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March 31
- Gartner: worldwide smartphone demand to slow in 2016
- Why councils must prepare now for 2018 data protection rules
- Build 2016: Microsoft woos developers with Universal Windows Platform
March 30
- Investigatory Powers 'will cost UK £1 billion'
- Could your smartphone replace your passport?
- Amazon bans substandard USB-C cables
- Dell sheds services business ahead of EMC acquisition
March 29
- Foreign entrepreneurs run 1 in 5 UK start-ups
- Internet of Things tags will monitor Orkney seals population
- Home Office faces EU court battle over Snooper’s Charter
March 24
- TechUK brands Tier 2 immigration visa reforms 'disappointing'
- US to charge Iranian citizens with bank and New York dam cyber attacks
- Critical vulnerability discovered in OS X
March 23
- Government to invest £1.9 billion into cybersecurity
- Uber launches bug bounty programme with $10k prize
- Gov picks Canadian as next ICO chief
- Syrian Electronic Army put at top of FBI's Most Wanted list
March 22
- Ofcom tells BT Openreach to install leased lines faster
- Yahoo wants you to kill your passwords
March 21
- Amazon will disconnect your Kindle unless you download this patch
- Google Glass enterprise edition goes up for sale on eBay
- iMessage flaw lets hackers see your photos and videos
March 18
- BlackBerry reveals how it "fought back" against WhatsApp's decision to drop support
- Is Google preparing to sell Boston Dynamics robotics division?
- Employees 'care more about securing personal data than work data'
March 17
- Budget 2016: Northern Powerhouse rhetoric 'fails to inspire confidence'
- Budget 2016: Gov will create 5G strategy in 2017
- Will Windows 10 Mobile launch today?
March 16
- Google to display black cabs alongside Uber with new Maps update
- UK universities get hacked ‘once every hour’
- LastPass ups security with multi-factor authentication
- iCloud hack: could phishing scheme have been behind nude celebrity photo leak?
March 15
- Security experts uncover Steam malware suspected of hijacking 77K accounts per month
- CompTIA launches careers hub to boost IT apprenticeships
- Study reveals massive shortfall in endpoint security
- Facebook nudity policy criticised over picture of Aboriginal women
- AlphaGo emerges victorious in human vs AI Go battle
- IPB still not fit for purpose, say tech firms
- AlphaGo achieves near-divine status
March 14
- Google car crash "not a surprise", says US transport secretary
- Microsoft using Minecraft to experiment with AI technology
- Autonomous cars to be trialled on UK motorways in 2017
March 11
- BT Openreach commits to free FTTP for new housing
- Ofcom suffers major security breach
March 10
- Data on 20,000 ISIS recruits leaked to media
March 9
- Drone footage of Apple's $5 billion HQ shows you what 2.82 million square feet of office space looks like
- 59% of UK entrepreneurs under 35 now women, study finds
March 8
- Apple-certified ransomware affected fewer than 7,000 computers
- HP Inc’s ultra fast inkjets take aim at enterprises
- Google copyright removal requests double to 77 million
- Microsoft brings SQL Server to Linux
- GCHQ boss denies Snooper’s Charter will weaken encryption
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ breaks original Vega's crowdfunding record
- 4chan founder 'moot' joins Google
March 7
- Are risk-averse VCs harming UK start-ups' growth prospects?
- Samsung reveals 'largest ever' SSD at 15TB
- Amazon performs U-turn after dropping encryption from Fire tablets
- George Osborne wants to trial autonomous lorries in the UK
March 4
- Hypercat 'crowdsources' expert ideas for smart city project
- Facebook to pay significantly more in UK tax
- RSA 2016: Lawmakers "don't understand what's right and wrong"
March 3
- Stanford’s autonomous car hits speeds of 120 mph
- Just one-third of firms report cyber attacks to the police
March 2
- GDS wants councils to set the bar for local digital services
- EMC launches all-flash data centre storage arrays
- RSA 2016: US attorney general reveals UK data-sharing plan
- RSA 2016: Weakened encryption compromises national security
March 1
- Big data and IoT 'will bring £322bn to UK economy by 2020'
- Here are hackers' 10 favourite passwords
- John Lewis looks for eight IT apprentices
- NYPD to issue Windows Phones to 36,000 officers
- Facebook fined €100,000 for German consumer law breach
- One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus and is at least partly to blame