The podcast market will discover the answer to a foundational question about its future in the next few years. Will it continue along the path of music streaming, where all podcasts are available everywhere on free, ad-supported tiers? Or,…
On the occasion of Euronaval 2018, CNIM announces the launch of two families of crafts: the Landing Crafts Assault or LCA, for Ground Forces projection; and Landing Crafts X-missions or LCX, a versatile, fast offshore vessel designed to fu…
Superfast 5G mobile broadband could power smart cities and the internet of things, (IoT) but as more devices get connected, telecoms and security experts are warning that cyber-attacks could increase in number and severity.
Our homes an…
Samsung’s foldable phone has been floating around the company under the codename “Winner” for some time now. That bit of info isn’t new. It’s understandably taken the company a while to get the thing just right.
After all, we’re talki…
Immervision Files Complaints for Patent Infringement against LG Electronics over 5 Smartphones with Wide-Angle Cameras
The complaints filed by Immervision accuse LG models LG G6, LG V20, LG V30, LG G7 and LG V35 of infringing Immervis…
Master of all things gadget accessory, Anker announced a handful of new products at an event tonight in Manhattan. The biggest/smallest of the bunch is the PowerPort Atom, a compact wall charger designed to free up spaces around an outlet.…
Trisymbiotic IP®, a Small Startup, Announces U.S. Patent 10,020,436 Which Surpasses in Facilities Efficiency the Fastest Supercomputers from the U.S. and China
Inventor Matteo Gravina patents three inventions for high performance comput…
Adjustable cargo floorboard in all-new Ford EcoSport, made of high-strength 100 percent recycled paper honeycomb, helps compact SUV customers – committed to going small and living big – do more with less
Constructed from al…
Blockchain startup Blockchain shared its roadmap for the coming months. The company is launching a hardware wallet in partnership with Ledger. Blockchain is also launching a new trading platform called Swap — this platform will find the be…
Arch Mortgage Insurance dac (“Arch”) today announced it has completed a capital relief transaction on a €3 billion subset of a residential mortgage loan portfolio of ING DiBa A.G., a wholly owned subsidiary of ING Bank N.V. The deal is the…
Snap Inc lost more users than Wall Street expected in the third quarter as it continued to grapple with an unpopular redesign of its Snapchat photo-messaging app and fierce competition from Facebook Inc’s Instagram.
Daily active users a…
Charter Communications Inc said on Friday it added more internet subscribers than Wall Street analysts had projected for the third quarter, making up for a drop in video subscribers that was less severe than expected.
The company added …
Thrills? Chills? iPads? Definitely yes on that last one, at least. The invites are out and the rumors have been pouring in, fast and furious. On Tuesday October 30, the company will be wrapping up hardware season with one final event, hitt…
Google has sacked 48 people including 13 senior managers over sexual harassment claims since 2016.
In a letter to employees, chief executive Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was taking a "hard line" on inappropriate conduct.
The let…
If forced to choose, who should a self-driving car kill in an unavoidable crash?
Should the passengers in the vehicle be sacrificed to save pedestrians? Or should a pedestrian be killed to save a family of four in the vehicle?
To get…
The video gallery features more than 200 videos focusing on industrial precision fluid dispensing products, industries, applications, and more.
Nordson EFD, a Nordson company (NASDAQ: NDSN), the world’s leading precision fluid dispensin…
Who doesn’t love a little gamble? Even as kids, playing a game of chance in exchange for a stuffed animal or a little piece of chocolate got us hooked. We grew up playing in arcades, with tokens in our pockets, eyes sparkling as we jumped …
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) shares jumped as much as 22 percent on Thursday, putting them on track for their biggest one-day gain, as the social media company easily beat Wall Street’s revenue and profit estimates by selling more ads even though …
Ireland will tackle a severe housing shortage in booming cities such as Dublin by regulating short-term lettings and home-sharing sites such as Airbnb, housing minister Eoghan Murphy said on Thursday.
Like many countries around the worl…
LG remains confident that it can turn the corner for its serially unprofitable mobile business despite the division racking up a loss of over $400 million this year so far.
The Korean company as a whole is having a good year. Followi…
Facebook is working on a new app that it hopes could win back the attention of teens while capitalizing on its recently attained major label music licenses. Facebook is building a standalone product where users can record and share videos…
Tesla has reported a quarterly profit for just the third time in its 15-year history.
The electric car-maker made a record $311.5m (£241m) in the three months to 30 September, as the pace of car deliveries accelerated.
The result is …
If you’re just getting familiar with the idea of phones with dual rear cameras you might not be ready for what the new Huawei P20 Pro has to offer.
With the first triple camera array in a smartphone, the P20 Pro’s photographic capabilit…
Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK's data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said Facebook had let a "serious breach" of the law take place.
