Google doodle’s summer solstice with flower power

Google’s latest doodle celebrates the fact that today is the summer solstice. The search engine has recruited a guest to sketch this one, Takashi Murakami, a famous contemporary Japanese artist who.. more

Zumba Fitness back on top of chart, beats out Zelda 3DS

Zumba Fitness is the UK all-format video game chart number one this week, as Duke Nukem Forever, last week’s top title, slid down to number three. Zumba was at number one.. more

Acer Predator G5910 new gaming PC unveiled

Acer has revealed the latest unit in its gaming range, the Predator G5910 . Coming in a rather natty looking matte black case, the Predator has a deck on top with.. more

Over 50% of Internet threats come from China and Russia

Security firm BitDefender has produced an E-threat landscape report, a study of worldwide malware and spam trends over the last six months via users of BitDefender products. And when it comes to the production and hosting of malware, the leading nation is China which is.. more

ICANN votes to allow new web domains

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has today voted to open up the expansion of top-level web domains such as .com, .net and .org. This move allows any organisation to choose its own generic top-level domain (gTLD) made up of any combination.. more

Battlefield 3 shown on PS3, will do 30fps

Battlefield 3 has caused much buzz since it was first shown off. The game looks superb and hugely atmospheric on a good PC, but questions have been posed about how well this will translate to the less powerful consoles. Now those questions have been answered.. more

“Beautiful people” dating website sabotaged to admit uglies

The BeautifulPeople.com dating website has hit the headlines for giving the boot to 30,000 members who were mistakenly admitted to the ranks of the gorgeous. The site calls itself the “largest most exclusively beautiful community in the world”, adding that users can “meet real beautiful.. more

British student could be extradited to US for file-sharing trial

A twenty-three year old student at Sheffield Hallam allegedly guilty of copyright infringements could potentially be extradited to face trial in America rather than the UK. Richard O’Dwyer is accused of running a site called TVShack, which provided links to illegal downloads of movies and.. more

LG dual-screen smartphone photos spilled

Some images of an LG smartphone with twin displays have been published on the net. Pocket Lint grabbed the pics, which you can see here. The phone has a large primary display, and a slide-out Qwerty keyboard. However the Qwerty keyboard is split by a.. more

Sony S1 and S2 tablets get teaser video

Sony has released a teaser video for its upcoming S1 and S2 tablets. The pair of Honeycomb slates, one large and one small, are displayed via a Rube Goldberg style machine, with ball bearings and cars moving along and triggering various events as they go... more