A local environmental group which had a meeting with Apple officials commented that Apple is planning to get a third-party audit firm to investigate their 15 suppliers suspected of violating various environmental...

Apple is looking into reports of low-power battery life of older MacBook devices running on the new Mac OS X Lion. An Apple Insider reader told the tech blog he had received a call from an Apple technician doing a follow up on an...

HTC could be working on a new smartphone, possibly called the Zeta, which might well be the baddest, meanest and one of the most innovative devices launched by the Taiwanese company yet. The phone is said to come with a quad core...

To introduce the LTE network and LTE-enabled phones, the biggest mobile phone operator in Japan will be spend 880 billion yen. CEO and President of NTT Docomo, Ryuji Yamada, declared at a mobile conference in Hong Kong, that...

Apart from hinting that there could well be a new top of the range Windows Phone handset at Nokia, the boss of Nokia France told French newspaper Les Echos that the company will have a tablet that will run Windows 8. He even...

Microsoft Research has launched a new project called 'Code Space' which combines Kinect's capabilities with air and touch-based gestures. Designed for making developer meetings more fun and productive, 'Code Space,' which is a...

T-Mobile is currently offering 12 months free data when users order a free T-Mobile micro SIM and top it up with £10. They will be able to use 500MB worth of data every month, which T-Mobile says is worth £40 over one...

Expansys has dropped the price of the Acer Liquid Metal Android handset to only £140, which makes it one of the best value smartphones on the market. The device, which costs less than half the price of the two-year-old...

Microsoft is planning to launch a version of the Windows 8 platform for smart embedded devices like ATM machines and smart kiosks. According to an article on The Register, the company plans to release the Windows Embedded...

The head of Nokia France told French newspaper Les Echos that the company could be launching a phone that's the equivalent of the BMW Series 7 car range, after he compared the just announced Lumia 800 to the BWM 5 series. The...

Leaders in the technology world were blown away by a 12-year-old app developer who gave a confident and witty presentation at the TEDxManhattanBeach conference.  Thomas Suarez briefly described a few of...

Amazon's Kindle Fire began was shipped to customers only a few days ago -  and it has not even been a week since its very first review units were deployed. However, this brand new product is already a part of...

With the launch of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft will be adopting a new licensing model based on cores, the company revealed. The company has announced that it is going to change the licensing model from per server basis to per core...

In view of the current scenario, the chief of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, declared an everlasting "Windows Era." At the shareholder's annual meeting the Ballmer made this comment after results showed the software giant is...

Unlike other vendors, Amazon did not take too long to release its source code of the Kindle Fire's kernel. Amazon, on the same day of the launch of its latest Kindle Fire, also unveiled the mandatory source code details on...

Nokia debuted its first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 800, in the UK and received rave reviews. The device is technologically sound and has specs to match the iPhone 4 and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy...

Sony has released the details of the PS Vita pre-order pack for early buyers. The company is planning to release the console in Japan next week while consumers in the US, UK and Canada can purchase the console a week early. Sony...

Sony Ericsson has announced its plans to bring the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to its entire of 2011 Xperia devices. In a blog post, the company confirmed it was currently working towards making the newest Android...

On Wednesday, shares of Game Group fell after warnings made by the company that despite the huge success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, sales at retailers will drop dramatically. Shares of Game Group, which has 610...

In research conducted by uSwitch, an online comparing company, it was revealed that in the UK download speeds of broadband dips dramatically during peak times. The research states that from 7pm to 9pm, download speeds decrease to...

Google has been named the software vendor with the most vulnerabilities during the third quarter of 2011. According to a third quarter threat report released by security software maker Trend Micro, Google has replaced...

In the UK, Virgin Media is making a huge amount of money from cable broadband service customers. This information was revealed after a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The...

Considering the supposed "stringent approval process" that guards over Apple's App Store, it is curious how a fake app could have been available for two weeks without Apple's team even noticing it. To make matters even more...

Sometime back, Microsoft had accidentally revealed that it was building a new social networking platform, based around its Bing search engine, to take on the likes of Facebook and Google+. Now, more details of Microsoft's social...

Nokia is set to launch a tablet PC running Microsoft Windows 8 next year, the head of the Finnish mobile maker's French subsidiary has revealed - possibly in time to go head-to-head with an expected Apple iPad 3. Paul Amsellem,...

Lawyers representing Samsung have insisted that the legal war between Apple and the Korean electronics giant could have been avoided. According to Samsung's legal team, the company followed the "informal policy of not suing...

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim looks set to bring in almost half a billion dollars for developer Bethesda. While that isn't quite the figure Modern Warfare 3 bagged, it does show that the market isn't solely dominated by FPS sales....

The Kindle Fire tablet's source code has been released by Amazon, enabling homebrew hackers to replace its built-in software with their own third-party Android builds. Priced at a relatively inexpensive $199 in the US, the...

4chan.org is just about accessible again, but all imageboards remain down at a time users and admins are attempting to draw attention to American Censorship Day. For the past few days 4chan.org, often considered the primordial...

