Search engine giant Google is reportedly preparing to a launch a redesigned version of its mobile search website for iOS devices.Tech blog phoneArena has procured some screen shots that suggest that the new iOS Google search page...

Productivity and fun come hand in hand with the Archos 7 Home Tablet, which in spite of featuring a wide range of sophisticated technologies and a great design is affordable at a very reasonable price.The tablet features Wi-Fi...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt informed attendees at All Things D’s D9 conference that the company had tried to strike a search deal with Facebook but the social networking giant refused.Schmidt said that Google wanted to...

UK telecom regulator Ofcom has received 40 to 50 responses for consultation on its plans for the impending auction of 4G network.Citing people familiar with the matter, Dow Jones reports that Ofcom plans to publish the responses...

Opera Software has dished out the Beta version of the Opera 11.50 web browser which comes with secure password synchronisation and new Speed Dial extensions.In a blog post, the company said that beta version came with the...

Radioplayer, the digital radio service which was launched back on March, had an impressive 5.7 million unique users last month, it has been revealed.The digital service brings BBC’s radio channel and other commercial...

Once a reputed name in the Computer manufacturing market, Mesh Computers based in London, is finally going into administration, new reports claimed.According to reports, trading of the company came to a halt on May 31st, almost...

Lenovo has made an offer to acquire a majority stake in Germany based PC maker Medion for $671 million.According to a report on Business Week, the Chinese computer maker has offered to acquire a 37 percent stake from...

Google will have to pay $500,000 to an internet privacy group as part of a massive settlement in a class-action dispute over its Buzz social network. The search giant must pay the money to the Electronic Privacy Information...

Search engine giant Google has moved to remove 26 applications from its Android Market application store that were infected with the DroidDream Light malware.The infected applications are responsible for stealing personal data...

Twitter has unveiled a new button with the view of making it easier for websites to promote themselves in the massively popular micro-blogging platform. The new “Follow” button will be of similar nature as the...

A new, eBay sponsored research has revealed that the poor state of mobile phone coverage in the UK eventually resulted in almost £1.3 billion less online spending by users.The research also showed that almost 16 percent of...

Game publisher Rockstar has released the Rockstar Pass for pre-order on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.The Rockstar Pass is available on PSN for $10 while it could be purchased from Xbox Live for 800 Microsoft points.The...

The Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 comes with an ideal combination of productivity and entertainment features. In spite of being equipped with numerous exciting and futuristic specs and features, the product comes at a really affordable...

Apple dished out a new security update for its Mac operating system that deals with the menacing MacDefender malware.The MacDefender malware posses as a legitimate anti-virus for the Mac platform and dupes users into installing...

A NHS Direct app described as ‘nurse in your pocket’ has been launched by Apple. The app has been created by the National Health Service along with developer Mobikats and is now available from the Apple iTunes store....

British MPs are planning to call top ranking Twitter executives to give evidence about the recent super-injunction row that stemmed from the platform.Earlier, a rogue Twitter user had posted a list of celebrities and public...

Patent watchdog Article One Partner, which recently uncovered its new service designed to bust deceptive software patents, has revealed that the tech giant Microsoft is its first client.This new service, dubbed Litigation...

One Mobile Ring has taken delivery of the update to the best-selling thin Motorola RAZR handset – the Motorola Gleam, where we thought we would bring you these unboxing images.The Motorola Gleam is the first RAZR style of handset...

Google is expected to launch its ‘+1’ service today, which will allow web surfers to ‘like’ a particular web page.The service, pronounced ‘Plus One’, is similar to Facebook’s...

UPDATE, 17:00 6/5/2011: Anonymous issues response to NATO report. See article here. NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following...

The Philips E-line 234EL2SB is a big, HD capable and fully featured LED monitor that enhances your multimedia experiences to entirely new heights. Thanks to its elegant design, built in speakers and quality touch screen features,...

If you're looking to travel to the US soon, Tru, a company that claims to be the world’s first intelligent global mobile network operator, is promising to cut iPad roaming bills for UK customers by a staggering 95 per...

At least 24 percent of American adult internet users (19 percent of all adult) used VoIP services such as Skype and Vonage. The report, published by Pew Internet, a leading research firm also revealed that at least 5 percent...

Open source advocate and president of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, has cancelled a series of lectures and public appearances he was due to make in Israel because they were on the same itinerary as a visit to...

A new web site allows users to rank all 648 UK Members of Parliament based on how much they would like to have sex with them. Sexy MP uses the same methods used by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in order to rank his fellow Harvard...

