Users of the popular Samsung Galaxy S smartphone on Three UK and T-mobile may rejoice as the two mobile phone carriers have announced that they will update the handset to Froyo soon. T-Mobile told its users on Wednesday to...

Amazon UK is selling an ebook containing the first five thousand cables of the Wikileaks document repository; the Ebook costs £7.37 including VAT and has been published by Heinz Duthel via IAC Society on the 29th of...

Attempts by the rag-bag collective known as Anonymous to take down Amazon.com have failed thus far. The self-appointed guardians of Internet freedoms called for a concerted DDoS attack on the online retailer from 1600 GMT today,...

The Metropolitan Police’s e-crime unit (PCeU) has arrested a gamer from Manchester for orchestrating a suspected denial of services (DDoS) attack on Call of Duty. The 17 year-old from Beswick was arrested earlier this...

Dell looks to be on the verge of acquiring storage technology maker Compellent Technologies in an $876 million acquisition deal. The company said that it was in an advanced stage of talks with Compellent Technologies and is...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire in the world, has decided to donate a major chunk of his fortune to charity. According to The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg promised to donate a significant...

In what is certainly the group’s most ambitious attack to date, and buoyed by earlier successes against PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, Operation Payback is gearing up to attack the website of the world’s largest online...

A team of collaborating researchers from MIT, Cornell University and University College London have used a massive database of 12 billion anonymised fixed line call records to redesign the map of Britain. The data, which was...

Consumer electronics giant Samsung has unveiled a free entertainment package worth £200, for new Samsung Galaxy Tabs.The bundle comes with free music, movies, games and electronic books for use on the Samsung Android tablet –...

Google has announced that it is activating more than 300,000 Android devices every day.In a Twitter post that might have rattled many rivals, head of Android Andy Rubin said: “There are over 300,000 Android phones activated...

UPDATE 16:53 GMT A post on the AnonOpsNet Twitter account has confirmed that Anonymous cannot attack Amazon due to a lack of "forces", but that the online retail giant is still a future target. "Though our final intention is to...

US chip maker Intel has announced its entry into the booming mobile market with new chips and processors that will power tablets and smartphones in 2011. Speaking during the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference,...

European mobile phone operators have proposed that data-hogging service providers should pay for the data used by their customers.According to Bloomberg, European telecom operators France Telecom SA, Telecom Italia SpA and...

PayPal has announced that it has released the remaining funds in WikiLeaks’ account after blocking access to the account last week.Announcing the decision in a statement on the PayPal blog on Wednesday, General Counsel John...

Google has released its annual Zeitgeist list for 2010, giving a peek into what Britons have been searching for this year. According to Google, the terms that topped the list of most searched items in 2010 include: Facebook, the...

It turns out that more than one chancer is taking advantage the WikiLeaks Cablegate goings on in order to flog shoddy books written by other people for his own financial gain. A few short days after Überbimbo and...

The Metropolitan Police has made a record number of requests for data on the activities of London commuters using Oyster cards, according to data acquired by the Green Party. Transport for London figures requested by the New...

Patriot Memory has announced the Supersonic series of USB 3.0 flash drives which promise smaller and faster portable storage. Available in 32GB and 64GB flavours, the forthcoming thumb drives overcome data bottlenecks by moving...

Chinese customs have nabbed 14 women attempting to sneak iPads and iPhones into the country. Customs officials in Shenzhen caught the women carrying $143,000 worth of Apple products across the China-Hong Kong border. According...

Mobile phone network Three has just announced it will be carrying the new Nokia Qwerty keyboard based E7 handset, in the New Year.The E7 was announced at Nokia’s annual symposium in September this year, where it has...

Apple has issued a fix for what it is calling a 'rare issue' with the latest MacBook Air models released just a few weeks ago. The MacBook Air EFI firmware update 2.0 fixes a problem where one of Apple's razor-sharp laptops...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has chosen to migrate the systems of its entire 120,000-strong staff to Microsoft's cloud based email and messaging services. In a huge win for Microsoft over rival Google to provide cloud...

Apple has rolled out 90 second long song previews for its iTunes music store in the US.Back in August, the Cupertino-based company had sent notifications to music companies that it would soon be allowing users to listen a 90...

O2 has joined Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange in supporting the Google Nexus S smartphone and will be offering 12 tariffs for the handset on Carphone Warehouse. An earlier version of this article reported that O2 did not offer...

Towards the event of the Google Chrome Event two nights ago, the VP of Product Management at Google Sundar Pichai, confirmed that Samsung will be the first one to bring a Chrome OS notebook to the market. Google also confirmed...

