As sales of Sony's now elderly PlayStation 2 surpass some 150 million units, indications are that the console maker may be putting plans for its next-generation PS4 console on hold as it mulls the ever-increasing handheld...

A Taiwan based website is claiming that three iPhone 5 prototypes are being secretly tested by the company although it is unlikely that any of them will be the final product shipped on the 6th of June.  tw.apple.pro says...

Sony Ericsson's top of the range smartphone is set to be sold for as little as £25.54 per month on a two year contract, a surprisingly low price for a just announced phone. Buymobilephones lists it on preorder with 600...

While most tablets on the market currently feature the Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC, ST-Ericsson wants to grab a bigger slice of the market with its U8500 system on chip which was launched last year. The chip, which was released back in...

Acer launched two Android tablets at MWC 2011, the Iconia Tab A100 and the A500, both of which runs almost the same hardware except for the screen. The A500 has a 1280x800 pixels, 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen while the A100...

ST-Ericsson has unveiled three new SoCs including one which will combine two ARM Cortex A15 MPcore processors clocked at 2.5GHz with the Power VR Series6 "Rogue" GPU from Imagination Technologies. The chip, called the Nova...

All the new handsets announced by Sony Ericsson and HTC at the Mobile World Congress were powered by Qualcomm but things may well change in the next twelve months. Sony Ericsson is bound to extend its strengthen its relationship...

Apple has overtaken HP to become the world's biggest supplier of portable PCs, but only if you include the iPad in the figures. Bean counters at DisplaySearch looked at shipments in the last three months and worked out that...

Semiconductor giant ST-Ericsson spilt the beans on the next generation of PowerVR graphics processing unit, the Series6, codenamed Rogue which is going to be used in the Nova A9600, its top end system on chip, which will sample...

Mozilla 'tech evangelist' Paul Rouget has claimed that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 web browser is 'not a modern browser' and that the browser is two years behind the times. In a blog post blasting IE9, Rouget said that even...

A study conducted by the Edinburgh Napier University has warned Internet users about the levels of stress caused by social networking platform Facebook. Researchers over at the University, which conducted the psychological test...

Software maker Adobe has predicted huge growth for its Flash platform on smartphones and tablet PC devices in 2011. Despite Apple's reservations about Adobe's platform, rival firms like Google, HTC, RIM and HP are offering...

The recent row over video game Bulletstorm has resurrected the age-old debate over whether violent video games desensitise players to real-life violence. A recent study carried out by psychology PhD candidate Holly Bowen seems...

German Telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has announced that the company plans on bringing mobile payment technology to its customers this year. The move, which was revealed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will...

We've never really been able to get our heads around people who don't like to wear 3D glasses in the cinema because they think they make them look a bit daft. Firstly, you are sitting in the dark and no-one can really see you...

Security firm Trend Micro has unveiled eight new data protection tools and services in an elaborate launch at the RSA security conference in California. The company said in a press release that the products were aimed at...

HTC's upcoming entry into the tablet market, the Android-based Flyer, has only just been announced - but already Amazon thinks it knows how much the device will cost, and is opening pre-orders.The HTC Flyer was only announced...

Online auctions platform eBay has inked a deal with European mobile services provider Telefonica to have its mobile shopping app pre-installed on smartphones sold by Telefonica's O2 unit in the UK. In a first-of-its-kind deal,...

Enterprise software and server maker Oracle has unleashed a new firewall that is designed to protect a company's database from external and internal attacks. The firm announced its new Oracle Database Firewall at the RSA...

MWC 2011: Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed to an audience at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the upcoming version 2.4 of its Android operating system will combine both Gingerbread 2.3 and the tablet-centric Honeycomb...

A top Pentagon official has confirmed that US defence computer networks were attacked by more than 100 foreign intelligence agencies looking to steal weapons design and military plans. Speaking during the RSA Security...

Nokia Plan B, the anonymous investor group of former Nokia employees who launched a campaign to oust CEO Stephen Elop, have already given up the fight - just two days after their rebellion began. Today's tail-between-legs...

The US government has managed to shut down 84,000 web sites in a purge on child pornography which went horribly wrong. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE office announced last week that it had shut down...

Android users will now be able to watch Blu-Ray DVDs on their devices, thanks to 20th Century Fox's efforts to offer their content on as many platforms as possible. The Blu-Ray DVD of the blockbuster movie Unstoppable is the...

Intel chief Paul Otellini continued to pile the pressure on mobile market leader ARM with an announcement at the Mobile World Congress event that Intel-powered smartphones will appear before the end of the year.Taking to the...

