Amazon has unveiled its cheapest Kindle Ebook reader yet, one which is also 30 per cent lighter at 170 grams and boasts an 18 per cent smaller body, while sticking to the same 6-inch e-Ink screen that was pioneered by the...

Hitachi has announced the availability of a more affordable technology that will make HD ready IPS panels more widely available, and demoed a 4.5-inch LCD panel with a 1280x720 pixel resolution. The Japanese company has used...

ZTE has presented its first working, ready to roll out tablet, called the T98, with an Nvidia Tegra 3 SoC, the Kal'El, that comes with five cores and a stated clocked speed of 1.5GHz but underclocked to 1.3GHz. The device was...

Apple's build plans for its touchscreen tablets are well above analysts' predictions, despite recent concerns from some in the market, Apple Insider reports. The information comes in response to a report published early this...

Windows maker Microsoft Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with the South Korea based tech outfit Samsung, under which both the companies will cross license their patent portfolios. The new move taken...

The highly anticipated Google branded Samsung Nexus Prime has received its Bluetooth certificate. The device will be manufactured by Samsung but will be branded by Google. Chinese mobile maker ZTE has dished out its own branded...

Google has asked the courts to keep all data related to Android confidential in the AT&T and T-Mobile merger anti-trust trial.The company filed a motion in a federal court in Washington asking the court to keep Google’s...

Google has filed a motion to withdraw the lawsuit it filed against the Federal government last year.The company filed the lawsuit in 2010 against the Department of the Interior, accusing it of drafting documents for the...

Lenovo has partnered with original device manufacturer Compal to set-up a joint venture to develop laptops and all-in-one desktops.The companies plan to invest $100 million in the joint venture; Lenovo will have a 51 percent...

Intel has announced the latest addition to its existing group of science and technology centers. The new set up, located at the University of Washington, will focus on pervasive computing.The new initiative will concentrate on...

Intel has announced that it is going to equip the USB killer, high-speed Thunderbolt ports on Macs, compatible with fibre optics cables.With this, Intel is going back to its original concept that merges the PCI Express and...

Microsoft has developed the web based version of its Windows Phone Marketplace application store.The web based store’s launch coincides with the release of the much awaited Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update which brings more...

The Extra Value Desktop is definitely a good buy for all those who are looking for a replacement towards their old worn out desktop tower. Aptly suitable for home requirements, small office users may also opt for this desktop...

Huawei has partnered with Discovery Communications to create a mobile phone designed for travellers and outdoor types.A co-branded device called Huawei Expedition includes several bells and whistles aimed at...

The Grundig GUD1600TS1G Set Top Box can be considered a more or less entry level Set Top Box that does feature a couple of advanced capabilities that are found in advanced systems only. The GUD1600TS1G is capable of pausing and...

A number of pioneers in the semiconductor industry, led by IBM, Intel and Globalfoundries plan to invest approximately $4.4 billion in a New York based chip research and development hub, announced New York governor Andrew M....

Microsoft has announced that it will start producing its Xbox 360 gaming console in Brazil.The company, which is partnering with Flextronics International for the manufacturing project, states the first consoles produced by...

In the world of Plasma TVs, the Panasonic TXP42UT30 42-inch 3D plasma TV shines as one of the bright stars with amazing depth, 3D capabilities along with excellent sound quality through surround sound system and a wide range of...

The U.S International Trade Commission has announced that it is going to look into the lawsuit filed by HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker against its U.S based arch rival Apple Inc. HTC, which also happens to be the second...

Search engine giant Google has started a new fund under which it will offer home owners solar powered electricity. In a blog post, the company said that it has invested $75 million in a fund with Clear Power Finance to help 3,000...

The highly anticipated Google branded Samsung Nexus Prime has received its Bluetooth certificate.The device will be manufactured by Samsung but will be branded by Google. The Nexus Prime is said to be the first smartphone powered...

Digital TV recorders are becoming increasingly popular because of the advanced technologies they come with and because of their ability to pause live TV, record shows, movies, etc. while you are watching something else enabling...

