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China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids

Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff

Public Sector15 Jul 2024 | 3

Founder of Indian ride-share biz Ola calls for 70-hour work week

'A generation will have to do penance' says Bhavish Aggarwal

On-Prem09 Jul 2024 | 62

Figma pulls AI design tool for seemingly plagiarizing Apple's Weather app

AI is 'like the fast food of creativity'

AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 12

Like Uber, but for rainy days: Japan eases its ridesharing restrictions

Nation turns once again to technology to help with declining population

Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 12

Tokyo takes on Tinder by developing its own dating app it hopes will arrest population decline

We're from the government and we want you to find love and procreate

Public Sector06 Jun 2024 | 17

Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications

Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software

Public Sector28 May 2024 | 14

Oh Sonos! App update borks users' favorite features and worse

Blind customers complain they've been forgotten in rollout of latest UI

Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 52

Imagine if Uber offered car loans, not just rides. Its Indonesian analog will do this soon

Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything – even taming TikTok

Software01 May 2024 |

Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app

You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles

Software24 Apr 2024 | 3

India's Uber clone Ola Cabs hails ride out of the international market

Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered

Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 5

Simulation reveals all Japanese will have the same surname by 2531

Konnichiwa, Sato-San

Offbeat03 Apr 2024 | 32

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme

Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 12

India's competition regulator orders Google Play payment probe

Choice of alternative payment providers labelled 'illusory' – because none existed

Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 |

India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock

Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly

Public Sector19 Mar 2024 | 8

Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market

Software05 Mar 2024 | 12

Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why?

Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement

Software20 Feb 2024 | 14

Singapore finally deletes its COVID-era contact tracing data

Except for the data used for a controversial murder investigation. That stays. Forever

Software06 Feb 2024 | 8

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that

Science30 Jan 2024 | 69

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

Opinion From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no

Personal Tech22 Dec 2023 | 168

Beijing demands government apps must shed their bureaucratic skins

Its hard to disagree with a mandate to make government digital services fit for people, not box-tickers

Software19 Dec 2023 | 13

Scribbling limits in free version of Evernote set to test users' patience

Deckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform?

Applications30 Nov 2023 | 28

Italy seizes from Airbnb $836M in alleged unpaid taxes

Biz says it's just following EU rules instead

Offbeat07 Nov 2023 | 33

Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions

Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans

On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 20

Big Tech offers free training courses on India's new digital skills platform

Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more

Software15 Sep 2023 | 1

Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files

Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it

Cyber-crime06 Sep 2023 | 3

So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say

Take up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?!

Software04 Sep 2023 | 32

Tokkers can Tok like Tweeters can Tweet – for now

Scavenging for disgruntled former Twitter users? Fellow vulture, we honor thee.

Applications25 Jul 2023 | 14

Users accuse Intuit of 'heavy-handed' support changes on QuickBooks for Desktop

Customers either face update cliff edge or loss of access in licensing shift

Applications06 Jun 2023 | 34

Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos

Have you considered taking up cycling?

Applications02 Jun 2023 | 35

Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based

Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org

Applications12 May 2023 | 31

Singapore tells its people: Go forth and block those ads

As it preps to launch WhatsApp scam-shredder

Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 33

Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls

Officers didn't know software was saving personal data and neither did people on other end

Security18 Apr 2023 | 36

Google: If your Android app can create accounts, it better be easy to delete them, too

Awoogah, awooooogah, new policy coming for developers

Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 14

Google (sort of) loses in Indian antitrust appeal

Updated $161 million slap-on-the-wrist fine stands, but major restrictions are eased

Legal30 Mar 2023 | 4

SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up

Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint

Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 18

Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops

Island nation reworks digital infrastructure found to have slowed down pandemic response

Software09 Mar 2023 | 11

Beijing's done its sums and found a billion netizens watching short video services

Meanwhile, TikTok analog Douyin cleans up 5,000 misbehaving e-commerce accounts

Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 5

Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate

Labelling scheme offers developers easy loopholes to play down personal info spreading

Networks24 Feb 2023 | 34

Ancient art of banning rideshare companies revived in India, this time on motorbikes

Two-wheelers outnumber cars three to one in India, so promised licences mean Uber and Ola aren't off-road forever

Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 2

Singapore pulls plug on COVID tracking program

Tells residents to turn in dongles and uninstall apps, but keeps registration system alive – just in case

Applications09 Feb 2023 | 10

Google gives in to India Android antitrust verdict, kinda

Tech behemoth says it will appeal 'certain aspects' of the decision

Legal26 Jan 2023 | 3

Beijing lifts restrictions on rideshare giant DiDi Chuxing

After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers

Software17 Jan 2023 | 2

Asia rules the mobile world: more users, more often, generating more cash

Chinese developers are cashing in as the region buys in to TikTok and games

Personal Tech16 Jan 2023 | 3

Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying

Beijing cracks down on undeletable pre-installed bloatware and dodgy apps

Software15 Dec 2022 | 56

China bins its COVID tracking app

Tracked location and kept records of phone calls, and determined ability to travel. Which China will keep doing with other tech, for other reasons

Software13 Dec 2022 | 9

MacOS9.app: A tour de force of emulation and integration

Friday FOSS Fest The 'Infinite Mac' is an astonishing demonstration of emulation and integration between some of the best tech of the '90s and the '20s

OSes09 Dec 2022 | 15

Japan's LINE shutters crypto exchange to focus on less controversial blockbiz

Decision is unrelated to recent crypto crashes, presages pivot to some kind of tokenised chat

Software29 Nov 2022 | 3

Apple to end policy that charged South Korean devs higher App Store commissions

Korea's antitrust org to develop a platform to respond to Big Tech’s sneaky ways

Software23 Nov 2022 | 1

Apple finds way to squeeze social network apps until pips squeak

And get over here, NFT slingers, Cupertino wants a word, too

Applications25 Oct 2022 | 8

Russia's Facebook-like VK removed from Apple App Store

Apps still available on Google Play, digital ministry says it's investigating

Applications28 Sep 2022 | 1

Indian court directs chat app Telegram to disclose details of copyright infringers

Judge says that servers being located in Singapore is not a get-out clause

Security02 Sep 2022 | 8

Deploying disaster-proof apps may be easier than you think

Interview When the next cloud datacenter fails, will your software go with it?

PaaS + IaaS22 Jul 2022 | 12

South Korea's Kakao removes external payment method amid Google Play standoff

Google gets its way after meeting with internet company and Korea Communications Commission

Applications11 Jul 2022 | 3

China finds and kills 42,000 counterfeit apps – many of them investment scams

Constant crackdowns on bad online behavior don't seem to deter crims

Offbeat04 Jul 2022 | 8

Telegram adds paid tier as it cracks 700 million users

Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’

Applications20 Jun 2022 | 7

Singapore's Grab enters maps-as-a-service market

Takes on global players with data sourced from customers, plus paid contributions from delivery drivers

Software09 Jun 2022 | 3