Nearly 40 former employees of Infinity Ward have got together to drop a monster 500 million dollar lawsuit on games giant Activision, alleging breach of contract and unpaid royalties. The move comes just a week before Activision's Q1 financial reports...

Two wheels good, four wheels bad? TomTom has launched a dedicated GPS unit that's targeted at bikers, mopedists, scooterers and cyclists across the country. It's called the TomTom Urban Rider.

There's a number of changes that have been made...

Sony has redoubled its efforts to try and recycle more of its electronic equipment, drawing further attention to a scheme it launched in August 2009 that offers money off new gadgets if you trade your old ones in.

You can trade in any old equipment...

EA has confirmed that it's planning to bring the Sims 3 franchise to consoles. The Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3 and Nintendo DS will all be getting versions of the title, which will differ from platform to platform.

"We're bringing players...

At RIM's WES2010 conference, the company has officially announced BlackBerry 6 - the next version of the company's smartphone operating system.

The software, which leaked in mid-April, is a substantial revamp to the BlackBerry UI, and RIM's...

So, Spotify: The Next Generation is with us, and suddenly your Facebook news feed is full of playlists, song "likes" and people declaring their undying love for McFly. You want to get in on the action, so you've been to the Spotify website's download...

This is interesting. Following a recent patent application for a 3D display on a mobile phone, a handset has leaked out of China Mobile that suggests that development might be further along than originally thought.

The phone is labelled the...

Spotify has broken months of near-silence to announce some new features that allow you to share tracks more easily with your friends.

The music service, which is only available in Europe has integrated Facebook Connect to allow you to create...

It's suddenly looking like Google's plans to release the Nexus One on the Verizon network in the USA could have hit a snag, as all references to the handset have been removed from Google's website.

Previously, the phone was listed as "coming...

BenQ has extended its line of monitors to include a new model - the V2410T, which the company describes as " tastefully stylish and yet environmentally conscious".

It's got a height-adjustable neck, meaning that you don't have to adjust your...

Packard Bell has announced that it's launching the EastNote M series of laptops, a selection of machines that focus on design and social networking. There's a 14-inch version, a 15.6-inch version and a 17.3-inch variant.

All three, Packard...

Amazon has extended its wish-list feature out of the wall garden that it currently operates in to extend to the entirety of the web, renaming it the Amazon Universal Wish List.

It works pretty much as the old "Add to wish-list" button did,...

Virgin Media has announced that it's extending the on-demand movie service that it offers in its set-top boxes to the web, meaning that laptop and PC owners will be able to rent a variety of films to watch on their computer.

There's apparently...

The University of Tokyo has developed a concept controller that allows you to control a pointer on a phone screen without having to touch the screen.

You can see the concept in the video above, which demonstrates moving a pointer around, using...

Twitter has announced that it's acquiring a messaging infrastructure company called Cloudhopper, signifying that it's not ready to give up on its humble SMS beginnings just yet.

The company originally implemented the 140-character limit so...

Sony has announced that it's going to stop manufacturing and selling 3.5-inch floppy disks in Japan, following the company's shutting down of production in the rest of the world.

The storage device has been out of favour for some time due to...

It seems that Dell is one leaky ship. Despite the leaks of the Lightning and Thunder, Smoke and Flash phones and Looking Glass tablet recently, yet more hardware has surfaced that hasn't been officially announced. This time it's a pair of netbooks...

How often, when you go and buy a new game in a shop, do you excitedly read the instruction manual on the way home? If Ubisoft has its way, soon you'll be stuck staring out of the window or reading Pocket-lint on your phone instead.

The company...

Got a 20cm tall space in your home somewhere that you just need to fill with a small, lightweight computer? ViewSonic's latest nettop, the VOT 132, might be the answer.

Weighing just 500g, the machine contains Nvidia's low-power Ion GeForce...

A virus scanner update from McAfee has caused havoc amongst Windows XP computers by incorrectly identifying part of the operating system as a virus.

The 5958 update identified svchost.exe as the wecorl.a virus. A while back, Microsoft shifted...

MP3 tag cleaning tool TuneUp has been available for iTunes for some time, but it's just launched a new version that also works with Windows Media Player.

If you have a big pile of poorly-tagged MP3s, but you don't want to spend the time sifting...

Toy racing car manufacturer Scalextric has just dropped us some good news for any fans of Disney-Pixar's Toy Story franchise. It's planning a 1:64 scale set based on the movies.

The cars in the set feature Buzz Lightyear and Woody the Cowboy,...

Google has announced that version 4.1 of Google Maps for Mobile has been released for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile handsets, and that includes the "search by voice" functionality so beloved of the Android and BlackBerry apps.

To use it, open...

It's been a while since we've seen a netbook announced by a a consumer technology company, but ViewSonic isn't about to let the format slide into obscurity in the face of competition from tablets.

The company has launched the ViewSonic 106...

We're hearing word from owners of the HTC Desire, HTC Legend and Sony Ericsson X10, as well as a few other devices, that the Android market is behaving strangely - some applications aren't available. Specifically, any application that's had copy-protection...