John MacFarlane has announced his resignation as the head of Sonos, the outfit he founded 15 years ago. Sonos makes wireless multi-room music systems for the home and had been doing well. Ma… Read More

Two millionaires have each committed $10 million to save the world from the troubles of AI. Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s non-profit are spen… Read More

WhatsApp, iMessage and Gmail will face tougher rules on how they can track users under planned new laws being worked out by the European Union executive. The web companies would have to guar… Read More

Alibaba Boss Jack Ma met US President-elect Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump to talk about putting a million small US  businesses onto his platform to sell to Chinese consumers over… Read More

Yahoo is to rename itself Altaba and Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer will quit after the closing of its deal with Verizon. Yahoo has a deal to sell its core internet business, which in… Read More

The FBI has slapped the cuffs on Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt on charges of conspiracy to defraud the US. Hitler’s favourite car company got rather a lot of people cross when it… Read More

The political scandal threatening South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye is hotting up with coppers wondering if they should arrest two Samsung executives. South Korea’s… Read More

Patent trolls have been as difficult to kill as cockroaches and Keith Richards, not even a 2014 US Supreme Court decision could stop them. But federal judge Denise Cote has come up with a n… Read More

Former rubber boot maker Nokia is back in the smartphone game and launched a mid-range smartphone for the Chinese market. The Nokia 6 is an Android smartphone and is being made by HMD which… Read More

Waymo is showing off the self-driving mini-vans which will mean that White Van men will disappear from roads. While they will probably be mourned in the same way that the end of smallpox wa… Read More

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE is slashing about 3,000 jobs, including a fifth of positions in its struggling handset business in China. The company is already facing US trade sanctions… Read More

Telco Verizon, which was thinking about buying the troubled search engine outfit Yahoo, is getting cold feet. The deal was all set to go through and then Yahoo was hit by a couple of securit… Read More

AMD lifted the kimono on its next generation GPU architecture, codenamed Vega. For those who came in late, Vega’s design is based on the concept that conventional GPU architectures ha… Read More

LG Electronics has predicted it will make its first quarterly operating loss in six years in October-December. As you might expect the drop is because of continued mobile losses and but appl… Read More

A boffin who uses maths to predict changes in society says his numbers show that western society will collapse in the 2020’s. Peter Turchin, a professor at the University of Connecticu… Read More

Samsung has set an initial production target of 10 million Galaxy S8 smartphones. Samsung is counting on the S8 to rejuvenate sales after it scrapped the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones last year… Read More

While the New York Times has faithfully acted as Apple’s unpaid press office and sacrificed its credibility as a technology source, it seems that the fruity-cargo cult has sold it out… Read More

While Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump is denying his chum Tsar Vladimir Putin unleashed his team of hackers to help him win the election, senior U.S. intelligence officials will testify in C… Read More

A range of rather interesting fashion clothing could be used by those who want to stuff up CCTV facial recognition systems. Designed by the hyperface project involves printing patterns on to… Read More

A separate Fire TV device might become a thing of the past as telly makers are starting to integrate the streaming technology. Seiki, Westinghouse and Element Electronics are launching a ser… Read More

Qualcomm has detailed its new Snapdragon 835 processor, which will power most of the leading Android smartphones this year. Qualcomm SVP Keith Kressin said that the 835 was powerful eno… Read More

Troubled electronics maker Toshiba seems likely to be sailing to yet another accounting scandal. A security watchdog suspects the Japanese conglomerate has misreporting profits by $339.59 m… Read More

Samsung is likely to forecast its best quarterly profit in nearly three years this week thanks mostly to good memory chip sales. It would have been a lot better had it not for those pesky me… Read More

Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple has been sued for not making a product it patented and thus killing a child. James and Bethany Modisette are suing the toy-maker after a car crash two yea… Read More

Apple appears to have realised that its iPhone 7 is not doing as well as it has been claiming. For a while now the Tame Apple Press has been telling the world+dog that the iPhone 7 has been… Read More

