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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:07:06 GMT
Scalded smoker wants injury damages, healthcare bills paid
Amazon, LG Electronics and KMG-Imports are being sued by a man in the US State of Rhode Island for selling a vaping box and batteries that allegedly burst into flames and set him on fire.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:08:04 GMT
UK mobe network ups charges for sunshine selfie-takers, just in time for their hols
Mobile operator Three UK is celebrating the approach of British summer by, er, hiking its charges for some of its services.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:44:04 GMT
And garners industry attention
Buoyed by the usual high quality feedback from readers, the office automated beer delivery service has taken a step towards reality with a suitable moniker.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:39:50 GMT
'Shatterproof', Mod-tastic, speedier stock Android – there's lots to like
Released last autumn, and with this year’s range hoving into view, Motorola’s Z2 Force isn’t the newest kid on the block. But it still remains the only “shatterproof” phone on the market, and it has proved to be a great base from which to evaluate the latest Motorola Mods, which you’ll see in our forthcoming Mods roundup.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:39:09 GMT
From vapourware to reality
Huawei has said its first 5G-capable phone will appear in a little over a year. The Chinese giant made the pledge at its annual global analyst summit in Shenzhen, southeastern China.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:38:10 GMT
Punters wising up to expensive upgrade cycle
Sales of smartphones in Western Europe are expected to fall 7 per cent to 141 million this year, as consumers shun expensive upgrades on devices offering little more than an incremental updates.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:55:14 GMT
We did what? Look again, it's not there
Google has inadvertently revealed a new way to use Android phones, to be revealed in its forthcoming Android P update. The new UI option makes a phone more "swipeable", lessening the reliance on navigation bar buttons.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:25:38 GMT
SNES? Bless you! It's a bit smaller than it was 30 years ago
Veteran game maker Sega announced it was getting back into the hardware game at the Sega FES 2018 event over the weekend, with a shrunken version of its classic Megadrive (or Genesis) console.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 02:58:11 GMT
Vox ‘n’ text only because Korean super-exam gives students one shot at life
Samsung has announced a phone that can’t go online.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:02:28 GMT
Pricey, but classy
There’s a lot to be said for not buggering up a winning formula. And there’s something to be said in 2018 for a premier brand. Samsung's Galaxy S9 is the best all-round Android phone you can buy.…
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:12:31 GMT
Income, pregnancies, personal activities, all up for grabs
Facebook’s advertising platform is riddled with loopholes that can help miscreants obtain private information on individual users, according to a recent study.…
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:06:06 GMT
Somewhere, a Windows Mixed Reality user is weeping silently
The inexplicably expensive HTC Vive Pro has arrived, and rather than spend a few hours in virtual world of rainbows and unicorns, the team at iFixit have taken the headset into the very real world of their workshop and taken the thing apart.…
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:38:09 GMT
HP and Lenovo are kings of the ever-shrinking hills, but Dell’s made a move
PC shipments continue their slow slide, with analyst firms Gartner and IDC both releasing data for 2018’s first quarter showing further slippage.…
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:01:09 GMT
Fantasy game ratchets up subscription price
The creators of the popular online game RuneScape are raising subscription prices, and putting the blame on Nigel Farage and his Brexit buddies.…
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:04:39 GMT
Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:04:08 GMT
If it looks like, walks like and quacks like a Psion, is it actually a penguin?
Review Planet Computing’s Gemini is a middling Android phone integrated with a Psion Series 5-style keyboard and clamshell case. Since our exclusive hands-on with a real production device, I’ve spent a few weeks in its rattly, plasticky company. And I’ve also managed to get Linux installed. So what’s it like?…
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:34:02 GMT
Masshole 'targeted women, families, friends with abuse'
A US bloke accused of cyberstalking and harassing his former housemates has been hit with two dozen more criminal charges.…
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:54:30 GMT
Warns six major companies, refuses to name names
America's Federal Trade Commission has told "six major companies" to cut it out when it comes to trying to force consumers to only use their replacement parts for repairs.…
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:32:14 GMT
But it'd be tricky: Teardown folk give mobe 4/10 for repairability
Armed with tools to send most smartphone manufacturers into a cold sweat, the team at iFixit have found the Huawei P20 Pro is going to be a tricky beast to repair. So best not drop it, OK?…
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:15:06 GMT
Facebook boss shamefaced (again) for flouting basic concepts of privacy (again)
Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg will apologize to US Congress this week as his website tries to clean up yet another privacy scandal.…
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:17:08 GMT
... But our vulture's claws have found some flaws
Review Huawei has brought forward the release of its P20 Pro flagship to capitalise on the interest generated by its triple-lens shooter. This is the first Chinese phone that demands – well, screams – to be compared to the market leaders. With a price to match – £799.…
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:02:12 GMT
All you'd expect from a premium laptop - except the stupid power brick
Hands-on review Lenovo has just-about nailed this year’s X1 Carbon laptop, which save for a couple of minor annoyances will impress.…
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:17:09 GMT
Maintained for 3 years since Brit supermarket quit the ISP game
Brit supermarket giant Tesco is killing off the free email services offered to customers who bought its broadband package.…
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:20:11 GMT
Like having an AI toddler in your phone
Real-world test Huawei's new imaging hardware has caused as much excitement in the smartphone market as anything since Nokia's oversampling champ of 2013, the Lumia 1020. Benchmarker DxOMark puts both the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro comfortably ahead of all rivals, including the Galaxy S9 Plus, Pixel 2 and iPhone X.…
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:45:08 GMT
Teardown chaps give Apple's edu-slab 2/10 for repairability
Teardown show-offs iFixit have found few changes with the latest iPad – but it does have a larger battery than the more expensive "Pro" iPad.…
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:03:06 GMT
