It was nice knowing you, radio - thanks for all the jingles BMW is to offer access to Brit streaming music service Rara in its new Series 5 motors. Is this the beginning of the end for broadcast radio?…
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'Constrained' IT budgets blamed as sales growth flatlines Analysis  Storage giant NetApp has reported unremarkable revenue and falling profit for its 2013 financial year. It signals that NetApp is now a mature company and not a high-growth stock.…
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Pfft. 'Just capitalism? I disagree!' Big Tent  Ed Miliband launched a caustic attack on Google today, saying: "When Google goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying its taxes, I say it’s wrong."…
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Mayer attempts to saddle up the web-ad unicorn Comment  Famously, Yahoo! has promised during its $1.1bn buy of hipster blog site Tumblr not to "screw it up".…
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Rap star's publisher slaps copyright claim on Home ad Rapper Eminem's song publisher Eight Mile Style is accusing Facebook and its ad agency of (slim) shady dealings with one of his songs.…
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Outsourcery lost £10m, floats for £34m. For that reason, I'm out The wait is almost over for any Brit wanting to take a punt on a homegrown cloud services firms: the UK-based Outsourcery is poised to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)* this Friday.…
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Packet inspector to aisle two, please Web security outfit Blue Coat Systems is buying Big Data security, intelligence and analytics firm Solera Networks.…
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Discuss Microsoft's past and future here, Friday, 24 May, 1400 BST Live Chat  Since the pioneering work of Word and Excel daddy Charles Simonyi, Microsoft has set the gold standard on productivity applications on the PC.…
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We hope you have plenty of spare time, you'll need it Sky will next month shut down Acetrax, a website that streams movies and offers downloads of DRM-encrypted films to paying punters.…
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Q1 down by more than 40 per cent, claim sources It's all change in the upper echelons of IBM's UK and Ireland Systems Technology Group: its vice-president Shaun Coulson has handed control of the unit to Tosca Colangeli amid channel talk of collapsing server sales.…
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Tick, tock, Tweet Product Round-up  If the rumours are to be believed, Apple and Microsoft are both developing "smartwatches" - wrist-worn gadgets that do rather more than simply display the time.…
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'Disused' animal products ideal for sick, elderly Brussels-funded boffins say they have hit upon a brilliant method of creating "enriched" ice-cream, fortified with "disused" animal products which are normally thrown away by the meat industry as being unfit for human consumption.…
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Open for 40 years, pointless for 39 of them... Geek's Guide to Britain  Kelvedon Hatch is a superb example of absurdist geek life. Not only is the site technically very impressive, it is also completely useless and frequently prompts the question “what on earth were they thinking?”... A tour reinforces this view as the experience now is as enjoyably peculiar as the history behind the place.…
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Anti-banking-malware Brit biz gobbled in £15m deal Swiss software firm Vasco has bought Cambridge-based banking security specialist Cronto in a deal valued at up to £14.5m.…
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Adolescents overshare, astonishing survey finds Teenaged kids are handing out more private information on social media than ever before, with little thought for the consequences, a not-so-surprising survey has found.…
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Chief product officer latest to bail from sinking mobe-maker Life just got even harder for struggling Taiwanese mobe-maker HTC, with chief product officer Kouji Kodera walking out the door and another former staffer posting nasties to Twitter.…
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Cool Japan project learns where Manga and Anime are hot to let creators cash in Big data boffins at Tokyo University have found a novel way to help Japan’s faltering economy: by producing an interactive trending map for manga, gaming and other content producers to see where in Asia their products are most popular.…
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Rusting wrecks poised to pollute May 1943 is held by many to have been the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic.…
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Larger than the hashtag of my aunt A garden conceived by an alliance of trick-cyclists, architects and professors of "social computing" - and enabled by the wondrous power of Twitter - has won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.…
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Oops...looks like another US intelligence FAIL The Chinese hackers involved in the Operation Aurora attacks revealed by Google in 2010 may have accessed top secret information on US surveillance targets in the country including suspected foreign spies and terrorists, it has emerged.…
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'You can probably own five percent of the Internet without even blinking' AusCERT 2013  One of the reasons we can't have nice things like a secure Internet is that vendors of consumer kit can't be bothered.…
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Wildly fast on the 240 GHz band It won't make fibre optic networking obsolete anytime soon, but it's still an impressive achievement: German researchers have demonstrated a one-kilometre point-to-point wireless transmission at 40 Gbps.…
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Legal black hole becomes internet black hole Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the enclave of Cuban territory leased by the US government, has switched off its WiFi service and cut access to social networks for fear of attack by Anonymous.…
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Coders confess their crimes, like the spam-bots they write in spare moments An anonymous developer has admitted to writing comments in code as limericks.…
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Fat lady singing Norway's gift to the world of technology, the opera browser, is now available for Android.…
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