The world's fourth largest PC maker, Lenovo, has announced a new look for it's ThinkPad line of laptop computers, as well as offering new budget laptops using AMD Neo chips. The announcement came ahead of... More...

Microsoft has officially revealed its Office Web Applications offerings ahead of the announcements at this years Worldwide Partner Conference today. Company officials have posted several "what's new" videos onto the Microsoft Showcase site. The what's... More...

HTC unveiled two of its latest smartphones, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. HTC Touch Diamond2 is targeted towards broad consumer audience... More...

Today at the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO along with key mobile partners, HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled new Windows phones featuring new user-friendly software and services. These new Windows phones will be... More...

Amazon has finally taken the wrap off the long awaited Kindle 2. The much rumored and leaked Kindle 2 was announced by Amazon today sporting a thinner profile and improved ergonomics; also bundled with... More...

Nokia on Thursday released three new cell phone models - Nokia 6700 classic, the Nokia 6303 classic and the Nokia 2700 classic - which are built and designed for ease of functionality and user experience.... More...

Dell has been hard at work to create a notebook that would compete with Apples offering of the MacBook Air. Today dell showed off its hard work with the Adamo branding, think Inspiron, and... More...

Microsoft Research's Ken Hinckley has unveiled a prototype device based on two OQO Model 02s running together. Named "Codex", Hinckley believes it's the future for gadgets as "dual-screen devices have become the subject of increasingly... More...

Speaking yesterday at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft has now introduced a new group of security related programs that share advanced information with partners about upcoming security threats. As many in... More...

Microsoft has announced details of its new Xbox Live interface at this morning's E3 press conference. John Schappert unveiled a new GUI - showing video, game, primetime, community and My Xbox channels replacing the current... More...

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced its first-ever embedded OS for portable devices that use GPS (global positioning system) and maps to get people where they want to go. Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is aimed at companies... More...

Sony America has coloured in the remaining blanks on its release schedule for the rest of 2008 and early 2009. The most newsworthy appearance is the addition of Buzz PS3 and Buzz PSP to the... More...

BT is trying to introduce consumers to the delights of Blackberry-style mobile email and web access. Dubbed BT Total Broadband Anywhere, the service provides the company's broadband customers with a "free" HTC Windows Mobile smartphone... More...

Via Technologies has unveiled details of its newest Isaiah processor architecture. The x86 processor is aimed at Via's next generation of 'Small is Beautiful' devices. Via claimed that the range offers the best performance-per-watt on... More...

Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space. It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept - a rocket ship that is lifted initially... More...

Asus will unveil a laptop that should satisfy the storage needs of all but the biggest of power users: the M70S comes with 1TB of storage space. The machine, due for release at next week's... More...

They say late is better than never. But is late worth the wait? That's the question for Yahoo, which late last night released a preview of its instant messenger client for Windows Vista. The wait... More...

French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline. Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks to a newly-created anti-piracy body granted the wide-ranging powers.... More...

Hewlett-Packard Co. began taking preorders today for its MediaSmart Server, the first system from a major manufacturer powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Home Server (WHS) software. MediaSmart, which won't ship until later this month, is... More...

A cut price PlayStation 3 (PS3) with a smaller hard drive and no backwards compatibility with previous consoles goes on sale later this month. The £299 PS3 has a 40-gigabyte hard disk and will be... More...

Palm unveiled a new smart-phone, dubbed the Centro, that will be available next month for about $100 – not only is that the lowest introductory price yet for a Palm handset, it will be... More...

Microsoft on Tuesday issued its first update for Windows Home Server, which addresses several minor glitches that have arisen since the software was released to manufacturing. Launched last month, Windows Server is on its way... More...

Audio company Bose Inc. introduced new speakers as part of its new $399 Computer MusicMonitor package yesterday, designed to provide top-quality sound from a desktop and capitalize on the emergence of the computer as a... More...

Next Monday, Salesforce.com will, in the words of one industry analyst, "extend the value proposition of software as a service" when it introduces Visualforce at its Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco. The Visualforce layer introduces... More...

Sony Corporation has announced plans to launch four new models of its Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in Japan. The new models, capable of storing up to 16 hours of high-definition programs on a dual-layer... More...

Japanese electronics firm DTS has put a slight twist on the hybrid hard drive concept. Instead of putting NAND flash memory into the drives, the company has instead opted to use DDR-SDRAM sticks, claiming the... More...

