Technology

Take a picture. Send a text. Play a game. Check email. Make a call. Get directions. Then, all this threatens to stop cold in an instant.A smartphone or tablet’s low battery warning is the only warning that most people...

Entertainment companies, broadband providers and the Government have teamed up for a major campaign to persuade UK consumers to use only legal download sites. The Creative Content UK campaign has today announced it will provide £3.5m to help with an...

Microsoft’s plan to compete with Netflix and Amazon by producing its own TV shows has come to an early end, as the firm announces 18,000 job cuts.Xbox Entertainment Studio will close by the end of the year, Xbox chief...

A Spanish court has ordered blocks on six file-sharing sites to be lifted.All six sites were blocked in May after being accused of infringing copyright by the Spanish anti-piracy federation. The block meant mobile operators and internet service providers (ISPs)...

Apple has been criticised by the European Commission for not offering any “concrete and immediate” plans to stop users being misled by “free” apps.Many popular apps are free to download, but are designed to tempt users to pay for...

Samsung Electronics said five of its Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets that come with its enterprise security software recently received approval from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, allowing them to be listed as an option for officials. The five devices...

Microsoft employees are bracing for news of up to 12,000 layoffs in the run-up to CEO Satya Nadella’s conference call with Wall Street analysts late Tuesday.Earlier this week, Bloomberg News cited unnamed sources to report layoffs were planned and...

Civil rights activists are turning up pressure on Twitter to publicly release the gender and ethnic breakdown of its flock of employees. And they are doing it by waging an attention-grabbing campaign on Twitter. Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition...

Apple(AAPL, Tech30) and IBM (IBM, Tech30) on Tuesday announced a partnership to leverage each company’s strengths. Starting this fall, Apple is delivering devices exclusively to IBM, which “Big Blue” will then prep with industry-specific apps for business customers. The idea...

Apple primarily relies on white and Asian men for its top-paying technology jobs, feeding the perception that Silicon Valley’s economic boom is largely excluding women, blacks and Hispanics. A breakdown released Tuesday by Apple Inc. showed 54 percent of the...