Fourteen years after unveiling its first location in New York, Nintendo is finally opening an official store in Japan, too. Nintendo Tokyo will be located in Shibuya Parco, the new flagship of the Parco department store chain. Nintendo To…
Google is working on a way for Chrome to do a better job of spotting fake websites that seek to trick people into handing over personal information.
It is concentrating on websites that use letters and numbers to approximate a recognise…
A web browser warning that said the Daily Mail's website failed to maintain "basic standards of accuracy or accountability" has been changed.
The newspaper had complained that the NewsGuard plug-in gave its Mail Online website a negativ…
Apple revoked Google’s ability to offer its employees internal-only iPhone apps, likely causing significant disruption to the search giant.
Apple was punishing its rival for breaking its developers' policy, a day after it took the same …
Nokia warned of a soft start to 2019 before a better second half for its fifth-generation (5G) mobile network technology, sending its shares sharply lower on Thursday.
The outlook eclipsed fourth-quarter results that beat profit and sal…
"We haven't been paid for three months."
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, Jesus Jones were a successful indie band, with hits like International Bright Young Thing and Right Here, Right Now.
Now older, the band have other jobs but…
Sprint Corp on Thursday reported fewer-than-expected losses for phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill on a net basis and beat quarterly revenue estimates, as the U.S. wireless carrier has focused on improving profitability.
Sprint, w…
Uber is suspending its professional taxi service in Barcelona from tomorrow almost a year after it re-entered the Catalan capital.
The move follows the regional government agreeing new regulations for the vehicle for hire (VTC) secto…
In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their…
American Airlines and Apple Music have closed a deal that would give passengers access to the full library of Apple Music songs on AA flights.
Apple Music’s more than 50 million songs will be available on any domestic American Airli…
A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the help of a sophisticated spying tool called Karma, in a campaig…
Apple Inc plans to cut the price of some of its flagship iPhones for only the second time in the device’s 12-year history, pegging its retail value to past prices in local currencies outside the United States instead of the rising U.S. dol…
Ford Collaborates with Gravity Sketch to Explore New Tool for Designing Vehicles to Meet Customers’ Needs
* Ford is the first automaker to work with Gravity Sketch – a 3D virtual reality tool that enables designers to come up with…
Children "remain an afterthought" for leading social media companies, England's Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has said.
And she has written to the biggest companies, urging them to commit to tackling issues of disturbing cont…
Facebook is halting a scheme that gathered highly personal data from paid volunteers, after it was exposed.
TechCrunch said participants - including those aged 13-17 - had been paid up to $20 (£15.30) a month to open up their phones to …
IN 2013, when Creative Arts was added to the Ministry of Tourism and culture by the NDC administration, it was welcome news for players in the sector because they felt it would finally bring attention to the industry after years of neglect…
SAP will take a restructuring charge of up to 950 million euros ($1 billion) to reshape its business after growth slowed in parts of the software maker over the last three months.
SAP, Europe’s most valuable technology company, will rea…
A co-ordinated global cyber attack, spread through malicious email, could cause economic damages anywhere between $85 billion and $193 billion, a hypothetical scenario developed as a stress test for risk management showed.
Insurance cla…
Verizon Communications Inc on Tuesday missed quarterly revenue estimates, but added almost twice as many new wireless subscribers as analysts expected.
The company forecast that adjusted earnings per share for this year would be similar…
Facebook's popularity among children fell during 2018, according to the media regulator Ofcom.
It has published its annual report looking at the types of services and devices children in the UK are using.
Its report suggests 72% of 1…
Apple has acknowledged a flaw in its FaceTime software that allowed for brief eavesdropping - even if the recipient did not pick up.
In some cases the target iPhone could send video without the receiver's knowledge.
The company said …
WeChat isn’t the only one doubling down on lite apps. Ever since China’s messaging titan introduced “mini programs” two years ago, a handful of its peers including Alibaba and Baidu have followed with their own manifestations.
Ali…
Samsung Electronics said Sunday it will replace plastic packaging used for its bevy of products from mobile phones and tablets to home appliances and wearables with paper and other environmentally sustainable materials like recycled/bio-b…
More than £190,000 a day is lost in the UK by victims of cyber-crime, police statistics show.
More than a third of victims in that period fell prey to the hacking of social media and email accounts.
