A competition has been launched to find better ways of exchanging information between copyright holders and end users, giving companies in the UK the chance to win up to £37,000, to bring their ideas to life.

The Smartphone Champ blog has publicised a major security flaw within Google Wallet that can give hackers access to your Google Prepaid Card through the simple act of resetting your PIN. The blog discovered the flaw when it noticed that the Google Wallet Prepaid Card is not connected to a user's Google account, but rather, to the user's device.

Japan's largest mobile operator is prepping an elaborate testing centre, with hundreds of handsets monitored by streaming web cameras, to help software developers debug their apps on the growing morass of Android devices and software versions.

Still some way to go to reach one-in-four target

JANET, the UK’s government-funded research and education network, has announced its first cloud infrastructure framework, incorporating technology from eight selected suppliers.

Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual Machine.

There are only a few days to Valentine's Day. Those of you who are shocked by that revelation are prime targets for Valentine's Day related spam and phishing attacks as hackers hope to catch you with your guard down for this day of romance.

Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds.

Satnav manufacturer TomTom has joined forcers with insurance broker Motaquote to launch a new car insurance product that rewards safe drivers with lower costs.

Sony's new CEO says the company needs to move on from its hardware roots.

Google is planning to enter the home entertainment market with a Google-branded wireless device that streams music within a house, according to reports in the US.

Start-up companies should focus more on their customers than on raising finance, the CEO of British computer chip designer ARM has said.

Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for devices that use ARM chips, outlining in a lengthy blog post different ways in which this OS, called WOA and still in the works, will be alike and different from existing versions of Windows.

The UK Department for Transport is urging businesses in London to adopt flexible working practices ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games, in order to avoid “ life in the slow lane”.

Microsoft is set to deliver nine security updates next week, four of them critical, to patch 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, .Net and Silverlight.

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company.

The FBI has made public a background investigation of Steve Jobs in 1991, when he was being considered by the George H. W. Bush administration for a spot on the President's Export Council.

Google Wallet, the new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card, can be compromised using a brute-force attack - and that raises questions about its security.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have unveiled the new Ultrastar SSD400S.B, which it describes as the first enterprise-class, single-level cell NAND flash solid-state drive (SSD) that uses 25nm technology.

Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.

Security company Trusteer has discovered a ‘factory outlet’ selling user logins for Facebook and Twitter harvested as a sideline during attempts to steal online bank credentials.

Raspberry Pi Foundation's £20 PC will become available by the end of this month, and buyers hope it could fill in as a low-power desktop, while being an alternative to more expensive open source hardware.

A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development model, according to researchers from cyberthreat management firm Seculert.

Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow.

Almost three-quarters of data centres now have energy management policies in place – a massive leap since before the launch of the government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme in 2010.