The amount of time we spend online is growing, but so are calls for tougher regulation, a study of 1,001 children and 2,057 over-16s suggests.
The average British adult spent three-and-a-quarter hours a day online last year, said the st…
The GSMA today announced the nominees for the 2019 Asia Mobile Awards (AMO Awards). Winners of the AMO Awards will be honoured at MWC19 Shanghai during the AMO Awards Ceremony and Networking Reception which takes place Thursday, 27 June on…
Data on parking spaces across the UK is set to be standardised, in the hope that it will make finding and paying for parking easier.
From Thursday, local councils are now able to release parking data in the same format.
This means th…
Online multiplayer game Roblox, which has 90 million users worldwide, is marketed at children - but there are fears it also being used to groom them. One mother explains how this happened to her young son.
"They were talking about rape.…
After years of hype - and sometimes confusion - the UK finally has a 5G network.
BT's EE subsidiary is the first to launch a service - and if you're feeling wealthy enough and live in the right place, you can sign up.
The lowest-pric…
A proposal by the UK security agency GCHQ to eavesdrop on encrypted messages has been strongly criticised by big tech firms and rights groups.
Google and Apple were among 47 firms to sign an open letter, saying it was a "serious threat"…
EE has launched the UK's first next-generation 5G mobile network, with a concert by rapper Stormzy live-streamed from a boat on the River Thames.
5G mobile networks offer faster downloads, but customers will need a new handset to take a…
After a solid year of data breaches, privacy scandals and controversial policy decisions, Mark Zuckerberg now says he wants Facebook to become a "privacy-focused" social network.
Facebook's critics have laughed at the suggestion. Until …
A vote calling for Mark Zuckerberg to stand down as Facebook's chairman is expected to take place at the company's annual general meeting on Thursday.
Mr Zuckerberg is both Facebook's chief executive and the chairman of its board of dir…
9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo managed to obtain screenshots of iOS 13. While it still looks like iOS, there’s a twist — there will be a system-wide dark mode to make your apps look better at night. Apple is expected to announce the new version…
‘Make your moves matter’- UN rural poverty agency launches dance challenge on TikTok to empower rural youth to fight rising hunger
Afrobeat artists Sherrie Silver and Mr Eazi call on young people to #DanceforChange and help send an impo…
Samsung Electronics aims to double its online smartphone sales in India this year to $1 billion, driven largely by a new budget range of devices, the head of its mobile business for the country said on Wednesday.
Smartphones and fashion…
Taiwan-based chip supplier MediaTek Inc on Wednesday released a new 5G chip for fast, high-end smartphones that aims to take on much larger rival Qualcomm Inc.
MediaTek is best know for making chips that go into smart speaker devices su…
A laptop packed with six types of dangerous malware has been sold for $1.3m (£1.03m) in an online auction.
The artwork titled The Persistence of Chaos was a joint project between artist Guo O Dong and cyber-security company Deep Instinc…
Sitting up on a stage, in a large theatre-like room at its sprawling Shenzhen HQ there was much talk from the Huawei executives of America’s rural and "poorer" customers who deserve "equitable access" to good broadband provision.
Huawei…
The circular, grey robot vacuum gently bumps against against my feet.
It stops, rotates and follows a skirting board along the kitchen, emitting a loud and unbroken drone.
Throwing out beams of invisible light, it plots obstacles and…
New Zealand's main opposition party has denied hacking into the government's computer systems to steal documents relating to the country's budget.
The National Party, which leaked details of the budget two days ahead of schedule on Tues…
Apple is updating the iPod touch with an A10 Fusion system-on-a-chip. Other than that, it looks pretty much like the old iPod touch with a four-inch display, a classic home button and many different color options.
The A10 Fusion chip…
Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic of Ireland since the European Union's new data protection regulation came into force a year ago.
M…
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Upholds Validity of Velodyne’s US Patent 7,969,558
Velodyne has won a patent challenge brought by competitor Quanergy. In making its ruling the US Patent Trial and Appeals Board on May 23, 2019 upheld the p…
A man whose mobile number was inadvertently shared on Twitter by football pundit Jamie Carragher has said he "panicked" when he was inundated with thousands of messages.
Carragher tweeted a seemingly random number in a bid to mock his S…
Back in 2016, mobile technology the like of which had not been seen before rolled into the remote community of Funhalouro, in Mozambique.
Pulled by donkey, the container consisted of four LCD screens, powered by solar panels.
It was …
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting technologies today, and Africa doesn't want to be left behind.
Today a majority of the AI industry is in North America, Europe and Asia.
