Microsoft has officially announced its plan to cut 18,000 jobs by the 31st of March next year. However, it's the company's recently acquired Nokia device and services division that will be hit the hardest, receiving around 12,500 of the overall job cuts. The mass job cuts were announced by Microsoft …
Read More »Apple to pay $400 million in ebook price-fix settlement
Apple has finally agreed to an out of court settlement with the 33 states accusing the company of hiking up ebook prices. US attorneys general revealed today that Apple has agreed to pay out as much as $400 million to readers. However, the final bill will likely be closer to $450 million …
Read More »512GB Crucial SSD drops below £145
It seems like only yesterday that we were all happy with a 1TB spinning hard drive. Then the technologies around solid state drives dropped to the point where ‘working 100% on memory' became viable – at least for the rich and famous. So how much should you spend on the …
Read More »RIAA lobbying closes radio archive site
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is a lobby group that's most well known for going after torrent and streaming sites in order to prevent people from downloading music without paying for it first. While that doesn't give it the best image among many music fans, it does at …
Read More »Intel sold highest amount of processors ever this past quarter
Thanks to strong sales of central processing units for personal computers, servers, tablets and other types of devices, Intel Corp. sold the record number of microprocessors in one quarter ever in the second quarter of its fiscal 2014. The company said that multiple factors affected demand for chips during the …
Read More »Intel: replacement of Windows XP-based PCs will help us in 2014
Chief executive officer of Intel Corp. said that replacement of Windows XP-based personal computers by businesses and enterprises will help the company to sell more microprocessors this fiscal year. While the company does not want to make predictions regarding next year, it does not exclude the possibility that the replacements …
Read More »Google announces Project Zero
Google has put together a new security team to find and fix the Internet's most destructive bugs before hackers have a chance to exploit them, the company announced in a security blog post. Google is one of the largest online businesses in the world, which makes it a prime target …
Read More »Teen accuses instagram of size discrimination over account ban
Samm Newman, a 19 year old student from Ohio, has accused photo sharing service Instagram of discriminating against her size, after it deleted her account following complaints about her underwear and swimsuit shots. Pointing out that there are thousands of other instagram accounts with similar content featuring thinner women, Newman suggested that …
Read More »Dotcom to make PM revelation five days before election
Kim Dotcom has grabbed headlines in New Zealand once again, after announcing that just five days before the general election later this year, he's rented out the Auckland Town Hall and will be inviting anyone and everyone to hear new revelations that explain how the Prime Minister knew of him …
Read More »Obama still wants access to all the world’s data
Despite the drumming that trust in government spy agencies has taken over the past year thanks to Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA and GCHQ data collection and retention schemes, US president Obama's administration is still pushing its luck with the kind of data it's allowed to collect. In its …
Read More »Marvel is replacing Thor with a woman… called Thor
Thor, a Marvel hero for over 60 years, is set to be replaced. Having been found unworthy to wield his mighty hammer Mjolnir, the bearded son of Odin will be stepping down, while a female version of him steps up. However the creators are playing their cards close to their …
Read More »Intel reports strong results as sales of PCs improve
Intel Corp. on Tuesday disclosed its financial results for the second quarter of the year. The company reported revenue of $13.8 billion, net income of $2.8 billion and gross margin of 64.5 per cent. As expected, Intel’s results improved because of better sales of personal computers and continued strong sales …
Read More »Microsoft to announce huge job cuts this this week – report
Chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. has already implied on strategy changes at the software giant. As it usually happens, strategic shifts happen in a combination with massive layoffs. A media report suggests that the job cuts will be announced as soon as this week. After Microsoft added 30 thousand …
Read More »EA hire ex-Ebay higher up to help develop game services
Stories that ignite hatred for EA never seems to be too far from our front page, but give it some credit, it does seem to have a strategy moving forward and it's sticking with it. Seeing its games as an ongoing “service,” to consumers beyond anything else, the publishing giant …
Read More »Netflix, Facebook and Google try to block internet fast lanes
Some of the world's biggest tech companies have banded together to stand against the growing acceptance of internet fast lanes and the end of net neutrality. We've already seen companies like Verizon throttle traffic to their services, despite a premium being charged and it's only set to get worse. Those …
