While the Swedes publically blamed solar flares for downing its air traffic control system last Novemer, it secretly warned NATO that it was really an attack by Russian hackers. According to… Read More

The outfit that helped the FBI unlock a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone to get data is keeping sole legal ownership of its methods. This means that it highly unlikely the technique wil… Read More

US chipmaker Integrated Device Technology (IDTI) appeared to be about to be bought out by a shareholder investor group on Monday. A regulatory filing by a group identifying itself as Integra… Read More

The big cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation appear to think that the rival Chrome is the future. Senior VP Mark Mayo has announced that the Firefox team is working on a next-generation brow… Read More

HTC has formally announced the release of its flagship smartphone for 2016. The HTC 10 mixes the design of the M series with the A9 that came last year. HTC says it spent a year designing th… Read More

M24025-1A_C 001 Hackers and cyber-criminals are acting a lot more professional and adopting all those annoying “best practice” systems and standards. A new report says that the a… Read More

Plans to force the likes of Google and Apple to disclose more about their tax doings will be unveiled by the European Union. Under new rules multinational firms with more than €750 mill… Read More

Just when you think Islamic religious authorities only make rules to keep the religion in the dark-ages, Dubai’s Islamic Affairs & Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) has come… Read More

After its CEO made  a PR blunder by telling a women’s conference that they should expect good karma for working for less than men, Microsoft appears to have been sorting out its p… Read More

Software King of the World Microsoft has backed the EU-US Privacy Shield. For those who came in late, Privacy Shield, a proposed legislation to govern data transmission between the EU and US… Read More

Britain leaving the European Union could give fledgling financial technology companies an immediate boost  but deprive them of expansion later on, experts have warned. Once the Brexit v… Read More

British Tabloid the Daily Mail, which is famous for its inclusive left-wing approach to immigration, is interested in turning its skills to the internet and wants to buy Yahoo. Daily Mail &a&hell…Read More

The maker of esoteric, expensive business software, which no one is quite sure what it does, is not making as much cash as the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street expected. Europe’s large… Read More

Fruity cargo cult Apple is not going to try and force the FBI to tell it how it hacked the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist and what security hole it used. Attorneys for Apple speaking… Read More

While US students are bankrupting themselves to get a computer science degree they might wasting their time because the courses don’t cover important things like IT security. A CloudPa… Read More

Adobe has issued an emergency update for Flash after researchers discovered a security flaw that was being exploited to deliver ransomware to Windows PCs. The software maker urged the more t… Read More

The colourful Linux creator Linus Torvalds has not given up on replacing Windows on the desktop with his sort of stuff. Speaking from his bed at the Embedded Linux Conference, Torvalds said… Read More

Google’s long running legal row with Oracle over its Java operating system could force it to replace it with Apple’s open source Swift. Apple made Swift open source last year and… Read More

The US military christened an experimental self-driving warship designed to hunt for enemy submarines to counter Chinese and Russian moves in the Pacific. The 132-foot-long unarmed prototype… Read More

Who needs VR specs?  Samsung has come up with contact lenses which can do something similar in a blink of an eye. Samsung has received a patent in South Korea for interactive contact le… Read More

Computer boffins have programmed a machine to paint in the style of Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt snuffed it 400 years ago and has surprisingly not picked up a paintbrush since. However the… Read More

Samsung hinted that it is expecting a surprise 10 percent jump in quarterly profit, thanks to early sales for its new Galaxy S7 smartphones. The South Korean tech giant’s estimate for… Read More

Islamic militants are seeking out liberal bloggers for attacks in a desperate attempt to shut them up. The latest attempt happened in Bangladesh where conservatives wielding machetes hunted… Read More

Nutty republicans in North Carolina are seeing first-hand the economic cost of their bat-shit crazy desire to hate anyone who is not a white male. For those who came in late, North Carolina… Read More

Chipzilla’s moves into the Internet of Stuff appear to know no bounds. This time it has written a cheque for an Italian company called Yogitech. Yogitech does not make gear to help bea… Read More

Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced that the company has created a new chip which can do five miracles – the Tesla P100 for deep-learning computing. With 15 billion transis… Read More

The Panamanian lawyer at the centre of a data leak scandal that has embarrassed several world leaders claimed his outfit was the victim of an external hack. Founding partner Ramon Fonseca sa… Read More

Chipzilla appears to be having some problems retaining staff, or might be trying to offload a few of them as part of a corporate restructuring. Although Intel is not saying anything official… Read More

While coppers in the US have to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to hack an iPhone, it seems that their UK opposite numbers are a bit cannier. Dean Haydon, head of the Metropolitan Poli… Read More

We thought it was dead, but it turns out that the anti-Linux badboy SCO is going to have another appeal. For those who came in very very late SCO tried to claim that Linux used its Unix code… Read More

China’s Huawei posted its biggest annual revenue growth since 2008, thanks mostly to China’s adoption of fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology. Huawei, which is one of the wor… Read More

Software giant Microsoft is not going to create an adblocker for its Edge browser. Word leaked out that Vole was creating an adblocker when a slide tipped up and was duly posted on the world… Read More

Chipzilla has officially launched its new Xeon Processor E5 v4 today. Xeon E5 v4, which will replace last year’s E5 v3 series will target a wide array of market segments, from high-per… Read More

Courts around Germany are starting to reject publishers’ demands and are finding in favour of Adblock. A German regional court has ruled that it is perfectly legal to use AdBlock plus… Read More

The US has decided that automatic killer robots are not the droids it is looking for – yet. A top Pentagon official was showing off all sorts of sci-fi type gear including missile-dodg… Read More

A lag who is residing at Her Majesty’s pleasure managed to get his paws on an expensive Samsung prototype. A Samsung Galaxy S7 was seized from a Category D male lag in August 2015, ove… Read More

A battle is brewing over the rights of US companies to sell products with encryption. Legislation is expected shortly in Congress that would limit encryption protection in American tech… Read More

Russian researchers have emerged from their labs smelling of potentially dead or alive cats after successfully testing Russia’s first superconducting, two-qubit, feedback-controlled ci… Read More

Orkney’s harbour seals will be connected to Vodafone’s M2M network as researchers try to work out why populations are falling. The move to connected to the Internet of Things (Io… Read More

The fruity cargo cult Apple is furious with the FBI for hacking its iPhone and is unleashing its mighty briefs on the FBI to force them to explain how they did it. Apple says it wants to clo… Read More

The software distribution outfit Valve has found itself in hot water down-under after its sales policy and customer service policy fell foul of civilised consumer law. In 2014, Valve was dra… Read More

Microsoft’s business customers are finally beginning to take delivery of the giant, Windows 10-powered digital whiteboard. The Surface Hub, which is popular with television news shows… Read More

Oracle’s legal team does not appear to have learnt anything from its more or less failed attempt to get Google to pay up for their use of Java applets in Android and are demanding… Read More

TSMC has signed an agreement with the Nanjing City Government to invest $3 billion building an advanced wafer manufacturing facility in China. TSMC said in December it planned to set up its… Read More

The FBI has successfully hacked into the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, ending a pitched court battle between the Obama administration and the fruity cargo cult Ap… Read More

Microsoft has made the Chinese government its own version of Windows 10. Dubbed Windows 10 Zhuangongban, or “Windows 10 Specially-provided Edition” – Vole has already compl… Read More

Romania’s former telecommunications minister, Gabriel Sandu, has ended up receiving  two years for money laundering, abuse of office and bribery involving the lease of Microsoft… Read More

Sharp and Foxconn are set to sign a takeover deal next week after repeated delays. Word on the street is that the two sides are set to agree on a smaller bailout than originally planned for… Read More

Fruity cargo cult Apple has just commissioned what should shape up to be the dullest television programme in history. Apple has ordered a television show about app developers making software… Read More

A team of engineers has emerged from smoke filled labs having broken the world record for sending data down an optical fibre at room temperature. Researchers from University of Ill… Read More

