If you're running a website which tends towards the slow side, you might want to start thinking about doing something about it sooner rather than later - Google has announced that it's going to start taking site speed into account in search results.

The...

Oops. An announcement of Gears of War 3 has gone up on Xbox Live, surprising a number of keen fans of the game. No-one, including the developers, had previously mentioned the game as existing.

So what happened? Well, an announcement of the...

Microsoft Research is still upgrading its Surface product, despite there being relatively few of them in the wild as yet. This time around, the company has added the ability to draw on Surface with an infra-red pen, as you can see in the video above.

Interestingly,...

Skype has rolled out an update to its Mac application that adds a number of new features which have recently been added to the Windows editions. The new version number is 2.8.

The update brings Skype Access functionality, allowing you to connect...

Microblogging site Twitter has announced that it's going to be buying up 3rd-party iPhone app Tweetie and making it official, turning it into "Twitter for iPhone". The app will also be made free.

The reasoning, Twitter says, is that a pile...

Tesco Mobile has announced that its iPhone tariffs are getting a shake-up. Prices have been reduced almost across the board, and there's several new 12-month contracts for those who don't want to commit to years with the same handset.

The iPhone...

Adobe has announced that the latest version of its massive bundle of art, design, web and development tools has been released. Creative Suite 5 will be available within thirty days.

 It includes new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver,...

Following last week's rumours of Lenovo's takeover bid for phone-makers Palm Inc, Bloomberg is reporting that a number of people "familiar with the situation" have told the finance news site that the company is seeking buyers.

Palm is said...

One of the joys of living in 2015 is the government-mandated flexible working hours introduced shortly after 2010's disastrous hung parliament gave the Liberal Democrats carte blanche to introduce all kinds of social reforms.

It means that...

The video games industry has never been bigger. Consumers have almost entirely stopped buying CDs in favour of downloads and streaming services, and the movie industry is getting increasingly concerned that it won't be able to support itself as people...

Apple hardware site iFixit has posted an interesting pictorial comparison infographic of the iPhone 3GS and Google's Nexus One.

It examines both handsets' vital specs and details some of the costs of ownership associated with each. From our...

Iconic Swiss brand Victorinox has announced that it's launching a pair of USB sticks that feature enhanced security features, as well as the regular Swiss Army Knife's blade, scissors, nail file, and ballpoint pen. No toothpick, sadly.

The...

Microsoft's Bing search engine has announced in a blog post that it's testing a bunch of new features that'll soon be rolling out to full-time use. There's new Quick Tabs, and better integration with Foursquare and Twitter.

Bing's Quick Tabs...

Moto Labs has done a bit of testing in its labs to find out whether a touchscreen is a touchscreen, no matter the manufacturer. Turns out it's not.

The project applied medium pressure in a grid pattern to a series of touchscreens - on the iPhone,...

Google has rolled out a change to its Bookmarks product that takes advantage of all the stars you've been clicking in search results, since they were introduced earlier in the year.

You can now organize particular bookmarks into lists, which...

Adobe has announced that it will start shipping its latest version of Creative Suite, CS5 from 12 April. And to tease fans of just one of the new bits of technology in it, Adobe has posted a video on YouTube of what appears to be every Photoshop user's...

Microsoft has issued a brief announcement that it's releasing a beta of version 8 of Messenger for Mac, which includes A/V support, as promised some time ago.

The software, which interfaces with Windows Live Messenger on Microsoft's main platform,...

During the course of your English-speaking life, you might have noticed that certain letters don't go after others very often. For example, it'd be rare to see a word that features the letters J and G right after each other.

So when you're...

Boston Acoustics has announced a cheap-and-cheerful soundbar for those of you who don't want speakers and the associated cables scattered about all around your living room. It's called the TVee Model 20.

It consists of a soundbar and a wireless...

The chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, has offered tax breaks to video games developers in an attempt to encourage the burgeoning industry in Britain.

Darling said that the "creative industries, including the video games industry,...

Mobile network 3 has announced that it'll soon be stocking the Nokia E72, "by popular demand". The operator claims that the decision was prompted by comments on its corporate blog.

A lady called Sylvia from 3's devices team posted: "I know...

A coder named Theo Watson has developed a bit of Mac software called Auto Smiley that uses your webcam to monitor your face while you're typing. If you smile, it'll then automatically insert a ":)" into whatever you're writing.

It uses openFrameworks...

Asus has rolled out another model in its "Republic Of Gamers" line of gaming machines. The latest is the G73, which Asus reckons has "an understated, subtly aggressive design inspired by the iconic and unsurpassed stealth fighter".

Inside,...

A swiftly redacted section of a post on Microsoft's JobsBlog may have confirmed the existence of the company's mysterious Courier tablet PC.

Despite Microsoft not having officially acknowledged the product as being reality, the company posted...

Twitter has written a smug blog post about how well it's managed to reduce spam on its microblogging service since it hit a peak of nearly 11% back in August 2009.

Despite recent security threats being spread through DMs on the service, Twitter...