Met Police to extract phone data
- Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of whether charges are brought, the BBC has learned.
Facebook shares valued at $104bn
- Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
Government to miss cookie cut-off
- Most government websites will miss the UK's deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies, the Cabinet Office tells the BBC.
China Mobile in talks with Apple
- China Mobile, the main mobile service provider in China and the largest in the world by users, could soon offer its customers Apple's iPhone.
Government may miss cloud targets
- The Government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sector IT staff, a report suggests.
Privacy watchdog to meet Google
- The French privacy watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU, is to meet Google to scrutinise its controversial privacy policy changes.
Google makes search 'more human'
- Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a new function, the Knowledge Graph.
The Pirate Bay hit by hack attack
- File-sharing website The Pirate Bay appears to have been hit by a coordinated hack attack.
Virgin Atlantic allows air calls
- Passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone calls using personal devices.
Google patents Project Glass design
- Search giant Google patents the design of its augmented reality glasses, known as Project Glass.
Jury out in Google Oracle dispute
- A jury has retired to consider claims that Google wilfully infringed patents belonging to Java developer Oracle.
Sexting threat comes from peers
- A report commissioned by the NSPCC suggests that children are coming under pressure from friends to post explicit pictures
Nvidia aims for fastest computer
- Nvidia unveils a new GPU which it says should help the the US overtake Japan to claim the world's fastest supercomputer.
Flipboard integrates audio in app
- Flipboard, the popular social news magazine, starts integrating audio into its app for Apple's hand-held devices.
Milestone for wi-fi with 'T-rays'
- Researchers smash a record for wireless data transmission in the terahertz band, an uncharted part of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
HTC shares dip on shipment delay
- Shares of Taiwan's HTC fall after US customs officials hold up shipments of its new smartphones over a patent dispute.
Sorkin to write Steve Jobs biopic
- Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is to write the script for Sony Pictures' upcoming biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Diablo III players report game bug
- Blizzard say they are working to fix a 'game breaking' bug in Diablo III as the eagerly anticipated release is hit by more problems.
VIDEO: Why do gadgets keep on breaking?
- An investigation into why devices stop working without anything seeming to be wrong with them
VIDEO: Does web privacy have a price?
- Stopping websites from using tracking software could have serious consequences on the users themselves
AUDIO: Taxman targets online traders
- HMRC is targetting people who use sites such as eBay and Amazon to sell items online at a profit.
VIDEO: Ad boss on Facebook's power
- Sir Martin Sorrell explains to Rory Cellan-Jones the strengths and weaknesses of Facebook when it comes to advertising, as the company prepares to float on the stock exchange.
VIDEO: Ivy League education free on the web
- Click's Sumi Das reports on the Udacity project which is already causing ripples around the globe as it is making a top class education available to anyone, anywhere and for free.
VIDEO: Guide to developing mobile games
- With mobile gaming becoming an increasingly lucrative sector, young entrepreneurs are focusing their attentions on this growing industry.
VIDEO: Philippines call centre success
- The Philippines has recently overtaken India as the country with the most call centre workers - and it is due in no small part to technology.
VIDEO: The challenge for Yahoo
- Yahoo has announced its Chief Executive Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his CV.
VIDEO: Buyers' guide to wireless printers
- Spencer Kelly advises on the huge range of wireless printers available in the shops.
AUDIO: Tweeting to a planet near you
- Why is an artist about to sent tweets into space? Nathaniel Stern, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Anu Ojha, Director of the National Space Academy in Leicester, explain.
Can Facebook crack China?
- Can Facebook crack the Chinese market?
Facebook's first female engineer
- The social networking giant's first female engineer
Tidal power gets a stormy birth
- Scotland's latest bid for tidal power
Is social media changing how we complain?
- Has social media shifted balance when making complaints?
Robotic arm controlled by thought
- Paralysed patients control a robotic arm only with their thoughts
Power behind the phone: Imagination Technologies
- The tech firm putting the smart into smartphone
VIDEO: Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow
- The creative brains imagining a smarter future
Tech powers Philippines call centre success
- The technology powering the Philippines call centre revolution
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Facebook prices its IPO at $38, could raise $16 billion
- Among the company's priorities: diversify its sources of revenue and boost its presence in mobile ads, social commerce and social gaming.
