The global chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, Craig Mundie, told an audience this morning that he did not know whether tablets like the Apple iPad would "remain with us or not". Speaking in Sydney during an event...

Vodafone has started to take preorders for the HTC Desire S, the handset that's going to replace the popular HTC Desire and will come second in HTC's portfolio to the Incredible S. The smartphone is available for free from...

LG is set to add another Android-based smartphone, the Optimus Big to its growing family of handsets running on Google's mobile platform. First spotted in Korea by Phone Arena, the device appears to be a bigger version of the LG...

Dixons has cut the price of the Advent Vega Tablet PC to a jaw-dropping £199.99, a price that includes free delivery, down from £249, the price at which it is (still) sold in PC World. The tablet became quite popular...

Microsoft has updated the Active View service on its Hotmail email platform, allowing users to interact with their LinkedIn and Netflix accounts, among other websites, directly from their inbox. In a blog post, Microsoft...

Cloud based CRM software maker Salesforce has announced the acquisition of social media monitoring firm Radian6 Technologies for $340 million. Radian6 provides software which allows companies to see what is being said about their...

Software giant Microsoft has apparently started shipping a build of its Windows 8 operating system to computer makers for testing. If the company has indeed released the OS for testing to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs),...

Microsoft has claimed that Internet Explorer 9 is the most power efficient web browser on the market. After conducting some 'real world' tests, the company concluded that its own web browser caused the lowest drainage on a...

Software giant Microsoft has continued its fight to prevent Apple from trademarking the term 'app store', citing Amazon's recently launched Android Appstore and calling upon a renowned linguist, to show the term is...

Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, has gained access to over 30,000 patents after it reached a deal with Intellectual Ventures. Neither party revealed the terms of the deal, but it's likely that...

Nokia Corp, the largest mobile phone maker in the world, has had its credit rating downgraded for the first time. Standard & Poor’s, the division of McGraw-Hill that publishes financial research and analysis...

Asus wheeled out its Transformer tablet-cum-notebook in London today ostensibly making it the first Android Honeycomb-powered device on the market. The latest version of Google's mobile operating system was specifically designed...

Creepy, a package described as a 'geolocation information aggregator,' is turning heads in privacy circles, but should people be worried? We chat to its creator, Yiannis Kakavas, to find out what's going on.Creepy is a software...

A hacking attack on the US Nasdaq stock exchange could have been the work of a foreign government, a former insider says, as America's top electronic intelligence service the National Security Agency (NSA) joins the probe. Joel...

One of the key features of iPad's recently released iPad 2 was its ability to stream full 1080p video to an HD TV. The new function will soon see a rash of games, like Real Racer HD, breaking out of the confines of Apples...

Mission critical servers at NASA, which are instrumental in controlling space crafts, are at risk from cyber attacks, a report has found. According to an official audit conducted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the...

UK video game retailer GAME told its staff to buy lower-priced Nintendo 3DS units from rival Tesco and sell them as pre-owned devices. According to a report on EuroGamer, an internal GAME document reveals that the retailer...

Software king of the old-fangled desktop, Microsoft has started shipping a build of its Windows 8 operating system to OEMs for them get their heads round it.According to a report on the Win Rumors web site, the company released...

Cisco Systems announced its decision to buy the privately held company NewScale Inc, to boost its efforts to gain a stronger hold in the cloud-computing sector. NewScale Inc, based in San Mateo, California, was founded in...

Google has publicly apologised for the mistakes it made during the launch of its Twitter-like social networking tool Buzz, and claims that it's learned its lesson - and will be undergoing independent privacy reviews to keep it on...

A US health insurance provider is offering $3 million prize to whoever can come up with an algorithm to predict when people are going to be ill. California-based Heritage Provider Network wants the formula so that it can predict...

Hewlett-Packard has launched its new CloudSystem partner program which will offer channel partners the training and tools necessary for cloud computing. The new partner program, which is a part of HP's efforts to flex its muscles...

Popular web browsing company Firefox has brought out its latest web surfing tool, for Android devices with the new Firefox 4.Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android brings with it customisation, support for modern web technologies and...

Amazon's newly launched Cloud Player music streaming service has come under attack by record label Sony Music for operating without the required licenses. According to a report on Reuters, Sony's stance over the new music...

Nokia has had its stock market rating downgraded by share-watching outfit Standard and Poor for the first time in its history. The Finnish mobile maker's status ahs been dropped from 'A' (strong) to A- (satisfactory) on the back...

