Foxconn, including its grand pooh-bah Terry Gou, had secret talks with the White House presumably looking for sweeteners for a $7 billion plus US investment in a display making plant. TVBS t… Read More

Software King of the World Microsoft slightly missed Wall Street’s average revenue estimate for the latest quarter on Thursday. The Tame Apple Press has rushed to blame Vole’s sa… Read More

Global electronics firms are not particularly concerned if Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump declares war on North Korea. There is some concern among the Tame Apple Press that Apple will not b… Read More

Amazon retail and cloud computing sales rose in the first quarter, better than what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted. The online bookseller said sales rose 23 percent to $35.7… Read More

Samsung had earnings which were stronger than a Sardinian cheese after posting a solid first quarter profit boosted by its memory chip business. While the first quarter was miserable for Sam… Read More

Hackers exploited a hole in Microsoft Word while Vole effectively tried to get more detail on the flaw. The flaw, CVE-2017-0199, was dangerous but not difficult to fix but allowed a hacker t… Read More

You have to admire the balls of a group of German hackers who dub themselves XMR Squad. The outfit spent all last week launching DDoS attacks against German businesses and then contacting th… Read More

Finnish network equipment maker Nokia reported a slowing rate of sales decline, saying the global networks market was showing signs of recovery. Nokia and its rivals, Sweden’s Ericsson… Read More

I’m not too sure just which phrase sums up the internet of things (IoT). In these early days, perhaps it’s the Wild West of legend or maybe it’s like Sicily during the bad… Read More

A bloke whose online encyclopaedia is checked by fake penis experts, is keen to apply his knowledge to tackle the issue of fake news. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a new online… Read More

German industrial group Thyssenkrupp is to open a 3D printing centre this year to manufacture products for its customers. For those who came in late, Thyssenkrupp is famous for making steel… Read More

Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma said the internet should be a utility available to the whole world. Ma is putting his weight behind a UN call for e-commerce to boost developing economies… Read More

Japan’s Canon lifted its full year operating profit forecast after reporting strong first-quarter results on the back of earnings from a medical equipment unit it bought from Toshiba l… Read More

The Senate’s main investigation into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election has little funding and staff, which will make it hard to get a decent a clear… Read More

Swedish Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson has shocked the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by posting a a slightly bigger than expected first-quarter operating loss. The outfit said th… Read More

Biggish Blue has teamed up with a Swiss engineering company in a cunning plan to ramp up its presence in digital technology and the internet of things. In a joint statement, ABB said it woul… Read More

Russian hackers have been targeting the election campaign of Emmanuel Macron, the favorite to win France’s presidential election. The hackers belong to a cyber espionage group linked b… Read More

Germany is facing a huge increase in the numbers of hacking cases. The German government registered 82,649 cases of computer fraud, espionage and other cyber crimes in 2016, an increase of j… Read More

US private equity outfit KKR & Co and Japanese government-backed fund, Innovation Network of Japan (INCJ) have announced that they will send a joint offer for Toshiba’s memory… Read More

The US Justice Department has announced that a 32-year-old Russian “superhacker” has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for stealing and selling millions of credit-card numbers… Read More

Facebook and Apple set their record high for spending in a single quarter. Facebook spent $3.2 million lobbying the federal government in the first months of the Trump era. During the same p… Read More

It rather looks like Julian Assange’s attempts to get Donald Trump elected has backfired on him completely. Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump has decided that Assange is a criminal and h… Read More

Tesla boss Elon Musk claims his latest company Neuralink is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices. Neuralink is aiming to bring to the mar… Read More

While US president Donald (prince of Orange) Trump is giving Big Telco the internet, things are going the opposite way in Canada. A new ruling by Canada’s telecommunications watchdog h… Read More

Apple’s Environmental Responsibility Report reveals some rather nasty tricks that the company does to kill off the life span of its products. While the Tame Apple Press has been singin… Read More

