A new smartphone and mobile operating system is due to be launched at the end of 2013, which has been developed by a team of former Nokia employees. The ‘Jolla’, will run a custom operating system known as Sailfish , which is a leftover of MeeGo, an abandoned project of Nokia’s which the company ... 

Google Compute Engine, the Google-made IaaS platform, is now generally available to any business or enterprise. The announcement came at Google's sixth annual I/O conference, which also highlighted other cloud developments such as updates to App Engine and the creation of Cloud Datastore, a fully ... 

PC manufacturer Dell has announced that is to discontinue its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud in order to concentrate on "best-in-class partner offerings”. The company will instead launch the Dell Cloud Partner Program to deliver IaaS through "an ecosystem of partners”. "Many Dell cust ... 

Adobe has suspended the file-syncing part of their new Creative Cloud products, in order to make updates following complaints from users who have been unable to connect intermittently over the course of the past week. According to The Register , Adobe report that the problem has been going on sin ... 

Video conferencing is becoming increasingly popular with enterprises at the moment, as internet speeds get faster and technology enables a better experience than ever before. However, over the course of the past year numerous reports have sprung up questioning the security of video conferencing. ... 

The latest figures from Gartner show that PC sales in Europe continue to decline rapidly, with a drop of 20.5% for the first quarter of 2013, when compared to 2012. France had the weakest PC shipments, whilst Germany showed a decline for the eleventh consecutive quarter. "The first quarter of 20 ... 

The popular Blackberry Messenger (BBM) app will be offered as a download to run on devices running iOS and Android in the summer. It’s thought that initially, the app will offer texts, MMS and group sharing, with further services such as voice and video calling to be rolled out at a later date. T ... 

Samsung has announced that it has "has successfully developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications,” which is at the "core” of 5G technology. The technology, said to potentially offer speeds of up to "several ... 

Business video devices will spike in 2013, as more businesses of all sizes are warming to the idea that video conferencing can be used as a communications tool in the enterprise, both effectively and efficiently. According to ITProPortal, a recent Canalys UC Market report, this has to some extent ... 

A UN Agency has predicted that by the end of 2014, there will be more mobile subscriptions in the world than people. According to the International Telecoms Union , subscriptions will exceed seven billion by the end of next year and it was also found that more than a third of the worldwide popula ... 

A little over a year ago, sci-fi imprint Tor Books made the decision to do away with DRM (Digital Rights Management) on all of its UK and US ebook listings. A year on and the publishers have revealed that in that time, there has been little or no discernable increase in piracy for its titles. The ... 

An update to Windows 8 will revive the familiar start button in a bid to overcome poor sales of the OS software, which usually accounts for around half of Microsoft’s profits. Windows 8 has been blamed for falling worldwide PC sales, with users describing it as confusing. The update, codenamed ‘B ... 

In a recent interview with CNBC, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is reported to have said that iPad users are frustrated by the lack of Microsoft Office and the ability to type, even if they don’t know it. This means that it’s only a matter of time before Surface and hybrids take the tablet market. ... 

The latest data from IDC shows that worldwide tablet sales continue to boom, growing 142.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker , tablet shipments totalled 49.2m units in the first quarter of the year, more than doubling the amount sold ... 

Approximately half of the world’s companies will require employees to participate in a BYOD scheme by 2017, with businesses no longer supplying devices to workers, analysts at Gartner have predicted. A global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs found that by 2016, 38% of companies said ... 

News organisations from around the world have been warned to tighten security by social network Twitter, following a series of high-profile hacks carried out by a hacking group called the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The warning comes after the Guardian was the latest news publication to be targ ... 

A special report from analyst house Gartner predicts that by 2016, 40% of mobile app development projects will leverage backend cloud services. This could cause development leaders to "lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises,” Gartner say. Cloud back-end serv ... 

The telecommunications trade association representing former state owned operators have said that an overhaul of the regulatory environment for the industry in the EU must move quicker. The trade association, known as ETNO, said on Thursday that an overhaul of current regulations should take pla ... 

Telecom regulators Ofcom has announced today that the UK broadband market has reached a new milestone in the level of competition, with ‘unbundled’ lines using BT’s copper network reaching 9 million. Superfast broadband, which uses fibre optic cables to the cabinet is also beginning to see compet ... 

Microsoft Lync is a high priority target requirement for CIOs this year, according to David Maloney of Ovum research. According to the Ovum report , 45% of enterprises say that they are planning to extend deployment of Lync services in 2013. Whilst results are said to have been mixed so far, this ...