Facebook might have a problem when it comes to spotting fake news, but when it comes to a breast or willy its censors are out in force and apparently can stop Greek gods in their tracks. How… Read More

While the FBI, CIA and President Barack Obama all agree that Russia hacked the DNC and asserted its will on the US presidential election they seem to be having difficulty convincing the worl… Read More

Checking your email on your smartphone after you wake up is a bad way to start the day, according to a woman who studies happiness for a living. Michelle Gielan, former national CBS News anc… Read More

While the world moaned about the surprise exit of so many celebs in 2016 it was a pretty rubbish year for tech celebs logging off too. Most of them were pioneers but others wer important to… Read More

The German government is thinking of slapping a huge fine on Facebook for each fake news story it publishes. For those who came in late, fake news is the latest thing.  It is news which… Read More

It is starting to look like the end is near for Microsoft’s Lumia handsets and it is about to go the way of the dodo. Microsoft’s UK store ran out of stock of all its Windows 10… Read More

The nonprofit outfit Consumer Reports is standing by its damning verdict on the MacBook Pro and is refusing to print testing results from the Apple marketing department instead. Apple, and i… Read More

US court in texas Apple is being sued over a fatal car crash in which a driver was distracted by FaceTime. The plaintiffs claim Apple failed to introduce technology it had a patent for that… Read More

Insecurity experts working for German security outfit Security Research Labs has found that hackers appear to have the power to upgrade themselves to flying business class. Writing in their… Read More

For a while now security experts have feared that android viruses will find their way into smart tellies and now this is starting to happen quirks in the telly industry appear to be preventi… Read More

The Czech Republic is setting up a new counter-terrorism unit to combat the rise of fake news or “foreign disinformation campaigns.” Dubbed the “The Center Against Terroris… Read More

Google’s Pixel phone might be rather nice, but it appears to be suffering from battery problems. While these problems do not mean that they do a Note 7 and spontaneously combust, it do… Read More

Shares in Toshiba have been falling faster than a team of free falling performing elephants which forgot to pack a key ingredient of their act. The share price fell more than 19 percent on T… Read More

The White House is rushing to stop Russian hackers from gaming future US elections before Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump takes over and lets them get away with it. President Obama wants to… Read More

Coppers today are looking to smart connected devices to grass up their users for crimes. Arkansas police are hoping an Echo found at a murder scene in Bentonville can aid their investigation… Read More

It would appear torrent sites are being hammered by DDoS attacks and the reason is related to their banning of .’unofficial’ proxy services. ExtraTorrent faced tons of cyberattac… Read More

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has bitten a $854 million chunk from Qualcomm’s bottom line claiming the chipmaker used unfair business practices in patent licensing and modem c… Read More

Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania has warned that all the developed nations on earth will see job loss rates of up to 47 per cent within the next 25 years. The sta… Read More

LG hopes convince the world that it needs speakers that float. The Levitating Portable Speaker (or PJ9) is a wireless, 360-degree omnidirectional speaker that flies above its station. … Read More

China’s top cybersecurity body has called for increased scrutiny of local and foreign technology used in industries deemed critical to the national interest. A strategy document… Read More

It appears that hell hath no fury like an Apple exec with his knickers in a twist.  The fruity cargo-cult has announced that it is pulling Nokia goods from its  cathedrals of point… Read More

Lithuania which is on the frontline of growing tensions between the West and Russia, says the Kremlin is responsible for cyber-attacks that have hit government computers over the last two ye… Read More

Open saucy Red Hat’s third quarter results were rather good. Its third quarter total revenue of $615 million, up 18 per cent year-over-year. Its third quarter total subscription revenu… Read More

This week has seen the former maker of rubber boots Nokia sending patent lawsuits daily to the fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple. Nokia said yesterday it had filed a new set of patent laws… Read More

Search engine Google has changed its algorithms after discovering that users using search terms related to the Holocaust or ethnic minorities were being pointed to hate sites. The new algori… Read More

