TECHNOLOGY

The newly-released PlayStation Vita is being outsold by the handheld console that it is intended to replace, the seven-year-old PlayStation Portable.

With 2012 still in its infancy hackers operating under the Anonymous collective's banner have mounted three new high-profile hacking campaigns designed to "punish" the world's "wicked."

Samsung has unveiled the successor to Galaxy Plus - the Galaxy Ace Plus, which is touted to be the refreshed version of its predecessor. It is scheduled for an Indian release by end of March at Rs 15,000.

The Apple-dominated tablet marker could soon become a three horse race, with rumours emerging of a Google tablet set to take on the iPad and Amazon's hugely popular Kindle Fire.

Wikipedia users may no longer have to see founder Jimmy Wales' pleading face on every page, as the online encyclopaedia has celebrated raising $20 million in donations.

Google gets 217 IBM patents

A survey conducted by energy firm E.ON shows that about 134 million pounds of electricity is wasted annually owing to overcharging of mobile phones, laptops and computers in the UK.

The Advertising Standards Authority has reportedly banned TalkTalk's ad campaign after finding the campaign to be misleading and fraudulent.

Reports that the Japanese Government is developing its own computer virus has led analysts to speculate of a possible cyber "doomsday" scenario.

In early January a man was granted access to the United States from Canada without his passport, instead showing boarder control a photocopy of it on his iPad.

More than one million ebook readers were opened on Christmas Day in the UK and a staggering 92 per cent of these were Kindles, underlining Amazon's dominance in the ebook sector.

Breaking from the flagship Galaxy Nexus' assault on Apple's main iPhone base, Samsung has unveiled two new low-price devices aimed to conquer the affordable smartphone market.

Latest development on the newest tablet Amazon Kindle Fire shows that the little tablet has reduced the sales of the Goliath-like iPad tablet versions during the Holiday season.

Apple is set to revolutionise the textbook and education industries by announcing new partnerships with publishers at a media event in New York this month, reports claim.

Pirated copies of ebooks are being distributed online for free, even before the printed copies are released, and account for 20 percent of all ebook downloads.

Another "leak" has appeared revealing yet more insights into Nokia's, currently fictional, Lumia 900 "Ace" smartphone.

Reports suggesting Motorola is working on a mysterious new upgrade for its Xoom series of tablets has led to fresh speculation of an Ice Cream Sandwich update.

Following an ominous threat from Anonymous, Sony and Nintendo have both dropped their support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Action (SOPA) bill.

Apple and Google are interested in bidding for the right to broadcast live Premier League football on their respective TV streaming services, according to the Daily Mail.

Following its Stratfor hack and fresh campaign against German neo-Nazis, Anonymous has left one more LulzXmas present for its supporters, issuing a new statement containing links to nearly all of its 2011 statements and data-dumps.

BlackBerry is still struggling to sell its cursed PlayBook, slashing the price of its iPad rival yet again, this time to just $299 for all models.

Samsung’s flagship smartphone Galaxy S2 took all the limelight in 2011, leading the charts for almost eight to 10 months in a row until Apple’s iPhone 4S arrived.

The hacker cell of the Anonymous collective has followed up its previous assault in Finland, disabling the websites and publishing the members' names of several German neo-Nazi groups.

A Twitter account in the name of Wendi Deng, the wife of Rupert Murdoch, has confessed to being fake, raising concerns as the social network has verified the account as genuine for a whole day.

A group of computer hackers, thought to be from Saudi Arabia, claim to have stolen and published the details of up to 400,000 active Israeli credit cards.

Another "leaked" image of Nokia's fabled Lumia 900 "Ace" smartphone, has emerged sparking fresh hopes of a Consumer Electronics Show 2012 appearance.

Reports suggest Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS is looking to take a slice of the Kindle Fire's action, unveiling its own 7-inch Android tiny-titan at 2012's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Rupert Murdoch has joined Twitter and it would appear that his wife Wendi Deng has also opened an account, and has been flirting with comedian Ricky Gervais in the process.

Reports suggest Acer and Lenovo are both preparing a series of Windows 8 tablets for release in the third quarter of 2012.