The breach in ASIO reportedly revealed all the plans to the spy agency's brand-new headquarters, which would give significant advantages to spies attempting to infiltrate the building, either physically or electronically.
"What we are doing is legal. I'm rather perplexed by this debate, which has been going in the UK for some time, because I view taxes as not optional," the former Google CEO and current chairman said today.
Editor's Pick "Something very interesting is happening here," Google's top Canadian employee, Steve Woods, told me. "This area has a very high proportion of startups to population. Google loves startups … and we love to hire entrepreneurial people."
After being Amazon.com's best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home.
Produced in Association with UKTI Little Riot is a Newcastle, UK-based startup that makes one of the more intriguing hardware products we've come across. It's called Pillow Talk, and it lets you hear your long-distance loved one's heartbeat.
Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreesseen win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Produced in Association with UKTI A score of UK-based companies showed off their stuff at SXSW in Austin this year. We've got rapid-fire interviews with more than a dozen of them right here, so you can get their pitches in less than 90 seconds apiece.
Interestingly, Sir Robin had publicly criticized Apple for what he thought was a lack of integrity.
Guest Post The mobile industry has clearly shifted to the U.S., but it has also led to a rise in European mobile app development.
PayPal is entering the European market with its Here product, a mobile payments system that competes directly with Square.
London is heating up as an international hub of technology innovation in today's round up of funding news.
But, for at least an hour, there was a job posting on the UK government's website for an James Bond-style "elimination specialist." And yeah, the job code was 007.
Of all the silliness in Apple and Samsung's international legal spats, the drama surrounding a court-ordered apology that Apple had to make on its U.K. site ranks among the most shameless.
We weren't the only ones who found Apple's UK court-ordered note, in which it admitted that Samsung didn't copy the iPad's design, somewhat lackluster.
What skills are startups looking for in a new hire? Duedil and Adzuna just analyzed 2,697 startup job vacancies in the UK to find out.
Add watchdog to the list of duties now on required of U.K. Internet service providers. The nation’s communications regulator, Ofcom, today rolled out a draft code demanding ISPs watch out for piracy, record how many warnings are given suspected offenders, …
Bonjour, Amazon App Store! The e-commerce company announced today that developers will soon be able to sell their apps in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany.
The Amazon App Store, which currently serves both the company’s own Kindle Fire …
Trollism is a very real problem on the web, and Facebook just took part in a landmark case to shed light on the identities of trolls who do real harm.
A 45-year-old woman named Nicola Brookes (pictured above) brought the …
Apple has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a legal complaint accusing the company of misleading Australian consumers about whether the new iPad included “4G” data abilities, according to The Australian.
In late March, we heard the Australia’s Competition …
Looks like it’s not just the newspapers snooping on UK citizens. The government itself has reported internal breaches, according to information released in a Freedom of Information request.
Over 1,000 breaches of personal information have occurred in the last year …
