It’s hands off Google’s Android 3.0 ('Honeycomb') for tablets, at least for the time being, and developers - some developers at least - are spooked.Some see Google’s decision to delay the source code release for the tablet-oriented OS for months...

Scandalously, the big search engines are still accepting sponsored ads from scammers trying to dupe travellers to the US into paying vastly more for their US ESTA visa checks than they need to.The ESTA visa now costs $14 per person...

Israeli security company Yoggie Security Systems expired quietly three months ago, but its products live on as lonely orphans in the inventories of a dozen websites that have yet to hear of its mortality.That means, presumably, that people are still...

Nine months after launching iPad 1 to muted acclaim, a pale Steve Jobs has materialised on stage once again to beat the credibility out of his rivals with a successor, the iPad 2.Since the original iPad, Apple’s rivals have busied...

After a long phoney war when a lot was said but nothing much actually happened, Android is finally facing the predicted surge in app criminality that its open software model invites.The first Android malware landmark came as recently as August...

Imagine a world where every newspaper and magazine sold hands money not just to the creator of that content but to the company that built the platform on which it is being delivered. As boring as it sounds, this is...

I call it the ‘Internet certainty principle’, the belief that the Internet is perfectly safe until you actually observe it, whereupon its notional security collapses into paranoid doubt.It’s as if Schrodinger opened his famous box containing a cat that was...

The old media look to a square in Cairo when they want to understand the political turmoil in Egypt, but perhaps it is now the Internet, or the lack of it, that offers a more complex picture of the power...

Internet engineers have been fussing over the imminent shortage of IPv4 addresses for most of the last decade, and people have ignored them in the face of high upgrade costs. But might the countdown really be starting on the last...

The latest Canalys smartphone figures show Android starting to dent its rivals, but you don’t have to stare too closely at the figures to see that some of them are not so much being bumped around as pummelled.Attention has focused...