Also sky blue, oceans wet, Bezos rich Amazon Web Services continue to contribute handsomely to the bottom line of its parent company, as the cloud compute outfit saw sales top $3.2bn.…
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Lees meerComplaints abound as new limits placed on ISPs handling data The FCC has formally approved its new rules for internet service providers on the handling of customer data, and it seems few people on either side are particularly happy.…
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Lees meerWho needs an escape key when you've got high-res emoji buttons? Apple confirmed Thursday that its new Macbook Pro line will feature a touchscreen display to replace function keys.…
Lees meerTwitter takes axe to mobile app A day after announcing it was cutting 9 per cent of its staff, Twitter has added more woes to its workers by announcing it will be closing the Vine mobile app.…
Lees meerProgrammed for safety, automated vehicles promise slow going Self-driving cars get pitched as a way to reduce traffic fatalities, but safety may limit their appeal.…
Lees meerThe E3900 family doubles performance Intel has made a big play for the expanding internet-of-things market with an updated Atom processor that offers double the computing and three times the graphics performance.…
Lees meerPaddles towards black ink pool wearing StorNext life belt Made it! Quantum is back in profit after five loss-making quarters.…
Lees meerChip designer chases self-driving car market as smartphone sales slow Chip designer Qualcomm has agreed to purchase Dutch rival NXP Semiconductors for $47bn.…
Lees meerGood news if you're Chinese, though Samsung already had plenty to worry about before its flagship phone started exploding.…
Lees meerFoundation chiefs betting on tech firms' appetites to prove interoperability Openstack Summit Don't expect future implementations of OpenStack without vendors first having cleared a new battery of emerging conformity tests.…
Lees meerLOL! You can totes sign in here Cybercrooks are posing as customer support staff from UK banks in a ruse designed to hoodwink gullible customers into credentials.…
Lees meerIt's technically impossible to do what you want, Skype said Belgium has fined Skype €30,000 for failing to comply with a court request to intercept users' communications, something Skype claims was technically impossible at the time of the request.…
Lees meerSo much for breaking up the SIs then The Home Office has extended its mega Fujitsu contract to 2018, meaning that when the contract ends it will have been running for the best part of two decades.…
Lees meerMicroblogging network operating at a loss of $78m Twitter today confirmed recent press reports that it is reducing headcount by 9 per cent – about 350 people – in an attempt to become profitable in 2017.…
Lees meerOn the second hand... Amazon has launched a new service called "Certified Refurbished" to encourage customer confidence when purchasing second-hand consumer electronics.…
Lees meerIntel's chief IoT security bloke puts forward one possible solution The best way of protecting us from Internet of Things botnets is to compartmentalise the entire internet, Intel’s chief architect for IoT security solutions has said.…
Lees meerStorage stalwart flashes past lumbering Seagate +Comment WD's disk and SanDisk-boosted flash sales boomed as overall revenues in its first fiscal 2017 quarter rose to $4.7bn, up 40.6 per cent on the year-ago $3.4bn. But it reported a net $366m loss…
Lees meerThe PC is dying, but better, richer apps might just save it Comment Yes, I know the new Surface kit unveiled by Microsoft (hands-on and roundup) is both lavishly over-engineered and ludicrously expensive. You know that. We all know that.…
Lees meerDon't call it FTTP! Digital minister Matt Hancock has promised there will be a forthcoming government strategy to ensure Blighty's "full fibre future" is realised in the next decade.…
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