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Who wants to be cycling's 'secret sauce' anyway?

When big vendors take on major sporting sponsorships, the first thing that usually happens is lots of shiny happy marketing material about just how the vendor's technology will propel athletes to success.…

By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is expected to clear Apple, Samsung and BlackBerry mobile devices for use on Defense Department networks in the next few weeks, part of an effort to ensure the military has access to the latest communications technology, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The decision will set the stage for an intensified struggle for Pentagon customers among BlackBerry devices, Apple's iPhones or iPads and units using Google's Android platform such as Samsung Electronics' phones. ...

Numbers show that while the tech giant still reigns in tablet shipments, it's growing at a slower rate than Samsung, Amazon, Asus, and Microsoft.

Apple is expected to show off iOS 7 at the Worldwide Developers Conference, but the product design guru's desire to modify the software could cause a launch delay.

Gamer creates a 3-foot status bar filled with water that changes color and level based on his character's health in the video game Terraria.

Many fans think a "Star Wars" film just wouldn't feel right without John Williams' signature symphonic sound. Director J.J. Abrams seems to agree.

(Reuters) - UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a probe into whether BT Group is abusing its dominant position when pricing its superfast broadband, following a complaint by smaller rival TalkTalk Telecom Group. Ofcom said it was in the early stages of an investigation into BT. BT, the biggest fixed-line operator in the country, allows rival operators to take its superfast fiber product on a wholesale basis at the same fee at which it sells it to its own retail arm, BT Retail. ...

The Rolling Stones legend doesn't own an iPod and doesn't want one. He believes the sound quality just isn't all that. Let's hear it for the CD.

In an exclusive interview, Zelda series director and producer Eiji Aonuma talks to CNET's Jeff Bakalar about the sequel to 1992's A Link to the Past on the Nintendo 3DS.

By Phil Wahba (Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc, recognizing it made mistakes in its attempt to re-invent itself last year, launched a social media and television campaign on Wednesday that asked shoppers who left in droves to come back. Last year, sales plunged 25 percent after recently ousted Chief Executive Ron Johnson largely eliminated the use of coupons and sales in favor of regular, low prices. It was a disastrous move that alienated Penney shoppers who were accustomed to expecting coupons and deals. Penney posted a video on Facebook featuring images of classic J.C. ...

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc, its Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of banks asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing the social media company of misleading investors about its financial condition before its $16 billion initial public offering a year ago. The defendants said in court papers on Wednesday that before the IPO last May 18, Facebook had no obligation to publicly disclose internal projections on how increased mobile usage and product decisions might affect future revenue, even if it had provided the projections to its underwriters' analysts. They said the U.S. ...

As the shine wears off the first sparkling new Google Glass headsets out in the wild, the earliest of adopters have started to discover myriad problems with the wearable computers. Beyond aesthetics, professional Glass reviewers and amateur experimenters alike have reported some issues — bad battery life, a bad fit, vulnerability to hackers, and beyond — that might make future buyers reconsider the $1,500 investment when the glasses are available to the masses. ...

The company is expected to show off iOS 7 at the Worldwide Developers Conference, but Jonathan Ive's desire to modify the software could cause some delays in launch.

Jefferies analyst Peter Misek says that the device will launch sometime next summer, but believes the iPhone 5S will draw customers in with different color options.

Torrent freaks are off to the tropics

The Pirate Bay has fled to the Caribbean after Swedish authorities launched yet another attempt to seize its domain name.…

French gov cries 'Non!' to $300m video slurp

Yahoo! has had to give up its attempt to take a controlling stake in French video startup Dailymotion after the government intervened, according to media reports.…

Investors gobble up the debt offering, the proceeds of which will be used to fund dividends and share repurchases.

E-reader now cheaper than hardbacks, most textbooks

In a perhaps desperate bid to drum up sales, Barnes & Noble is selling its Nook E Ink-based e-book reader for a pound less than 30 quid - a discount of £50 - in the UK.…

LONDON (AP) — The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best known purveyors of surveillance software.

By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) - In November 2012, Google's Vice President for Northern and Central Europe was called to an oak-paneled conference room overlooking the Thames to testify to a parliamentary committee about how firms like his reap billions in revenue in Britain but pay very little corporate income tax. Matt Brittin, dressed in a fitted blue suit and open-necked white shirt, smiled confidently as he explained that Google Inc. wasn't liable for taxation on UK sales because these were all handled from its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. ...

By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) - Executives from Google Inc. and its auditor Ernst & Young will be called again to a British parliament committee to testify on tax, after a Reuters investigation highlighted inconsistencies in the way Google portrays its activities in Britain, the committee's chairwoman told Reuters. Margaret Hodge, head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is tasked with ensuring value in government financial affairs, said she would summon the companies' representatives to explain previous comments to the committee in light of the report. ...

Trends and shipment estimates indicate that the iPad Mini is overwhelming the iPad in popularity.

Must be willing to die off-planet and on-air

A Netherlands-based non-profit group called Mars One is seeking video applications from pioneers willing to take a one-way trip to Mars and become stars in a new interplanetary reality show.…

Doctor Who on your Android slablet to follow?

The BBC's mobile iPlayer client, which allows iOS users to download the national broadcaster's programmes for connectionless viewing, is now using digital rights management from embedded solutions player Inside Secure, which should herald the long-promised Android support.…

Website beats Raspberry Pi, The Shard, Olympics et al

It's a website with all the visual flair you would expect from something designed by "cool" Whitehall bureaucrats.…

When free ain't 'free' cos there's a 50 quid fee

Budget ISP TalkTalk has been warned to be careful with how its uses the term "free" in the future, after the telco was found by the ads watchdog to have "misled" customers over claims it had made about one of its promotional deals.…

Asks partner to do him the honour of being his widow

One of Britain's most popular fiction and science fiction authors Iain Banks, or Iain M Banks for lovers of his science fiction, has revealed that he has cancer and is unlikely to live longer than a year.…

'Visionary' who gave us the Magic Silicon Roundabout

Rohan Silva, the Downing Street wonk behind the fabulous soaraway Silicon Roundabout, is leaving politics to join a venture-capital firm closely associated with his biggest initiative.…

PowerPC, x86, and MIPS can run, but they can't hide

The non-profit Linaro software engineering effort , established two summers ago to whip the Linux kernel and add-ons to create the Linux platform for mobile devices, is setting its sights on myriad networking devices.…

You'll never moan about the price of Thunderbolt cables again

Feature If you think you know all about the O2 Arena having visited it when it was called the Millennium Dome, then think again.…

Free Windows Server alternative gains modern features

The team behind the Samba Project has released version 4.0 of its open source Windows interoperability software suite, the first version to offer full compatibility with Microsoft's Active Directory protocols.…