HP has launched its new data containerised data centre EcoPod, a move by the company that will provide it with the same sort of high efficiency that other market leaders like Google, Facebook etc. usually able to derive from...

Acer has released a new laptop, the Ethos, that comes with a classy accessory, a removable touchpad that doubles as a groovy remote control. We have dreamt of something like this for years now, but with a smartphone like the...

Apple, at least for a foreseeable future, is dependent on Samsung Electronics for making its system on chip, something it won't confirm but which optical die and SEM cross-section images analysis performed by UBM TechInsights has...

Apple has launched a set of free cloud services called iCloud that will replace the former set of MobileMe services and add an additional six more services in a bid to fend off the ambitions of Microsoft, Google and...

HTC's top of the range handset, the Sensation, has been freed from its Vodafone exclusivity and will be available from the mobile phone retailer from the 20th of June with customers invited to queue up for the preorder. The...

After Sony yesterday, it was the turn of the other big Japanese console manufacturer, Nintendo, to unveil a new gaming machine, the Wii U which promises to be evolutionary rather than a disruptive element. Key to the Wii U is...

A US court has approved settlement offered by enterprise software maker SAP in a class action lawsuit filed by Sybase investors.SAP, which had acquired Sybase for $5.8 billion, was slapped by a class action lawsuit filed by...

IBM has dished out a new platform that will allow businesses to speed application development via collaboration.The platform, launched at the Innovate conference, will allow developers to collaborate with each other through the...

IBM and the city of Minneapolis are partnering for a research and development project that might make Minneapolis a ‘Smarter City’.The $1.65 million collaboration will allow IBM to study who citizen generated...

According to a new revelation, a Japanese investment fund backed by the government of Japan has come up with a new proposal asking Sony Corp. and Toshiba to make a joint venture in the small-size LCD (liquid crystal display)...

Web browser maker Mozilla has launched the first ever beta version of the Thunderbird 5, the company’s new-generation email messaging client.According to the company, the updated pre-release version of the software brings...

Computer maker Dell is planning to create 150 jobs in Ireland over the period of next two years at its cloud computing centre opened in Dublin.The company announced that it will be establishing the Cloud Research and Development...

Microsoft’s constant perseverance towards making a mark in the productivity based cloud computing arena seems to have paid off to a certain extent with the launch of Office 365 beta.Microsoft had introduced a range of...

In a rather unpredicted move, US retail giant Walmart is offering the iPhone 4 at an astonishingly low price of $147 in its stores across the country.The discount offer, which will remain valid till July 1, has drawn quite a few...

Security experts have warned about a new phishing scam that is targeting Google Docs users across the web.According to a blog post made by UK security firm Sophos, unsuspecting users are being targeted by fake emails which inform...

Apple has just revealed the new features of iOS 5 and one thing has become obvious to everybody: the company’s novelties are not that new, other operating systems have already been offering them individually, Apple has just...

As the dooms day for the IPv4 addresses has started knocking at our doors, a handful of internet giants including Google, Mozilla, Yahoo and Facebook, just to name a few, are believed to be leading the efforts to test and adopt...

Both Game and Play.com have put the Sony Playstation Vita, formerly known as the Next Generation Portable or the PSP2, on preorder for £279.99 with the release date yet to be confirmed. Game appears to be offering the more...

One feature in Safari that was announced yesterday by Steve Jobs at the Apple WWDC Keynote is likely to make a lot of publishers uncomfortable is the new Reader that ironically has been launched at the same time as Newsstand....

The Aspire 5745DG notebook with 3D Screen and glasses is a powerful offering from Acer, designed to take your multimedia experience to an entirely new level.The product comes with an outstanding 3D enabled display, capable of...

Apple has recently unveiled some features of its upcoming iCloud service, which allows users to store and automatically sync files wirelessly between iPhone, iPod, iPad and PC. New features include automatic downloads and a...

Mozilla Labs has unveiled a new browser oriented user interface for desktop PCs and laptops which is being hailed as a competitor to Google’s Chrome OS.Mozilla believes that pretty much everything that happens on a PC is...

Steve Jobs made a rare public appearance on Monday to unveil iCloud, the latest offering by the iPhone maker, and one of the most anticipated new services of the year. The iCloud is a cloud-based service that enables iOS users...

BlackBerry maker RIM has acquired a company best known for making software development kits for the Android and iOS platforms. German company Scoreloop provides SDKs which simplify the addition of social elements of mobile games...

Millions of Facebook users could find their personal security at risk, after the social network quietly rolled out facial recognition technology that can identify users' faces from images posted on the site, security vendor...

Homeless people who sell The Big Issue street newspaper will soon be equipped with brand new smartphones, enabling them to go beyond being mere vendors, acting as news gatherers – just like the journalists who work...

Popular high-street retailer Phones 4u has just brought out an exclusive on-line offer, for the 16GB version of the iPhone 4 with no cost and on a £35 a month contract.Apple’s iPhone 4 went on sale in the UK nearly a whole year...

