According to a report recently published by Reuters, Foxconn's plans to develop a huge iPad manufacturing facility in Brazil are coming up against some serious challenges. Analysts from all over the world have pointed out...

A beta version of The Kinect for Windows SDK has been made available for developers, with a launch date of early next year. The beta version has a motion-sensing capacity of the Kinect for Xbox 360 technology to...

According to an interesting new study, Forres, governed by the Moray Council, has topped the list of places that best utilises smart technology such as electronic cards and computer technology. This local administration...

SeeSaw faced trouble, even before it started its discarding process, to become a on-demand television programming portal. SeeSaw was basically a technological bi-product from "Project Kangaroo," which is a program that involved a...

Former YouView chief technology officer Anthony Rose has launched a new TV viewing service for Apple's iPad device. The ZeeBox is available in the UK from the iTunes App Store. The service allows users view TV...

Barnes & Noble is set to launch a new tablet e-reader on the 7th of November, which is based on the Android platform and will be called the Nook Color. A number of US-based tech news websites (like Cnet) have received an...

While carving a pumpkin is a traditional Halloween activity, it is a messy endevour and not much fun or easy to clean out the inside. The worst part is that all the hard work that goes into carving a pumpkin lasts for...

China denies hacking into US NASA satellites after a US government report accused China of cyber espionage. According to an article on The Inquirer, China, known for mounting cyber espionage operations around the world, has...

It was only a matter of weeks before the biggest computer manufacturers announced their intention to join in the Ultrabook fray. HP, which has just confirmed that it will continue to produce PCs and gave up on plans to spin off...

Google Analytics can sometimes reveal some interesting information as tech website Cult of Mac discovered. The news website managed to track Apple's followup to its current Lion OS, Mac OS X 10.8, in its analytics...

Ultrabooks may not be up for the stellar start many were expecting, with two of the big manufacturers backing the format, Acer and Asus, expecting to ship (not sell) just 100,000 units of the posher version of the netbook each,...

In the 3rd quarter of this year High Tech Computer Inc. (HTC) successfully sold double number of smartphones as compared to the same period last year as per their quarterly results. With the Great War of Patents going on, the duo...

Analysts have predicted that large numbers of Blackberry users may be switch sides from RIM devices to the newest Apple handset, following the well-publicised woes of the former coinciding with the launch of the 4S. John Dix...

Google's Android software has been accused by Microsoft's one of the most senior advocates for "standing on the shoulders" of different companies as their own in the war of the smartphones and also because of this, the natural...

In an eulogy, in the loving memory of her brother, Steve Jobs' sister revealed that the final words of Apple's founder was "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." On 16th October at the Memorial Church of Stanford University, Mona Simpson, a...

According to various reports Microsoft Corporation has introduced an application called Xbox Companion. This new app will help in controlling the Xbox directly from the mobile phone of the customer. With this app interacting with...

Virgin Media has announced some of the first bundles to be launched under its partnership with music streaming service Spotify. The company announced a six-month premium Spotify subscription package for its broadband customers...

The number of mobile related patents lawsuits are increasing in such a huge number that to keep track of them there is a need to prepare flow charts. There is a whole lot of activity that is going around-- for example Kodak is...

Apple recently acquired C3 Technologies, a company which has the technology to develop 3D maps, and according to recent reports Apple is planning to gain independence from Google Maps.  The purchase cost Apple...

To crush the ever expanding porn industry, the Church of England has threatened to use its financial powers. According to an article in The Daily Mail, The church is considering cancelling millions of investments in...

Ubuntu maker Canonical has announced its plans to bring the much loved open source operating system to smartphones and tablet PC devices. According to an articleon The Register, the company plans to introduce the mobile version...

The Philips E-Line 246EL2SB delivers excellent display output and is a perfect monitor for high action and high adventure games. The 246EL2SB full HD display with 23.6" viewing area and equipped with touch controls is ready to...

Telecom giant BT has claimed that it is well ahead of schedule in rolling out super-fast broadband in the UK. According to an articleon IT Pro, the company announced that more than two thirds of the UK will get fibre based...

The Linux Foundation is planning to use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot platform to provide a safe and open software experience to users. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a secure boot...

As per the reports of a regulatory filing, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is expected to make $31 million by cutting 800 jobs after the mobile-phone maker agreed to be acquired by Google. In the regulatory filing with the...

