Finnish mobile phone giants Nokia are claiming to have organized the biggest 2006 New Year’s Eve celebration in the world, with more than 2 million people in 5 locations joined by 150 million television and Internet viewers. Fittingly enough, Nokia was delivering on its promise to connect the... (Read More)

Research published by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) just before Christmas revealed that UK consumers are being conned to the tune of £3.5 billion every single year. The detailed analysis suggests that nearly half of the adult population of the UK has been targeted by a scam, and as many as one... (Read More)

The International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) is planning an alternative Internet, the Neuronet, designed to meet the needs of Virtual Reality applications. Which begs the dual questions of what those needs might be and what does Virtual Reality actually mean these days?... (Read More)

Sometimes you just cannot help it, you find yourself with time on your hands and you go snooping around in places that normal folk just do not venture. So it was with security researcher Michael Sutton who spent an entire day plugging through the Google blacklist, the Google encoded/hashed... (Read More)

Apple has had something of an exciting couple of weeks, it has to be said. There was the announcement of the iPhone and the predictable if misplaced media frenzy that accompanied it. Misplaced because, let’s face it, do we really need another smartphone even if it can play music which, in and of... (Read More)

While Apple has displayed a new banner on its website declaring Happy New Years, "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007," the Month of Apple Bugs has been launched, as if to scorn Apple's website banner. The Month of Apple bugs aims to reveal a new bug everyday related to Mac... (Read More)

In response to this article, claiming that the DVD format war may soon be over, I highly doubt it. In the article: They go on further to state that hybrid players coming from Warner Brothers and LG will bridge the gap between Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Well, it's just not going to happen. There's... (Read More)

According to Engadget, the second version of the Xbox 360, code-named "Zephyr" has had a photo leaked from a Xbox insider. It looks quite interesting; the only picture provided was a backside of the console. It's still white, but has some extra ports on the back. It seems like Microsoft really... (Read More)

Google Earth gives users the ability to fly around the earth - so why not allow people to fly through space? That's exactly what Google's trying to do now, and they've joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project to make it happen. The telescope is a "proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 10... (Read More)

Codeweavers has released a final version of CrossOver Office 6 - the software that provides Windows-application compatilibity - to both Linux and Mac OS X, marking the first-ever release of CrossOver Office for Mac. CrossOver Office is built upon the open source Wine framework, but provides... (Read More)