The man convicted and fined for tweeting in jest that he was going to blow up an airport is planning to present his case to the high court.  Paul Chambers was originally fined £1,000 for tweeting that he was going to...

Apple has confirmed four vital numbers as it unveiled iOS 4.2, facts that illustrate the strength of the iOS platform globally. Strangely enough but did not provide with any updates since the last one one month ago when the Mac...

Superfast broadband, with speeds of up to 100mbps, is coming to eight communities in Cornwall next March as part of a £132 million programme. The project, which is partially funded by the European Regional Development...

Intel is quite clearly serious about offering competition to ARM in the embedded market, and has just announced a new Atom processor series that offers a unique selling point: an integral FPGA. Billed as 'the first...

Apple has issued an official press release stating that the iOS 4.2 will be available today for download for all three iOS platforms, the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod Touch, meaning that for the first time ever, the three...

Technically, the Jolicloud Jolibook netbook is nothing more than a customised Intel-based netbook with a nice user interface that's beautiful or "Joli" in French; furthermore, since it is based on Ubuntu Netbook Edition, you can...

Enterprise software giant SAP has confirmed that it will be launching a series of business applications developed specifically for the forthcoming RIM Blackberry PlayBook tablet, The device, which will be launched in the second...

It's been only a few days since Google announced Boutiques.com, a decidedly very un-Google project that captured our attention; now there comes the rumour of the possible acquisition by Google of Groupon for $5 billion. Not only...

Research conducted by Wageningen University in Holland has come to the disturbing conclusion that electromagnetic radiation emitted by Wi-Fi access points and mobile phones could be killing trees. The research was commissioned...

Apple today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1 and...

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has launched a Code of Practice for Cloud service providers, designed to promote the technology to a resistant market.CIF says it has launched the Code of Practice after an extensive period of...

Google Voice has been updated to include the ability to record incoming VoIP calls directly from Gmail.According to tech news site Tech Crunch, a number of Gmail users have already noticed the new feature on Gmail, suggesting...

Sony Ericsson may be working with parent company Sony to develop the rumoured PlayStation Phone, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg has suggested. "There's a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere," the Wall...

Legal papers unsealed last week after a three year legal battle have revealed how Dell tried to cover up catastrophic defects in may of the computers it sold between 2003 and 2005. The documents, which were seen by the New York...

Now that Steam For Mac is being supported by Valve's online game distribution service, Mac system metrics are also being included in Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey, which is updated monthly with collected data about...

Call Of Duty: Black Ops has seen an 85 per cent fall in sales since smashing records two weeks ago.  Gamesindustry.biz reports that whilst the game is still the best selling game in the charts, having sold 63,000 units more...

Google's Chrome operating system, which was widely predicted to have a November launch, won't see the light of day until the New Year according to CEO Eric Schmidt. Speaking at the recent Web 2.0 conference, Schmidt let slip...

Research in Motion will introduce the Blackberry Playbook tablet in the North American market in the first quarter of 2011, followed by a swift roll out worldwide in the second quarter of next year.  Apple has reportedly...

Everything Everwhere, also known as T-Mobile and Orange, will offer the iPad on contracts, a move that is bound to spark some serious discussions amongst experts as to whether Apple is changing its strategy because of the...

Online retailer Ebuyer has vowed to take on Amazon's Black Friday event with its own version called Lunch-time specials which will run for two hours (between 11am and 1pm) from today to Friday. The first deal on offer (this has...

A survey conducted by data security company Imperva has revealed that UK workers will gladly steal their employer's data or IP if they switch jobs or get fired.The survey, which interviewed more than 1,000 UK employees, warned...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, has warned that the internet is under threat from companies and countries looking to undermine the web by restricting its openness.In an article for the Scientific American,...

Apple will release the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.2, very shortly given that it has already updated its OS homepage. The update will be targeted mainly at the iPad which will gain folder management,...

Rupert Murdoch will apparently launch a new newspaper exclusively for the iPad, one which is known as "The Daily" and which contain content exclusively created for the title. Why would News Corp gamble on a completely new medium...

Novell has finally ended the rumours surrounding its future, announcing an immediate acquisition by Attachmate Corporation in a deal valued at around $2.2 billion.The deal values the workload management, networking, and Linux...

Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia has announced two new budget handsets, the X2-01 and the C2-01.The candy bar Nokia C2-01 is reportedly the company's cheapest new 3G handset to date, without scrimping on features in a traditional...

Popular online discount coupon service Groupon is said to be considering an acquisition bid by Google.Citing people with the knowledge of the talks between the two companies, Bloomberg reported that Groupon is currently...

Details of Nvidia's upcoming dual-GPU Fermi board, the GF110-powered GeForce GTX 595, have leaked out courtesy of a PCB photograph from the Chinese media - and it looks like AMD is going to have a fight on its hands.We've only...

A meeting of Chinese bloggers due to take place in Shanghai last weekend has been cancelled, after authorities put pressure on the venue for the event. The annual Chinese Blogger Conference, which has played host to a number of...

The PC version of Call Of Duty: Black Ops has been patched to correct issues with its single player and multiplayer modes.  According to Techtree, the patch includes fixes to reported frame rate issues in the single player,...

A 10 year old boy has been praised by the police for his quick thinking after he snapped and uploaded the photo of a thief who had nicked an Apple iPhone from a pedestrian.According to Metro, Alex Wilson and his father were...

The man tasked with making Microsoft's Xbox Live on-line gaming service a safe and pleasant place for all has been forced to defend his decision to ban the swastika from being used as as a personal player logo in the multi-player...

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has launched a Code of Practice for Cloud service providers following, it says, an extensive period of public consultation and piloting. The Code aims to eventually standardise and certify...

Nudity detection systems, for one reason or another, are the holy grail of image recognition software - and one programmer thinks he may have cracked the secret with an open source library called nude.js.Unlike previous...

The license for Monty Python has been snapped up by British developer Zattikka, who plan to make a range of social games based on the much loved comedy series.  According to Destructoid, Zattikka have also managed to...

The majority of staff think they have a right to take company data with them when they change jobs or are fired. A survey conducted by data insecurity outfit Imperva found that 70 per cent of the poll's 1,000 respondents had...

Microsoft has claimed that its Kinect motion gaming peripheral was left open by design.Previously, the company had released a statement in which it criticised the open source implementation of Kinect and said it was planning to...

Popular online mobile phone retailer Expansys has taken stock of the successor to last year's Motorola Milestone Qwerty keyboard Android device - the Milestone 2, SIM free and unlocked for £379.99.The Motorola Milestone 2 arrives...

Communications Minister Ed Vaizey claims he was misunderstood over net neutrality, after comments he made in a speech last week sparked fears that the government planned to back a 'two-tier' Internet. Net neutrality - the...

Social networking giant Facebook has barred its users from importing their Gmail address book to the platform using the "Find your Friends" feature. According to PC Magazine, Facebook users are now unable to find friends on the...

The UK High Court has ruled a company is only responsible for 'making available' online content in the country where the servers are located and not in the country where the content is read or used.According to ZD Net UK, the...

Research in Motion will introduce the Blackberry Playbook tablet in the North American market in the first quarter of 2011, followed by a swift roll out worldwide in the second quarter of next year. Speaking to Digitimes, Norm...

UK communications minister Ed Vaizey has claimed that he is in favour of net neutrality, saying that his recent speech calling for a two-tiered internet has been misinterpreted."I say 'don't block input' [to the internet]. It's...

Angry Birds developer Rovio has apologised for the compatibility problems being faced by some Android users.  In a blog post, the developer said that owing to the fragmentation of the Android system, the game was...

Online retailer play is having a Black Friday session of its own as it has started cutting prices on some technology-related items by as nuch as 40 per cent; amongst those which caught our eyes is the Disgo Net Browser 3000...

The Mozilla Foundation has hinted at a device-independent App Store for mobile software. In the not-for-profit organisation's annual report, The State of Mozilla, the outfit suggests that there is room on the web for a...

WikiLeaks is set to release another vast batch of information, which the whistle-blowing site claims will be seven times the size of its Iraq War Logs. The site announced its forthcoming leak in a message on Twitter, appealing...

Online retail giant Amazon has introduced a new feature to the Kindle e-book store, allowing people to give e-books as gifts this holiday season. According to the company, people will now be able to "gift" Kindle e-books to...

