Apple, known for developing and embracing various new and useful technologies, recently adopted an app to find the exact location of Apple Store shoppers who need help. Apple Store employees armed with iPod Touch devices are...

According to a cloud-based analytics report from IBM published over the weekend, following the Black Friday shopping frenzy, Apple's iPhone and iPad emerged as the leaders of online retail traffic. The analysis shows that...

The UK government has released its cyber security policy which allows the country's intelligence agencies a greater role in protecting the public and private sector. According to an article on The Register, the policy,...

Through its official website,the European Commission, on Monday, disclosed that Google is trying to seek European Union's regulatory clearance for the planned acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility Holdings. In August,...

The UK government has promised to revolutionise the manner in which computer science is taught in British schools. According to an article on BBC News, the government criticised the manner in which IT was taught in schools and...

Technology trade groups representing some of the biggest names in the industry including Microsoft and Google, have warned the European Union about the strict privacy rules it is planning to implement, claiming that it will harm...

Sony Ericsson Xperia phones launched in 2011 will receive an update to latest version of Android - Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, by March 2012. The official confirmation was posted on the...

Developers have managed to install the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the older Asus Transformer, even as the world waits for the launch of Asus Transformer Prime. According to an article on Phandroid, with the Ice Cream...

Since Samsung and Google have not yet launched a fix for the volume flaw in Galaxy Nexus, the Android modifying community is addressing this issue themselves. A patch by MoDaCo has been officially released for...

LG has announced its plans to bring the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to as many LG smartphones as possible. The announcement came as the company revealed the smartphones were in line to get the ICS update pretty soon. The...

Sky recently announced that the Sky Go mobile service will soon include streaming films "on demand" for subscribers. It is a major move for Sky to be enjoyed by individuals who use iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to access Sky Go....

HTC has dispelled the damp sales forecast it has for next year by promising to release better and more competitive smartphones in 2012. According to an article on Reuters, the company has said it would continue with its current...

A group of Irish banking institutions has settled a lawsuit with Oracle over financial software the company had promised to deliver. According to an article on The Register, the Allied Irish Banks group told the courts it had...

Last week, Yandex declared that is partnering with Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, and Samsung to become the default search engine on the latest Windows Phones in Russia. Yandex happens to be one of the largest search engines and...

Oracle recently published a report that highlights the issue of smart electricity for meeting emissions targets. Additional research, provided by Future Laboratory, highlights the trends and methods which will make smart...

Best Buy has announced a closing down sale at all of its UK retail stores, after formally announcing their closure in an open letter today. Rumours of the planned closure surfaced earlier this month, with suggestions that the 11...

A senior executive at Cisco has asked Hewlett Packard to stop filing lawsuits against employees who simply want to change their jobs. In a blog post, Cisco's chief legal officer Mark Chandler blasted HP for pressuring employees...

WikiLeaks has delayed the launch of its new online system which would have made it easier for defectors to upload confidential information to the website. According to an article on The Financial Times, the website's...

In this day and age of mobile computing, desktops do have a special place in many offices and homes. Understanding this, Lenovo brings to you the ThinkCentre Edge 71 Small Form Factor PC encompassing all the essential components...

South Korea based MapleStory was at the receiving end of a cyber attack last week and personal information of more than three-quarter users of the website have been put at risk. Usernames, IDs, passwords, as well as residential...

Taiwanese technology company Gigabyte has unveiled a new device called the BookTop T1132, which is apparently the first 3-in-1 notebook on the market. The truth though is a little more mundane. The T1132 is a convertible tablet...

Samsung presents the RV720 that is loaded with some of the best features making it highly competitive laptop in the current cut throat computing market. The 17.3 inch widescreen display with High Definition (HD) capabilities...

Product Name: Nokia Lumia 800 Website: www.nokia.co.uk/nokialumia800 Specifications: Windows Phone 7 - Mango, 3.7-inch 800x480 WVGA AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 1.4 Ghz single core CPU, 16GB storage, 8MP camera, LED...

The European Commission is set to pass a law clamping down on the way Facebook gathers data about its users to pass on to advertisers. At present, the social network 'eavesdrops' on its 800 million subscribers using...

A netbook could be an ideal Christmas gift for kids and teens for school and college projects, research, etc. and the Acer Aspire D260A would make a highly cost effective and attractive gift. The D260A is technologically advanced...

