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‘123456’ Beats ‘Password’ As Most-Used Password

In this year's list of the Internet's most popular passwords, "123456" has displaced the previous leader "password"

11 years ago

Broadcasters Say Freeview TV Is More Valuable Than Mobile Data

Ofcom should not neglect digital terrestrial TV in favour of 4G, say broadcasters

11 years ago

Lawyer: EU Privacy Laws Will Lead To Fining Frenzy In UK

As Viviane Reding says greater fining powers are needed, top data protection lawyer warns about incoming laws

11 years ago

80,000 BlackBerry Devices Drafted In By The Pentagon

US Department of Defence relies on Blackberry devices for a revamped mobile working programme

11 years ago

Microsoft To Prepare 160,000 Teachers For The New Curriculum

The Switched On Computing initiative offers instructions in areas including "computational thinking"

11 years ago

Ofcom Authorises Faster Satellite Wi-Fi For Ships, Planes And Trains

Ofcom expects to issue first licenses for earth stations in February

11 years ago

HP Is Advertising The Benefits Of… Windows 7?

The company has launched a campaign aimed at people who just can’t get to grips with Windows 8

11 years ago

Health-Oriented Apple iWatch To Have LG’s OLED Screens – Reports

Apple hires bio-sensor experts, while rumours say LG will make the iWatch's screen

11 years ago

South Korea Bank Data Breach Hits 15m

Epic data breach affecting a third of all South Koreans - believed to have been an inside job

11 years ago

Amazon Looks To Ship Stuff Before You Order It

Patent for ‘Anticipatory Shipping’ looks to deliver products to shoppers before they even know they want them

11 years ago

Jimmy Wales To Lead Charity MVNO The People’s Operator

Jimmy Wales targets "viral growth" and US expansion in his role as co-chair

11 years ago

Baboom! Kim Dotcom Previews Music Service, Launches Debut Album

Good Times by Kim Dotcom is out on Baboom, iTunes and Google Play

11 years ago

NTT DoCoMo Delays Tizen Smartphone Launch

Samsung-backed operating system suffers yet another setback

11 years ago

US Authorities Set For Silk Road Bitcoin Sale

The state gets drawn into the virtual currency game

11 years ago

Google Chrome Feedly And Twitter Extensions Pulled In Adware Scare

Two extensions to Google's Chrome browser concerning social media were apparently spamming users with ads

11 years ago

Sky And Vodafone Discuss Possible Alliance To Combat BT – Report

Fearing challenges to their TV and mobile businesses, Sky and Vodafone could team up

11 years ago

Microsoft Accused Of Buying Manufacturer Support For Windows Phone

Microsoft has denied claims that it pays OEMs millions of dollars to produce devices supporting its Windows Phone OS

11 years ago

Obama: NSA Phone Surveillance Will Be Controlled… Some Day

President Obama defended the creation of a phone call database but promised access to it will be controlled

11 years ago

Government Universal Credit IT System Woefully Understaffed

New government service to support a flagship reform is only supported by three employees

11 years ago

Cisco: DDoS And Infrastructure Attacks Among The Biggest Threats In 2014

Meanwhile, the industry is missing almost a million cyber security professionals

11 years ago

Tech City CEO Joanna Shields To Be Replaced By BlackBerry’s Gerard Grech

Joanna Shields steps down as Tech City CEO next month. She's now on the board of the London Stock Exchange

11 years ago

China Launches ‘Independent’ OS For Smartphones, PCs

China OS is a Linux-based OS designed to break foreign dominance

11 years ago

Snowden: NSA Collects 200m Texts A Day And GCHQ Can See Them Too

GCHQ has access to NSA Dishfire database of texts and phone numbers, according to leaked documents

11 years ago

Google Glass Driver Cleared By US Court

Ceclila Abadie was wearing Google Glass but there was no proof it was switched on

11 years ago

IBM To Invest $1.2 Billion Into New Cloud Data Centres

Big Blue is looking to expand its cloud capabilities across the globe

11 years ago

Vodafone Demands Right To Publish Government Surveillance Requests

Vodafone writes to 24 governments to ask for more freedom to be open

11 years ago

Microsoft Extends Windows XP Protection To 2015

The company will continue providing anti-malware updates, but nothing more

11 years ago

4G Data Roaming To Generate £26bn For Operators By 2018

New report says 4G will increase roaming revenues, but warns EU legislation will start to bite

11 years ago

Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password

Syed Hussain, already serving time for helping to plot attacks against UK targets, got another four months

11 years ago

Neul Launches A Network For The Internet Of Things

BT is testing a network created by Cambridge start-up Neul for the Weightless machine-to-machine communication standard

11 years ago