Opera has announced that version 5 of its Opera Mini mobile browser has been made available in beta. It's a fairly radical overhaul of the browser that sees the addition of tabbed browsing, speed dial and the Google search box from the main browser.

It's been a little over a year since Chrome unexpectedly burst screaming into the world and helped to reignite the browser wars, and Google hasn't been lying down when it comes to its development. The third edition of the browser has just graduated from...

Ofcom has announced a crackdown in the mis-selling of mobile phone contracts to consumers. A voluntary code of conduct had previously been implemented, but hasn't reduced the number of complaints received by the watchdog.

The rules have been...

Sony Japan has unveiled an update to its A-Series line of Walkman MP3 players - the NW-A840. It joins the B-, E- X- and S-series players, but offers storage capacities of up to 64GB and a 2.8-inch WQVGA OLED display.

It has a thickness of...

Here are a few snaps from the launch of Motorola's DEXT handset, which runs on the Android operating system. It's a QWERTY slider, like the original G1, but Motorola's chucked on some software to aggregate your friends together in a "lifestreaming" sort...

Since the imminent closure of the Pirate Bay in its current form was announced, many have attempted to scrape the site of its contents to rebuild it elsewhere on the Web. However, one group of German fans of the filesharing site took it one step further.

At the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference in San Francisco, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has hinted at the direction that the company's Guitar Hero franchise might take in the future.

He wants to lessen the dependence of the series...

O2 has developed its very own iPhone application that enables you to check your account from your handset. The app, which is available right now on the app store, contains "comprehensive information on every part of a customer's account", says the company.

LG has announced a shedload of monitors and projectors, some of which we've already spotted. In no particular order, there's the HS200 projector, W86 series monitors, M62D monitors, W2363V monitor and W30 monitors.

They all differ slightly,...

The Xbox 360 will shortly be getting an upgrade to its plug-in Wi-Fi adaptor, if an FCC filing is to be believed. The £60 module is being pumped up to 802.11n-standard wireless networking capability.

What that means is more range, more power,...

HP has announced a couple of new laptops that'll be on sale later in the year. Both subscribe to the "portable-but-powerful" trend that Intel has been pushing in machines that contain its chips. There's the HP ProBook 5310m and the HP Pavilion dm3.

A startup called Spawn Labs has launched at TechCrunch50, which promises to stream the output of your games console to you, wherever you are in the world.

The company will stream 720p video across the internet to you, and send back your...

Courtney Love has tweeted that she's planning to take legal action over her late husband's likeness in Guitar Hero 5, saying that she never signed away the rights to have Kurt lip-sync to Bon Jovi.

It started when music journalist Everett...

Packard Bell has announced the Viseo 200T Touch Edition - a 20-inch touchscreen monitor with multitouch technology. The company says that it's expecting multi-touch to rapidly expand, and wants to give mainstream exposure to the tech.

The...

Streaming music service Spotify, which recently launched mobile applications for the Android and iPhone platforms, has been forced to go back to invite-only status thanks to the vast amounts of new people accessing the service.

In a blog...

Packard Bell has announced a new series of all-in-one PCs, which it's calling "oneTwo". There's an M and an L option, which leaves the door open to an S version being announced in the future.

Both the oneTwo M and oneTwo L have multitouch...

The Samsung Galaxy i7500 is still having difficulty making its way to retail stores in the UK, but that doesn't seem to bother Samsung which is forging ahead with an entry-level version of the handset, confusingly called the i5700.

The new...

Logitech has announced that its premium guitar and drum controllers will soon be available on the Wii and Xbox 360. Already available for the PS3, the controllers offer a little more than the plastic accessories that come with the game by default.

Good news if you're a Facebook-loving Mac owner. TechCrunch has discovered that the social networking site has a desktop notifications application for Apple's OS which lets you scroll through messages, notifications and wall posts without opening a browser.

Pandora, the streaming music radio service, has announced that its Android application is complete. The news comes just over a year since it released its iPhone application. It's available in the Android application market right now.

Unlike...

Brief recap for those who haven't been following this story. Earlier in the year, it was announced that Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X would be buying the notorious Pirate Bay bittorrent tracker and attempting to turn it legitimate.

Here's a few quick snaps of the colour options now available when you pick up one of the new iPod nanos.

There are nine to choose from, including a "Product Red" option. They comprise of white, black, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange,...

Apple has just announced the new iPod nano and we were on hand to get a close look and grab a handful of pictures for you.

Apple told us, as expected, that the iPod nano will be getting a video camera and speaker. The screen has been lengthened...

It doesn't have the camera that the rumour mill was promising, however it does pack a whopping 64GB of storage space for all those movies and music you've now got somewhere.

Focusing on games, games and more games, the iPod touch gets a...

Apple has announced, as expected, that the iPod nano will be getting a video camera and speaker. The screen has been lengthened to 2.2-inch diagonally.

In a move that had been predicted for some time thanks to cases leaked by Chinese manufacturers....