Gmail: Google’s ultimate April Fools Day joke
April Fool’s Day is traditionally the time of year that tech firms spring fake product launches and press releases upon us, as we saw plenty of yesterday. But ten years ago, Google surprised us…
IBM, Cisco, GE & AT&T form Industrial Internet Consortium
The Industrial Internet has made quite a few headlines since GE announced its existence a couple of years ago, but this is one of the biggest so far – tech heavyweights IBM, Cisco, GE…
OkCupid makes war not love on Mozilla: ‘Don’t use Firefox’
The controversial appointment of gay and lesbian-hating Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla has provoked howls of discord within the company, and now others are beginning to weigh in on the matter, starting with…
Journalists under attack : Hacks against media on the increase
New research from two Google security engineers has revealed a rise in the number of cyberattacks against journalists, with 21 of the world’s 25 top news organizations being targeted in the last year, most…
Just too stubborn: Why Windows XP still has lots of life in it yet
It was around this time last year that Microsoft confirmed that it would be ending its support for Windows XP, refusing to extend the life of its old operating system any longer as it…
New study casts doubt on MtGox’s claims it was hacked
In the wake of its high profile collapse last month, Bitcoin exchange MtGox filed for bankruptcy protection in Japanese courts, claiming it had been hacked with around 850,000 Bitcoins stolen, worth about $450 million at…
Facebook’s planning to use laser-blasting drones to take over the world
Facebook wants to take over the world, and it’s gonna use some pretty awesome, heavy weaponry to do it. Lasers to be exact. Yep, Facebook is determined to get every living soul online and…
Facebook’s $2B gamble on tech’s next ‘big thing’, whatever that might be…
As we slowly begin to accept that yes, Facebook really did spend $2 billion on some stupid piece of virtual reality headgear that most of us didn’t even know existed, our attention turns to…
Microsoft shouldn’t stop with MS-DOS. It’s time to open-source everything
Microsoft took a few people by surprise earlier this week by releasing the source code for its old MS-DOS and Word for Windows software. The source codes for both programs are now available to…
Google drops on a bomb on AWS, announces massive cut in cloud prices
Google has just slashed the costs of its cloud services way, way below those of its rivals, as the search giant steps up its efforts at unseating Amazon as the kings of the cloud.…