HealthSpace, the NHS' electronic personal records service, will be shut down by March 2013. The organiser, which allows patients and their clinicians to securely access, record and manage personal health data, is too complicated...

RealNetworks, the company that created the Real media player and pioneered music streaming in the late 1990s, has created a compensation fund to repay some users over its allegedly fraudulent e-commerce practices. A complaint...

A merger between two user generated review platforms has been announced, with the transaction worth $150 million (an estimated £96 million) including stock. Software solution experts Bazaarvoice - who went public earlier...

Developers say they are hugely disappointed that Microsoft will not allow them to use the free version of the latest Visual Studio Express to create apps for Windows 8. The company recently laid out its plan for the new iteration...

Apple has to face yet another high-profile contender in court over a patent infringement dispute. This time, it's SightSound Technologies, a company which General Electric owns a 50 per cent share in. The company is accusing...

The newly discovered friendship in the tech world between Foxconn and Sharp, will be put to work on a new project. Foxconn's parent company, Hon Hai Precision Industry, plans to build a new plant in Chengdu, China, to manufacture...

Enabled by the Obama administration, America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is on the brink of rolling out a specialist electronic surveillance unit with the power to spy on Skype conversations and other Internet...

A rumour has appeared on Chinese websites, suggesting that Foxconn employees in the country could receive a doubling of their pay packet, increasing it from around £220 a month, to £440.  This seems a little...

Working from home no longer seems to be the stress-free option for mobile employees, in light of new research from Wi-Fi network provider iPass. According to the company's worldwide survey on 1,700 mobile workers, almost...

The US Government has launched an online propaganda campaign in Yemen to counter Al-Qaeda's web recruitment drive. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spoken publicly of the tactics employed by the Centre for Strategic...

The ESA, the company behind the longstanding games expo E3, has blasted critics of the show, saying that it is still incredibly relevant.  While E3 has arguably become smaller and less necessary over the past few years, some...

Sony has rolled out its Music Unlimited service on Apple's iOS platform, months after it was released for Android users, in a bid to catch up with the likes of Spotify which have long been present on the iPhone and the iPad. Two...

Sony has a new patent that is sure to get gamers excited: a method of displaying adverts mid-game, by pausing the action and throwing a commercial at you before resuming.  Filed back in June of 2011 and known as...

Over half of GAME's staff have been let go from Australian stores, with 264 being made redundant from their retail outlet positions and another 17 fired from the head office.  While sad, it's not massively surprising. This...

A partnership between Google and the non-profit group Teach First hopes to improve the UK's computer science curriculum. Google chairman Eric Schmidt said the tech giant would fund the training of "more than 100 first rate...