Stargazers around the world are helping scientists to try and detect signals from an advanced civilisation on another planet. In February, Nasa announced that its Kepler space telescope had identified 1,235 possible planets, some of them 'habitable zones', during its first four months in orbit. Now astronomers at the University of California, ... Continue Reading

In the new U.S. "International Strategy for Cyberspace" (PDF), it becomes clear that the country is willing to face cyber attacks against the United States or its allies with weapons. "States have an inherent right to self-defense that may be triggered by certain aggressive acts in cyberspace,” says the new policy. ... Continue Reading

In october last year, the file sharing service LimeWire was shut down for good. The Lime Group, which developed Limewire, has now agreed to pay $105 million to 13 music firms. This amount is a lot lower than the billion dollar bill for damages that the Recording Industry Association of America ... Continue Reading

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced two new BlackBerry handsets in the Bold series to be made available this summer. The Blackberry Bold 9900 and 9930 is the thinnest and most powerful handsets from Blackberry to date. Featuring the BlackBerry keyboard, a brilliant touch screen and the new BlackBerry 7 ... Continue Reading

Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows users to save their bookmarks and share them with other users. The service was founded in 2003 and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2005. However, Yahoo! announced last year that Delicious does no longer fit into the profile of the ompany, and has ... Continue Reading

Google previously had plans for the new operating system Google Chrome OS to be available for new computers during the first half of 2011, but this will not happen. Instead, it is now likely that Chrome OS Netbooks will start shipping during the second half of 2011. It is now rumored ... Continue Reading

These are the first pictures of Mercury taken by the Messenger spacecraft from its orbit around the planet. It has taken six years for the Nasa vessel to travel around 60million miles to the smallest planet in the solar system. 'This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in ... Continue Reading

The Norwegian game developer Funcom is about to overhaul their existing MMO titles with a new physics technology from NVIDIA. The new Dreamworld 2.5 engine now supports server-side NVIDIA PhysX technology. Funcom and NVIDIA have announced that Funcom’s proprietary Dreamworld 2.5, a leading game engine for massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), ... Continue Reading

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has just been announced, and this year the event will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco, from June 6th to June 10th. Developes are invited to "a preview of the future of iOS and Mac OS X". There has also been some speculations ... Continue Reading

It has been said that men want beautiful women, while women want men who already has beautiful women. This claim could very well be the business idea behind the new web service, called Cloud Girlfriend. The new service will create a "perfect girlfriend" out of thin air for users of ... Continue Reading

The respected British dictionary Oxford English Dictionary is updated annually with new words that are added to the English language. In this year's update a few more words from the technology world has been added to the dictionary. The words added in the March edition of the dictionary is as follows: OMG ... Continue Reading