Boffins at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are worried what they will use to dry their clothes when their mothers can’t manage anymore. A team has come up with a dryer that… Read More

Tesla has settled the lawsuit against its former director of Autopilot Programs, Sterling Anderson, for stealing proprietary information about the Autopilot programme and recruiting fellow T… Read More

The shy and retired former executive Steve “there’s a kind of hush” Ballmer is apparently not interested in quietly retiring. Ballmer owns the Los Angeles Clippers, teaches… Read More

Turkish genocide film ‘The Promise’ was nearly killed off by a Turkish news board determined to wipe the coverage of the genocide from history. The Promise was a historical… Read More

IRobot, the maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, is suing its rivals for nicking its patented tech. iRobot filed lawsuits in federal court in Boston against Hoover, Black & Decker… Read More

Google will open up Android  to Russian rival search engines as part of a deal to settle a two year dispute with Russian competition authorities. The deal sets a new precedent for the t… Read More

The state-backed fund Innovation Network of Japan is looking at the auction of Toshiba’s chip unit. NCJ Chairman Toshiyuki Shiga said the outfit said that it did not participate in fir… Read More

Intel has decided to end their annual Intel Developer Forum, including IDF 17 expected in August this year. Intel posted the following on their webpage; “Intel has evolved its event po… Read More

The founder of Apple is predicting a dystopian future where Jobs’ Mob, Google and Facebook rule a world which lives in deserts. The theme of next weekend’s Silicon Valley Comic C… Read More

The CTO of Textio claims that AI is already disrupting life and no one has noticed. Jensen Harris said that voice-activated assistants are “just one small part of what AI is about &nda&hell…Read More

Multinational tech giant Oracle has been charged $293 million for corporate tax evasion in South Korea. The $293 million charge is made up of back taxes, as well as a punitive charge from t… Read More

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued an Australian patent troll which it previously awarded the  “Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer.” L… Read More

Despite outright threats from the Tame Apple Press which imply that the S8 will catch fire like the S7, Samsung says that pre-orders for the S8 have eclipsed the S7. Apple’s favourite… Read More

While Samsung is set to deliver huge profits this year, some investors are already starting to fret the tech giant will soon become a victim of its own success. The outfit has a market capit… Read More

Microsoft retired the security bulletins making many security experts lives rather difficult. Vole announced the demise of bulletins in November, saying then that the last would be posted wi… Read More

A website which allowed Britons to register to vote in last year’s European Union referendum might have been targeted by Russian hackers who crashed it before the deadline. A committee… Read More

A new study finds that pop songs themselves are getting faster as listeners’ attention spans diminish  and young people have the attention span of goldfish The study was penned by… Read More

The bloke who created the world-wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee,  said he is worried that artificial intelligence (AI) could become the new ‘masters of the universe’ by creati… Read More

Fitbit was planning to release its first “proper” smartwatch but the project has been blighted by a series of production mishaps. The fitness tracker company’s smartwatch p… Read More

A Canadian judge denied bail to a 22-year-old man whom the United States wants to extradite to face charges of involvement in a massive hack of Yahoo email accounts. Karim Baratov, a Canadia… Read More

The UK government has awarded millions of pounds to help boost manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries, including a project to build the country’s second purpose-built electric bat… Read More

Inspector Knacker of the Barcelona yard has fingered the collar of a Russian programmer following US allegations of large-scale hacking. Pyotr Levashov was held in Barcelona and has been rem… Read More

China’s conglomerate LeEco has abandoned its plans to buy US telly maker Vizio for $2 billion. The move was announced last year and would have given LeEco a foothold in the Land o… Read More

Chipmaker Qualcomm has replied to the fruity, tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple’s allegation that it has been playing monopoly by swinging a handbag of its own. It claimed that the iPhone m… Read More

Microsoft has boosted its claim of how much enterprises can save by deploying Windows 10 by 28 percent. The revised estimate came from a Microsoft-commissioned analysis first done in mid-201… Read More

