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Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:15:14 GMT
Military comms developer says Android and iOS are trampling its patents
A software company that makes tracking tools for military and 911 crews says some of the biggest mobile phone makers on the planet are stealing its technology for their own security tools.…
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:00:13 GMT
Benchmarks aren't useful anyway, says cofounder
On Tuesday OnePlus launched its latest smartphone with much hoopla, and the handset has already found notoriety.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:39:00 GMT
Has anyone told Qualcomm, Intel and the gang?
Comment The smartphone chip market it dominates is nevertheless an increasingly challenging one for Qualcomm. Slowing growth, litigation and rising Chinese competition are among its problems, but also the trend for the largest, richest handset makers to design their own chips.…
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:01:09 GMT
Put down the screwdriver... we're going to need a knife
It appears as if Microsoft has been following the Apple playbook in creating another laptop whose components you can never replace.…
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:23:12 GMT
But will what looks like a mad scramble result in anything?
Atari confirmed on Friday that the reborn biz will indeed produce its own games console, understood to be built out of PC tech.…
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 07:21:08 GMT
Imagine the spreadsheet you could view on a four-foot-wide 3840 x 1080 beast
The Register doesn't spare a glance for news of monitors but we made an exception when we learned of Samsung's new CHG90.…
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:18:35 GMT
And no fees for unshackling mobes, either – all from December this year
Canada has ruled that cellphone networks may no longer charge fees for carrier-unlocking handsets nor sell new phones locked to their network.…
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:34:11 GMT
Which bit is the half-million pounds of other people's money?
ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd has filed unaudited accounts at Companies House – and they offer few clues as to where the £513,000 of crowdfunded cash for its Vega+ product has gone.…
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:32:09 GMT
Sensible stuff from Wi-Fi Alliance guides AP placement, channel usage and more
Interoperability and certification outfit the Wi-Fi Alliance has taken on quite a challenge: getting the home-building industry to do WiFi right.…
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:29:05 GMT
Euro Court of Justice decides infamous search engine does infringe copyright
Analysis Europe's highest court has ruled that notorious torrent search engine The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, opening the door for ISPs across the continent to be obliged to block access to it.…
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:33:39 GMT
Mobe maker demands millions after SoFIA processors sparked thousands of complaints
Intel is being sued by a Brazilian phone maker that claims Chipzilla's smartphone Atom processors caused handsets to explode.…
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:02:07 GMT
Watchdog sinks gums into Dixons Carphone subsidiary
Currys PC World was today placed on the naughty step by toothless watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority over the way it misleadingly promoted savings to push laptops sales.…
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:32:06 GMT
Designed hardware for Xerox Alto, co-invented Ethernet and did formative work at Microsoft
Computer Science has lost a titan: Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker died on Monday, June 12th, aged 74.…
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:29:20 GMT
Phone with no customers latches onto least popular major carrier
The much-anticipated Essential Phone has been inked into a deal with Sprint to be the sole endorsed carrier for the handset.…
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 21:21:05 GMT
Paging Commissioner Pai: Your 'plan' is less popular than Trumpcare
It's a funny thing, but the ability to buy an internet connection and not have the company you buy it from control what you can see and at what speed you can see it is a popular thing in the Land of the FreeTM.…
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 20:19:58 GMT
1,600 PG&E customers hit by gizmo prang
A wayward quadcopter is being blamed for a power outage in Google's back yard this week.…
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 18:52:37 GMT
Chipzilla sends not-so-subtle threat to ARM crew
Intel used the 40th anniversary of its x86 architecture to warn chip rivals to mind their step when emulating its instruction set.…
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:00:08 GMT
The sun really does shine out of my behind
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Nice t-shirt. Where did you get it?…
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:40:31 GMT
Class-action complaint against Arris Surfboard broadband boxes widens
A class-action lawsuit claiming Arris's gigabit Surfboard modems buckle under light pressure is gathering in size and pace – once again putting the spotlight on Intel's much-maligned Puma 6 chips.…
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:18:46 GMT
Pro tip: Frontier is West Virginia's largest broadband ISP
"I bet you that cost me my job," West Virginia Senate president, Republican Mitch Carmichael, jokingly told colleagues in April when he voted for a new measure that would expand broadband competition in his state.…
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:06:07 GMT
AR 'doesn't qualify' for free speech protection
Analysis In the blue corner: Candy Lab, a maker of augmented reality games, which doesn't want people banned from playing its distractions in public places.…
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:49:06 GMT
What's a Do-Not-Call list?
An eight-year investigation into Dish Networks, a direct-broadcast satellite service provider, resulted Monday in the largest fine ever levied for privacy invasion, with Dish facing a $280m bill.…
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 07:31:11 GMT
Minimalist makeovers for iPad, Mac, iOS and MacOS leave Cupertino perhaps looking iterative, not innovative
WWDC When Microsoft revealed its Surface Studio last year , more than a few observers looked at its 28” touch screen and accompanying Dial touch wheel and wondered whether Apple could offer something similarly startling for workstation-class users.…
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:21:48 GMT
Yet another belated entry into the creepy interactive snooping speaker world
WWDC Apple has joined Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in the race to plant microphones in people's homes.…
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:10:20 GMT
Smartphone king already losing its only hope for a base
With its much-hyped Bixby Voice assistant still learning basic English, Samsung has to deal with a mass defection of its user base.…
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:16:48 GMT
Just kidding, they'll have smart 'Snap' spectacles...
