Google has released a new doodle for its web search page, featuring a collection of Yuletide scenes from around the world. The 17 images that make up the collage, display famous landmarks such as: Sydney Bridge, Mount Fuji, St...

Another iPad 2 rumour appeared online yesterday claiming that the next version of the iPad will have the same screen size with a smaller bezel, a flat back panel like the iPhone 4 and a wide-range speaker. The leak came from a...

A picture of a Taiwan-based celebrity and car racer holding what appears to be a smaller version of the iPad has been published online and confounded Apple observers and news journalists alike. Jimmy Lin can be seen here holding...

Skype provided more details about why its voice over IP service has been affected yesterday and today and it highlights the very important role of supernodes which act like the middlemen to connect Skype users. The PlayStation...

Service hiccups we experienced while using Skype earlier today were solved almost immediately once we downloaded and installed the latest version of the VoiP's client, v5.0.0.156, replacing our earlier version which was 152. A...

Las Vegas is going to be for one week, the battleground for the war that ARM and its partners will be waging against Intel, one which may determine who will take the lion share of the tablet PC market next year. Digitimes said...

The Scottish Parliament has approved a grant of £200,000 for Clackmannanshire Council to help Scottish rural areas gain access to high speed broadband services. According to ISP Review, the grant has been provided under...

Teachers and worried parents have spoken out against a new social networking site, which is said to encourage cyberbullying in schools. LittleGossip.com is being blamed for encouraging school children to post gossip and...

We're heading to the United States on the 4th of January to attend the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual conference that kick starts the beginning of the year in Las Vegas and which will last until the 9th of January...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told Al Jazeera that Wikileaks is set to disclose thousands of US cables that related to Israel. Assange said WikiLeaks had 3,700 US documents on Israel, including 2,700 originating from the...

U.S. President Barack Obama has lauded Apple founder Steve Jobs in a recent speech, claiming that America should celebrate people that create groundbreaking products. According to Cnet, the President implied that Jobs was a...

The president of Sony's computer entertainment division has suggested that the next PSP device could utilise a touch pad for playing games. In an interview with The New York Times, Kazuo Hirai, the president and CEO of Sony...

Opera Software has released its monthly State of the Mobile Web report, which stated that Google dethroned Facebook as the most visited website during November. The report revealed that Opera Mini was used by 80 million mobile...

Spain has refrained from passing a controversial law that could have allowed government crackdowns on websites promoting illegal file downloads. According to Ars Technia, The 'Sinde Law', a part of the Sustainable...

Computer maker Dell has announced the acquisition of medical archiving services provider InSite One, in an attempt to tap into the emerging medical IT market. InSite One offers cloud-based medical data storage services, which...

Users participating in Google’s Chrome for a Cause scheme “donated” more than 60 million tabs to drive a charitable donation of $1 million.   The search giant recently launched the extension for its Chrome...

[UPDATE] 14:08. The Folks at Skype say things are getting better and that over 10 million people can now use the service at any given time. Things might still be slow but it's better than...

Intel appears to be getting cold feet about its partnership with Micron on memory technologies, with the latter company announcing that it is ramping up production in its joint Singapore fab with no support from Intel.The...

Enterprise data warehousing company Teradata has agreed to buy analytics firm Aprimo, a web-based marketing software firm, for $525 million in cash. According to Reuters, Teradata expects the deal to close during the first...

SuperTalent has announced a new feature on its enterprise-grade DuraDrive embedded SSD series: standard SATA connectivity.Designed for high-performance embedded computing environments where consumer-grade electronics are...

AOC has announced that it will be launching its first tablet at CES 2011, one which will be based on Google's Android operating system although AOC did not say which version that would be. The company, which is the world's...

Images of an upcoming single-slot version of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 GPU, manufactured by EVGA, have appeared on the company's website - and it's looking like a bit of a beast.The EVGA GeForce GTX 580 FTW 1,536MB card, based...

We've only just witnessed the launch of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but the next-generation version of Google's open source mobile platform is just around the corner - and could hit the streets as early as March.It's an open secret...

SAP has agreed to pay $120 million in legal fees to the American computing giant Oracle. The German software company, which is currently embroiled in a copyright infringement case with rival Oracle, is to pay the legal payments...

