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Kelihos botnet remains very much dead after all
A spam botnet brought down four months ago, which was once capable of pumping...
Anonymous's call hack puts it centre stage
Activist collective's leak of 18-minute discussion embarrasses authorities and raises questions over...
Apple overturns Motorola's ban
Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany....
LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month
The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice,...
Netbook plummets as tablet soars
Smartphones outsold PCs and tablets combined, says research company but netbooks have had their da...
FBI probes Anonymous phone hack
The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between ...
FDA whistleblowers say government retaliated with spyware
A group of former FDA scientists who spoke out against the agency's all...
Apple pulls iPhones from German store
iCloud service could also be forced to turn off 'push' email as battle escalates with phone firm, wh...
BT vow fibre optic 'game changer'
Fibre optic broadband connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available 'on demand' in the UK n...
Hands-on with Node.js support in Komodo IDE 7
ActiveState has released a major new version of the Komodo integrated d...
BT profits rise on broadband growth
BT Group reports 18% rise in profits and announces plan to roll out 330Mbps broadband on demand to b...
Hackers fool bank security system
Criminal hackers have found ways around new security devices used for online banking, the BBC has le...
Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
Mozilla is developing a push notification system for the Firefox Web browser....
Act on Acta if you care about free speech
The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement could criminalise internet users globally. But it hasn't bee...
Megaupload bail appeal rejected
Kim Dotcom's bail appeal is rejected by a New Zealand Court, as US campaigners hint at legal action ...
AMD sets out its plans for 2013, hints at a possible ARM future
AMD today laid out its plans for the next couple of years at its Financ...
Is Facebook worth $100bn?
After reading Facebook's S-1 document, it's probably not worth $100bn, but at least one analyst has ...
Google asked to pause rule change
An EU data protection group writes to Google to ask them to suspend changes to their privacy policy....
At long last, malware scanning comes to Google's Android Market
Google engineers have unveiled a cloud-based service that scours the Android ...
Twitter is addictive, study finds
People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US resear...
Micron's Appleton dies in crash
Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Bois...
VeriSign, maintainer of net's DNS, warns it was repeatedly hacked
VeriSign, the company that manages a key internet database for routing traffi...
Zynga shares soar after Facebook IPO
Social network revealed in SEC filing that Farmville, CityVille and Mafia Wars maker accounts for up...
Blogger removal now 'per country'
Blogger, Google's blog platform, switches domains to make "per country" content removal possible....
Google Docs offline comes to Android, but no editing allowed
Google keeps taking tiny steps toward creating a full-fledged document creati...
Google fined £400,000 in France
French court find Google guilty of abusing its dominant position after mapping company lodges unfair...
Microsoft launches Kinect for PCs
A more costly version of Microsoft's record-breaking Kinect motion and voice sensor is now available...
Microsoft touts plugin-free web, offers desktop fallback for Flash lovers
Microsoft's new version of Internet Explorer has barred browser plugins...
Ask Jack: replacing a laptop's hard drive
Dell has sent Dennis Fornes a replacement hard drive for one that may be about to fail, and he wants...
UK download speed gains 'uneven'
Ofcom reports a lopsided rise in the UK's broadband download speeds, noting that many subscribers co...
Post-IPO, Facebook will have to make privacy investigations public
When it comes to information privacy concerns, Facebook already has a b...
Sony warns annual loss will exceed forecast
Tsunami in Japan and Thai flooding help push losses to £1.8bn Incoming chief executive Hirai admi...
BT cuts costs to increase profits
Telecoms group BT reports a sharp rise in profits, thanks largely to a jump in the number of broadba...
It's official: Facebook files for $5 billion IPO
Facebook is hoping investors will "like" the social network just as much as i...
S Korea activist held over tweet
Amnesty International demands the release of a man held by South Korean authorities after re-tweetin...
2001 all over again: Internet Explorer 6 share grows (and Chrome falls)
It may be 2012, but apparently someone hasn't got the message. Internet...
Summer fashion 2012 will be in glorious techno colour
As hyper-real digital printing techniques spread to major fashion houses, British women have stop re...
Facebook unveils plans to float
The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, confirms plans to raise $5bn (£3.16bn) in a sh...
Meet our new Security Editor and help shape our coverage
Welcome, readers, to our expanded security section. As the newly christ...
Online break-ups
So many relationships begin online. Now they're also ending messily, publicly on the net, aided ...
Panasonic predicts a record loss
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic forecasts a record net annual loss of $10bn for the year to Mar...
Microsoft vows to fix "broken" Hyper-V code submitted to OpenStack project
In October 2010, Microsoft started working toward making the OpenStack open s...
A vocational element is vital to a full education | Observer editorial
If we are not to fail future generations of pupils, Mr Gove's changes will have to be refined before...
Petitioners want 'ethical iPhone'
An online petition calls on Apple to address growing concerns about the conditions of its Chinese fa...
