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How would you change the BlackBerry Q5?

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 …

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Fingerprint ‘cloned from photos’

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

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Sony’s Interview makes $15m online

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

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VIDEO: Technology’s biggest trends of 2014

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

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China’s Xiaomi raises $1.1 billion from investors at $45 billion valuation

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.

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The Bank of England is using Facebook and Twitter to help set interest rates

When you’re the central bank in charge of determining interest rates for millions of UK inhabitants being able to predict economic trends is of paramount importance. To do this the Bank of England has numerous tools at its disposal but research of…

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The 12 tech months of 2014

A look back at 12 months as measured out by technology stories.

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‘The Interview’ and the aftermath

After a very public admonition by President Barack Obama Sony Pictures released The Interview to Google Play YouTube the PlayStation and Xbox stores and now iTunes to say nothing of over 300 independent theaters across the United States in time f…