Microsoft Research spent a day showing off 13 new technologies that teach programming skills to children as they create video games, allow drivers to text message or start the music in their cars by speaking and use the Internet to

A new focus group study released yesterday by Catalyst Group shows exactly how steep the climb will be for Microsoft's new search tool.

YouTube also tracked a 1700 per cent increase in uploads from mobile phones in 6 monthsVideo sharing Web site YouTube has reported that mobile uploads to the video-sharing site have increased by 400 per cent since the iPhone 3GS was

Offers a maximum output of 16 Watts and a frequency range of 120 Hz to 20 kHzData storage specialists Verbatim, has introduced the Multimedia Audio Bar, a 2.1 speaker system.

The move to an external advisor would be an unusual oneApple Retail is seeking a sole external European legal adviser reports The Lawyer.

Animation package now includes stop-motion featureToon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio 5, rebranding and repositioning the animation application as an educational tool for multi-technique animation. The release includes a new stop-motion animation feature, as well as traditional, digital,

World-Check relies on people, not software, to build database of high-risk individuals for banks.Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive

Prices new OS at 41 per cent to 100 per cent more than in the US, but leaves out browserEuropean customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to US users, even though the new operating

The GrooveTransmit finds the best FM frequency from a wide transmission rangeCygnett, who manufacture a range of accessories for iPod, iPhone and MP3 players, has announced the new GrooveTransmit iPod and iPhone FM Transmitter.

The shortages were a milder repeat of last summerApple's retail stores reported shortages of some models of the new iPhone 3GS on Sunday, according to the company's own inventory tracking tool.

The two-day course, held at Pinewood Studios, costs £300Sequence Training, a leading UK-based training and production centre for film and video editing, and Macworld Masterclasses partner, has announced new pricing for the Making a Documentary class.

Mobile phone charger harmonisation is a first step, with work under way to find a universal chargerWouldn't it be nice if all our mobile gadgets connected to one universal charger? According to the vice president of the European Commission, Gunter

Mobile phone charger harmonisation is a first step, with work under way to find a universal chargerWouldn't it be nice if all our mobile gadgets connected to one universal charger? According to the vice president of the European Commission, Gunter

Filmlounge.com specialises in 'lads movies' with rentals from £1.99Filmlounge.com has introduced a Web based service for legal film streaming and downloading.

Free tickets are available via a dedicated new Web site www.ituneslive.co.uk and FacebookApple has announced one million applications, so far, for a chance to see a series of free gigs throughout July featuring Oasis, Snow Patrol, Kasabian and many others.

I've always had a soft spot for the SiN games and it isn't just because of the boobs in it. The original SiN was released around the same time as I started to move from being regular gamer to a

Samsung is back with a 12.1in clone of its hugely successful NC10 netbook. There's a lot more to it than that though, as the NC20 is one of the first laptops to be based around VIA's Nano processor. Does Samsung's

It sometimes seems the games industry churns out JRPGs quicker than you can say "androgynous teenage hero with spiky hair". There are jewels hidden amongst the emo haircuts and world-threatening disasters though and Tales of Vesperia is a JRPG that

Obsidian has confirmed once and for all that Sega has cancelled the RPG the studio had been working on, which would have been based on the Aliens franchise.

The next build of the Mozilla Foundation's popular open-source web browser, Firefox 3.5, is due to hit final release status tomorrow - and brings some nice new features.