Wireless carriers to roll out data share plans
- Wireless carriers are preparing to introduce data share plans, in which users pay for a bucket of monthly data and share them among devices.
Report: Hewlett-Packard to slash 25,000 workers
- Hewlett-Packard is considering eliminating up to 25,000 jobs to slash costs and help the venerable tech company cope with declining demand.
World's first Wikipedia town to launch in Wales
- A small Welsh town where English King Henry V was born is about to make history again by becoming the world's first "Wikipedia town."
How to survive without an unlimited data plan
- With careful planning, the impact from switching to a limited data plan might not be as significant.
'Private' network Everyme takes on Facebook
- Social network for iPhone is expanding to the Web and Google's Android operating system.
Facebook IPO boosts wealth in Silicon Valley
- LinkedIn, Zynga, Yelp minted new millionaires. Facebook's largest-ever Internet IPO will add many more, plus a bunch of billionaires.
'Far Cry 3' beta launching this summer
- Ubisoft will host a multiplayer beta this summer for its upcoming first-person shooter Far Cry 3.
Comcast will start charging data hogs extra
- The company will charge customers who use more than 300 gigabytes of data.
U.S. imposes tariffs on Chinese solar panels
- The Obama administration called Thursday for hefty tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels and cells..
As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks'
- More than 900 million people use the social network, but millions more don't.
Trailer Park: 'Darksiders II'
- THQ has released a new trailer starring Death from the action title Darksiders II.
Falcons pose evolution puzzle
- Soaring high above skies worldwide, falcons pose an evolutionary puzzle, sporting a surprising lack of immune-system genes.
LG upgrades flagship smartphone to revive fortunes
- The Optimus LTE II will cost $804 without subsidies.
'Diablo III' auction house delayed amid bugs
- Blizzard Entertainment trying to fix technical issues affecting highly-anticipated action RPG.
Why I'll (probably) never leave Facebook
- Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might not quit the world's largest social network.
Internet greets Facebook's IPO price
- Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share.
Why I won't be quitting Facebook
- Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might not quit the world's largest social network.
Google revamps search again
- So, let's say you're doing a Google search for "Kings." Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs.
How you help FB make billions
- Every post you "like." Every friend you add or fan page you join. Every place you check in, and every Web page you recommend.
'Social Network' writer to pen Jobs film
- Aaron Sorkin, the celebrated screenwriter whose punchy dialogue propelled TV's "The West Wing" and the Facebook movie "The Social Network," will write and direct an upcoming film on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
MacBook Pro to get HD display?
- The new 15-inch MacBook Pro will be a significant departure from the current design, with a retina display and an ultra-thin profile, 9to5Mac claims, citing sources from Apple's supply chain.
A look back at Zuckerberg in 2006
- CNN's Dan Simon looks back at Mark Zuckerberg, camera shy and sometimes awkward, in a 2006 interview with CNN.
How to tactfully fund your projects online
- It sounds like one of those weird, grainy late-night infomercials: "Get money for your projects NOW for FREE! There are people out there just WAITING to put REAL MONEY in your hands! Don't wait, apply TODAY!"
When superyacht chic meets hybrid technology
- How does the wealthy boating enthusiast reconcile a passion for gas-guzzling superyachts with concern for the natural ocean environment?
A look back at Mark Zuckerberg in 2006
- CNN's Dan Simon looks back at Mark Zuckerberg, camera shy and sometimes awkward, in a 2006 interview with CNN.
Zuckerberg's hoodie: Investors concerned?
- Henry Blodget and Ali Velshi discuss Mark Zuckerberg's decision to skip investor meetings and court Wall Street while wearing a hoodie.
Pebble smartwatch -- the $10M Kickstarter hit
- In the big scheme of consumer electronics, smartwatches can't match smartphones, tablets, or even ultrabooks in piquing public curiosity.
No, Abraham Lincoln didn't invent Facebook
- To quote "The Social Network," if Abraham Lincoln had invented Facebook, he would have invented Facebook. But in a tall tale that would have made the Great Emancipator proud, a blog post fooled some media outlets by saying he did just that.
The future of gaming: It's now
- Experts on a recent panel agree we're currently in a new 'golden age' of video gaming. "They [today's developers] don't want to make games that are art," one panelist said. "They want to make games that are awesome."