Read More »UK Business federation calls for accelerated fibre rollout
British Broadband is not up to scratch, according to the Federation of Small Businesses. While much of the country's bigger cities may be enjoying the benefits of high speed fibre optics, be it to their home or to the cabinet down the road, the statistics that the federation have come …
Read More »News Corp wants Australian ISPs punished for piracy
One of the main reasons that rates of piracy are so high in Australia, is because the legal ways of getting access to media are either non-existent, or monopolised and criminally expensive and yet News Corp, one of the company's that ‘suffers' the most from people pirating its shows, is …
Read More »US testing guided .50 calibur missiles
No this isn't a case of me getting my military technologies confused, the US army really is running tests on some of the world's smallest missiles – ones that can be fired right from a .50 calibre rifle and then guided, after leaving the barrel. Known as Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance …
Read More »Google is struggling to cope with ‘right to be forgotten’ requests
Google has been flooded with “right to be forgotten” requests in Europe, so many that it accidentally began censoring news posts from the likes of The Guardian and the BBC. However, the company's top lawyer has come out to explain that Google is in-fact struggling to cope with the amount of …
Read More »ISPs name GCHQ as biggest ‘internet villain’ at award show
At least it looks like the public and open rights groups aren't the only ones that find GCHQ's snooping antics leave a bad taste in their mouth. The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has had its annual award ceremony where it gives props to some of the best and brightest …
Read More »Parliament rushes through snooping laws after EU rights ruling
The British government is rushing through a new set of laws to allow intelligence agencies like GCHQ and ISPs, to continue legally collecting meta-data on phone calls and digital communications, and in some cases the content of those conversations, in the wake of the EU ruling data retention as a human rights …
Read More »Authors call for copyright talks in school assemblies
Clearly suing downloaders and pirates doesn't work. That's obvious at this point, so some creative types have come up with a new idea: educate children about copyright while still in school. According to a bunch of authors that took to parliament yesterday to put forward some new ideas on combating …
Read More »You can now control Google Glass with your mind
One of the drawbacks to Google Glass was having to talk to it, voice commands are often seen as a gimmick rather than a useful feature. Luckily, an app has been released that will allow Glass owners to issue commands through brain waves instead. The app is called MindRDR, it …
Read More »Microsoft’s Cortana continues World Cup prediction streak
There's a lot of nonsense prediction engines that show up during big sporting events, usually animal based. Whether it's an elephant eating this over that, or an octopus that goes for that fish over this one, it's all pretty random and any real correct predictions are likely based on the …
Read More »Heavenly sword movie gets first trailer, release date
It's been nearly seven years since Heavenly Sword first landed on the PlayStation 3, impressing fans with its visuals and combat system, but that doesn't mean Sony has forgotten about it. In a partnership with production company Blockade Entertainment, the Japanese electronics maker is releasing a Heavenly Sword movie on …
Read More »250,000 people signed up for the Razer Nabu beta
It looks like a lot of people are itching to try out the Razer Nabu as the company received over 250,000 sign ups for its beta program. The company now has to narrow that number down as just 500 people will be participating in the beta test. However, we don't …
Read More »UK porn filters are blocking anti-drug-war sites
Much of our coverage of the British government last year involved David Cameron's courting of Chinese firms and how he was very interested in the filters they put up to stop citizens looking at a large variety of content, including anti-government messages. However, the big problem Mr Cameron saw in …
Read More »Remote controlled implant offers new contraceptive option
Contraceptives are a bit a touchy subject. There's the old plastic bag that everyone hates so much and there's hormone pills and injections that require strict routine from the women taking them, but then there are the implants, which are the most ‘take-it-and-forget-it' of the bunch. However, those implants could give …
Read More »Potato Salad kickstarter raises over $35,000
It turns out that you can Kickstart just about anything- even potato salad. Zach Danger Brown was only after $10 but since the project made the news, things blew out of proportion and he has now raised over $35,000. He's making the most of it though, as he has gone ahead …
Read More »NASA to use smartphones for robotic intelligence
In just three days time, NASA is set to send a handful of Android smartphones into orbit, with plans to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) and deliver supplies. However those smartphones will do more than just let the astronauts get a quick game of Angry Birds in before …
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