Game developer Sucker Punch Productions has decided to extend the beta of its upcoming ‘Infamous 2’ game in the light of the Sony PlayStation Network outage.The company released a beta version of the highly awaited...

International provider of fiber-based communication services, Level 3 Communication Inc. announced late last week its decision to offer help to Verizon Wireless in their ongoing roll out of the 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution)...

Google has announced a sub-Saharan Africa android developer challenge where developers from the continent will compete with each other, thus eventually helping in bringing up new and innovative ideas and designs in the regional...

Global telecom equipment maker Ericsson has reported that its net income tripled in the first quarter of 2011.Swedish company’s net income was at 4.1 billion Swedish kronor or $672 million in the first quarter up from 1.3...

The Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 is powered by Intel Core i3-2310M Dual Core processor with 2.1GHz, Intel Sandy Bridge Architecture, 3MB Cache and it comes preloaded with the Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit edition. The laptop features 4GB...

We are more and more convinced that the iPhone 5 will be arriving in early autumn, especially with the white iPhone 4 being launched so late. Samsung is working on a smartphone thought to be the Samsung Galaxy S3, and we can...

Canadian wireless carrier Rogers has posted higher-than-expected profits and revenue in the first quarter of 2011, building on rise in popularity of Smartphones.The company reported a net income of Canadian $335 million or 60...

Nintendo has finally confirmed that it is planning to launch the Wii successor Wii2 somewhere during 2012. The company, amidst of all sorts of rumours and speculations regarding the much awaited game console, released a...

A sleek, very attractive “eye candy” design and amazing sound quality comes with the Logitech Z506 Surround Sound 5.1 Speakers. The product is equipped with full bodied 5:1 channel sound featuring 75 watts high...

Apple is going to launch the iPad 2 in Japan tomorrow, April 28th, the company said in a press release this morning. On Friday, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, India, Israel, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey...

Sony has unveiled two tablet PC devices that mark its entry into the burgeoning tablet PC market dominated by the iPad.At an event in Tokyo, Sony’s Kunimasa Suzuki unveiled two tablet devices, the S1 and S2, which run on...

UK-based small and medium sized enterprises are adopting cloud computing services slower than their European counterparts, a survey has found. According to a Europe wide survey of 1,600 SMEs conducted by virtualisation firm...

Developer interest in making applications for tablet devices based on Google’s Android operating system is waning, a survey has revealed.According to a joint survey conducted by research firm IDC and Appcelerator, around 71...

The Panasonic Viera TX-P37C2B 37’’ with its smart design and crystal clear HD picture quality has certainly climbed up the ladder at a speedy pace in the highly competitive Plasma TV market. The TV comes with a 37...

The end has come for what was once hailed as a great step into the modern world: the world’s last functioning typewriter factory has decided to close its doors.Godrej and Boyce, the last standing typewriter factory, has...

US bookseller Barnes & Noble has accused Microsoft of "misusing" patent law to "eliminate or maginalize" competition to its Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS - and even takes a personal swing at CEO Steve Ballmer. The claims...

Online music video streaming service Vevo, started by Universal and Sony, has launched in the UK, it has been announced.Vevo, which was founded by two of the biggest music labels in the world, allows users to search and stream...

Search engine giant Google has has established a consortium of companies interested in defending the WebM open source video codec technology from patent lawsuits.Google’s move comes after the MPEG-LA consortium announced...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named forty-four-year-old venture capitalist and college drop-out Joichi Ito as the new director of the MIT Media Lab.The lab, which is known for developing and demoing cutting...

Virtualisation services provider VMware has announced the acquisition of SlideRocket, which offers an online presentation maker.SlideRocket’s cloud based application allows its 20,000 customers and 300,000 users to create...

With its sleek design and standout features, the Acer S221HQLbd LCD display is definitely yet another powerful offering from the Taiwanese tech heavyweight Acer Inc. The Acer S221HQLbd features a 21.5 inch LCD wide screen with...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is to flog what's left of ailing social network Myspace, and hopes to attract bids of more than $100 million from half a dozen private equity firms by the end of this week. The Wall Street Journal -...

Online retail giant Amazon’s income has fallen as the company continues to invest in expanding its retail and cloud based services.The company’s net income for the first quarter of 2011 was at $201 million or 44...

Mobile phone network Three has confirmed it is carrying the white version of the iPhone 4, from Thursday 28th April onwards – both on-line and in their own stores.There has been much rumour and speculation of late surrounding the...

Apple is expected to charge a fee for its upcoming cloud based music storage and streaming services, it has been revealed.Music industry insiders have told CNET that the company will offer the service for free to early adopters ...

Software maker BMC has updated its entire cloud management portfolio in a bid to allow public and private organisations to build and manage flexible cloud computing environments.The company says that its cloud management...

Apple has said it has never tracked iPhone users. Well... it might have tracked them a little bit, but there's no harm done. Well... when it says 'no harm done' it means 'not much harm done', certainly not enough to change the...