T…
Tesla Inc has increased the price for its new Model 3 sedan launched last week by $1,000 to $46,000, according to the company’s website.
The electric carmaker surprised markets by launching the new model on Oct. 18 in a move that came a…
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Wednesday said customer data was being “weaponized with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit and called for a federal privacy law in the United States.
But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg d…
Facebook has said that 8.7 million images of child nudity were removed by its moderators in just three months.
The social network said that it had developed new software to automatically flag possible sexualised images of children.
I…
The award is for a turnkey service including design, supply, deploy and maintenance
Open Fiber a national wholesales operator awards SM Optics, part of SIAE MICROELETTRONICA group a contract to supply and deploy WSS-free WDM ROADM techn…
The EISA Consumer Smartphone of the Year 2018 dishes up Android 9 Pie; first smartphone globally to roll out Android 9 Pie on Qualcomm 660 mobile platform
Android 9 Pie puts AI at the core of the operating system with added…
Political campaigners in Brazil have used software that scrapes Facebook for citizens' phone numbers, and then automatically sends them WhatsApp messages and adds them to WhatsApp groups.
Almost three weeks ago, 147 million voters in th…
Apple and Samsung have been fined millions of euros each by Italian authorities over "planned obsolescence" in smartphones.
Apple was hit with a 10 million euro (£8.8m) fine while Samsung received a smaller bill of five million euros.
…
Partnering with Alepo, m:tel to launch cellular offload and public WiFi plans in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Customers will be able to access the internet using multiple free as well as paid options like watching a promo, social media log…
The iPhone XR is Apple's best knockoff yet of its groundbreaking iPhone X
This iPhone is great. It is most like the last iPhone — but not the last “best” iPhone — more like the last not as good iPhone. It’s better than that one…
French-based transport firm Transdev has been ordered to stop an "unlawful" test of a driverless school bus in Florida by US regulators.
The regulator said the firm had not been authorised to transport schoolchildren in Florida, and sai…
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) reported quarterly profit and net new phone subscribers well ahead of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as customers took advantage of its subsidies for Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) latest iPhones late in the quar…
Data harvesting and sharing by mobile apps is "out of control", University of Oxford researchers have warned.
Nearly 90% of free apps on the Google Play store share data with Google parent company Alphabet, the Financial Times reported.…
Elon Musk says Twitter briefly blocked him because the tech firm suspected his account had been hacked.
The Tesla chief indicated the safety precaution was prompted by a tweet he had sent asking: "Wanna buy some Bitcoin?"
Several fak…
Instagram has overtaken Snapchat as the most used social media app among US teens, according to a study.
A total of 8,600 teenagers were surveyed for investment bank Piper Jaffray's twice-annual look at so-called Generation Z's habits.
…
Uber is planning to add a surcharge to all fares booked via its app in London to help its drivers buy electric vehicles.
The fee, expected to be 15p per mile, will be introduced "early" in 2019.
Uber said drivers working for 40 hours…
In the first half of 2018, the shipment of Huawei smartphones reached a record high of over 95 million units.
According to IDC, a renowned global market intelligence firm, the global market share of Huawei smartphones has soared by up t…
Audi’s first electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) will hit showrooms four weeks later than planned because of a software development issue, a spokesman for the German luxury car brand said on Sunday.
The spokesman said Audi’s e-tron mid…
Japan’s government on Monday told U.S. technology firm Facebook Inc (FB.O) to better protect its users’ personal data following lapses this year affecting tens of millions of people globally.
The government asked the world’s largest soc…
Every time I ponder the impact Apple Watch has had on my life, my mind always goes to Matthew Panzarino’s piece published prior to the device’s launch in 2015. In it, Panzarino writes about how using Apple Watch saves time; as a “satellit…
Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) announced its third tap of debt markets in a year on Monday, aiming to raise about $2 billion as the streaming video pioneer invests heavily in original shows and acquiring content to fend off intensifying competition.…
A4AI celebrated its fifth anniversary. Five years after our 2013 launch in Lagos, we've seen broadband prices come down and attention around the importance of affordable internet access grow. Our membership has grown to 80+ strong and coun…
Would you trust a taxi with no driver?
Taxi firm Addison Lee is betting its customers will be ready to, in London at least, in just three years' time.
It has joined forces with self-driving software specialist Oxbotica, and says the …
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has called for the retraction of a story alleging Chinese infiltration in its and other major firms' infrastructure.
Bloomberg’s Businessweek published a story which said malicious chips were built into se…
If you’re heading out to meet someone, there are plenty of ways to inform them of your location and estimated arrival. Chat apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE and iMessage, for example, offer location-sharing functionality, while navigati…
Tesla Inc on Thursday introduced a new $45,000 version of its Model 3 sedan on its website, launching the car as U.S. tax breaks for Tesla cars are about to decrease.
According to the website, the rear-wheel-drive model has a “mid range…