Infosys reports better-than-expected results thanks in part to lower visa costs
Pipeline looks good as C-level crystal balls predict need for more tech
On-Prem16 Jul 2020 | 1
USA ends Hong Kong's special treatment, crimping flow of tech to territory
Seeing as finance is Hong Kong's thing and that industry needs lots of security kit, this could be scary
Legal15 Jul 2020 | 21
Google creates $10bn 'digitisation fund' for India
Localisation and transformation plan wins prime ministerial approval, but as usual has as much upside for Google as for its generous hosts
Legal14 Jul 2020 | 3
Drupal drops first big upgrade in five years and looks forward by looking backwards
CMS behind gov.uk and plenty more government sites worldwide promises easy upgrade from current code to new version 9.0
Software13 Jul 2020 | 12
Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards
Supply chains are working again
Personal Tech10 Jul 2020 | 23
Philippines government tech agency seeks 750 percent budget boost for COVIDigital transformation
Most of it to go on new internet infrastructure to keep citizens working and learning remotely
Legal10 Jul 2020 | 4
Google Cloud cancels planned Chinese venture
Doesn't want to follow Azure and AWS by working with locals
SaaS09 Jul 2020 | 5
Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law
Plus: US govt says it's 'looking at' banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok
Security07 Jul 2020 | 45
Details of Beijing's new Hong Kong security law signal end to more than two decades of autonomy
Legislation to root out subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces following year of civil unrest
Security01 Jul 2020 | 81
DDoS and dingoes: Australia to bolster cyber-defences with 500 hackers amid China spat
AU$1.35bn fund follows revelations that country was hit by state-run attack
Security30 Jun 2020 | 8
Beijing's tightening grip on Hong Kong could put region's future as an up-and-coming tech hub in jeopardy
Feature But it is American law, not Chinese, that might make all the difference
Networks30 Jun 2020 | 64
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son stops shining on Alibaba's board
'My work here is done, but my day job just got complicated' is the gist of it
On-Prem25 Jun 2020 |
China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism
Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people'
Personal Tech24 Jun 2020 | 26
Bricks and mortar chemists take down Indian contact-tracing website
On grounds that it favoured online chemists in a nation that forbids online drug sales
Software18 Jun 2020 | 8
SoftBank to hang up on T-Mobile stake to shore up its balance sheet
What's a flailing investor to do?
Networks17 Jun 2020 | 1
Meatspace meetup Web Summit reckons you'll be ready to revisit the world in November
Portugal event is on, say organisers, even though events with more than 20 are currently barred
On-Prem17 Jun 2020 | 2
845GB of racy dating app records exposed to entire internet via leaky AWS buckets
We've kept this story safe for work... which is perhaps a little odd because you're all working from home anyway
Security16 Jun 2020 | 25
Exoskeletons-as-a-service offered as helping hand to warehouse workers exhausted by pandemic
Light, strong, supportive ... and monitored thanks to ERP integration
Science16 Jun 2020 | 8
Vietnam bans drone flights near all government buildings, borders and factories
Even the Fatherland Front Central Committee is a no-fly zone
Science15 Jun 2020 | 1
GitHub to replace master with main across its services
Language matters – but when you replace a 'blacklist' with a 'blocklist', what do you call a list of blocks?
Software15 Jun 2020 | 298
Arm wrestle round two: Chinese outpost says it's fired the replacement CEO foisted on it by HQ
Arm China says nothing counts without a board meeting
On-Prem12 Jun 2020 | 16
Red Hot Chili Packets! New submarine cable to land in home of cult Sriracha sauce
Consortium reveals plan to connect seven Asian nations
Networks11 Jun 2020 | 8
US senators propose $22bn fund for new fabs on American soil because making stuff is better than designing stuff
TSMC's new Arizona factory will cost $12bn. What kind of a strategic or industry development impact can less than double that bring?
Science11 Jun 2020 | 51
Arm fires the head of its Chinese unit – but Arm China says Allen Wu still works there
Alleged conflicts of interest surround trans-continental boardroom battle
On-Prem11 Jun 2020 | 6
Germany to fund development of edge CPUs as part of 'tech you can trust' plan to home-brew more kit
€400m for starters, after recent ban on 'untrustworthy' suppliers that sounded a lot like it was directed at Huawei
Legal10 Jun 2020 | 18
Samsung heir remains free as judge rules putting him inside would be detention without trial
Financial contortions will be considered, but not with Lee Jae-yong under arrest
On-Prem09 Jun 2020 | 2
Video? That's so not what we care about, says Slack, as it signs video deal with AWS
All Amazon staff are slackers now as AWS chat backend Chime's in
Software05 Jun 2020 | 7
Korean prosecutors seek arrest warrant for Samsung's heir apparent
Fraud allegations regarding health company transaction mean more strife for Lee Jae-yong
On-Prem05 Jun 2020 | 1
BBC voice assistant promises to summon streams even if you're just a little bit Brahms and Liszt
Would you Adam and Eve it? Your words will end up teaching Microsoft AI to speak proper English
Science03 Jun 2020 | 30
Mozilla cautions India's national open digital plan is 'open-washing'
Internet Society also weighs in with worries about vague definition of 'open'
Legal02 Jun 2020 | 2
China's Tencent to order ONE MILLION SERVERS as part of $70bn digital infrastructure splurge
Buying all the buzzwords: AI, 5G and Blockchain implementations promised
On-Prem29 May 2020 | 12
IBM Sametime could rise again as HCL makes shortlist for India's home-grown Zoom clone
A dozen daring firms will duke it out for the right to get India talking and take on the world!
