Sales of Plasma and LCD Television sets that come with 3D are significantly better than those of High Definition ones in the first 12 months after they were available. Futuresource Consulting reports that up to 120,000 3D TVs...

Gentleman's magazine Playboy has released 56 years worth of Playboy magazine on a 250GB hard disk drive for a mere $300 making it the perfect gift for some of us ahead of Christmas. The "collector's edition" includes every print...

Former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett has called for British hacker Gary McKinnon to be tried in the US via video link.On Tuesday, Blunkett told the Commons home affairs select committee that the UK and the US should come to an...

Virgin Media will install cable infrastructure in houses built by property developer Persimmon Homes, thereby facilitating the rollout of cable broadband, TV and landline telephony services. According to the Independent, the...

Today's announcement by the European Commission that it is launching a formal investigation into supposed allegations that Google may be doing some dodgy businesses comes as a sobering reality check into the power that the...

The European Commission is to investigate Google, which has been accused of promoting its services over rival ones on its own search listing. The investigation has been brought about due to complaints made by price comparison...

Sony has sold over 4.1 million PS Move motion sensing controllers worldwide since release in September.The company said that the figure does not include sales of the Navigation controller or the PlayStation Eye camera.Sony said...

The stunning Samsung S8500 Wave is a breathtaking mobile phone that features the world's first Super AMOLED high definition screen, delivering the sharpest and widest viewing angle possible even in direct sunlight. Packing a...

It's here. It's a watch, mp3 player and mobile phone. Brilliant! You make calls on the sWaP watch phone via a Bluetooth headset (included) and send texts using the 1.5" touchscreen and a sytlus that stores in the strap. The...

The first update to Microsoft's mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, is expected to be "massive2 according to Chris Walshie, better known as one of the developers behind ChevronWP7, the first unlocking app, for the...

It has been rumoured that The Daily Telegraph is planning to start charging for some of its online content as of next year. The Guardian reports that Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is setting up a small evaluation group to consider...

In a new newsletter on One Mobile Ring we are rounding up the monthly happenings of the mobile world, whilst at the same time highlighting the top stories of each and every...

Sir Maurice Wilkes, the ‘father’ of British computing has died aged 97. Wilkes was famed for building EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early computer that provided the template for the...

Virgin has released the first edition of its brand new iPad only magazine "Project" on the App Store. According to Thinq, the first edition of the magazine features Jeff Bridges and a feature on upcoming film Tron Legacy....

Ecuador has offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange residency. The country's Deputy Foreign Minister, Kintto Lucas, said that the government of Ecuador was "very concerned" by evidence in the whistle-blowing site's recent...

Sandisk, Sony and Nikon have come together to propose a brand new memory card format that extends Compact Flash into new, uncharted territories with performance and capacity to match current hard disk drives. The new format...

ARM's inexorable march into the server room continues to gather pace with data centre specialist ZT Systems announcing a low power draw server featuring 16 Cortex-A9 processor cores.The 1U R1801e, designed as a software a build...

The extradition laws under which hacker Gary McKinnon has been ordered before a US court were made before politicians had thought how they would apply to computer crime, said David Blunkett, the home secretary who put the US/UK...

The US government rebuffed a deal proposed by Gordon Brown to allow British hacker Gary McKinnon to serve any prison sentence in the UK, classified US diplomatic cables revealed by Wikileaks have shown.McKinnon, who was diagnosed...

An app on Facebook, that made the bogus promise that it could show who had viewed an individual user’s profile, has been revealed to be a scam. The ePrivacy app, which has so far caught out 60,000 people, does not allow...

It may have sold out on PC World and be worth north of £350 on Ebay; now it seems that the the first accessory for the Advent Vega tablet is to be shipped soon and there's a nice little surprise instore. Pictures of the...

Security software vendor Trend Micro Systems has announced its plans to acquire data protection specialist Mobile Armor in order to boost its data security portfolio. In a press release, the company said that the acquisition...

Several snaps of the LG P990, the first Android-based smartphone capable of competing with the Sony Ericsson X10 or the HTC Desire HD, have appeared online. The pictures, which can be found on Androidforums.com, show the LG...

Hong Kong has topped the list of regions with the cheapest broadband, with UK and US only taking the 24th and 30th positions. According to new data released by market research company Point Topic, people in Hong Kong pay as...

Google is celebrating St Andrew's day by way of a new tartan-wearing, Scottish flag waving doodle.St Andrew, who is also the patron saint of Greece, Romania, Russia and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, was one of...

A researcher from a Dutch university is warning that Facebook's 'Like This' button is watching your every move. Arnold Roosendaal, who is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg University for Law, Technology and Society, warns that...

Former President George W Bush took part in an hour long chat over a live broadcast with Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg yesterday. The Former President, who led the USA for eight years, visited Facebook’s...

Google has announced the release of the latest version of its digital atlas service Google Earth 6.The company said in a blog post that with the new Google Earth 6 will have a more realistic virtual experience with the new...

Money is the driving factor behind the rise in computer viruses this year, a security expert has claimed.Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said that criminals are increasingly scamming money from unsuspecting...

Microsoft has sold 2.5 million Kinect units worldwide within 25 days of its launch.  The company is now well on target to reaching their goal of sell five million of the controllers before Christmas. Microsoft's motion...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has blasted plans by a group of Chinese activists to launch their own copycat version of the whistle-blowing site, according to business magazine Forbes. The publication reports that in an...

Rumours about a potential delay in the shipment of the HTC Gratia have been discarded by the Taiwanese company as the Gratia went on Preorder at Clove Technology for a rather steep £376. The HTC Gratia is apparently...

