Wi-fi speeds get turbo boost

A team of German researchers from the Fraunhofer Instiute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has come up with a new technique to boost wi-fi speeds, much like MW-50 injection on interceptor variants of Kurt Tank’s FW-190.
Syria's Assad

Financial Times gets bitten by Syrian hack

The Syrian Electronic Army, which is basically the cyber branch of Assad in Syria, has managed to hack the Financial Times.

Chinese telcos get taken to the cleaners

While Chinese telecom makers are facing a  security purge in the US, in Europe they have fallen foul of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.

COBOL is alive and well at IBM

IBM has been tinkering under the bonnet of its ancient COBOL server platform and updated the mainframe platform so it can host cloud based applications and services.

Suicides continue at Foxconn

Just as it seemed the Foxconn suicide saga was winding down, reports have emerged that three more workers have killed themselves over the past three weeks. 
Yahoo HQ

Yahoo-Tumblr deal is a goer

Yahoo's beleaguered board has written a rumoured $1.1 billion cheque to buy the social blogging site Tumblr.

Software developers' pay checks hit hard

The US software jobs market might have grown by nearly 64,000 jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly two percent.

Storage market continues to boom

IDC's worldwide storage tracker has noted that the personal and entry level storage market has shot up 73.4 percent year on year - reaching 20.2 million units shipped in Q1 2013, with shipment value growing 54.1 percent at $1.8 billion.
Nvidia HQ

AMD wins fight over Nvidia workers

AMD has won a rather unusual legal battle involving a small gang of AMD defectors who gave in to the dark side of the Force and joined Nvidia.
Michael Dell of Dell Inc

Dell down, but far from out

Dell's quarterly net profit has slipped 79 percent as the company endures the struggle to see who will carve up the majority share and in which direction it will be taken.

Bill Gates is the richest man again

After years of being in the shadow of a Mexican millionaire, Bill Gates is back to being the world's richest man again.

Linux and Firefox fall out of love

The long love affair between Linux users and Firefox appears to be over as the developers of Ubuntu talk about dropping the browser and replacing it with Chromium.

Google Glass probed

Eight members of the US Congress sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page, raising concerns about Google Glass and its eavesdropping potential.

Google's Page urges free disclosure of medical records

After suffering from a mysterious throat condition, Larry Page is now telling the world+dog that people are being precious about hiding their medical records from the known world.

Robots will soon rule the roost

Robots will start replacing human brains by 2045 and artificially intelligent machines may be capable of doing anything that humans can, including standing in line for new Apple products.

AMD stock slumps

Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 

Lulzsec hackers go down

Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to 24-30 months in a UK jail.

Don't be bullied by the Google monster

Opinion Does being the Jack of all Trades and the master of none apply to Google? I fear so. Having oodles of cash has tempted Google into all manner of strange ventures but it’s pretty clear that some of its wacky ideas are way off kilter.

Raspberry Pi camera module goes live

One of the most popular hardware products for modders and DIY enthusiasts is the Raspberry Pi.
A raven at the Tower of London, England

Google could land up in the Tower of London

A committee of the House of Commons summoned a Google executive to give testimony again today and raised the possibility that the corporation might find itself in contempt of parliament.