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Did Google's Waze gobble run rivals off the road? UK watchdog starts probe 27 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
The only Waze is ethics Google's acquisition of free map app Waze has awoken Britain's competition watchdog, which today confirmed it was scrutinising the gobble.…
Why Teflon Ballmer had to go: He couldn't shift crud from Windows 8, Surface 27 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
Revolting shareholders poised to glom on to Microsoft's non-stick CEO Analysis Microsoft chief exec Steve Ballmer has gone sooner than anyone, even he himself, had expected.…
Sponsored Stories ruck: Zuck chucks 15 bucks at ad photo suck schmucks 27 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
But kids' rights fighters wanted ban on advertisers using children's pics Facebook will dish out $15 to lucky users in a court-approved $20m settlement over "sponsored stories" - the little ads that ...
United Nations to grill US over alleged NSA bugging of its HQ – report 27 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
Snowden files reveal snooping on embassies and consulates The United Nations has said that it plans to contact the US over a report that the NSA had bugged its New York headquarters.…
Samsung to bring 55-inch MONSTER curvy-telly to the UK 27 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Colossally expensive curved OLED gogglebox, anyone? If you have a bob or two going free – well, the best part of at least $9,000 – Samsung will now sell you its monumental curved OLED TV, previously ...
ISPs scramble to explain mouse-sniffing tool 27 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
Would you trust faceless corporations with your, er, mouse movements? Sky Broadband has been caught using JavaScript to track every click and shuffle on its support pages, but it's not alone: other I...
Facebook unwraps SHARING IS CARING photo album function 27 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
Now everyone can spaff pics into group-hug album... bitch Facebook has created a new photo-sharing feature that will allow users of the free content ad network to post snaps to an album that can be p...
You won't find this in your phone: A 4GHz 12-core Power8 for badass boxes 27 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm
Not all silicon boffinry is in mobile... And IBM refuses to give in to Intel Hot Chips Big iron sales are still generating $6bn to $7bn a year for IBM - which is enough to justify designing its own ...
Loads of mis-sold PPI, but WHO will claim? This man's paid to find out 27 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
Data mining to fathom the depth of banking's balls-up Feature When the opening line of a conversation starts, “I read an interesting number the other day”, it’s fairly safe to assume that you’re tal...
Tesla tops $20bn as Elon Musk claims arm-wave design tech 27 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
Hyper-rich inventor claims to have cracked Iron Man-inspired design process In a very meta piece of invention, PayPal hecamillionaire Elon Musk has promised that the 3D gesture-hologram system used b...
