The government is set to review the UK’s copyright laws to "make them fit for the internet age," prime minister David Cameron has announced. Cameron is seeking to relax the laws to allow more people to use copyrighted...

A Nicaraguan military commander blamed Google Maps for his apparent invasion of  neighbouring Costa Rica. Commander Eden Pastora, an erstwhile leading Sandinista revolutionary, led his troops into Costa Rican territory,...

Apple devices powered by iOS4 will get full Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) support when the OS is bumped next month. According to the website Create Digital Music, the 25-year-old standard, which allows digital...

The BBC has launched a free iPlayer app for Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry devices. The app is set to allow users to watch any BBC TV programme or listen to any radio show available on the platform. Previously,...

Scientists have recently discovered that mathematical skills can be improved by shocking the brain with electric signals. The findings could lead to great advances in helping children suffering from learning difficulties in...

The .uk suffix has grown to become the second most popular domain name in the world, new data has revealed. Nominet’s Domain Name Industry report has shown that the number of sites being registered with the .uk domain has...

Following his bizarre revelations in the House of Lords on Monday, Lord James of Blackheath has insisted in an interview on Sky TV that mysterious benefactor, 'Foundation X', really is waiting in the wings to rescue the UK...

Apple has added a new server configuration of its top-end Mac Pro workstation. Just hours after quietly announcing that the Xserve rack-mounted server had to all intents and purposes bitten the dust, the Cupertino gadget maker...

Enterprising hackers, excited about the potential of the technology behind Microsoft's Kinect sensor system for the Xbox 360, have put up a bounty for the first person to write open source drivers for the device - and the...

Microsoft may soon release “hybrid” button-using games for its controller-free Kinect device. Speaking to GamesIndustry, Kinect director Alex Kipman announced that there are currently a number of games in development...

Phones4U will give free WiFi to everyone who buys a tablet, either the Samsung Galaxy Tab or the Commtiva N700 from them, in partnership with Freerunner. The exclusive offer, known as "Free Wi-Fi forever", will allow users to...

A simulated attack has been carried out across European web services to test the continents’ online defences.  The exercise, carried out by the European Network Security Agency and the Joint Research Center, aimed to...

Another document has emerged online which points to the fact that the Wi-Fi only version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab will be released next year, not before Christmas 2010 as originally believed. Android Life has unearthed a...

So, the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet is already out on the market and all the major mobile phone networks in the UK, apart from 3 UK and T-Mobile, have already announced their tariffs; but are they doing it half-heartedly? Well,...

British Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who invented the commercially unsuccessful Sinclair C5 25 years ago, has updated his creation for the twenty first century. The technology pioneer’s original electric vehicle was a...

Want to get a Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet but don't want to pay too much for it? Well, Currys, which is part of DSGi, is currently selling the device for £499 including free delivery, but a coupon code can cut that price to...

A female community support officer has been fined £1,100 for illegally accessing personal data on the national police database, after using the data to seek out potential suitors.  Lucy Bevan, 25, who resigned from...

Those little tinkers at iFixit waited in line on launch day to buy Kinect controller for the Xbox 360, then pulled it to bits for their own sordid amusement and our edification. The controllerless controller contains a dizzying...

Wales has lost its battle with the Cayman Islands to secure the “.cym” domain name for Welsh internet addresses. After four years of trying to secure the “.cym” domain name, Welsh hopes were thwarted...

This week began with One Mobile Ring reporting that Acer had unveiled a new Liquid Android mobile, where WIFI has come to the London Underground. Orange also announced their Samsung Galaxy Tab prices and we published exclusive...

Apple has unceremoniously killed off its rack-mounted server solution with the announcement that it will stop selling the hardware at the end of 2010. For many years, Xserve has offered a simple cross-platform server solution out...

The British Library is planning to build an archive of video games produced in the United Kingdom. Since 1662, it has been a legal requirement for at least one copy of every printed publication to be sent to the venerable...

The Semiconductor Industry Association is warning of harder times ahead for chipmakers, as the massive growth experienced in 2010 slackens off over the next two years.In projections released this week, SIA predicted that global...

Former WikiLeaks supporters who left in protest at the organisation's direction are to start up their own rival whistleblowing site. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, sources close to the group - which includes...

Google has released patches for 12 vulnerabilities found in its Chrome web browser. The patches include updates for Adobe's Flash player application, addressing a serious flaw already being exploited by hackers. Although the bug...

