Martin James

News Integration with the Tell Me voice-control feature means Windows Phone 7 devices will be Bing-only by default, a situation even OEMs won't be able to change.

News A new text-typing application for touchscreens claims to be able to increase typing speed by as much as 50 per cent.

News Harvard researcher Ethan Zuckerman says the huge online bias towards wealthy countries has turned us into 'imaginary cosmopolitans' with only 'the wisdom of the flock'.

News A new ChangeWave survey says we are currently experiencing the “most extensive growth” in smartphone uptake ever seen, but it's not all good news for the likes of RIM and Motorola.

News Microsoft's search engine now has a 12.7 per cent share of the US market, says comScore, but Yahoo is responding, reaping the rewards of its latest advertising cash injection.

News A new report suggests the answer is 'yes', claiming that our increasing reliance on digital technology is steadily eroding our ability to store numbers mentally.

News The processor giant has reported earnings up 34 per cent and profits of $2.9 billion for Q2, comfortably outstripping expectations and spurring an industry-wide market surge.

News After an increase in demand for Fring's iPhone 4 mobile app left Skype users out in the cold over the weekend, Skype has cut ties for good, saying Fring was 'damaging its reputation.'

News Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has conceded that the company dropped the ball with Windows Mobile, but says Windows Phone 7 will set things right as first toolset beta goes live.

News Symbian^4 is make or break time for the troubled platform, Gartner claims, accusing the Symbian Foundation of being oblivious to just how much trouble it is in.

News The iPad may be labelled an 'expensive toy' by its owners, but makers of rival device types are feeling the cost in a different way.

News Apple's juggernaut-like momentum has seen its figurehead named the best brain in the business by Fortune magazine, with chief engineer Jony Ive also lauded.

News Lack of 'something compelling' means no HTC tablet for now.

News For the first time, Google's operating system is proving more attractive to developers than Apple's, with no other players in the running at all.

News Nearly one in two Windows 7 installations are 64-bit, says Microsoft, with cost and availability finally having caught up to promise and potential.

News Moving job ads online will not only save money, MP Eric Pickles argues, but will also expose 'non-jobs' such as 'cheerleading development officer' and 'communications waste strategy officer'.

News The micro-blogging site's founder Biz Stone has revealed Twitter now delivers 800 million search results a day – a number that's growing rapidly.

News RIM has peeled the 'beta' sticker off its Twitter app, adding in instant profile access from any screen and support for additional languages.

News As Apple's tablet hits three million sales and counting, the latest NPD figures suggest little chance of it overshadowing the company's other product lines.

News The Q320's success has inspired Samsung to treble its Q Series stable, offering three screen sizes, Intel Core processors and prices starting at £599.

News Internet Explorer (IE) has reversed its long decline to post its first increase in global market share for more than a year.

News As authorities in the US make their biggest move yet against file-sharing sites, the UK public shows growing support for ISP crackdowns.

News Mozilla hails the landmark as proof of its ongoing commitment to keeping Firefox the most customisable browser around.

News Facebook's new app approval process delivers on the social network's privacy promises as Google extends suspicious log-in activity alert.

News Data gleaned from a security firm's anti-virus software reveals that adult websites make up just one per cent of all infected pages online.