Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the BBC has learned that the "majority" of the UK government's own websites will fail to comply in time....
Search giant Google has patented the design of its augmented-reality glasses, known as Project Glas...
Google has revamped its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions....
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google's mobile operating system Android has become a "lucrative target" for cyber attackers, security firm F-Secure has warned....
THE BRITISH BROADCASING CORPORATION (BBC) has announced its digital plans for the London 2012 Olympics, which include the launch of dedicated apps for IOS and Android....
HARDWARE FIRM Dell has taken to the echo filled Google+ social networking stage to apologise to all women for comments made by a speaker at one of its events....
A Russian company has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content....
Facebook's co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship ahead of the company going public on Friday....
Facebook has launched its own app store to promote mobile programs that operate using the social network....
The chief executive of computer firm Yahoo has stepped down, amid accusations that a fake computer science degree was included on his CV. ...
Microsoft is revamping its Bing search engine to include advice from Facebook and other social media platforms....
Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has said its co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down in a shake-up....
Google’s share price fell sharply after the company released results that underperformed market expectations, with after-hours trading seeing the stock price fall by nearly ten per cent....
Yang has resigned from the web portal that is a shadow of its former self and is leaving to pursue other things...
Hackers are increasingly targeting child-focused gaming websites, according to a leading anti-virus firm. ...
Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into search results....
Virgin Media will double the speed of its broadband service for more than four million of its customers, the company has said ...
At a trade show designed to celebrate gadgets, it may seem odd that Corning, a 161-year-old materials-based firm, is attracting more excitement than most....
Apple's iMessage may be killing text messaging - or the text messaging revenues made by network operators, at least....
KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung will report record profit for the fourth quarter driven by the success of its Galaxy range of smartphones....
REDMOND SOFTWARE FLOGGER Microsoft has promised that users of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser will be treated to behind the scenes updates and upgrades as a reward....
Despite French President Sarkozy championing some of the most aggressive anti 'piracy' legislation in Europe...
Google are working on a voice-recognising Siri-beater say the blogs, and it's going to be called Majel. ...
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft's founder Bill Gates is quite happy with a part time role, and despite what people say he will never return triumphantly to the Microsoft helm like a King Elessar....
MOBIL SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has said that it wants to replace the head of its Windows Phone business....
A RECRUITMENT EXECUTIVE lost his job after an email blunder in which he sent an expletive-filled message to 4,000 people....
FRUIT THEMED Apple is recruiting engineers as it works on development of API features for its Siri voice recognition and response personal assistant robot....
Move to become more efficient under Intel SECURITY VENDOR McAfee has axed 250 of its employees as it attempts to become more efficient under Intel....
MOBILE SOFTWARE HOUSE Google has proudly announced that ten billion apps have been downloaded from its Android Market. ...
TAIWANESE SMARTHONE VENDOR HTC has seen its sales fall by 30 per cent in the month of November, ending a streak of strong growth for the company....
TIN BOX FLOGGER Dell has confirmed that it has stopped making its Streak 7 tablet. Dell has decided to drop the 7in Android tablet. The firm sent us the following statement that avoids saying why i...
Microsoft will change its upgrade procedures when it introduces Windows 8, offering a simple system for home users and a more technical option for IT staff....
How Secure is your website? Website cracking is becoming a real problem and not just to the likes of Wiki and the MI5! ...
Marks and Spencer customers have been warned to expect an increase in spam e-mail after hackers stole their details. ...
Google has made a $900m bid for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker....
Many of the UK's biggest radio broadcasters have joined forces to launch a system for listening to their stations over the internet....
The cost of home telephone and broadband services could come down after telecoms regulator Ofcom moved to reduce the wholesale price....
Amazon has unveiled an online music service that lets users to upload songs and play them from a range of devices....
We have all heard about the hell that is spyware and virus infections, however, we are seeing more and more servers being infected by botnets. ...
THE PLAYBOOK TABLET from Research in Motion (RIM) is a neat and stylish bit of kit and its entertainment potential delighted us. ...
Apple made record profits and record revenues in the run-up to Christmas as shoppers bought more Macs, iPhones, and iPads than analysts predicted....
