A senior vice president of Nvidia has denied rumours that the company is planning an entry into the x86 CPU market.

Email attachment installs Trojan

Hackers are claiming they have kidnapped children in a bid to infect PCs with a Trojan Horse virus, says Sophos.

A despicable new spam attack is fooling people into installing a Trojan Horse by claiming to have "hijacked" their baby.

New smartphone has slide-out keyboard

Google's auto complete search feature is ready to "graduate" to the site's main page.

In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world's most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10. Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on September 10. ...

Canonical has warned users of all machines running recent versions of Ubuntu to patch their systems and shut an open door for hackers. Canonical is the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to...

Adobe has released details of the forthcoming versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and its video equivalent, Premiere Elements 7.

New iPod will feature wider screen, says Digg founder

Apple looks set to launch a new thinner version of its iPod Nano, says Digg founder Kevin Rose.In his blog, Rose said the new version of the digital audio player will feature in Apple's product launch during September Apple launch along with a new version of iTunes.Rose said the iPod would be thinner and longer than the current model and feature a wider screen and rounded, cylindrical casing. Rose also speculated that iPod prices would be cut so as not to affect sales of the iPhone.

The Facebook version of the popular Scrabble clone, Scrabulous, has been pulled off the social networking site worldwide.

Information stored on laptop bought on eBay

A laptop sold on eBay contained personal details of one million Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers, the bank has confirmed.

New handsets to start shipping in October

Nokia has expanded its N series of smartphones with two new models: the N85 and the N79.

Perspectives tool protects against DNS flaw

A free-add on that's designed to boost security in Firefox 3.0 has been developed by Carnegie-Mellon University.

16GB handset now available

A white version of Apple's iPhone 3G is now available at Carphone Warehouse.

Firefox 3.1 could run web apps almost three times faster than previous version, according to the Mozilla Foundation.

US scientists have developed a way of controlling a computer with the tongue.

CCAI and news groups called for openness

A tech trade group and a handful of news organisations have asked a US court to lift its order to seal documents in the pending antitrust lawsuit brought against Intel by AMD, saying the gag order has "unnecessarily and unjustly" withheld information from the public.

Renamed PlayNow Arena coming later this year

Sony Ericsson has relaunched its mobile content store PlayNow, renaming it PlayNow Arena and promoting music without the DRM technology some stores use to prevent copying or sharing of songs.

£1,000 PLV-Z700 projector on show at IFA

Sanyo is bringing full high-definition video to the entry level of the projector market with its PLV-Z700 that launches in Berlin this week at the IFA consumer electronics show.

Amazon is rumoured to be working on a new version of its popular Kindle eBook reader aimed specifically at students.