Martin James

News Plans to deliver high-speed broadband to every home in the UK are expected to form part of Wednesday's budget speech.

News Despite a positive meeting with Home Secretary Alan Johnson, the social network has ruled out introducing a panic button on user homepages.

News Tech firms are increasingly ignoring privacy concerns in how the handle consumer data when launching new products, an FTC administrator has claimed.

News ACS:Law has come under renewed attack for its 'threatening' letters to owners of computers identified as involved in illegal downloading.

News Third-party app store GetJar says app downloads will nearly double annually for the next three years to nearly 50 billion downloads a year.

News A new survey of IT professionals in enterprise-size organisations shows the majority find Macs cheaper than PCs despite their high initial cost.

News The rise of portable PCs has seen the market return to growth faster than expected following last year's recession, though revenues will take longer to recover.

News For the first time in three years, a name other than Google has sat on top of Hitwise's weekly website rankings in the US.

News It may have reached near-universal coverage in the UK, but the majority of us appear to still have major objections to Google Street View.

News With nearly a month still to go before any devices are actually sent out, Apple has racked up an estimated $75 million in iPad pre-orders.

News Tensions between Washington and Beijing have flared over US claim that China's increasingly strict control over internet access violates human rights.

News The latest figures for the US smartphone market reveal Microsoft has lost 20 per cent of its users in just three months, with most having moved over to Android.

News Piezoelectricity and kinetic energy combine to create a way to charge a phone's battery without going anywhere near the mains.

News Credit and debit card fraud fell by 19 per cent in 2009, its first drop since 2006.

News The mobile operator is pressing ahead with workforce cuts as part of a £1 billion streamlining initiative.

News A Google software engineer has revealed that a business-focused version of Chrome with 'more management muscle' will join its consumer counterpart next year.

News Microsoft's chief executive tells the world the entire company is now focused on the cloud.

News With reports revealing that the UK suffered around 300 significant cyber attacks in the past year, evidence is mounting that the attacks are the work of foreign states.

News Microsoft's all-new mobile OS will be a clean break, but WinMo 6.5 will still be actively supported for a long time to come, a Microsoft employee has blogged.

News A new survey conducted in 26 countries around the world reveals four out of five people believe internet access to be a right, not a privilege.

News Barcode scanner app marks Microsoft's first ever foray into the Android Market in response to 'huge demand' for mobile barcoding.

News The rise of smartphones and the cloud will render traditional desk-based computers all but obsolete within three years, claims Google Europe boss.

News The latest figures from a Europe-wide study show we now spend more time using mobile internet than reading newspapers or magazines.

News A web designer has complained to the European Commission that four of the seven secondary browser choices are no more than rebadged IE clones.

News New survey shows our appetite for spending money on new technology isn't matched by our willingness to learn how to use it.