Talend has updated its product portfolio with an Apache-based enterprise service bus (ESB) unified data services platform.Based on open-source standards, the Talend ESB Standard Edition will provide developers with a single...

A new report suggests that Sony May bring the PlayStation Network back to life in the next couple days, weeks ahead of some predictions.The report first broke on Eurogamer, which cited unnamed “trusted” source. The...

The Galaxy S II Android-based smartphone has hit another major milestone as Samsung announced that it had taken pre-orders of more than three million units worldwide as of the 30th of April. More than 120,000 of them were sold on...

Orange has chopped the price of the Motorola Flipout smartphone to a staggeringly low £49.99, when buying a £20 top up (see the screen capture below). That's down from £182 SIM free from Clove. The handset has...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has updated the specifications for the universal charger to add support for tablet devices and cameras.The universal charger, which originally was meant to charge mobile...

Taiwan-based hardware giant Asus is apparently going to ship a new netbook, which sources have called a new "killer Eee PC", in June. According to Digitimes, disappointing sales figures for the current Eee PC netbook range means...

Nvidia's purchase of Bristol-based semiconductor specialist Icera for around £225 million shouldn't come as a surprise as the ARM ecosystems gradually goes through a first phase of consolidation. It shows clearly that...

Hewlett-Packard has released new networking equipment alongside accusations that its rival Cisco lacks innovation.The new equipment, which HP calls FlexNetwork unified networking architecture, that will allow businesses to set...

Google has renovated its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Monday on its Google Chrome blog.According to the company, the updates released via the beta channel will be accompanied by multiple additional features as...

Google announced today that it is going head-to-head with Amazon Cloud Drive Player, launching an online music locker service that allows users to store and access their songs wherever they are. Music Beta by Google was...

A new privacy bill has been introduced in the US senate to prevent websites from tracking people's online activities without their consent. The bill, drafted by Senator Jay Rockefeller, aims to protect the privacy of users,...

Microsoft may entice existing PlayStation Network users with free Xbox Live membership in order to benefit from the three weeks periods that Sony estimates will be necessary to restore full service to PSN.Recently released...

The challenges of leading a distributed team are enormous and one of the biggest to overcome is encouraging teams to share a common identity; meetings can help overcome this as they give colleagues the opportunity to work more...

Researchers from of the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a new use for graphene: optical modulators that could lead to a dramatic boost in broadband speeds according to thinq_The team, led by engineering...

The Apple iPad 2 might just be a tablet but according to one expert who specialises in tracking performance in the sphere of super computers, the device could easily have rivalled one of the world's fastest supercomputers, the...

Google’s recent update to its search engine algorithm, designed to control low-quality content farms, has caused a significant dip in freelance writing jobs.According to quarterly job report released by Freelancer.com,...

It seems that the iPad 2 frenzy in China has been the biggest of them all, as it culminated in fights between customers and the sales staff. Apple has compensated a customer who was injured on Saturday after a fight broke out,...

Maker of photographic gadgets Joby, best known for its brilliant GorrillaPod knobbly-kneed tripods, recently released Frame X Frame, a stop motion iPhone app, and thinq_ decided to have a play. The first thing you'll need to take...

Andrew Crossley, former head of failed law firm ACS Law has avoided a bumper fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - by pleading poverty.Crossley's one-man-band was one of a number of morally questionable law...

Apple is more and more “obliged” to come up with an NFC feature for the iPhone 5, as there are already competitors (Samsung Galaxy SII being the most prominent one) that sport it. Even if Apple didn’t intend to...

Anonymous has bitten back at a splinter group which seized control of AnonOps, the online operations hub of the ‘hacktivist’ collective and home to the group’s IRC chat server, leaking the IP addresses of some...

Popular high-street mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is now carrying the update to the best-selling thin Motorola RAZR handset – the Motorola Gleam, for under £50.The Motorola Gleam is the first RAZR style of handset made...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has urged the Parliament to look into the recent super-injunction controversy stemming from a series of posts made on Twitter.A Twitter user decided to ‘out’ the names of UK...

The Sony Bravia KDL46EX503U is one of the earlier models in the Bravia family line up, which still enjoys quite a bit of success in the high-end TV market - thanks to a wonderful blend of sophisticated technologies and an...

A US Federal judge is flying in the face of precedent by allowing the US Copyright Group to demand ISPs hand over the details associated with Internet connections which have been used to download or share the film The...

Microsoft has announced that the company will have a ‘VIP Preview’ for the Windows Phone on May 24.The preview of the Windows Phone 7 platform, codenamed Mango, will take place in New York City, PC Mag reveals.If...