While optics experts have been singing the praises of AMOLED technology over LCD for a while now, the only thing that has been holding it back was the production costs. According to IHS Tech… Read More

Female computer programmers are paid 28 per cent less than male programmers, according to a new Glass Door survey. Glass Door adjusted its figures to take into account age, education, years… Read More

Software king of the world Microsoft is chatting to equity firms considering bids for Yahoo. Apparently Vole might be willing to offer “significant financing” for their effo… Read More

Red Hat has become the first $2 billion dollar open saucy company and doubled its value from four years ago. What is unusual is that Red Hat made all its value by earning the money rather th… Read More

Samsung has announced plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup saying it wants to be more flexible as growth slows. Samsung’s executives will sign a pledge to move away fro… Read More

Online bookseller Amazon claimed that its female employees earned as much as their male counterparts, according to a survey it recently conducted. The disclosure came as US companies face cr… Read More

Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing has created a storm online after he attacked users who could not afford to buy PCs every five years as “sad&rd&hell…Read More

Nintendo is flushing its Wii U this year ending its reign of toilet themed games consoles, according to a report from Japan’s Nikkei. The Wii U console sold poorly compared to the… Read More

Chipzilla has decided that the world has had enough of its Tick-Tock strategy and is having its Tock removed and replaced with something with a longer rhythm called PAO. Intel has produced c… Read More

You know your new company has finally arrived when you get your first law suit from Oracle and it seems that despite being officially only a few months old, HPE has made it. In the old days… Read More

While the Tame Apple Press is doing its best to flog Apple’s new iPhone SE, even claiming that the world wants its smaller phone back, people are less sure. Part of the problem is… Read More

The courtroom showdown between Department of Justice and Apple that was scheduled has been postponed and rumours are that the FBI has worked out a way to crack the iPhone and does not need J… Read More

Fruity cargo cult Apple’s continued faith in the stupidity of its customers showed yesterday when it released a practically identical phone to an old model and called it something else… Read More

Former Intel boss Andy Grove, who managed to save the company in the 1980s, and helped create the PC revolution has died. He was 79. Grove, whose youth under Nazi occupation and escape from… Read More

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said that open source was vital because big corporations can’t be trusted to stand up to the government. Snowden told the Free Software Foundation&rsqu&hell…Read More

A security researcher has been kidnapped after accusing Bangladesh’s central bank officials of negligence, which facilitated the theft of over $81 million from the country’s over… Read More

The US  government has temporarily lifted export curbs it imposed on ZTE for alleged Iran sanctions violations. ZTE has been “in active, constructive discussions” with the C… Read More

mashable photo Software giant Microsoft has said sorry for hiring a bunch of dancers dressed as schoolgirls during a promotion. Vole thought logically that near-naked school-girls were exact… Read More

Fruity cargo cult Apple appears to be admitting that all the cash it wasted on a huge data centre was wasted and it has had to hire Google to build its iCloud. According to CRN Google has la… Read More

McAfee software which comes bundled with some PCs seems to be converting itself to spyware to help serve up advertising and could be used as a geolocation tool. Help Net Security wrote that… Read More

Backroom boffins for the US army have come up with a way of cloaking radar emissions in contested territory and environments with heavily congested radio bands. Radar is important on th… Read More

Google has placed part of its robotics division, up for sale because it can’t think of any way of making cash from it. Boston Dynamics, was bought by Goolge in 2013 and has been churni… Read More

European Union antitrust regulators have asked Ireland to provide further details on the country’s tax deal with Apple. The regulators are concerned that this might before deciding whe… Read More

A German court has ruled against the fruity cargo cult Apple in a case over video streaming patents. In 2014, Jobs’ Mob was sued by Kudelski’s OpenTV for nicking its intellectual… Read More

The former Microsoft boss who is credited with bringing Nokia to its knees has found a job down under, advising an Aussie telco how to get its act together. Stephen Elop has been appoin… Read More