Vintage computing hobbyists are resurrecting lost digital communities and running some on their original 8-bit hardware. The technology is based around Raspberry Pi and TCPser (which emulate… Read More

Turkey’s Vestel is in talks to buy the television unit of Japan’s troubled Toshiba. An unnamed official for the Turkish maker of electronics and home appliances has confirmed tha… Read More

Two highly public scientific studies which claim that there is a link between violent computer games and real violence have been mysteriously pulled. The first, entitled “Boom, Headsho… Read More

LG has estimated that its first-quarter operating profit rose 82 percent to its highest in nearly eight years. The news surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street who had expected things… Read More

The markets were all tutting over Twitter founder Ev Williams deciding to flog a third of his shares. Apparently, Williams did not want to get rid of his shares because the company was suffe… Read More

A class-action lawsuit against taxi outfit Uber claims that the taxi outfit is running a “clever and sophisticated” scheme in which it manipulates navigation data used to determi… Read More

A Chinese court has ordered Samsung’s  mainland subsidiaries to pay $11.60 million to Huawei Technologies for nicking its ideas. The patent infringement case is Huawei’s fir… Read More

 Android phones are vulnerable to attacks that use booby trapped wi-fi signals to achieve full device takeover, a researcher has demonstrated. The vulnerability resides in a widely used… Read More

Canadian coppers have admitted that they is spying on mobile phones throughout Canada because they are worried about illegal monitoring by criminals and foreign spies. The RCMP held the brie… Read More

Online bookseller Jeff Bezos said he will flog $1 billion worth of his Amazon stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11 minute space… Read More

Never mind the fact that one of your flagship products caught fire and your Vice Chairman is in jail, Samsung is still winning. Record earnings at Samsung Electronics chip division are set t… Read More

In living proof that not enough people go to sci-fi movies, General Moters connected a quarter of its 30,000 factory robots to the internet. The largest US  automaker already is reaping… Read More

A team of researchers has come up with a new material that could pave the way for self-repairing smartphones, robots and other electronic devices. The boffins from the American Chemical Soci… Read More

The US government wants visitors from Britain to hand over all their electronic details at the border. The UK is not the only country being targeted by the new rules, but it does show how st… Read More

After seven years and a lawsuit from its founder, Intel is finally getting rid of McAfee. The chip maker has divested its majority holdings in McAfee to investment firm TPG for US$3.1 billio… Read More

Apple has ordered more than 70 million OLED screens from Samsung and it is believed that the curved screens will go into its coming iPhone 8 Nikkei Asian Review cited sources close to Apple… Read More

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is reversing a requirement imposed that Charter Communications extend broadband service to a million households already served by a competitor. The… Read More

Google X worked an older staff member so hard he finally collapsed and it laid him off. According to Business Insider the employee was assigned to fieldwork for Project Wing, which is X… Read More

 The US state which was at the forefront of the French-backed terrorist revolution against its lawful British king thinks that its freedom can be defended by drones with guns. While thi… Read More

A pilot education programme in the US is training kids to spot the difference between fake and real news. 12-year-old students at Clemente Middle School in Germantown, Maryland is one of sev… Read More

This year’s round of H-1B visa programme applications will be the same as last year, despite comedy president President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump’s policy changes which wer… Read More

Fruity tax-dodging cargo cult Apple has told British graphics maker Imagination it will stop using its graphics technology in the iPhone and other products with two years’ time. Imagin… Read More

The Republican head of the Federal Communications Commission wants to ease regulatory requirements in the $45 billion business data services market. This is a win for AT&T, CenturyLink… Read More

Apple has managed to stop banks from banding together to negotiate a better deal for Apple Pay, at least in Australia. The banks did not want to agree to Apple’s outrageous transactio… Read More

Private equity outfit Silver Lake and US chipmaker Broadcom have offered Toshiba Corp about $17.9 billion for its chip unit. According to the Nikkei Business Daily, 10 bidders have thrown th… Read More

