Russian hacker group steals hundreds of millions of credentials, Mozilla accidentally publishes thousands of credentials, boy drains pond to retrieve is iPhone.

Microsoft's Chinese offices visited by government officials, Flappy Bird multiplayer, Twitter feature to help users decipher hashtags.

Japan keen to host a robot olympics, Bose sues over Beats noise-cancelling technology, Quickflix welcomes competition from Netflix in Australia, the Domain Name Commission releases more information about plans to introduce second level registrations.

Apple partners with IBM to focus on Apple solutions in the enterprise market, Microsoft cancels Android for Nokia project, Google security boss says antivirus for Android is a waste of time.

Alcatel-Lucent achieves 10 Gbps over copper, a late Y2K bug surfaces, iPhone lost in the US found in Japan, study finds QR codes still popular.

Chrome plug-in mimics Facebook's news feed experiment, patent filed by Apple hints at location-based security policy.

The Walkman turns 35, Facebook's social experiment, playing Tetris on a t-shirt, Slingshot opens up Netflix to New Zealand customers.

Amazon wants to print on demand, Google's latest driverless car, the Cruise RP-1 transforms regular Audis into driverless cars, rumours that Windows 9 may be free for some users.

Windows Phone 8.1 will introduce a remote wipe feature, Facebook experiences one of its longest outages, Samsung reportedly showing an interest in the virtual reality market.

DuckDuckGo search engine fills niche that Google doesn't, Cortana may be ported to iOS and Android, Amazon to launch a music subscription service, the first chat bot to pass the Turing Test.