April 6, 2021
Google wins big in Supreme Court clash with Oracle
In the multi-billion Supreme Court clash between two titans of tech, Google emerged as the victor on Monday. In a 6-2 opinion by Justice Stephen Breyer, the court said that Google's use of 11,000 lines of code -- copied without permission from…
April 5, 2021
LG scraps its smartphone business
LG Electronics said on Monday it would close down its loss-making smartphone business. In January, the South Korean electronics giant said it was looking at all options for the division after almost six years of losses totalling around $4.5bn…
April 1, 2021
Microsoft to sell reality goggles to army
US tech giant Microsoft is to sell augmented reality headsets to the US army in a bumper deal worth up to $21.9bn (£15.9bn) over 10 years. The headsets are based on its HoloLens product, which allows users to see holograms laid over their actual…
March 30, 2021
Police bust ‘world’s biggest’ video-game-cheat operation
A collaborative effort between Chinese police and gaming giant Tencent has led to the closure of what police say is the biggest ever video-game-cheat operation. The gang designed and sold cheats to popular video games, including Overwatch and Call…
March 24, 2021
Facebook outlines proposal for online platform liability reform
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg urged US lawmakers Wednesday to reform the rules for online platforms' liability to require systems in place for removing unlawful content. The proposal outlined in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing…
March 18, 2021
Samsung warns of ‘serious imbalance’ due to Chip shortage
Samsung, the world’s biggest computer-chip manufacturer, has warned of a “serious imbalance” in the semiconductor industry, as global shortages cause disruption. It also said it might skip the launch of the next Galaxy Note smartphone, to streamline…
March 15, 2021
British Airways plans app-based travel pass
British Airways is planning to make it easier for passengers to prove they are safe to travel once they have been vaccinated against Covid. Under the plans, people who have had both jabs will be able to register their status on BA's smartphone app.…
March 12, 2021
Huawei set to skip Android altogether
Huawei has completed the testing period of running HarmonyOS and is moving to Beta 3. The P50 will be the first phone to come with HarmonyOS pre-installed, skipping Android entirely. There will be a mass migration to HarmonyOS starting in April,…
March 10, 2021
Russia blames Google outage on data centre fire
Russian authorities have blamed problems accessing Google and YouTube on a fire at a data centre in Strasbourg. The country's media watchdog Roskomnadzor tweeted that the disruption was due to the incident. The data centre belongs to French cloud…
March 9, 2021
Amazon’s Bezos plans to spend US$10b by 2030 on climate change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plans to spend the US$10 billion he invested in the Bezos Earth Fund by 2030, the fund's new CEO said Tuesday. Since Bezos announced the fund in February 2020, little has been revealed about how it would be used to combat the…