Amazon Kindle Fire users can now overcome one of the tablets big limitations - lack of access to Google's Android Market - by 'sideloading' third-party apps directly from a PC or Mac on to the keenly priced tablet. Amazon's new...

Technology news website The Verge has published an image of the yet to be announced BlackBerry London handset, which is said to be running the BBX operating system.The Verge has run with the first-ever photo of the next iteration...

Another RIM handset was released yesterday following the rather good-looking RIM Blackberry Bold 9790; the device, called the Curve 9380 is a variant of the existing Curve 9360, without the physical keyboard. There's a 3.2-inch...

The Sandstrom SW72011 HD Webcam, compatible with multimedia and internet applications allows you to stay in touch with friends and family wherever you are. The SW72011 is Skype-compatible and is ideal for teleconferencing,...

The new HTC Zeta quad-core smartphone currently under development could pack as much power as many of today's laptop or desktop PCs, if rumours prove correct. The reports follow details leaked last week about another quad-core...

Minecraft Pocket is set to hit iPad and iPhone portable devices tomorrow, as the blocky building game comes to Apple's iOS.  Basically a cut-back version of the infiniminer clone, Minecraft Pocket has much more in common...

HP has finally unveiled its first Ultrabook, the $899 Folio, which is clearly aimed at a business and enterprise audience and will go on sale in the UK from the 7th of December. The device comes with a nine hour battery life, a...

Dell 1250c Colour Laser Printer is the smallest A4 colour laser-class printer with amazing colour that is apt for small offices and home business owners for printing high quality brochures, marketing material, business reports,...

Lenovo IdeaCentre B320 is not just any ordinary all-in-one PC, but an entertainment hub as well that would take your entertainment experience to any entirely new level through features such as Full HD output, touchscreen...

Computer maker Dell reported a drop in revenue during the third quarter but its earnings rose significantly. According to PC World, the company reported a revenue of $15.37 billion during the third quarter, a drop from $15.4...

Popular makers of Photoshop Adobe has announced a range of touch apps designed for Android run tablet devices, which are all based around their Adobe Creative Suite of products.Adobe announced the Google mobile OS applications at...

Hacktivist group Anonymous is being blamed for the massive porn spam attack that has engulfed social networking platform Facebook. Facebook's user news feed has been flooded by pornographic images including morphed images of...

Details of Microsoft's would-be Google+ - and, potentially, Facebook - killer Tulalip have leaked out ahead of the service's launch, under the new name of Socl. Socl - what you get when you try to type 'social' while drunk -...

TP-LINK, known for its cost effective networking products, has come up with yet another networking equipment, the TL-WA701ND Wireless Lite N Access Point that has been designed to establish or expand a scalable high-speed...

Sony is reportedly working on a web TV system that would be an alternative to cable TV to provide affordable TV content through the internet on its PS3 and other devices. Sony is currently in talks with Discovery, NBCUniversal...

US authors are raging against Amazon's new Kindle Owners' Lending Library feature, claiming that their books are being given away for free without their consent in direct breach of publishers' contractual terms. The feature - a...

Telecom giant BT has publicly launched its superfast ‘up to' 100 Mbps broadband service in the UK. As of now, the service, called BT Infinity Option 3, is only available through a limited number of exchanges but, the...

Our sister in-depth IT title thinq_ has published a piece surrounding Google releasing ahead of schedule the source code to the platform running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.Thinq_ has posted an item on Android 4.0, which notes it...

It has been 10 years since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox, a revolutionary product in gaming market. In the very first week of its launch 100,000 units were shipped to the retailers and before the end of 2001, 1.5 million units of...

Windows 8 updates will be less intrusive, with no pop-ups and far fewer restarts, according to a blog post by Microsoft. Part of the way that this will be achieved is by scheduling. Instead of prompting for a restart after each...

A new report has revealed that broadband speeds in the UK get slashed by nearly 65 percent during peak hours. According to a broadband speed research carried out by UK based comparison site uSwitch, internet speeds during the...

Social networking behemoth Facebook has distanced itself from claims that ne'er-do-wells have penetrated its network and started posting obscene material to innocents' profiles, claiming that a browser vulnerability - and users'...

Dell has released poor quarterly sales results, but puts some of the reason for its downturn in growth down to the floods that have ravaged certain areas of Thailand. With sales of 'just' $15.4bn (£9.77bn) in Q3 of this...

TalkTalk is in for a rough ride as the UK based broadband services provider loses 43,000 customers in the second quarter. The company has been losing customers who are fed up with the poor customer service it offers to...

Recently, an MIT research group declared that they successfully developed a chip that is capable of mimicking synapse between the neurons of the human brain. Synapse is a structure inside the human brain that empowers a "neuron...

South Korean second largest consumer electronics company Lucky Goldstar has released details of an upgrade coming to the software running on their LG Optimus 3D mobile phones, which brings with it new features such as enhanced...

