Just 1 inch thin and feather-light at 1.25kg, the Acer D255, is the ultimate take-me-with-you device.Thanks to built-in WiFi you can connect to public ‘hot spots’ without cables, with the 10.1” CrystalBrite LCD...

Ray Ozzie, the guy Microsoft recruited as Chief Software Architect and a Silicon Valley legend who helped nurture the first Spreadsheet and Lotus Notes, has left a memo posted on its own personal blog as he prepares to leave the...

Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, might have been the victim of some misunderstanding (and misreporting) regarding the fact that he was apparently caught during a CNN interview prompting those who are not happy with being snapped by...

Apple is planning to update its Apple Store app for iPhone and iPod Touch with a feature designed to revolutionise the manner in which customers are handled in an Apple retail outlet. According to MacStories, Apple has been...

The Dell Venue Pro may be sold for as little as £35 per month on a two year contract according to a tip-off we received earlier this morning from one of our readers who works for a well known online mobile retailer. Our...

The Symbian Foundation is reportedly set to shut down after asking is new executive director to wind down its operations owing to the lack of funds. Citing a source close to the Symbian Foundation, The Register reports that the...

Apple has inked a deal with IT outsourcing outfit Unisys which could see more Macs breaking into the business world. According to a report on Bloomberg Businessweek, the Cupertino company will enlist Unisys agents to persuade...

Building on Sony Ericsson's entertainment heritage and combining rich graphics with intelligence capabilities, the XPERIA X10 mini introduces a new UX platform that will evolve across the product portfolio and expand over time...

Powered by an efficient Intel Celeron processor, the Dell Inspiron 11Z runs for up to six hours without a recharge, making it ideal for anyone who spends a lot of time away from a desk doing their computing on the move.The 11.6...

The Lenovo G560 Laptop features a 15.6" high-definition lighter thinner LED backlight display with a resolution of: 1366 x 768, and featuring a 16:9 widescreen with numeric keypad.LED displays use less energy and are thinner and...

Zotac, one of Nvidia's more proactive partners, has disclosed details of a dual-Fermi GPU set-up based on the GF104 derivative otherwise known as GTX 460. The report comes from Expreview and presents a brand new card similar to...

The second openSuSE Developer Conference kicked off in Nürnberg with a rabble-rousing speech from community founder Henne Vogelsang, project manager of the openSuSE Boosters Team.To the surprise of many, Vogelsang's keynote...

Garmin has entered a new partnership with Asustek, which will see the company offering its navigation tools on Asustek's self-branded Android powered smartphones. According to Reuters, the company has decided not to produce...

The Times and The Sunday Times websites have seen an 88 per cent drop in the number of people viewing stories since the implementation of the paywall, a study has shown. Conducted by research firm Nielson, the study was held to...

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NEC has announced that its NEC Express5800/ft series servers will come with support for Microsoft's Hyper-V on NEC's fault-tolerant hardware platform. The Express5800/ft series servers allow customers to run mission critical...

Tesco has released a barcode scanning tool for its Groceries iPhone app, designed to allow customers to scan any item online and add it to their shopping carts. According to The Guardian, Tesco is targeting the in-app barcode...

New data released by network security firm Arbor Networks has revealed that Google now handles 6.4 per cent of total global internet traffic through its websites. In a blog post, the company announced that Google websites...

Sometimes the Internet gets its teeth into the tiniest fragment of information and bandies it around as immutable fact, much to the denigration of the truth. Yesterday's little nugget of information, which has been churned into a...

IBM is trying to dispel the security and privacy concerns shared by businesses over the adoption of cloud computing. The company has conducted a worldwide survey of around 500 IT managers in order to highlight the doubts that...

Adobe has launched a new set of low-level GPU-accelerated 3D APIs for use across the Flash runtimes. Named Molehill, the new tools will allows developers to use multi-platform graphics card acceleration on PC Mac and Linux...

Mobile phone network Three has brought the Nokia flagship N8 consumer phone to the network, on their One Plan tariff for £35 a month.Three's Nokia N8 comes with 2,000 minutes, 5,000 minutes to any Three mobile phone numbers, a...

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has finally dismissed the rumours of a possible acquisition by Microsoft, stating that the company plans to remain independent. According to Reuters, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Financial Times...

Nintendo considers Apple to be more of a threat than Microsoft, which is on the verge of launching Kinect motion gaming device. In an interview with Forbes, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime claimed that Apple could...

A short video of Blackberry's forthcoming business-centric tablet, the oddly-named PlayBook, has appeared on YouTube. Until now Canadian BlackBerry maker RIM has played its PlayBook cards pretty close to its chest, locking early...

A top Microsoft executive has claimed that the company will make a profit on every Kinect unit it sells. According to The New York Times, the company firmly believes that it will make strong profits from its Kinect motion...

eBay has rolled out a new scheme for its US customers, set to allow them to instantly sell their old or new gadgets for cash. According to eBay, the eBay Instant Sale scheme has stemmed from its Re-sell, Re-use, Recycle...

