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HP pumps fist

Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.…

Quaint system to be replaced in 2011

HM Revenue and Customs has warned employers who use its Employer CD-rom to update it immediately to avoid miscalculations.…

'Failio' spec?

Do computer companies never learn from history? Clearly not, if Toshiba is anything to go by. Today, it launched its Android tablet, revealing the gadget is called Folio.…

Never a flyer, but finally grounded for good

An audacious plan to provide free wireless internet access across the US has finally been killed off by the FCC, much to the delight of the cellular industry.…

Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much)

AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Ping-pong

The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.…

Systems not robust enough

Visitors to London, and anyone else without a full account, will not be able to hire Boris bikes until the end of the year.…

Dell's new offer given drubbing

HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.…

You pay this, we take that, George Osborne gets the other, Eurocrats get the rest

Apple has made it explicitly clear how much more its charging UK consumers for its kit than US-based buyers.…

Who's got the bigger count?

Google and Apple's bush war flared up again as Steve Jobs apparently cast aspersions over Android's activation numbers as he unveiled Apple's latest iPod and TV scrub-up yesterday.…

Orange Ping sticks to sweet stuff

Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Fixed grins at cheeks-aflame 'leccycar firm

As US motor mammoth GM gears up for the launch of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, it has applied to trademark the term "range anxiety" - meaning the fear suffered by battery-car owners regarding their ability to get home again after a given journey. Upstart battery car maker Tesla Motors has issued a panicky and unconvincing statement in response.…

Coming clean on capacity

Review Verbatim's InSight external hard drive is an unusual-looking offering, but that odd wave-like curve at the front is home to the unit's status readout screen.…

Google's data slurp legal in New Zealand

Police in New Zealand have bounced a complaint about Google's StreetView service back to the country's Privacy Commissioner.…

0.08 cents per tag

The RFID Consortium has opened for business after five years of negotiations, providing a one-stop shop for all the patents needed to manufacture RFID tags and readers.…

Two psychiatric experts think the way to treat troops returning home with PTSD: Have them undergo intensive psychotherapy while they're rolling on ecstasy.

A Q&A with Jeff Ma, the former leader of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team that took Vegas for millions in the mid-'90s. Now a successful entrepreneur and author, Ma talks about his love of fantasy sports, selling his company Citizen Sports to Yahoo (and why he didn't join them), and how young statgeeks can make their way in a sports industry dominated by traditionalists.

Six weeks after landing men on the moon, Americans take another giant leap for mankind with the nation’s first cash-spewing, automated teller machine.

Video calls aren't for people to see you — they're for people to see what you see.

Blazing fast (four minutes and nine seconds!), streamlined and full of highlights, Cuisinart's PerfecTemp puts its kettle competition to shame.