Stories ranging from ransomware to Moore's Law hit the headlines last week as the tech industry showed no signs of taking a summer break. V3 readers were particularly interested in the news that Intel,...
A mysterious company called Nu Dot Co has paid a whopping $135m for the right to the .web generic top-level domain (gTLD). The firm beat off competition from the likes of Google and web registry firms...
Apple has warned customers about a phishing scam that uses emails claiming that the recipient has been charged £20 to download a song from iTunes. The email purports to come from Apple and says that...
Microsoft's free offer to download Windows 10 has now expired but a loophole means that it can still be installed for free, for now at least. The free download offer ended at 10:59am on 30 July, and...
Amazon has reported second-quarter revenue of nearly $3bn for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division, marking strong growth for the unit. AWS took in $2.8bn in the quarter, compared with $1.8bn...
Google parent company Alphabet has revealed strong revenue and profit for the second quarter of its financial year, driven entirely by the Google business. Overall revenue for Alphabet was up 21 per...
Apple has hired Dan Dodge, co-founder and former CEO of real-time operating system developer QNX, who retired from BlackBerry only last year. Apple hopes that Dodge can help to get the company's struggling...
Apple has sold its one billionth iPhone nine years after first venturing into smartphones with the launch of the original iPhone. CEO Tim Cook told Apple staffers about the milestone at a meeting this...
C has displaced Java as the most used programming language in the world, according to figures from IEEE Spectrum, the industry body of tech professional organisations. C is also the top trending language,...
Microsoft is planning to get tough in the forthcoming Anniversary Update to Windows 10 by forcing the Cortana 'personal assistant' and search tools onto users. Windows 10 users have had the option...