Google on Thursday rolled out the beta version of its Instant search feature for mobile devices.  The search giant first released Google Instant in September for desktops, but has now extended the search function to mobile...

The Mozilla Foundation has released the latest beta of its Firefox 4 for Mobile browser, previously known as Fennec - and there are some major improvements to the free smartphone app.Chief among these, for Android users at least,...

Android could overtake the iPhone in terms of app development over the coming year as more developers push to work on Google's OS, a survey has found. According to the survey, carried out by mobile-ad firm ‘Millennial...

Samsung reckons that it can sell one million Galaxy Tab tablets by the end of 2010, which is less than 60 days from now. JK Shin, the head of mobile division at Samsung, says that Samsung is pleased with the initial performance...

Using Adobe's Flash plug-in on your portable device could reduce battery life by as much as 33 per cent according to testing carried out by a respected tech website. Ars Technica's in-depth and otherwise positive review of the...

LG has launched an entry level Android handset called the Optimus One on Orange, Three, T-Mobile and Carphone Warehouse; curiously enough both O2 and Vodafone have been left out. The handset comes with an ARM-based SoC running at...

Japanese manufacturer Toshiba has started to sell its Android tablet, the Folio 100, with Android OS 2.2 as from today. The tablet comes with a 10.1-inch WSVGA capacitive touchscreen, an Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC, 16MB onboard storage,...

The Information Commissioner's Office may start using its powers to dole out fines of up to £500,000 towards the end of the month according to Christopher Graham. The Information Commissioner was speaking at an Information...

Dell is desperately hoping that its latest Windows Phone 7 handset, the Dell Venue Pro, will appeal to business types - so much so, in fact, it's foisting it upon its own staff in a 'dogfooding' exercise.According to details...

Best Buy has just opened its online store in the UK this morning and already they are offering what seems to be the best Samsung Galaxy Tab deal in the UK. It might not amount to much but they are selling the 16GB Samsung Galaxy...

A video of a new netbook called the Dell Inspiron Duo may not sound exciting but this one is actually worth considering given that it sports a unique feature. Engadget reports that its screen has the ability to flip over, within...

Samsung has reaffirmed its ambition to sell even more smartphones in 2011, with a view to double the 20 million or so handsets it shipped this year. Shin Jong-kyun, head of Samsung's mobile division, said that the company will...

Another worker at a Foxconn factory in China fell to a grisly end yesterday, apparently avoiding the nets the company said it would install to catch flying workers. State news organ Xinhua said it had learned of the fatality...

A Minnesota woman, found guilty of copyright infringement after illegally sharing music online, has been ordered by a federal jury to pay a staggering $1.5 million in damages. Single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset was sued by the...

LG has announced that users of its Windows Phone 7-based handsets will be given access to a selection of free applications. In addition, both LG and Microsoft have agreed upon a deal to subsidise a portfolio of hand-picked...

Warren East, chief executive of British chip design firm ARM, has rubbished claims that Intel's Atom chips could possibly prove any competition to his company in the burgeoning tablet market.East, who leads the company that...

Microsoft has released details about the upcoming Patch Tuesday, set to patch 11 security vulnerabilities in Office and Forefront Unified Gateway. According to tech news site eWeek, the patch is much smaller than the one...

One part of Everything Everywhere has brought out a mobile broadband product capable of providing Internet access, to a number of devices over WIFI.Orange has added the Novatel Wireless 3352 mobile WIFI product to their mobile...

In a landmark decision, the European Union has promised users the legal right to be "forgotten" on the internet. Under the proposed plans, the European Union will pass this legislation across all 27 member states, cutting out...

I like Google's Chrome browser a lot. It's fast — in the same neighbourhood as Opera, the Firefox 4 betas, and Apple's Safari, indeed perhaps the fastest of the lot for the sort of surfing I mostly do. It also starts up...

Apple isn't known for taking risks when it comes to new technologies. As Steve Jobs once said, when it comes to Apple Macs, the investment is made in "mature" technologies that will offer more stability and guarantee users don't...

Nvidia is cooking up something new for the Geforce crowd. Heise.de has spotted an Nvidia presentation detailing the specs on a new GeForce GTX 460 'SE'. The card will position itself somewhere below the GTX 460 768MB, yet with...

What we presume will be Intel's last iteration of the Gulftown processor, the Core i7-990X Extreme Edition, has reached the page listings of known European e-tailer, Geizhals. The processor, which isn't yet listed on Intel's...