Microsoft's move to take down the Rustock botnet caused the global level of spam to be reduced by 33 per cent, Symantec has revealed. According to a report by Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, spam levels dropped by 33.6...

Google's much delayed Chrome operating system will start appearing on notebooks later this year according to a report. Taiwanese tech tattler Digitimes reckons a long list of box builders, including Acer, Sony and Samsung, are...

Nokia's long-term marking rating has been downgraded for the first time by rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P), but Nokia claims the downgrade acknowledges its strong points as well as its shortcomings. S&P lowered...

Open source software maker Mozilla has brought out the Android version of its Firefox 4 web browser, which is available for download from the Android Market. The Android version of the popular browser comes just a week after the...

Dell is one of the few technology companies that are watching the growing threat of Apple in the enterprise segment very closely. Its global head of marketing for large enterprises and public organisations, Andy Lark, told CIO...

Microsoft is currently performing a series of tests on its new Xbox 360 disc format and is seeking multiple thousands of testers for the project.Major Nelson, the gamertag for Xbox Live’s prgramming director Larry Hryb,...

The BBC's entire network of websites, including BBC News and the iPlayer, went offline for about an hour following an unprecedented network failure. The disruption, which happened on Tuesday evening, affected every website...

Nvidia's explanation for the the death of several GeForce GTX 590 graphics cards - that the users have been using unsafe, older drives and have been overvolting the boards - has come under fire following reports of stock cards...

The next version of the Windows Phone operating system is expected to include the NFC mobile payment feature, sources familiar with the plans have claimed. According to an article on Bloomberg, the NFC mobile payment feature,...

Mobile phone network O2 has unveiled new post pay mobile phone contracts, with better data allowances that also include internet tethering.The new tariffs relate to the simplicity and flexibility products, with the latter...

Dell’s global head of marketing for large enterprises and public organisations, Andy Lark, has said that Apple's iPad will ultimately fail when it comes to business. Lark told CIO Australia that Apple's proddable PC was...

Microsoft’s search engine Bing will now come integrated with social networking platforms Twitter and Facebook.  This new partnership between Bing and the two social networking giants will enable Bing users to access...

The European Commission has agreed to upgrade its internal IT systems to Microsoft Windows 7 without putting the contract out to tender - ignoring its own policy and locking out vendors of alternative, open-source operating...

UK Communications Minister Ed Vaizey has criticised the EU's plans on privacy and electronic communications regulation, calling for more 'practical' measures. Speaking during the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)...

UPDATED 30-03-2011 10:17 Richard Cooper, the BBC's controller of digital distribution, has offered a more in-depth explanation for the outage. See the final paragraphs for details. The BBC's on-line services had a bit of a...

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has filed another lawsuit against rival Apple with the US International Trade Commission. The lawsuit comes just days after the ITC ruled against Nokia in its long-running patent battle with the...

Online re-seller eBay has decided to buy digital marketing and e-commerce services provider GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion. The move will allow eBay, which owns online payments company PayPal, to expand its presence in the online...

A group of telecommunications giants have formed a consortium which aims to promote software-defined networking, a new approach that the Open Networking Foundation claims can increase network functionality while lowering...

Amazon released its Cloud Drive yesterday, a storage service that brings one of its most unsung services, Simple Storage Service, to the end-user. The web-based drive currently offers up to 5GB storage online with an interface...

This year's Worldwide Developer Confernce is going to focus on the future of iOS and Mac OS accoridng to Apple's vice president Philip Schiller, a comment which many interpreted as being a hint that Apple won't release the...

Apple fans are still waiting in line for the iPad 2 tablet in the US more than two weeks after the tablet was launched leading one analysts to boost his estimated tablet shipment by a whopping 50 per cent to 30...

A second UK retailer, Amazon, will be selling the Samsung P1010, otherwise known as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Wi-Fi version, for a rather unexpected £299 including delivery. The device is expected to be released on March...

The government will not be able to implement the controversial Digital Economy Act for the time being, as the outcome of the judicial review initiated by ISPs BT and TalkTalk, could take months to be determined. The court hearing...

Mobile Phone manufacture HTC has made public their recently announced America-only EVO 3D handset is arriving in France.HTC unveiled the news from the @HTC_Fr Twitter account, in a tweet that reads: “Un #HTC Evo 3D pour la France...

When Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan started Blogger in 1999, they had no idea exactly what he were creating. Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger, was eventually sold to Google in 2003, and in 2004, Williams decided to leave...