The Royal Mail launches the world's first "intelligent" stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they ...

A look at Samsung's Galaxy Tab, an Android-based portable tablet computer that is expected to make its debut in Europe ahead of other regions(ZDNet UK - Mobile Devices) ...

A look at Samsung's Galaxy Tab, an Android-based portable tablet computer that is expected to make its debut in Europe ahead of other regions(ZDNet UK - Mobile Devices) ...

HP has won the short, sharp race to add the data storage management company to its enterprise portfolio, nearly doubling the value of the acquisition in the process(ZDNet UK - Merg ...

Businesses that buy vSphere licences will get SLES free of charge, as Novell and VMware continue a collaboration centred on making it easier to move workloads across clouds(ZDNet U ...

The operating system update will allow wireless printing and audio and video streaming on the iPad, according to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs(ZDNet UK - Mobile Apps) ...

A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time. ...

Dell withdraws its bid for 3Par after rival Hewlett-Packard raises its offer for the data storage company to $2.1bn. ...

The author of the Digital Britain report, along with other industry experts, has said the government was wrong to put back the date for universal 2Mbps connectivity by three years( ...

With most of the engineering done, Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to its OEM and carrier partners for final customization in preparation for a holiday launch.(ZDNet UK - Mobile ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL Inc said on Thursday it has renewed a search agreement with Google Inc, further cementing a decade-long partnership as AOL tries to turn around its busines ...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s. ...

The Wireless Power Consortium has delivered the Qi 1.0 standard, which promises universal wireless charging for low-power mobile devices such as phones(ZDNet UK - Mobile IT) ...

The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN statistics. ...

The source code MacPaint is released but who can read it? ...

The microblogging site has said that all users will be switched to its own link shortener, which will allow the company to record and analyse what they click on(ZDNet UK - Security ...

Everyone, including foreigners and visitors, will be required to provide identification when they set up a mobile phone service account in China (ZDNet UK - Regulation) ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Critics hoping for more from Apple Inc's Web-to-TV plans -- a device, say, that would revolutionize living room entertainment the way the iPad changed table ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday put off a controversial decision on Internet traffic rules, giving industry and consumer groups a chance to forge ...

BURBANK, California (Reuters) - A booming market of tweens is changing the landscape of online games. ...

Samsung has become the latest manufacturer to enter into the tablet computer market with its Galaxy Tab. ...

US net users are being asked for their opinions about what ISPs should be allowed to do with web traffic flowing through their networks. ...

Internet Explorer's growth continued to slow, while Chrome returned to growth in August, according to new statistics(ZDNet UK - Desktop Apps) ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Baidu Inc, operator of China's dominant search engine, said on Thursday that it will focus its future mobile Internet investments on its core search business ...

Sony has won a temporary ban to prevent Australian distributors selling a hardware hack for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Nokia has decided to close down its Ovi Files service which allows consumers to access their computer data remotely, the world's top cellphone maker said in an e ...

Nothing said online is really private, says Bill Thompson ...

Banning technology from classrooms is unlikely to solve any problems, thinks Bill Thompson. ...

Motorola is cutting 3,000 jobs and delaying the spin-off of its loss-making mobile phone business after suffering a $397m loss in the third quarter amid a dramatic fall in handset ...

TSMC chief executive says industry revenues in 2009 will fall by up to 10% in 'an unusually challenging environment' amid the financial crisis ...

Despite the downturn in the economy, an unexpected surge in global consumer demand for 'netbooks' or mini-notebooks, has turned them into one of the hottest new consumer-tech produ ...

The world's leading mobile phone makers are braced for a painful 2009 after warnings that sales of handsets could fall sharply for the first time in eight years ...

If Microsoft fails to lay out a compelling plan for how it will adapt to the new world of internet-based computing, it would add to a nagging concerns that the company is falling b ...

Microsoft is weathering the economic downturn better than expected, with sales in the three months to the end of September topping Wall Street estimates, according to new figures . ...

When Amazon Web Services was launched in March 2006, investors thought the hundreds of millions of dollars the retailer was spending to build up its infrastructure and hire enginee ...

Sony blamed an economic change "defying imagination" as it slashed its profit forecasts, raising fears that it could even slide into losses in the second half of this year unless t ...

Moscow antitrust body steps in to $140m pursuit of Russian advertising business that would have raised search company's profile ...

AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group, is paying the price for the success of Apple's 3G iPhone launched on July 11 with a substantial subsidy from its mobile network unit ...

Amazon underlined the uncertainty facing retail sales this Christmas, forecasting fourth-quarter sales in the broad range of $6bn to $7bn

Yahoo announced a cut of at least 10 per cent in its workforce by the end of the year as it reported a disappointing third quarter caused by weakening display advertising sales ...

Apple cited the souring economy as it cut its forecast for the current quarter, even as profits rose by more than expected following a big jump in sales of its iPhone mobile handse ...

Apple's rivals are making moves to match the runaway success of its iPhone platform with their own versions of its store for applications and games from outside developers ...

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of memory chips, said that it was withdrawing its $5.85bn unsolicited bid for US-based flash memory card maker SanDisk ...

An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on the 15 September, the developers of the Diaspora project say. ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Performing rights organization ASCAP launched a free app for Apple's portable devices Wednesday, allowing its member songwriters and publishers to access the ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The mother of a 19-year-old female Syrian blogger who was arrested last year has appealed to President Bashar al-Assad for her release, saying her daughter doe ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators said on Wednesday they are considering whether wireless devices should be subject to different Internet traffic rules than tel ...

Apple has launched a music-based social network as part of its latest upgrade to the iTunes music software. ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a snazzier line of its iPod on Wednesday, unveiling new designs for every model of the popular media device. ...

Norwegian and German researchers have demonstrated a way to eavesdrop on communications by dazzling photon detectors(ZDNet UK - Security) ...

Sony has unveiled its own music and video download service in an announcement timed to coincide with an Apple media event. ...

Mobile operator O2 and Apple are still resolving a months-old data roaming issue, with customers complaining of charges they didn't incur. ...

The Pogoplug Biz is a more soberly-attired version of the home media server, offering enterprise features such as download auditing and customisation of the customer interface(ZDNe ...

The operator has launched its high-quality voice service, which is based on a wideband codec, with phones from manufacturers including Nokia and Samsung(ZDNet UK - Mobile Working) ...

IT management will increasingly focus on cloud services and managing virtual infrastructure in hosted environments, said VMware at the launch of a number of cloud products(ZDNet UK ...

HP chooses Hynix to take memristors from lab to fab just two years after the device's invention and three years before its commercial launch(ZDNet UK - Emerging Tech) ...

The company has launched a beta for Ionix Infrastructure Manager 2.0, which brings together management of network, compute and storage layers(ZDNet UK - Cloud) ...

Funded in part by Google, the ASA will gain new powers that will allow it to more closely regulate companies' online marketing strategies on sites such as Facebook and Twitter(ZDNe ...