Samsung has promised it will deliver a fix for a serious security flaw in many of its handsets as soon as possible, while a developer argues the bug appears to be the result of a 'deliberate design decision'
2012
BT Seals Norfolk Broadband Deal But Gets £95m Ofcom Fine
BT told to pay up £95 million over charges for using its broadband infrastructure
Red Hat To Buy Cloud Management Expert ManageIQ
The Linux titan is on a shopping spree
Government Presses Ahead With G-Cloud III Procurement
The UK government's G-Cloud gets a new version and new features
Facebook Tests Paid-For ‘Spam’ Emails
Facebook's new service lets people pay to get emails past the spam filters
UK Government Announces First Wave Of New Digital Services
Coalition pushing on with 'Digital by Default' strategy as 18 departments announce plans for new projects
ZigBee Wireless Adopts Energy Harvesting
ZigBee low-energy radios can work without batteries
Raspberry Pi Runs a Mobile Phone Network In Cambridge
The £25 Raspberry Pi becomes a GSM base station
Trend Spies 455 Malicious Apps On Google Play
Hundreds of thousands of users downloaded nasty Android apps in December, says Trend
IT Life: Open Source Clouds For Customers
Open source and cloud are John Hudson's favourite tech, a bicycle is is favourite transport
RIM To Pay Nokia For Wi-Fi Patents
RIM loses to Nokia in relegation zone skirmish
Instagram Completes Retreat On Selling User Photos
Instagram reverts to the old wording of its terms and conditions following a massive user backlash
Google Quickoffice Opens Up MS Office On Apple iPad
Apple iPad users can now open and edit Microsoft Office documents on their tablets, thanks to the Quickoffice app
Oracle Builds Cloud Challenge With £536m Eloqua Deal
Oracle has ramped up its cloud confrontation with Salesforce.com after the acquisition of Eloqua
RIM Q3 Results Better Than Feared, Ahead Of BB10 Launch
RIM has produced better than expected financial results in the third quarter, but is still losing customers
Samsung Readies Bendy 5.5-Inch Smartphone Display
Samsung will reportedly use next month's CES show to reveal a bendy 5.5-inch smartphone display
Samsung To Invest $3.9 Billion Into Texas Chip Plant
Even more mobile processors will be made in the US
Cameron’s Christmas Cock-up On Porn Blocking
Porn blocking has been announced - through the Daily Mail - without research and without listening, says Tom Brewster
BT Enters Auction Race For 4G Spectrum
Companies bidding on 4G spectrum include BT, and a couple of other surprises
Government Announces ‘Common Sense’ Copyright Law Reform
BIS tells TechWeek Vince Cable's reforms should be law by end of 2013 at the latest
Austrian Judges Question The Validity Of EU Data Retention Directive
Keeping all customer data could be in breach of European constitution, says Austrian court
Westboro Baptist Church Web Security Provider To Donate Proceeds To...
DDoS vendor and Anonymous siphon money from anti-gay hate group
Government ‘Ignores Parents’ And Presses On With Default Porn...
David Cameron reverses decision issued by Department of Education last week
Google Sells Motorola Home Set-Top Box Unit For £1.5bn
UK's Pace misses out on Google's Motorola Home sell-off
Apple Suffers ‘Pinch-to-Zoom’ Patent Setback
Apple has suffered a noteworthy setback after the US Patent Office invalidated its "pinch-to-zoom" patent
SDN Momentum Continues For Data Centres, IDC Reveals
Software-defined networking is gathering steam and will become a key data centre technology, says IDC
IBM Beefs Up Big Data With StoredIQ Purchase
IBM is adding to its growing 'big data' arsenal with the decision to acquire software maker StoredIQ
Google Expands Apps Vault Archive Availability
Google Apps Vault, the search engine's data governance solution, is now available to existing customers
Kodak Patents Sold At $525m – Did Apple, Google And Microsoft...
Troubled imaging firm sells off patents and tech titans appear to have gotten what they were after
Crown Prosecution Will Avoid Dealing With Internet Trolls
New guidelines make sure that jokes posted on Twitter don’t land people in court