In an attempt to discourage customers from jailbreaking their iPhones and iPads, Apple has updated its iBooks ebook application to stop working on jailbroken iOS devices. According to the Social Apples blog, iOS devices that have...

The growing trend for malware authors to target increasingly powerful smartphones continues with the news that anti-virus experts have discovered a new Trojan targeting Android devices in the wild.The Trojan, named 'ADRD' by...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally received the permission to demolish his 14-bedroom, 17,250-square-foot Spanish Colonial Revival home after a legal battle lasting 10 years with preservationists. According to Mercury News,...

One Mobile Ring caught up with first Android tablet produced by the High Tech Computer Corporation, where we captured a video demonstration of that very device.The HTC Flyer will tip up running  from a 7-inch 1024x600 TFT screen,...

HTC added a second Facebook smartphone to its growing line up, one that comes with a dedicated Facebook button and appears to be a slightly souped up version of the Wildfire S. The other Facebook handset from HTC is the ChaCha...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the company is 'very proud' of Google executive Wael Ghonim, who is being hailed as one of the key revolutionaries behind the Egyptian protests that led to the downfall of President Hosni...

Google's executive chairman and outgoing CEO, Eric Schmidt, has confirmed during his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the Android 2.4 will combine both Gingerbread and Honeycomb. More specifically, he...

Apple has introduced a new subscription based service for magazines, newspapers, music and video apps on its App Store, based on the digital subscription model launched with News Corp's 'The Daily' iPad app. The company said that...

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop has been accused of a conflict of interest, with critics noting that he is the eighth largest individual shareholder in software giant Microsoft - but doesn't own a single share in the Finnish mobile...

Retail giant and serial blabbermouth Best Buy has accidentally revealed that Apple will be launching the latest version of its productivity software package iWork on February 19th. For those of you living outside Apple's...

Japanese electronics conglomerate Toshiba has unveiled its new R series range of ultra-portable laptops that are powered with Intel's new Sandy Bridges processors. The company said that the laptops, R830 and R850, are designed...

Chinese telecoms manufacturer ZTE has brought out at Barcelona’s MWC a top of the range Android handset, the Skate.ZTE is well known for their budget mobile phones that often get picked up and rebranded by mobile phone networks...

Apple has only just taken the wrapper off of its shiny new subscription service and people are complaining already. The gadget maker and flogger of all things digital announced yesterday that anyone could jump on the Apple money...

MWC 2011: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has revealed that Nokia came close to signing a deal to develop Android handsets - and insists the Finnish company made the 'wrong choice' by teaming up with Microsoft. The outgoing chief exec...

The more Facebook ‘friends’ you have, the more likely you are to feel stressed out by the social networking site, according to a study by Scottish researchers.  Psychologists from Edinburgh Napier University...

One Mobile Ring managed to obtain a video briefing of Motorola's first Android tablet running from 'Honeycomb' version 3.0, which was announced at Las Vegas' CES in January.The Motorola Xoom will featured the Android ‘Honeycomb’...

Nvidia has confirmed the long-rumoured news that its next-generation Tegra system-on-chip design, codenamed 'Kal-El,' will be the first quad-core ARM design to reach the mass market - and bring a many-core GeForce GPU along for...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that Nokia made a 'wrong choice' when it decided to build smartphones for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS. Speaking during a keynote at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Schmidt...

Dell has impressed investors with its fourth quarter earnings, showing net income almost tripling compared to the same period last year thanks largely to a resurgence in corporate spending.While Dell's figures showed that the...

Seattle software company Microsoft has unveiled at MWC in Barcelona what will be coming next to Windows Phone 7, along with the arrival date of March for the first major update.Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer outlined the next...

International Business Machines has partnered with the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) to create a cloud-based app store platform. The mobile app store, which is based on IBM's WebSphere Commerce customer interaction...

An Israeli general has been credited with being behind the Stuxnet worm which played havoc with Iran's nuclear facilities. General Gabi Ashkenazi retired this week after failing to gain promotion to the post of Chief of Staff....

Rumours emerging from Taiwan hint at different system on chips for the Apple iPhone 5 and the iPad 2 with the production of the parts being outsourced to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Taiwan online news...

A security breach at the Winamp Forums has left AOL warning users to change their passwords after information was disclosed to unknown attackers, including e-mail addresses and possibly password details.In a message e-mailed to...

One Mobile Ring managed to obtain a hands on video demonstration of the new HTC Incredible S - an American only mobile that is now set to arrive in the UK.The High Tech Computer Corporation handset will tip up with  a 4-inch...

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced that work on the HTML 5 web standard will be completed by 2014. According to Cnet, W3C's HTML Working Group is set to announce that the HTML 5 web standard will be become its...