Microsoft has announced that it will be buying VoIP giant Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, its biggest acquisition yet, in a bid to position itself as a major player in the increasingly important world of unified...

Search engine giant Google has updated its Image search by adding a new feature that lets users sort images by subjects.In a blog post, Google said that the new feature will allow users to search for something that they know the...

Database software maker SnapLogic has released a new plug-in that allows clients to connect its software with Hadoop open-source data management software.The SnapReduce plug-in, apart from offering support for Hadoop, will...

VoIP-Pal is a company that provides international calls over the internet, PC tablets and smartphones via VoIP technology. They have recently reported they are planning to begin the beta testing for their PointsPhone Mobile App...

The Pioneer VSX920, with its outstanding 3D capability, Internet radio and built-in iPod/iPhone connectivity features, surely can claim the title for the best AV Receiver available in the market today.The product comes with 4...

A spoof of the best man’s speech given by Prince Harry during the Royal Wedding has become an instant hit online.The video spoof, complete with animation and AV content, has garnered more than 30,000 views on video...

iPhone 5 could incorporate a Thunderbolt port, but this might not be such good news, as it could mean users paying more and becoming even more locked in to Apple's ecosystem. Thunderbolt is based on the (Light) Peak...

Google is expected to launch its cloud based music storage and streaming service at its I/O conference today.The new service, which is expected to be called Music Beta, will allow users to store their music files online on...

iFixit, the company widely known for tearing down electronic gadgets, has recently got their hands on the GPS tracking devices used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The San Luis Obispo, California based company was given...

Seattle based operating system and software developers Microsoft is holding an event on Wednesday May 24th, which is set to cover the next version of Windows Phone.One Mobile Ring has been invited by Microsoft to the event, where...

Andrew Crossley, former head of failed litigious law firm ACS Law and a symbol of hatred to innocents accused of sharing a host of R-rated entertainments, has avoided a bumper fine from the Information Commissioner - by pleading...

For the first time since its launch in 2004, online fantasy game World of Warcraft is seeing a drop in its population of elves, orcs and gnomes. The frighteningly addictive fantasy-based massively multi-player role-playing game...

Korean mobile phone maker LG will unleash the Optimus Black smartphone in Europe this month.The companysaid that the device will become available in the UK on or before May 14, an LG product manager for the device told Pocket...

Google’s Android platform has blown past RIM’s Blackberry as the top Smartphone platform in the US.According to the latest metrics released by comScore, in the first quarter of 2011, Apple’s iOS platform grew...

The LiteOn 8x Slim External Top-Load DVD-RW Drive is equipped with a wide array of sophisticated technologies, and is extremely portable.The device is an ideal tool for archiving your movie, music and photo collections whenever...

Microsoft may entice existing Playstation Network users with free Xbox Live membership in order to benefit from the three week period that Sony estimates will be necessary to restore full service to PSN. The current going price...

A team of researchers operating out of the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a new use for wonder-material graphene: optical modulators that could lead to a dramatic boost in broadband speeds.The research team,...

Recently released internal emails reveal heavy-handed tactics surrounding its Android mobile operating system, tactics that some people believe are anti-competitive and is drawing comparisons to Microsoft in the 1990s.The ...

Vupen, a France based security company has revealed that it has discovered a few loopholes in the security features of Google Chrome which can be exploited to hack the browser quite effectively.According to the company, in order...

The price of another Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the LG Optimus 7 E900, has been cut to £215, a drop of nearly £150 compared to the suggested retail price that leaves us to believe that a new generation of Windows...

In a shocking turn of events, software giant Microsoft is reportedly on the verge of acquiring VoIP services provider Skype for $8 billion to $8.5 billion.Citing people familiar with the matter, a report on The Wall Street...

Apple has agreed to pay a man injured in the mini-riot at its Beijing store almost £2,000 in compensation, following claims that the man was injured by an Apple employee as he attempted to be one of the first in the country...

Google’s YouTube has expanded its movie rentals service by adding around 3,000 movies, including some of the latest blockbusters like Inception and The Green Hornet.The move will definitely allow Google to give stiff...

Apple may be preparing to bring an iPhone 5 Lite to the market with evidence piling up to support this idea. Michael Walkley, analyst for Canaccord Genuity, said that keeping the older (and cheaper) iPhone and iPad versions...

Samsung introduced the Infuse 4G, the Android-based super phone it announced at the beginning of the year at CES. It will run on AT&T HSPA+ network as from the 15th of May, for $200 on a 24-month contract. The handset, also...