Shortly after the release of iPhone 4S developer Steven Troughton-Smith managed to install the virtual assistant on his iPhone 4, though at the time one very important feature was not available - it was not able to talk to...

Online retailer Handtec has slashed the price of the LG Optimus 7 E900 down to £180 and is taking preorders for this first generation Windows Phone 7 handset (which is upgradable to Windows Phone Mango as well). We noted...

Tickets are limited, so be quick! The Business Cloud Summit is one of the best attended Cloud Computing events in the UK, and we've got 10 free tickets to offer to ITProPortal readers. It couldn't be easier to claim your free...

Overclocker Andre Yang has broken the processor clock speed world record with an AMD Bulldozer chip running at a whopping 8.46GHz. Yang's feat may prove a little embarrassing for AMD, who recently set its own Guinness World...

AT&T has announced that it will receive the new LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is known as the Skyrocket and appears to be a rather strange mix of old and new technology. The handset, which will be available to...

Mobile phone network Three is set to sell the new Nokia Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ operating system based phone, for just £399 and on prepay offers.Nokia launched their first ever Windows Phone based handsets last week, in the...

On Thursday, Google Inc. introduced some major changes to its declining daily deals business - a move that has been taken just after their rival in the market, Groupon Inc. opened up its IPO for potential investors. The company...

Apple has released three new commercials focused on iPhone 4S; the main features depicted for the users are the improved camera, iCloud and of course, Siri. The voice command assistant was also the star of the first...

Google Street View is to come in from the cold, allowing users to snoop around inside shops and business with a newly launched service called Google Places. Google has been working on the service, which allows businesses to...

The Church of England (C of E) has threatened to withdraw millions of pounds worth of investment from online companies unless UK internet service providers and others crack down on internet porn. The church's Ethical...

In a recent turn of events, an online video has been published in Spanish and English language by a self-proclaimed member of Anonymous Veracruz, Mexico, accusing Los Zetas, who is one of the most powerful drug cartels in the...

One Mobile Ring exclusively broke a story at the start of October about the popular music streaming service Spotify will be free to access on the Virgin Mobile phones, where VM has just announced that very offering.Virgin Media...

Recently, it was revealed that in late 1994 Microsoft put an effort by offering a deal to buy Netscape the browser maker which Netscape eventually turned down as the offered price was too low. In the current scenario, this can be...

Recently, a private equity firm signed an agreement to buy Mosaid Technologies for C$ 590 million. Mosaid Technologies which happens to be an Ottawa-based target company, already entered into a deal with Nokia and Microsoft to...

A Youtube video claiming to come from hacker collective Anonymous has threatened to unmask the dealings of a Mexican drug cartel. The move follows the abduction of an Anonymous member in the Mexican state of Veracruz - an act...

The number of mobile related patents lawsuits are increasing in such a huge number that to keep track of them there is a need to prepare flow charts. There is a whole lot of activity that is going around-- for example Kodak is...

Amazon has confirmed that it will hold a Black Friday deals week for the second year running in the UK, from Monday 21st to Friday 25th of November. The event, which mirrors what happens in America, will see offers lasting from...

Social media giant Facebook claimed that it usually blocks anywhere between 250,000 to 600,000 daily hack attempts, targeted to jeopardise the security of its users. According to the company, everyday the site witness near about...

On-line mobile industry publication Mobile Magazine has learnt that the supermarket Sainsbury’s could be partnering with the mobile phone network umbrella company Everything Everywhere, to launch their own network in the UK.The...

It might sound a little weird to many, but a new report suggests that e-readers actually tend to get heavier every single time a new title is downloaded. However, the report also claims that the difference in weight hardly...

Motorola Mobility is set to shed 800 staff at a cost of $31 million as it streamlines its operations ahead of acquisition by Google. According to a regulatory filing, pretax costs will include $27 million in severance pay and...

Seattle based software developers Microsoft has released an update to the deployment of the new Windows Phone 7 OS version known as ‘Mango’, where the platform is now available to all the earlier devices.Microsoft has made public...

Apple may be looking at extending the Macbook Air design to the rest of its laptop family according to a report that has emerged courtesy of MacRumors and TUAW. Both sites claim that Apple will launch two new notebooks, a 15-inch...

EA has revealed its plans to make 20 exclusive games for recently unveiled Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 devices. EA and Nokia have announced that 20 games will be exclusively available on the new Mango based devices. According to...

