The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences has announced the list of winners’ of this year’s Webby Awards which will be hosted on June 13.Surprisingly, this will be the first time when a non-human has been...

China’s People’s Liberation Army has pointed its fingers at the US as the main culprit of waging a world-wide cyber-war against the Arab countries and other so called “hostile” governments. These...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has claimed that computers with human like intelligence were not so far as everyone thought they were.Speaking during a business meet in Australia, Wozniak predicted that in his lifetime he would...

In what is being termed by many as Apple’s preparation to unveil the new version of Apple Time Capsule at the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, the hardware supply for the device is reportedly becoming scarce with...

IBM has dished out the SmartCloud for Education cloud service for delivering software and other resources to students and researchers without deploying advance IT expertise.The company said that the SmartCloud for Education was...

The World Health Organization has recently published the results of a study concerning the carcinogenic potential of mobile phone use. The 21 scientist team conceded that cell phone radiation is "possibly carcinogenic to...

Computer maker Dell could move to acquire Brocade in its bid to increase its networking portfolio.According to an article on Barron’s Canaccord Genuity’s Paul Mansky wrote in a note that ‘now is the time’...

Flat screen maker Samsung Electronics has sued AU Optronics Corp. and three of its US based customers for allegedly infringing patents related to some of its key display technologies.The Korean electronics giant filed the...

Toshiba will release the Thrive, its second Android tablet, in the US next month and we're revisiting the old Folio to find out what has changed now that the Thrive has been announced. Both tablets come with the same system on...

Everybody is looking forward to Apple's WWDC and the innovations Steve Jobs will share with the audience regarding the fifth-generation iPhone.  But despite the excitement, there is one question that is on everybody’s...

US wireless carrier T-Mobile has announced the Samsung Exhibit 4G, which is a cheaper and faster alternative to the HTC Sensation 4G which is also being offered by the carrier.According to a report on PC Mag, the Samsung...

Google plans to end support for ageing web browsers on its Google Apps platform. In a blog post Google explained that certain functionalities present on its Google Apps platform require modern web browsers to function properly,...

Toshiba has revealed some details about its upcoming tablet, officially named Thrive. The company hopes its new tablet will compete against the iPad 2 in particular through its lower price tag. It appears that Toshiba is was so...

A Chinese teenager from Huaishan in the Anhui Province wanted an iPad 2 so badly that he didn't think twice before agreeing to sell one of his kidneys so he could afford Apple’s latest tablet, The Inquirer reports....

A young man in his mid 20’s, overweight and not exactly what springs to mind when you hear the phrase 'male model', is on his way to becoming the next winner in the Make Me The Next Next Model 2011 competition, one of the...

The highly dubious practice of speculative invoicing, which sees law firms demanding large sums of cash from people of accused of copyright infringement if they want to avoid being dragged through embarrassing and possibly...

PC and laptop maker Acer has suffered a major setback yesterday as its stocks declined by almost 6 percent following reports of the company’s overwhelming NT$4.3 billion loss in Europe during the first quarter of fiscal...

There's no doubt that micro-blogging site Twitter has had a massive effect on recent political upheavals throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Now, Arab news outlet Al Jazeera has posted a Twitter Dashboard which tracks...

Another hack-attack has hit Sony - this time in their Sony Picture website, according to new reports.The news first surfaced when a hacker group, dubbed Lulz Security claimed that it had broken in to the company’s Sony...

Konami recently held its pre-E3 show, and Hedeo Kojima took the opportunity to demonstrate the company’s new Fox engine.Kojima said that work on the engine had begun after the completion of Metal Gear Solid 4, with the...

A video has been posted to YouTube in support of Wikileaker Bradley Manning in which ordinary Amercans pass a sign reading, "I'm Bradley Manning. If you can do this to him, you might do it to me." The poignant video highlights...

Foxconn has resumed activity in all its polishing workshops, except for Chengdu, InfoWorld has revealed. The shutdown of the Chengdu facility was triggered by the blast from May 20th and could lead to an iPad 2 stock shortage of...

Apple has written an 1800 word love letter to itself and posted it in its High Street stores for staff to enjoy. The giant poster, which has been put up in the staff-only areas of every one of the Mac maker's 325 retail outlets,...

The LG MJ237WDP 23-inch LCD TV/Monitor brings along with it a one-stop display solution for all your home entertainment and PC use. Apart from being equipped with a wide range of innovative technologies, the product also serves a...

