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Amazon have experienced strong sales with their Kindle and Kindle Fire tablets, and murmurings suggest that they may be wanting to release a set top box to partner up with your television set. Sources close to the project spoke to Business Week hinting that Amazon wanted to release a proprietary …

Would you like to spend some one on one time with Apple leader Tim Cook at their Cupertino, California headquarters? Then your dreams could come true. The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights is hosting a Spring Auction through online auction site Charitybuzz. This site specialises in …

While a handful of investors no doubt made a killing in the past month with the meteoric rise of bitcoin's value, those making hardware specifically to mine bitcoins are doing pretty well too – but they aren't the only ones. While Avalon's ASIC systems have all pretty much sold at …

The Tor accessible network that sells everything from fake IDs to heroin, Silk Road, has been hit with a DDOS attack according to admins. While some site service appears to have been restored in the past few hours, users are still reporting that it's near impossible to login. The news …

Is a 1080p television just not good enough for you? Then take your credit card and wallet, (and perhaps a kidney) to Selfridges to get hold of the new Samsung S9 UHD TV. The asking price? A cool £34,999.99 inc vat. It will be sold in their flagship Oxford Street store …

Apple has announced its first drop in profits for the past decade, prompting some to question the future of the firm – as it has a history of innovating and trend setting over a few years and then stagnating. Vanessa Barnett, technology and media specialist at Charles Russell LLP has spoken up …

The man behind one of Kickstarter – and crowdfunding in general's – biggest success stories, Chris Roberts' Star Citizen, has announced he's opening a new development studio in Santa Monica to focus on publishing and development of the in-game elements. He also said the new team would be working on …

Bugatti are well known globally for producing some of the world's fastest, and most expensive sports cars. They are releasing only eight Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Car limited editions. The car will hit a top speed of 254 mph and is classed as the worlds fastest convertible. We …

As technology permeates every corner of the planet, so the threat of significant security attacks grows. Articles that run on world famous newspapers like the New York Times, result in massive hacks into every PC owned by that organisation – within 24 hours. It's a very serious world and security …

The federal forces in Australia have arrested the vocal, self proclaimed leader of Lulzsec. A hacking collective well known across the globe for their high profile attacks on leading organisations. They even shut down the Central Intelligence Agency's public web site in 2011. The Australian Federal Police said that they …

Google has bought Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for more than $30 million, according to a Techcrunch source. Apple and Google were both competing to take over the Seattle based company, however Google have claimed the victory. Apple apparently were interested in the start up company to help augment …

iPhone 4 owners who filed claims against Apple in a class action lawsuit have begun to receive their money. A $15 settlement cheque in the mail. The money started arriving this week, according to TUAW. People were apparently so surprised that they didn't even know what the money was for …

Netflix is set to offer a new £8 a month service, which while offering the same content to users, allows them to simultaneously stream from the service in four separate locations. The idea is for families to be able to watch different media around the house or t0 accommodate roommates that have differing tastes. Wired also …

We all know women loves clothes, shoes and handbags, me included. According to a report on the Dailymail however, one PR executive took it a step further. Kathryn Kirton, 35 was head of PR at Activision when she decided to take around £18,000 to pay for her engagement party, hen …

If you frequently build a PC during the evening, you will undoubtedly have a flashlight in your arsenal of tools. For those who think brighter is always better then you won't want to miss the new NiteCore Tiny Monster TM26. It is classed as the world's smallest 3,500 lumen flashlight. …

Apple are expected to post a drop in quarterly profit when they issue their next financial report. The shrink may be their first drop in the last decade, hurt by products with lower profit margins and slower iPhone sales growth. According to Bloomberg fourteen analysts have reduced their estimates for …

The Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project just got the go ahead by the local Board of Land and Natural Resources to be built in Hawaii, meaning that in the near future, the little island will house the biggest telescope in the world, with new imaging technology allowing deeper looks into the cosmos than …

The new cost effective 10 inch tablet from Acer will be produced by Compal Electronics. Shipments are due to start in August 2013 according to an unnamed source I spoke with this weekend in Taipei. Compal were able to get the order from under the nose of Wistron according to …

The latest news from China show that Foxconn have received 5 million iPhones back for repair, due to sub standard chassis or faulty functions. The report was filed with the China Business Journal this weekend. The Taiwan based manufacturer have received 5 million phones back on March 15 according to …

Apple generally release their new iPad model around March/April, but due to the late refresh last year, it would appear the company won't be refreshing their tablet until later this year. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that he doesn't feel the next generation iPad will hit until ‘the fall'. …

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said the company paid £6 million in UK corporation tax in 2011. This complied with the law and he said Google was acting no differently that other firms. Recent news has highlighted that companies such as Google and Amazon aren't paying as much tax as …

It may not be a Rolex or a Patek Philipe, but 2013 is going to be the year of the tech watch. Google, Apple and Samsung may all get their smartwatches out in 2013, but Pebble are promoting their ‘proof of concept' watchface SDK which allows third party developers to …

With all this talk of next-generation consoles, it's time we took a pause and considered the next-generation of more out there hardware: like the next-gen of shark tracking robots that will help us understand how reclusive species like the Great White, actually live. If you've watched shows like Shark Week, …

A Lulzsec hacker who has pleaded guilty to taking part in a breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment servers has been sentenced yesterday in Los Angeles to a year in prison, followed by home detention. Cody Kretsinger, a lulzsec hacker who used the online name ‘Recursion' pleaded guilty to the offenses …

Google have posted great results this week, showing continued growth. The results also show that activity on Google's web search engine is becoming more prevalent on mobile devices. Google's revenue, excluding their Motorola Mobility hardware unit rose 22% to $12.95 billion from a year earlier and equaled their revenue growth …

Since Bitcoin has become more of an accepted form of monetary transaction across the internet connected world, the bubble burst that hit its value last week, was going to be felt far and wide. It's not surprising then that one of the places that helped pioneer the currency has been …

Following on from an upsurge in activity during the heady days of Bitcoin's plus $200 value at the start of last week, Bitfloor has suffered in the wake of the crash and now apparently its US bank account is set to be closed, forcing the exchange to shut down – …

Are you a keyboard connoisseur? Do most laptop keyboards feel rubbery under your fingers? The new modification for your Macbook Pro might just be the change you need then. Rawbkny have released a new MacBook Wood Keyboard just to appeal to those people who like to be different. It is …

Google Glass is dominating the news today, the first kits have reached developers and videos are now hitting youtube of the product in action. I have to admit, the video quality is actually really impressive – ideal for sneaking video footage of people who would normally be scared away when …

Be Quiet has announced its joint partnership with Esports organisation Team-Dignitas, in a move that will see it provide hardware for the systems used by the team players, but also likely some monetary support too, in exchange for the team wearing the BeQuiet logo on their apparel (among others) and …