US regulators are voting on whether to enshrine the openness of the internet, and the outcome is likely to influence policy worldwide Net neutrality is the principle of making sure that your internet service provider doesn't make it easier for you to access one service over another - the Guardian over the Telegraph, say - or otherwise distorting your use of internet services just because someone..
Anti-monopoly authority confirms investigation following complaints from competitor Yandex, alleging company abuses smartphone operating system domination Russia's competition watchdog has confirmed that it is investigating Google over allegedly abusing its domination of Android smartphone software on phones made by third party manufacturers The watchdog opened the case to assess whether Google ..
Sales of cheap, credit card-sized units top 5m says company, eclipsing the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the 1980s Over 5, Rasberry Pis have been sold since its inception in 2012, making it the best selling British computer ever, according to the Rasberry Pi Foundation the cheap, credit-card sized computer sold 2m units by the end of November 2013, 3m by the summer of 2014 and over 4m by the end of 20..
Google has acted as judge, jury and executioner in the wake of Europe's right to be forgotten ruling. But what does society lose when a private corporation rules public information? Mario Costeja spent five years fighting to have 18 words delisted from Google search results on his name When the Spaniard googled himself in 2009, two prominent results appeared: home-foreclosure notices from 1998, ..
Google's vice-president Vint Cerf has warned that all digitally stored information could be wiped out by tech upgrades, putting the sum total of human knowledge under threat. An author and scientist explains why today's system are so vulnerable - and how pioneers are preaparing for the worst A huge amount of the information we consume and trasmit in our everyday lives is perilously ephemeral. Ev..
Mark Burnett is putting his database into the public domain to help improve online security, but fears an FBI raid his actions You know what's cooler than a million passwords? 10m passwords. Although even Facebook-era Sean Parker might raise an eyebrow at said passwords being published online alongside their associated usernames for all to see That's what security researcher Mark Burnett has don..
New report pitches future of app-like album releases and monthly subscriptions for fans, with the likes of Spotify and Apple as middlemen Music streams on services like Spotify are about to start counting towards the UK's official albums chart, but could streaming ultimately change the way albums are packaged and paid for by fans? A new report by music industry consultancy firm Midia Research ho..
'Chia's Apple' makes its first significant move into the west as part of its plan to be the world's number one smartphone manufacturer within five to 10 years Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker, will make its first step into western markets with a US launch this year. Five-year-old Xiaomy - dubbed "China's Apple" by analysts - will launch its Mi Band fitness tracker, headphones and battery pac..
The veteran game designer is at the centre of a raging controversy over his new game Godus. He says he is finished with the press When things go wrong for modern game developers they go spectacularly wrong. This is an era of endless rolling news and mass social media judgement. There is no respite. Peter Molyneux knows this now - if he didn't before. The veteran designer, famed for inventing the..
Third-generation device generates good quality video for a reasonable length of time, but lacks precision control without the custom controller The Parrot Bebop is a camera drone with a real focus on recording video and some seriously impressive image stabilisation. It is Parror's third generation full-sized flying quatrocopter and is aiming to fly into a sweet spot in the market The device is a..
Debate needs to be constructive, says culture and digital economy minister after David Cameron's controversial comments David Cameron's controversial comments on whether the goverment should "allow" the use of strong encryption technology for anti-surveillance purpose have been defended by Ed Vaizey, the minister for culture and the digital economy Vaizey called for technology firms to "meet pol..
Research group will be part of South Korean company's drive to make Internet of Things a reality Samsung has set up a new research lab concentrating on drones, robotics, 3D printing and virtual reality. The research group will be part of Samsung's mobile division but will operate independently, building on the work done by the company in robotic vacuum cleaners and, most recently, its Gear VR he..
Its quarterly results stunned the tech industry - and its Chinese competitor, who have now been eclipsed in their home market. But reaching the financial pinnacle creates some questions - and even problems - of its own When Apple became the most profitable company in history last week, analysts could hardly contain their excitement "Stunning", "outstanding", "a monster" were some of the analysts..
Will anyone miss Flash when it's gone ? Maybe, if these internet hits spark some nostalgia Flash is dead, long live Fl - actually, no, scartch that, Flash really is dead and it deserved to die. Flash is terrible The killer blows to Adobe's multimedia browser plugin were delivered this week in a one-two punch. Firstly, users of Flash were left open to not one but two "zero-day" vulnerabilities in..
Star tables bid for Scandinavian firm Aspiro, which hopes a new owner will lift its WiMP and Tidal services 'to a new level' Jaz Z is set to become the next big digital music mogul, after tabling a $56m bid for Aspiro, the Scandinavian company behind streaming services WiMP and Tidal The bid made by Project Panther, which is indirectly owned by the rapper's company S. Carter Enterprises, has bee..