Facebook has announced that the Messenger chat platform now has one billion users, making it the latest popular service to join the billion user club. Facebook announced the figure in a blog post, promising...
The proposed acquisition of storage hardware vendor EMC by privately owned PC company Dell looks to be going ahead after EMC shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the $67bn deal. This approval...
Google has deployed machine learning know-how picked up from its DeepMind acquisition to improve data centre efficiency and reduce power consumption and therefore costs. The artificial intelligence (AI)...
Global demand for network engineers with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation skills has grown, but there aren't enough qualified people to fill the available roles. That's one of the findings...
The European Commission (EC) should amend the so-called 'cookie law' that requires website owners to obtain users' consent before placing cookies on their devices, according to the Information Commissioner's...
Google received over 40,000 requests for information on user accounts from governments in the six months ending December 2015, the highest number the firm has ever received. The latest Google transparency...
BT customers are experiencing outages for a second day in a row. The firm put an update on its status page acknowledging the problems, but did not give a specific reason for the fault, instead listing...
NEW YORK: BlackBerry chief executive John Chen has questioned whether Apple's stringent approach to encryption and user privacy is sensible, warning that the firm's attitude could be harmful to society. ...
Microsoft has reported revenue of $22.6bn for the firm's latest fiscal quarter, a year-on-year rise of two per cent. The Azure cloud platform was one of the star performers of the quarter, growing 102...
A consortium of tech firms including ARM and Symantec has announced the creation of a security protocol designed to protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The group, which also includes Intercede...