Mobile phone network Three UK is now retailing a home broadband device, which offers up Internet access from a mobile broadband USB dongle - with a cost attached of £39.99. Three's mobile broadband WIFI hub allows for...

Epson Stylus Office BX305F is a rugged yet stylish Colour Multifunction Inkjet Printer that provides laser quality prints and caters to other functions such as scanning, copying and faxing. Ideal for small offices, where multiple...

Online 'hactivist' collective Anonymous and hackers Team Poison have joined forces for a new group effort known as 'Operation Robin Hood', that plans to target banks in an effort to give money back to "the people". Anonymous...

HTC faces a ban on sales of all its 3G smartphones in Germany by Christmas, after withdrawing an appeal against a court judgment in favour of patent troll IPCom. In a press release, IPCom today revealed that it had written to...

Software giant Microsoft is planning to launch a new app on the Windows Phone 7.5 platform, which will allow users to show off their Windows Phone experience and win prizes for it. According to Electric Pig, Microsoft has come up...

ITProPortal has just taken delivery of the Motorola Defy Plus tough mobile, which is an updated version of the Defy handset from mid last year. The Motorola Defy Plus arrives with a 3.7-inch touch Corning gorilla glass display,...

The widely popular Linux distribution which is built on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, recently released their newest version. The latest version is the biggest ever departure from Ubuntu. Till the version Linux Mint 10 the operating system...

Apple's next venture will be into the TV market, with Japanese firm Sharp set to produce the screens that will support both voice and gesture recognition controls - and it appears set to launch next year. While it hasn't been...

A leaked BlackBerry OS 7 ROM meant for the Bold 9900 device gives insight into the features that the company plans to bring to the device. According to The Verge, the leaked ROM features include Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities,...

Last week, the popular Korean MMO MapleStory was attacked by hackers through which the personal information of more than three-quarter users of the Korean website have been put at risk. There were usernames, IDs, passwords, as...

After British telecom regulator Ofcom indicated that they might intervene, Skype will start negotiations with various mobile phone operators in Britain that are keeping the Skype based internet calls away from their...

Details and close up pictures of the Motorola Droid 4 have appeared online courtesy of tech website Droid-Life.com. The smartphone which is set to launch on Verizon on December 8th, the same day the Samsung Galaxy Nexus...

Google and Apple will triumph over mobile companies in the emerging mobile payments market, it has been declared. According to a new report released by ABI Research, mobile phone carriers will have gained 75 percent of mobile...

Canadian email mobile phone maker Research In Motion has released an update to their PlayBook tablet device, which brings with it a new version of Adobe Flash Player amongst other additions. RIM has published a posting to their...

Prices of RAM have dropped so much in Europe that an 8GB DDR3 kit can be had for as little as 24 Euros at some online stores, bringit it down to just 3 Euros per GB. The price cuts aren't restricted to one manufacturer, either....

Technology giant Apple Inc. is reportedly developing a voice as well as gesture enabled TV set. The screen of this new device will be manufactured by Sharp, the Japanese manufacturer, quoting Jefferies analyst Peter Misek,...

Android tablets continue to march on; Lenovo is the latest firm whose Android tablet has appeared on Amazon. The Ideapad K1 - with 16GB storage - is now available for £300, with the 32GB and 64GB models available at a...

In recent years listening in on conversations over police radios has become easier with dedicated apps being made available for smartphones. Scanner 911 for instance, enables iPhone owners to eavesdrop on police radio...

According to Contactmusic.com pop, singer Britney Spears has beaten Google's CEO Larry Page to become Google Plus' most followed individual with more than 743,000 followers as compared to Page's 742,500 followers. On Twitter,...

Panasonic looks set to launch its Lumix line of camera-inspired smartphones in Europe in early 2012, with the first sighting of the handsets expected to occur at CES in January. The phones have been available in Japan for a...

US authorities have managed to seize more than 130 domain names that were selling counterfeit goods to the masses as a part of its yearly crackdown. The crackdown, dubbed ‘Operation Our Sites', involved the Department of...

Intrepid hackers have figured out how to port Siri's dictation capability, previously restricted to the iPhone 4S, onto the older iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS handsets - once again giving users a reason not to upgrade to the new...

Popular Windows Phone and Android developer's forum xda-developers.com has had one of its members port the very latest version of the Google mobile phone OS, to the three-year-old HTC G1 mobile phone. Xda-developers.com member...

