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Microsoft Nokia Takeover Is Granted Chinese Regulatory Approval

Chinese Ministry of Commerce appears to be satisfied Microsoft won't abuse Nokia patent portfolio

10 years ago

2013 Saw 500 Percent Increase In Ransomware

European Cyber Crime Centre says it is tracking a number of strains as Symantec spies uptick in the malware

10 years ago

Microsoft Demonstrates ‘Cortana’ Machine Learning

The Cortana voice assistant makes use of machine learning to improve results with time, according to Microsoft

10 years ago

64-Bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 And 808 To Offer CAT 6 LTE And 4K Video

New Qualcomm chips are expected to be in smartphones and tablets by early 2015

10 years ago

HTC Reports Q1 Loss, But Hopes Its M8 Can Help Out

HTC blames poor marketing for Q1 failings, but is confident new phones will help it recover

10 years ago

Samsung Claims Major Breakthrough In Graphene Commercialisation

Samsung says its engineers have developed a new method that could make wonder-material graphene easier and cheaper to produce

10 years ago

US Criticises European Anti-Spying Internet Proposals

The US Trade Representative has said European anti-spying plans could bring the EU into conflict with international trade laws

10 years ago

Internet Of Things Firm Senaptic Promises Free Private Networks

Senaptic says its narrow band radio handles Internet of Things applications better than White Space technology

10 years ago

Apple Acquires British Speech Recognition Firm Novauris

Apple could boost Siri ahead of CarPlay launch with Novauris acquisition

10 years ago

Big Iron Birthday: Mainframes Are 50

IBM announced the System/360 mainframe in April 1964, kicking off a revolution in centralised computing

10 years ago

Germany Investigating Data Breach Affecting 18 Million

Three million of the affected people are in Germany, meaning many others are likely impacted

10 years ago

Microsoft Makes Business Case For Kinect v2

Microsoft's upgraded Kinect sensor technology has applications in health IT and business computing, according to the company

10 years ago

Government Digital Strategy Has Lost Its Way, Digital Manifesto Meeting Hears

Before the next election, the government will be hit with a tech manifesto warning it to stop developing bespoke tech

10 years ago

Canonical Shuts Down Ubuntu One Cloud Storage Service

Ubuntu One will close on 31 July as Canonical pulls out of free cloud storage wars

10 years ago

Nest Stops Sales Of Intelligent Fire Alarm Due To Safety Concerns

Google-owned start-up discovers that one of the features of the Nest Protect is actually a flaw, so it needs a…

10 years ago

Italy Fines Google €1m Over Street View Gaffe

Italy hands out one of the stiffest European fines to Google over its StreetView cars

10 years ago

Qualcomm Says Beam-Forming 802.11ac Will Solve Office Wi-Fi Capacity Crunch

Qualcomm add MU-MIMO to its Wi-Fi chips. Expect routers and hotspots to handle more users when the system vendors pick…

10 years ago

T-Mobile USA Hits Back In BlackBerry Row

T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere promises BlackBerry customers their level of service will not change, and even offers them store…

10 years ago

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down After Backlash

Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla CEO because of the furious backlash to his stance on gay-marriage

10 years ago

Goodbye Windows XP – Quiz Of The Week

After thirteen years, Windows XP is coming to the end of its life. Our quiz commemorates it

10 years ago

European Parliament Backs Net Neutrality And An End To EU Roaming

Connected Continent package faces one more hurdle before it can become law, but European roaming is set to end by…

10 years ago

Greenpeace Slams ‘Dirty’ Amazon Web Services, Twitter

Leading tech firms praised by Greenpeace for their renewable energy drive, with the exception of AWS and Twitter

10 years ago

Nokia Lumia 930, 630 and 635 Are First Windows Phone 8.1 Handsets

Nokia shows off Nokia Lumia 930, 630 and 635 and promises 8.1 update will come to all of its Windows…

10 years ago

UK Government Agrees £5.5m Deal For One Year’s Additional Windows XP Support

The public sector is spending £5.5 million to buy more time for OS migration

10 years ago

Windows Phone 8.1 Adds Siri Rival Cortana And MDM Features

Windows Phone 8.1 to be available soon, with new phones running the software arriving this month

10 years ago

Windows 8.1 Update Adds Mouse And Keyboard Improvements And Enterprise Mobility Options

Microsoft makes it easier to use traditional peripherals, adds MDM policies and offers Windows 8.1 free to manufacturers of smaller…

10 years ago

Apple Patches Severe Safari Vulnerabilities

Apple patches 27 bugs in Safari that could have allowed hackers to target users via specially-crafted sites

10 years ago

Vodafone To Open 150 Stores And Create 1,400 Jobs In £1bn UK Investment

Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes Vodafone's biggest ever annual investment in the UK

10 years ago

Since the NSA Scandal, TechWeek Readers Are Suspicious Of Microsoft

The NSA scandal has eroded user trust in the big US cloud service and storage providers, suggests our latest poll

10 years ago

Apple Samsung Patent Trench Warfare Resumes

Apple returns to its legal pursuit of Samsung, in an effort to extract a multi billion dollar fine

10 years ago