Dell has launched an update of its Boomi software meant to simplify data transfer between public cloud services and on-premise applications. Rick Nucci, the Chief Technology Officer of Dell Boomi said in a statement to PC World:...

Apple's legendary white elephant, the white iPhone 4, actually exists and goes on sale tomorrow. Quite frankly, we were so sick of trolling out the same old tired rumours about Apple's smartphone for girls that we'd stopped...

UK-based small and medium sized enterprises are adopting cloud computing services slower than their European counterparts, a survey has found.According to a Europe wide survey of 1,600 SMEs conducted by virtualisation firm ...

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that it will investigate Sony's ongoing security breach to its online infrastructure. Speaking to Eurogamer, an ICO spokesperson said, "The Information Commissioner's...

The global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $40.7 billion to $240 billion by 2020, a new report has predicted.According to a report released by market research firm Forrester Research, the market for cloud...

Amid all the buzz related to NFC (Near Field Communication) technology came the revelation that one in five smartphones are likely to be equipped with NFC in just three years.The revelation came from a report by the research...

Microsoft's appeal of alleged unhealthy business practices will b heard by the European Union Court on May 24.The European Union had earlier fined the tech firm 899 million euros under antitrust charges; Microsoft is currently...

Electronic Art's chief operating officer has quit the company to join the social gaming company Zynga. According to a report on Reuters, John Schappert has left EA after only 22 months on the job to head Zynga’s gaming...

Mobile video streaming software company Qik has announced Qik Video Connect for Android and iOS – which delivers video calling between devices running those platforms.The company that has recently been acquired by Skype for $100...

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has pulled the plug on its Allen Telescope Array in the face of US government funding cuts, despite the discovery of thousands of new planets many of which could feasibly support...

Electronic Arts' chief operating officer has quit the company to join the social gaming company Zynga.According to a report on Reuters, John Schappert has left EA after only 22 months on the job to head Zynga’s gaming...

The SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute has been forced to pull the plug on its radio satellites due to lack of government funding.In a letter to donors, SETI’s CEO Tom Pierson, said that because...

Insecurity experts believe a major cyber-attack on critical infrastructure such as that owned by energy companies will take place in the next year, according to a new report from McAfee. In the report, In the Dark: Crucial...

Nokia has announced that it is shedding 7,000 staff as a direct result of the deal it recently struck with Microsoft. The Finnish mobile maker inked a $1 billion deal with the world's richest software outfit back in March and...

TweetDeck 2.0 for iPhone, which is now available in the App Store, is not just an update but a complete re-imagining of the app, the company claims. A post in the official TweetDeck blog read: “In Hollywood they would call...

Skype-owned video chat outfit Qik has updated its iPhone and Android apps to allow cross-platform video calls. It's not clear whether the announcement will herald a new era of entente cordiale between fans of the competing...

Sony has confirmed that hackers have stolen private account information belonging to millions of PlayStation Network customers.Last week, Sony was forced the shut down the entire PSN platform after it discovered that the...

Amazon Web Services announced that it has successfully fixed most of the problems affecting its East Coast EC2 service, but some customers' data will not be recovered.According to an article on The Register, the company said...

South Korean conglomerate Lucky Goldstar has announced they are to license ARM processors, in upcoming mobile devices and home products.LG will be licensing technology such as the ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor and ARM Mali-T604...

The nearly defunct social networking platform Friendster has warned that it will delete users' content on May 31 in the process of overhauling the site.In a message posted on its website, the company reported that the platform ...

Sony has finally admitted that the continuing outage of the PlayStation Network was caused by a lone hacker and that millions of accounts, including credit card details, have been compromised as a result. In a statement released...

Amazon has responded to Apple’s lawsuit regarding the controversial use of the phrase “app store” by saying that they will continue using it despite Apple's protests.The company also asked the court to...

Legislation is needed to protect customer data stored on the cloud by service providers, an expert at Kaspersky Lab has said. Nikolay Grebennikov, chief technology officer at Kaspersky Lab, believes that in order to grow, the...

Legislation is needed to protect customer data stored on the cloud by service providers, an expert at Kaspersky Lab has said.Nikolay Grebennikov, chief technology officer at Kaspersky Lab, believes that in order to grow, the...

Japanese newspaper Nikkan is reporting that Apple has picked up Sharp for their next generation LCD displays, which will be used, most probably, for the sixth version of the iPhone. The iPhone 6, it is thought, could have a...

Google’s Android platform has become the most favoured Smartphone OS in the United States, beating Apple’s iOS platform, a new survey has found.According to a consumer survey conducted during the first three months of...

A new report has revealed that software giant IBM is currently planning to purchase ICICI Bank’s 20.33 percent stake in 3i Infotech.The revelation was made by CNBC TV’s Kritika Saxena with inputs from unnamed sources....

The Document Foundation has dished out a new version of OpenOffice offshoot LibreOffice a week after Oracle revealed that it plans to stop offering commercial version of the OpenOffice productivity suite.The organisation released...