Amazon has kickstarted its Black Friday sales only a few minutes ago and already the six items that have been listed have been sold out in minutes; the event will last until the 26th of November, midnight. The biggest savings...

Apple is continuing its efforts to tie down its devices, with a source claiming plans are going ahead to introduce a non-replaceable SIM card in the next-generation iPad, to thwart the unlocking community.The claims, revealed by...

Apple has reportedly been forced to drop the idea of creating embedded SIM cards for the iPhone after mobile service providers threatened to stop subsidising the device. The iPod maker had planned to cut mobile providers out of...

A new survey has found that Apple and Motorola are way ahead of rivals Samsung, HTC and Research in Motion in customer satisfaction.The survey, conducted by research firm ChangeWave, found that 77 per cent of iPhone users claimed...

The Iphone Dev Team has released a partial jailbreak for iOS4.2.1 but it's not for the faint-hearted. The update to the redsn0w tool comes with a list of caveats as long as your arm and is recommended for use only by jailbreak...

Google has been let off very lightly by the Information Commissioner Office after it promised to delete all the Wi-Fi data that its Street View cars had downloaded in the UK. The ICO has already said that they will do an audit of...

A recent incident which saw a part of the world's internet traffic being re-routed through Chinese servers was the result of a "random mistake", an internet security firm has claimed.In a blog post, CTO James Cowie, the chief...

With open source Kinect drivers now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the cat is truly out of the bag for Microsoft's 3D-sensing console add-on - and despite earlier threats to the contrary, the company has confirmed it...

News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch has reportedly teamed up with Apple CEO Steve Jobs to produce a daily newspaper designed specifically for the iPad.According to Women's Wear Daily, News Corp. has been working on the project,...

A court in New York has ordered Gawker Media to remove leaked excerpts of Sarah Palin's upcoming book from its website, with a copyright infringement hearing pending on 30 November. According to The Associated Press, Sarah...

HTC is planning yet another Android-based smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard only months after the release of the HTC Desire Z. US mobile phone carrier, Verizon, leaked pictures of the handset alongside with a 360 degrees...

UPDATE 02/12/2010 11:27 GMT: The slide has been outed as a fake, leaving us no closer to discovering what AMD has up its sleeve to recapture the top-end performance crown. The first official specifications for AMD's Radeon HD...

BT has hit out against a the 'Stop the Broadband Con' campaign initiated by rival ISP Virgin Media, designed to urge people to protest against the misleading advertising of broadband speeds.According to IT Pro, telecoms giant BT...

French company Jolicloud has finally started to sell its Jolibook netbook courtesy of Amazon but direct from Taiwanese manufacturer Vye. Amazon says that the device will usually be delivered (for free) within one to three months...

Online retailer Expansys has unveiled a new tablet called the POV Mobii which looks a lot like the Advent Vega but costs significantly more than the DSGi bound model. The device is currently only available on preorder from...

Online Retailing giant Amazon has launched its first Black Friday Deals week outside the UK in the run up to the Thanksgiving week, with more than 300 deals on offer. Amongst deals that will matter to us include 50 per cent off...

Dr Hermann Hauser, a co-founder of ARM, says Intel's chip business is on the way out and the future is ARM powered. "The reason why ARM is going to kill the microprocessor is not because Intel will not eventually produce an...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab comes off the back of the recent trend of the tablet style of computers that are solely around due to the popularity of touch screen mobile phones, seen everywhere today. Without the likes of the iPhone,...

Nokia has admitted that its flagship N8 smartphone is suffering from an in-built fault.According to The Associated Press, Nokia spokeswoman Eija-Riitta Huovinen said that the smartphone was seeing strong sales, but that a small...

French outfit Jolicloud has launched its prettily-named, Linux-based, cloud-powered Jolibook in the UK. The netbook costs around £280, for which sum you get a dual-core Intel Atom N550 CPU-powered machine clocked at...

A Swedish TV firm has launched an Android-powered telly. The outfit, which calls itself the People of Lava, has named the TV range 'Scandinavia' and it is currently only available in Sweden. This patriotism may have done it some...

Michael Clarkson, in his new psychological biography of the late Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould (The Secret Life of Glenn Gould), notes that Gould was obsessive about the touch of a piano. He prized keyboards with "a...