Qualcomm fires back against Apple over lawsuit and FTC action

 Never a dull moment in the smartphone wars. This week, Qualcomm started getting serious regulatory heat when the Federal Trade Commission filed charges against the chipmaker, accusing it of anticompetitive tactics designed to shut competitors out f…

Netflix’s new sci-fi movie is Black Mirror meets Chicken Soup for the Soul

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Zoom in on the crowd in CNN’s inauguration gigapixel portrait

Ian McKellen brought an appropriate sign to the London Women’s March

Hackers briefly took down the Sundance Film Festival’s box office today

Yesterday’s @POTUS transition didn’t go so smoothly for Twitter

Audacious 3.8.2

Versie 3.8.2 van Audacious is uitgekomen. Audacious is een lichtgewicht en opensource-muziekspeler en in zekere zin de opvolger van xmms. Het programma kan audio-cd's afspelen of muziekbestanden op de computer, maar ook direct streamen van internet.…

FlashFXP 5.4.0 build 3955

OpenSight Software heeft een nieuwe versie van FlashFXP uitgebracht. Deze ftp-client kan niet alleen bestanden van en naar een ftp-server verplaatsen, maar ook direct bestanden tussen twee servers uitwisselen, zonder dat de data eerst langs de clien…

The Women’s March movement is taking place on every continent, even Antarctica

The Big Sick is a hilarious, tearjerking rom-com starring Kumail Nanjiani

Acronis True Image 2017 NG 21.0 build 6116

Acronis True Image is een uitgebreid programma waarmee back-ups kunnen worden gemaakt. Dit kan van belangrijke bestanden op de harde schijf, maar ook als een image van een partitie of complete harde schijf. De 2017-versie werd al zeer vroeg uitgebra…

Google laat gebruikers met meerdere Android-apparaten internetverbinding delen

Google heeft de tetheringfunctionaliteit in Android uitgebreid, waardoor het gemakkelijker moet worden om de internetverbinding te delen. Het wordt daarbij mogelijk om automatisch de verbinding te delen tussen apparaten die ingelogd zijn op hetzelfd…

People who swear tend to be more honest

Crunch Report | Apple Suing Qualcomm for $1 Billion

Apple is suing Qualcomm for $1 billion, the hit app Meitu may be collecting too much data, Whitehouse.gov removes LGBT, climate change and more and Kristen Stewart appeared as a co-author on an AI paper. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

One BEEELLION dollars: Apple sues Qualcomm, one of its chip designers

Snapdragon biz's bad week just got worse Following the lead of the FTC, Apple has filed suit against Qualcomm alleging it was charging excessive patent royalty fees for cellphone technology.…

Apple sues Qualcomm, saying chipmaker withheld $1B as “extortion”

Suit claims Qualcomm tried to extort $1 billion when Apple talked to regulators.

Chinese investors gobble up owner of PCWorld, Macworld etc

IDG into the hands of the Middle Kingdom – except its HPC bit Two Chinese investors are buying the owner of PCWorld magazine and the IDC market research outfit – International Data Group (IDG) – but IDC’s high-performance computing research business…

350,000 Twitter bot sleeper cell betrayed by love of Star Wars and Windows Phone

Computer researchers uncover yuuuge dormant army Computer boffins Juan Echeverria and Shi Zhou at University College London have chanced across a dormant Twitter botnet made up of more than 350,000 accounts with a fondness for quoting Star Wars nove…

Chevy Bolt electric car came alive, reversed into my workbench, says stunned bloke

Self-driving ride take on a whole new meaning The future of self-driving cars is already with us – although maybe not in the way we had hoped.…

Apple files a billion dollar royalty suit against Qualcomm

 What started off as a rough week for Qualcomm just got worse. Apple is piling onto the lawsuit train just ahead of the weekend, following in the US Federal Trade Commission’s footsteps with a roughly billion dollar suit against the San Diego-based …