Surely the security experts and vendors should be delighted by the sudden and shocking outing of Stuxnet as part of a US Government malware programme?Long suspected of having been developed by a well-resourced state full of old-school Highway 101 programmers...

Image via CrunchBase Last week Amazon was publically named as talented avoider of UK Corporation tax and this week it’s Apple’s turn. According to The Daily Mail, the US giant that generated sales approaching $10 billion in the UK last...

Customers of the Ticketweb online ticketing site have been receiving fake emails after hackers broke into the company’s servers at the weekend, the company has admitted.In an email sent to its customer database the following day, the Ticketmaster subsidiary said...

At last the world’s most effective but ignored digital police force, Microsoft, has said it plans to give third-parties including CERTs, ISPs and even foreign governments automated access to its formidable botnet intelligence feeds through an API.As an article written...

The irony of Microsoft launching a legal action over illegal operating system recovery disks against UK retail chain Comet in the very week it announced a feature in Windows 8 that will render them largely obsolete deserves special mention. The...

A hacker claims to have found the entire Playboy magazine featuring nude images of celebrity Lindsay Lohan sitting on an Internet file-sharing website, it has been reported.In a story from Fox News, the unnamed Russian said he had discovered 200...

Dell has announced that it is dropping production of the Streak, the Android mini-tablet too few customers dented their plastic to the tune of $450 to buy.But is the Steak’s demise a reflection on Dell, on the Android OS it...

Windows 8 offers so little to desktop and laptop users that few will bother to upgrade for some time, analyst IDC has said in a research note that suggests Microsoft has another XP situation in the making.In fact, the only...

Google has finally reintroduced Gmail’s offline mode that allows users work on emails while disconnected from the Internet. The same is promised in the coming days for Docs and Calendar.Based on the Gmail app for tablets introduced in April, offline...

If this keeps up the world is going to end up feeling sorry for one of the Internet’s richest, most profitable companies, but that’s what the recent patent controversy is doing for the image of Google.Google's cause célèbre is what...