Apple has been granted a patent related to a solution that allow portable devices such as mobile phones and portable media player to use solar power to supplement rather than replace their onboard batteries. Apple's solution...

There are currently two rumours running concurrently regarding the launch of the Apple iPad 2 tablet, one which was brought up by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg who said that the device will be launched on Tuesday 1st of...

One of the biggest iPhone related rumours of the day has to do with the recent Verizon iPhone 4 announcement; the next iOS 4.3 will apparently come with a personal hotspot feature. BGR says that a source "confirmed" that it will...

The new Verizon iPhone 4 landed yesterday and there seems to be at least one huge difference with the AT&T-based iPhone 4, one that's enough to warrant the moniker of iPhone 4.5. Slashgear got hold of the CDMA iPhone 4 and...

The successor of the very popular Samsung Galaxy S may be presented at the Mobile World Congress one month from now as a Korean newspaper unearthed more details about the handset. ETnews suggests that the device will come with a...

Foursquare has unveiled its new business pages, aimed at helping brands and local businesses advertise their services on the platform.Announcing the move on Twitter, the location-based social network now offers separate pages for...

Sony’s new Playstation Portable (PSP) will be confirmed on the 27 January according to rumours currently circulating. Both MCV and VG247, citing sources close to Sony, claim that the PSP2 will be unveiled to the world at an...

BT has revealed the names of 41 UK market towns set to receive super fast broadband as part of the company’s fibre broadband deployment. In a press release, the company said that towns such as Epping, Wimbourne, Dartmouth...

If Santa failed to bring you an iPad this Christmas, and you feel like you can't get through another week without having a fiddle with Apple's desirable slab of glass and technical jiggery pokery, this could be your lucky...

The Nintendo 3DS is now up for pre-order from UK retailer websites. According to Eurogamer: WH Smiths, The Hut, BestBuy UK and Woolworths have all been spotted offering the handheld console for pre-sale on their websites. The...

The top 300 free apps in the US managed to attract 3 million daily downloads on average during December 2010, according to new data from app analytics firm Distimo. Paid apps attracted a comparatively small 350,000 downloads per...

Facebook and other social networks are being used by parents and children to launch hate campaigns against school teachers, The National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) has warned. Cloud computing and business outsourcing...

One of the largest consumer electronics show happened last week in Las Vegas, where a great deal of the newest tech gadgets were unveiled – which included all-new tablet devices. Last week, we concentrated on the mobile phone...

T-Mobile made the marketing mess of the century this week when it told customers it would be dropping its 'fair use' cap on mobile data use to a mere 500MB a month - a move it has now revised following massive consumer...

The departure of AMD’s chief executive Dirk Meyer was partly due to the company’s board disagreeing with his strategy concerning the mobile market, a company source has suggested. Meyer’s choice to focus on...

Now that Apple has confirmed the existence of a Verizon CDMA iPhone 4, we can look forward for the iPhone 5 to be support both CDMA and 3G GSM at launch thanks to a dual mode Qualcomm chipset. Rumours about a GSM/CDMA chipset...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of "treason" by a Florida man seeking damages for distress caused by the site's revelations about the US Government. David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident, names...

China's clampdown on copyright infringers is moving away from the physical and into the digital domain. TorrentFreak says that China is coming under increasing pressure from the US government and its Big Media puppet-masters to...

The Parliamentary Ombudsman has slammed three government agencies after a data sharing mistake that led to the wrongful disclosure of a Bristol woman’s personal details and the reduction of her child support payments.The...

The first images of the innards powering Nintendo's upcoming 3DS handheld games console, due to bring cross-eyed joy to the UK in March, have leaked out ahead of its Japanese launch.A production unit, clearly missing from some...

Sony is to take legal action against the hackers that unearthed and published a PlayStation 3 master key. The root key allows users to crack the console and run pirated software. According to BBC News, Sony seeks a restraining...

Google's Android Market was the fastest growing app store of 2010, beating that of rival Apple's iTunes App Store, data released by research firm Distimo has revealed.The company said that RIM's BlackBerry App World and Nokia's...

Direct or one-click download websites like Megaupload, Megavideo and Rapidshare have been identified by a recent report published by MarkMonitor as being amongst the most popular illegal file-sharing websites on the...

The first, and so far only, method for unlocking smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform looks have its days numbered, with an impending patch expected to close the hole used by the ChevronWP7 package.According...

Oracle has found itself staring down the barrel of a $100 million lawsuit over accusations that its Passlogix subsidiary is using stolen source code for its authentication and credential management software.The suit, brought...

Cloud computing and business outsourcing services are expected to receive a huge push in 2011 as the UK government prepares to mount strategies to reduce costs, a report has revealed. Research and analysis firm Ovum notes in its...

Buried in all the hoo-ha about the release of the Verizon iPhone yesterday was a little-reported new feature. When proud new owners start taking delivery of their shiny new CDMA handsets on February 10th, they will find nestled...

Microsoft has asked the US Patents and Trademark Office not to reject Apple's move to trademark the term 'App Store'.The software giant has argued that 'App Store' is a generic term, and so every entity that deals in web-based...

