Google is attempting to shunt users away from old browsers by intentionally serving up a stale version of the ad giant's search homepage to those holdouts.

A Google employee, meanwhile, said that the tactic was deliberate in a move to flush out stick-in-the-mud types who insisted on using older versions of browsers.

A massive leak of intimate pictures from a raft of celebrity cloud-based image storage accounts has raised questions about how much we know about cloud security.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the matter but the company is thought to be actively investigating any potential breach of its systems.

Microsoft announced that they are shutting down the 15 year old MSN Messenger.

Microsoft is encouraging it's users to move to Skype. Users on MSN Messenger will have to shift to Skype within October 31. MSN users that move to Skype will also receive free credit.

A recent weak economic performance and the conflict with Ukraine have combined with Moscow's commitment to intervene less with the value of the rouble, said Mr Narain.

The turmoil in the financial markets is happening as the war of words between Russia and the West intensifies. Nato has accused Russia of a "blatant violation" of Ukraine's sovereignty and engaging in direct military operations to support pro-Russian rebels.

The company said that its Project Wing craft will provide unmanned craft which could bring light deliveries to people in areas where automobile or large-scale airmail deliveries are impractical or not possible.

The company has been testing working on the project for more than two years and says it is currently testing a small fleet of craft in Australia.

The orbits were lower than planned, elliptical instead of round, and set at the wrong angle. Worse, it may not be possible reroute them.

If they cannot be rescued, ESA may use them for technology demonstrations.

The state-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records (Pacer) service deleted numerous court documents deemed incompatible with a software upgrade.

"It's fundamental that justice is not done behind locked doors, but in public view," he added, citing the US Constitution's demand that legal records be made freely available.

The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies.

ICREACH contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The documents suggest these results can be used reveal the “social network” of the person of interest—in other words, those that they communicate with, such as friends, family, and other associates.

The customer assured the rep that his antivirus had not spotted anything and that his Wi-Fi network is secured. That's when the rep replied that "it's probably a virus" or "too heavy," apparently saying the download was taking up too much space.

In this case, the rep may have been working from an offshore call center and seemed to lack basic knowledge about the kinds of applications customers use with Comcast service.

Microsoft piles on the security features in a bid to lure government agencies over to the Windows Phone 8.1 camp.

IBM announced in June that it was opening two new SoftLayer-based cloud data centers for U.S. government workloads. Anne Altman, general manager of IBM's US Federal division, said in a statement that her company "designed these centers with government clients' needs in mind, investing in added security features and redundancies to provide a high level of availability."