Geoff White
Crime is changing, and technology is playing a major role
News last week that crime rates had fallen to a record low gives an indication as to how that shift is taking place.
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Is Apple teaching Google a lesson in internet ethics?
Apple is teaming up with privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo to offer an alternative to internet giant Google.
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End of the road for Windows XP – but should you be worried?
If you’ve not bought a new computer recently, you could be vulnerable to cyber-attack, writes Harry Horton.
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Geoff White
Did UK spooks use NSA data to spy on Britons?
A new report on how GCHQ and the UK’s other spy agencies used NSA data is published – but it leaves many questions still unanswered.
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Geoff White
Apple: a history in three bites
Apple has thrived by turning existing products into beautiful machines, then monetising them over their lifetime. But with no genuinely new product in the pipeline, has it lost its creative drive?
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Geoff White
Google’s censorship move ‘no great leap forward’
Any action to combat the spread of child sexual abuse images online is welcome, but this looks like a tweak to existing measures rather than a radical overhaul.
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UK spies ‘gobsmacked’ by extent of US encryption hacking
US and UK spy agencies have cracked internet encryption giving them wide-ranging access to supposedly secure internet data, according to further revelations from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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From wellies to tellies: Nokia’s rise and fall
Once undisputed king of the mobile phone, the 150-year-old Nokia has been snapped up by Microsoft after struggling to master the smartphone.
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Death of a City intern: overstressed and overworked?
The death of a young intern at banking firm Merrill Lynch is blamed on overwork. But why is the culture of long hours so endemic? Is it ambition – or pressure from the top?
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Geoff White
Watchdog gets new powers to tackle child sex abuse images
After a meeting with Culture Secretary Maria Miller, technology companies agree to give the watchdog for child sex images online the power to seek out content, rather than just following up leads. But is it enough?
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Ban Ki Moon urges Israel and Hamas to stop escalation
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon calls on Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” to avoid further bloodshed in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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US brokers Knight Capital lose $440m on zombie trading
45 minutes of rapid-fire bogus computer trades cause Knight Capital’s shares to plunge by 75 per cent, and further undermines confidence in the ability of technology to drive stock markets.
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Microsoft reveals iPad rival Surface
Software giant Microsoft unveils its new range of Surface tablet computers aimed at regaining ground lost to Apple’s iPad.
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Facebook: smiling all the way to the stock market?
A crazy bubble price, or a sensational bargain? Channel 4 News Business Producer Ben King assesses rumours Facebook is about to launch on the public stock market, valued at $100bn.
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Opening the Gates: new funds to combat killer diseases
Microsoft boss Bill Gates pledges a multi-million pound donation to the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria – but his philanthropy means far more than just immediate cash.