We make sense of the range
For some Reg readers there's only One True Laptop, and it's the ThinkPad. Yes, still.…
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:19:42 GMT
Coitus collaboration code claims – THE TRUTH
Hookup fixer Grindr is on the defensive after it shared sensitive information, including HIV status and physical location, of its app's users with outside organizations.…
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:31:19 GMT
Plus: Samsung overtakes in semiconductor revenues
Apple is once again reportedly working on switching out Intel processors for its own homegrown, presumably 64-bit Arm-compatible, CPUs in Macs.…
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:03:36 GMT
Damage control needed for damage control
Facebook held a press conference on Thursday to provide details about its efforts to prevent electoral manipulation, only to have its damage control eclipsed by the publication of an executive's internal memo from 2016 suggesting growth mattered more than human life.…
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:36:15 GMT
Jeff Bezos will do to your MP3s what he did to your bookstore
Amazon says subscribers to its moribund Music Storage Service have 30 days to claim any song files they have stored on the service or lose them forever.…
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:20:11 GMT
Schools still underwhelmed by gaps in Cupertino's shiny slabs
For us crazed weirdos who work in education – that's primary schools for me – I'll admit it was mildly encouraging to find our world was the main thrust of an Apple event this week.…
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:40:20 GMT
Privacy also a priority for Apple, unless you're Chinese
On Thursday Apple released iOS 11.3, a free update to its mobile operating system that, among other new features and fixes, attempts to ease iPhone battery management.…
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:14:06 GMT
Battle of the botched brands set to heat up
Easter is a time for resurrections and so El Reg noted with interest that Palm, after an eight-year hiatus, has signed up Verizon as the first telco to stock the device when it launches this year.…
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:01:09 GMT
The Facebook Container add-on quarantines the social network to limit data harvesting
Sensing an opportunity in Facebook's squandering of public trust through its previously unrestrained giveaway of user data, Mozilla on Tuesday unveiled a defense against the social ad biz in the form of an add-on for Firefox called Facebook Container.…
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 05:58:04 GMT
Chris Wylie makes explosive allegations in session with MPs
Working for Cambridge Analytica "felt very much like a privatised colonising operation," the former staffer at the centre of the scandal around Facebook data slurps and Vote Leave's alleged overspend has said.…
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:20:51 GMT
It comes with a pencil! You kids remember what a 'pencil' is?
Apple is trying to reclaim its status as the cool kid in class with a fresh round of products aimed at the education market.…
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:23:11 GMT
To be fair, the camera will take some beating
It has been a long while since I heard some whalesong at ear-splitting volume. It takes me back to Nokia's final years as the world's No. 1. Back then you couldn't tell whether it was trying to be a New Age NGO or a phone company. The whalesong was deafening.…
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:30:09 GMT
P20 and P20 Pro: The Notch that wants to be a Nokia Lumia 1020
Hands On Over the years, very few phone makers other than Samsung have produced a phone that might tempt an iPhone stalwart to switch to Android, but Huawei may have just joined the elite.…
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:50:04 GMT
Checking in on how IMAP could help folk throw off Zuck's yoke
Once upon a time the internet ran on open protocols, and anyone could host servers that ran these protocols. Your first dial-up internet connection probably came with a bundle of tools for groups and chat. If you weren't happy with the service from your ISP you'd point the client at another. The internet was open and federated, with tons of innovation at the client end.…
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:36:34 GMT
Acer turns Chrome OS into a fondleslab so you don’t give teacher an Apple
Google and Acer have given the world its first Chromebook Tablet.…
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:46:33 GMT
'Non-public' FTC investigation a new headache for Zuckerberg
The US Federal Trade Commission has confirmed it is probing Facebook over privacy concerns, sending the social network's share price into a downward spiral.…
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:42:56 GMT
After weeks of stalling and delays, ICO wastes no time kicking down the doors
Cambridge Analytica’s London offices will finally be searched by the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office, following a marathon week of arguing inside and outside court.…
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:41:11 GMT
Hark, dear reader, the echoes of Enron
Comment I've a special reason to remember Enron and the summers of 2000 and 2001. The mighty Enron was being lauded as a pioneer and an innovator. It was a Wall Street darling. IBM and AOL jumped into bed with Enron to create a new retail energy provider. The sun shone, and Californians had plenty of energy capacity.…
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:11:09 GMT
Meanwhile, the company accounts are overdue
Yet more financial claims are piling up against failing ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm Retro Computers Ltd, with the company's former web fixer threatening to sue over allegedly unpaid invoices.…
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:04:08 GMT
The future is finally getting into gear
GDC Virtual reality reemerged in the past couple of years as a hot tech topic. However, the unfortunate truth – fiercely ignored by its passionate advocates – is that it hasn't been ready for primetime.…
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:18:08 GMT
It's not all about speed
Vodafone is the mobile network with the best ping rate, according to network performance sleuth Tutela.…
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:02:10 GMT
Things get surreal in suite 7088
GDC The Ataribox has been renamed the AtariVCS, and it is finally here!…
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:58:37 GMT
The sound of stable door shutting years too late
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has broken his silence about his data gathering and advertising firm's unforeseen role in data gathering and advertising.…
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:04:04 GMT
Making the phone a touchpad for the desktop is a good idea
First fondle When Samsung gave the world its DeX dock last year, we rated the device a solid, thoughtful job for its feat of allowing a smartphone to deliver a decent desktop experience.…
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:27:30 GMT
Police cyber-hunt reveals massive gap in legal protections
Efforts to track down criminals in the US state of North Carolina have laid bare a dangerous gap in the law over the use of location data.…
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