Efforts are being made to train compute…
Huawei Technologies Ghana has shared a message from its global headquarters, reiterating the world's second largest smartphone maker's commitment to developing sustainable software ecosystem.
The company said as a key global partner of …
The US Navy is seeking to create an archive of at least 350 billion social media posts from around the world, in order to study how people talk online.
The military project team has not specified which social media platform it intends t…
Ivorian TV viewers will be able to watch 60 digital TV channels via SES’s satellite at 22 degrees West
Ivory Coast’s public broadcasting company, the Société Ivoirienne de Télédiffusion (SIDT) (SiDT.ci) has selected SES (SES.com) as its…
Qualcomm announced during its Computex press conference today that it will launch the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC with Lenovo. The two companies describe the PC, called Project Limitless, as “the world’s first 7nm platform purpose-buil…
Google's decision to withhold its Android software from Huawei is being seen as the beginning of a technology cold war that could compel African countries - in the future - to choose between US and Chinese technology, analysts have told th…
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has proposed merging its business with Renault that, if accepted, would create the third largest global automaker with 8.7 million in annual vehicle sales.
FCA delivered Monday a non-binding letter to Rena…
These days, when an unexpected email turns up offering lots of cash, most people just assume it is a scam and delete it.
But Mark Litchfield opened one such a message and it led him on a journey that, so far, has netted him about $1.5m …
An attempted shareholder revolt over Amazon's sale of facial recognition technology to the police mustered less than 3% of votes cast at the firm's annual general meeting.
The tally was revealed in a corporate filing.
The tech firm h…
Data breaches by Russian hackers are a global concern now, but the BBC has discovered how easy it is to buy personal data such as passport and bank account details in Russia itself.
According to cyber-security experts, vast quantities o…
Gemalto, a Thales company, will implement the Canadian Department of National Defence’s (DND) first Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to increase security and reliability in the collection and verification of fingerprint r…
Google Duo, Android’s built-in video chat app, is getting support for eight-person video calls. That compares with 32 for FaceTime, four for WhatsApp, 50 for Skype, and 50 for Facebook Messenger (although only six video feeds will actual…
Samsung is taking its time bringing the Galaxy Fold back to market. And frankly, that’s probably for the best. The Note debacle from a few years back was an important lesson about what happens when you rush a product back to market. That o…
Microsoft’s new language learning app uses your phone’s camera and computer vision to teach vocabulary
Eight Microsoft interns have developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their Eng…
Smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp confirmed on Friday that it had dismissed the head of its Africa division for violating a Chinese law pertaining to indecent public behavior.
According to an internal letter dated May 23 and widely circulate…
According to iFixit, Apple made two changes to the new keyboards that are on its just-announced, spec-bumped MacBook Pro. The changes seem to amount to a new material underneath the key on the switch cover and a new dome switch that might …
Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year.
It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
The social media giant wants to start testing its c…
Google has inadvertently thwarted attempts by Baltimore's city government to fight off crippling ransomware.
The cyber-attack struck civil computers in Baltimore on 7 May, blocking email accounts and online payment systems.
City offi…
The subject of Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa painting has been brought to life by AI researchers.
The video, achieved from a single photo, shows the model in the portrait moving her head, eyes and mouth.
The latest iteration o…
The company that owns TikTok could be about to launch a music streaming app.
That's according to reports on the business news website Bloomberg.
Their article says that ByteDance are planning to launch a rival to Spotify, Apple and A…
Britain’s competition watchdog said on Wednesday that Apple Inc has committed to be “clearer and more upfront” with iPhone users about battery health and performance, after the regulator looked into consumer concerns on the matter.
The …
EE will switch on its 5G service in six UK cities on 30 May, the first mobile network in the UK to do so.
People in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester will be first to get faster services with plans for 10 mo…
Opposition to Amazon's sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces is set to come to a head at its annual general meeting on Wednesday.
Shareholders will vote twice on the matter.
First, over whether the company sho…
Apple is updating its 15” MacBook Pro with new 8-core and 6-core processors and its 13” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar with 8th-gen quad-core processors. Apple says that these boosts mean the 15” MacBook Pro will run at double the speed of th…
UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
ARM instructed employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagemen…
MainOne launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state
West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne (www.MainOne.net) launches it…
Smile Telecoms, a Pan-African telecommunications group with operations in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has announced the appointments of Mr. Ahmad Farroukh as Group Chief Executive Officer and Ms. Ire…
Sony is adapting some of its PlayStation games for film and TV.
The company has launched a video production studio called PlayStation Productions, which will develop content based on PlayStation games - although we don't yet know which …