The first Android voice control assistant similar to the iPhone 4S stand-out feature Siri, has received a boost by getting popular Q&A website ChaCha on board, ReadWriteWeb reports. Iris was developed by India-based firm...

After various claims that leading executives of Microsoft and Nokia met in Las Vegas to finalise the deal, rumours that Microsoft is acquiring Nokia's smartphone division have resurfaced and received a strong...

In an attempt to streamline its operations, enterprise networking giant Cisco has decided to axe its much hyped Skype alternative, Umi home video conferencing service. The company said the Umi video conferencing hardware,...

Quanta has filed a lawsuit against chipmaker AMD claiming the chipmaker sold defective chips to the largest contract manufacturer of laptops globally. The Taiwan based Quanta alleged that AMD committed breach of contract by...

With more than 140,000 apps available and impressive features giving great flexibility to Apple's tablets, all users really need in order to get the most out of their iPad is enough storage space to handle all the data and media...

Companies engaged in manufacturing hi-tech components for global giants like Apple, Google and Amazon suggested that the upcoming tablet from Google will be a device with a 7 inch screen like Amazon's Kindle Fire and not a 9.7...

A US retailer accidentally made the pre-order page for Samsung's first Ultrabook series laptops available online. The specs and the pricing for the Samsung Series 5 Ultra Laptops were unveiled briefly, after which retailer...

Tablet makers shipped almost 73 million units in 2011, accounting for 25.2 percent of the global mobile PC market. According to new data released by the Displaysearch division of market research firm NDP, 72.7 million tablet...

The research project undertaken by Nokia which focused on phone charging using harvested solar power is complete. Nokia researchers carried out many field tests and the result show that phone charging using solar panels...

Angry Birds is one of the most popular smartphone games in the world. It has been declared that the game is one of the most essential apps for smartphones and tablets by fans and others. Only a few other apps like...

Last September, Nokia launched the Nokia Car Mode app. The app, however, was not a completed version. Now, after a few months, Nokia is providing a complete downloadable version of the app. Confirmation was made via the company's...

ITProPortal.com is moving on with its predictions as to what we might be seeing in the mobile phone and related device world, during 2012. This week, we are publishing what will likely be arriving in new mobile phones and mobile...

Microsoft has released an update for its Windows Phone 7 platform to fixes issues like the disappearing keyboard. According to an article on The Verge, the update build 8107 has begun for the LG Optimus 7 on...

Developers have managed to port the cloud based Silk web browser found in the Amazon Kindle Fire to other Android devices with different builds. According to an article on The Register, XDA Developers have shared a way in which...

HTC plans to release a quad core smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. According to an article on Digitimes, Chinese newspaper Commercial Times cited a JP Morgan Chase analyst who claimed the...

Research in Motion has reportedly cancelled the yet-to-be-announced BlackBerry Milan slider smartphone due to hardware issues. The device first gained interest after an image leak on Twitter. RIM had not confirmed the...

Anonymous's German subset is targeting neo-Nazi websites. According to reports, the group launched a new website aimed at the neo-Nazi movement in Germany. The latest website launched by the group is named...

With the arrival of the next generation tablet from Apple only a matter of months away, a fresh report indicates that the iPad 2 may soon be available at very attractive prices, becoming Apple's entry-level tablet. Digitimes...

On Wednesday, Facebook announced the third annual of the Hacker Cup contest. This is an annual contest of algorithmic programming open to engineers from all over the world. Accuracy and skill of the programmers are...

On Wednesday, HP announced the release date of the 27 inch All-In-One (AIO) PC, HP Omni 27 set for January 8th. Interestingly, the new device does not have touch-based input support but will feature the non-touch version of...

Mugen Power has released an extended battery for the Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone device. According to an article on Android Community, the accessory comes with an additional 4500 mAh battery which helps maintain...

