A London-based Bulgarian national who posed as a student to hack into the e-mail accounts of hundreds of ‘fellow students’ has been handed a 36 week suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay £20,000 in...

Virgin's Richard Branson will apparently launch an iPad only magazine in a bit to counteract the offer by archrival media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp is rumoured to make a similar announcement soon. The project known...

The smallest independent mobile phone operator, 3 UK, has announced that it will be selling the iPad on subsidised contracts. The statement, which comes days after a similar announcement by Orange and T-Mobile, says that "it will...

The Advent Vega is one of the hottest commodities currently on the market, so much so that demand for the device significantly outstrips supply at DSGi, the exclusive distributor of the device, leaving hundreds furious. The...

European broadband speeds have drastically improved over the last year according to a new study by the European Commission. The EC found that 14 per cent more broadband lines run at 10mbps compared to last year. Neelie Kroes,...

Fujitsu, a company that's been bunging out "tablet PCs" for the better part of two decades, is preparing to launch its own Windows 7 slate device. At the ongoing VISIT 2010 event in Germany, the Face2Fujitsu blog team announced...

Enterprise CRM software maker Salesforce has hired JP Rangaswami for the newly created position of chief scientist at the company. According to Salesforce, Rangaswami, who was previously employed with BT at the same position,...

News that the source code of the Stuxnet worm has been traded on the black market has some of the UK's biggest news outlets in a bit of a lather. The malware, which is widely suspected to have been developed by a nation state,...

TalkTalk is to trial a new version of its anti-malware software, which some critics have claimed spies on the ISP’s users. The system works by scanning websites for malware and virusesbefore they reach users...

Security software vendor Sophos has said that the malware spreading Christmas tree application on social networking platform Facebook is a fake.Fake warnings about a Christmas tree app have been circulating on the platform,...

TalkTalk is to trial a new version of its anti-malware software, which some critics have claimed spies on the ISP’s users. The system works by scanning websites for malware and viruses before they reach users computers....

News that the US government is quaking in its boots over WikiLeaks' upcoming release of a fresh batch of documents really does gladden the heart. In case you haven't noticed, or are simply dim enough to believe the propaganda,...

Police could soon have the power to seize any domain associated with criminal activity, under new proposals published today by UK domain registrar Nominet. At present, Nominet has no clear legal obligation to ensure that .uk...

A report into the viability of Apple's portable devices in clinical settings has given the iPad and iPhone 4 a green light for use by the NHS. The study, carried out on behalf of the Dumfries and Galloway NHS Trust in Scotland,...

Microsoft announced yesterday that it was giving a full time job to Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap, the position of Principal Architect at Bing Mobile, thereby confirming the firm's gradual shift towards working...

Opera Software has said that its popular mobile phone browser Opera Mini had 76.3 million users in October, a jump of 92 per cent from last year. In a report released yesterday, the company informed that Opera Mini users viewed...

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the Android web browser that could allow hackers to steal files stored on the smartphone's SD card.According to security expert Thomas Cannon, the a flaw automatically allows payload...

The PlayStation 3 gaming community is circulating a petition calling for games developer Treyarch to refund owners of the PS3 version of Black Ops.  The petition founders argue that the PS3 edition is inferior in...

Companies offering adverts based on deep packet inspection tracking technology are making a comeback after UK and US privacy champions had earlier threatened their existence. According to The Wall Street Journal, Phorm, which...

Skype has responded to the concerns of its users regarding retention of instant messages by the new Skype 5 VoIP and messaging client for Windows and Mac, updating its privacy policy and working to fix a bug with deleted...

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard is reportedly switching from Oracle's Siebel CRM software to Salesforce's cloud based offering. According to International Business Times, an analyst has predicted that HP will be signing a mega...

Yelp is offering users of its mobile review app the chance to save money when they "check in" to certain businesses, following in the footsteps of Facebook and Foursquare. Users are able to earn savings vouchers if they check in...

Sony is pitching its Qriocity media service squarely against Apple's iTunes; like the latter, it wants to offer audio, video, ebooks and potentially in a near future, mobile applications including games. At the moment, the...

AirPrint Hacktivator unlocks some of the iDevice printing functionality we all expected from iOS4.2, but it's far from complete, and in no way perfect. The tiny application, which uses files included in a previous developer...

Google has announced that all apps in the Android Market will have to show content ratings, or else be labelled as ‘mature’.In a blog post, Android developer Eric Chu said that the move comes in response to increased...

Companies seem to bang out digital content delivery systems faster than their marketing departments can come up with decent names for them. In fact, here's another: Sony's Qriocity. Qriocity is Sony's new content distribution...

Dell neglected to inform customers of a critical fault in its computers sold between 2003 to 2005, recently unsealed court documents have revealed.A federal judge unsealed a set of documents from a lawsuit filed by Advanced...