The US judge overseeing the self-driving car technology case has said that Uber could face an injunction if a key Uber executive does not testify. Google’s Waymo sued ride services com… Read More

It was only a matter of time, but Apple’s App Store is no longer the mobile market leader it once was. For years Jobs’ Mob has bragged that it has the most apps and makes the mos… Read More

Although BlackBerry appears to have succeeded at getting out of the smartphone handsets that hung like an albatross about its neck, the Canadian outfit has a long way to go before it can co… Read More

Europe’s top court will begin a case today to determine whether luxury goods companies can stop retailers from selling their products via marketplaces such as Amazon or eBay. Owners o… Read More

A protester who is upset at the Republican congress voting to allow ISPs to flog people’s browser histories to the highest bidder has come up with a novel way of doing so. Online priva… Read More

The Tame Apple Press is doing its best to rain on Samsung’s Galaxy 8 parade as early indications suggest that it is going to be far better than what Apple is going to release in Octobe… Read More

US Republicans cheerfully voted to allow the big telcos and ISPs to spy on consumers and flog their personal details to the highest bidder. The US House voted on Tuesday 215-205 to repeal re… Read More

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix is in talks with Japanese financial investors about forming a consortium and jointly bidding for Toshiba’s memory chip business. According to the Korea… Read More

The idea that a group of people can come up with a cure for cancer by sitting around a white board and coming up with ideas has been rubbished by science. Brainstorming, which is the tool o… Read More

Ericsson will refocus its business for managed services, explore options for its loss-making media arm and take several writedowns. The move is the first from its new CEO which is supposed t… Read More

After years of backing the sinking of pirate content websites, the Roman Court of Appeal has overturned a 600,000 euro ruling against four unlicensed sites that offered streaming movies to t… Read More

Samsung plans to sell refurbished versions of the incredible flaming Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. Samsung’s Note 7s were permanently scrapped in October following a global recall, roughl… Read More

The Drupal community has been whipped into a fury after a prominent contributor was asked to leave the project by its leader, Dries Buytaert because he was into BDSM. Larry Garfield, a promi… Read More

Desperate to appear in control again after losing a crucial anti-Obama care vote, Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump has claimed that he was personally involved in a move by Charter Communicati… Read More

The chairman of the science committee in the US House of Representatives told a cheering crowd of climate change doubters and skeptics that his committees’ job is to school boffins unt… Read More

Tory hawks have discovered that the London terrorist was a Whatsup subscriber and are demanding the social notworking site give it a back door to prevent these attacks happening again. Brit… Read More

Three people in Illinois have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming that its Windows 10 update destroyed their data and damaged their computers. The complaint, filed in Chicago’s… Read More

German boffins have turned on what is being billed as “the world’s largest artificial sun,” a device they hope will help shed light on innovative ways of making climate-fri… Read More

Chipzilla has put its artificial intelligence efforts into a single business group led by former CEO of Nervana,  Naveen Rao. For those who came in late, Intel bought Nervana in the fir… Read More

Online bookseller and purveyor of talking radios, Amazon, has won a decade old case against the US taxman. The Internal Revenue Service wanted Amazon to pay more than $1.5 billion over trans… Read More

A British teenager has been on the blower to Nasa scientists to point out an error in a set of their own data. Miles Soloman in Sheffield found that radiation sensors on the International S… Read More

A 48-year-old Lithuanian scammer named Evaldas Rimasauskas managed to trick two American technology companies into wiring him $100 million. According to the US Department of Justice, Rimasau… Read More

The Israeli Tax Authority has opened an inquiry into the local antics of tech giants Google and Facebook. The taxmen have conducted meetings with clients of Google, asking detailed questions… Read More

US farmers are paying Eastern European hackers to crack their tractors so that they can actually repair them. Tractor maker John Deere puts locks on its tractors because it does not wan… Read More

You would think that with all the messes he is involved with Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump would have better things to do than order a crack down on strange websites, but apparently not. A… Read More