Efforts to tackle the scourge of ransomware have been boosted by a new initiative designed to educate people about the threat and offer keys that can unlock devices without having to pay the fraudsters....
The wearables market has seen a sizeable decline which has been blamed on a slump in Apple Watch sales. Data from IDC claimed that sales of smartwatches fell to 3.5 million units in the second quarter...
Moore's Law, the 1965 observation by Fairchild and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles about every two years, is set for repeal by 2021. The...
The US government has signed a deal to boost the WiFi on board Air Force One, the planes used to ferry the president of the US around the world, in a move that will help create a "situation room in the...
Yahoo has been sold to US telecoms company Verizon for $4.83bn. Verizon will acquire Yahoo's core assets including search, email and instant messaging, along with its advertising technology. Verizon...
BT has said it is willing to give more independence to its Openreach division as the firm looks to head off the threat of the unit being turned into a separate company. Ofcom will publish a long-awaited...
It may have been the height of summer but the tech news came thick and fast last week, ranging from major acquisitions to network outages. The biggest news was perhaps the sale of ARM to Japanese firm...
MasterCard is to pay £700m for VocaLink, the UK company behind the LINK network of ATMs. The deal makes VocaLink the second major British technology company to be purchased by a foreign buyer since...
Facebook has achieved the first successful test flight of the Aquila drone, marking another notable milestone in the firm's efforts to deliver internet access from the sky. The prototype drone flew at...
Business cloud provider Workday has announced the acquisition of Platfora, an analytics and data discovery firm, to give companies more insight into ever-growing volumes of data, and not just related to...