Broadband, pay-TV, mobile phone and landline customers must be told when their contracts are about to end and be informed of their providers' best alternative deals, under new rules.
The UK's communications watchdog Ofcom aims to help use…
Intel has confirmed that new problems discovered with its processor chips mean that some computer owners face a performance slowdown.
The company has said that data centres are likely to be worst affected by the fixes required.
But i…
Security researchers have discovered serious vulnerabilities affecting dozens of Cisco devices.
The flaws allow hackers to deceive the part of the product hardware that checks whether software updates come from legitimate sources.
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Huawei is willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments, including Britain, the Chinese telecommunications company’s chairman said on Tuesday as the United States pressures European countries to shun the firm over spying concerns.
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A group of US consumers has been given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court to sue Apple over app prices.
The iPhone users argued that there is no alternative place to buy an iPhone app, but that Apple takes a 30% commission on every sale,…
Disney will be taking full operational control of Hulu, although Comcast will hold onto its ownership stake until 2024.
Disney became a majority owner of in the streaming service — currently a joint venture between Disney and Comcast …
Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messaging app WhatsApp, it has been confirmed.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, said the attack targeted a "sele…
Virtual Reality (VR) technology promised to make it possible for designers to 'see' new cars, factories and houses before they had been even built. With new high-quality headsets and software, that vision is closer to coming true.
Most …
LinkedIn, the social networking platform for the working world that’s now owned by Microsoft, has leveraged its role as a repository for people’s work profiles into making itself a job hunting and recruitment powerhouse.
The company …
American technology giant Microsoft Corporation has unveiled a plan to set up a technology development centre in Kenya.
Speaking at a meeting hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House Nairobi, top executives of Microsoft led by …
HTC is pulling its smartphones from two of China's largest online marketplaces, raising concerns about the brand's future.
The firm was the first to sell an Android handset in 2008.
But it has seen its global share of the smartphone …
Highly multiplexed test offers workflow advantages to support the Flu season surge
SpeeDx Pty. Ltd. today announced the clearance of the PlexPCR® RespiVirus* test from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The test util…
Vodafone has said that it will turn on its 5G service in the UK on 3 July.
It is the first firm to confirm a UK switch-on date, and both business customers and consumers will be able to sign up.
Vodafone said the benefits of the next…
Former Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s record on multiple controversies: its work in China, its treatment of women, and its tax affairs.
The 64-year-old executive, who sits on the board at Google’s parent company, Al…
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders.
The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years, which scans goods coming down a conv…
Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time six-digit numeric code in an effort to speed up pickup times and reduce traffic congestion.
The PIN, or personal identification…
Two years ago today, a powerful ransomware began spreading across the world.
WannaCry spread like wildfire, encrypting hundreds of thousands of computers in over 150 countries in a matter of hours. It was the first time that ransomware,…
Happy Blockchain Week to you and yours. HTC helped kick off this important national holiday by announcing the upcoming release of the HTC Exodus 1s. The latest version of the company’s intriguing blockchain phone shaves some of price off…
The world's largest technology companies have been accused of failing to protect children at risk of sexual abuse, an inquiry has heard.
Facebook, Google, Apple, BT and Microsoft will all give evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Ch…
Facebook is suing a South Korean firm it accuses of unlawfully using data to sell marketing and advertising.
The social network is asking a judge to force Rankwave to allow it to audit the firm’s activities to see if user data was obtai…
The Cortex Group (Pty) Ltd is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused holding company, building value in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0 IR) Economy on a local, regional and global scale – home to the already successful Cortex Logic,…
It’s been rumored that Apple will break up iTunes into its component parts in the upcoming macOS 10.15, with new Music, Video, and Podcast apps to replace the aging iTunes. But apparently, the new standalone Music app will still be built…
Google’s new podcast-focused search results have arrived in desktop browsers, after being announced earlier this week at Google I/O 2019. Searching for a podcast now shows you its three most recent episodes which can played directly in G…
Nike is updating its app with a new augmented reality tool that will measure your feet so that it can sell you sneakers that actually fit (via Engadget).
While this may seem like a frivolous use of AR technology, the idea is sound. Buyi…
Dr. Dre, the man who boasted about being the first billionaire in hip-hop after selling his Beats by Dre to Apple, can be forgiven for taking it easy these days. He has nothing left to prove to anyone. But Beats, the brand that transcended…
Delta says it plans to eventually offer free Wi-Fi on flights. The first step to achieving that goal, however, involves testing it on a handful of planes, beginning later this month. Starting May 13, the carrier will begin offering free se…
More than 95 percent of the smartphones that ship in India run Android, according to industry estimates. Now the Indian antitrust watchdog is convinced that the nation should investigate whether Google is abusing the dominant position of …
In security, nothing is “unhackable.” When it’s claimed, security researchers see nothing more than a challenge.