NATO has commissioned IBM to create an extensive cloud computing system that will allow member states to share and use data in a more effective manner. According to Cnet, the computing giant, under the agreement, will...

Firefox 4 Beta 8 is available for download for those gagging for a fiddle. The new update comes with improved Firefox Sync features and WebGL hardware acceleration. Mozilla has also fixed some 1,415 bugs, which should help...

Skype provided more details about why its voice over IP service has been affected yesterday and today and it highlights the very important role of supernodes which act like the middlemen to connect Skype users. The company's...

Motorola Mobility has acquired media streaming start-up Zecter, in order to enhance its Motoblur technology. Zecter creates technology, which lets users access and stream music, videos and photos. According to Bloomberg,...

Oracle has introduced version 4.0 of its open source cross-platform VM VirtualBox desktop virtualisation software for x86 PCs and servers. The software, which allows desktop and laptop computers to run multiple guest operating...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) are being used to effectively silence human rights groups, threatening free speech on the web, a report has found. A study conducted by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet...

Looking to buy an iPad for Christmas, then you will almost certainly need a data contract to go with it. We’ve put together a list of data plans that are available either on PAYG or on pay monthly contracts. Note that...

Antivirus company BullGuard is giving away antivirus software, to launch its BullGuard Mobile Security 10 for mobile phones.There are 5,000 free licenses on offer for their BullGuard Mobile Antivirus package for Symbian, Android,...

Popular VoIP service Skype suffered a massive outage yesterday, disrupting service for millions of users in the US, Europe and Japan. In a blog post, the company explained that the outage was caused when a number of 'supernodes'...

Apple have released a new update to their Remote application, adding a number of new features to the tool. PC World reports that Remote 2.1 has added AirPlay support, Internet radio functionality and the ability to control...

Last time, we had a look at what kind of bargain you can get yourself by building a PC system out of components with a total budget of £500. Not everyone has the time or inclination to build a PC from scratch, though - so...

The Financial Times has named Apple supremo Steve Jobs as its Person of the Year. The the august publication pays fawning tribute to the man at the heart of Apple's core, citing the game-changing iPad as his greatest work and...

Sony's HT-AS5 5.1 channel satellite speaker surround sound system offers an excellent way of upgrading your home theatre setup to 5.1 digital sound, and is ready for a 3D signal when you next upgrade your television. The HT-AS5...

The first photos of the HTC Evo Shift 4G smartphone, a mainstream version of the EVO 4G, have appeared online and show some interesting details. The device, which will run on Sprint's WiMax network, is slightly smaller than the...

The PlayStation 3 version of Call of Duty:Black Ops is to be patched again after the game has continued to be affected by bugs. CVG reports that in order to address the ongoing issues, developers Treyarch have released...

With Samsung's latest technology inside, "Smart Auto 2.0" advanced scene recognition and in-camera digital contents management, your photos will look as good as your camera. The Samsung ST60 packs a lot of performance into an...

Powerhouse computing is at a touch with the HP G62-a13SA laptop, which is powered by a dual-core Intel Pentium Processor P6000 that runs Microsoft's 64-bit Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. A 250GB Hard Drive...

The first mainstream smartphone to feature a dual core processor, the LG Optimus 2X, will be launched in Europe next month according to a press release issued by LG. The super phone, which is powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2 SoC and...

Motorola has applied for trademarks for a product or a range of products that will bear the name Xoom in a few strategic territories worldwide. Pocketnow reports that Motorola wants to copyright the term in the US, in Canada,...

Today's daily dose of iPad 2 rumourage comes from the land of the rising sun and is about as believable as all of the other information from molish insiders, un-named sources and plain old made-up nonsense. Japanese fan site...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) are being used to effectively silence human rights groups, threatening free speech on the web, a report has found. A study conducted by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet &...

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, will make a keynote speech at CES 2011 in Las Vegas in a few days and it is likely that it will demonstrate a working prototype of an ARM-based device running Windows 7. Both Bloomberg and...

Two pictures of the what appears to be the the HTC Incredible HD have surfaced showing what appears to be the front screen and the back of the handset complete with the camera and the dual LED flash. Slashgear says that the...

Sony has launched its own cloud-based music subscription service in the UK and Ireland to challenge the dominance of Apple's iTunes. The “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity” music subscription platform will not be...