Apple's supply chain is, as ever, very generous when it comes to leaked information regarding the company's next-generation devices. Now the interest has shifted towards Apple's highly anticipated tablet, the iPad 3. Recently...

Update: Web 2.0 Summit  Photos and Video Added Sean Parker, the man known for his enormous contributions of massively popular platforms such as Napster, Plaxo and Causes, has revealed the name of his new start-up;...

A group of Microsoft researchers have come up with a new, innovative way that could soon transform the way you handle your smartphone. According to new reports, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have invented new...

The most impressive new feature of the iPhone 4S also seems in the first days to be the most frustrating one. As every user is trying to experience the all-knowing voice activated assistant, the first connectivity problems for...

Taher Elgamal, the creator of SSL technology, has warned that the system is as vulnerable as it was a month ago when it came under attack from hackers.The Secure Socket Layer technology is used to secure the communication and...

Japan’s NEC has announced its plans to release a wearable mini computer capable of projecting images onto the naked eye.The computer, which weighs 430 grams, comes with a belt that can be strapped to the body. The set-up...

Despite Apple being embroiled with Samsung Electronics in a deeply divisive legal battle over patents and designs, news has emerged from South Korea that both companies are going to put aside their differences and work on the...

Google has made some significant improvements to the Presentations module on its Google Docs cloud-based services with an emphasis on collaborative features. Steven Saviano, Software Engineer at Google, described how the company...

The recently unveiled HTC Titan smartphone, which comes with Windows Phone 7.5, is now available on preorder for a mere £30.64 per month on an 18-month contract from T-Mobile (via Buymobilephone.net). That's a total cost of...

Microsoft is planning to bring its Business Intelligence applications to Android and iOS platforms.When Microsoft highlighted its plans to roll out Hadoop big data analysis software distributions at the Microsoft SQL PASS Summit,...

Although RIM hasn't confirmed it officially, it looks as if the Canadian manufacturer has finally decided to cut the cost of its expensive Blackberry Playbook tablet with the 16GB version now available for £249. That's a...

Vodafone has started to sell an ARM-based laptop in South Africa via its Vodacom subsidiary for as little as R1499 or roughly £135; sadly though we've received confirmation that the device - which Vodafone calls a Webbook...

Western Digital has suspended its production operations in Thailand due to a massive flood in the region.As a result of flooding, hundreds of people in the region have died while thousands have lost their jobs....

Paul Ceglia, the man known for his desire to own half of the massively popular social media site Facebook, has changed his legal representation, yet again.Ceglia, who claims to have a legitimate contract that entitles him to...

Lenovo has surged pass Dell to become the world’s second largest PC maker, according to new data provided by research firm Gartner.Lenovo, which purchased IBM’s PC division, shipped 12.3 million units in the third...

Research In Motion could soon issue compensation for its operators worldwide for unnecessarily finding itself at the receiving end of the recent three-day-long BlackBerry Messanger (BBM) outage. When the outage first began it was...

In what seems to be an accidental-leak-on-purpose, Nokia has disclosed some of the details concerning a key forthcoming product.The handset in question is the Nokia 710 - a smartphone powered by the new Windows Phone 7.5...

Hewlett Packard has introduced new products and services aimed at allowing enterprises to deliver cloud-based services as quickly as possible.The company said the new offerings, based on the HP Converged Infrastructure, will help...

The recent three days of outage infuriated BlackBerry users and, as reactions all over the blogosphere show, many are wondering if is the right time to make a switch away from RIM to Apple's smartphone of the moment. Blackberry...

NTT DoCoMo, one of the leading mobile phone carriers in Japan, has confirmed that it will be rolling out the Samsung Nexus as soon as it is available.The Nexus happens to be the first handset powered by Google’s brand new...

Dell announced that it has ended a ten-year partnership with storage appliances maker EMC.Dell, in an effort to expand its business lines, made a series of storage acquisitions which put it in direct competition with its...

Seems like tough time awaits Netflix in the foreseeable future as an emerging competitor of the company, dubbed VDIO is currently being developed by the same team originally assigned to develop the VoIP platform Skype. VDIO has...

CTIA has announced a new set of guidelines which will prevent wireless customers from getting bill shocks.A survey conducted by the US Federal Communications Commission had found that wireless customers in the US were plagued by...

Speaking during the Web 2.0 conference, 4chan and Canvas founder Chris Poole said that Google and Facebook were wrong about forcing people to use their real identities online, The Register reports.Facebook and Google’s...

