Here’s an unexpected bonus from the leak of 114,000 Apple iPad owner details from AT&T’s website - the world gets to see how many important Americans have been buying one.Names thrown out include (and this list is compiled from various...

The Feds are due at the door, so what will the high-tech Judas do? The currency of betrayal is supposed to be 30 pieces of silver, but for celebrity ex-hacker Adrian Lamo it was much simpler.  "I was worried for...

Google is apparently dumping Windows from the organisation and cites a post-Aurora hack analysis of security as the motivation.  This is a small blow for Microsoft’s self-esteem but an absolute disaster for Apple.My reaction: I assume Google will also be...

Windows XP is in its death throes, or at least that is how Microsoft would like the world to see the matter, and who would blame them. They are now in new unprecedented situation of supporting three versions of the...

Asus has shown off the Eee Pad, an iPad-like tablet that lacks the cachet of its famous rival but appears to beat it on features and price. Pity that it's only a trade show prop then. The problem is timing....

Here’s a remarkably simple scam the US authorities have, characteristically, ignored. Travellers to the US are being ripped off by a web of sites taking money to register them for the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA).ESTA registration is now...

Here’s the eerie thing about Facebook’s supposed week of security woe. The overwhelming majority of its users either couldn’t care less or choose to ignore the fuss because there is nowhere else for them to go. Facebook reportedly has over...

I tend to see all interesting tech companies as animals. Symantec has always struck me as a common magpie, swooping on choice companies its needs to build into a weatherproof nest. It’s a model that has built many of the...

One day, hopefully very soon, we’ll be able to stop writing about Gary McKinnon’s extradition to the US to face hacking charges as a live issue, and it looks as if that day might be close to hand.The McKinnon case...

If we’d had the nanny state then this was the nerdy state.No government in UK history spent more time and money on IT than the outgoing Labour government, but now cuts are on the way and the procurement will be...