Zynga has launched "Hidden Chronicles", its newest title that explores social hidden objects. The game has been designed for Facebook and the tagline of the game reads as "see what you've been missing". The latest game by Zynga...

Ever since Siri was introduced to the market as the most impressive feature of Apple's latest smartphone, rivals have been trying to come up with voice recognition applications to keep up with the game. Now, Shai Leib, a...

Transferring files couldn't have been easier than the Wireless Media Stick from HSTI that allows you to streams media files from any computer connected to a home or office wireless network or Android Smartphone or Tablet, to any...

Sharp brings to your living room a massive screened LC60LE636E capable of delivering stunning images at 1080p resolution with LED backlighting and great image clarity. The 60-inch super-slim screen delivers 1920 x 1080 Full HD...

Solely owned Sony mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson has released a second teaser over Facebook, as to what the company is reportedly announcing at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show next week. This time around, it is a...

In addition to being pleasant on the eye, it appears that Apple's latest handset is also good for your eyes. For those users who may be a bit annoyed that the iPhone 4S doesn't offer the option of adjusting the font size for...

The ShareCenter Pulse Network Storage Enclosure from D-Link would enable you to share documents, songs, movies, videos and anything ‘file' that you could imagine across your home of work environment or over the...

Display manufacturer AOC will be debuting a new 22 inch HD USB powered monitor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) between 10th-13th of January. "The 22-inch USB Monitor makes multi-screen computing more practical than ever...

Capturing day-to-day precious family moments in videos is something that everyone would cherish to do and if the camcorder that lets you do just that is reasonably priced and comes with great features, then there is nothing like...

On-line comparison website site uSwitch has now published details that the Samsung Galaxy S II was at the top of their sales charts, according to the mobile tracker service from their Omio mobile phone deal comparative...

The Church of Kopimism, an organisation that values information and its copying above all else, has received religious legitimisation in Sweden. Started in 2010, the Church of Kopimism has been attempting to receive...

When Windows Phone 7.5 Mango was released, Microsoft proudly announced that its latest mobile operating system is ready to take on iOS and Android. Some industry observers agreed there might be some truth to this, suggesting...

Acer has officially announced the debut of the A200 tablet, an entry-level version of the A500 device launched last year at Mobile World Congress. The tablet has a suggested retail price of $330, which means that it should...

Music streaming service Spotify is reportedly working on integrating Siri into its app for the iPhone. When asked in an interview with Forbes about whether the company plans to integrate Siri into its app, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek...

On-line mobile phone news website pocketnow.com has posted an image of the first Windows Phone 7 handset said to be arriving with 4G LTE capabilities, from HTC, known as the ‘Radiant'. Pocketnow has published a picture...

Video streaming set-top-box maker Roku has unveiled a new USB stick which would let users stream media content to their TVs. The Roku Streaming Stick has been designed to simply plug into any MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link)...

The price of the HTC Evo 3D has dropped down to the unbelievably low price of £320 courtesy of Ebay seller E_Cell, down from a suggested selling price of £570. The phone was presented back in March 2011 by HTC but was...

Microsoft's Flight Simulator series, which was in dormant state until now, will see a re-launch this spring and that too for free. The name of this series will be simply "Flight" and players will have free access to the digital...

Despite Japan's overall gaming revenue decline by around eight per cent in 2011, Nintendo bucked this trend by selling strongly throughout the period.  Hardware sales in the famed electronics country were up 2.4 per cent...

Consumer electronics giant Samsung has announced another addition to their Galaxy range of mobile phones, the Samsung Galaxy M - with a 4-inch screen and a thin 9.9mm slim chassis. Samsung unveiled a new naming convention...

Zynga has launched "Hidden Chronicles", its newest title that explores social hidden objects. The game has been designed for Facebook and the tagline of the game reads as "see what you've been missing". The latest game by Zynga...

Reinstalling Windows 8 will come in two flavours, Refresh and Reset, each offering a different way of bringing your machine back to factory default settings. The first one reinstalls the operating system, though metro...

