Eric Schmidt, Google's talkative executive chairman, has launched a mini offensive over the company's controversial UK tax affairs, claiming Google is a key element of the tech scene that's driving the UK's recovering economy so we ought to be grateful for its presence instead of moaning about its suspiciously low tax bills. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"no, my argument is that I expect companies to be evil, only google told us they were different, that they were good... so Mr Schmidt should understand..." More »
It's that time of year again, the global rich list has just been updated allowing you to work our precisely where you are in the global money-grubbing rankings. Simply enter your salary into the spangly new box and hey presto, feel miles better about your miserable existence. Read More >>
China's not happy with all the risqué content Apple's apparently trying to push to its citizens. The state-run The People's Daily, named and shamed Apple in a porno-shock investigation, labelling it as one of the biggest providers of the sordid material behind the Great Firewall of China. Oh the irony. Read More >>
HTC has announced that it made just £1.8 million in the first three months of 2013, which Bloomberg claims is its slimmest profit on record. Read More >>
Featured comment by njcsolutions:
"My first android phone, was the HTC Desire, it was amazing at the time good quality build, still working today in fact, my dad uses it. I upgraded to ..." More »
Looks like all 140 remaining HMV stores will stay open thanks to Hilco UK (beating out ASDA), which bought out HMV's debt, and previously managed to turn around HMV in Canada. 2,500 staff will keep their jobs, and even some stores originally set to close have been taken off the chopping block. That brings the total closed to 90 stores, far less than originally feared. [Sky via MCV] Read More >>
Yes, you can stop making fun of Windows Phone now, because believe it or not, there's a handful of real, non-tinpot countries where Apple's darling iPhone gets outsold by Windows Phone devices. Read More >>
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"What?
The sentence was "you have to try their Pierogi Samosas their delicious" the "their I was correcting was the second one not the first, which ..." More »
Apple might be famous for its ability to patent rounded corners and the letter 'i', but it looks like whole words are off-limits to it. The body that rules on patents in the US, the Patents and Trademarks Office, has finally got round to ruling on Apple's application to trademark 'iPad Mini', and they've put their foot down in a decidedly firm and anti-Apple way. Read More >>
Jessops was probably the most annoying High Street shut-down to happen earlier this year, and certainly one of the most tragic. However, you can wipe away those tears (with an appropriately soft micro-fibre cloth, of course), because Jessops is back TODAY, complete with photos of Peter Jones looking awkward in a cheapo-polyester fleece. Read More >>
One Australian shop owner has had enough of people poking around her stuff before rudely running off home to order it cheaper on the internet, and is now charging people a $5 browsing fee to enter the shop. Read More >>
Featured comment by coastwalker:
"if they provide $5 worth of hands on time I'd pay, I'd pay even more if the shop had experts on hand to go through the pro's and cons of the products...." More »
Ofcom's looking into ways of stopping controversial mid-contract mobile price rises, with one option being to separate charges the networks are responsible for from ones outside of their control. This, says Vodafone, could mean non-stop SMS spam every time a sex chat line ups its fees. Read More >>
WifiSLAM, a location company that sounds like the lovechild of a start-up and a WWE wrestler, has been bought up by Apple for £13m. Let's hope they don't screw this one up as badly as Maps. Read More >>
Tim Berners-Lee, the internet's loveable dad, has teamed up with Google's UK team to launch an innovation quest over here, with Chromebooks, tech help and £500,000 on offer to those who come up with the best not-for-profit tech startups. Read More >>
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"seems like the perfect opportunity to take up Gates' offer and make a new condom whilst also getting support from Berners-Lee and Branson.
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Britain's economy might be going tits-up, but there's one tiny pin-prick of light at the end of a very long tunnel: Blockbuster, one of the biggies in January's horror-show of business failures, is being saved from total doom. Huzza! Read More >>
Featured comment by Ian:
"Who still wants to buy and keep media? I have vinyl, cassettes, CDs, VHS and DVDs galore; I'd much rather rent or download new stuff, so I don't need..." More »
Blah blah deficit debt cuts reform monetary policy gah. Words. Very important words though -- our new Twitter-friend George's budget determines what the government spends and where for the next year. That has a huge impact on technology, science, and almost everything we care about. Read More >>
Featured comment by milesharrison:
"I looked up the tax rates and now I'm totally confused. Ignore what I said perhaps. "Rate £ per hectolitre per cent of alcohol
in the beer" is £19...." More »
If you see George Osborne pausing, repeatedly reaching for his phone and going quiet for 30 seconds during today's budget, it'll be because he's joined the modern world and is live-tweeting the event himself on his new Twitter account. Read More >>
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"That is amazing, considering the upload was before the last election... how spooky (not), all their predictions are coming to pass. Proper hilarious t..." More »
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