A US House of Representatives subcommittee has voted in favor of a resolution to throw out the Federal Communications Commission's recently adopted net neutrality rules.

HSBC is sending secure log in keys to all of its internet banking customers in an effort to improve security. HSBC's credit-card-sized Secure Key generates a unique PIN each time a customer logs on to their online account.

Screenshots of an Angry Birds game, confirmed as not from the forthcoming Rio film tie-in update by Rovio Mobile, hint towards the possibility of Angry Birds 2. Filmed by German TV station Deutsche Welle, the images show a polished Angry Birds game in action, which many assumed was from the Rio update. According to Rovio, that isn't the case.

A group of cheesed off Android developers has decided to form a union against Google. The Android Developers Union, has been set up in a bid to protest against Google's Android Market policies, which the current members believe are completely unfair.

There are dark mutterings among Open Saucers against one of their more successful brethren and it highlights one of the main problems within the Open Sauce movement. Over the years, Ubuntu has slid from being the champion of Linux to the level where its name is mentioned in dark whispers.

When Apple unveils the iPad 2 tomorrow, it's going to be a massive let-down. Shares in the company will wobble. Android fans will do happy dances. And all over the internet, people will write about how much of a disappointment it is, how Steve Jobs has lost his touch and how the Motorola Xoom / BlackBerry PlayBook / a piece of wood with a face drawn on it in biro is the new tablet king.

Credant Technologies has cut through the chaff of everday news and got to the wheat of what people really care about – USB stick loss – and the statistics are, frankly, jaw-dropping. More than 500 dry cleaners and laundrettes took part in the survey and, apparently, some 17,000 USB sticks were left in 2010, that's four times the number found in 2009.

Take-up of Google's Android smartphone operating system is growing at a tremendous rate worldwide, and we can now see just how quickly this is happening, thanks to a nifty visualisation of Android activations around the world.

Hackers have reported that they have already hacked the Nintendo 3DS to run pirated games within 24 hours of the Japanese product launch.

A 48-year-old Illinois man has experienced an online scam that was particularly devastating, both financially and emotionally. A woman he believed to be his online girlfriend turned out to be a fake, and his money has disappeared with her.