Computer maker Asus plans to launch three Eee PC laptops pre-loaded with the open-source operating system Ubuntu 10.10.The company plans to make the Eee PC models 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX available with Ubuntu, with more...

Nothing turns heads at Thinq_ Towers like a shiny new bit of technology - and they don't come much shinier, or newer, than HTC's Sensation smartphone. This big-screen beauty of a handset landed at our office this week and, being...

Storage solutions maker Kingston has partnered with SandForce to dish out a new line of solid state drives that is based on SandForce’s SF-2281 controller.The Kingston HyperX series SSD uses the SandForce SF-2281 SATA 6Gb/s...

Gearbox Software has dished out the demo version of the highly anticipated Duke Nukem Forever for the members of the first access club.The game developer said that the members of the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club can now...

Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha has said that the company was open to making new acquisitions in order to expand the company’s product line.Speaking during an investor conference, Jha said that the company plans to ...

If you are planning to buy a new laptop that is high on reliability, comes with a wide range of seriously impressive features and is not expensive, the Lenovo B560 Laptop is the way to go. The Lenovo B560 is powered by the Intel...

Google’s recent settlement of the Buzz class-action lawsuit has raised some eyebrows over the selection criteria used for choosing organisations that get paid in the settlement.Dan Popeo of the Washington Legal...

Onlive has announced that its cloud-based gaming service will hit the UK on June 7th. The launch of the online system, which allows powerful games to be played on crappy hardware by doing most of the complicated processing on...

That Apple will unleash its much-rumoured iCloud is now certain, but the rumour mill is clanking away in a manner that only the iPod maker can create. The company's legendary secrecy seems to have failed somewhat in recent...

Google plans to end support for ageing web browsers on its Google Apps platform.In an blog post, Google explained that certain functionalities present on its Google Apps platform require modern web browsers to function ...

The Acer Aspire 5742 Notebook, powered by the Intel Core i3 380M (2.53 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) is an efficient and affordable way to tackle your daily computing needs. Acer has blessed this mid-ranged notebook with numerous quality...

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have decided to work together to create a new website-tagging standard that would allow search engines to properly categorise their content in search results.In a blog post, Google said that the...

Apple has applied for a patent that could put an end to the shaky-cam bootleg as we know it. The filing, entitled 'Systems and methods for receiving infra-red data with a camera designed to detect images based on visible light'...

Toshiba has finally given a name and a price to its tablet formerly known as Tablet; now we're introduced to the Thrive which will go on sale in the US from the 10th of July for $429. That's $70 cheaper than the cheapest iPad 2,...

Motorola’s website has mistakenly leaked details of the company’s upcoming and unannounced products including a watchphone, the Xoom 2 tablet and several new smartphones.Technology blog PocketNow discovered the...

The coming summer is expected to witness the rise of next-generation smartphones powered by the Android mobile OS.It was recently disclosed by a Gartner report that Android has surfaced as the fastest growing smartphone...

US wireless carrier AT&T says that its next generation 4G network will match Verizon’s service in the next two to three years, the company has said.AT&T has not begun rolling out its 4G network but has plans to...

To celebrate ten years on the High Street, Apple has placed posters in the staff-only areas of its 325 consumer cathedrals in order to let its blue-shirted minions in on the machinations of the company's decade of retail. It...

The recent cyber attack on Gmail also targeted the personal email accounts of White House officials, it has been revealed. Google recently reported that hackers procured Gmail log-in credentials belonging to several US government...

Facebook has stepped up its legal battle against Paul Ceglia over the company's ownership, with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg swearing under oath that the emails and other evidence cited by Ceglia were...

The month started with One Mobile Ring reporting Vodafone is now carrying the Nokia E7, where video chat comes to Gmail on mobile phones and the LG Optimus Pad arrived at Carphone Warehouse.Earlier on in the week, RIM announced a...

Just a few weeks after its acquisition by Microsoft, VoIP service provider Skype’s desktop implementation has been reverse engineered by a Russian researcher, and subsequently made available online as open-source...

Daily deals giant Groupon has filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.The company plans to raise up to $750 million from the IPO but could increase the limit as the IPO...

Climate change could see hundreds of millions in Africa and Asia facing starvation, according to a new international study. The Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) study is the result of a ten-year...

Apple fans are well-known for their rabid devotion to the fruit-themed gadget maker and its expensive toys, but one Chinese teenager has gone beyond the usual queuing in the rain for days on end to get a smartphone a few hours...

