Twitter has backtracked and reinstated the Twitter feed of British journalist Guy Adams, one day after banning him
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Twitter Bans UK Journalist For Olympic Criticism
Guy Adams said NBC coverage of the London 2012 was bad. Thousands agreed.
Spoof Tweeter Accused Of Hacking Daily Mail Group
Northcliffe Media says it was hacked by the owner of a spoof Twitter account mocking its CEO
Skype Surveillance Claims Denied
Architecture changes haven't harmed privacy, says Skype
China Arrests 10,000 Suspected Of Internet-Related Crimes
Spring cleaning, Beijing-style
Firefox OS Is Fast, Open And Commercial – Brendan Eich
Mozilla's mobile platform is 100 percent open, but developers can make money, says Brendan Eich
Twitter Bomb Joker Paul Chambers Wins High Court Appeal
Three years after his ill-judged tweet, Chambers gets the last laugh
Twitter Fail Caused By Triple Data Centre Collapse
Two Twitter failovers fail in a full-on day of IT fail
Facebook Relief After It Beats Wall Street Expectations
Executives at Facebook have breathed a sigh of relief after posting their first earnings report that beat expectations
Oracle Releases Version 2 Of Exalogic Elastic Cloud
Oracle has launched version 2 of its Exalogic Elastic Cloud software, as well as a MySQL conversion tool
Microsoft And Twitter Outages Hit In Day Of IT Doom
Microsoft and Twitter are hit, as RBS experiences more technical difficulties in a day of IT fails
Google Talk Falls Silent Worldwide
Service restored to the majority of users, but no information on what caused the outage
Safari For Windows Quietly Vanishes
Harry Houdini would be impressed
London Calling For Facebook Engineering Team
Facebook likes London, as a tech team starts up in Covent Garden
Firefox OS – New Pictures Emerge
The Mozilla phone platform is changing - while TechWeekEurope readers give it a thumbs up
Microsoft Job Ad Hints At MS Office For iPad
A new job posting at Microsoft is seeking developers who can adapt Office to run on Mac OS X and iOS
Former Yahoo Boss Scott Thompson Now CEO Of ShopRunner
No computer science degree is no bar to running ShopRunner
Mozilla Begins Firefox 15 Beta Testing
Mozilla's Firefox 15 beta includes memory leak protection and support for the Opus audio format
Skype Users Might Be More Open To Wiretaps Than Before
A number of recent changes at Skype mean that rumours of wiretaps could well be true, says Tom Brewster
Microsoft Reports Losses While Looking Set For Rapid Growth
The accounting loss Microsoft chalked up in the fourth quarter doesn’t reflect the software giant’s true financial strength, says Wane Rash
Amazon Opens London Media Development Centre
Boris Johnson welcomes Amazon techies to his manor
IT Life: Linux Crusade Turns To Excellence
Andy Green and Andy Beer started out trying to convert the world to open source. Now, they help users manage all kinds of tech
Twitter Fights Order To Disclose Occupy Protester Tweets
The blue bird doesn’t snitch on its users
Ubuntu Turns Websites Into WebApps
The WebApps feature, coming in Ubuntu Linux 12.10, will allow web services such as Gmail and Facebook to run as separate applications integrated with desktop services
OSCON: Dell To Offer Ubuntu-Powered Developer Laptop
Dell's Ubuntu-powered laptop, created as part of its Project Sputnik, will be offered in the autumn as part of a wider open source drive at the company
All New Huddle Hits The Enterprise Collaboration Market
The reworked platform promises a simple, more intuitive experience
OpenStack Creates ARM-Powered Cloud For Testers
HP, Calxeda and Canonical are backing an ARM-powered cloud for the OpenStack community's TryStack test sandbox
Black Duck Announces Open Data Initiative
Black Duck has licensed Ohloh.net data for wider use, as well as launching a new open source code search engine
Can The Cloud Keep Microsoft Office 2013 Ahead?
Can Office 2013 keep Microsoft's juggernaut ahead of the pack? Wayne Rash thinks it can
Cyber Security Challenge Hunts For Flaw Finders
Government backed contest wants online defenders against malware