BEIJING (Reuters) – Google Inc’s Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world’s biggest email service with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the Great Firewall was to blame.

Facebook has apologised over its Year in Review feature after some users complained about the images chosen to sum up their 2014.

The US government has been willing to loosen its grip on satellite data but what about the info from other countries? Don’t worry that’s opening up as well. Russia has declared that the Earth-sensing data it collects from civilian satellites is now…

Your humble narrator doesn’t review too many gadgets so it’s always a treat when one hits the How Would You Change timetable. In my mind the BlackBerry Q5 was the company’s most important new device simply because it would show if BlackBerry could …

Hacker Jan Krissler claims to have cloned the fingerprint of a German politician using standard photographs taken at an event.

Controversial Sony film The Interview becomes the studio’s most downloaded film ever just four days after its release online.

Rory Cellan-Jones looks back at the big technology trends of 2014.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL] one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone makers has raised $1.1 billion in a round of funding that cements its status as one of the world’s most valuable private technology companies at a valuation of $45 billion.