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Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry

First-quarter figures from IDC show that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is making inroads against longer-established competitors, such as Android... Read more

25 May, 2012 17:05 by Ben Woods

PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street

PayPal, which got its start online, is increasingly targeting the physical world by offering to collect payments for high-street stores. This week it... Read more

25 May, 2012 17:05 by Jack Schofield 1 comment

ICO to enforce cookie law from this weekend

UK data protection authorities will start to enforce a year-old cookie law from this weekend. UK organisations must be able to show they are making... Read more

25 May, 2012 17:05 by Tom Espiner

Samsung Galaxy 'S3' gets its own pop-up shops

As the days count down to the launch of the much-anticipated Galaxy S III, Samsung has revealed that it is setting up four pop-up stores in London to... Read more

25 May, 2012 15:05 by Karen Friar

Microsoft tops Google Search takedown list

In the last month alone, Google received requests to remove more than 500,000 links to copied Microsoft software from its search results Read more

25 May, 2012 12:53 by David Meyer

Oracle snaps up social smarts with Vitrue acquisition

Hot on the heels of SAP's Ariba buy, Oracle is seeking to bolster its own cloud offerings with the purchase of social marketing company Vitrue Read more

25 May, 2012 12:18 by Rachel King

Microsoft and IBM push OData standardisation

Microsoft, IBM, SAP and others have moved to make the Microsoft-derived Open Data Protocol an official international standard. The Open Data Protocol... Read more

25 May, 2012 12:05 by David Meyer

London to become Intel's city-living R&D testbed

Intel is to turn London into a testbed for new technologies that it hopes can make city life more connected and sustainable. The company announced... Read more

25 May, 2012 08:05 by David Meyer

Affordable Nokia 610 announced in the UK

Nokia added the bottom-of-the range Nokia Lumia 610 to its line of Windows Phones at a press conference in the UK today (Thursday), saying that stocks... Read more

24 May, 2012 23:05 by Jack Schofield

Lenovo talks ThinkPads and servers

Lenovo is now the number-two PC vendor worldwide and has just posted record results for the 2011/12 financial year ending 31 March. Little wonder,... Read more

24 May, 2012 17:05 by Charles McLellan

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