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July 29
- Microsoft axes nearly 3,000 staff from smartphone division
- Brits fear Snooper's Charter powers that already exist
- Apple switches Project Titan focus from hardware to software
- Osram smart lighting flaw lets hackers breach home Wi-Fi
- WhatsApp doesn’t delete your ‘deleted’ messages
- Jisc boosts capacity of Janet education network
- BT's EE acquisition has a positive impact on results
July 28
- Brexit 'could widen the UK's tech skills gap'
- Oracle to buy NetSuite for $9.3 billion
- World faces cybersecurity skills shortage
- Tesla Autopilot supplier Mobileye cuts ties with electric car maker
July 27
- Sage CEO blasts business leaders
- Sage makes bold moves with tech investments
- “High-profile” individuals targeted by UK security services
- Telsa Model S was speeding during fatal crash, says NTSB
- Critical vulnerabilities found in LastPass password manager
- KeySniffer sniffs out your keystrokes from 250 feet away
- Twitter 'starts shedding users' as growth falters
- Ransomware is the most profitable cybercrime
- Apple's profit nosedives 27% as iPhone sales plummet
- BlackBerry launches Dtek 50 Android smartphone
- Government to test social media identity verification
July 26
- Amazon will test Prime Air delivery drones over the UK
July 25
- Court sets September date for Lauri Love's extradition decision
- EU to perform security audits of KeePass and Apache HTTP Server
- White hat hackers access full database of Pornhub members
- Verizon 'will pay $5 billion for Yahoo'
- Corning announces latest iteration of Gorilla Glass
July 22
- Security experts uncover Tinder porn site spam scheme
- Apple and Microsoft top list of 100 most cherished companies
- Facebook's drones will be manufactured in the UK
July 21
- Snowden unveils spy sniffing iPhone case
- Price of ransomware doubles
- Sage builds a "funny" accounting chatbot
- More woes for BT as outages hit for second day
- ICO hopes to crumble cookie law
- Skype scraps support for older devices
- Remote access software used by hackers to distribute malware
- Fitbit patents ruled invalid in Jawbone lawsuit
- Tesla's master plan targets Uber with autonomous cars
- Google cuts datacentre energy use thanks to AI
July 20
- Microsoft's results show Windows Phone really is dead
- Twitter admits troll failings after Ghostbusters abuse
- Collecting phone data is only legal in a few cases ECJ says
July 19
- IBM's cloud earnings grow, while overall revenues shrink
- MPs accuse BT of underinvesting in Openreach broadband rollout
- Waitrose chooses Pure Storage to reduce datacentre footprint
- Elizabeth Denham appointed ICO boss
July 18
- CEO Sundar Pichai says Google won't pay more tax until laws change
- Was Google working on its own VR headset?
- SoftBank buys ARM for £24 billion in Brexit Britain
- BAE Systems joins SWIFT to fight financial cyber attacks
- Capgemini helps UK firms use AI, bots and blockchains
July 15
- Pokémon Go spawns over 200 'PokéMalware' clones
- Trump would be a disaster for innovation, say tech leaders
- Investigatory Powers bill’s security backdoors ‘won’t make iPhone illegal’
- Microsoft wins email court case against US
- 76% companies think IoT is crucial for success
July 14
- EU launches new antitrust charge against Google's search ads
- Ryanair troubleshoots plane problems with Qlik's analytics
- Unity piles $181 million funding into VR games
- Data stored on mobiles and computers worth $682
- BlackBerry COO says keyboard is here to stay
July 13
- Is Pokemon Go about to get VR integration?
July 12
- Security staff should talk to end users more, says Red Hat
- Pokemon Go gets full access to users' Google accounts
- IBM discovers MIUI vulnerability affecting Xiaomi devices
July 11
- Kim Dotcom: Megaupload will relaunch in 2017 with 100GB free storage
- Government wants to let driverless cars hit UK motorways
- Telcos offer Europe 5G networks if EU weakens net neutrality
- ISIS Twitter traffic 'dives 45 per cent in two years'
- 'Robbers' use Pokemon Go to lure players into real-life trap
July 8
- Dell confirms post-Brexit price rises across B2B portfolio
- Snapchat facing lawsuit for 'exposing minors to inappropriate content'
- Microsoft’s ‘bae intern’ invite mocked
- Collaboration must put users first
- Dropbox: let innovation slip in through “shadow IT”
July 7
- Mac malware Eleanor hijacks your local files and email
- Openreach opens BT's duct and poles up to rivals
- Snapchat 'hires VR designer' to work on augmented reality
- LSE lecturers use Juniper Networks to deal with growing data problem
- Brexit will impact worldwide IT spending, admits Gartner
- NHS axes care.data scheme
- Legacy IT 'is holding back innovation in retail'
July 6
- Apple shares fall as Brexit takes effect
- Takeaway service Just Eat announces delivery robots trial
- Dutch robot takes gold in Amazon industrial automation challenge
- Hummingbad malware takes control of 10 million Android devices
- Microsoft launches app store for business, AppSource
- Korean app Snow gives Snapchat some competition
- BlackBerry retires its famous keyboard model, the BlackBerry Classic
- Introducing children with autism to coding and VR with CASPA
- Doubt clouds future of UK’s post-Brexit data protection rules
- Brexit sparks surge of enterprise spam
- Digital Economy Bill to make 10Mbps internet access law
July 5
- Could Dublin become Europe's post-Brexit tech hub?
- Brexit Britain will miss out on EU's €1.8 billion cybersecurity funding
- Police suffer 2,315 data breaches in five years
- Moorfields Eye Hospital shares one million patients’ eye scans with Google DeepMind
- BlackBerry to launch three Android smartphones
July 4
- Parents and teachers 'must encourage tech skills at school'
- UN passes resolution condemning internet shutdowns
- Facebook defends itself against Israel's terror support claims
- LinkedIn had four suitors before Microsoft acquisition
- Thomson Reuters World-Check terrorist data leaked
July 1
- Software Heritage project aims to archive all source code
- Hackers turn IoT devices into massive botnet with Lizard Squad code
- Oracle told to pay HPE $3 billion for ditching Itanium servers
- Muslim Match dating site hacked, losing 150,000 user details
- 46% of NHS directors 'concerned about 2020 digital target'