TECHNOLOGY

Cyber attacks on the Government and UK population have reached "disturbing" levels, according to the director of The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

The Church of England is threatening to withdraw millions of pounds invested in Internet service providers unless they take action to curb online pornography.

Siri has been hacked to fully work on an iPod touch and iPhone 4, although the hacker has stated that he will not distribute the application to other users.

A bug in the location services of iOS 5 has been blamed for poor battery life experienced by users of the new iPhone 4S and older models.

After its stint in amateur videos, YouTube is set to entertain more audiences with about 100 new channels of original video programming content from celebrities such as singer Madonna, actor Ashton Kutcher and rapper Jay- Z.

Kinect Sports was one of the launch titles for the Xbox Kinect when it debuted last year, and now the game is back for a second season with six new games.

The three-day blackout earlier this month cast a dark shadow over RIM, but the BlackBerry manufacturer had been in trouble long before a server in Slough decided to take the day off.

Samsung has confirmed its opening pot-shot at Apple's iPhone 4S, the Galaxy Note will be hitting UK stores on 3 Nov., weeks before the speculated 17 Nov. release of its Galaxy Nexus.

Despite a 20 per cent growth in mobile device sales, Motorola is failing to make a dent in the tablet market, with the iPad dwarfing sales of its Xoom.

Having just wrestled the crown of world's favourite smartphone maker from Apple, speculation has turned to the next quarter, with analysts questioning whether Samsung's Galaxy Nexus will be able to keep the Apple iPhone 4S hordes at bay.

Coldplay has joined other artists, such as Adele, in not allowing its new album 'Mylo Xlyoto' to be streamed on services such as Spotify.

An Apple television is a 'guaranteed product' that has been in development for some time and will use personal assistant Siri to replace a conventional remote control, according sources.

A report to be revealed next month says that two different US government satellites were hijacked by hackers on four different occasions between 2007 and 2008.

According to the two companies' quarterly financial statements, Samsung has won the title of world's top smart maker, with its current line of smartphones outselling Apple's iPhone.

BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has lost a senior executive involved in the company's move to cloud-based services, casting yet more doubt over the Canadian company.

The next downloadable car pack for Forza Motorsport 4 will be made available to download from Xbox Live next Monday, November 1, and includes the Lamborghini Aventador.

Attempting to draw consumers to Nokia's forthcoming Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, Orange is offering existing customers a free 4GB Xbox 360 when they upgrade to the Lumia 800 on an 18 or 24 month contract.

With news of the buy-out now public, analysts have suggested Sony's decision to buy Ericsson out of the two company's partnership may have been motivated by the patents and added legal protection it would duly acquire.

With Nintendo's latest financial statement confirming a further slump in revenue, analysts have come to question whether Nintendo will be able to continue developing consoles, suggesting the company may be forced to go the way of SEGA and re-focus its efforts to third-party software development.

Yet more bad news for BlackBerry has transpired today as the PlayBook tablet continues to sell badly, despite significant price cuts.

Electric car company Tesla is "trying to change the industry" after it has revealed plans to launch an all-new two-seater Roadster model in 2014.

New research suggests Apple's iconic series of iPad tablets have not only outsold their Android equivalents, but also allowed tablet sales, for the first time ever, to exceed those of Netbooks.

Floods in Thailand will cause PC and hard drive shortages in the run-up to Christmas, with industry-leader Western Digital (WD) warning that stock levels will not return to normal until 2012.

Despite beating research firm Nikkei's pessimistic predictions, Nintendo has revealed a massive ¥70 billion (£576 million) loss for the quarter ending 30 September, 2011, leading to fresh speculation about the games industry veteran's future as a console maker.

BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion has been sued by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day service outage that affected millions of users worldwide this month.

Sony has confirmed it has agreed to acquire Ericsson's 50 per cent stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, making the company a subsidiary wholly owned by Sony.

The display to be used in the upcoming iPad 3 is said to be a "quantum leap in pixel density", according to sources with knowledge of the new tablet, due early next year.

Apple has patented its touchscreen unlock for both tablets and smartphones, meaning no other mobile operating system can use a similar system.

A virus attacking Mac computers known as Tsunami Trojan has been discovered and early speculation suggests that it may be a DDoS attack tool, used to bring down websites.