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June 30
- Worldwide IT spending to slow in 2014
- Government writes-off £56m ERP project
- World Cup 2014 in numbers: Most popular goals and players
- BT apologises for UK-wide weekend broadband outage
June 29
- British Airways draws on passenger brainwaves to tailor in-flight offerings
June 27
- EE and TalkTalk top Ofcom's list of most complained about telcos
- Google’s Project Tango coming to tablets in 2015
- Android malware worms its way into devices via texts
- Security issues haunt IBM and Lenovo server deal
- BT Openreach will face fines if they don't meet targets
- ICO sounds alarm over wearable tech privacy issues
- Faulty USB charger blamed for electrocution of Australian woman
June 26
- M2M Internet of Things innovation pushed by UK Technology Strategy Board
- Facebook@Work reports hint at move into enterprise social
- Google Fit health platform to monitor Android users
- BYOD is about the people, not the technology
- Google brings Android OS to your car with Android Auto
- LG launches first ever Android Wear watch at Google I/O
June 25
- Android L to have Samsung Knox integrated as standard
- Amazon delivery drones to be banned by US authorities
- Hackers make off with €500,000 from European bank
- UK Police woefully unequipped to handle data
- Europe slashes data roaming rates
June 24
- Nokia X2 with Android is unveiled
- Dell introduces SC4000 storage SANs for SMBs
- Violin Memory to make all-flash datacentres a reality for the enterprise
- EU firms ignore more than 40% of customer data requests
- Larger iPhones to enter production next month?
- UK operators to share network in rural areas
- Surface Pro 3 scores one star repairability rating
June 23
- iOS 8 abandons Yahoo weather app
- Google unveils $50m drive to get girls coding
- Heartbleed bug still a risk for 300,000 unpatched servers
- Nearly 200 websites touting counterfeit goods seized by law enforcers
- Microsoft's wireless charging trousers going on sale soon
- Nest acquires video firm Dropcam to learn more about users
June 20
- Android Lollipop: Features we want to see
- Government row sparked over IT procurement
- 4G and Wi-Fi call quality boosted by EE live trials
- Kill switch coming to Windows Phone to protect against theft
- Apple iWatch production to start in July
- Pressure mounts on US justice department to drop Wikileaks investigation
- Twitter acquires SnappyTV to offer real-time video
June 19
- Android 4.4.3 update wreaks havoc on Nexus devices
- BlackBerry shares up 10% on the back of promising Q1
- Amazon Fire phone disappoints critics
- £10m Broadband Innovation Fund winners announced
- GCHQ launches threat intelligence sharing pilot
- BlackBerry to offer Android apps via Amazon
June 18
- Amazon Fire phone to ship in US on 25 July
- Facebook launches Slingshot for iPhone
- Gender gap widens as fewer women employed in IT
- London Technology Week: Events highlight cloud, youth employment and more
- Samsung & Apple to embark on bidding war over Siri tech provider Nuance?
- Microsoft: Office work is obsolete in the mobile & BYOD era
- SanDisk to acquire Flash player Fusion-IO for $1.1bn
- Oracle may buy Micros Systems for more than $5bn
- Nokia blackmailed for millions of Euros six years ago
- Smart Glass could help visually impaired see better
June 17
- Facebook, Google & Twitter users at risk of mass surveillance in UK
- Jony Ive: What’s it like working at Apple?
- Google Glass to allow real-time streaming of users' lives
- Ford starts AppLink rollout to European cars
- iOS 8 to let apps access Safari AutoFill for faster logins
- BBM Protected messaging feature unveiled by BlackBerry
June 16
- Microsoft releases develop-centric web browser
- Wimbledon to provide personalised mobile experience via IBM
- Europe signs 5G development deal with South Korea
- Microsoft-owned Android patents revealed by Chinese website
- Windows Phone ready to take on iOS & Android in the enterprise
- Domino's Pizza customer details held to ransom by hackers
- Tech City launches £1m Internet of Things competition
- US authorities to probe Netflix ISP streaming issues
- Vodafone set sights on connected cars with Cobra purchase
June 13
- LinkedIn reinforces tech industry's diversity issues
- Apple iPhone USB adapters pulled over safety concerns
- Home addresses to be published online by .uk domain firm Nominet
- Good BYOD or Bad BYOD?
