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Zuckerberg messages reveal steely ambition
Instant messages sent to college friends in 2004 paint Facebook founder in unflattering lightHe is t...
Met Police to extract phone data
Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of wheth...
Twitter confirms support for Do Not Track
Twitter won't use cookies for surreptitious data collection if users opt out....
Twitter to use Do Not Track
Social network to honour requests from users who do not want online behaviour recorded – unlike Goog...
Facebook poised for market debut
Facebook shares will start trading later in one of the largest and most high profile share flotation...
Comcast suspends 250GB data cap—for now
Everyone will get at least 300GB—and possibly more—when caps return....
Diablo 3: Blizzard apologises
The developer of much-anticipated PC hit Diablo III has apologised for the technical problems that h...
Silicon trick for next-gen memory
Researchers reveal details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer mem...
330Mbps fiber-to-the-home coming to UK this summer
As the UK "last mile" moves from copper to fiber, it gets much faster....
Pinterest valued at more than $1bn
Popular social network valued at between $1bn and $1.5bn following a $100m round of fundingMove over...
Anonymous attacks Indian websites
Hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against government and political websites...
John Sculley: future of health is in the cloud
The Newton was two decades ahead of its time, says the former Apple chief executive – and the future...
Computer game for stroke patients
Newcastle University helps to develop a computer game to help those who have suffered strokes....
Terahertz frequencies bring Japanese researchers 3Gbps in a WiFi prototype
The tiny wireless radio transmits on spectrum between 300GHz and 3THz...
ISPs told to come clean on broadband speeds
TalkTalk and BT the worst offenders in mystery shopping exercise that showed broadband companies oft...
Government to miss cookie cut-off
Most government websites will miss the UK's deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies,...
Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users
DuckDuckGo and Ixquick take a tiny bite out of Google....
Ask Jack: using a VPN to protect your web use
Dave Null is looking for a good free VPN (virtual private network) to ensure his privacy while using...
China Mobile in talks with Apple
China Mobile, the main mobile service provider in China and the largest in the world by users, could...
Say hello to the real real-time Web
It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web...
Google unleashes sparkly new search tool
Search process tries to pinpoint context surrounding search term and will carry more graphical eleme...
Government may miss cloud targets
The Government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sect...
Google Docs' new sidebar makes research faster
Now you can find handy info without ever leaving the page....
Cory Doctorow: the problem with nerd politics
If we don't operate within the realm of traditional power and politics, then we will loseIn the afte...
Japan launches S Korea satellite
Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, ...
General Motors pulls annual $10 million worth of ads from Facebook
A GM executive says paid advertising is ineffective on the social network....
Life is tweet, says John Prescott
Twitter has helped shift the balance of media power from press barons to the people – a true champag...
Privacy watchdog to meet Google
The French privacy watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU, is to meet Google to scrutinise its controv...
Ex-Yahoo CEO Thompson reportedly has thyroid cancer
The diagnosis impacted Thompson's resignation, according to anonymous sources....
Former Yahoo CEO diagnosed with cancer
Thompson, who quit amid allegations that he had lied on his CV, reportedly said his illness contribu...
Google makes search 'more human'
Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a n...
Build versus buy: One company's decision to go it alone
Do you build your own technology in-house, or buy/license from someone else?...
The Pirate Bay hit by hack attack
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay appears to have been hit by a coordinated hack attack....
DRM-free physical media: dead in the water or the answer to art’s prayers?
A Kickstarter to create a DRM-free HD video format caters to small-time artists....
Media Talk podcast: Rebekah Brooks charged, Sony awards and Blue Peter
John Plunkett is joined by Dan Sabbagh, Maggie Brown and Paul Robinson to round up the week's big me...
Virgin Atlantic allows air calls
Passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone ...
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
E-readers are ascendant, but they'll have to fight to gain ubiquity....
Facebook shares: are you buying? | Poll
Facebook shares are being offered to the public at $38 (£24) each, valuing the company at more than ...
Google patents Project Glass design
Search giant Google patents the design of its augmented reality glasses, known as Project Glass....
Yahoo names interim CEO in light of Thompson's credentials scandal
Daniel Loeb will also join Yahoo's board after bringing everything to light....
Facebook IPO: what is the banks' role?
Bankers' fees for Facebook's landmark flotation total about $100m – but what is the company getting ...
Jury out in Google Oracle dispute
A jury has retired to consider claims that Google wilfully infringed patents belonging to Java devel...
Are you really getting ripped off on printer ink?
Questions raised about the amount of hydrophobic foam inside the cartridges....
Ex-MD in equity capital markets: 'It's a bit like insurance fraud'
Joris speaks to a former investment banker about stress, disillusionment and the strategies behind t...
Sexting threat comes from peers
A report commissioned by the NSPCC suggests that children are coming under pressure from friends to ...