Apple’s iPhone is up against a new contender from the Android camp. HTC’s new Desire HD is essentially a modified version of the already successful HTC Desire, but comes with a larger touch screen, more storage space,...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to launch an investigation into suspected insider trading involving the routinely published market research of company's supply chains.According to The Wall Street Journal,...

The Android Market is telling developers to give all new or updated applications a rating or they'll be lumbered with a 'mature' label. Google has always had a policy which is supposed to see all submissions tagged with one of...

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia budget C6-01 handset has gone on sale, directly from http://shop.nokia.co.uk at a cost of £279.Nokia’s C6-01 was announced Nokia World 2010 and is the budget version of the C7 with a 3.2-inch 16:9...

Windows users were today alerted to a new security vulnerability that can allow malware to carry out massive system changes. The exploit takes advantage of a bug in the win32k.sys, part of the Windows kernel. Due to the way it...

Judging by our traffic at the moment, the Advent Vega is still proving a hot topic - despite having sold out within hours and not being seen since. Things are heating up, however, with an enterprising hacker adding Google Market...

Apple is barring all single-station radio apps submitted to its App Store for the iPhone and iPad submitted to its App Store for approval, claiming that single station apps are like FART apps and represent spam on the iTunes App...

After six years in development, and more delays than a volcano-stricken airport, Gran Turismo 5 has finally made it off of the starting grid. Sony's photo-realistic racer has stalled more times than a 30-year-old Trabant over...

Members of the European Parliament yesterday passed a resolution in Brussels, which effectively gives the nod of approval to the dubious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The one condition remaining is that the...

Sophos has released its first report on the level of malware discovered on Apple's Mac platform by its Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition.In its Naked Security blog post, Sophos' Graham Cluley explained that the data was collected...

LG Electronics announced it has developed a 23-inch 240Hz IPS panel that is as suited for your TV viewing pleasure as it is for desktop computing needs, and ripe for 3D viewing galore, we understand. According to the display...

The US International Trade Commission is set to launch an investigation into the patent infringement complaint made by Apple against Motorola.The ITC investigation will look into the patent claims against Motorola and could ban...

Search giant Google has updated its cloud-based Office rival Docs by adding a new drag and drop feature for uploading documents as well as Compact Controls. In a company blog post, Google said that users will be able to easily...

Developers behind Google Wave have filed an application with the Apache Software Foundation to include the programme in the Apache Incubator.Google had introduced Wave as a real-time collaboration project, set to allow users to...

Product: Audioboo for Android (Debug Build 3)Price: FreeAvailability: Soon, from www.audioboo.fmThe long-awaited Android app for popular micro-podcasting service Audioboo is very nearly here - and we take a look at the final...

Mobile carrier T-Mobile is upping the ante in the fight to attract more upmarket users as it launched its free Blackberry SIM card offer just in time for Christmas. Users will get six months free internet access and Blackberry...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said that the next big step for the micro-blogging platform will be to come up with a global Twitter news service.Stone told Reuters, during the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford technology event,...

The Information Commissioner's Office has published the details of the first fines that it has issued since gaining the power to do so in April 2010. However some experts have pointed out that the damaged sought out,...

Rumours suggest that Google will not be able to launch its music streaming service in time for the upcoming Christmas holiday period. According to The New York Post, music labels are not sure whether offering users a "digital...

The code for one of the Windows vulnerabilities that was exploited by the Stuxnet virus has been released to the public. According to eWeek, the exploit code, which was released to the Exploit Database operated by Offensive...

The PSP phone might actually land in France first on the 9th of December if an invite published online by French website nowhereelse is to be believed. The invite says that the MD of Sony Ericsson France, Pierre Peron, and his...

A highly-unusual trojan has been spotted in the wild which apparently blocks access to The Pirate Bay and a number of other sites associated with file sharing. Insecurity outfit Webroot is reporting that the malware, which is...

Virgin Media is said to be mulling plans to launch its own Wi-Fi network, one which could have some serious implications for its rivals as well as for its 4.1 million customers. Virgin Media does not have free Wi-Fi bundled with...

We've been impressed with what we've seen of Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet so far, and the company continues to impress - that is, if leaked pricing details prove true.The PlayBook, despite its name, is a...

Popular Internet browsing software for mobile devices Opera has been released for handsets running the Symbian OS, in the final version of Opera Mobile 10.1.The new version of the web surfing tool is for the latest iteration of...

Novell has said that the copyrights to its Unix operating system will remain with Attachmate Corporation after the merger, and not go to the Microsoft led CPTN Holdings.According to Computer World, a message posted on Novell's...

Skyfire has rolled out a new app for Android OS complete with Facebook integration for a more social media centric browsing experience.The Skyfire 3.0 with Facebook Connect for Android 2.0 and higher devices is designed to allow...

Consumer Electronics spending is up for the Chrismas holidays and will exceed last year's tally, according to a November ChangeWave survey of 2,812 U.S. consumers. Much of the market's buoyancy is being driven by Apple, which...