Japan based NEC has come with a new battery technology which is capable of significantly extending the battery life of Lithium-ion batteries. According to Computer World, the company plans to release the new battery technology...

The Panasonic DMP-BD75EB-K Blu-ray Disc player is a fast booting 2D player that takes very little time to play the disc after the menu has been displayed. The menu system of the player is intuitive, simple and comes with large...

A key supplier to Apple and HTC has confirmed that unexpected downtime in one of its factories could result in the shortage of certain products from both companies within the next few days. It all started when Chinese firm,...

Despite some initial pessimism Apple has surpassed analysts' expectations, selling 4 million iPhone 4S in the first three days of availability, more than double the previous record held by the iPhone 4. Although reviews were...

Printing is one of the most rudimentary tasks in each and every office and at times it becomes troublesome because of stuck papers, dry ink cartridges, etc. Epson, for these reason has come out with the WorkForce Pro WP-4015 DN...

Day one of the Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, was concluded with a Grand Ballroom dinner and an interview with Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.com (@dickc), which for me, was the most insightful and candid interview of the day The...

Hannspree brings to you an entry level HannsG HA222DPB LCD TFT monitor that would provide you with a comfortable display that wouldn’t be harsh on your eyes even if you work on the computer for long hours. The 22-inch...

Update: Web 2.0 Summit Photos & Video Added Dick Costolo, the chief executive officer of the micro blogging platform Twitter disclosed some of the action plans his company has set for the next 5 years. Costolo made the...

Apple has broken sales records with over 4 million iPhone 4S sold in the first three days. Previously the iPhone 4 had held that distinction reaching 1.7 million customers in the same time frame. One major difference with Apple's...

The Philips 234CL2SB is a 23-inch monitor that is capable to providing you with Full HD display and is well suited for both computing as well as entertainment needs. The Smart contrast ratio of 20,000,000:1 and a Smart response...

Would you like to know about problems on your network before they happen? This is surely a question with an obvious answer, but you would be surprised how many organisations don't have any monitoring on their network today....

Talks between Google and Twitter to reinstate real-time Social Search of the micro-blogging platform's posts appear to be in deadlock, with neither company able to agree a deal. Until a deal between the two companies expired in...

International Business Machines posted third quarter financial results which failed to impress investors due to a slow growth in sales. The company reported total service signings of $12.3 billion during the third quarter of...

Samsung and Apple might still be at loggerheads over which company stole which patents, but it looks like the next-generation Apple mobile processor for the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 will still bear the Samsung logo.Samsung has been...

ViaSat UK has launched a range of USB flash drives that come with high level encryption for government and military use. The Eclypt Nano range of USB flash drives, which has been certified by the UK Communications-Electronics...

Smartphone giant HTC has acquired Inquisitive Minds, a company which specialises in child-friendly user interfaces, for $13 million in a deal announced today.Although HTC will still be smarting from the news that the US...

Productivity and multimedia software maker Adobe Systems Inc. has unveiled the first ever official Adobe Reader for the iOS platform, the company announced. With this new offering from the U.S based software giant, iPod Touch,...

South Korean electronics company Samsung has released the sales figures for their Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II handsets, which have achieved a combined 30 million sales, globally.This news comes after their latest flagship...

Microsoft has released details of a technology it believes could spell the end of the traditional smartphone: OmniTouch, a wearable computing system that uses any available surface as an interactive display.The work of Hrvoje...

Nokia smartphones running on the Windows Phone 7 platform are expected to be launched in November throughout Europe. A leaked release schedule for Italy based mobile phone carrier TIM indicates that a Windows Phone 7.5 Nokia...

Most companies today, whether large or small, product/manufacturing or service-based, herald their workforce as their most valuable resource. Companies in vertical industries with a high concentration of knowledge workers sound...

U.S based multinational tech giant IBM announced last week that it is participating in a new collaborative effort, aimed at developing power grids capable of deriving power from renewable energy sources. The new initiative was...

A flaw in the firmware of SandForce's popular SF-2000 series of solid state drive controller modules has finally been resolved, with companies expected to start rolling out the fix within the next few months.When the SF-2000 SSD...

Online retail giant Amazon is planning a massive push into the book publishing business, cutting out key publishers which are also the suppliers of the books and eBooks that it sells through its online portal. Amazon has plans of...

Barely a day to pass by before the much awaited Ice Cream Sandwich is finally dished out by the technology giant Google, but rumours and speculations regarding the different features included in this next version of the Android...

