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Danish telecom group shuns China's Huawei for 5G rollout

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

The US and several other Western nations have shut Huawei out of tenders for the development of fifth-generation, or 5G, networks, because of the company's clos...

Google moves to disrupt video games with streaming, studio

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

The California-based technology giant said its Stadia platform will open to gamers later this year in the United States, Canada, Britain and other parts of Euro...

Facebook to offer grants to bring more to 'news deserts'

Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)

The leading social network said its Journalism Project Community Network would begin taking proposals in May from areas lacking in local news coverage. Facebook...

Streaming wars heat up as rivals queue up to challenge Netflix

Mar 17, 2019 (AFP)

Apple is expected to make its move with an announcement March 25 on its media plans, with a war chest estimated at some $1 billion and partners including stars ...

New Zealand wants answers from tech giants after mosque attack livestream

Mar 17, 2019 (AFP)

Saying there were "further questions to be answered" by the tech giants, Ardern said Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg had been in contact and "a...

Qualcomm scores $31 mn win in patent battle war with Apple

Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)

A jury in a federal court in Southern California ordered that Apple pay Qualcomm for patent infringement for chips used on iPhone 7, 8 and X models. The damages...

A day not to 'like' for Facebook, hit by outage, criminal probe

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

As the outage continued, gripes flooded rival Twitter as well as a comments section on downdetector.com, which tracks trouble accessing online pages. "I have ne...

US warns of WTO action over 'discriminatory' new digital taxes

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

"We think the whole theoretical basis of digital service taxes is ill-conceived and the effect is highly discriminatory against US-based multinationals," Chip H...

Hypergiant teams with Arch Mission to create interplanetary internet nodes

Mar 12, 2019 (SPX)

The first relay satellite of the network, a U-class spacecraft (a "cubesat", or miniature satellite) will be delivered in a planned late 2020 launch, and will c...

Breakthrough could enable cheaper infrared cameras

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

But infrared cameras are much more expensive than visible-light ones; the energy of infrared light is smaller than visible light, making it harder to capture. A...

Web inventor urges users to seek 'complete control' of data

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

Berners-Lee, credited with creating the web in 1989, is on a mission to save his invention from a range of problems increasingly dominating online life, includi...

New approach gives traditional cameras ultra-high imaging speeds

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Canada describe their new method, called compressed optical-streaking ultra-high-s...

Apple sets March 25 event, hints at streaming

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

An invitation sent to journalists included a movie reel countdown video and the message "It's show time." The event at Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters is ex...

White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveils Big Tech breakup plan

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

Warren said that as president, she would press for legislation to designate big online companies with revenues of at least $25 billion as "platform utilities" b...

China backs Huawei not to be 'silent lamb' in US legal fight

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced Beijing's support as Huawei mounts a legal and public relations campaign to counter US warnings that the company's networks and ...

The mind distracted: technology's battle for our attention

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

Everyone staring for hours at a screen has had some exposure to "captology" -- a word coined by behavioural scientist BJ Fogg to describe the invisible and mani...

Facebook's privacy move: major pivot or headfake?

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

The strategic shift announced this week by Zuckerberg suggests Facebook no longer wants to be a "digital town square," but a "digital living room" for secure, p...

Mixed emotions in emerging economies on smartphones, social media

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

The Pew Research Center report found the vast majority of adults in these countries have access to a mobile phone of some kind, with 53 percent using a smartpho...

Airbnb buys HotelTonight app to broaden travel offerings

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

Terms of the deal for Hotel Tonight, a mobile applications which connects users to hotels for last-minute bookings, were not disclosed. The deal "accelerates ou...

'Tim Apple' goes viral on social media after Trump gaffe

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

The Twittersphere reacted after a Wednesday White House meeting where the US president thanked "Tim Apple" for the tech giant's investments and job creations. C...