RIM want to start the New Year strongly with the release of latest Blackberry 10 handsets. And now RIM has support and confirmed availability from the major UK networks planning to stock the devices. More...

4G-LTE in the UK could cause significant problems for digital television signals in the next year, due to the spectrum potentially knocking some sets offline if they're close to a 4G base station. More...

After Time published its list of the poorest cities for cell reception in the USA, it was found that AT&T manages to take gold in the prize nobody wants to win, offering the weakest service of all. More...

A new study suggests that British people spend more than six billion pounds annually on phone contracts, with more than two-thirds of that being spent on overpriced contracts. More...

A survey finds that just under half of employees would have no problem selling their work login details for a paltry sum, with many placing a far higher value on their personal Facebook passwords. More...

According to a new study, new messaging platforms like Apple's iMessage and RIM's BlackBerry Messenger are taking a huge bite out carrier profits by cannibalizing traditional text messaging. More...

Wi-Fi is used by countless people worldwide, and is an integral part to a wireless lifestyle. In this Trivia Tuesday I look at the history of Wi-Fi as well as interesting Wi-Fi facts and tidbits More...

As the UK's communications regulator criticises mobile operators for 'stifling innovation' in blocking access to VoIP services, Skype plans to lean more heavily on carriers to open up their networks. More...

The unofficial iPhone dev team have confirmed moments ago that they have completed an iPhone 3G unlock and are currently packaging a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in other applications from the... More...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is warning businesses to disable the function which allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until it can issue an update, after a security flaw was found in the company's... More...

Google Inc confirmed on Thursday it had been an active bidder in recent U.S. auctions for licenses to create a national wireless network and that it will weigh in as regulators set new rules. In... More...

Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft's commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information. John Richards, Director... More...

Consolidation in security keeps on coming, with Arbor Networks stepping up to the plate with plans to acquire Ellacoya Networks. Arbor, which announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ellacoya on Thursday, is looking to boost... More...

Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By... More...

Online social network site Facebook has opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites, with rival site Bebo the first major rival to implement the platform. The move comes in response to criticism... More...

Broadband has been a huge success in the UK with more than half of all UK homes with a connection, at an average speed of four megabits a second (Mbps). But there are fears that... More...

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. announced today they have canceled their plan to combine the high-speed wireless networks they are building. The two companies originally announced the agreement this July, but were unable to... More...

CableLabs has announced its approval of a new streaming protocol called DTCP-IP (Digital Transmission Copy Protection), allowing consumers to stream cable TV programming across their home networks for viewing on devices that aren't attached to... More...

They might after a ruling in Belgium, where the local ISP, Scarlet (which was once part of Tiscali) has been given six months to begin filtering out infringing peer-to-peer content on its network. The court... More...

On small office and home office networks, Windows XP and Windows Vista cooperate about as well as cats and dogs. But you can teach them to get along. When you combine Windows XP and Windows... More...

The number of computers hijacked by malicious hackers to send out spam and viruses has grown almost 30% in the last year, according to a survey. More than six million computers world wide are now... More...

AT&T Incorporated announced it will invest more than $750 million this year (86% more than last year) in 200 initiatives for its global network infrastructure and retail and wholesale IP services. The program includes the... More...

Mobile firm MTC Namibia has announced the world's first mobile phone base station powered by wind and the sun's rays set to open in Namibia. MTC has been using base stations powered with just solar... More...

Rumors have been flying about the internet for weeks now that Xfire was about to be bought. Some rumors even speculated that Yahoo itself would buy the company after the lawsuit between the two companies... More...

Asset Tracker for Networks is an inventory software tool intended to audit software and hardware components installed on the computers over the network. This asset management tool will collect your network inventory information, provide the... More...

Microsoft Corp. has released an update to its enterprise instant messaging and presence servers for free, a move that makes good on its promise to interoperate with the three major IM networks. ... More...

Microsoft has today announced the completion of the acquisition of Groove Networks. The acquisition had hit a legal stumbling block, which has since been dropped. Three days ago, it became clear that... More...