LG is ready with its LG Optimus 2 - the sequel to its earlier entry level Optimus smartphone launched in 2010 and details of the smartphone have been made available on its official website. The specification shows that the new...

Apple has reportedly hired an Adobe executive to head its mobile advertising business, a new report claims. Citing people with the knowledge of the hiring, Bloomberg reports that Apple has appointed Adobe executive Todd Teresi to...

Check Point Software Technologies has announced that its customers can now experience the same security features being offered by the company's on premise software and appliances for their respective Amazon cloud content...

HTC has bought into Microsoft's Windows Phone smartphone operating system in a fairly big way, and now has several handsets in its portfolio. One that rather dropped under the radar (pardon the pun) at its initial launch was the...

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has set the trial date for the Oracle versus Google patent infringement lawsuit to be on or after March 19 2012. Oracle had filed a...

Web browser maker open source outfit Mozilla has released the second version of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), the company announced on Tuesday. Mozilla stated that the new offering will facilitate users to have compatibility...

IBM has disclosed that they are acquiring cloud software as well as quality testing solution specialist Green Hat without revealing any financial details about the acquisition. Green Hat is a privately held firm and this...

Chinese PC maker Lenovo has announced its next ultra-thin 14-inch laptop, an ultrabook if I may say, dubbed the T430u a week before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 to be held at Las Vegas. The new T430u will be on...

Civil rights campaigners have spoken out against a technology used by several shopping centres in the UK to track consumers using their mobile signals. The shopping centres claim that the technology helps them provide better...

Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, has been appointed as the new chief of US internet firm Yahoo! The struggling firm dismissed chief executive Carol Bartz in the month of September as she was not successful in turning the...

Sweden's Chalmers University researchers have come up with a sub-harmonic graphene mixer that is CMOS compatible. Electronic mixers are basically devices that combine various input signals to produce one or two outputs. In the...

God of War is a very successful game franchise developed by Sony Computer Entertainment - and they have every intention of continuing to move the franchise along. There are rumours the company is working the next chapter in the...

LG is ready with its LG Optimus 2 - the sequel to its earlier entry level Optimus smartphone launched in 2010 and details of the smartphone have been made available on its official website. The specification shows that the new...

According to reports, Samsung, is working on an upgraded version of the Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone which is one of their most successful smartphones to date. Various reports suggest the new version will be a 3D supportive...

China Telecom has inked a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) deal with Everything Everywhere in the UK. Under the deal, the Chinese mobile phone operator will use Everything Everywhere's network to offer mobile phone services...

Four new Xbox Live games will be made available soon for the Windows Phone Marketplace. The four new games have been described as "optimised for the newest Windows Phone 7.5." The new games include Bullet Asylum developed by...

Owning to the huge popularity of its Angry Birds gaming franchise, which received 6.5 million downloads on Christmas, Rovio has decided to launch a new season of the popular game for mobile OS platforms. If all goes well, people...

The Linux based Raspberry Pi PC, designed to encourage to school kids to get into programming, is being offered on eBay. The surprising bit is that the PC, available for around £20, has hit the £2000 mark on the...

Asus is reportedly planning to unveil a 7-inch version of its Transformer Prime tablet device at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. According to tech website Notebook Italia, the new Asus device will be called...

Google's Android Market platform has achieved the 400,000 active apps milestone. According to app metrics service provider Distimo, around 100,000 developers are now offering 400,000 active applications on the Android app store,...

To cash-in during the post Christmas sales, various retailers in UK lowered the prices of RIM PlayBook, HTC Flyer and the Motorola Xoom. For example, Dixons and Carphone Warehouse are offering the 16GB BlackBerry...

Google has made it clear that the "Holo" theme is mandatory for all Ice Cream Sandwich devices - to be specific, it is absolutely necessary for those looking for access to a very wide range of apps from Google, which includes...