Virgin Atlantic has announced it will be investing more than £50 million into a refurbishment of its Gatwick fleet of aircraft, which will result in allowing mobile phones to be used on board and in the air.This news is the first...

Consumer electronics giant Samsung has released ChatON, which is an application for Google Android mobile phones that allows for multi-platform communications and multimedia sharing, amongst other new features.Samsung’s ChatOn...

A key supplier to Apple and HTC has confirmed that unexpected downtime in one of its factories could result in the shortage of certain products from both companies within the next few days.It all started when Chinese firm,...

Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant that was the centrepiece of Apple's recent iOS 5 launch, and exclusive to the new iPhone 4S smartphone, has been ported to run on the company's older iPhone 4 handset. The new iPhone...

Just hours after Apple confirmed that it had sold four million iPhone 4S in the first three days after its launch. Samsung has announced that it has managed to sell (rather than ship) 30 million Galaxy S and Galaxy SII handsets...

The Motorola XOOM could be the first tablet which will receive Google's next generation mobile platform, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That's according to Fuad Abazovic, from Fudzilla, who says he had heard the rumour...

After receiving several complaints, a Japanese firm had to tone down a smartphone app which they marketed for wives and girlfriends who want to keep an eye on their partners. The firm received complaints stating that the app is...

Smartphone maker HTC has found itself at the receiving end of a latest verdict announced by the International Trade Commission (ITC) in its ongoing legal conflict with the iPhone maker Apple Inc. In the latest hearing, the ITC...

ARM has teamed up with Taiwanese foundry TSMC for the tape out of the first 20nm Cortex-A15 MPCore processor, only six months after the RTL stage was reached. The implementation appeared to have been sped up using TSMC's own Open...

Canadian mobile phone manufacturer RIM has inadvertently made public a pair of upcoming BlackBerry handsets, from their own website.Research In Motion’s own developers site, known as ‘Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog’, housed...

Apple's Siri 'intelligent assistant' is doubtless impressive, but as the flagship feature of a new iPhone that's been in development since the company bought Siri Assistant's creator back in 2010 you would expect that. Iris,...

Smartphone maker HTC has lost its bid to have the US International Trade Commission rule that Apple violated four of its patents. The company has said it plans to appeal. In the complaint, which was filed in May of last year,...

We received a rather cryptic invitation from ARM for an event to be held in London where they will be unveiling "big news" that they say will address one of the biggest challenges in the tech industry. That is "extending...

High performance computer maker SGI has inked a partnership with Cloudera to offer its software pre-installed on the SGI Hadoop Clusters. SGI, which recently became a member of the Cloudera Connect Partner Programme, announced...

Popular Apple news website 9to5 has collaborated with a software developer, to port the Siri voice assistant application that exclusively accompanies the new iPhone 4S – over to the older iPhone 4, running the same operating...

Social media giant Facebook announced on Monday that it is joining forces with Opower and NRDC with the vision of coming up with a new Facebook app which will encourage users to save power. Facebook is not the first major company...

A new consumer survey has found that phone hacking is the biggest obstacle that is stopping people from adopting mobile phone payments. According to a survey conducted by Intersperience many Britons are not willing to use their...

The number of views of BBC iPlayer content generated by tablets grew by a staggering 15 per cent from August to September according to figures released by the BBC as part of its monthly performance pack (PDF). It still represents...

UberMedia has announced that it is launching the company’s brand new social media offering on Tuesday. Dubbed Chime.in, the new site has come at a time when all the hype and speculations regarding the search giant...

A report claims that US military officials debated over the use of 'cyber-weapons' prior to the attack on Libya, suggesting that cyber-combat is a very real concept in modern warfare.According to a report in the New York Times,...

A new survey has revealed that around 40 percent of the motorists check their mobile phones while driving. According to a survey, reports Mirror, conducted by Confused.com, people’s addiction to their mobile phone devices...

Software giant Microsoft, in a bid to re-image itself as a company fit for family computing and entertainment needs, has dished out new videos that advertise how its products are meant for the use of the entire family and not...

One Mobile Ring is turning its attention to Research In Motion and the recent outage of their BlackBerry services. This resulted in BlackBerry mobile phones in Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, parts of South America being...

After receiving several complaints, a Japanese firm had to tone down a smartphone app which they marketed for wives and girlfriends who want to keep an eye on their partners. The firm received complaints stating that the app is...

Linux-based open source desktop environment KDE celebrated 15 years in business on Saturday, October 15. The desktop environment, which contends with Ubuntu's Unity and GNOME utilities, is one of the most widely used Linux...