China has blocked the websites of the BBC, CNN and Norweigian broadcaster NRK only 24 hours prior to Liu Xiaobo being awarded the Nobel peace prize. News agency AFP reports that users in mainland China, attempting to access the...

The European Union is looking to abolish the exuberant roaming costs imposed on European travellers by their mobile phone company.According to EU plans, mobile phone operators will be forced to charge the same rate to European...

Operation Payback has claimed yet more scalps overnight as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks took down both Visa’s and Sarah Palin’s websites.The campaign is currently targeting PayPal’s API, and it...

Intellectual Ventures, a patent holding company established by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myrhvold, has filed 3 patent infringement lawsuits against nine security chip making and memory solutions...

Digital vigilante group Anonymous may be putting credit card users at risk with its attacks on MasterCard and Visa, preventing access to security systems the companies introduced to prevent on-line card fraud.Both companies use a...

In a concerted effort to get the Christmas tills ringing, Samsung is offering UK punters £200 worth of media if they buy a Galaxy Tab between now and the end of February. And unlike most offers of this ilk, Samsung's...

Owners of Google's Android-based smartphone consume more data than users of every other mobile platform, a study has revealed. According to a report released by network management firm Arieso, Google Android based smartphone...

Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz are among the latest batch of 17 billionaires who have promised to give away at least half of their fortunes, after signing up to a philanthropic campaign led by Microsoft...

Apple has updated its iOS mobile operating system by upgrading the security of push notifications and allowing the overseas distribution of iTunes promotional codes. According to Apple Insider, the new push notifications on iOS...

Samsung has announced that it has sold one million Galaxy Tab devices worldwide since launch.According to tech news site eWeek, a Samsung spokesperson confirmed that the Galaxy Tab, touted as the first real rival to Apple's iPad,...

CRM software maker Salesforce.com has announced new enhancements and features to its cloud based platform, Force.com, which allows users to create and run web based applications.   During the company's Dreamforce...

Google has given a sneak peak of the future of printing by demonstrating its Google Cloud Print service, designed to allow users to print any document to any printer in the world using a desktop or a smartphone.Essentially, the...

PayPal has admitted that its decision to pull the plug on donations services to WikiLeaks was taken after intervention from the US State Department. Speaking at the Le Web conference in Paris, the company’s vice president...

Apple has started to roll out 90 second previews of some songs on its US iTunes store. The world's biggest music retailer originally announced that it would be offering longer previews way back in September but was stopped in...

A bookseller claiming to be "socially responsible" has opened up a UK e-commerce website. Better World Books, which collects and sells books to generate funds for literacy causes,  offers free shipping in the UK and has...

LG has confirmed via its Facebook page that the Optimus family of smartphones won't get Google's latest mobile operating system, Gingerbread. The Korean manufacturer said that “The Optimus line won't be getting the...

The first image of a mini-ITX motherboard for AMD's Fusion Brazos platform has leaked from Gigabyte, revealing a compact layout that aims to capture the nettop market from Intel's competing Atom. The snap of the upcoming...

Media and communications company Arqiva is partnering with Alcatel-Lucent to demonstrate how Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Wales could help bring broadband to Britain's rural areas. The two companies have partnered to create an...

One might have expected that the Galaxy S would get Gingerbread fairly fast given how close the popular Samsung is to the Nexus S hardware-wise. However, when Pocket-lint asked a spokesperson for the Korean company, for a...

Samsung may be looking to launch a sibling to the Samsung Galaxy Tab, one which not only carries a bigger screen but also a keyboard. French website Blogeee.net says that the tablet-cum-netbook will be called the Gloria and...

Texas Instruments has joined the exclusive club of semiconductor manufacturers that have released Cortex A9-based products by unveiling the OMAP4440 processor. The chip is based on a Cortex-A9 MPCore with a clock speed of...

British designer Stuart Hughes has created 10 limited edition iPhone 4 handsets fashioned out of a 65 million years old Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth and meteoric stone.The Apple logo on the back of the iPhone History Edition is made...

Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC has unveiled it is rolling out the upgrade to Android ‘Froyo’ 2.2 for their HTC Legend handsets, from today onwards. HTC announced the update via Facebook yesterday, from their HTCuk...

According to the French Website Hardware.fr, 2.05 per cent of solid state drives fail, compared with a conventional hard drive failure rate of 1.94 per cent, based on metrics from a French retailer’s internal sales and...

Some of the world's more prominent chip and display makers have banded together and vowed to squeeze legacy display interfaces from the market as early as 2015. AMD, Dell, Intel, Lenovo, LG Display and Samsung Electronics have...