Samsung is rumoured to be contemplating giving up on netbooks altogether and focusing on the more lucrative and more expensive ultraportables. According to an email received by French website Blogeee, Samsung sent an email to its...

Amazon has dropped the price of the Eee Pad Transformer TF101 to a mere £280, yet another indication that Asus is clearing out stocks of the tablet ahead of the release of the more powerful and more expensive Eee Pad...

According to some new research 84% of iPhone owners will buy another Apple handset when they need an upgrade, whereas Android smartphone owners are far more likely to be unfaithful (to their phone, that is). The study by...

Warner Bros. has released a statement to disgruntled gamers about the myriad of glitches, problems and game-crashing errors that have afflicted the PC version of Batman Arkham City. Fans of the title have been mystified that so...

The European Commission has accused Facebook of harvesting its users' personal information and selling it to advertisers. According to The Telegraph, Facebook uses sophisticated software to gather and harvest personal information...

Charlie Walton, the man responsible for the popularisation of Radio Frequency Identification - RFID - technology, has been confirmed as having died earlier this month aged 89. Although the technology had existed prior to...

Search engine giant Google has dedicated a Doodle to mark Egypt's Election Day, the first since former President Hosni Mubarak was expelled from power after days of protests and rioting. The Doodle, visible on Google's Egyptian...

As a rebranded ZTE device One part of the Everything Everywhere mobile phone network umbrella company Orange has now opened up ordering of its low-cost Android San Francisco II handset, aimed at pay as you go customers with a...

Gadget retailer Ebuyer has launched a Cyber Monday-style sale - the somewhat daft name US retailers give to the gadget-hungry follow-up to Black Friday - offering limited stock of popular products for just £1 each - but...

Law enforcement agencies have found evidence which links four arrested hackers to a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia. According to the Philippines Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, it has arrested three men and one woman...

Noted iPhone hacker group and creator of the GreenPois0n jailbreaking tool, Chronic Dev Team, has announced a new tool that subverts the traditional crash reporting system in iOS, in order to find new exploits that can be used to...

One Mobile Ring from today onwards is becoming a part of its larger all-encompassing technology news sister website ITProPortal.com. This is all with a view to be ITProPortal's mobile and telecom section, as the start of a wider...

Asus has put the Eee Pad Transformer Prime on Preorder in the US through its own decicated website, whilst the release date for the UK has yet to be announced. The device, which will go on sale in the US from December, will cost...

According to IBM there is a notable disadvantage of digital documents. The uncorrupted data stays same as long as that exists. However, now there is an idea to change it. This new invention is referred as "aging file system"...

Thanksgiving 2011 witnessed record breaking online retail sales with 39.3 percent increase for the holiday. IBM Coremetrics data showed a growth of 24.3 percent in online sales on Black Friday sales as compared to same period a...

Search engine giant Google has taken on Facebook with a new TV ad which aired in the US during the Thanksgiving NFL games. The ad focuses on the Circles feature of Google+, which allows people to share information with whoever...

Samsung is planning to get out of the netbook market that it helped to push into the mainstream in order to concentrate on tablets and Ultrabooks, according to a leaked memo. Although the South Korean company wasn't responsible...

A study conducted by Ponemon Institute found that USB sticks are a main security weakness for a number of UK organisations as many employees are using them for transporting data without taking permission or even bothering to...

Personal details of more than 13 million South Korean gamers have been leaked following an attack on one of the nation's most popular on-line games, Maple Story, the Korea Communications Commission has confirmed. With more than...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has reached a point when it is giving away a free PlayBook tablet to people who purchase the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software. PlayBook has seen terrible sales figures since its launch,...

On Sunday, Calcalist financial daily reported that Akamai Technologies is involved in talks to acquire Cotendo for around $300 million (£194 Million). Akamai Technologies helps various companies to improve their website...

US authorities have managed to seize more than 130 domain names that were selling counterfeit goods to the masses as a part of its yearly crackdown. According to Torrent Freak, the crackdown, dubbed ‘Operation Our Sites',...

T-Mobile recently introduced the Vivacity Android 2.3 device as its own branded budget smartphone. The device, available for under £100, runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has a 5MP camera and a modest 3.5 inch touch...

Microsoft brings the file history concept closer to the users' view by implementing this feature right into the main panel of Windows 8. Previously, a Windows owner could only maintain and restore backups using the default...