Google has made its second bid for a slice of the mobile phone market, with the launch of its Nexus S phone....
Virgin Media is set to turn up the dial on its cable network, offering users speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second)....
Apple is cashing in on the popularity of its iPhone and iPad to boost demand for its oldest product, the Macintosh. ...
Attacks on computer networks are among the biggest emerging threats to the UK, the government has said in its new national security strategy....
Microsoft has ramped up its battle with Google in wooing business customers with its next generation cloud-based product. ...
Ray Ozzie, chief software architect of Microsoft and proponent of cloud computing, has resigned unexpectedly...
Google is developing - and has extensively tested - technology to build an autonomously self-driving car, Google said on Saturday....
Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 7, its latest attempt to break into the lucrative smartphone market....
In our regular series about makers, hackers and amateur technologists, BBC News meets the people giving the classic BBC Micro a new lease of life....
Twitter has undergone its first major facelift which aims to provide a rich multi-media experience for its 160 million users....
Finnish phone giant Nokia has vowed to fight back as it battles for customers in the increasingly competitive smartphone market....
Finnish phone giant Nokia has vowed to fight back as it battles for customers in the increasingly competitive smartphone market....
SEARCH ENGINE OUTFIT Google has released the sixth version of its Chrome browser to coincide with its second birthday....
Samsung has become the latest challenger to enter the tablet computer battle, unveiling its Galaxy Tab at the IFA conference in Berlin....
The growing use of graphics cards as surrogate supercomputers could spell trouble for users of short passwords....
A network of thousands of compromised computers that is being used to harvest online banking details has been uncovered in the UK. ...
Tablet devices which run the Windows 7 operating system will launch in the coming months, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. ...
Hi-tech criminals are "escalating" attacks on an unpatched bug in the Windows XP help and support system....
Official approval has been given for the creation of an internet domain dedicated to pornography....
The launch of Apple's iPhone 4 also marks the end of unlimited smartphone data plans from major UK mobile phone companies....
Today at the WWDC keynote in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the newest iPhone — the iPhone 4....
Google’s StreetView team appear to have landed the organisation in hot water with the Australian Authorities recently......
Choosing the wrong server can be a costly mistake and not just on the machine but also downtime and lost productivity....
Sony finally accepts what we all knew – The Floppy Disk is Dead Sony has today announced that it will be ceasing production of Floppy Disk in its homeland of Japan, in March 2011...
Before the naysayers (read: “Apple Fanboys”) break out their disagreement drums, we should explain....
A California-based consumer watchdog called, er... Consumer Watchdog is calling for a Department of Justice investigation into Google....
Anti-virus software company McAfee have today been forced to issue sincere and grovelling apologies to its customers across the globe after releasing the soon-to-be infamous “Update 5958”. This updat...
An Icelandic volcano, dormant for 200 years, has erupted, ripping a 1km-long fissure in a field of ice...
The UK and continental Europe could be gripped by more frequent cold winters in the future as a result of low solar activity, say researchers....
Residents in a village in Rutland have clubbed together to raise £37,000 to install their own high speed broadband after getting fed up of waiting for large companies to provide the service....
Apple is to delay the international release of its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad, by one month. It will now launch the device around the world at the end of May, and will begin accepting pr...
Handheld device maker Palm is in the market for a buyer, as sales of its latest smartphones fail to catch up rivals such as Apple and BlackBerry....
Microsoft has launched a phone called the Kin aimed at younger users and geared towards social networking....
Twitter has said it will allow advertising on its site for the first time. It seems everyone is getting in on this!...
Micro-blogging service Twitter can be used to predict the future box-office takings of blockbuster films, according to researchers at Hewlett Packard (HP)....
The government sacrifices its £6-a-year tax on landlines in order to push the rest of the Finance Bill through parliament....
Today’s technical news sites are covering a deeply unsettling story relating to hacking on a massive scale, targeting sensitive information stored on various computer systems across the globe. The fo...
Low-cost computers are to be offered as part of a government scheme to encourage millions of people in the UK to get online for the first time. ...