The FBI and US secret service have thoroughly infiltrated the hacking community in the US with their own moles, a new report claims.According to an investigation undertaken by the Guardian, the FBI has used the threat of long...

Hewlett Packard has announced new additions to its AppSystem offerings to make it easier for companies to make more sense of their growing data.According to a report on V3, the AppSystems appliance line has got the new Data...

Safari 5.1 is the new browser version from Apple that promises to bring enhanced CSS3 support, full screen application programming interface, improved audio and video caching for HTML 5 based web apps, extension support as well...

The Xenta 5.1ch Surround Sound Home Theatre System is a perfect choice for those who want quality and theatre-like audio with their movies, games and music. In spite of being equipped with a wide range of futuristic technologies,...

More than 90 per cent of Skype users are apparently offline according to the latest update we've got from Skype's concurrent user monitor that is located at the bottom left of the client screen (under the "call phones" pad). As...

The bloke with a dog on a string who sits outside your local train station selling The Big Issue could soon be swanking around with a shiny new iPhone according to the publication's founder. John Bird, the top bloke who started...

Xbox Live’s Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has shed some more light into Microsoft’s earlier revelation about the upcoming upgrade for the Xbox 360’s dashboard.The company had earlier disclosed that the new...

UPDATE, 14:00GMT, 8/6/11: Facebook has responded to criticism of its face recognition technology with a statement. Read the full story here. Millions of Facebook users could find their personal security at risk, after the social...

One feature in Safari, that was announced yesterday by Steve Jobs at the Apple WWDC Keynote, likely to make a lot of publishers uncomfortable, is the new Reader that ironically has been launched at the same time as...

Law enforcement officials have arrested a man from York for allegedly trying to hack into Facebook.The US Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating a hacking attempt on the social networking giant. Their investigation...

iMessage is a new feature included in the upcoming iOS 5 which will allow iPad and iPod Touch users to send text messages from their device for the first time via 3G or Wi-Fi. Moreover, iMessage will let users know when the...

For those, who are planning to upgrade their PCs or laptops, or want to configure a reliable, but budget-friendly RAID array in their desktop PCs, the OCZ Onyx Series solid state drive is the way to go. The 32 GB OCZ Onyx comes...

UK Attorney General has warned that Twitter users must not breach injunction orders issued by the courts or they could be prosecuted for contempt of court.The warning comes on the heels of a super injunction row stemming from...

One in every four active hackers in the United States is secretly working for the authorities, according to estimates. Eric Corley, who publishes the Hacker Quarterly 2600 told the UK's Guardian newspaper that the hacking...

Apple introduced some of its novelties for iOS 5 at WWDC yesterday. One new feature the company is planning to incorporate in iOS 5 is a split keyboard codenamed "Grab Handles". This new user-experience is extremely useful for...

HTC’s highly anticipated Facebook centric ChaCha Smartphone is now being offered by UK wireless carrier Three.The device, which comes with a dedicated Facebook button, is being offered for free on £20 per month...

Apple has released the new iTunes 10.3 which comes with some new and interesting features, highlighted by Steve Jobs during his WWDC keynote.The new iTunes platform will come with an automatic download feature that will...

Joint Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturing venture Sony Ericsson has unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ‘E3’ the Xperia Play Experience Pack, which brings with it a docking station and a series of games for the...

Microsoft's Jon Roskill has confirmed the date when the company's web-based productivity suite, Office 365, goes live. If you're a fan, you won't have too long to wait.Office 365 is Microsoft's response to the threat posed by...

The Buffalo HD-PC1TU2 Ministation 1TB External USB hard drive brings along with it an attractive, sleek design and an enormous storage capacity to store and back up all your digital assets including movies, music and data. The...

The UK government is planning to create a ‘national blocking list’ that will block websites that support terrorism and extremism.The block list will be a part of the government’s refresh of its 2007 Prevent...

RSA Security has offered security monitoring and SecurID token replacement to its customers after it was discovered that hackers broke into Lockheed Martin servers using compromised RSA data.In March, RSA suffered a cyber...

To run a successful online consumer business (or any business for that matter) it’s imperative to consistently gain new insights into your users' behavior. At Rebtel, we regularly issue our own survey studies, typically on...

Just hours after announcing the launch of its iCloud music locker service, Apple has released iTunes 10.3... sort of. The new release won't automatically download through opening iTunes as it normally would if you have the...

C++ has emerged as the best performing programming language in a benchmark test conducted by Google.The company came up with with a compact algorithm, which did not use language specific features, to test the performance of...

While Microsoft's announcements at the Electronic Entertainment Expo yesterday might not have come as a surprise, the company did have one thing up its sleeve - but, strangely, it waited until after the event to spring it on...

The Skype client has been crashing since this morning in a repeat of what hit the company's popular VoIP service late in May 2011. Peter Parkes, the Social Media Communications Manager at Skype wrote on the company's heartbeat...

iPhone Dev Team stalwart MuscleNerd reckons he has jailbroken Apple's soon-to-be-released mobile operating system just hours after its announcement but, don't get too excited just yet, as there are some caveats. Firstly, the...