Action Fraud said £34.6m was repor…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveying solution enables quick and easy collection of detailed data on busy highway in Hungary
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that the YellowScan Surveyor from YellowScan has utilized Velodyne’s gro…
nCipher Security Delivers Trust, Integrity and Control to Business Critical Information and Applications
Newly formed organization preserves competition and ensures continued innovation in general purpose HSM market
nCipher Security,…
Hundreds of popular cars - including four of the five best-selling models in the UK - are susceptible to "keyless theft", new research claims.
Consumer group Which? found the Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Golf, Nissan Qashqai and Ford Focus w…
Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg has told BBC News Facebook should pay more tax outside the US, at his first public appearance as the tech giant's head of communications.
It was "unbalanced" that most of Facebook's $4bn [£3bn…
A Volvo Cars joint venture has won approval to begin hands-free testing of its software for self-driving cars on Swedish highways, partner Veoneer said on Monday.
Veoneer said the Zenuity joint venture’s software for Level 4 autonomous …
China’s fast-paced growth has resulted in it being one of the most extremely flexible nations in terms of technological integration into existing infrastructure. With its relatively newer institutions and organizations, China can easily ad…
Smartphone numbers are down. In 2018, global shipments dropped 3 percent, and while the long-promised arrival of 5G will help numbers get back into the black, IDC predicts that even then growth will be in the low-single digits.
With a…
French startup Lydia now lets you share your Lydia sub-accounts with other people. The company wants to make it easier to manage money when you’re traveling with friends, sharing an apartment with someone and more.
When Lydia introdu…
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that resurrected a billion-dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp that dates to 2010.
Google urged the high court to rule its copying of Oracle’s J…
Blocking ads could become much harder if Google makes proposed changes to its Chrome web browser, warn developers.
The changes could "destroy" ad-blockers, said one maker of widely-used blocking software.
Others said the update would…
A trove of internal documents have revealed how Facebook was concerned children were spending large amounts on in-app payments without parents’ permission - but seemingly chose not to act.
Discussions showed the firm decided not to impl…
China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on Thursday said it could become the world’s biggest-selling smartphone vendor this year even without the U.S. market and as global scrutiny of the firm intensifies.
The bullish forecast contr…
Twitter is testing a new tag that will make it easier to parse who started a thread. The new feature, which is starting to pop up for some users, makes it easier to find posts from the original tweeter within a thread, but may also help cu…
A year ago, Facebook-owned WhatsApp officially introduced its standalone app aimed at small business customers. Today, the WhatsApp Business app has grown to reach 5 million business customers, the company says. And now it’s making the app…
US tech giant Microsoft has confirmed that its search engine Bing is currently inaccessible in China.
Social media users have expressed concern that the search engine might be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
Chin…
Amazon is experimenting with delivery robots, starting with a little truck called Scout which is taking to the pavements in Washington State.
Six of the autonomous electric trucks will deliver parcels "at walking pace" round Snohomish C…
China’s cyber watchdog said on Wednesday it had deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps, and it criticized tech giant Tencent’s (0700.HK) news app for spreading “vulgar information”.
The Cyb…
China’s Xiaomi has become the latest smartphone maker to tease a folding smartphone, dropping the below video clip of its president and co-founder, Bin Lin, fondling the device on social media today.
The twist is the tablet does not ha…
Google has launched its first clean energy project in Asia. The company announced today that it struck a long-term agreement to buy the output of a 10-megawatt solar array in Tainan City, Taiwan, about 100 km south of its data center in t…
Apple could drop LCDs from the iPhone line next year, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. That interesting — if not altogether surprising — revelation is buried in a piece about a Japan supplier’s struggles in the wake …
Did you blow enough money on Uber to get Diamond status? A lot of users are finding out tonight as Uber rolls out its rider loyalty Rewards program to San Francisco and a slew of other cities. The feature calculates how much you’ve spent …
Theo Holroyd and Ollie Gerety share a common passion - they both love coding.
But until recently it was hard for the two pupils at King's College School, Cambridge, to work together on a program.
Theo is blind and the method used by …
Daimler-owned Mercedes-Benz Cars will start producing electric batteries in Jawor, Poland, the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday, as the company looks to ramp up its investments into electric batteries in the coming …
According to a leaked image from Evan Blass, Samsung’s new flagship device could come in three different versions — the Samsung Galaxy S10, the Samsung Galaxy S10+ and the Samsung Galaxy S10E.
That new leak lines up with previous …
Debris said to be from a crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh was put up for sale on eBay.
Seller morbius777 said the debris was from the collision near King's Lynn, Norfolk, on Thursday.
The listing, which has now been removed, sai…
Entertainment streaming giants including Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Spotify have been accused of breaking the EU's data regulations.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules say EU customers have the right to access a cop…