You might by now have heard that Hewlett-Packard has come in for criticism for its webcams' inability to follow black faces through its face recognition software. My thanks to the NBCBayarea...

British Telecom has announced that it is ahead of schedule for superfast broadband* and will deliver it in time for the Olympic Games in London (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8424401.stm)....

In case you didn't know - and I'm betting you did - some activists from Iran apparently hacked Twitter during last week so instead of seeing Twitter's home page people saw a poem in Persian (people...

The news that Google is going to start making its own mobile phones to run the Android operating system might seem odd at first but it's actually quite logical. I should stress it's unsubstantiated...

The British Government's decision to throw £30 million on getting everybody online is of course laudable in its way. The idea is to save a lot of money - and as the last European country still in...

Yes, I've found that - here (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hHrjRHHf57xQb6xsIzIkVZe7bNjg) for example. We've both been journalists long enough to know that a denial might be...

No, really, genuine bricks and mortar things that you can walk into. It seems that soon in the UK you'll be able to order something from Amazon then go and get it...

The controversy over whether people will pay for content online is a vexed question internationally. Here in the UK we've heard much about News Corp/News International owner Rupert Murdoch and his...

Reports in the UK indicate that Apple is about to start selling the iPhone through Tesco (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8378267.stm). Given that this is an American site (see the way I...

Today even in the UK we have seen the news about the American First Lady, Michelle Obama, and the scandal over Google (http://www.google.com) searches throwing out a racist image.

Let's leave...

I'd have negotiated with McCartney and got the Beatles - added some air of permanence and reliability, but what do I know..!

My thanks to @girlygeekdom on Twitter for highlighting what must be the most surreal Internet marketing plan ever - British girl band the Sugababes are being used to promote Windows 7...

Apple may have delayed the release of the tablet computer, according to a number of sources, because of component selection. Inevitably this has led to a number of reports that it's not going to...

Twitter has suspended its new retweet function (http://status.twitter.com/post/240745460/retweet-feature-temporarily-disabled).

Now, this takes me back. When I started writing about technology...

Cellphone manufacturer Samsung has taken everyone by surprise by announcing its own operating system Bada - Korean for 'ocean' - will launch in December...

An Apple iPhone virus is on the loose in Australia. According to reports it's an odd one; it replaces your wallpaper with a picture of singer Rick Astley and an inoffensive slogan. It affects only...

It's almost reassuring to see a large company make basic mistakes like this - UK toy store Hamley's (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6500683/Hamleys-fails-to-renew-web-address.html) (one...

Sometimes you see something and you really, really hope it's a hoax. Take this story on Slashdot, which confirms if true that Apple has applied for a patent to put advertising into its operating...

So I'm helping host an event for Google (http://www.google.com) yesterday - called Atmosphere, it was based in London and had about 300 CIOs present. I was lucky enough to be chairing a couple of...

The Microsoft Windows 7 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/home?os=nonwin7) launch is all but upon us and I can't say I'm sorry. Not that I'm directly affected as a Mac user but...

Symantec (http://www.symantec.com) has published one of those rare things - a report that contains an actual surprise. It seems some 4 million people have fallen for Scareware in the last 12 months....

That's quite right, but I did say 'routine precaution' - nothing to panic about I'm sure, and it'll only take a second.

It's official - Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk) is finally going to bring the Kindle e-book reader...

(COUGH) I suppose I should be the first to confirm that the blogger in the case has now said the injunction and the method by which it was served has been a rousing success...

Smaller businesses and people who use Hotmail as n email system or backup email system need to change their passwords - Microsoft has confirmed it's investigating a security breach.

It seems that...

A judge has said a lawsuit can be delivered via Twitter (http://twitter.com). It's an interesting case, an odd idea and a pity there are going to be so many logistical obstacles.

The scenario is...

Toshiba (http://www.toshiba.com) has launched a new selection of notebook computers - but they look rather like Netbooks. Priced at the upper end of the cheaper notebook market (and the exact cost...

The iPhone's going to be sold by Orange (http://www.orange.co.uk) in the UK as well as 02 (http://www.02.co.uk). I confess I was surprised at the announcement since I'd assumed 02 taking on the Palm...

Occasionally you see something exciting, which is why I'm very pleased to tell you about WorkSnug (http://www.worksnug.com) - a new iPhone app, also coming to Android, I was shown by the founder a...

Another day, another Gmail (http://www.gmail.com) outage - well, that's the way it can start to seem. Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) was all a-quiver with how the system was down; people didn't...

1. Too easy 2. Too replaceable without spending money on an Apple engineer 3. Too cynical, I must stop saying these things.

Apple (http://www.apple.com) appears to be having battery issues again - it is reportedly asking iPhone 3Gs users to get in touch if their batteries are running down.

This tells us a number of...

This week I went to an annual press launch in London. Called PlayBite (http://www.myplaybite.com), it's not half as salacious as it sounds, just a group of companies that share the same PR company...

It was surreal to read today that Microsoft's Apple iPod killer, the Zune, has gone all high definition. That's to say that the new version announced today will have high-def capacity. Reaction has...

Schroeder, it was surely a matter of getting the revenue that's kept the Beatles off iTunes - as I said earlier there's simply no way it would have made sense to allow lower cost downloads on the day...

The UK has finally ratified the 802.11n standard for WiFi at last. Although we've had '802.11n-ready' kit on the market for a fair while, it hasn't been official as yet.

I can only hope people in...

Twitter (http://twitter.com) founder Biz Stone has confirmed that the network might take advertising at some stage. More specifically he's refused to say it won't. The company has just revised its...

Apple has launched new additions to its iPod range and improved two of its working environments, iPhone 3.1 software is out, and joined by a new version of the iTunes store.

Only...there isn't...

Worth checking reviews from Times and others on the remasters - independent types appear to think they're worth every penny. The original stereo-ification and CD releases had echoes put in and all...

You've missed the key point, though - the Beatles remasters are available for the first time anywhere at all today. Literally today, nobody's already got them. That wipes out points 4 and 7...