TECHNOLOGY

Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive of Microsoft, has indicated that the $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype by his company could see an increase in advertising on Skype.

Samsung's slimmest and lightest smartphone yet, the Samsung Galaxy S II is set to arrive in UK on 1st May 2011. The Galaxy S II is the first handset to offer Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus screen technology, the largest, brightest and most colourful screen available in Samsung's portfolio of devices.

Intel Corp, chipmakers have splashed out on McAfee - publisher of the popular McAfee antivirus software as it sees the firm's mobile antivirus as an important pillar of its future business.

LG has announced it plans to sell one million Windows Phone 7 devices as it announces targets for the handheld devices.

Apple has hired a near field communications veteran as its Product Manager for Mobile Commerce, as it seeks to put forward a strategy for a gadget 'possiblly iPhone 5' that could contain NFC (near field communications) technology.

Gartner Research has revealed its latest smartphone data release with sales up 50 pct as the market share for the internet-enabled phones rose substantially.

Mozilla, developers of the popular Firefox browser have added in multi-touch support for Windows 7 in its latest release.

A complicated sting by Sky News which saw cameras and keystroke recording programs attached to a PC sent for repair has convicted an engineer, Grzegorz Zachodni to jail.

3, the UK's fifth largest mobile operator has the last to announce it will stock Blackberry's latest 'Torch' phone.

Blackberry has given its popular emailing smartphone series its final announcement this week with the news that a budget 3G version of their phone is coming.

The BBC has lost 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones, 17 Blackberry's as the corporation looks to cut 1,800 jobs.

LG has a three-model renewal planned for its popular entry-level smartphone the 'Cookie' which are directly targetted at younger audiences who are intrigued by Apple's iPhone.

RIM, who have recently been embroiled in a privacy battle with United Arab Emirates are in the midst of a smartphone launch which could see it earn back some users after market share was lost to Apple and Google Android's OS recently.

The BlackBerry uses proprietary software that encrypts all wireless transmissions from Blackberry devices which the UAE can't break.

A 'Black' version of the Kindle is launching in the UK, lighter and more advanced than the American versions, the e-Readers will cost just £109 or £149 with lifetime 3G for downloading books. The £109 version requires a wi-fi connection to buy books.

Microsoft has announced that it will hand-out free WP7 Phone's on its release later this year as it drives forward its plans for a smartphone market share.

Rivals HTC, Nokia and Blackberry maker RIM have responded to Apple's claims that their iPhone problems are "not unique" to them.

Five points on what to expect from Apple and Steve jobs in their latest press conference.

Welcome to our live coverage and build-up of iPhone 4's briefing on claims that's its antennae malfunctions, combined with other problems with software that have been reported widespread across the internet.

Steve Ballmer's keynote speech at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2010

There are two kinds of people. Those who love Transformers and those who do not. For the former this game is the answer to many prayers given in hard times, the latter may wonder what the fuss is about.

As traffic statistics reveal Bing trailing Google in all four major markets - US, UK, China and India, we take a look at each search engine to see where the best product lies.

For all but the Spanish and the Dutch the World Cup is now over, but for those who have still not had enough of football there is always the chance for some virtual glory by leading their team of choice to victory on the Nintendo Wii.

Google revamp brings more search results after server upgrades that brings information to you at faster speed.

Samsung Electronics says the iPhone's display technology is not a competitive threat.

Microsoft yesterday, announced further detail on how it would implement its apps store.

Microsoft yesterday launched its latest incarnation of Windows Embedded operating system aimed at tablet, media and portable PC's.

Apple Inc. said on Monday that its iPad sales had topped 2 million after it announced sales figures to date including iPad launch weekend in UK.

Internet Explorer 9, has impressed critics in early phases as the development team look to improve the software giant's browsing software amidst intense competition from rivals Google, Mozilla and Opera.