Toro Rosso debut the STR10 in Spain

Toro Rosso took the wraps off their 2015 car in the Jerez pit lane on Saturday afternoon, just a few hours before the first of this year's three pre-season tests gets underway at the Spanish circuit. The Renault-powered STR10 will be raced by the team's all-rookie driver line-up of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr, with the latter due behind the wheel first on Sunday

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Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to FINALLY kill off hated zombie stalkers

This time opt-out actually means opt-out, we're told

Verizon has backed down over its mandatory fingerprinting of subscribers using so-called "super-cookies".…

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Three to pleasure bumpkins with 800Mhz

Broadband boost before O2 craps all over it

Hutchison's Three will finally launch into the prime 800Mhz band later this year, which it expects will improve rural coverage significantly.…

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Smartphones merge into homogeneous mass as 'flagship fatigue' bites

Latest handset? Punters say 'meh'. It's all about networks now, prays Three

People are turning away from pricey "flagship" smartphones sold on complicated expensive contracts, according to industry figures.…

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Mobe-hungry BT's sales slip over Xmas amid EE buyout silence

Firm can't ignore £7bn pensions deficit much longer

Sales at one-time state telco monopoly BT fell by three per cent to £4.48bn in its third quarter, the company announced today.…

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Vettel and Raikkonen ready to be patient with new Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen have warned against expecting immediate results from Ferrari in 2015, saying that patience will be key to the Scuderia's hopes of returning to the front of the Formula One grid. Vettel, who joined the Scuderia from Red Bull ahead of the new season, says his focus is on building a platform for success in the long-term

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Whee! BT preps for FIVE HUNDRED MEGABIT broadband trial

If it works it'll go nationwide, says telco's top dog

BT has announced that it wants to roll out G.fast and fibre to the home to provide internet speeds of up to 500Mbps and 1Gbps.…

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Oracle is BETTER at cloud than everyone else so NER, shouts Hurd (no Katz)

Laser focus on self embiggenment, says co-chief

Oracle’s co-CEO Mark Hurd is banging the drum for the database giant’s success in cloud computing.…

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Ferrari reveal their 2015 car, the SF15-T

Ferrari have officially unveiled the SF15-T, the car the Italian team hope will return them to winning ways in 2015. The new machine, which will be driven by Ferrari's all-world champion driver line-up of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, features, amongst other things, a distinctive long flat nose and revised sidepods

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Sky sidles up to O2, whispers: 'Fancy a little FOUR-PLAY?'

It's been a long time coming *fnarr fnarr*

As we predicted, Sky is to launch an MVNO and get competitive against the other networks' four-play offerings.…

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Sauber unveil newly liveried C34

Sauber took the covers off their 2015 car on Friday, and revealed a brand-new blue and yellow colour scheme. The Ferrari-powered C34, to be raced by the team's all-new driver line-up of Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr, succeeds the disappointing C33 which last year became the first F1 car produced by the Swiss team not to score a single point

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Hey, America. Canada's watchdog just slapped net neutrality rules on wireless internet

Decision breaks down arbitrary divide between web and TV

A decision by Canadian telecoms regulator CRTC may have significant implications after it applied net neutrality rules to wireless connections.…

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Amazon, flush with cash, says it will let you peek inside AWS' pants

Plans to break out numbers for cloud biz for first time this year

Amazon left smiles on investors' faces on Thursday following a fourth-quarter earnings report that trounced analysts' estimates.…

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Mobile broadband giants blow $45bn on Uncle Sam's finest air

FCC closes spectrum auction with four-times more dosh than it had dreamed of

Cell networks in the US have spent $44.9bn buying the rights to use a chunk of the American government's airwaves for wireless broadband networks.…

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Mercedes shakedown F1 W06 Hybrid

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg got their first taste of Mercedes' 2015 Formula One car as the reigning champion team completed their first day of running during a promotional event at Silverstone. Rosberg was first to sample the F1 W06 Hybrid, with Hamilton then taking over - although a blizzard brought the day to a premature close, with the duo having completed 18 laps in total

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FCC SEXES up, er, sextuples 'broadband' speed to 25Mbps in US

Minimum downlink rate up from 'dated and inadequate' 4Mbps

US internet tweaker FCC this morning redefined the meaning of "broadband" internet to mean at least 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up – from the previous 4Mbps/1Mbps definition.…

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NXP flings sueball at Marvell over Xbox NFC chips

IP lawfare takes on new dimension – but for why?

NXP Semiconductors, the chipmaker which was once part of Philips, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Marvell Electronics, alleging that its patented wireless technology has been used in the Microsoft Xbox.…

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Microsoft Outlook comes to iOS, Android: MS email now a bit less painful on mobile

... Unless you're on Windows Phone

Microsoft has released new Outlook apps for iOS and Android.…

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Alonso and Button realistic over development of McLaren MP4-30

Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button have expressed excitement about getting behind the wheel of McLaren's newly unveiled MP4-30, though both are acutely aware that developing the Honda-powered machine will not be easy. Alonso, who re-joined McLaren from Ferrari over the winter, indicated that he's prepared for possible teething problems when he gets the Woking team's pre-season test programme underway in Spain on Sunday

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Supersonic Bloodhound car techies in screaming 650mph comms test

HD video at Mach 1+? No biggie, say cool-cat engineers

Engineers from the Bloodhound supersonic car world record attempt have been testing their radio comms gear as plans to stream the 1,000mph (1,610kmph) event live come together.…

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