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August 31
- HSBC completes failed BACS payments over weekend
August 28
- Facebook hits 1 billion users in a single day
- Apple Watch takes on FitBit in wearables chart
August 27
- Facebook launches personal assistant for Messenger
- Qualcomm sells 4G spectrum to Three and Vodafone
August 26
- Google launches Twitch rival YouTube gaming
- ‘Spam King’ of Facebook faces up to three years in jail
- Thomson's apology for data breach "not good enough"
- BT launches G.fast broadband trial in Cambridgeshire
- Security executive jailed for Aviva phone attack
August 25
- Meet the MIT computer that will never lose data in a crash
- Edinburgh Council eyes digital public services with £186m CGI deal
August 21
- ICO orders Google to cull links to right to be forgotten news stories
August 20
- HTC Vive hands-on review: Virtual reality comes to life
- Nokia Networks picks WANdisco to eliminate outages
- MIT and Samsung uncover solution to dying batteries
August 19
- Ashley Madison admitted "large lack of security awareness" before hack, document reveals
- IDF: Intel partners with Google to bring RealSense to Project Tango
- UK immigration restrictions 'already impacting start-up scene', says Coadec exec
- Gov extends Oracle deal for three more years, citing vague savings
- Still using Internet Explorer? Hackers could take over your PC without this patch
- IRS says 330,000 US citizens affected by hack
August 18
- Female entrepreneurs are more successful than male entrepreneurs
- Watch Boston Dynamics' biped robot walk around in first outdoors trial
- Mozilla to introduce really, really private browsing mode for Firefox
- GDS is still Government's "digital core", insists Hancock
August 17
- Samsung and Apple fight for 'final 20 per cent' of UK customers
- UK turns to apprentices to fill 134,000-strong tech skills gap
- Soon you can run your Oracle Database on Windows 10
- Bezos denies Amazon is a soulless place to work
- IBM goes big on open source with dedicated Linux mainframes
- Apple is definitely building a self-driving car
- AT&T and NSA collaborated on "vast" surveillance program
August 14
- 69 per cent of Apple's tech workers are male, 54 per cent are white
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7in first look
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus first look
- Ofcom launches mobile coverage checker
August 13
- Lenovo snagged in Windows 10 bloatware scandal
- Charge your phone in six minutes with MIT 'egg and yolk' battery
- Security researchers hack a Corvette using text message
- Google developing glucose-monitoring wearable for diabetes sufferers
- Twitter removes 140-character DM limit
August 12
- Wye Valley NHS Trust rolls out electronic patient records
- Four more GDS execs leave Whitehall
August 11
- Pawsquad start-up brings the vet to you with video consultations
- New security flaw found in Android
- PayPal and Bouncepad unite to make contactless payments cheaper for SMBs
- Symantec 'finalises Veritas sale to Carlyle Group'
- Innovation demands putting pressure on IT departments
- Google transforms into Alphabet group of companies
August 10
- Motorola begins Stagefright patch roll-out
- Carphone Warehouse suffers massive data breach in hacking attack
August 7
- Court delays sentencing of 'revenge porn' criminal
- Tech skills gap hurting demand for IT staff
- After Stagefright, Samsung and LG plan monthly bug patches
August 6
- Smartphones are UK's number one way to get online
August 5
- Alan Turing Institute and GCHQ embark on Big Data research
- These smart home hubs put your house at risk of hacking
- Hackers exploit huge internet flaw to launch DOS attacks
August 4
- Yahoo malvertising attack leaves 900 million at risk of ransomware
- NSA and GCHQ have been spying on you for 50 years
- Virtual Reality devices to hit 14 million in sales by 2016
- Apple iCloud Voicemail transcription in development
- Mobile batteries become prime target for hackers
August 3
- British Gas to invest £500m in connected homes
- Nokia sells HERE mapping service for £1.9 bn to Audi, BMW and Daimler