The comScore monthly search stats are in and Bing has supposedly risen 0.6 percent while Google fell 1.1 points. But look carefully and this is no Mozilla Firefox surge. Microsoft is miles behind and destined to remain so even as...

Steve Ballmer had something to say about almost every fashionable technology going in his trademark Washington DC speech, but his sudden enthusiasm for tablets deserves nothing but groans.As any tablet historian will recall, Microsoft was a pioneer of these devices,...

Let's just say it out loud and stop kidding ourselves. The UK's digital radio - DAB radio to be precise - is about as bad as new technology gets. The good news is that the coalition government could be about...

What the alleged Russian spies unmasked in the US a fortnight ago were able to find out about US political affairs is anyone's guess, but the FBI reckons they were a mystifyingly unsophisticated bunch when it came to technology.According to...

The previous UK government will go down, fairly or unfairly, as having presided over the greatest layer of IT spending waste in British history, and still the horror stories are being dragged out for everyone to scoff at.First came the...

After cables came wireless, and after wireless came even better cables. Deep into the age of wireless, who still cares about cables? Step forward Sony, Samsung and LG which have dreamed up something called, HDBaseT, a sneaky and unexpected reinvention...

Lock up your Internet filters, another useless Internet domain is about to hit the world. Its advocates call it the Internet's 'Red Light district' but in truth the .XXX domain, finally approved by ICANN last week, is probably more akin...

Secure Digital (SD) flash cards are not noted as a reliable place to store data for any length of time but that hasn't stopped storage giant SanDisk inventing a new type of SD card it claims can be used to...

An unexpected moment has arrived in the annals of portable computers. Toshiba, the traditional laptop company par excellence, has come up with something that doesn’t run Windows or use Intel chips.Experimentation has never been Toshiba’s favoured approach, but behold the...

First they came for vinyl and gave the world CDs. That killed the fleetingly-realised idea of music as object d’art. Then they came for the CD and gave the world downloadable music. That killed the fleetingly-realised idea of the album...