E-books spur reading among Americans
- E-book users tend to read more often than people who read only print material, a new survey finds. A typical e-book user read 24 books in the past year, compared with the 15 books reported by typical non-e-book users.
Hey Bravo, Silicon Valley is too boring for TV
- "Silicon Valley," an upcoming Bravo reality show that documents the lives of five aspiring tech entrepreneurs, seems to depict the startup world as one big, boozy party. It's not like that at all.
How to behave on Instagram
- We're asking you, dear readers, to take stock of your own Instagrammed souls. Dig deep and evaluate how you can help stave off the horror that is blurry shots of food-caked children and one's sparkly manicure.
Web tips for the newly unemployed
- The Web is critical to a thorough job search, but when you get the boot you must clomp around a trickier minefield than if you were simply seeking to switch jobs. Career experts offer these wise digital moves for the newly unemployed.
The year's hottest, and creepiest, social apps
- There's a new wave of social apps designed to keep you abreast of all the interesting and creepy people around you -- without requiring that you look up from your phone.
The dos, don'ts of borrowing a computer
- If you find yourself unhooked from your digital life support, you may need to ask those five little words: "Can I use your computer?" Here are some subtle guidelines to keep in mind whem borrowing a friend's computer or tablet.
How to kill time without your phone
- Here's a challenge: Make like our forefathers (or, you know, us, five years ago) when they had a spare moment and take a look at the whole damn world around you -- instead of where your ex just checked in on Foursquare.
Three boneheaded online dating moves to avoid
- Ahh, yes, February 15, the joyful day when singletons can finally collapse in exhaustion after weeks of maintaining a nonchalant front. Finally, you think, finally, the incessant stream of hearts and cupids and reminders that romantic partnership is the apogee of human achievement will come to a merciful end.
Just Google it! Questions dumb people ask online
- The online realm is replete with a vast cornucopia of information. So asking the masses something that you could have easily looked up yourself is just plain lazy, especially when said query makes you look like a full-on idiot.
Dealing with outdated Web pages
- The Internet is home to millions of pages of unwanted or abandoned debris, swirling slowly in the churn of search results and spider-combing.
Apps make expenses easy
- Recording travel expenses is a pain for business travelers, but portable scanners and smartphone apps could revolutionize the process.
High-tech hotels
- A new generation of hotels is embracing technology in all aspects, from check-in to check-out, to appeal to tech-savvy clientele.
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Investors brace for Facebook debut on Wall Street
- (Reuters) - Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the world's No.1 online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in U.S. history.
Exclusive: U.N. probes possible North Korea arms trade with Syria, Myanmar
- UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related deals between Pyongyang and Syria and Myanmar, the panel said in a confidential report seen by Reuters on Thursday.
Trayvon evidence fails to answer who screamed for help
- ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An FBI expert found crucial evidence in the Trayvon Martin case was inconclusive, saying it was impossible to tell if the voice screaming for help belonged to the black Florida teenager or his shooter George Zimmerman just before the neighborhood watch captain pulled the trigger.
G8 leaders look to head off euro zone crisis
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to head off a full-blown crisis in Europe where fears are growing that Greece could leave the euro zone bloc, threatening the future of the common currency.
Spain beset by bank crisis, downgrades, bond pressure
- MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday and its troubled banks suffered a double blow, with shares in part-nationalized Bankia diving and 16 lenders - including the euro zone's biggest - having their credit ratings cut.
JPMorgan's Dimon says will testify before Congress
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has agreed to testify before Congress over the bank's recent trading losses, which have ignited a political debate over whether large U.S. banks need to be reined in by regulators or new laws.
Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal
- LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspapers into "a Faustian bargain" with the powerful, a former editor of the UK's Times newspaper said on Thursday.
Japan government ups economic outlook on consumption, exports
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government took a brighter view of the economy in a report on Friday, thanks to improvements in private consumption and exports, but it warned that Europe's debt crisis and financial market swings could worsen the outlook.
U.S. suspends sanctions on investment in Myanmar
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday suspended sanctions barring U.S. investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor southeast Asian state, drawing praise from some U.S. lawmakers but criticism from human rights advocates.
Poll shows Greece electing pro-bailout government
- ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek voters are returning to the establishment parties that negotiated its bailout, a poll showed on Thursday, offering potential salvation for European leaders who say a snap Greek election next month will decide whether it must quit the euro.
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