Kickstarter Game Watch: From Rohrer to Republique
This week: DS strategy, unique stealth-action, and a new "SpaceVenture"...
Vyclone video app aims to out-social Viddy and Socialcam
New iPhone app connects people shooting videos of the same event, and edits their footage togetherVi...
Prosthetic retina in development
Scottish scientists are working on a device to restore sight in people with a form of age related bl...
Wood 2.0: mass timber and the tall buildings of tomorrow
An architect makes the case for the old being new again....
Guardian Viral Video Chart: Leveson the Musical; kid wakes up to Nirvana
Legal LOLs as the LJ and QC turn MCs, plus three-year-old turns Dave Grohl in our rundown of the top...
Iran 'to sue Google' over Gulf
Google is facing legal action for not labelling the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring A...
The return of the Ars community rank system
In which we return to our roots and celebrate our community....
Hewlett-Packard to axe up to 30,000 jobs
Computer and software company expected to cut 8% of workforce as consumers ditch bulky PCs in favour...
VIDEO: Why do gadgets keep on breaking?
An investigation into why devices stop working without anything seeming to be wrong with them...
Apple commits to renewable power for US data centres
The company says it plans to use exclusively solar power to run all three of its high-consuming serv...
VIDEO: Does web privacy have a price?
Stopping websites from using tracking software could have serious consequences on the users themselv...
How Amazon saved Zynga's butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own
Zynga's cloud runs just like Amazon's, but it's all in-house....
Augmented reality adds a new dimension to planning decisions
Augmented reality apps change the way we see the world. Duncan Jefferies explains how the technology...
VIDEO: 'Is Facebook worth $100 billion?'
As Facebook floats itself on the stock exchange, technology experts attending the Future Everything ...
China's restrictive rare earth mineral policy draws global ire
An American company bets it can put a serious dent in global output by the end of 2013....
Manchester's FutureEverything conference – day one
Tom Midlane is covering the north's huge festival of ideas for the Guardian Northerner. He's halfway...
VIDEO: Electric unicycles and other tech news
Honda Motors unveils a new auto-balancing unicycle that can be controlled hands free - and other tec...
New Dell Ubuntu ultrabooks a step in the right direction for Linux support
But upstream hardware support is more important than preinstallation....
Kipper Williams on Facebook float
'I've got loads more friends since I became an overnight billionaire'
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VIDEO: Facebook shares due to go on sale
One of the biggest floatations ever seen on world stock markets will take place today when shares in...
Mobile (and least-profitable) users spend most time on Facebook
Advertising dollars come primarily from the social network's desktop users—but not for long....
Boot up: web v apps, Google v France, the iPhone sales puzzle, how Facebook hacked it and more
Plus smartphone installed base, more on Android fragmentation, web intents?, and moreA quick burst o...
VIDEO: Ad boss on Facebook's power
Sir Martin Sorrell explains to Rory Cellan-Jones the strengths and weaknesses of Facebook when it co...
Coolest jobs in tech: from the pits of Le Mans to the dugouts of Fenway Park
The geeks have entered the locker room....
Chatterbox: Friday
The place to talk about games and other things that matterYey, Friday! Will you be purchasing Max Pa...
VIDEO: Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow
The creative brains studying at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York are showcasin...
Facebook share price set at $38
Social network's landmark flotation has investors clamouring to buy, but some analysts issue warning...
AUDIO: Taxman targets online traders
HMRC is targetting people who use sites such as eBay and Amazon to sell items online at a profit....
Communications green paper delayed while Jeremy Hunt deals with Leveson
Policy thinking on internet piracy, public service broadcasting and spectrum unlikely to be publishe...
VIDEO: Ivy League education free on the web
Click's Sumi Das reports on the Udacity project which is already causing ripples around the globe as...
Facebook IPO: the key players and what they are worth
Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only one who stands to gain big on Friday. Here are the other early adopte...
VIDEO: Guide to developing mobile games
With mobile gaming becoming an increasingly lucrative sector, young entrepreneurs are focusing their...
Eduardo Saverin's tax-free global citizenship | Dan Gillmor
Must we tolerate this new global elite of the super-rich and mega-corporations dodging tax obligatio...
Facebook's first female engineer
How the social network’s first female engineer beat old-fashioned views...
Letters: Newspapers set the agenda, not tweets
Further to articles from John Prescott (For me, life is Tweet, 16 May) and Charles Arthur (What a lo...
Is social media changing how we complain?
Has social media shifted balance when making complaints?...
Robotic arm controlled by thought
Paralysed patients control a robotic arm only with their thoughts...
Power behind the phone: Imagination Technologies
The tech firm putting the smart into smartphone...
Tech powers Philippines call centre success
The technology powering the Philippines call centre revolution...
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