Quizzed about PRISM, PT promised data "safety" at Europe's largest data centre
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2013
Quantum Computing Firm D-Wave Leaps To Higher Level With New Lab
The world's only commercial quantum computing company has moved to new premises as it builds bigger chips
China Eases Internet Restrictions To Allow Facebook In Shanghai
China is opening up access to the likes of Facebook and Twitter in an area of Shanghai, whilst allowing foreign firms to compete against state-owned giants
Microsoft Offers 200GB SkyDrive Plan
Users can pay $100 a year for a whopping 200GB of storage on SkyDrive, Microsoft announces
Fake iOS 7 Waterproof Advert Convinces Users To Destroy Their iPhones
Some iPhone users are fooled by a fake advert telling them to drop their iPhones in water
Mozilla Launches Firefox Preview For Windows 8 Tablets
The company wants user feedback ahead of the official release in December
Apple Boasts Of 9m iPhone 5S And 5C First Weekend Sales
Apple does not reveal individual sales figures, but iOS 7 has been downloaded 200m times
Gmail Outage Hits Up To 212 Million Users
Google has restored service to Gmail after an outage of several hours, affecting nearly one-third of all Gmail messages
eBay Announces Argos Deal For Click And Collect
eBay expands click and collect strategy in the UK, but may draw more attention to its tax practices
Cisco Takes Surveillance Into ‘Internet Of Things’ Era
Cisco has updated its VSM7 video surveillance management platform, allowing it to operate on a large scale and making application development easier
1970s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Conducts Interstellar Experiments
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now carrying out experiments with particles released by stars other than Earth's sun
IBM To Open $17m Colombian Cloud Facility
IBM is to invest $17m in a new cloud data centre in Bogota, the 25th such facility the company has opened around the world
BlackBerry Reaches Preliminary Sale Agreement With Fairfax
Fairfax Financial Holdings, headed by star investor Prem Watsa, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the smartphone maker
New Generation Of Microsoft Surface Tablets Arrives On 22 October
Microsoft Surface 2 and Microsoft Surface 2 Pro promise to increase productivity
Gartner: Most Organisations Plan To Invest In Big Data, But Only Eight Percent Are Using It
The industry does not believe the hype, says analyst firm
Spotify Shifts To HortonWorks’ Hadoop Platform
Music provider Spotify moves its burgeoning Big Data repository of music preferences from one Hadoop player to another
Android Malware Fraud ‘Rampant’
Android targeted by new fraudulent apps in first half of 2013, F-Secure warns
Tesco Launches Budget-Friendly Android Tablet
Hudl is a seven-inch device with HD screen and quad-core processor, running the latest version of Android
Google Health Is Dead: Long Live The Calico Anti-Aging Venture!
After the failure of Google Health, the choice of Art Levinson to run Google's Calico is a good one, says Brian T horowitz
BlackBerry Founder Seeks Private Equity Partners For Takeover Bid – Report
Former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis hold taks with private equity firms over joint bid for BlackBerry
EE Leads London 4G Race, But Vodafone And O2 Perform Strongly
Vodafone and O2 4G networks are doing well just three weeks after launch, says RootMetrics
Reports: Nokia 929 Coming In White And Black
Leaked images showing what appear to be the upcoming Lumia 929 indicate a 20-megapixel camera, 1080p resolution and white and black models
LinkedIn Denies It “Hacked” Third Party Email Accounts
The company will have to defend this position in court
German Hacking Crew Cracks iPhone Touch ID
Chaos Computer Club claims to have created a fake finger that fools Apple's TouchID
BlackBerry Messenger For Android And iPhone Suffers Delays
Unauthorised Android version delays cross-platform launch - but is downloaded 1.1 million times before being pulled
Users Must Take Charge Of Security In A Post-PRISM World
Sean Michael Kerner welcomes the User Data Manifesto, which says we should have control of of our own information
Acronis Joins Forces With LenovoEMC On Small Business Backup
Working with Acronis technology, LenovoEMC NAS systems can now provide automated data protection for smaller businesses
Touch ID Hack Pledges Near $20,000
An effort to reward the hacker who cracks the new iPhone's fingerprint sensor has reached nearly $20,000, while Germany's Chaos Computer Club claims success
Ballmer Lays Out Microsoft Future For Analysts
Steve Ballmer and other executives discussed how they expect the 'One Microsoft' strategy to help the company thrive in the post-PC era
Study Uncovers Executive-Level Mobile Web Conflict
Chief marketing officers and chief information officers are clashing over who will define businesses' mobile web strategies, according to a Netbiscuits study