Judges yesterday attacked the business models of file-sharing companies as the case which could effectively spell out the future for many peer-to-peer programs got under way. The Supreme Court questioned attorneys for both the firms... More...

A group of technology trade groups, consumer advocates, and lawyers have filed more than 20 briefs in support of peer-to-peer software vendors facing a U.S. Supreme Court showdown with the movie industry later this month.... More...

Alchemy Lab announces the release of Alchemy Eye version 6.4 for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003, a network monitoring tool that checks the server accessibility and server state, and sends server malfunction alerts using e-mail, cellular phone,... More...

Intel and Clearwire, Craig McCaw's wireless broadband services company, today announced they will jointly develop and deploy wireless broadband capabilities using WiMAX networks. As part of the collaboration, Clearwire intends to deploy WiMAX networks using... More...

A new Web log is posting what it purports are pictures, documents and letters from U.S. soldiers and military bases in Iraq and elsewhere--all of which the site's operator claims to have downloaded from peer-to-peer... More...

Are people getting ripped off when it comes to compressed music from such online music stores like iTunes? According to an aritcle by the New York Times called "From a High-Tech System, Low-Fi Music"... More...

Who wouldn't want to have wallpaper that could stop electronic eavesdropping? A British defense contractor BAE Systems has developed a panel that does just that. In addition to being only 50 to 100... More...

On Monday Cisco is coming out with new features for its routers. These features will protect networks from viruses/worms. If you remember a while back Cisco started working with the top three anti-virus... More...

As reported by the BBC, BT, the UK telecoms giant, is planning a massive overhaul of it's telephone and data networks. Dubbed '21CN' (21st Century Network), the upgrade is going to cost BT in the... More...

A new kind of wireless network protocol that is based on IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) allows users to link to network no matter which platform. "What we've designed is a system that... More...

AusCERT, Australia's national computer emergency response team, released an advisory today identifying a vulnerability in the 802.11 wireless specification that could open wireless networks to denial-of-service attacks. The advisory targets a new cause... More...

A few days after a Paul Palumbo from AccuStream iMedia Research, was quoted everywhere saying that audio and video streaming is finally "mainstream", one reader contacted me asking why an update of the Netscape Radio... More...

Microsoft Corp. on Friday filed its formal response to RealNetworks Inc.'s anti-trust lawsuit against it, denying allegations that it is impeding competition in the digital media market. In the "Answers and Defenses" filing in federal... More...

The security of wireless networks used by businesses in London has improved significantly over the last 12 months, says a survey. RSA Security found that 66% of the networks surveyed use the encryption... More...

StreamCast has released a test version of its file-sharing software that taps into all major file-swapping networks, including Kazaa. New file-swapping applications are bridging formerly separate networks, promising to improve the efficiency of peer-to-peer searches... More...

A technical review conducted by the British government has found several security flaws in products that use VoIP and text messaging, including those from Microsoft and Cisco Systems. The flaws affect software... More...

Faced with another private antitrust lawsuit, this time from digital media competitor Real Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp. late Thursday defended its position in the space. "There is vibrant competition in this marketplace and Real Networks'... More...

Since the early days of his development of Lotus Notes, Ray Ozzie has competed vigorously with Microsoft while working closely with Redmond as a leading ISV on the Windows platform. Now, with Microsoft's significant investment... More...

APPLE'S ONLINE music service iTunes is to face competition from Real Networks, which will today announce a download music service for only 79 cents a track. According to the Wall Street Journal, the service will... More...

If you want to know how insecure today's wireless networks are, just ask the people who make it their mission to locate the access points designated by companies and consumers around the world. ... More...

Altough the record industry currently seems to see the importance of their web presence and are building their own website to distribute the music, they also don't seem to forget about tracing music pirates. EMI... More...

US Cable companies are now cracking down on people who use their Internet connections to create wireless local area networks (WLANs). This is much like what happened with cable TV in the 1980s when so-called... More...