A radical breakthrough which could shake up long distance space flight has been confirmed by Chinese boffins. The Electromagnetic Drive (EM) drive is a method of propulsion which is so cleve… Read More

The big cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have expanded the use of multi-process Firefox so that it can run all extensions. The outfit said that Firefox 51 will enabling multi-process fru… Read More

SK Hynix is investing $2.7 billion in its home country and China to boost memory chip production. There is a bit of a boom in demand for memory chips and Hynix wants to take advantage of th… Read More

While the US has spent a fortune on drone technology, that gear has never actually had to stand up to an opponent that can fight back. The situation is a bit like the days of the British col… Read More

Russian cybercriminals have built a new high-tech fraud business based on showing real ads to fake people. So far the fraud has siphoned more than $180 million from the online ad industry. S… Read More

Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry is doing better thanks to its shift to its higher-margin software business. The outfit reported better-than-expected adjusted earnings and raised its ful… Read More

Software King of the World, Microsoft has just won a huge $927 million deal to provide technical support to US Department of Defense (DoD) in the United States. This is on top of a deal with… Read More

Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple might have surprised the world by getting its Airpods into the shops in time for Christmas, but it turns out they are as useful as having too much ear wax… Read More

CEO Ginni Rometty might be enthusiastic of her love of Donald Trump and his plans to build a national Muslim registry, but her staff are getting rather hacked off with her. The IBM suits ar… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg seems to be projecting an alter-ego of Iron man after showing off his home-based AI digital assistant, which he has called Jarvis. Last January, Zuckerberg announced that he… Read More

South Carolina Puritans have created a law which would mean that people buying new computers and devices will be blocked from accessing online smut. A bill, pre-filed earlier this month… Read More

Troubled BlackBerry is going to write a cheque  for $75 million to invest in a new autonomous vehicle testing hub over several years. The company’s chief executive John Chen &nbsp&hell…Read More

Samsung is in talks with LG Chem Ltd to make it one of its smartphone battery suppliers. According to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper Samsung is keen to diversify its supplier base after the failu… Read More

Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple has come up with quite possibly the worst court defence we have ever seen. When faced with charges of colluding with the Irish government to avoid paying… Read More

US boffins are frantically trying to work out ways to protect data on climate change from climate-denying Trump supporters who are expected to try and destroy it. The Trump administration be… Read More

The security state of the IoTs is going to be precarious because users will not be bothered to update their gear, according to a new survey. Writing in his Ubuntu bog, Core evangelist Thibau… Read More

Photo-based social notworking site Instagram’s user base rose to more than 600 million. The Facebook owned company said that its new features had helped it gain popularity and it had a… Read More

German industrial robot maker Kuka has flogged off its Systems US-Aerospace-Business to Advanced Integration Technology to satisfy demands from US watchdogs who were unhappy about its takeov… Read More

Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has done a deal with China’s TCL Communication to make and sell BlackBerry-branded mobile devices globally. It is the outfit’s first licensin… Read More

After the fiasco of the US election which saw a candidate being elected on the basis of Russian supplied fake news, Facebook has decided to clamp down on the phenomena. The social notworking… Read More

Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump met with Silicon Valley’s top executives attempted to bury the hatchet and to smoke a peace pipe. The meeting, in Trump Towers, focused chie… Read More

An IBM Security report reveals that 70 percent of businesses will pay out if they are hit by Ransomware pay attackers, but there is hope in sight, as IBM’s Resilient Incident Response… Read More

Britain’s 4G mobile phone coverage is worse than that in Albania, Panama, Peru and Romania, with users able to connect in barely half the time. The National Infrastructure Commission s… Read More

Yahoo has said that it was hacked again and data from more than a billion user accounts was nicked. Apparently the attack happened in August 2013, making it the largest breach in h… Read More

Biggish Blue hopes to get on side with Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump by pledging to hire 25,000 workers in the US. IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty make the pledge as she and… Read More