Apple has launched an NHS Direct app described as a 'nurse in your pocket'. Created by the National Health Service along with developer Mobikats, the app is now available from the Apple iTunes store, and purports to provides...

Microsoft has updated the Streetside feature on Bing Maps which now comes with sharper images and a panoramic view mode.In a blog post, the company explained that users had previously had to navigate across a street by using...

MSI has revealed two new Android tablets at Computex, a 10-inch and a smaller 7-inch model with capacitive screens for $299 and $199 respectively called the Enjoy. The tablets were showed to a selected group of Computex...

When Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010, its effect on European business was unprecedented. Luckily, it appears from the latest reports that the worst of the latest cloud has now passed, with relatively little impact compared...

PayPal founder and major LinkedIn investor Peter Thiel thinks Wall Street undervalued LinkedIn when it went public. Thiel said to the Financial Times, “Whenever a stock price goes up as much as it does with LinkedIn, you...

The ASUS U53JC-XX149V, powered by the Intel Core i5-460M Dual Core processor (2.53GHz, 3MB Cache, with Intel Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz) is a smart way to meet your day-to-day computing needs. Featuring a sophisticated 15.6 inch...

Adding insult to injury over the long-term outage of Sony's PlayStation network, the Japanese gaming giant will pull the plug on the gaming platform again this evening. The company says the outage is in order to carry out routine...

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of search giant Google, has taken the blame for the company's failure to compete with the rising growth of Facebook. In an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD, Schmidt said:...

Industrial storage specialist InnoDisk is showing off something quite remarkable at its Nangang stand here at Computex 2011: an ultra-small SSD format it calls SATADOM.SATADOM, we were told, stands for Serial ATA Disk On Module,...

Close to half of all children between the ages of six and nine use the internet and social networking to chat with friends, according to a report by insecurity firm AVG. The figures reveal that young children are using the...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 is evolving away from its hardcore gaming origins and is slowly becoming a home entertainment hub according to company exec Frank X Shaw. He says that Microsoft has slowly been moving towards the console's...

The World Health Organisation has categorised mobile phones as a ‘possible carcinogen’ along side lead and chloroform. A WHO panel comprising 31 scientists from 14 companies met for a week to examine evidence in...

AMD's Rick Bergman has confirmed that his company's new Bulldozer-based processors - codenamed 'Zambezi' and launching under the FX branding - won't be making it out this month. But he has given a deadline as to when consumers...

Taiwanese computer peripheral and hardware manufacturer Asus has unveiled the news that its Eee Pad Transformer will be receiving an update, from Android ‘Honeycomb’ to version 3.1 today.Asus announced this news over Twitter from...

A new Microsoft employees survey has reveals that only 27 percent of employees believe that Steve Ballmer is a  good CEO.The survey conducted by glassdoors.com revealed that Steve Ballmer’s employee approval has been...

It's starting to look like the days of Apple users remaining insulated from malware attacks might just be numbered. There have, of course, been attacks on OSX-driven hardware before now, but the current crop of malware creators...

The Verbatim Store 'n' Go 2.5" Portable Hard Drive is a high performance external storage device that, in spite of featuring a whole range of state-of-the-art technologies, is available at a really affordable price.This external...

Manufacturers are not happy with the restrictions Microsoft is putting on processors for tablets that will run the upcoming Windows OS, Acer has said.Microsoft is currently developing a new version of Windows, called Windows 8,...

AMD's main marketing man, Nigel Dessau, took to the stage at the company's press event in Taipei to explain the changes that are being made to the company's strategy for its Vision products - and if you don't like code numbers,...

Intel has announced the launch of the Atom N435, which features in the Asus EEE PC X101 and X101H which was unveiled at Computex yesterday. The processor, which is a 1.33GHz part with 512KB L2 cache, did not feature in the...

A new survey has revealed that Google’s Android is now the most popular smartphone platform in the US.The survey, conducted by Nielsen Co. involved 65,000 users across the country 36 percent of whom owned an Android ...

Nearly four months after it was announced at MWC in Barcelona, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro will be available to those in the UK directly from the Japanese manufacturer within the next few weeks. Sony Ericsson has listed the...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 is evolving away from its original use as a gaming device and is slowly becoming a home entertainment hub according to corporate veepee Frank X Shaw. The Redmond Massive's communications guru says that...

Microsoft might use the upcoming E3 conference to showcase its Project Orapa, which brings together Xbox Live and the Mediaroom IPTV platform.The platform will allow Microsoft to deliver TV-based entertainment and gaming...

AMD's first desktop-oriented Fusion 'accelerated processing unit', Llano, is nearly ready for launch - and the company's motherboard partners are making sure they're ready, populating their stands here in Tapei with multiple...

