Cook to defend 'an American success story' – and billions in taxes – on Tuesday A US Senate investigation has found that Apple has avoided billions of dollars in taxes through a complex scheme of subsidiaries scattered around the globe, some with no employees and run by top execs back in its Cupertino headquarters.…
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Physics luminary 'quite upset' Stephen Hawking scuppered an Intel plan to upgrade his voice, sending researchers at the chip giant into a desperate effort to emulate a defunct speech-synthesis chip.…
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Redmond promises a 'major region' real soon now Microsoft has announced "the planned expansion of a new Windows Azure major region for Australia"…
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Standalone and Masters units at Oz uni get SAP's take on accounting The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is poised to offer courses in SAP.…
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Nexus Q replacement, or something more Guide-y? Google has filed paperwork with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a mysterious new media player device, leading to widespread speculation that a successor to the ill-fated Nexus Q may be forthcoming. But if that's true, what's with the Douglas Adams references?…
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Reports: Apple's wrister to have 1.5-inch OLED, test units being built The Apple iWatch rumor mill has rumbled to life yet again, with one report that Apple is sampling 1.5-inch OLED displays for the li'l fellow, and a second that long-time iKit assembler Foxconn has received orders for a test batch of the "wearable computing" device.…
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"Freedom from lock-in' through product cancellation Dell is discontinuing its infrastructure-as-a-service cloud and instead dealing tech to partners as it looks to make some money in the cut-throat world of cloud computing.…
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Hipster smut is safe for now, says Mayer News of Tumblr's purchase by Yahoo! has prompted a flood of established users to flee that social-media site, according to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.…
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That seat on the board? You can have that too... Simon Biddiscombe, server adapter maker QLogic's CEO and the driver of its Mount Rainier flash-enhanced HBA program, has resigned "to pursue other opportunities," with a search for a new CEO underway.…
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Ota tuo, vihreä robotti Google! Smartphone upstart Jolla - founded by a bunch of ex-Nokia engineers - has finally unveiled a smartphone. The gadget's technical details are few and far between at this moment.…
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Whole corner of America faces life without computers A massive horde of computer-killing "crazy ants" are invading the southeastern US, killing other species as they go.…
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Money laundering not a problem here, eh Canadian Bitcoin traders will not be clobbered by laws similar to those being used to target virtual currency exchanges in America, according to a leaked letter from the country's financial investigations unit.…
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Two-pronged attack hits victims in 100 countries Government ministries, technology firms, media outlets, academic research institutions and non-governmental organisations have all fallen victim to an ongoing cyberespionage operation with tendrils all over the world, according to researchers.…
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Mayer gets animated, 'promises not to screw it up' Yahoo! has "promised not to screw it up" after agreeing to acquire cat'n'porn blogging site Tumblr for about $1.1bn.…
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LAPD throws book at fondleslabber A Los Angeles fanboi has been charged with using an iPad to take upskirt footage of an underwear model.…
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Cloudy beancounter Newvem: 'We're not trying to do 50 clouds ... half-way' Newvem has been peddling its Cloud Care monitoring and costing tools for virty public infrastructure since it uncloaked last November for Amazon Web Services.…
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Ground control to Major Tim, countdown commencing, engines on Ex-Apache helicopter pilot Tim Peake will become the first bona fide British astronaut in space - and live and work on the International Space Station.…
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Is that a screeching U-turn we hear from Gove? Oh, no At the end of 2012, Education Secretary Michael Gove told Parliament that he wanted "to share extracts of data held in the National Pupil Database for a wider range of purposes than possible in order to maximise the value of this rich dataset".…
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Bank cards bought stuff ALL BY THEMSELVES, say shoppers High-street socks'n'frocks chain Marks and Spencer is accused of quietly taking money from shoppers' contactless bank cards at the tills.…
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But until then, leave us alone, says ads biz boss Google chief Eric Schmidt has once more defended his advertising giant for its pitiful UK tax bills: the search supremo said his biz abides by the rules, and claims he can't wait for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to reform those rules.…
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Tired corporates prefer predecessor, says analyst Windows 8 won't become an enterprise IT standard as customers dump Microsoft's legacy PC operating system XP. Instead, corporate IT departments will stick to what they know and install Windows 7.…
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Free advice from Reg headhunter Dom Connor Back in the heady days of 1984, working on the development of Microsoft Unix (yes, that was a real product, AKA Xenix), we needed to write an Ethernet driver, but none of us really felt up to that. We needed to hire an expensive specialist.…
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Sex ed must cover web smut, families tell heads Schoolteachers should warn British children as young as five about the "dangers" of finding pornography online, say families.…
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Silicon Roundabout's stovepipe-hat-wearers can't find the staff Lack of skilled staff is hampering the growth of almost half of all tech businesses based around East London's Silicon Roundabout, a survey has found.…
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Sayōnara, Mr and Mr Robotto A bug that permitted same-sex marriage in a Nintendo game was a mistake by the developer rather than a victory for equality, we're told.…
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