An International data centre has been granted planning permission from Derry City and Strabane District Council to be established at Foyle Port.
The development, from Atlantic Hub, will host computer data and services equipment for larg…
Another big acquisition out of Israel this week points to how bigger tech companies are using the economic slowdown to focus on their longer-term strategies and shore up assets to support that. Today Microsoft announced that it would be ac…
While the moratorium on large events and gatherings imposed by COVID has wreaked havoc with the multi-million rand events industry in South Africa, 3D, interactive, virtual exhibition software created in the country is cause for hope.
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The mobile gaming industry continues to grow with developers generating revenue in millions of dollars on a daily basis. Data acquired by Finbold.com shows that by June 2020, games on iOS devices generated approximately $13.29 million in d…
On May 18th, a coalition of high-profile digital rights organisations released an open letter asking for answers about government plans to build a sprawling COVID datastore. The proposed datastore would have been a partnership with for-pro…
YouTube today announced a new direct response ad format that will make YouTube video ads more “shoppable” by adding browsable product images underneath the ad to drive traffic directly to brands’ product pages. The introduction of the form…
Open up short-form video app TikTok and you’re met with a stream of popular videos, tailored to your own interests. But when your friend launches TikTok on their own phone, they’ll see something different. TikTok calls this main stream of …
While a French online hate speech law has just been derailed by the country’s top constitutional authority on freedom of expression grounds, Germany is beefing up hate speech rules — passing a provision that will require platforms to send …
Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY – the world’s first all-electric touring car race series returns to the streets of Berlin on 5 August 2020
The German city will see seven eTROPHY races take place throughout a nine-day period including the finale on …
French telecoms operator Orange has been ordered by a Paris court to pay local rival Digicel nearly 250 million euros ($280 million) in compensation for anti-competitive practices in the French Caribbean, the company said on Friday.
The…
Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) will retain control of T-Mobile (TMUS.O) should Japan’s Softbank (9984.T) liquidate its stake, CEO Tim Hoettges said on Friday as he vowed to claim top spot in the U.S. market.
Speaking at the German group’s …
Facebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany.
The company said the offending ad contained an inverted red triangle similar to that used by the Nazi…
Fifa game developer EA Sports promises that the next-generation version of Fifa 21 will feature new technology to make it the most realistic yet.
Next year's entry will release for both existing consoles and the new Xbox Series X and Pl…
Twitter has labelled a video tweeted by US President Donald Trump as having "manipulated media" for the first time.
The video shows a black child running away from a white child while playing, with a fake CNN caption.
The caption rea…
Apple says it did not know the UK was working on a "hybrid" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.
The firm took the unusual step of saying it was also unaware of an issue regarding dista…
Huawei Launches FusionServer Pro V6 Intelligent Server Based on the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor
Today, the Huawei Computing Product Line officially released the latest member to their family – the next-generation FusionServer …
Tech to direct resources where they're needed most
South Africa's COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise rapidly, with about 1000 new incidents a day . Many suggest this is just the start of the exponential curve to come, especially since…
Eligible countries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic can better manage debt relief from international lenders, using the Commonwealth Secretariat’s specialised software.
Managing the impacts of COVID-19
The World Bank and the Interna…
Russia on Thursday lifted a ban on the Telegram messaging app that had failed to stop the widely-used programme operating despite being in force for more than two years.
Some Russian media cast the move as a capitulation, but communicat…
Apple is facing mounting calls to reconsider its App Store rules, from the creators of the apps themselves.
Dozens have used the term "hostile" to describe how they perceive it treats its third-party developer community.
The backlash…
Social media giant TikTok has announced plans to commission hundreds of experts and institutions to produce educational content for the platform.
Universities and charities are among those who will be paid to create bespoke content for …
From the idea that the coronavirus was created in a lab to the belief that it is all part of a plan to bring in compulsory vaccinations, conspiracy theories have been plentiful in recent months.
Now, research indicates that people who g…
Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Thursday that it will offer hands-free driving on its new Mustang Mach-E in fall 2021, six years after Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and four years after General Motors Co (GM.N) introduced similar systems.
The system, …
Beginning today, Facebook users in the U.S. will have the option to “turn off” all political advertising on the platform. The company made the controversial decision not to fact-check or otherwise moderate political ads last year, but the …
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.
The raise caps an event-filled run for the San Francisco-based payments …
Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday said it is putting 5G technology into chips for smartphones that will sell for as little as $300 and that will come to market in the second half of this year.