Memory monetisation has arrived in the UK today with the launch of Snap Spectacles.…
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:31:43 GMT
The worst thing to happen to Samsung Mobile in at least a few months
Samsung has confirmed that it will be delaying the release of its Bixby voice assistant in the US, after the software showed problems with processing English-language requests.…
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:39:40 GMT
HP, Asus, Lenovo ring in brown trouser time for Intel
Qualcomm has named HP, Asus and Lenovo as its first partners to sell ARM-based Windows 10 PCs.…
Wed, 31 May 2017 19:54:08 GMT
Berlin bench rules against parents' access to teen's account
A German appeals court has ruled that Facebook does not need to give the parents of a deceased teen access to the child's account.…
Wed, 31 May 2017 02:15:12 GMT
Chipzilla's Compute Card also comes into focus in four models
Intel's Core range of CPUs now comes in a new "family" and has a new upper limit.…
Tue, 30 May 2017 23:20:15 GMT
Andy Rubin's new project gets specs
Android founder Andy Rubin’s new hardware company Essential Products has unveiled the smartphone it hopes will discomfit the rest of the market.…
Tue, 30 May 2017 20:04:38 GMT
Comms chip designer rolls out latest hardware lines in Taipei
Chip designer Qualcomm has rolled out a trio of new products for wireless networking and mobile devices.…
Tue, 30 May 2017 11:07:11 GMT
Options - you have some
ISPs in the US have regained to power to snoop on your internet browsing and sell the results to the highest bidder. Congress has passed news rules under President Donald Trump rolling back earlier restrictions on internet service providers - Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and so on - from selling or otherwise sharing your web browsing history with other companies.…
Fri, 26 May 2017 23:15:31 GMT
Is it a Tango? Is it a 360-camera? Or is it a let-down?
Android creator Andy Rubin has been running in stealth mode with his forthcoming smartphone startup Essential, but has now released a teaser picture of his new handset.…
Fri, 26 May 2017 08:36:08 GMT
Sports ready, LTE ready, but still a solution looking for a problem?
Real World Test Back when Captain Scarlet was still fresh, in the 1970s, I wanted a watch that made phone calls. I think I might have drawn one on my arm with a Biro. This has been a sci-fi staple since Dick Tracy in the 1950s. Now I’ve got one, I wonder why I ever wanted it.…
Fri, 26 May 2017 08:17:58 GMT
Or I could press 'Play' via the evil internet
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Mrs Dabbsy is getting cross. I know this because she has said "grrrr".…
Fri, 26 May 2017 05:30:07 GMT
Analyst firm IDC just made one of these three improbable predictions for the year 2019
Analyst outfit IDC thinks the PC market will grow again, although things are going to get worse before they get better. And the growth will come because people like Windows 10.…
Fri, 26 May 2017 00:15:08 GMT
Study shows energy readings off over 90%
Your fitness tracker might measure a heart rate accurately, but not the amount of calories burned, according to a study published in the Journal of Personalised Medicine.…
Thu, 25 May 2017 14:29:44 GMT
Customers offered Amazon vouchers or a full refund
The Beeb is to shut its online paid-for streaming service BBC Store from November, just 18 months after it launched.…
Thu, 25 May 2017 13:34:05 GMT
Streaming service argues it'll result in lower quality work
The European Parliament has set content quotas for OTT video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime even higher than the Commission originally wanted. 30 per cent of the services' catalog must be European works, Parliament has decreed.…
Thu, 25 May 2017 12:29:06 GMT
People must really love Snake
If you blinked, you missed it.…
Wed, 24 May 2017 20:47:11 GMT
Chipzilla says USB standard will be open to the world
Intel is pushing its Thunderbolt 3.0 USB port as the defacto input mode for future PCs.…
Wed, 24 May 2017 15:33:12 GMT
Touchscreens? Who needs 'em?
Hands On Huawei this week launched three Intel devices running Windows 10: a slim notebook, a Surface-a-like 2-in-1, and a conventional 15.6" laptop.…
Tue, 23 May 2017 16:02:12 GMT
Boutique fondleslab gains SIM slot... but not until later this year
Microsoft has revamped its Surface tablet, which at last includes a SIM card slot.…
Tue, 23 May 2017 11:43:30 GMT
Firm will kill live in-flight streaming unless you hand over your details
Chinese drone maker DJI is forcing all new users of its drones to register their devices through its app - and is throttling flight performance if they don't comply.…
Tue, 23 May 2017 08:30:04 GMT
Huawei breathing creepily down Apple's neck
Huawei is breathing over Apple's shoulder as Chinese brands make inroads into Western smartphone markets.…
Mon, 22 May 2017 14:32:23 GMT
Too risky, too spammy, too smutty, say devs
Developers of the popular Kodi plug-in Navi-X have pulled the plug on further development, citing the "current legal climate" around its work.…
Mon, 22 May 2017 09:06:24 GMT
And it's under £500...
Review Towards the end of his long career as an expert summariser on Test Match Special, Fred Trueman would declare: "I just don't know what's going on out there," and light his pipe.…
Fri, 19 May 2017 19:33:52 GMT
Meanwhile, Vine may have leaked your email, phone number – oops
Twitter has spent much of the day tackling gremlins in its systems that have left loads of users unable to access parts of the jibber-jabber service.…
Fri, 19 May 2017 14:28:04 GMT
It's not me, it's you. Ofcom proposes new switching regime
It's considered a cold way to end most relationships, but customers may soon be able to consciously uncouple from their mobile providers by simply sending a text.…
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