Virgin has released the first edition of its brand new iPad only magazine "Project" on the App Store. According to Thinq, the first edition of the magazine features Jeff Bridges and a feature on upcoming film Tron Legacy. The...

Microsoft is reportedly in talks with big US media houses to launch its own Internet TV service to rival those of Google TV, Apple TV and other online streaming services. According to sources cited by Reuters, the company is...

PC gaming enthusiasts, in particular those trying to feverishly benchmark their shiny new kit from the likes of AMD and Nvidia, will be particularly disappointed today as 3D Mark 11 has been postponed for a few more...

Cluster buying online discounting Groupon may attract a bid of $5.3 billion from search giant Google according to sources close to the deal. Boomtown's Kara Swisher says that Groupon would be offered more than double the...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba is said to be considering launching Google TV-enabled sets.According to The Wall Street Journal, the company is planning to launch Google TV products in the US before launching them...

Richard Branson has gone back to his roots by publishing an iPad-only magazine entitled Project. The Virgin boss started his illustrious career at the age of 16 when, despite being horribly dyslexic, he set up a school magazine....

In what many might see as a global conspiracy bent upon silencing Wikileaks, the Chinese government has blocked access to the controversial Wikileaks website. Computerworld reports that a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign...

UPDATE: 14:45 GMT In the last half hour, WikiLeaks reported that the the DDoS attack against it has now reached a massive 10 gigabits per second. The whistle-blowing group's main site appears unaffected, but...

Consumer electronics giant Samsung has announced a partnership with Giorgio Armani, to create a limited edition of a new Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone.The special version of the Samsung flagship Android handset arrives with a...

The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust probe into Google, following complaints from rivals that the search giant has abused its power. "The Commission will investigate whether Google has abused a dominant market...

The yet-to-be-announced Samsung GT-i9020T, a.k.a. Nexus S, has resurfaced at the Federal Communications Commissions following a leak of images last week for certification with a new wireless antenna.According to tech news site...

Over the past two years a rapid fall in the price of hard disks prices, combined with a big increase in their capacity, means that more tech enthusiasts are now adopting the kind of storage technologies that were once restricted...

Dell has quietly introduced a new super slim laptop, the Vostro V130, which will take over from our favourite model, the V13, and includes a number of interesting upgrades that makes it a better buy compared to the 13-inch...

The US government turned down a personal appeal by former UK prime minister Gordon Brown to allow British hacker Gary McKinnon to serve any sentence he received in the UK, according to US diplomatic cables made public by...

Mozilla executive Asa Dotzler has asked Microsoft, Google and Apple to stop installing plug-ins on web browsers without users' permission.In a blog post, Dotzler, who is the director of community development at Mozilla, said that...

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has topped the list of Bing's Top People Searches for 2010, followed by Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock and controversial golfing legend Tiger Woods. According to PC Magazine, Microsoft said...

The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a patent infringement case brought forward by Canadian firm i4i against software giant Microsoft. The case, which revolves around Microsoft's use of XML technology in its Word software,...

If you're a MacBook Air owner looking to give your shiny gadget a storage boost, your options have just got fewer: accessory maker PhotoFast has been asked by Apple to stop making its upgrade kits.We reported on the PhotoFast...

Security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani is warning users of the potential for ne'er-do-wells to fool iPhone users into handing their personal details over to an illegitimate site, thanks to a UI spoofing vulnerability in the mobile...

Vodafone has announced plans to lower data roaming rates for its UK customers travelling in Europe. According to BBC News, the company has introduced the Vodafone Day Traveller Plan, giving users an additional 25MB of data...

Despite mixed reviews, Microsoft has sold 2.5 million of its Kinect controllerless controller systems since launch just 25 days ago. The motion-sensing gadget which uses a plethora of cameras and sensors to place multiple...

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has had a successful Black Friday week, selling 1.5 million consoles in the US.The company announced that it had sold 900,000 DS handheld devices and 600,000 Wii consoles between 21 to 27 November,...

Android will very likely surpass Nokia's Symbian next year in the smartphone market to become the dominating mobile platform according to research firm, IDC. In an interview with Bloomberg, IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo said...

Sony Ericsson's tiny X8 Android-based smartphone is apparently already on the clearance shelves of O2, which is exclusive mobile phone carrier for the handset. The device has only been out on O2 for a couple of weeks and its...

UK-based retailer Viking Direct has slashed the price of the iPad across the six stock keeping units with savings on the RRP ranging from £72 for the cheapest model to £117 for the 64GB 3G iPad with free...

Virgin Media has released three screenshots depicting the user interface of its upcoming connected TV service, which will be powered by TiVO hardware. According to Cable.co.uk, the first screenshot details the main menu of the...

Controversial whistleblowing website Wikileaks has moved to Amazons's EC2 servers after being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on Sunday.Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing service allows business to host their...

Mobile phone network Vodafone is now carrying the HTC Android Qwerty keyboard based Desire Z free on a tariff, starting from £35 a month.The UK version of the America T-Mobile G2 can only be found on Vodafone, where the HTC...

Internet vigilante group Anonymous has taken down the website belonging tothe International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) following a failed appeal by the Pirate Bay founders in the Swedish Court of Appeals.On...

Worldwide PC shipments are on pace to total 352.4 million units in 2010, a 14.3 per cent increase from 2009, according to the latest preliminary forecast by Gartner, Inc., revised down from Gartner's previous PC shipment forecast...