Maker of photographic gadgets Joby, best known for its brilliant GorrillaPod knobbly-kneed tripods, recently released Frame X Frame, a stop motion iPhone app, and thinq_ decided to have a play. The first thing you'll need to...

Search giant Google, along with two other advertising metrics companies were dragged into the court last week in San Jose, California for allegedly placing device identification and location data numbers, as well as for...

More and more parents are allowing their pre-teen children to join social media platforms despite age restriction and danger of being exposed to objectionable content. According to a poll of 1,000 adults conducted by Liberty...

Mobile phone network Vodafone has launched a partnership with well-known fund raising charity organisation JustGiving, under the name of JustTextGiving – where people can just send a text message to send funds to a...

The powerful Acer X3300 Desktop PC comes with a whole bunch of sophisticated technology, blended with a sleek and attractive design.The X3300 is powered by the high-performing AMD Athlon 425 X3 processor and it comes pre-loaded...

More and more parents are allowing their pre-teen children to join social media platforms despite age restriction and danger of being exposed to objectionable content.According to a poll of 1,000 adults conducted by Liberty...

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired social media analytics firm Tap11, merely three weeks after purchasing Delicious from Yahoo.The duo is building a new start-up Avos which hopes to become a massive online...

Technical computing specialist SGI has announced a new level of support for the Lustre open-source file system, bringing it up the same level as its own home-grown CXFS.Lustre, named for a portmanteau of 'Linux' and 'Cluster,'...

TalkTalk's latest security feature, dubbed HomeSafe, apparently offers more than mere protection against dodgy websites, viruses and other not-so-kosher content. Torrentfreak found out that the solution also blocks BitTorrent...

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has published a set of guidelines for businesses based on the new European Union browser cookie laws.The ICO warned UK public and private sector businesses that from May 25th, they...

HTC is rumoured to be preparing a new 10-inch tablet device called Puccini that, unlike the HTC Flyer, will be a direct competitor to Apple's iPad 2 as they share the same screen size. Pocketnow reports that the tablet will be...

HP has released a number of business ultra portable laptops based on the Sandy Bridge chip, which was officially launched at the beginning of the year. One of the more interesting models is the ProBook 5330m which comes with an...

Graphic card maker Nvidia has decided to acquire UK based mobile phone chip maker Icera for $367 million in cash.Icera specialises in developing baseband processors for 3G and 4G technology found in Smartphones and tablets. The...

Image and video manipulation outfit Adobe has released three iPad apps that turn the touchscreen tablet into a virtual sketchbook, toolbar and paint palette for Photoshop CS5. The first of the trio, Adobe Eazel, works with...

The team at Vupen Security claims to have discovered an exploit which makes light work of the 'sandbox' mode in Google's popular Chrome browser - allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code.The sandbox feature was introduced in...

Popular VoIP service Skype has dished out an update for its Mac client that fixes a zero-day vulnerability reported by a group of ethical hackers in Australia.Gordon Maddern of Pure Hacking wrote in a blog post that the...

The powerful Acer X3300 Desktop PC comes with a whole bunch of sophisticated technology, blended with a sleek and attractive design.The X3300 is powered by the high-performing AMD Athlon 425 X3 processor and it comes...

A new research has revealed that users of the social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter usually have twice as many online friends as they do in real lives.The research carried out by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust also...

On-line retail giant Amazon has listed the two new upcoming social HTC mobile phones that were announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – the Salsa and ChaCha, with a shipping date of June 26th.The duo of HTC handsets were...

A list of new words, including once verboten street slang, has found its way into the Scrabble dictionary. With this move, Scrabble players now can use words such as thang, innint and grrl amongst many others as legal words.Many...

Members of Anonymous have hit out at a splinter group that has seized control of AnonOps, the online operations hub of the ‘hacktivist’ collective and home to the group’s IRC chat server, leaking the IP...

The UK government has warned that climate change is threatening the country’s entire Wi-Fi infrastructure.According to a report released by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), high temperatures...

Cisco Systems Inc. revealed that it is going to renovate its management structure in order to simplify the decision making process as well as other important aspects related to the functionality of the management team. The Sane...

Microsoft is set to announce that it will buy VoIP specialist Skype for a figure said to be in the region of eight billion dollars. Rumours of a courtship between Skype and various suitors have been bandied about in recent days...

UK engineering students have placed Apple CEO Steve Jobs on the third spot in the list of Engineering Heroes, ahead of Nikola Tesla and Bill Gates.According to a poll of 900 UK engineering students conducted by General...