US launches probe into Chinese companies

internet US officials have launched an investigation into Chinese telecommunication companies that are working out of the US. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) are to look into the potential.. more

Virgin Media TiVo update incoming

Virgin Media UK Virgin Media is updating its customers TiVo boxes over the coming week. The update process starts from today (well last night actually) and runs into next week, a staggered delivery to.. more

More staff use personal devices for work

mobile-industry New research shows that more and more businesses are allowing their employees to work from home, with only 2% of workers across all sectors reporting that their company doesn’t allow it... more

Modern Warfare 3 closes on $1bn

Activision has announced that the latest instalment of its behemoth Call of Duty franchise has shattered records once more. Now its first five day sales figures are in – that’s to the end of last week – and it has notched up global revenue to.. more

Intel announces 1 teraflop processor

Intel have unveiled details about their next-generation processors designed for high-performance computing (HPC) at this year’s International Supercomputing Conference. Intel’s Rajeeb Hazra spoke at the conference about the Intel Xeon processor E5 family, which he described as the world’s first “server processor to support full.. more

First business computer LEO is 60 today

60 years ago today, the world’s very first business computer “LEO” was built by British food manufacturer J Lyons & Co. Following the war, executives at the company were intrigued to know whether the computers they had heard about during their service could help to.. more

Google Music now available in US

Google have launched their new music service in the US today, which allows users to upload their entire collection of tunes to the cloud and sync across devices. The search giant has also added a new music store app in Android Market. The app allows.. more

Insight UK wins Gold IIP status

Insight UK has become one of the 1% of Investors in People accredited companies in the country to have been awarded Gold status. Investors in People recognise companies who achieve an impressive standard when it comes to people management. The technology company joins just 1%.. more

Facebook tracks surfing for 3 months

Facebook is often in the headlines over privacy, and this week is no exception. The latest controversy is the revelation of the exact details of how Facebook tracks users when they’re not just signed in, but signed out from the site – and indeed how.. more

Fujitsu offers secure tablet to UK govt

Fujitsu and data protection experts Becrypt have teamed up to offer “the first comprehensively secure tablet PC for UK government deployment.” Becrypt have developed disc encryption software which will be used with Fujitsu’s Stylistic Q550 tablet, which has been created to offer a more secure.. more