Microsoft has restored the Start button to Windows 8 – but you’ll need a new mouse to use it.

The company has launched the Sculpt Comfort Mouse at $40 (£27) for Windows 8 PCs and tablets, featuring a prominent blue Windows button on the left side.

Pressing the button returns you to the Windows 8 start screen, much like pressing the Windows button on a keyboard. Swiping up on the blue strip also let

British broadband startup Hyperoptic will extend its 1Gbit/sec broadband to residences in ten cities beyond London before the end of the year.

Hyperoptic - set up by the founders of BE - has so far only offered its superfast broadband service in selected areas of London, in what it describes as "multi-dwelling units", such as large blocks of flats.

But £50 million in new funding from financier Geor

HTC staff would be "much happier" if they left, according to one former product manager who has urged his colleagues to quit the struggling firm in the wake of yet more management exits.

"To all my friends still at HTC - just quit. Leave now. It’s tough to do, but you’ll be so much happier, I swear," said former product strategy manager Eric Lin on Twitter.

That follows the departure of chief produ

Microsoft has unveiled the new Xbox, and it's called Xbox One. It's Microsoft's first new console in over seven years. Yes, we've had many expectations for this console, especially since Sony and Nintendo have already taken their first steps in the next-gen landscape. Here's what you need to know that was announced at Microsoft's event in Redmond.

The original Xbox debuted in the fall of 2005, which feels lik