Software28 May 2020 | 7
Uber plans to ride out of stable Singapore, move APAC HQ to high-tension Hong Kong
Ride-sharing monster doesn't operate in current home, is illegal in special administrative region
Personal Tech27 May 2020 | 8
Galaxy S20 security is already old hat as Samsung launches new safety silicon
Passport-grade chippery to help mobile devices prove their identity
Security26 May 2020 | 16
Contact-tracing app may become a permanent fixture in major Chinese city
Hangzhou wants a 'health and immunity firewall'
Security26 May 2020 | 14
Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration
Hey Tmall Genie, spike my cholesterol, then coalesce my web empire with voice commands
Personal Tech21 May 2020 | 4
New Zealand releases Bluetooth-free COVID-19 tracing app
'Digital diary' with QR-code check-ins for now, wireless-capable upgrade in the works
Software20 May 2020 | 42
Fancy watching 'Bake Off' together with mates and alone at the same time? The BBC's built a tool to do that
Media Player add-on lets you and your mates watch shows in sync
Personal Tech19 May 2020 | 45
Alibaba's Jack Ma bails from SoftBank's board
Japanese Uber-investor refreshing board as Ma heads off to do good works
On-Prem18 May 2020 | 3
NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments
Old treaties don't mention space mining and a new one could take forever the sign off. Enter the new 'Artemis Accords'
Science18 May 2020 | 34
TSMC to build new 5nm chip factory in Arizona with US government backing
Ticks plenty of diplomatic and supply chain security boxes with build in State tipped to be less MAGA-happy in 2020
Science15 May 2020 | 10
Philippines government to its agencies: You're not seriously going to do post-pandemic online services with that old stuff, are you?
Mass upgrades all-but ordered at all levels of government, even at unis
Legal14 May 2020 | 3
'Malware' takes Aussie money-manager MyBudget down for five days
Updated Bills going unpaid by service that exists to pay bills
Security14 May 2020 |
HPE loses second key exec in as many weeks
CTO Mark Potter to depart as re-shuffle connects boss Neri to product peeps
On-Prem13 May 2020 | 8
India releases data-use protocols for its contact-tracing app... after five weeks and 100 million downloads
Cart, meet horse, and you can both worry about 180-day data retention
Security12 May 2020 | 4
South Korea announces tech New Deal to stoke post-coronavirus economy
Robots! 5G! AI! Stimulus cash to float all the tech buzzwords
Science11 May 2020 | 1
Samsung to launch debit card and financial-health-as-a-service service
There's revenue to be had with being a participant in the payments web, and the Apple experience to measure up against
Personal Tech08 May 2020 | 6
Dad to kids: I've decided you don't get to take over the family business. Kids to Dad: Who wants to run Samsung anyway?
Lee Jae-yong ends dynastic control and will even let staff join a union
On-Prem07 May 2020 | 5
China successfully launches its biggest-ever space truck to fire up its space station ambitions
Capsule tested atop Long March 5B can also get China to the Moon
Science06 May 2020 | 18
Pew-pew woo-hoo! Hong Kong reopens video arcades shut by coronavirus lockdown
Other fun places also get to let people in again, just don't read the economic data before you go because that's no fun at all
Bootnotes06 May 2020 | 8
Apple-Google COVID-19 virus contact-tracing API to bar location-tracking access
Renamed 'ExposureNotification' will only only one app per nation
Security05 May 2020 | 28
NASA signs deals to put a rocket under Artemis flights until 2029
Orders 18 RS-25 core-stage engines from Aerojet Rocketdyne
Science04 May 2020 | 25
Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it's hard to build bit barns when you're working from home
The Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won't last
On-Prem30 Apr 2020 | 6
India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps
There's hundreds of millions in India alone
Software30 Apr 2020 | 14
China strings up red tape barrier that shows businesses they're better off buying local tech
New rules let Beijing review purchases after pondering 'political, diplomatic, and trade factors' for up to three months
Legal28 Apr 2020 | 21
Apple and Google tweak key bits of contact-tracing privacy plan
As European nations back decentralised plan that leaves data on the device until users call in sick
Security27 Apr 2020 | 21
Vietnam alleged to have hacked Chinese organisations in charge of COVID-19 response
Apparently everyone's cyber-spooks are mad for this right now
Security23 Apr 2020 | 23
Google and Cisco, sitting in a (spanning) tree, cloud N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G
Borg SD-WANS can now drive Chocolate Factory virty cloud networks and the workloads therein
Networks22 Apr 2020 | 2
Facebook takes $5.7bn stake in Jio – India's largest mobile telco
WhatsApp gets a leg-up into m-commerce
Networks22 Apr 2020 | 6
Google productises its own not-a-VPN secure remote access tool
Zero-trust access to web applications with very fine-grained access controls
Security21 Apr 2020 | 23
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