Toshiba has unveiled the latest addition into its tablet computer portfolio - The Thrive 7. The company also announced the device will be hitting store shelves in the U.S sometime during the coming Christmas season. The Thrive...

The flood of five-core tablets powered by Nvidia's Tegra 3 'Kal-El' chip appears to be just around the corner, with Chinese giant ZTE the first to break cover.Spotted by the guys over on Chinese-language tech site Zol.com.cn,...

Plenty of people wonder how much information Facebook holds about you - but fewer know that, if you live in the European Union, you have a legal right to obtain it. Unsurprisingly, it's not something Facebook is keen to tell...

Google has announced its plans to invest more than $200 million to open three data centers in Asia.The company said that it has acquired land in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong to construct the data centers, which can be readied...

Internet search giant Google is rolling out the Android 2.3.6 update, also known as Gingerbread for its Nexus S smartphone, the company, which turned 13 yesterday, announced. Google further stated that Nexus handsets all around...

Virgin Media is set to launch its first ever cloud based services aimed at business customers. With this new service, the company hopes to double revenues coming from its enterprise wing within the next 5 years.According to the...

Inspired by the recent success it enjoyed in the US, microblogging platform Twitter is looking forward to register an exponential growth after it integrates its services with the forthcoming iOS 5 platform, the company...

The recently held Facebook f8 conference, hosted by San Francisco witnessed the online music streaming pioneer Spotify joining forces with the social media giant with the vision of making available its services for Facebook...

Amazon has unveiled its long-awaited tablet, the Kindle Fire, and it looks like many of the rumours and predictions that have been doing the rounds are scarily on the mark.Manufactured by ODM giant Quanta, the Kindle Fire - a...

Search engine giant Google has announced that it plans to open up offices to fund young start-ups at London’s Tech City. The company said that it has signed a 10 year lease contract for a 7 storey building at Silicon...

Foxconn, a key supplier of electronic equipments for a lot of major brands all across the world including the likes of Apple Inc., announced that a fire broke out yesterday at one of its factories in China. The company, however,...

Microsoft has reached an agreement with Samsung that sees the Redmond-based software giant receive royalties for every Android-based device sold, with the company once again arguing that Android - and Linux in general - infringe...

Chinese mobile maker ZTE has dished out its own branded smartphones in the UK with hopes of grabbing some market share from more established players. The Android based Skate and Libra smartphones are being distributed by...

Online presentation sharing platform SlideShare has announced that it has moved its entire platform on HTML5, dumping Adobe’s Flash platform in the process. The company said that its 55 million users will now be able to...

Researchers at Rice University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University have discovered a technique for creating 'walls' of graphene, which could lead to a solution for the problem of ever-shrinking chip sizes.Published this month in...

The 12 months preceding the launch of the iPhone 5 - which is set to happen next Tuesday - have generated a huge number of news headlines, with hundreds of websites across the world scrambling to create content for an audience...

A group of U.S based researchers are saying that they have come up with a new form of computer memory that could operate not only faster than the existing technology, but also consumes almost 99 percent less energy than flash...

Gibson Guitar Corporation launches the Gibson Firebird X tomorrow, a wireless self-tuning axe that virtually plays itself. The guitar maker is bringing the instrument firmly into the 21st century with its own 'authorised App...

A new revelation made by a Experian Hitwise suggests that more and more visitors are joining Google’s latest venture in the social networking world – Google+. Google opened its brand new social media platform for...

The European Commission is looking for 10,000 volunteers in order to map the state of broadband across the continent. According to BBC News, the EC has hired measurement firm SamKnows to carry out the study, results of which will...

The much-anticipated iPhone 5 will not only feature redesigned hardware, but one of the major new upgrades will be a highly-integrated voice control system, according to the Apple blog 9to5Mac.  The robust voice control...

Mobile phone network Three has extended their truly unlimited mobile broadband data allowance, to encompass all of their mobile phone contracts and not just two of them – for an extra £3 a month.Three initially introduced their...

