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Finally the big mobile operators have begun to shake hands over how the auction for 4G services will take place this year, with the agreement between them all expecting to be signed tonight – presumably because none of them want to give Everyone Everywhere (EE) too much of a lead …

Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been in Moscow visiting the Government. His plans are to boost the social networking giant's presence in the Russian market. Zuckerberg, 28 went on a sightseeing trip in the Russian Capital after his arrival and posed for photographs in Red Square just like a …

SAPPHIRE Technology, a leading manufacturer and global supplier of graphics, mainboard and multimedia solutions has just announced a new mainboard developed to support the latest Trinity family of APUs from AMD. The SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A85XT is a full ATX sized board that supports the latest generation AMD APU A10/A8/A6/A4 …

Samsung are gunning for Apple, and have said that the iPhone 5 breaches eight of their patents. The electronics giant have filed an amendment to their lawsuit against Apple. Samsung say that they are questioning the use of six utility patents and two standard essential patents. Samsung issued a statement …

One of the four founding members of torrent search site The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm, is currently detained in a Swedish prison after his deportation from Cambodia, but while he is being held on suspicion of hacking he hasn't been officially charged – highlighting Sweden's controversial imprisonment laws. On top of not being charged with …

Fans of the Half Life Universe are in for a treat, as a new short film was launched yesterday on Youtube, showing some of the early stages of Black Mesa's fallout. Scientist and all-round crowbar swinging badass, Gordon Freeman makes an appearance near the start, taking on the role of …

Iran have unblocked access to GMAIL, however a government Internet filtering committee official has said that more censorship is being prepared against Youtube. Users in Iran has their access to GMAIL restored since it was initially blocked on September 24th. The secure protocol HTTPS version of Google search has also …

A self published author was banned from Google's adsense program after it was found he was using the torrent search site The Pirate Bay to distribute his work, linking to the content from the same site that Google's ads were appearing. Cory Jackson, author of a book on Python programming, …

Microsoft has implemented rewards for those that reach milestones for their achievement bolstered gamer scores, offering birthday gifts and money back on purchases. The introduction of gameplay achievements oh so many years ago was a big thing. It added a new element to gameplay that people enjoyed. While some games …

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has claimed that Apple are a ‘patent bully'. Schmidt says that Apple are a ‘very good partner', but he said that he doesn't agree with patent wars, feeling they ‘prevent choice' and innovation. He also said that some of the Apple patents really shouldn't stand. He …

Netflix have updated their iOS application to support the newest iPhone 5 screen as well as offering support for iOS6. The company claim that improvements have also been made to browsing, viewing and searching. The update will be welcomed by the millions of people who have already parted with money …

Research In Motion have surprised analysts by reporting an increase in subscriber base and sales. While they have posted another quarterly loss, the company position is not quite as bad as many expected. The Canadian company are still dropping market share in the North American market as it struggles to …

Talk Talk has been crowned the king of horrible ISPs, after it was announced that it had received the most complaints about its services between Apil and June this year. For every 100,000 customers, it received 42 complaints for its broadband – comparative service Sky, received only 10. It wasn't …

The Canadian Department of Finance (DoF) has had to suspend an advertising campaign it had entrusted to Yahoo, after one of its Economic Action banners appeared on the file sharing website The Pirate Bay. Apparently the ad appeared along with the search results for a Dr Who episode. The official …

You always need to be at least a little suspicious when a company shows you a set of comparative benchmarks. But, as they say, forwarned is forarmed. AMD had a number of systems on show in London yesterday and world famous overclocking expert (and now AMD PR expert) Sami Makinen …

From the point where Intel launched Conroe, AMD has had some serious challenges in the desktop processor market. Now, speaking as the head of the desktop business team on the eve of the launch of Trinity, Leslie Sobon seems quietly confident of her company's ability to grow its market share. …

There doesn't seem to be a day that goes past without some company seeking legal action on another, and today LG have decided to target Samsung, over claims of patent infringement. The news which hit a couple of hours ago suggested that Samsung are infringing on an LG Display patents …

Blackberry are facing a tough struggle against market leaders Apple and Google. At their recent event in San Jose, California they could barely fill a third of the 1,500 seat venue. A far cry from the pioneering company of yesteryear. Later today they are due to release financial results which …

Digitimes in the Far East are claiming that the upcoming Haswell based processor range may have a negative impact on some of the second tier motherboard players. This may even force some of them out of the market completely. Haswell is set to integrate functions such as power phase control …

It didn't take long for Apple users to express their dissatisfaction with the latest iOS6 operating system. A new poll shows that Apple's smartphone users are less satisfied with the operating system than they were with previous releases. It has been impossible to miss the explosion around Apple Maps recently, …

After details were revealed by Radu Dragusin over at IEEElog.com a few days ago that passwords and user details for some 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had been made publicly available on the company's FTP server for at least a month, the organisation has now …

A new video appeared this morning on the MrKimDotcom Youtube channel, headlined “Kim Dotcom – Making of Megabox,” which plays out like a movie trailer, with shots going in and out of focus, a thumping musical backing track and sample footage of the new website in action, giving a hint as …

Foxconn are facing a new wave of criticism, as the latest fight at one of their factories has placed the spotlight on their security team. Reports are coming in that the heavy handed security team and the regimented dormitory life may have been the tipping point for the brawl which …

Innovation and inspiration are not quite twins, but they are very close cousins. By the same token, derivation and downright rip-off are also closely related. Lawyers get phat on the differences between these words and, right now, some of those lawyers belong to Acer, Foxconn, Kingston and Toys ‘R' Us. You may …

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins spoke out at the press briefing at the BlackBerry Jam event. He said that betting everything on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system would allow the company to grow their user base again in the United States and North America. Research In Motion have …

MySpace, once the pinnacle of social networking advancement is far from the entity it once was, though at its peak it had only a fraction of Facebook's insane user base. Still, its current owners, like those of the newly revamped DIGG, are hoping to draw back a few of the older users …

Ever thought to yourself, “I'd love to buy some Special K cereal, but I have no money. If only I could pay with my tweets”? If you're one of the very few people that answered yes to that question then I may have the shop for you. The world's first …

While AMD might struggle to match Intel's tick-tock on the CPU side of life, the old ATi graphics team has no such difficulty in pushing out next-generation GPUs. We have spoken with our sources in the Far East and discovered AMD's launch plans for the Radeon 8000 series. KitGuru orders …

Foxconn have reopened one of their Chinese factories after closing it yesterday due to a fight among 2,000 workers. Foxconn said the police were investigating the issue, and it was so bad that they closed the factory yesterday to calm the tensions among their staff. Many are claiming that the …