A new survey has found that Facebook has the youngest, most satisfied workforce among all big US tech companies.The survey was conducted by search firm PayScale and involved interviews with people employed by Amazon, Apple,...

Patent management company Isys Technologies has sued Google and its partners for infringing on one of their copyrights.The company claims that the terms ‘Chromebook’ and ‘Chromebox’ being used to market...

The next version of Mac OS X Lion 10.7 will be available next July worldwide for a mere $29.99 which is the same as the price you'd pay for the Snow Leopard update. Apple sells the Snow Leopard update in the UK for £26 but...

Skype users around the world are reporting trouble signing in to their accounts and using the popular VoIP software - and so far there's nothing from the company explaining the cause of the issue. Users report issues - verified...

Mobile phone network Three has announced the HTC ‘Facebook’ ChaCha mobile phone is now available, from a £20 a month contract.The ChaCha is the High Tech Computer Corporation’s Qwerty keyboard budget BlackBerry–esque phone, with...

Oracle’s growth-by-acquisition strategy has taken a back-seat this year as the company integrates Sun products into its portfolio.The company has slowed the rate of acquisitions in a bid to focus on integrating...

The next version of Mac OS X Lion 10.7 will be available in July worldwide for a mere $29.99 which is the same price as the Snow Leopard update.  Apple sells the Snow Leopard update in the UK for £26 but Lion will only...

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled multiple upgrades to its storage products, the company announced on Monday.The new updates include a collection of pre-configured storage systems as well as data snapshots. In addition, HP has...

Sony has renamed its next generation gaming console, the NGP, as the Playstation Vita and presented it in all its glory at an E3 event earlier today. The device comes with a high resolution touchscreen display as well as front...

India-based search engine Just Dial has raised $10 million in funding from SAP Ventures and Sequoia Capital.Started in 1996 in Mumbai, the company allows consumers to conducted search for local businesses and services via web,...

Sony will sell a Playstation branded 24-inch 3D monitor complete with a pair of 3D glasses, an HDMI cable and a copy of Resistance 3, the company announced at E3 earlier today. The peripheral - which has a weird curvy design -...

Orange unveiled a new bundle last week called Orange Connected which offered both the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4 on a two year contract for £65 per month with a hefty initial outlay. We had a look over at Three and found out...

Apple's A5, the system on chip that powers the iPad 2 and possibly the iPhone 5, contains a large amount of extra circuitry the purpose of which has yet to be determined. According to Linley Gwennap, the senior editor of...

Verizon Wireless has found itself in the midst of a fresh round of legal complications as media reform group Free Press complained to the Federal Communication Commission on Monday that the wireless service provider is...

Apple outlined just a handful of the 250 new features of its forthcoming OSX update and one thing became clear from the very beginning. Lion's new interface tweaks, many of which have been designed with lessons learned from the...

Modern hackers have not changed their tools and techniques, they are just more highly motivated to illegally intrude into other people's systems, according to the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab.David Emm, a senior...

Sony's replacement for the venerable PSP - which we have all fondly known as the NGP (Next Generation Portable) for some months now - has been outed at this year's E3 gadget-fest. Officially named the PS Vita, the $250 hand-held...

A selection of some of the biggest names on the web are readying themselves for World IPv6 Day, which begins tomorrow - and which could result in some issues for those with less forward-thinking ISPs.World IPv6 day is a global...

Oracle is offering heavy discounts on the software and hardware for its Exadata database platform in a bid to drive sales.In the past few months, Oracle has offered discounts of up to 70 percent and 30 percent on its Exadata...

A new malware campaign designed to victimize Android users has been discovered by two US based researchers, and according to them this new malware is capable of manoeuvring around traditional anti-virus utilities.The ...

Software and hardware maker Apple has unveiled at their Worldwide Developers Conference the latest update to their mobile device platform in the iOS 5, found on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch products.Traditionally at the June...

eBay has moved to acquire Los Angeles based Magento in order to boost its e-commerce developer tools.Magento offers an open source e-commerce platform that developers use to create their own online e-commerce stores....

The poorly tested apps available in the Android Market due to the openness of the Android platform are responsible for around 70 percent of Motorola Smartphone returns, it has been claimed. Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha,...

Security specialist RSA has admitted that an attack on its network back in March has left the protection of its SecurID token devices in tatters - and is offering selected customers brand-new tokens in compensation.Back in March,...

Moshi Monsters, the popular online gaming and virtual pet website, can now boast of having over 50 million users worldwide, site owner Mind Candy announced. Half of children in the UK aged 6 - 12 own one of the virtual pets,...

Apple has announced its much-rumoured iCloud service and for once Steve Jobs managed to keep some secrets for his keynote. Not least of which is that the service has nothing to do with live streaming of media files, and will be...