World Health Organisation changes stance, now says mobile phones may cause cancer

It's been long feared yet never proven - either way, mobiles have now made it to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) list of things that may cause cancer. A report issued yesterday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a department within the WHO, has mobile listed in the "carcinogenic hazards" category, alongside…

Ebay complains about the state of UK mobile broadband coverage

Ebay has complained to Ofcom about the shoddy state of mobile broadband coverage around the UK. It keeps the people from spending, says the retailer, and stifles economic growth in the process. Apparently eBay's beef is with places like rural Wales and the Scottish highlands, or the 16% of the UK which is an "m-commerce…

Superinjunctions, privacy and the Battle of Twitter

The outing of Ryan Giggs was a victory for gossips everywhere, if nothing else. We will refrain from getting into the discussion about whether Giggs' morals are any of our business, and instead keep to what us geeks find to be the more interesting element here: the tech side of the story. It was the…

Rumour: Twitter to launch photo-sharing service

Until now we've had to use outside services such as Twitpic and Instagr.am to share pictures on Twitter - this could all be set to change. Twitter is expected to present plans for its own photo-sharing service at this week's D9 conference in California, in a speech expected tomorrow from CEO Dick Costolo. TechCrunch, first…

Iran considers blocking internet and introduce a national "halal" web

It's like saying the forest would be nice if only there weren't so many trees. It seems the Iranian authorities like the internet, it's just too bad about all these various opinions floating around. Now it seems the Iranian government is more determined than ever to solve this "problem" with the internet, with reports claiming…

National Trust introduces talking benches, celebrities lend their voices

Stephen Fry may well be a national treasure, and now we'll get to listen to him while visiting some of the country's other treasures too. Plonk yourself down on one of the National Trust's new benches and Mr Fry will pop out of the woodwork (so to speak), with a little bit of information on…

Tech more important than sense of smell now, apparently

At least that's the conclusion in a new study called 'The truth about youth', where 53% of 16-22 year olds said they would rather give up their sense of smell than give up their technology. The research was conducted by McCann Worldgroup, which spoke with 7,000 people between 16 and 30 across UK, USA, Spain,…

The hunter within: Facebook founder Zuckerberg eats only what he kills

Literally so, that is - Mark Zuckerberg has revealed how he will only eat meat from animals that he himself have killed. Jamie Oliver may be pleased to hear how Zuckerberg is raising consciousness about where we get our meat from - after all those school children are having all that trouble making the connection…

Google launches electronic wallet, sued by PayPal over trade secrets

PayPal claims Google played dirty in developing Google Wallet, its new electronic payment system. The payments group has now filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the tech giant poached key PayPal staff in order to get access to PayPal's business secrets. PayPal executive Osama Bedier jumped ship earlier this year after nine years at PayPal,…