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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 | 16

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

Big Tech's maps led ride-sharing giant Grab astray

It now builds its own and says it has become the largest contributor to OpenStreetMap in Southeast Asia

Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 4

Beijing reverses ban on tech companies listing offshore

Announcement comes as Chinese ride-hailing DiDi Chuxing delists from NYSE under pressure

Legal24 May 2022 | 2

Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

Developers will be given 90 days to get them up to code, or face banishment

Applications02 May 2022 | 83

Skyhigh Security rises from McAfee-FireEye’s SSE

CEO chats to us about zero trust, data protection, and more

Security22 Mar 2022 | 1

ServiceNow preps mobile apps for real-time transformation tracking

Shifting to measuring results of its trademark workflows, not just building 'em. And it comes with a 'bat-phone'

Software22 Feb 2022 | 4

Swipe left: Snoops use dating apps to hook sources, says Australian Five Eyes boss

Warns that foreign interference needs more attention than terrorism

Security10 Feb 2022 | 14

Microsoft offers 'open' app store to draw regulators away from Activision takeover

Windows giant will say anything at this point to protect $69bn deal – and stick boot into Google, Apple

Software09 Feb 2022 | 15

Will I inhale coronavirus at this restaurant? There’s an app for that

Update Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy

Personal Tech15 Dec 2021 | 20

China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations

Also China: This one guy sent feedback to the government online, it was adopted, that shows we’re a democracy

Legal10 Dec 2021 | 14

Beijing twirls ban-hammer at 84 more apps it says need to stop slurping excess data

Online lending apps and more given fifteen days to ‘rectify’ behaviour

Security12 May 2021 | 7

Google Play to require privacy labels on apps in 2022, almost two years after Apple

Developers want to do this, says Google. Ummm ... guys, you do remember the thousands of malware nightmares you’ve hosted and sold?

Security07 May 2021 | 11

What not to expect when you're expecting: Fertility apps may be selling intimate health secrets

Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices

Security05 May 2021 | 23

NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules

Applications13 Apr 2021 | 32

Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks

UPDATED Palo Alto Networks spotted subscriber IDs and MAC addresses on the move

Applications25 Nov 2020 | 15

China reveals audit of 320,000 local apps, with 34 booted from app stores and hundreds of devs warned they could suffer same fate

Privacy crackdown in the land of ubiquitous surveillance, where 5G now blankets all cities

Applications23 Oct 2020 | 10

What is your 'intent'? Google Assistant opens door to chatting with third-party apps

But as ever, users, you don't need to yell into the phone... it's not the 1970s

Applications09 Oct 2020 | 8

NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'

So... totally seamless then

Applications24 Sep 2020 | 119

China lashes India’s app ban, calls for return to ‘win-win cooperation’

Nice economy you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if the World Trade Organisation got involved

Applications04 Sep 2020 | 14

NHS tests COVID-19 contact-tracing app that may actually work properly – EU neighbors lent a helping hand

Not just Germany stepping up to the plate – Ireland, too, we're told

Applications14 Aug 2020 | 125

India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese

They may have a point with some of them, though

Applications29 Jun 2020 | 19

NY Attorney General warns Apple, Google to police COVID-19 tracing apps in their souks – or she will herself

Worry about user privacy also results in Norway pulling its virus tracker

Applications17 Jun 2020 | 39

Google India says Play store policy, not geopolitics, behind removal of Chinese-app-deleting app

And we’d do it anywhere else, anytime, says veep

Applications05 Jun 2020 | 3

Switzerland 'first' country to roll out contact-tracing app using Apple-Google APIs to track coronavirus spread

Launch comes ahead of UK rolling out its controversial version

Applications28 May 2020 | 49

Rabobank security cert expires and gives its Australian Android app a case of internet-blindness

Needs bank staff to sort things out, but a certain virus means the contact centre is rather busy right now

Applications27 Apr 2020 |

Philippines considers app to trace coronavirus carriers

Privacy perspective: President has also threatened quarantine-breaking troublemakers may be shot

Applications03 Apr 2020 | 10

Revolut-won: British banking app gets half a billion bucks in backing, seeks to subvert today's market incumbents

Biz bags fat funding round

Applications26 Feb 2020 | 28

Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?

Taylor Swift of apps or ultimate ironic hipster shout-out?

Applications20 Feb 2020 | 47

Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap

Untested tech, no training, last-minute rollout, buggy code – sound familiar?

Applications04 Feb 2020 | 89

UK parcel firm Yodel plugs tracking app's random yaps about where on map to snap up strangers' tat

Shipped from expensive shop X? In the shed, you say? Researcher spots badness

Applications03 Dec 2019 | 98

Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?

Plus Facebook Pay has launched: Why not give them access to your financial data?

Applications12 Nov 2019 | 99

40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again

Bogus charges being racked up by Android tool

Applications01 Nov 2019 | 33

Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

Ordnance Survey map app update left some users lost, but they're really sorry, m'kay?

Applications17 Oct 2019 | 69

Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Updated Trying to avoid cops, live rounds, tear gas? Oh no, you don't, say Cook & Co

Applications02 Oct 2019 | 51

You know what the NHS really needs? Influencers, right guys? #blessed

Hey nurses, it's not like you've got anything else to do

Applications06 Sep 2019 | 39

Generous Google gives Chrome users Inbox Zero: Sign-in outage boots own browser out of webmail, services

Baffling bug forces folks to use Safari, IE, etc

Applications19 Aug 2019 | 11

Apple hits back at devs of axed kiddie screen-time apps

It's about privacy, not competition, sniffs Jesus-phone maker

Applications29 Apr 2019 | 22

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

You wouldn't download a car – oh actually...

Applications18 Apr 2019 | 32

'Sharing of user data is routine, yet far from transparent' is not what you want to hear about medical apps. But 2019 is gonna 2019

Study finds Android software slinging deets all over the place

Applications21 Mar 2019 | 16

We don't want to be Latch key-less kids: NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door

Updated Residents claim net-connected, app-controlled system is harassment, surveillance

Applications18 Mar 2019 | 44

Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data

Internal FB apps in chaos, lawmaker on warpath

Applications30 Jan 2019 | 134

Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo

Hipsters choke on pumpkin spice latte as the beloved original is tipped into a dumpster

Applications17 Jan 2019 | 41