The World Health Organisation thinks mobile phones may give you brain cancer, but it can't be certain. Experts from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) spent eight days rifling through what evidence they...

Twitter has acquired AdGrok, an advertising company known for innovative software designed to simplify the management and creation of ad campaigns on the Google Adwords platform.Twitter, whose changing priorities towards...

Apple has released a rare single-issue security update to combat the MacDefender Fake AV phishing scam which has been causing concern amongst Mac users, not to mention a heightened level of smugness from Applephobes. The trojan...

Shares in Finnish mobile giant Nokia have crashed to a 13-year low, following an announcement yesterday that it cancelled its financial outlook for the year, fearing poorer than expected performance. The news sparked a sharp...

VMware has acquired the enterprise microblogging platform Socialcast, the third straight acquisition by the company this year for enterprise-class collaborative technology, the company revealed yesterday. SAP Ventures led a...

Mainframe software maker NEON announced that it has settled its lawsuit with IBM.As a part of the settlement, NEON has agreed to withdraw its zPrime product from the market. IBM had alleged that the product infringes on its...

One Mobile Ring has two JCB executive clocks to give away, for the winning suggestions in an inventive way to test tough mobile phones from JCB, Motorola, Sonim and Samsung.Next week, One Mobile Ring is running a round-up of...

SAP Ventures led a round of funding worth $20 million for online advertising company OpenX.AOL Ventures, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Presidio Ventures also participated in the funding, which will allow OpenX to expand...

Sony's PlayStation Network will be off-line for scheduled maintenance from 16:30 today, June 1st and 7am tomorrow. Players who sign in before that time will be able to continue the session they are in, but log-in will be...

Enterprise software maker Oracle has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey university as a ‘misguided ruse’.The Montclair State University filed a lawsuit against Oracle claiming that the delays caused by the...

VMware has acquired the enterprise microblogging platform Socialcast, the third straight acquisition by the company this year for enterprise-class collaborative technology, the company revealed yesterday.The Socialcast...

Apple has released versions of its iWorks suite of productivity Apps which work on the iPhone and iPod Touch. iWorks for iPad has been about for a while now and anyone who has been using the Microsoft Office-compatible apps on...

Nokia has warned that its mobile phone sales won't meet its original estimates in the second quarter.The news sent the company's shares spiralling down to a 13 year low.Nokia said in a statement that mobile sales in the second...

Apple has released its iWork productivity app for the iPhone and iPod Touch models powered by iOS 4 or higher.The iWork application suite is made up of three apps, Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Pages allows users to create to...

The KA-SAT satellite launched by Eutelsat Communications has gone online, bringing more broadband options to Europe and the Mediterranean area.The Tooway service being offered by Eutelsat subsidiary Skylogic will help bring...

 Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced that the company has begun shipping Symbian Anna-based E6 and X7 smartphones.In a post on the Nokia Conversations blog, the company said that the X7, which comes with a large...

Taiwanese computer company Acer has announced it has updated its Liquidmini handset range to bring in a new Android operating system, user interface and colour range.The Acer Liquidmini was officially launched back in January, as...

Anne Muir, a 58-year old nurse from Scotland, plead guilty to illegally downloading and sharing more than 30,000 music files worth £54,000.Muir has been sentenced to three year’s probation by the Ayr Sheriff Court,...

Apple has confirmed via a press release that Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will unveil more details about the company's next generation software on Monday at a keynote address on Monday 6th June. The keynote will...

Apple is expected to unveil its own cloud-based storage and music streaming service next week after landing deals with major record labels.Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple CEO...

Apple has confirmed via a press release that Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will unveil more details about the company's next generation software at a keynote address on Monday 6th June. The keynote will focus on the...

AMD officially launched its 9-series chipsets today in an event at Computex; the chipset family will be a key component of AMD's forthcoming "Scorpius" desktop platform. The matching processor codenamed Zambezi will be the...

Better late than never! AMD has revealed today that it will introduce a series of Application Processing Units - codenamed Desna - aimed at tablets, as the chip maker finally recognises the growing importance of that segment, one...

Intel has refreshed an old form factor by giving it a new name; out goes CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) and in comes the Ultrabook. The design is nothing new in itself since Apple and many Japanese manufacturers have had...

AMD's senior vice president Rick Bergman has taken to the stage at the company's Computex press briefing today to unveil the processor which will form the company's 2012 desktop offering: the Trinity.As part of the company's...

We had a close encounter earlier today with the Eee PC X101 which is going to be Asus' ultra cheap entry level notebook, in other words, the heir to the Eee PC 700 which was launched four years ago. There will be two versions of...