At the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, CPU-maker Intel unveiled its newest gamer-oriented mobile processor for notebook PCs, the Core 2 Extreme X7900. Built on 65nm, the X7900 features a 800MHz FSB, 4MB L2 cache,... More...

Toshiba revealed Aug. 22 that it will soon add three new high-density flash memory cards to its product lineup—including one it touts as the world's first 32GB flash card. The Tokyo-based company, which partners with... More...

Microsoft Corporation has launched Tafiti (which means "do research" in Swahili), a test search engine powered by the software giant's Live Search and Silverlight technologies. The whole "search experience" is animated and although more intuitive,... More...

Sharp has announced its new slim LCD TV: 29mm thick at its widest point and 20mm at its thinnest point. For my American friends, that's between 1.14 inches and 0.78 inches thick. Sharp claims the... More...

Executives at AMD are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything from workstations to HDTVs to wireless phones. At a meeting of industry analysts... More...

Western Digital on Monday revealed a new lineup of its hard disk drives (HDDs) that feature reduced power consumption, which lowers their cost of ownership and preserves energy, thus helping to protect the environment. "With... More...

LG Electronics, a leading maker of consumer electronics, has reportedly announced its second-generation hybrid optical disk drives for personal computers (PCs). The novelties can read all four disk formats currently sold, including Blu-ray discs (BDs),... More...

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) unveiled the latest version of its Internet television software platform, which it promises will offer features that will set the telecommunications companies apart from the cable providers. The Redmond, Wash., software titan... More...

IBM today simultaneously launched the fastest microprocessor ever built and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip's many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. The new server is the first ever to... More...

According to an independent survey commissioned by Microsoft Corporation, 77% of teachers and 73% of parents claim math and science are the most difficult homework subjects for students, yet only 36% of parents feel capable... More...

Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet. Microsoft,... More...

The US space agency Nasa has unveiled a model of a space telescope that scientists say will be able to see to the farthest reaches of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)... More...

Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange online market place for business applications. The service offers 14 open source business applications including MySQL, SugarCRM and Zimbra. They are sold as a subscription service and... More...

Thanks to a deal with Fox movie studios, makers of this summer's "The Simpsons" movie, Microsoft has announced 100 limited edition "Simpsons" Xboxes available via a series of special events and promotions this summer. The... More...

Micron Technology, a maker of dynamic random access memory, has announced 1066MHz DDR2 modules. Using 1Gb 1066MHz DDR2 memory devices manufactured with the 78nm process technology, Micron has created 512MB, 1GB and 2GB memory modules... More...

Everyone's favourite shouty TV star, Sir Alan "you're fired!" Sugar unveiled a supercomputer at Queen Mary, University of London this morning. Sugar cajoles wannabe entrepreneurs on BBC1's The Apprentice and is founder of computer maker... More...

AMD is boasting its next-generation 65nm AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile processor as providing increased transistor performance, scalability and power efficiency. Notebook PCs based on the new AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile processor... More...

TV chairman Michael Grade yesterday admitted the broadcaster had fallen behind its rivals in adapting to the online world but promised to leapfrog them with its ambitious new broadband portal. A video on demand service... More...

Corsair has introduced the Flash Survivor family – USB 2.0 flash drives that feature 256-bit encryption and can withstand the elements. The Flash Survivor series has Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer seals which allow the drives... More...

Japanese subsidiary of Buffalo Technology Inc., a leading maker of advanced memory modules and other electronics, has announced the world's first memory modules based on DDR3 chips. While there are several months to go till... More...

The new software should also allow video to be played offline, whether on computers or portable devices. Flash is used on websites such as YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing site dogged by rows... More...

Apple has introduced Final Cut Studio 2, its high-end video-editing software, and unveiled Final Cut Server, designed to help broadcasters manage post production. The software now allows for the editing of different video formats at... More...

Search giant Google has expanded its US payment service, Google Checkout to the UK, in hopes to continue competing with eBay's Paypal service. "The starting point is our core products," said Google's UK consumer marketing... More...

IBM has announced the manufacture of a tiny optical chipset capable of moving data at speeds of 160GB per second. A prototype of the hardware, called an optical transceiver, is scheduled to be introduced Thursday... More...