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Australians are suckers when it comes to buying tech drugs

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29 Apr 00:10 | 3

Quantum Key Distribution proven to work over everyday fibre

Quantum security without dedicated fibre

29 Apr 00:15 | 5

After Comcast, Netflix inks second net traffic deal with Verizon

Will pay for faster speeds, despite decrying 'internet tolls'

29 Apr 00:34 | 6

Researchers warn of resurgent Sefnit malware

Botnet returns using new tactics

Trolls and victims watch Supremes for definition of meaningless patents

Fitness kit case will explore just how broad a patent can be before it becomes useless

29 Apr 01:19 | 35

IBM throws open doors of XaaS supermarket

'Cloud marketplace' aims to outflank mere cloud convenience from AWS et al

29 Apr 02:09 | 5

Exoplanets' chemicals may give false-positives for life, boffins say

Methane and Oxygen signatures light years away are no way to spot ET

29 Apr 03:03 | 8

Great-firewall-busting microblog app puts AWS in China's firing line

If China wants to censor this it will have to block ALL of Amazon Web Services

29 Apr 04:14 | 6

Top mobe panel maker Japan Display slashes profit forecast

LTPS big daddy 'fesses to "difficult price negotiations'

29 Apr 04:46 | 1

AMD adds ARM security core to new, low-cost x86 mobile processors

Fan-free Beema and Mullins chips add Android support

29 Apr 05:01 | 15

Brit IT workers are so stressed that 'TWO-THIRDS' want to quit

And nearly a fifth polled say they've lost relationships thanks to work

29 Apr 05:02 | 105

Hot summer of football to stir Samsung's profits after slow Q1

Growth plans include more sales of security product 'Knox' to business

Web cams pointed into hot young star's 'Ring of Fire' down under

Australia's blazing eclipse beamed to your browser

29 Apr 06:02 | 5

China's customs cops grab 76 MEEELLION tech products

Just the tip of the 'pirate-berg' in the Middle Kingdom

29 Apr 06:31 | 5

It's spade sellers who REALLY make a killing in a gold rush: It's OVER for graphics card mining

New Litecoin hardware means alt miners will ditch their packs

29 Apr 07:01 | 57

Junior gurus go gung-ho in Guangzhou: Meet the students putting a boot in clusters' thrusters

Today, it's ASC14, tomorrow, your supercomputer

29 Apr 07:27 | 1

Voice-babble-over-Wi-Fi lands in Europe – take that, mobe masties

Cheap call rates for hotspot-smothered streets

29 Apr 08:01 | 9

Hit the Nytro: LSI's PCIe cards now even faster with SQL Server 2014, says firm after upgrade

Less spinning rust, more flashy goodness for you all

29 Apr 08:31 | 1

Microsoft forms 'Special Projects' black ops team

'Disruptive technologies' tentacle to battle Google X?

29 Apr 08:58 | 34

Why two-player games > online gaming: See your pal's shock as you bag a last-second victory

A personal kick to the crown duels

29 Apr 09:28 | 62

Sueball-slingers seek stake in bankrupt Bitcoin blunder bunker MtGox

Stung investors offer to settle class actions for slice of new exchange, coinage

29 Apr 10:04 | 8

Marauding quid-a-day nosh hack menaces teepee hippie villages

Lentil-busting operation, as fellow posse members resist cake/canteen temptation

29 Apr 10:27 | 39

Windows Phone: Just as well Microsoft bought an Android maker, RIGHT?

Can nothing halt little green robot's march over mobes?

29 Apr 10:54 | 59

Russia 'incompatible with the internet', cries web CEO 'axed by Putin'

In Soviet Яussia, social network unfriends YOU

29 Apr 11:24 | 26

It's here, the 4TB FLASH drive: SanDisk rips sheet from the Optimus MAX

Solid state delirium

29 Apr 12:12 | 10

Cloudera, MongoDB go on a Big Data date, fall in love, jump in bed

What has two buzzwords and scares the heck out of Oracle? MONDERA!

29 Apr 12:17 | 3

Faster Macbook Air pops out: What, a NEW Apple thing and ZERO fanfare?

Scream if you want to go slightly faster

29 Apr 12:38 | 49

Cuffing darknet-dwelling cyberscum is tricky. We'll 'disrupt' crims instead, warns top cop

Hackers. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?

29 Apr 13:02 | 33

US Supreme Court to decide if cops can search mobes without a warrant

Two cases of evidence pulled from phones reach the top court

29 Apr 13:36 | 33

CSC: Brits, say hi to your new UK boss – say bye to 750 coworkers

Hundreds of staff in Blighty warned of redundancy risk

29 Apr 14:04 | 21

And! For! Yahoo!'s next! trick! ... Making! two! new! TV! comedies!

Search, check. Finance, check. Web mail, check. Telly business, ah ha!

29 Apr 14:58 | 9

HP dangles channel compo carrot for Converged Systems

Roll up, roll up, double digit margin for anyone that sells the 300 or 700

AWS Summit 2014

Amazon veep: We tweak our cloud code every 16 seconds – and you?

Tech giant laughs off rivals touting on-site AWS wannabes

29 Apr 15:53 | 21

GULP. Veeam adds thousands of accounts. It must be eating SOMEONE'S lunch

Hey backup bods, what's that in your teeth?

29 Apr 16:32 | 11

Nokia, new CEO Rajeev Suri, and BEELLIONS of euros burning a hole in the bank

What next for the Finns now free of phones?

29 Apr 17:56 | 15

Hey, Samsung: Why so shy about your 960GB flash drive's endurance?

TLC SSD dangled over data centre admins – but how many writes can it take?

29 Apr 19:02 | 19

Target finally implements chip and PIN card protections

Barn door closed, but the horses are three towns away

29 Apr 19:09 | 32

Nod Labs forges one (Bluetooth) ring to rule them all

Point and click fingering is the future, claims team

29 Apr 19:32 | 18

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

Mozilla browser's 'new hull' has a familiar shape

29 Apr 20:03 | 241

FCC seeks $48K fine from mobile phone-jamming driver

'Alright... we're jammin'... I think the feds gonna sue'

29 Apr 21:55 | 52

Twitter investors squawk as user growth, income disappoint again

Shares sink on fears its popularity has plateaued

29 Apr 22:57 | 12

Microsoft does deal with East Coast upstart to get on-premises PaaS tech

Kiss, Marry, or Kill? Luckily for Apprenda, Microsoft picked number one

29 Apr 23:09 | 3

AT&T plans in-flight internet move using its US 4G network

Honeywell hardware will turn aircraft into internet nodes

29 Apr 23:39 | 7

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