Security Snowden speaks: NSA spies create 'databases of ruin' on innocent folks 'Not all spying is bad' but bulk collection has to go, says whistleblower in web chat 24 Jan 01:11 | 100
Software Qualcomm gobbles Palm patents after rummaging around HP's backroom Chip biz snaps up 2,400 protected designs from PC titan 24 Jan 02:09 | 2
OSes Microsoft loses cash on each Surface slab – but core biz strong as ever You won't go broke selling business software, and Redmond sells lots 24 Jan 03:02 | 31
Legal China cuffs 60,000 pirates in 2013 crackdown Claims to have cracked cases worth £17 BEEELION 24 Jan 03:34 | 12
Comment Google, Netflix ready next weapon in net neutrality battle: The fury of millions Duo not afraid to rope in punters in battle against 'draconian' ISPs 24 Jan 04:01 | 41
HPC King Kong's dangling cluster cut loose Supercomputer used to animate Peter Jackson pic donated to Kiwi university 24 Jan 04:32 | 9
Legal The internet is 'a gift from God' says Pope Francis But 'communication aimed at promoting consumption' is the work of the devil 24 Jan 05:02 | 106
On-Prem Sony pumps cash into gene-wrangling joint venture Electronics outfit thinks the future is wetware and wants in before the rush 24 Jan 05:29 | 3
Bootnotes French drug dealers regretfully announce 'temporary closure' 'Please accept our apologies', ask Grenoble street narcopeddlars 24 Jan 06:02 | 34
Devops Developers: Behold the bug NOBODY can fix Coder's error is inked in his memory ... and his arm 24 Jan 06:28 | 61
Servers Microsoft seeks patent for blade server chassis OEMs will love this just like they loved Surface 24 Jan 07:02 | 51
On-Prem Samsung profits deflate after mobile division runs out of puff First quarterly decline in TWO YEARS ... but still takes home £4 billion 24 Jan 07:32 | 31
SaaS IBM and SAP: Looks like we're STUCK forever on the cloud highway This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway... Oh no, this is the road to Hell Amazon 24 Jan 08:03 | 9
Networks Apple: That 'white screen of death' nightmare? We'll fix it... AT SOME POINT We're working on it, moans Cupertino 24 Jan 08:31 | 46
Quotw 'I don't understand why they feel like they own the word CANDY' Plus: 'There was my user ID and password, in plain text, along with everyone else's' 24 Jan 09:03 | 31
Storage SanDisk flashes better-than-expected results. Right, let's upend our biz model Rising revenues, rising profits... falling memory prices? 24 Jan 09:25 | 1
Feature Apple’s Mac turns 30: How Steve Jobs’ baby took its first steps Part 1: Love it or loathe it, the Mac shapes every nook and cranny of your computing life 24 Jan 10:05 | 83
Opinion I've just seen 10% of the PC biz disappear into the cloud The future's bright – just not for box-shifters 24 Jan 10:23 | 7
Analysis Ex-NSA guru builds $4m encrypted email biz - but its nemesis right now is control-C, control-V Virtru claims it can prevent leaks, but first it's gotta get out of beta 24 Jan 10:32 | 71
Virtualization Alternative Networks swallows Control Circle for £39.4m Hang on... EBITDA of cloudy biz was only £1.8m 24 Jan 10:59 | 2
Legal UK.gov to Google: Kill impostor taxmen ADs hogging top spot in YOUR search results But how much profit do these copycat sites make for the ad giant? 24 Jan 11:17 | 40
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Robots? What a bunch of workers... Google Glass is the last thing you should worry about when going postal 24 Jan 11:36 | 31
Roundup OK company, they've cleared. Storage firms: Reload and fire at will Hirings, exits, deals, results, releases - it has been a big week in storage land 24 Jan 12:02 | 1
Security Spam drops as legit biz dumps mass email ads: Only the dodgy remain Small problem: it still makes up two-thirds of email traffic 24 Jan 12:17 | 19
Networks Apple plans to waggle iNormous 4½-incher in fanbois' faces Relax, Brit 'bois, it's still below your average. But only just... 24 Jan 12:41 | 64
Legal Margaret Hodge, PAC are scaring off new biz: Treasury source Claims firms are put off by icy touch of multinational tax probes 24 Jan 13:02 | 68
Networks Achtung NIMBYs! BT splurges extra £50m on fibre broadband rollout Yet more ghastly streetside broadband cabinets coming to 30 cities around Blighty 24 Jan 13:21 | 34
Personal Tech HP Chromebook 11 quietly slips back on Google Play shelves... but where's the FIRE? Chrome OS computer returns after sales bar 24 Jan 13:42 | 28
Channel Former 2e2 workers WIN case for protective award Employment tribunal rules unfair dismissal, gov to cough 8 weeks pay 24 Jan 14:01 | 7
Analysis A BBC-by-subscription 'would be richer', MPs told Show us the models, then 24 Jan 14:31 | 194
Security Facebook coughs up $33.5k... its BIGGEST bug bounty EVER Brazilian who found remote code vuln scoops five figures 24 Jan 14:58 | 5
Legal Patent-holding firm's lawsuit against Googorola kicks off Intellectual Ventures: 'Won't somebody please think about the inventors!' 24 Jan 15:26 | 29
Analysis Microsoft loses grip on Christmas shoppers... despite XBox boost Windows Phone = loser. Budget Surface RT slab = saviour?! 24 Jan 16:01 | 78
On-Prem Icahn slurps another $500m in Apple shares, demands buyback AGAIN Activist investor still trying to get fruity firm to give more back to its shareholders 24 Jan 16:32 | 35
Feature The Mac at 30: Hardware and software wars – again and again and ... Part 2: The many moments of Steve Jobs’ 30-year-old offspring 24 Jan 17:02 | 21
Security 1.1 MILLION customers' credit card data was swiped in Neiman Marcus breach It was the old 'malware on point-of-sale terminal' wheeze again 24 Jan 17:23 | 28
Channel UK.gov: NO MORE tech deals bigger than £100m. Unless we feel like it 'Big IT is Big FAIL,' insists Maude 24 Jan 18:03 | 27
Updated2 Gmail falls offline, rest of Google struggles on: NO! Not error code 93! Just as Google's site reliability team was about to a web Q&A – doh! 24 Jan 19:16 | 35
Channel Microsoft slices Azure prices just days after Amazon's cloud shave Finally, an oligopoly with downward pricing pressure! 24 Jan 20:14 | 13
OSes Valve showers Debian Linux devs with FREE Steam games Community contributors given unlimited access to Valve titles 24 Jan 20:51 | 56
On-Prem Facebook debunks Princeton's STUDY OF DOOM in epic comeback 'You're toast, too, in 2021 by the same bad science' 24 Jan 21:29 | 53
Legal Vile Twitter trolls thrown in the cooler for rape abuse tweet spree Duo jailed for months after feminism campaigner and MP terrorised by web rants 24 Jan 22:03 | 133
SaaS Amazon slides first flash hardness into Redshift data muncher SSD-backed compute nodes to cut query times on the mega data warehouse 24 Jan 23:07 |
Security Google sets $2.7m Pwnium prize for cunning cracks for Chrome OS CanSecWest competition will target Intel and ARM this time 24 Jan 23:58 | 8