One of the scenes biggest newsgroup indexing sites NBZmatrix have closed their services. They posted on their homepage “The End… It is with our regret to announce that NZBMATRIX has closed. We have had to make this decision due to a very large takedown request from a company called Wiggin …

Judge Lucy Koh who ruled over the $1bn award of patent damages to Apple against Samsung in August has made a plea for both companies to consider ‘global peace' yesterday at an appeal hearing. The companies argued for three hours over the scope and consequences of the earlier ruling. In …

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that Apple will spend more than $100 million next year on building Macintosh computers in America. They are moving a portion of their manufacturing away from China, the country which handles the majority of their product range. Cook spoke to Bloomberg Businessweek and said …

Hewlett Packard have announced a new tablet/hybrid which seems all the rage lately. The EliteBook Revolve is targeting the business market. The EliteBook Revolve is a touch enabled laptop, and the display can be rotated and laid flat, turning the notebook into a tablet. It is due to launch in …

Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer has spoken out publicly for the first time since taking over the company. She is one of the most powerful women in the industry and her views are always heard worldwide. Jon Fortt reported on her speech saying “No bombshells from Mayer, but she did talk …

Many of the news headlines lately have been detailing the war between Samsung and Apple. As these are the market leaders, it is understandable. Under the radar however, Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) are embroiled in their own wireless patent battle. Nokia have said that RIM “is not entitled …

Market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech have said that iOS is now the top selling smartphone operating system in America, pushing Android phones into second place. Kantar said yesterday that iPhones now hold a 48.1% share of the U.S. smartphone market, compared against 46.7% for Android. The iPhone 4S outsold …

In one of the more amusing science stories to hit the net recently, it would appear that NASA's Cassini infrared spectrometer has recorded shapes similar to the profile of the famous Pac Man character highlighted on Saturn's two moons, Tethys and Mimas. Linda Spilker, a scientist working on the Cassini …

A jacket with built in headphones, speakers and control system that allows wearers to skip, pause, play music as well as answer and hang up calls has been launched at Debenhams today (18 November 2012), just in time for Christmas. The coat – a world first –  is designed by …

Samsung have announced proudly that they have sold over 5 million Galaxy Note II products. The device was only launched 2 months ago – September 26th. In the space of a single month, the company had sold three million units and sales grew as it hit the States on October …

10 days ago the new ‘Reality Deck officially opened at New York's Stony Brook University. The creator of the concept has described it as ‘The closest thing in the world to Star Trek's holodeck'. The four walls are covered in 416 high resolution screens that deliver 1.5 billion pixels. SBU …

You may have missed the breakthrough technology news by Everspin in recent weeks, so we thought we would take a quick look at the hardware. The company have created Spin Torque MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) which uses an electron ‘spin' to store data in a magnetic, rather than electronic …

U.S. space agency officials are planning to announce a ‘major' discovery in December, and speculation is rife that some form of life may have been discovered on MARS. NASA's Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena spoke to the NPR on Tuesday. He said …

In America, local police departments are informing the public about the new FBI Child ID Application which can be downloaded for free from the Android Apps section of Google Play or through iTunes. The software will let parents store pictures and vital information about their children in case they go …

Sparkle today releases the powerful Dual Fan series– SPARKLE GTX 660 OC Dual Fan, GTX 650Ti Super OC(SOC) Dual Fan and GTX 650Ti OC Dual Fan. The latest Dual Fan series features default overclocked setting, with up to 1006MHz core speed, the Dual Fan series delivers turbocharged performance, maximizing the …

Congratulations to professional overclockers “HiCookie” and “Christian Ney” for breaking memory frequency world records with G.SKILL’s flagship – TridentX Extreme Performance Memory Series! Earlier this month, professional overclocker “HiCookie” first posted his official memory clock score on HWBot.org, boasting his world’s fastest memory frequency at DDR3 3,354MHz with ultra low …

Toyota have said they will recall 2.77 million cars worldwide, after they have detected faults in the steering and water pump systems in some of their petrol and hybrid models. A total of 14 models are affected by the problem, including the Corolla compact sedan and the Prius Hybrid. The …

Samsung are going to be showcasing an amazing 85 inch ultra high definition television at CES in January. This set boasts a resolution of 8 million pixels. Samsung are claiming that this television is “the world's largest commercialized UHD LED TV”. The company have not released any pricing information yet, …

HTC and Apple have confirmed a global patent settlement this weekend and a 10 year licensing agreement. Apple first sued HTC in 2010 saying that the company were infringing on the iPhone makers patented technology. This was the first time that Apple sued a major Google Android market player. Apple …

The American gaming market isn't looking too healthy, as software sales have dropped by a whopping 25% in October compared to the same month a year before. Data from the NPD Group was released late on Thursday which highlights the concerning drop. Hardware sales are also said to have dropped …

Cray has launched their new ‘Cascade' system which was developed in partnership with the US Defense Advanced Research Projectes Agency. It utilises the new ‘Aries' interconnect. The Aries Interconnect is very important when it comes to hyperscaling and parallel computing. Intel paid $140 million to get ownership of the project …

Amazon have made a change in America to their Prime service which allows a portion of customers to subscribe on a monthly basis, rather than pay for full year. The PRIME service is popular with regular Amazon customers as it can save them a large amount of money over the …

Today’s web surfers aren’t content just to visit websites to look at cute cat and puppy pictures. Sure, few can resist surfing for cute cat pictures and constantly checking out the latest news, but sometimes plain old browsing isn’t enough. You want more relevant content, faster, and preferably without having …

Nikon have announced the release of their new D5200 SLR, a 24.1 megapixel compact body SLR. The camera will be available in three colours … black, bronze and red. The camera is also said to have 39 point auto focus. The body price will be around 900 euros when it …

Apple are facing many legal challenges lately from companies such as Google and Samsung. Fosspatents published an article yesterday which is very interesting. They say “On Saturday, two days before an Apple v. Motorola Mobility may or may not commence, Apple brought a couple of motions to prevent the wholly-owned …

The 4th generation iPad, or ‘iPad 4' as some people are calling it has been taken apart by iFixit. They have found that apart from the Lightning connector, the tablet's internal design has not changes at all when compared to the iPad 3. The company tore apart the latest revision …

Microsoft are being sued over the Tiles that feature as part of the Windows 8 operating system. These ‘Live Tiles' are little animated blocks which have been designed primarily for the tablet audience. These tiles have features in Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8. The interface actually goes …

Kitguru Gaming has been releasing information on the upcoming GTA5 as we get it, but the announcement yesterday points out that fans are in for a treat. The game, which is now penciled in to arrive next Spring is said to be groundbreaking. Rockstar issued an announcement yesterday saying that …

Imperva, Inc. today released its October Hacker Intelligence Initiative report, “Monitoring Hacker Forums,” its second annual analysis of a large hacker forum containing roughly 250,000 members. Imperva has detected a black market for social network fraud.  In addition, about one third of discussions in the hacker forum focused on training …

Apple fourth quarter profits have missed the Wall Street forecasts as iPad sales have fallen short of analyst predictions. Profits in the last three months were $8.5 billion (£5bn), up from $6.6 bn last year. Revenues are recorded as $36 bn, a 27% increase. Apple sold 26.9 million iPhones in …