Google's Android Market app store now houses over 100,000 apps. The company announced reaching the milestone by simply tweeting through its Android Developers account on micro blogging platform Twitter. “One hundred...

In a battle between senior management at any company and any particular CxO, there can only be one winner usually and this is possibly what might happen to Ray Ozzie as he tried, like Don Quixote against the windmills, to change...

One online retailer has slashed the price the price of the unlocked version of the Dell Venue Pro, the company's first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, to a mere £440.63, £60 less than the price of the handset at...

Canonical has announced plans to remove the GNOME user interface from its Ubuntu OS and replacing it with Unity, a UI that will bring a netbook-like feel to Ubuntu desktops. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has said that the...

Google chief Eric Schmidt told interviewers at CNN recently that if they didn't like to be on Street View they could simply move house. For some reason CNN cut that bit from the interview when it was broadcast but versions of the...

French SIM card security provider Gemalto has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google in the US. The company has claimed in the lawsuit Google's Dalvik virtual machine, that runs Java-based applications on Android,...

Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie, the man who stepped into Bill Gates' boots, is leaving the company - and warns those left behind that they face an uncertain future.Previously part of Groove Networks, which was...

Apple's iLife is a collection of media manipulation tools which come free with every new Mac computer. If you want to know what we though of the package as a whole, you should check out out overview in which we came to the...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has advised people that have a problem with his company's Street View service to "just move". According to The Wall Street Journal, the CEO made the controversial remark during a interview on CNN’s...

Google has rolled out the beta version of its Google Instant search tool for select Android-based devices. The tool, which allows users to view search results as soon as they begin typing a search query, has been spotted on...

Dell's new Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the Venue Pro, is set to be officially available in the UK as from the 8th of November when it goes on sale at Expansys for £499.99. The phone, which like the Blackberry Torch, comes...

A number of online news websites are reporting that the iOS 4.1 software contains an easily replicable security vulnerability that allows anyone to make a phone call through a combination of keys. A MacForums member says that if...

Search giant Google has yet to explain in details how and why it captured data that was broadcasted over unsecured corporate and domestic wireless networks while collecting pictures for its popular Street View mapping...

Interesting news this morning about the possibility that Microsoft might launch Windows 8 towards the end of 2012, 36 months after the launch of Windows 7 according to a post on Microsoft Netherlands. The post which originally...

Korean electronics giant Samsung will unveil a new Android device on the 8th of November at 6PM in New York City according to an invite that was sent out to selected members of the press. Androidandme says that this might be a...

Apple has joined 11 other technology giants including Google, AOL and Yahoo, in an attempt to get a US court to dismiss a patent infringement lawsuit bought against them by a company controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul...

The price of Sony's medialess portable gaming console, the PSP Go, has been falling steadily over the past 24 hours with the device selling for as little as £159.99, a whopping £65 cut from the suggested price of...

Popular video playing application VLC (otherwise known as Videolan) will be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch platform after having been launched last month on the Apple iPad tablet. The open source app, which is regularly...

The Galaxy Tab will be sold on Sprint Nextel for as little as $399.99 with a two-year contract or $599.99 without any subsidies as the mobile phone operator gears for the official launch of the device on the 14th of November,...

Google has enabled advertisers on its AdMob network to release interactive video ads on its Android mobile operating system platform. According to the company, advertisers will now be able to serve interactive video ads on the...

Apple has signed a deal with Unisys Corp. to assist it in getting more business and government contracts for iOS devices. According to Bloomberg, Unisys Corp. has been authorised by Apple to offer maintenance and other services...

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has confirmed that the Ubuntu Linux distribution is making its biggest change ever - a move away from the GNOME desktop.Ubuntu has been based on the GNOME user interface since the distribution...

A security researcher has released an add-on for Firefox that allows anyone to hijack a user's Twitter or Facebook accounts over an open Wi-Fi connection. The add-on, named 'Firesheep', was released  by web application...

Amazon has claimed that the latest version of Kindle is the fast-selling version of the e-reader yet. The company also said that the new Kindle was the best-selling product on its UK and US websites. Amazon has timed the release...

Online mobile device reseller Expansys has announced the Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 handset will be on sale SIM free and unlocked, from November 8th.The computer giant's offering in the Windows Phone 7 space has a price tag...

Getting the right number of printing and imaging devices for an organisation is a key part of controlling costs. Too few, and staff may waste time walking across a large office or even to a different floor to collect their...

New Wi-Fi Direct technology developed by the Wi-Fi alliance allows to compatible devices to connect with each other without an internet connection or any other network. According to Information Week, teh Wi-Fi Alliance has said...

Social news bookmarking platform Digg has decided to lay-off 37 per cent of its staff in an attempt to make the company profitable by next year. The ailing company said in a blog post that the job cuts will be a part of Digg's...

Canadian Apple benchmarking specialist and developer of software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix (Geekbench, Wiinote), Primate Labs, has posted an abbreviated performance comparison of the new MacBook Airs that Apple released...

A hole in the iPhone's software allows any user to bypass the security code on the gadget allowing unauthorised use of the holy handset. Orginally exposed by a bloke on MacRumours' forum who had apparently been fiddling about...