'Wearables-maker Jawbone is failliet'

Het Amerikaanse bedrijf Jawbone, dat afgelopen jaar onder meer bekend was van fitnesstrackers en bluetooth-speakers, is naar verluidt failliet. De directeur heeft een nieuwe startup opgericht voor het maken van medische apparatuur, waar veel oud-med…

Qualcomm eist Amerikaans importverbod op iPhones met Intel-modems

Chipmaker Qualcomm eist in een aanklacht tegen Apple een importverbod van iPhones met een Intel-modem. Volgens de chipontwerper gebruikt Apple zes patenten in de iPhones waarop het bedrijf uit Cupertino geen licentie heeft.

UberPOP is Finnished in Helsinki until 2018

Paused awaiting new taxi laws Uber has given in to regulatory pressure in Finland, and is suspending its UberPOP until that country implements limited taxi deregulation next year.…

Microsoft is adding game gifting to the Xbox One store

Google patches pwnable 'droids for Wi-Fi vuln

Broadcom chipsets, who uses those? Oh, practically everyone Google's latest Android security update has landed, and at least one of the bugs it patches is a treat: since it's related to Broadcom chipsets, it will reach far beyond the Android ecosyst…

Samsung predicts highest ever profit in its history

Oz government wants its own definition of what 'backdoor' means

When the good guys use backdoors, they're not backdoors, understand? Australia’s federal government has shifted its ground on the encryption debate, and is now working to hem in the debate by constraining the definition of “backdoor”.…

Now Uber sued for textual harassment

Plus: Waymo? Way no! Levandowski swerves doc demand in trade secrets trial Taxi app turned lawsuit magnet Uber last week was sued by Donna Giacomaro, a resident of Levittown, New York, for text message harassment, in violation of the Telephone Consu…

Well, that escalated quickly: Qualcomm demands iPhone, iPad sales ban in America

Licensing dispute explodes into all-out patent war with Apple Qualcomm is upping the stakes in its legal war against Apple by accusing the Cupertino idiot-tax operation of infringing six patents.…

While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record

Tweet a GIF about that, Donald Chinese boffins say they have smashed yet another world fusion record using their EAST contraption – aka the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak.…

Trump's CNN tantrum could delay $85bn AT&T-Time Warner merger

White House warns corpos after President's Twitter fight The very public war of words – and GIFs – between the President of the United States and CNN could pose a threat to the $85bn merger between AT&T and Time Warner.…

Microsoft bevestigt ontslagen bij reorganisatie salesafdeling

Microsoft bevestigt dat het zijn salesafdelingen gaat reorganiseren. Daarbij zou het bedrijf minder dan 10 procent van de salesmedewerkers ontslaan en van de geschrapte banen zou driekwart zich buiten de Verenigde Staten bevinden.

Nintendo maakt Switch Online-app op 21 juli met Splatoon 2 beschikbaar

Op 21 Juli brengt Nintendo de Switch Online-app voor smartphones uit. Hiermee kunnen spelers elkaar uitnodigen om te gamen. Onderdeel is Splatnet 2 van Splatoon 2, dat eveneens op 21 juli verschijnt.

FREE wildcard HTTPS certs from Let's Encrypt for every Reg reader*

* And everyone else, too, of course Let's Encrypt plans to begin offering free wildcard certificates in January 2018, a move likely to make web security easier and a bit less costly for many organizations.…

Banking app startups go TITSUP as payment slurper keels over. Again

Total Inability To Support Users' Purchases – and the second time in four months A number of banking app startups were forced to shut down their services Thursday after their payment processor fell over for the second time in four months.…

Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a month

Templated stories sourced from gov databases to push web ads. Welcome to your dystopia Google has today awarded €706,000 ($800,000) to the UK’s Press Association to develop robot reporters that can crank out 30,000 articles a month for local newspap…

Fritzbox-firmware bevat lek dat inzicht in lokale netwerk kan geven

De firmware van Fritzbox-routers bevatten een kwetsbaarheid die aanvallers inzage kan geven in de structuur van lokale netwerken. Via het lek is informatie over op de router aangesloten apparaten te achterhalen, zoals mac- en ip-adressen.

McAfee settles McAfee lawsuit over McAfee name

And Intel sighs with relief Virus-fighting tech renegade John McAfee has settled his lawsuit in the US with Intel over his own name.…

Camerafabrikant RED kondigt smartphone met 'holografisch scherm' aan

RED, de fabrikant die vooral bekend is van zijn high-end camera's, heeft zijn eerste smartphone aangekondigd. De Hydrogen One moet begin 2018 verschijnen en zal dan over een 'holografisch scherm' beschikken.

Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on 3,000 global sales staff

Why employ people to flog software when you can just force feed people's computers with code anyway? Microsoft today announced it is dumping 3,000 workers.…

Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on 3,000 global sales staff

Why employ people to flog software when you can just force feed people's computers with code anyway? Microsoft today announced it is dumping 3,000 workers.…