Mighty award against it abruptly slashed to $172,500 Yahoo! has said that a Mexican appeals court threw out a $2.75bn ruling against it and Yahoo! Mexico over contracts in the country.…
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Netbook with removable screen, anyone? HP is to follow its Windows 8-based tablet keyboard combo, the Envy x2, with an Android Jelly Bean version - the computer giant’s take on Asus’ popular Transformer series.…
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32 years since that Bucks Fizz feelin' Eurovision 2013  A hopelessly sweet song about a ruthlessly organised techie who gets the girl will fight with the ballad from rock vixen Bonnie Tyler and 24 other acts to lift the Eurovision Song Contest crown Saturday night.…
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Stiff Pink 'Un left swinging in the wind The Financial Times website and its Twitter accounts were this afternoon hijacked by pro-government hackers from the "Syrian Electronic Army".…
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Microsoft chief defies pundits by hanging on - we reveal how Analysis  Those who upgraded to Windows 8 aren't the only ones unhappy with the new touch-driven operating system - Wall Street is too. Just don't expect any of the criticism hurled at Steve "Teflon" Ballmer, Microsoft's shy and retiring boss, to stick.…
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And, hang on, what happened to all the loot... Analysis  Thursday's sentencing of three core members of hacktivist crew LulzSec and an accomplice hacker who gave them access to a botnet closes an important chapter in the history of activism. But it also leaves a number of important questions unanswered.…
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Billionaire media tyrant has a Ratner moment Rupert Murdoch had a Gerald Ratner moment on Twitter earlier today when, in a warning to Facebook, he labelled MySpace - a website he once owned - as "crappy".…
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Be afraid, PayPal - be very afraid Google has integrated its payment Wallet with Gmail, enabling PayPal-style transactions from within the Gmail interface, and to any over-18 American with an email address and a Google Wallet account.…
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Trevor goes visual Vid  This week, Trevor Pott kicked off his exploration of Office 365 with this overview.…
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Handed on a plate, thrown back in your face Something for the Weekend, Sir?  I have been propositioned in a toilet by a 72-year-old man. He wants me to move in with him and do the business.…
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Listen up, Popeye, fix it if you don't like it Apple supremo Tim Cook will dare US senators to rewrite tax laws seeing as the politicians are so upset about tech giants' tiny contributions to America's public coffers.…
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On-head TV, fine - but you can't skip the ads on this one Comment  Google Glass is wrapped around the faces of only a few thousand people right now. The company says the device is in very early beta mode. And yet lawmakers in the US have already pounced on the company demanding answers about how the privacy of netizens using the gizmo will be protected.…
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'Fell asleep in the hospital and woke up as a one-armed woman!' UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants to tear up the NHS's clumsy system of printed prescriptions - and instead use "unique barcodes" to dish out medication straight to the poorly.…
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Seven year mission in the touch-tone catacombs Most people can't bear to use automated call centre phone lines for even a few minutes. But one former IT manager has spent seven years on the phone in a bid to produce a map of Britain's phone menus.…
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Malware remains undead, adds double-sneaky stealth mode The crooks behind the Pushdo botnet agent have developed variants of the malware that are more resistant to take-down attempts or hijacking by rival hackers.…
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Andrew Mason to share 'wisdom' through music Ex-Groupon chief Andrew Mason is moving to San Francisco to start a new company, after of course, he releases an album of "motivational business music".…
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Only old fogies care who knows where they were last summer More than half of UK youngsters think being tracked is a small price to pay for cheaper car insurance, and 26 per cent will be actively seeking a pay-by-the-mile policy in the hope  of saving a few quid.…
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Plus: 'What's next? Will they ask for my inside leg measurement?' Quotw  This was the week when someone kicked Blighty's tax ant-hill and sent MPs and multinationals scurrying in all directions. The Public Accounts Committee called Google and its auditor Ernst & Young back to give more evidence about their British tax dealings, after a Reuters report suggested there might be "inconsistencies" in their original testimony.…
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Join your fellow readers and our experts - 11AM UK Live training!  At last, our eagerly awaited live training session with the tech gurus from QA training is ready to roll.…
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Pin your ears back and we'll tell you There's a lot of talk – some might say hot air – about cloud computing, what it is and what it is not. Ask 10 people and you will probably get 15 answers.…
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'We are unable to accept your claim of super powers' A blogger claiming to have superpowers has exposed a flaw in a parking company's vehicle recognition system which could see innocent drivers wrongly hit with fines.…
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British vibro pioneers say: Anything can be a speaker HiWave, the haptics company which emerged from Brit hi-fi consortium NXT with a mission to make our fondleslabs fondle us back, has fragmented into a part which makes money and the more-interesting Redux.…
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'That's cos it replaces your current laptop+iPad combo' Microsoft has confirmed pricing for the Surface Pro, with the 128GB model costing punters 25 per cent more than a top of the range iPad.…
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Use Internet Explorer with debug on? You're our kinda guy Microsoft are looking for a new Bing developer - but you'll need to be pretty smart to apply. Oh, and you can only use Internet Explorer, which rules a fair number of applicants out.…
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Check this, it might stop them losing all the data NetApp has used its acquired IonGrid technology to provide iOS mobile devices with access to file data stored on its FAS arrays, along with browser access to business apps.…
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