San Diego-based Qualcomm is the biggest supplier of p…
Facebook on Tuesday removed almost 900 accounts associated with the far-right Proud Boys and American Guard, including those belonging to Proud Boys supporters who marched into a protest zone in Seattle Monday and confronted anti-racist d…
For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows them to track all their suppliers in a way that minimizes risks in operating globally spread supply chains.
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Germany’s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the chief executive of software company SAP said on Wednesday.
Christian Klein said the strong p…
Germany appealed to the public on Tuesday to download a new smartphone app to help break the chain of coronavirus infections, one of several such apps that European governments hope will revive travel and tourism safely.
The Corona-War…
Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests.
The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of Instagram for news had doubled since 2018.
The trend is strongest among young…
Covid-19 has not been a harbinger of doom for Amazon, unlike the case with many other firms.
Its share price has actually increased since March - hitting a record high last week.
It turns out online retail isn't a bad space to be in …
Apple faces two European Commission probes into whether it has broken competition rules.
One investigation centres on iPad and iPhones being limited to installing apps from Apple's own App Store, among other restrictions imposed on thir…
According to data compiled by Atlas VPN, 46% of C-level officers suffered from a spyware attack last year. IT specialists revealed that senior management and C-suite executives are most likely to suffer from a malicious attack within the c…
Patent-pending innovation includes textile fabrics and nonwovens to protect face masks, filtration and apparel
Ascend Performance Materials has introduced Acteev Protect™, a breakthrough technology specially formulated to guard against …
Chinese internet giant ByteDance has announced plans to discontinue two of its apps in India, its biggest overseas market, and urged users to move to TikTok.
Vigo Video and Vigo Lite, two apps that allow users to create and share short-…
A week before kicking off WWDC, Apple introduced a pair of upgrades to its pro-level hardware lines. Both the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro desktop are getting select internal upgrades, starting today.
On the notebook front, the 1…
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc’s China car registrations in May jumped 150% month on month, data from auto consultancy LMC Automotive showed.
Tesla’s China registrations, including imported cars, grew to 11,565 in May from 4,633 …
Finland’s Nokia Oyj said on Monday it had partnered with Broadcom to develop chips for 5G equipment in its third such deal following ones with Intel and Marvell.
Nokia initially chose a type of chip — Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPG…
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messaging service rolled out a system across Brazil on Monday that will allow users to send money to individuals or local businesses within a chat, attaching payments as they would a photo or video.
WhatsApp is …
My Digital World is a consolidation of all Facebook digital literacy programs including Safe Online with Facebook, Ilizwe Lam, and eZibo and will be offered virtually this year
Today, Facebook (www.facebook.com) announced the launch of …
At Snap’s Partner Summit, the company shared its newest effort to entice third-party devs to Snapchat . It’s called Minis.
Snap Minis are lightweight third-party programs that live inside the app’s Chat section, which users can quickly …
Snap is announcing at its Snap Partner Summit that the first games that will take advantage of Bitmoji will roll out soon. The feature was announced last year, and it looks like developers can finally take advantage of that SDK. You’ll be …
If you’ve ever wanted to try out OpenAI’s vaunted machine learning toolset, it just got a lot easier. The company has released an API that lets developers call its AI tools in on “virtually any English language task.”
Basically, if you’…
Byta, the music sharing service for pre-releases and other use cases where there is a need to share sound files privately, has picked up around $1.4 million in seed funding.
The round was led by the Canada Media Fund, with participation…
Twitter has removed more than 170,000 accounts it says were tied to an operation to spread pro-China messages.
Some of those posts were about the coronavirus outbreak, the social media platform has announced.
The company said "a core…
Sony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play.
The PlayStation 5 has a black core surrounded by curved white edging, and a blue glow.
Two follow-ups to bestselling PS4…
The PlayStation 5 has finally broken cover in all its curvy glory.
Not everyone's convinced by its black-white-and-glowing-blue design. But for many consumers, it's the games that count rather than the aesthetic appeal of the box.
Do…
Zoom says it’s working on new features that will allow it to block users based on their geographical location after admitting it recently suspended three user accounts based in Hong Kong and the US at the request of the Chinese government.…
Top Wall Street brokerages Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley downgraded their ratings on Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) saying the electric carmaker’s shares were overpriced, two days after the high-flying stock crossed $1,000 per share.
The brokera…