While it is selling off bits of itself to make up the money lost in accounting scandals Toshiba wants to invest $3.2 billion  to build a new semiconductor plant in Japan… Read More

ZTE is to appeal a US import ban on its products after an attempt at lobbying US politicians failed. The US Commerce Department imposed restrictions on US suppliers providing crucial compone… Read More

Intel’s Kaby Lake processors will be launched in Q3 2016, according to a new industry leak. A Chinese website Benchlife has published a leaked roadmap that suggests Kaby Lake processor… Read More

Troubled Toshiba is still having problems with its cooked books. The outfit revealed additional accounting irregularities after a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal last year, rekindlin… Read More

Although it seemed the deal was on the rocks, Foxconn has completed its due diligence into Sharp, but is seeking guidance from the loss making electronics maker on its latest quarterly perfo… Read More

Applied Materials, which is the world’s largest supplier of equipment used to make semiconductor chips, plans to invest $615 million to expand in China. The China Daily quoted company… Read More

Apple, Google, McDonald’s and IKEA are being hauled before the European Commission to explain their dodgy but legal tax deals. EU lawmakers are expected to twist a few thumbscrews on m… Read More

Google, Facebook, Whatsapp and Snapchat are to take on law enforcement’s demands that they turn over criminal data by increasing their encryption features. Facebook has suggested that… Read More

A Russian court has decided that the US search outfit Google has been playing monopoly in Russia and if it does not totally scrap its business model it will have to take its Andriod phones o… Read More

Swedish researchers have come up with a super condensor which can be powered by the sun. Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden, say the… Read More

The UK government has announced that it will begin testing  driverless cars on motorways for the first time in 2017, as it moves toward its goal of allowing autonomous cars to take… Read More

India’s Micromax which surprised the world by vaulting past Samsung to become India’s leading smartphone brand is in trouble. Its market share has nearly halved, several top exec… Read More

Oracle released a security patch for Java 30 months ago which gave users a false sense of security. Polish security outfit Security Explorations claimed that millions of users vulnerable to… Read More

System administrators are miffed that Microsoft is trying to shame them into upgrading machines to the new version of the OS. Domain-joined devices that were blocked from upgrading to Window… Read More

A US court was told how Apple was cheerfully helping the Chinese government unlock phones but was refusing to help American coppers catch terrorists. The US Justice Department said Apple rhe… Read More

The shy and retired former head of Microsoft Steve “there is a kind of hush” Ballmer says he loves Linux now and has become very calm since has taken up yoga. For those who came… Read More

Opera has become the first desktop Web browser with built-in ad blocking and is advising users to turn it on to improve their browsing experiences. Opera’s 37.0.2162.0 developer build… Read More

Samsung said that it is seeing stronger than expected pre-orders for its new flagship Galaxy S7 smartphones launching this week. Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung’s handsets business… Read More

A job advert indicates that the online bookseller Amazon is getting into VR. The ad, posted to Amazon’s Glassdoor page, is for a ‘Senior Software Development Manager’ who w… Read More

Researchers at MIT have worked out a way to download webpages 34 percent faster. As websites become more complex, they take longer to load so MIT has been working on a new method which allow… Read More

Linaro has launched a cloud service aimed at ARM developers. The plan is to help develop hardware and software for ARM-based devices, and they are making available the service for developers… Read More

It seems that the US’s daft ban on ZTE gear is doing more harm to its home-grown businesses which are suffering more. The U.S. Commerce Department decided to punish ZTE for selling com… Read More

Samsung is trailing a phone upgrade programme in South Korea this week that will allow subscribers to switch to a new premium handset every 12 months. Customers seeking to buy one of two Gal… Read More

Seagate has just unveiled what it is calling “the world’s fastest SSD” and claims that it is production ready. The SSD is fully compliant with the Open Compute Project (OCP… Read More

A survey of 550 software developers by Evans Data has found that the biggest thing that keeps them awake at night is being replaced by AI. Nearly a third said that this was the most worrisom… Read More