Google has released the latest iteration of its browser - Chrome 17, with a handful of new features such as ‘safer downloads' and ability to predict and pre-load webpages aimed at enhancing browsing speed as well as users'...

Seems like the wait for Microsoft's forthcoming OS platform Windows 8 is finally going to be over as the company has decided to unveil the consumer preview version of the product at the end of this month. The Windows 8 Consumer...

Facebook has teamed up with Bango to provide mobile payment services on the social network with the aim to encourage smartphone purchases. Facebook already make an impressive income from microtransactions from within...

A new study carried out by Arbos Networks sheds light onto how DDoS attacks are usually planned to fulfil the so called ‘hacktivism' motives rather than for monetary ambitions and that no network today are impervious to...

Google's GDrive cloud storage platform could be launched soon, offering an alternative to the popular Dropbox with a potentially reduced price tag. Thought to be named simply "Drive" it could offer something that will draw in...

Apple took lot of heat over its iBooks Author End User License Agreement (EULA) a few days back which forced the iPad maker to introduce some changes there by only leveraging control over the format and not the content of the...

Finland based mobile phone giant Nokia has planned to move its assembly line from Europe to Asia which will see the Lumia maker cut somewhere around 4000 jobs. According to a Herald Sun report, the primary motive behind Nokia...

STMicroelectronics has come up with a new flash module which is capable of emitting light as strong a floodlight, allowing users to take excellent photos, even in low-lit areas. Modern smartphones come with decent photo taking...

Foxconn has once again been targeted by hackers, this time a new group that is making waves known as Swagg Security, with admin logins and companion company information leaked. "So Foxconn thinks they got 'em some swagger...

You can now view content from your favourite tech news website natively on your iOS device using our newly-launched app, aptly named "ITProPortal News". At only 1MB, the application went live this morning and is compatible with...

Android device maker Motorola has announced that some of the refurbished Xoom tablet devices it has sold, contained data belonging to their previous users. According to the company themselves, between October and December in...

Apple may well use display technology from Sharp for the upcoming third-generation iPad despite a number of earlier reports to the contrary, Cnet reports. Sharp's display tech, called IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide), was...

Microsoft has carried out a three-day long marketing campaign against the arch rival Google last week, bragging that its very own Internet Explorer 9 browser had beaten Google's Chrome - in blocking online advertisers, from...

Software giant Microsoft has joined forces with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (CEOP) for introducing a new, customised version of the Internet Explorer 9 web browser. The new variant of the browser, which...

Greenpeace, the environmental rights group, hatred towards big technology companies is well known to everyone, but a new report reveals how it hates Google - the least of all. The activist organisation has unveiled its...