TECHNOLOGY

Intel has offered consumers a new five-year extended warranty on its SSD 320 solid-state series of storage devices.

With memory of the widespread disruption last years ash cloud debacle caused British travellers still fresh and another similar cloud reported as on its way, budget airline easyJet's decision to invest in new ash cloud detection technology may well be proven right in the coming days.

A recent report from research group Gartner has revealed that in the opening three months of 2011, sales of smartphones running Google's Android operating system have overtake those of Apple's iPhone.

A new parliamentary motion has urged Ofcom to extend its next generation mobile broadband to cover 98 percent of the country.

After standing down from his role as The Guardian's Head of Technology last week, Mike Bracken has just been appointed as the government's acting executive director of Digital.

Technology website Engadget today reported that Google is set to buy the bankrupt mobile maker Modu's patent portfolio.

With E3 and the promised reveal of Nintendo's new console drawing ever closer, retail prices of the Wii have hit an all time low, dropping below £100 for the first time in the console's history.

In a press release today Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment confirmed that a new Lego Harry Potter game will be hitting stores later this year.

In the wake of Spotify's decision to limit the amount of music non-paying account holders can stream, Napster has announced its own unlimited music streaming service.

The gaming blog Gamasutra has distributed a memo sent by Sony to its publishing partners, confirming the company's intention to have the PSN's PlayStation Store back online next week on 24 May.

A recent report from CNET has indicated that Apple may have secured a licencing agreement with EMI for its forthcoming cloud-based music streaming service and that it may well be on the verge of signing similar deals with Sony and and Universal.

Google has responded to the the potential security risks highlighted by researchers at the University of Ulm, claiming to have created an emergency fix that will solve the problem without the need for a full software update.

The third entry into Epic's now legendary Gears of War franchise has today earned a place in the Xbox 360's record books, becoming fastest pre-ordered game in the console's history.

Since Apple's image-sensor supplier OmniVision revealed a slimmer 5-megapixel unit small enough to fit into Apple's current iPad and iPod touch, rumors have developed that the forthcoming iPhone 5 will be capable of recording 1080p high-definition video.

Speaking at Google's Big Tent event in London, executive chairmen Eric Schmidt promised consumers that the company was dedicated to simplifying the Android app instillation permissions screen.

The Carphone Warehouse has launched its latest offensive in the ongoing price-slashing war of the phone sellers, offering budget smartphone maker INQ's latest phone the Cloud Touch for just £12 per month.

With service of its PlayStation Network once again resuming, tech giant Sony has officially denied that yesterdays outage was caused by a second security breach.

The latest firmware update for Microsoft's Xbox 360 can leave older versions of the device unable to read high-capacity discs.

Sony's ongoing battle to win back public trust in the wake of its PSN nightmare has just taken another serious blow as a new maintenance notice indicates that its network has once again been hacked.

Revealed just after the unmitigated disaster that was the PSN crash, research carried out the University of Ulm has discovered that any Android smartphone running a version older than 2.3.4 could be leaking sensitive personal data.

In a bid to win back some of the 100 million account holders effected by the PSN's outage, Sony has finally released details of the new identity protection service it will be offering its users.

In a recent meeting with the Wall Street Journal Sony Corp. executive deputy president Kaz Hirai and CEO Sir Howard Stringer indicated that only a "very small" percentage of PlayStation Network users went so far as to cancel their accounts after the network was restored.

Research in Motion has recalled close to 1000 of its newly release PlayBook tablets due to a software flaw within the operating system.

In the wake of a 17-plus hour network outage, that left millions of O2 customers unable to make calls, texts or use the internet, in a statement to the BBC O2 representatives confirmed they will not be offering compensation to those effected.

Research carried out by Hewlett Packard and the University of California Santa Barbara has taken bold strides, discovering several key lessons about memristors, a phenomenas widely considered to be integral in the development of the next generation of electronics.

The 3G-less Blackberry PlayBook was today given its UK release date and initial price.

After a successful theft and vandalism raid hit O2's East London operations site customers accross parts of London, Kent and East Sussex have lost coverage.

Cassidian -- the defence and security division of EADS -- has been tasked to improve the German Army's STINGER air defence training systems.

Jumping on the growing budget smartphone bandwagon, Vodafone has officially confirmed its plans to release its first ever own-brand smartphone.