Messaging services such as Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s WhatsApp will face stricter rules on the way they handle customer data. New privacy laws due are to be proposed by the… Read More

AMD’s Zen will have a brand which sounds suspiciously like a drug for erectile dysfunction, a chemical weapon extracted from caster beans or a gospel group The Ryzen brand will be appl… Read More

HMD Global, the Finnish outfit that owns the rights to use the Nokia brand on mobile phones, has released two basic handsets without internet access priced at $26 before local taxes and subs… Read More

President-elect Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump might be set to ask former HP supremo Carly Fiorina to take on the job as the US’s top spook. The news comes from the New Yo… Read More

The European Commission has fined three Japanese makers of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries $176.2 million for their involvement in a price-fixing cartel from 2004 to 2007. The Commission… Read More

AMD is announcing a new series of Radeon-branded products today, targeted at machine intelligence and deep learning enterprise applications. Dubbed the Radeon Instinct, the chip is a GPU-bas… Read More

Software king of the world Microsoft claims that it is picking up defections from the fruity Apple cult as users are miffed that the MacBook Pro was not up to snuff. Apple’s new Macboo… Read More

Microsoft’s Edge browser comes with a feature which could be used by technical support scammers. The Edge browser’s ability to warn users of dodgy sites, or other security alerts… Read More

Cisco’s long running court battle against Arista appears to be going the networking giant’s way. A US trade judge ruled that Arista used Cisco’s network device technology i… Read More

Those who insist on hanging onto the Samsung Note 7s despite the warnings that they will catch fire will wake up to find their phones bricked soon. Samsung announced that it will be issuing… Read More

Amazon workers have been sleeping in tents close to the company’s fulfillment centre in Fife. According to the local press, three tents have been spotted in woodland beside the online… Read More

Search engine outfit Google says it is close to having its entire power bill paid for by using renewable energy. Google has a power bill which would make most people wince with more data cen… Read More

The US Supreme Court backed Samsung in the great battle over the rounded rectangle smartphone. It threw out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million pe… Read More

Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple has come up with another of its legendary stupid reasons for its products to fail. Before it has covered up its poor designs by claiming that users were … Read More

You would think that a robot would not have a problem with race – after “all you humans look alike”. But a Kiwi bloke of Asian descent had his passport photograph rejected… Read More

A new study has revealed that most CEOs will replace their human staff with computers and AI the moment they get the chance. Beancounters at Korn Ferry interviewed 800 business leaders acros… Read More

Software king of the world Microsoft has looked at the success of Amazon’s Echo and Google Home and decided “I want some of that.” However, it is looking like Vole’s… Read More

The Tame Apple Press is flat out trying to flog the iWatch this Christmas, even though no one has been interested in the lame duck product all year. Apple’s favourite new agency Reuter… Read More

A Roman court has ruled that embedding does not constitute a copyright infringement. The move overturns one of the 152 website blocks another court imposed last month, and ruled that that&nb&hell…Read More

Open saucy outfit Canonical is in the middle of a legal dispute with an unnamed  “a European cloud provider” over the use of its  own homespun version of Ubuntu on… Read More

More than 70 people left their laptops security checkpoints at Newark Liberty International Airport last month. The TSA shared a snap of more than 70 unclaimed computers just sitting on a sh… Read More

Politicians have exempted themselves from Britain’s new wide-ranging spying laws. The Investigatory Powers Act, which has just passed into law, brings some of the most extreme and inva… Read More

UK coppers have decided it is not worth the effort of trying to break the encryption on a suspect’s mobile phone. Instead they are just stealing the phone before the suspect can stick… Read More

To encourage people to move to a cashless society and buy everything electronically, South Korea is to abandon coins. The authorities see stage one as getting rid of the metal money by 2020… Read More

The fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple is considering drones as a possible money spinner to help it improve its rather disappointing maps product. Apple is putting together a team of roboti… Read More