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Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?

Microsoft's reportedly dumping the Start Button in Windows 8 realizing it's not getting used, after years of fiddling

New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums

TomTom signs up with Motaquote to stuff spy in GPS box

Applications 8 Feb 16:18

Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war

Letter to telecoms body begs for level playing field

Applications 8 Feb 15:31

Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox

Telemetry has no UUID, Metrics Data Ping might

Desktop 8 Feb 15:14

LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option

Social-network-for-suits finally gets some SSL love

Software 8 Feb 14:02

Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating

Adobe confirms Flashless browsing

Applications 8 Feb 13:17

Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword!

Bostock and three directors quit ailing web biz to save it

Software 8 Feb 12:42

Amazon 'rolling out a retail store in Seattle'

Apple Store-inspired Kindle-pushing boutique rumoured...

Software 8 Feb 11:14

Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle

But they must be free. And will need an Android app

Applications 8 Feb 08:03

'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs

Thanks to Apple, Google, Facebook...

Developer 8 Feb 01:15

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

Robyn Bergeron takes the reins

Operating Systems 7 Feb 23:24

Google adds Chrome finish to Android

Ice Cream Sandwich users only, sadly

Applications 7 Feb 19:33

Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb

Axed KDE-based Linux distro was biz non-starter

Operating Systems 7 Feb 18:03

TRENDnet home security cam flaw exposes thousands

Just when you thought you were alone in the bath

Software 7 Feb 17:01

Google's whack-a-mole Marketplace cleans house again

Rovio Mobile, not Rovio MobiIe

Developer 7 Feb 16:44

Mac OS X ARM port by Apple work experience kid revealed

Project sparks non-Intel-powered MacBook rumour fever

Operating Systems 7 Feb 12:21

Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?

Era of Windows 95 finally over

Operating Systems 7 Feb 11:44

Adobe adds Flash sandboxing to Firefox

Hackers bypass it in 3, 2…

Applications 7 Feb 01:29

Google limits Android support for CDMA phones

Android power users may face hobbled handsets

Operating Systems 7 Feb 00:59

Oracle wins round in Java patent lawsuit against Google

Appeals court allows incriminating Mountain View email

Operating Systems 7 Feb 00:57

Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers

'I am sworn to carry your burdens'

Software 6 Feb 17:23

iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap

Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberware

Applications 6 Feb 16:59

An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...

MS mulls partying like it's 1996....

Operating Systems 6 Feb 15:57

Apple kicks China's most popular browser out of iTunes

Bans Qihoo apps from its store ...

Applications 6 Feb 15:01

Apple tells authors: All your books iBook files are belong to us

But you can export them as PDFs if you want

Applications 6 Feb 14:39

BTJunkie closes shooting gallery

'My life is officially ruined'

Applications 6 Feb 13:44

Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown

iBooks enlists kiddies on the EPUB3 front

Developer 6 Feb 12:34

Amazon lures Microsoft WinPhone chief with Kindle

Etailer claims third Redmond scalp

Developer 6 Feb 11:47

iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android

Is it an upgrade problem, or a user problem?

Applications 6 Feb 11:32

Facebook's IPO unveils plans to invade China

Social network would love to tap that

Applications 6 Feb 09:58

Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan

Part 3 More performance-tuning for your home and office

Software 4 Feb 11:03

iPhones yanked from German shelves in Motorola patent war

Apple takes down 4 and 3G models - for now

Operating Systems 3 Feb 14:37

Apple FileVault cracked in under an hour by forensics biz

Passware scratches Lion's belly, penetrates fruity disk

Operating Systems 3 Feb 14:02

Nokia pours oil on burning Symbian

Exclusive Rips up roadmap, axes development

Developer 3 Feb 13:38

Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at boffins

Security though obscurity fails yet again

Software 3 Feb 12:22

RIM shot at Android: Free PlayBooks for devs

Knock up an app before Valentine's, get 16GB love-slab

Developer 3 Feb 11:44

Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report

Apple-flavoured future features leaked

Operating Systems 3 Feb 11:01

'We're totally in LA pissing people off'

Quotw Plus 'The horror!'

Software 3 Feb 10:01

Facebook's Googly IPO delivers on Sun man's vision

Selling data ain't like shiftin' boxes, boy

Applications 3 Feb 09:01

BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux

Set-top box software to be torn out and replaced over the net

Operating Systems 3 Feb 08:04

Dell names ex-CA CEO as software chief

Cloud on Michael's mind?

Software 2 Feb 16:21

Fotoshop by Adobé: The miracle beauty treatment

'My skin feels like plastic!' gasps blemish-free babe

Applications 2 Feb 13:47

French court lays le smackdown on Google Maps

Fined for unfair competition in online cartography

Applications 2 Feb 13:29

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