- GOZeus & CryptoLocker: Top tips to protect your PC & mobile
- Tesla goes open source to boost electric car adoption
- Google Glass wearable health record to be used by hospitals
- Google Fit to be launched at I/O developer conference
- Windows 8 trade secrets leaker given three-month jail term
- Google planning to take a stake in Virgin Galactic?
- Facebook to serve ads based on users' browsing history
June 12
- Galaxy S5 customers bag free Gear Fit from Vodafone
- iOS 8 split-screen mode demonstrated on an iPad
- Intel fails to overturn €1.06 billion fine
- EE opens up broadband deals to non-EE mobile customers
- TweetDeck users urged to restart app to avoid XSS attack
June 11
- SwiftKey keyboard now free on Google Play
- Raspberry Pi sales hit 3 million
- Feedly & Evernote hit by DDoS attacks
- Apple's Irish tax deals to be probed by European Commission
- Windows 8.1 users warned of June 10 deadline for OS Update 1
- Google buys Skybox HD satellite firm for $500m
- HP shows how it's using big data to "save the planet"
- Amazon to launch services marketplace in 2014
- Oracle injects in-memory into databases to boost analytics
- CESG dishes out security advice for Blackberry, Android & Chrome OS
June 10
- HP debuts Apollo supercomputer
- Linux creator: "Not everyone needs to learn code"
- Government turns to online tools to encourage higher voter turnout
- Nominet launches shorter .uk domain names
- Bank of England unveils cyber security framework
- Hackers accused of holding iPhones & iPads to ransom detained in Russia
- iOS 8 to clampdown on Wi-Fi & location snoopers
- Facebook board gets sued by shareholder
- PayPal president jumps ship to Facebook
- Vodafone adds five more cities to 4G network
- Flexible polymer smartphone display unveiled
June 9
- Smart TVs vulnerable to "red button" hacking
- Driverless cars to force changes in the Highway Code
- British Airways to implement on-board Wi-Fi on domestic routes
- Heathrow Terminal 2 trials smart loos to monitor usage and alert cleaners
- Microsoft to roll out two critical security bug fixes
June 6
- EU industry chiefs meet to decide citizens' online privacy rights
- Twitter acquires Namo Media & enters talks with SoundCloud as Secret Service seeks sarcasm detector
- EE rolls out 4G coverage for another 15 UK Towns
- Apple iPhone will use camera in iOS 8 to scan credit card details
- Pepper personal robot can read human emotions
June 5
- ESET uncovers first Android file-encrypting piece of ransomware
- China labels Apple, Google & Microsoft "pawns" of the US government
- Government debuts Cyber Essentials Scheme to improve UK response to cyber attacks
- Amazon 3D smartphone launch event tipped for 18 June
- IT professionals not ready for 'Internet of Things'
- GOZeus threat knocks out government-backed security site
June 4
- Microsoft calls on businesses to embrace mobility
- iOS 8 post-launch first impressions
- UK Broadband launches London’s first wireless broadband service
- Apple HealthKit fitness app runs into trouble with startup of same name
- Google Chrome bags new data encryption extension
- Google Hangouts pushed as enterprise collaboration tool
- CityFibre acquires Coventry’s 140km metro fibre network
- Google Glass option made available mounted on designer frames
June 3
- Facebook buys Pryte to boost worldwide connectivity effort
- Apple reverses ban to accept Bitcoin-based apps again
- BlackBerry talks up turnaround with customer support
- Half of PC owners still use Windows 7
- Apple's iOS 8 SDK adds 4,000-plus new developer APIs
June 2
- Apple HomeKit to let iPhone users remotely control homes
- iOS 8 launch live blog: All the news from Apple's WWDC
- NCA issues two-week deadline for PC users to evade new malware threats
- Dyson reveals early Google Glass-alike prototype
- Samsung Z smartphone with Tizen coming in Q3
- Google to invest $1bn in internet satellite project
- Apple WWDC 2014: iOS 8, iWatch, OS X 10.10 & new MacBooks
- WhatsApp for Windows Phone returns to Microsoft app store
- Huawei achieves high Wi-Fi speeds of 10Gbps in trial
- Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after two years on the run