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What are the top smartphones available right now? Three months into 2014, and we've already had some cracking releases in the smartphone world thanks to some stellar announcements from Mobile World Congress. Add these to the already stunning lineup found towards the end of 2013, and you have yourself a whole bunch of awesome smartphones to choose from right now.

How does it work and how much does it cost? Google plans to make its driverless cars available to the public in three years and, just last week, it invited two dozen journalists to a press briefing on the progress of the automotive technology.

Employees and customers discuss security and the future of the firm. McAfee's held its recent annual cybersecurity conference in a Las Vegas casino resort. But there are few places better to learn about risk and reward than the Nevada city.

OpenStack is still in a dynamic evolution, but is getting more serious by the day. OpenStack needs to be simplified We heard a lot of comments about the barrier of entry for OpenStack being high because, being open source software, it can be a steep learning curve by nature.

You're interested in the cloud, so here's who you should be looking at. With IT budgets flat lining and CIOs feeling the pressure to reduce the spend on 'keeping the lights on' maintenance and support, it's little surprise that more and more IT pros are looking towards the cloud to solve their problems. With no initial upfront costs and with providers happy to manage the back-end of behalf of their customers, cloud is without doubt an attractive technology for many CIOs.

Turn your spreadsheets into pie charts, maps and more with these handy tools. Big data is abuzz in the technology sector right now, but nobody is quite sure how to take advantage of it. While vendors talk up the benefits of collecting reams of data, it is less clear how you will turn it into useful business intelligence.

Public cloud acceptance by the Enterprise means more not fewer challenges... Today in London Gartner held day one of its two day Data Centre, infrastrucuture and Operations Management Summit. Here is what we learned this morning: 1) Public cloud acceptance by enterprise means more not fewer challenges 2) Asked if security breaches will slow public cloud adoption the consensus was that the answer was no.

'Cross application' data sharing makes user vulnerable, says MWR infoSecurity. Free mobile apps that use third-party advertising code are putting users in danger of being hacked, according to MWR infoSecurity. The firm found that ad networks were inheriting the permissions of free apps, granting them access to the address books, text messages and emails of potential victims if the network was compromised by hackers.

Five smart devices in healthcare starting with the most recently announced FingerReader.

CBR presents eight real-life examples of the specs in action at work.

Taiwanese display driver and semiconductor product maker, Himax Technologies, has teamed up with Lumus, an Augmented Reality glasses maker, to develop smart glasses. Lumus plans to use its ultra-thin optics enabled wearable display and combine it with Himax's LCOS technology, which provides high level of brightness required for see-through Augmented Reality, to create wearable technology that can be used in daily life.

From Acer's budget entry to Sony's newest flagship, here are IFA's mobile offerings. Acer Liquid Z500 A low-cost, low-spec smartphone from Acer here, with a 5-inch screen and an 8MP camera. It comes in three colours: black, silver and green. Priced at just 149 euros (about £118), this budget phoner should be more than enough for basic smartphone use.

Analysis: Was phishing or brute force responsible for the attack? Both businesses and consumers are increasingly reliant on services such as Apple's iCloud, which has been implicated in the celebrity picture attack. Companies are now using it to store intellectual property as well as information about its customers, and this makes it a prime target for hackers.

The UK Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers have replaced the Type 42 destroyers, which were in service since 1978. Six Type 45 destroyers were contracted. The requirement was for 12 vessels of the class, but the UK Ministry of Defence announced...

Interested In the open source OS but unsure what to try? LInux has always been the outsider's operatIng system. Even more hipster than Apple's iOS and completely off the radar of most Microsoft WIndows users, the open source OS umbrella covers an ever IncreasIng collection of mutations and flavours, known to its users as distros (short for distributions).

This week Microsoft Devices released the Nokia Lumia 530, but what are you other options in the world of Lumia?

Because every business needs a data evangelist. The technology world has grown and evolved immensely over the last few decades, becoming an industry that now plays a crucial part in many areas of our everyday lives. But, as it has grown, so has the need for more people to operate, regulate and facilitate this technology.

Startup Splice Machine recently rolled out its relational database management system (RDBMS) into public beta. introduced in May 2014, the Splice Machine system combines the Java-based Apache Derby relational database with technology from the Apache HBase NoSQL database,

China has signalled plans to invest $16bn into its electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, a move that could stimulate massive growth in EV sales and help the country cut carbon emissions. We take a look at the project and find out what impact an EV revolution could have on the power grid.

Come and sit on Santa's lap...top this December. Starting off with what many users feel is the best laptop you can currently buy, the Macbook Pro. Apple's annually-updated machine comes in 13- and 15-inch iterations, and will set you back up to £1600 for the larger version.