"Slain" Kelihos botnet still spams from beyond the grave
A botnet capable of delivering almost four billion spam messages per da...
TV looks to new era of interactive game shows to lure the Facebook generation
The Million Pound Drop and The Bank Job are proving a bit hit with internet audiences, but it is the...
TripAdvisor rebuked for publicity
The travel review website is told to make changes to its adverts and stop implying that all its revi...
Linux kernel chief exits SUSE, takes vendor-neutral oversight role
Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch and ...
Jonathan Franzen is wrong: the digital age is making us smarter | Henry Porter
Jonathan Franzen says the e-reader is a threat to our very systems of justice and self-government. H...
Self-steering bullet researched
US researchers are developing a bullet that guides itself to a laser-illuminated target. But an expe...
Etc: Symantec is now telling customers it is safe to use pcAnywhere as long as it is updated with the latest patches, days after revealing that stolen source code had fallen into the hands of Anonymous.
Symantec is now telling customers it is safe to use pcAnywhere as long as it is updated with th...
Japan's technology giants faced down disaster but the new enemy is doubt
Industrial recovery from the tsunami has been remarkable, but the competition from Korea's burgeonin...
Largest optical telescope created
Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world's largest virtual ...
Fake Windows updater targets government contractors, stealing sensitive data
Two security companies today released a joint report describing an ongo...
London Olympics could crash the internet, Cabinet Office warns
Fears of an internet meltdown during the London Games may lead to web access being rationed for Brit...
VIDEO: How computers help Sweden's ice sculptors
Ice sculptors in Sweden are making use of computers to complete their cold creations...
Firefox 10 arrives with new dev tools and full-screen API
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 10. The new version of the open...
Is it time to leave Facebook?
Amid plans for a $10bn share offering, the social networking giant has come under fire for its contr...
Can Netflix compete with 'offline' TV?
Is it time we started speaking of YouTube or Netflix in the same breath as the BBC or Sky?...
Red Hat developer explains open source color calibration hardware
Color management has historically been a weak area for the Linux deskto...
Seedcamp London: the other Dragons' Den
For technology entrepreneurs, Seedcamp is an opportunity to acquire investment for their fledgling c...
VIDEO: Pinball wizard shows off museum
The BBC's LJ Rich meets Tim Arnold, who has refurbished more than 250 pinball machines at the Las Ve...
New Google reference doc shows comparison of Dart and JavaScript
Google has published documentation that illustrates how traditional Jav...
Welcome to the desktop degree
Three courses created at Stanford University prove that free online education can compete with tradi...
VIDEO: 'Flying people' and other tech news
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a remote-controlled man-shaped plane. This and more in this we...
Hackers put hijacked Web views up for sale for webfraud
In the latest twist on website exploits for profit, Web hackers have begun to...
Puddle review
Xbox 360, PS3 download, Konami, cert: 3, out: nowPuzzle game Puddle asks nothing more of the pl...
VIDEO: The untraceable 'dark web'
Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' wher...
Android Trojans downloaded by millions, still on Android Market
Symantec last week identified 13 new malicious applications on the Android Ma...
NeverDead review
Xbox 360, PS3, Konami, cert: 15, out: nowDeveloped by the UK studio Rebellion, NeverDead is somethin...
AUDIO: 'Great excitement' at Facebook IPO
Tim Bajarin market analyst at Creative Strategies Inc in California gives the reaction from Silicon ...
Web video framework company publishes State of HTML5 Video document
As Flash's ubiquity begins to erode, standards-based Web technologies are goi...
Peter Seeberger: we can treat malaria for less
Artemisinin is the most effective malaria treatment yet discovered. Peter Seeberger has found a way ...
AUDIO: The making of Star Wars Uncut
A directors-cut of a fan-made version of Star Wars has recently been released, rapidly becoming an o...
Three reasons to avoid the Facebook flotation
Whether or not the social network achieves a $100bn valuation, a glance at the flotation prospectus ...
VIDEO: Facebook reveals 'new information'
BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discusses what the public has learned about Facebook ...
My Army app review
iPhone, Distinctive Developments, 69pPerpetual motion games have proved a big hit on mobiles thriv...
VIDEO: TripAdvisor rapped over 'trust' claims
TripAdvisor has been ordered to rewrite some of its marketing claims by the UK's Advertising Standar...
Has The Daily got off its launch pad?
Murdoch's non-newsprint newspaper is looking at five to seven years to break even. Does it have that...
AUDIO: TripAdvisor 'is about common sense'
TripAdvisor's Emma Shaw defends the website against criticisms from the Advertising Standards Author...
Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Zuckerberg, it's the internet
Without the 'permissionless innovation' enabled by the internet, Facebook would not have got off the...
Is this Facebook's great leap forward?
Site's share offer will create new billionaires and millionaires but analysts worry about its capa...
Anti-piracy laws around the world
Comparing different approaches to anti-piracy legislation...
ReRAM and the memory chip contest
The race to make RAM that keeps its memory in a power outage...
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