Finally, Google Voice for Android is capable of sending multiple text messages to many recipients (group text messaging) with its latest updates. Through the update that has been launched recently, users can "spam" others by...

Intel is rumoured to be planning the unthinkable: a partnership with its bitter rival ARM over the latter's Mali graphics processing unit (GPU) designs. Intel and ARM are direct competitors in a variety of fields: the...

An alleged Anonymous member has spoken out about internal power struggles, accusing some inside the 'hacktivist' collective of perverting its aims and pursuing personal grudges. The allegations have been made in an email sent by...

Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting left many people angry over the little time allotted for asking questions from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates. According to Reuters, shareholders were...

Additional details regarding Microsoft's upcoming next-generation Xbox games console - previously known as the Xbox 720 and now rumoured to be codenamed 'Loop' - have leaked, claiming it will be unveiled at CES 2012 featuring a...

Canadian mobile phone manufacturer Research In Motion has unveiled their BBM music app is now available in the UK, with access to millions of music tracks for just £4.99.RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger Music is a cloud-based service,...

On Tuesday, Google announced that they have agreed to provide its users the option to keep names as well as locations of the "user's home and business Wi-Fi routers" out of Google's database. Google had to take this decision...

Sometime back, Microsoft had accidentally revealed that it was building a new social networking platform, based around its Bing search engine, to take on the likes of Facebook and Google+. Now, more details of Microsoft's social...

South Korea has implemented a 'Shutdown Law' that bans access to gaming networks between the hours of 12am and 6am for those under the age of 16. Sony and Microsoft have both complains that they haven't been given enough time...

Board member of Apple, Arthur Levinson, has been appointed to fill the vacancy left open due to sudden demise of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs last month. Arthur Levinson is the new Apple non-executive chairman. Former chairman of...

Activision's Call of Duty Elite service is still on the rocks, and things are going to get worse before they get better with the company confirming that it is holding back on the planned release of the mobile app until it can get...

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Sir Isaac Newton's contributions to science remain singularly influential to scientists today. In his day, collaboration was problematic at best. Despite the...

Solely owned Sony company Sony Ericsson has now made public which of their existing mobile phones will be getting an upgrade to the latest version of Android4.0. This happens to be 11 phones, in their current line-up.Sony...

Huawei has partnered with Corning to demonstrate a 3,000 km Ultra Long-Haul (ULH) transmission of 100G coherent Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. The demonstration took place at the Society of Cable and...

RIM has released an update to its popular Blackberry Bold line called the 9790 which supersedes the 9780. The phone - which Blackberry calls the ultimate productivity tool for both professional and personal use - is a relatively...

Telecom equipment maker Huawei has been accused of racial discrimination by a British software engineer who has filed a lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit was filed after the company axed British workers only to replace...

Intel's Many Integrated Cores (MIC) project, in which the company hopes to create a PCI Express-based accelerator card for supercomputing applications, has just hit a major milestone: a single Knights Corner chip offering over a...

A report released by investment bank Morgan Stanley and backed by NPD data from analyst Katy Huberty, shows that Apple's ultrathin MacBook Air laptop accounted for more than a quarter of the company's notebook shipments during...

As expected, the Amazon Kindle Tablet has been cracked open by teardown specialists iFixit and unsurprisingly, it does share a lot of features with the RIM Blackberry PlayBook device. There's a huge battery, a 4400mAh, 16.28Whr...

Facebook is under heavy spam attack which has seen many violent images as well as hardcore pornography flood its newsfeeds. Researchers believe that if Facebook doesn't put an end to this soon it might lose quite a few users. As...

Apple suppliers have apparently started to deliver the first components required to build the company's first 15-inch ultra-thin notebook. According to Joseph Tsai and Aaron Lee from Digitimes, the components could either be for...

World's second largest telecoms equipment maker, Huawei Technologies, is planning to acquire 49 percent stake owned by Symantec in a joint venture between the companies, to boost their corporate security solutions business. The...

OMR has now captured on video a hands-on walk through of the recently announced new BlackBerryBold9790 handset, which is due to arrive early in 2012.The phone arrives with a smaller HVGA+ touch screen, than seen in the Bold 9900...

Kingston Technologies has launched a new line-up of RAM for Intel's latest CPUs. Making up part of the HyperX Genesis line, these newly designed Sandy Bridge E and X79-compatible modules are available in anything from 8GB to 32GB...

Scientists have developed a new technology that would boost battery life of gadgets like smartphones by 10 times. According to PC Mag, researchers at the Northwestern University in the US have developed a new Lithium Ion battery...

TalkTalk is in for a rough ride as the UK based broadband services provider loses 43,000 customers in the second quarter. The company has been losing customers who are fed up with the poor customer service it offers to them....

Google has open sourced the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system. By open sourcing the platform, Google has allowed manufacturers to take the OS and optimise it for their smartphone devices. Unfortunately,...

Continuing our tour of showing you what Windows 8 has changed in the Microsoft world, today it is time for the new Boot Loader and for the Secure Boot features. Windows developers are clearly upgrading each element and this is...