BlackBerry and PlayBook maker Research In Motion (RIM) has set up a brand new facility in Mumbai - the financial capital of India, in order to assist the government to monitor its BlackBerry Services in a lawful manner. South...

Earlier last week, Microsoft unveiled its surprising and eye-catching Productivity Future Vision video. There were quite a number of things which were revealed - from the see-through refrigerator to a software application capable...

Residents of Delaware County in Ohio are being told to prepare themselves for a temporary zombie invasion, as emergency response organisations stage a mock attack to encourage awareness of how to react in the face of more likely...

Mobile phone manufacturer Motorola Mobility has released its third quarter financial results, which highlighted the net revenues of $3.3 billion and that the company has sold 100,000 of their Xoom tablets in 90 days.The $3.3...

A new report has shed light into how the Internet firms Google and Yahoo! are all set to dish out their own digital newsstand apps. According to the report published in the tech site AllThingsD, the new offering by both the...

Ruby, the popular general-purpose object-oriented programming language, has ditched the GNU General Public Licence in favour of the more permissive BSD licence in its latest point release. Ruby 1.9.3-p0, the first release in the...

Nokia's newly announced Windows Phone powered Lumia 800 smartphone can now be preordered on pay as you go from Three Mobile for under £400 straight from the retailer itself. Three lists the handset as being a "coming soon"...

Recently, rumours surfaced all over the Web that the technology giant HP was on its way to kill the company's webOS operating system platform. One of the top executives of Hewlett Packard made an appearance in Bloomberg and...

The head of GCHQ, the UK government's intelligence gathering agency, has warned of a "disturbing" increase in cyber-attacks against UK targets. Writing in the Times newspaper, Iain Lobban highlighted a "significant" attack...

Apple is continuing its trend of acquiring companies to internalise technologies that other mobile companies outsource, announcing the acquisition of 3D mapping specialist C3 Technologies. The acquisition of C3 Technologies,...

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has unveiled the Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry handset, as a luxury branded smartphone that is set to deliver engineered luxury and performance.The Porsche Design P’9981 mobile...

If you are after a large screen all rounder Android-based handset, you might want to have a look at the HTC Sensation XL which can be had from Dialaphone on an O2 contract with a total cost of ownership of £411. The deal...

NHS staff have been found to be posting the private details of patients to Facebook, according to a report from Big Brother Watch which publicises the result to several Freedom of Information Act requests. In the report, the...

UFO hacker Gary McKinnon's mother has made the shortlist for a human rights award in recognition of her decade-long fight to prevent her son from being extradited to the US. Janis Sharp, 62, told her local newspaper the Welwyn...

After quasi-artificial intelligence and three-dimensional maps, the future plans of Apple has been predicted as acquisition of C3 Technology. These predictions are pouring in from various sources all over the Web world. If true,...

The LG Optimus 2X was the first dual core smartphone to be launched at the beginning of the year, but despite the fact that it is still a powerful handset, LG has confirmed that the smartphone won't get Google's latest platform...

Joint Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturing venture Sony Ericsson has announced that is to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, whilst being integrated into Sony’s platform of consumer electronics products at the same...

China has developed its first petascale supercomputing system built entirely from home-grown processors, as it works to move away from dependence on US designed chips. The system, which is known in English as the 'Sunway...

As we previously discussed, Microsoft is trying to unite the tablet, phone and computer in one, using its latest OS: Windows 8. More proof has surfaced, coming to back up our rumours. It seems that during the BUILD 2011...

Hewlett Packard's Todd Bradley, in charge of the now-reprieved Personal Systems Group, has rubbished rumours that webOS is dying out without committing to a reintroduction of his company's popular TouchPad tablet. In a televised...

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has confirmed to One Mobile Ring that the world’s first mobile phone to arrive running Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 will be on sale in two week’s time, whilst the large screen Note...

South Korea based electronic giant Samsung announced last week that the company's new mobile device line up is going to be equipped with flexible displays. According to the company, this new product line will hit the shelves...

BlackBerry and PlayBook maker Research In Motion (RIM) has set up a brand new facility in Mumbai - the financial capital of India, in order to assist the government to monitor its BlackBerry Services in a lawful manner. RIM...

Samsung has reported a dip of 23% in its profit following decrease in demands of flat panels as well as computer chips despite an increase in shipments of smartphones. Google has enhanced its Street View mapping service and took...