Kingston presented a new range of storage products at Computex called the Wi-Drive which allows users of iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) to store and share content wirelessly with a device that is flash-based. Available...

The recent cyber attack on Gmail also targeted the personal email accounts of White House officials, it has been revealed.Google recently reported that hackers procured Gmail log-in credentials belonging to several US government...

Asustek will be offering Canonical's Ubuntu operating system in some of its Eee-branded netbooks the open source outfit has said. Three ASUS Eee PC models -1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX - started shipping this week with Ubuntu...

TI has announced the availability of the OMAP4470, a system on chip that offers a 20 per cent increase in clock speed over the previous generation, pushing it all the way to 1.8GHz up from 1.5GHz on the OMAP4460. The OMAP4470...

The UK government has launched the Cyber Security Challenge II, a competition aimed at finding the best of the best to secure its interests in cyber-space.The competition includes a series of extensive online as well as ...

A Russian 'freelance researcher' says he has reverse engineered much of Skype's code and intends to make the project open source. Efim Bushmanov has posted binaries of his work so far, as well as the original source code, on his...

Sony’s credibility just took another hit when hacker group LulzSec broke into the Sony Pictures website, stealing data belonging to a million customers.In its latest attempt to show the vulnerability of Sony’s...

We're a big fan of USB Monitors at ITProPortal having purchased two last year and slowly converting the whole office to the joys of laptops and dual monitors; Asus demonstrated a working USB-powered monitor, the MS248B, which is...

UK telecom regulator Ofcom has warned that the next generation 4G network could mess with digital TV signals.Ofcom has launched a consultation program to find out the extent of the interference and come up with measures to stop...

Motherboard manufacturer DFI had a very special product on display, which for a second reminded us of the legendary Abit BP6. The LR100X2-HB is a one-of-a-kind dual Atom motherboard aimed at the embedded/industrial market. It is...

New reports reveal that the Facebook-centric HTC ChaCha was spotted at the online stores belonging to a couple of leading retailers in the UK, increasing anticipation for the new . At the Mobile World Congress in February, HTC...

Mobile Phone network Orange has introduced a new tariff for Apple iPhone and iPad owners, where both devices share the same month contract for minutes, text and data for £65 a month.Orange's 'connected plan' is accompanied with...

Lawmakers in Tennessee, known as the home of country music, have passed a new law that makes it illegal to share log-in information for Internet music or movie subscription sites. The bill, signed by Tennessee Governor Bill...

Cloud based gaming platform Onlive will be launched in the UK this autumn, the company has confirmed.OnLive allows users to play games on a host of devices including televisions, PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablet PCs.The ...

Lawmakers in Tennessee, known as the home of country music, have passed a new law that makes it illegal to share log-in information for Internet music or movie subscription sites. The bill, signed by Tennessee Governor Bill...

Sony might now think twice before it miffs the online community once again. It might not, mind you. Corporations are more important than people these days, so the likely result of the hacking we've seen in recent months will be...

Those looking for a Windows-equivalent version of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer should rejoice as Acer has apparently slashed the price of the Iconia W500 with keyboard to £434.88, a saving of almost £100 on the...

Acer has announced that it will launch a third Iconia tablet, the M500, which is the first of the M-series and comes after the A500 and the W500, both of which were unveiled this year at Cebit. Interestingly, the M500 runs on a...

Apart from a microSD card that combines 8GB NAND storage and NFC features, Chinese company Netcom has also presented us with a microSD card that's actually a Wi-Fi adaptor. Putting Wi-Fi capabilities into a microSD enclosure is...

Mobile phone operator Orange has come up with the smart concept of selling the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4 on a two year contract with one major advantage, the fact that you have a pooled data allowance and a single monthly...

Acer had a cute little mockup handset on display at Computex, the W4, which will be its first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, one based on Mango, the latest iteration of the Microsoft mobile platform which was unveiled last...

Creative Technology-owned, ZiiLABS announced the launch of the Jaguar family which includes 7-inch and 10-inch reference designs that will enable OEMs to quickly design new tablets that are optimised for Android Honeycomb...

As expected, Kogan has launched what it claims is the world's first laptop that's based on Google's Chromium open source operating system, which makes the product different from the real Chromebooks launched a few weeks ago by...

Chinese firm Netcom (nothing to do with Netcommunities, our publisher) has managed to cram an 8GB flash memory and NFC electronics and antenna into a microSD card. This is by far the smallest implementation of a removable near...