The HTC Desire is reaching its end of life as a number of online mobile retailers have started to cut the monthly cost of the phone to a mere £15.32 per month on a two year contract. Dial A Phone for example is selling the...

Facebook and other social networks are being used by parents and children to launch hate campaigns against school teachers, The National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) has warned.In response, the association has issued a set...

Google has released the API to its URL shortening service, allowing developers to incorporate the free service on their web apps.In a post on the Google Code Blog, the company said that developers will now be able to incorporate...

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello has announced that he thinks cloud-gaming is not necessarily the future, and that games issued on disc are still the best way for consumers to enjoy gaming. In an interview with Industry...

The founder of a Chinese whistleblowing website has refuted claims that his site is China’s answer to WikiLeaks, and has insisted it runs with local government approval.Ye Zhe, who set up the Wenzhou-based www.703804.com...

Fancy knocking up your own very personal tribute to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange? Then turn the Australian's fizzog into a multi-coloured work of art with a newly launched online colouring book. The web site provides line...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has released a PlayStation app for users of iOS and Android devices. The new free-to-download app allows users to read all the latest updates from the official PlayStation blog, access...

A number of UK retailers are taking advance orders for Nintendo's forthcoming glasses-free 3D hand-held console, the 3DS. Woolworth's and WHSmith, which are part of the same retail group, The Hut, have pegged the eye-boggling...

A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for...

IBM has topped the list of companies awarded the most patents in a year for the 18th year in a row. The data, released by IFI Claims Patent Services, has revealed that the Big Blue was awarded 5,896 patents by the US Patents and...

South Korean film director Park Chan-wook has shot a cinema-quality movie using Apple's iPhone. Actually, the internationally-acclaimed auteur used two iPhone 4s for the main shots and a bunch of other smartphones operated by...

Facebook has reportedly paid a whopping $8.5 million to the 6 million-member American Farm Bureau Federation to acquire the 'fb.com' domain name.According to Reuters, the company bought the domain name for internal use by its...

Google has updated its online cloud-based productivity suite Google Docs with the ability to upload, share and store video files. The company had already started to allow Docs users to upload other file types on the platform,...

Early reports are suggesting that Apple's modified iPhone 4, which is soon to be in the hands of Verizon customers in the USA, is not prone to the much-reported 'death grip' signal attenuation issue. For those readers with short...

Google is to stop supporting the H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser in order to promote more open source, royalty free web video formats. The company said in a post on The Chromium Blog that it was removing support for...

Facebook has made its new profile design mandatory to its 500 million plus users. The new profile, introduced in December, adds a film strip-like photo reel to profile pages, as well as making personal information such as...

Visits to websites offering pirated digital material and counterfeit goods are on the up, a report from anti-fraud outfit MarkMonitor has revealed. The company monitored illegal traffic levels on 43 file sharing websites, as...

Google has launched the world's first online science fair for 13-18 year-olds. The Google Science Fair will allow children with a scientific frame of mind to register their experiments and present the results to the search giant...

Apple's Steve Jobs will be joining Rupert Murdoch in a rare joint event to launch News Corporation's digital magazine project, the Daily, in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts on the 19th of January if a Forbes report is to...

Microsoft has appealed to the US Patent and Trademark office in an attempt wrest the term 'App Store' from the hands of Apple. The Cupertino company applied for the trademark back in 2008, just before it opened the iPhone App...

Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday update has delivered fixes for three security vulnerabilities in Windows, including one labelled as "critical". The company released two security bulletins, MS11-002 and MS11-001, and has...

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have petitioned a US court of appeals to throw out their 2008 $65 million settlement with Facebook, arguing that the sum misrepresents the actual value of the company.The Winklevoss twins were paid...

CPTN Holdings, the Microsoft-led consortium that includes Apple, EMC and Oracle, has withdrawn its application to acquire nearly half a billion dollars' worth of Novell patents. Back in December, CPTN Holdings was planning to...

Software giant Microsoft has unveiled the upcoming version of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.The company said that the soon-to-be-launched Microsoft Dynamics AX 6 has been designed to reduce the burden on IT...

On-line Internet search engine giant has updated its Google Goggles application for mobile phones, which besides offering up improvements surrounding barcode scanning – now delivers Sudoku puzzle solving.The Google Goggles app...

It looks like Sony has found its much-needed solution to the recent breaking of the DRM key in its PlayStation 3 console, and it's not very technical: the company has filed suit against those responsible for highlighting its...

The open-source Chromium project, which forms the heart of Google's Chrome browser, shocked its users yesterday by announcing that it was ditching support for the popular H.264 codec in its HTML5 implementation.HTML5, the latest...

MySpace has confirmed that it is to cut almost half of its staff world wide as it struggles to compete against rival social networking service Facebook, with 500 jobs to go across the globe.It seems that the cuts in the company's...

JVC announced what it claimed is the world's first consumer camcorder to offer 3D recording in Full HD. The firm outed the camera at CES, just a day after rival Sony announced its own HD 3D camcorder. D'Oh. The Japanese firm...