Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable
There be dragons, say US authorities, so first planned US-HK cable darkens its last leg
31 Aug 2020 | 31
Fairphone thinks its fair to offer a not-very-major and slightly-more-recycled new model
More capable cameras, less new plastic. Same opportunity for a warm inner glow
28 Aug 2020 | 17
Google wants to listen in to whatever you get up to in hotel rooms
Disrupting clock radios and concierges with plan to let Nest Hub devices take orders for fresh towels
27 Aug 2020 | 115
Taiwan and US make joint declaration to only use 'clean' 5G kit
It's all about transparency, yet China didn't rate a mention
27 Aug 2020 | 2
India anoints little-known Zoom clone as its home-grown videoconf tool of choice
Alappuzha's Techgentsia Software has a golden ticket for government work
21 Aug 2020 | 4
Nvidia's data centre biz tops gaming as lead revenue source – and it should enjoy being king while it lasts
Buying Mellanox has paid off, gamers are still the bigger prize
20 Aug 2020 | 3
Amazon makes 850,000m2 bet that its people will get off the kitchen table and back to an office
Cloud and e-commerce boom mean it needs more desks and people that originally planned
19 Aug 2020 | 21
Trump backs Oracle as potential TikTok buyer
Larry Ellison hailed as 'terrific guy' but Big Red stays shtum on its intentions
19 Aug 2020 | 30
Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can't run a business
Vows to vote for Democrat Joe Biden instead - as will ex-HP chief Carly Fiorina
18 Aug 2020 | 95
Facebook to take board seat at Linux Foundation after signing as Platinum member
Already a big mover in Foundation projects like Presto, GraphQL, Osquery and ONNX, so why not go all-in?
17 Aug 2020 | 15
Softbank confirms talks to offload Arm as it posts rebound profit
Might float chip-designer, sell it all or sell chunks. Whatever happens, server CPU sales are the upside
12 Aug 2020 | 23
China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers
And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned
11 Aug 2020 | 55
Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow
10 Aug 2020 | 11
Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite
Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind
10 Aug 2020 | 21
China re-shapes its silicon industry to boost production
The smaller the manufacturing process, the bigger the subsidies
06 Aug 2020 | 16
China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US
Beijing accuses America of working to destroy businesses it doesn't like
05 Aug 2020 | 74
China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs
Gotta catch 'em all
04 Aug 2020 | 36
Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device
Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine
04 Aug 2020 | 15
Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies
Doug Engelbart had the idea. Bill English did the engineering and made the first ever mouse
03 Aug 2020 | 31
World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%
Apple leads in shipments, but also records the slowest growth among branded fondleslab-flingers
03 Aug 2020 | 9
Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars
Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal
31 Jul 2020 | 56
Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation
Won't degrade. Won't catch fire. Will be a fine fit for electric vehicles
31 Jul 2020 | 16
Samsung cops COVID-19 coronavirus crunch and gets run over by Huawei in handsets for first time
Between football, new gaming consoles, Indian low-end-handsets and cloud computing, life is complex for Korean giant right now
30 Jul 2020 | 4
Qualcomm signs new IP licencing deal with Huawei despite US-China trade tensions
The cash will come in handy after COVID kicked a colossal hole in Q3 revenue
30 Jul 2020 | 3