Enter the latest findings from Pen Test Partners, a U.K.-based cybersecurity firm. Their latest project was ripping apart t…
Facebook has been accused of "auto-generating" extremist content, including a celebratory jihadist video and a business page for al-Qaeda.
The material was uncovered by an anonymous whistleblower who filed an official complaint to US re…
Uber drivers protested around the world on Wednesday. It was a spirited, though largely unquantifiable, demonstration against what they see as disgracefully low wages, poor job security, and an unacceptable lack of benefits.
Above all, …
Data breaches are a "time bomb" under companies that let customer information go astray, warns a security expert.
Bryan Sartin, Verizon's head of global security services, said he was "surprised" more breaches had not become public.
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Kymeta, the communications company that is completing the connectivity fabric across EMEA, has announced a new partnership with Türksat, one of the world’s leading companies providing satellite communications across a wide area extending f…
Instagram says it will block hashtags being used to spread "verifiably false" information about vaccinations.
The social network already blocks hashtags that are themselves false claims, such as #vaccinescauseautism.
It says it will …
Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mock-up of a new lunar lander spacecraft that aims to take equipment and humans to the Moon by 2024.
The unmanned, reusable Blue Moon vehicle will carry scientific instruments, satellites an…
A drone sighting caused all flights to be suspended at Frankfurt Airport for around an hour this morning. The airport is Germany’s busiest by passenger numbers, serving almost 14.8 million passengers in the first three months of this year.…
Over the past two years, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi has used his peace-making and political skills to settle battles with lawmakers and rivals and endear himself to employees who had suffered through a wretched period of corpor…
Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) said on Friday it had fined Facebook a total of 1.65 million lira ($270,976.01) in April due to a data breach.
It cited a Facebook statement from December as saying the company had disc…
An "extensive" fraud let thieves steal cash from Amazon merchants for six months during 2018, the online retailer has revealed.
About 100 accounts run by merchants who sell via Amazon were compromised by fraudsters, Bloomberg reported.
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Yolo - an app that lets anonymous questions be posed to Snapchat users - has become the most-downloaded iPhone app in the UK and US just a week after its release.
It is highly unusual for an app to top Apple's chart so soon after its la…
Uber has partnered with bicycle sharing platform Yulu in India as it looks to grab a piece of the growing e-bikes market that is increasingly posing a challenge to taxi services in the nation.
The San Francisco-headquartered firm, wh…
Google reveals lower-cost Pixel 3a phones and Nest Hub Max
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Alphabet Inc unit Google in the coming months plans to introduce new internet browser tools to limit how users’ web activity is tracked by advertising companies and give them greater insight into why certain ads are shown to them, the comp…
A US woman is suing Amazon, alleging that she was sacked because she was pregnant, raising more questions about working conditions in its warehouses.
According to tech news site CNET, the online retailer has been involved in seven simil…
Hackers have stolen $41m (£31m) worth of Bitcoin in a major crypto-currency heist.
The Binance exchange, which stores Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies for members, said hackers took 7,000 bitcoins in one go. Withdrawals have now been…
Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private.” Sundar Pichai: “The present is private.” While both CEOs made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook’s product updates were mostly vague vaporware wh…
At the risk of sounding too optimistic, 2019 might be the year of the private web browser.
In the beginning, browsers were a cobbled together mess that put a premium on making the contents within look good. Security was an afterthought …
Africa is emerging as a lively battlefield for global cloud providers. This week, Microsoft’s Azure Africa cloud services went live, with services offered from data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The launch of Azure came just on…
Its SPARK 3 Pro is a 4G smartphone with AI Bright Camera and 32GB ROM + 2GB RAM
Global premier mobile phone brand TECNO Mobile (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) announced plans at Google IO 2019 which will see its SPARK 3 Pro running on Android™ P…
The German hybrid specialist DHYBRID will supply seven PV-diesel hybrid systems in remote Senegalese locations with sophisticated hybrid control and energy storage systems. The total output capacity is 2 MW, the storage capacity 2 MWh. The…
Microsoft today announced the private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor the company is positioning as a companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
The service is based on the Visual Studio Code, Mic…