A quarter of IBM hardware division will be cut as company begins restructuring
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2014
Android Overtakes iOS On Tablets For The First Time – Gartner
Cheaper, smaller tablets allow Android to overtake iOS for the first time as Samsung enjoys growth
Legal Protests Will Keep NSA’s Phone Record Hoard For Longer!
A legal complaint to stop the NSA storing phone records is having the opposite result, says Wayne Rash. The data could be kept forever!
Kickstarter Pledges Top $1bn
5.7m people have contributed over a billion dollars to Kickstarter projects since April 2009
Mt Gox is Gone, But Bitcoin Will Continue
The Mt Gox exchange failed spectacularly, and the price of bitcoins tumbled,. but Sean Michael Kerner thinks the virtual currency will bounce back
Master Data Management Summit Europe & Data Governance Conference Europe
Salesforce To Open Its First UK Data Centre In August
The Salesforce servers will be located in the unofficial data centre capital of the UK - Slough
MPs Want To Withhold Rural Broadband Cash Until BT Is More Transparent
Public Accounts Committee says BT should be more transparent about BDUK costs, after the operator won all the contracts under the BDUK programme
Apple Announces In-Car iOS Platform CarPlay
CarPlay will allow drivers to safely use apps such as Siri and iTunes whilst at the wheel
Social Media World Forum Europe
Social and digital marketing conference #SMWF is set to return to London for 2014 providing top-level strategic advice and social media marketing insight.
Mt Gox Finally Admits It Lost $500,000,000 In Bitcoin
The exchange has launched a dedicated call centre to handle furious investors after admitting that it lost 750,000 bitcoins belonging to customers, and 100,000 of its own
BT Calls For End To TalkTalk And Sky’s £623m Copper Broadband ‘Subsidies’
BT says if Ofcom does not act over unbundled lines, the UK broadband market could be distorted to the tune of £1 billion
Russians Suspected In ‘Uroburos’ Digital Espionage Attacks
Russian intelligence linked to super-sophisticated rootkit targeting high-profile organisations and nation states
Microsoft Loses Two Top Executives
Tony Bates, an internal chief executive candidate, and Tami Reller are reportedly leaving Microsoft in the wake of Satya Nadella's appointment as CEO
Slow Broadband Can Knock 20 Percent Off House Price
Estate agent Rightmove finds broadband speed has become a key factor for prospective homeowners when considering a property
RSA 2014: US Government Warns Smart Device Makers Over Security
Device manufacturers face US government action if they do not improve on basic security efforts, according to the FTC
Study: Employees Unaware Of Employers’ BYOD Policies
Employees are unaware of the level of control that BYOD policies give employers over their devices, according to the study, showing the challenges facing personal devices in the workplace
IDC: 10GbE Demand Driving Ethernet Growth
Cisco, HP, Juniper and others are seeing strong growth as organisations push 10GbE and 40GbE into the data centre
Apple May Be Ending Snow Leopard Updates
Apple's five-year-old Snow Leopard operating system has been left out of recent security updates, which may mean support for the OS has ended
MWC 2014: CEO Rob Glaser Talks Up RealPlayer Cloud
Glaser says the service is not attempting to compete with YouTube.
MWC 2014 Video: This Is The Year Of Bluetooth Smart
Mark Powell from Bluetooth SIG says the power-efficient wireless standard is taking the world by storm
MWC 2014 Video: CEO Rob Glaser Talks About The Potential Of RealPlayer Cloud
Glaser says the service is not attempting to compete with YouTube
MWC 2014 Video: What is ETSI?
Ultan Mulligan from the European standards body talks about 4G, 5G and beyond
Thousands Of RBS, Natwest, Barclays Customers Hit By Mobile Banking App Outage
Customers left unable to access mobile accounts due to outage caused by major traffic surge
MWC 2014: Pictures From An Exhibition… And Beyond
GALLERY: Relive the sights and major announcements of MWC 2014 in Barcelona
GCHQ Could Have Been Watching Your Webcam Feed
Snowden documents suggest GCHQ was collecting millions of images of law-abiding citizens obtained directly from their webcams during online chats to build a giant face recognition database
IBM Begins US Jobs Cull Amid Global Restructuring Plan
Some IBM workers are facing a very bleak weekend as Big Blue starts handing out pink slips
RSA’s Call to End Digital Wars Is Either Cynical Or Naive
RSA has turned digital peacenik, but Tom Brewster thinks its call to end the digital arms race is ajust a cynical ploy
Three 4G Rollout Reaches 36 Towns And Cities
Three 4G is on target to reach 50 major cities and 200 towns by end of 2014, with 1.7m customers using LTE handsets already
World Wide Web ‘An Especially Good Thing’ As It Nears 25th Birthday
76 percent of people believe that the World Wide Web has been good for society as it approaches its 25th birthday