Microsoft has announced it will soon release a patch to block a vulnerability in protocols that are used to secure communication between a website and user web browser.The vulnerability, which exists in SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0...

Seems like the controversy surrounding the release of Julian Assange’s memoir against his will did not help sales figures - the book sold just 644 copies in the first three days since its release.The memoir of Assange, the...

Apple could release both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S in their efforts to combat Android. Apple's dual-release strategy could really allow the company to impact the mid-range market which has around 1 billion prepaid customers,...

Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography, the WikiLeaks founder's controversial memoir, has failed to make the bestseller lists, limping in at 537th in this week's sales rankings. The book, published last week by...

Redmond based software powerhouse Microsoft Corp. has hunted down a third botnet within a span of less than 1 year, by carrying out a co-ordinated attack on both legal, as well as technical fronts, the company announced. The...

Details have started to appear regarding Research In Motion's BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps, the compatibility layer which - it hopes - will breathe new life into its ailing PlayBook by introducing compatibility with...

Over 200,000 Britons may have fallen for online romance scams, according to research led by the University of Leicester. Many more love-hungry suckers inhabit these septic isles than previously thought, if the reasearch is to...

Open source software outfit Mozilla has dished out the version 7 of the highly popular Firefox web browser, which now comes with enhanced speeds and improved memory management capabilities. The Firefox 7 web browser, which was...

Recently, Apple has reportedly made significant cuts to orders for iPad parts from its suppliers. According to analysts, Apple has lowered orders for the last quarter of 2011 by 25%, a rate which JP Morgan's electronic...

Telecom giant Three has raised the alarm by saying that the company may soon run out of capacity in urban areas if there are any further halt in the spectrum auctions. It further stated that the networks within the country are...

The Document Foundation, the group behind popular open source productivity suite LibreOffice, celebrates its first birthday today with an estimated 25 million users across the globe.Founded following displeasure in the...

Google announced back in August that it will be rebuilding the backend of Blogger, its popular blogging solution, to keep pace with the rest of the competition (that's Wordpress, Tumblr and Facebook), and has introduced a new...

Amazon is apparently going to launch a second version of its tablet only a few months after launching its first one today, that's according to an article published by Gdgt. The first tablet - likely to be called the Kindle Fire -...

The Linux Foundation will play host to yet another new mobile platform called Tizen with Intel and Samsung as Godparents; it is not known whether Intel's own MeeGo OS will be used as the foundation. MeeGo was born out of the...

We noted yesterday that the decision by Apple to move the launch of the iPhone 5 to September/October, which for almost a decade has been the the period dedicated to the iPod and iTunes, could mean that the company may be...

Researcher Nik Cubrilovic has responded to Facebook's claims that it doesn't track logged-out users with evidence that it does exactly that - prompting an emergency patch from the company to remove the tracking...

Do you remember recent reports of an iPhone 5 being lost in the US? Rumour has it that Apple may now have lost an iPhone 5 prototype in the Chinese district of Shenzhen, according to a news report emanating from a tech...

The European Commission is looking for 10,000 volunteers in order to map the state of broadband across the continent. According to BBC News, the EC has hired measurement firm SamKnows to carry out the study, results of which will...

Windows maker Microsoft Corp. officially unveiled the massively anticipated Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update on Tuesday aimed at introducing a wide range of new features to its Windows Phone mobile platform. The company, however,...

Seattle based software developers Microsoft has started to deploy their very latest Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ operating system to mobile phones that shipped with the first version of Windows Phone 7.Microsoft has announced the...

US wireless carrier Sprint is expected to roll out its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in early 2012. Citing people familiar with the situation, CNET reveals that the company is already installing LTE network equipment in...

Smartphones based on Google’s Android platform have become the most popular with Americans purchasing new devices. According to a survey by market research firm Nielsen, from June to August 2011, 56 percent of Americans who...

Intel-supported OS flop Meego is to be folded into a new initiative, aimed a buidling an open-source, cross-platfrom OS now budded Tizen. Intel said it has joined Linux Foundation and LiMo Foundation to develop Linux-based Tizen...