Can Red Hat save IBM?
IBM’s latest financial results show three or four years of stasis. That is better than declines, but can the $34 billion purchase of Red Hat put Big Blue back on a growth track?
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BETT 2019: Portugal’s JP.IK is keeping the Classmate PC idea alive
Intel’s Classmate PC not only led to a boom in netbooks, it prompted a whole new business for JP.IK, turning a small Portuguese computer company into a global technology provider working in more than 70 countries
Education market takes flight at London’s BETT show
The UK’s annual educational technology exhibition attracted a global audience for products that ranged from toys to enterprise-level offerings.
Can virtual assistants plug the healthcare gap?
The “virtual nurse” will see you all the time. Electronic Caregiver is launching what it claims is “the world's first virtual caregiver” at CES in January, though it’s by no means the first chat-bot to offer medical help.
Microsoft will end 2018 as America’s most valuable company
Barring any further stock market shocks, Microsoft will finish the year ahead of Apple and Amazon as America’s most valuable publicly-quoted company, despite never making it to $1 trillion.
Huawei warns bans will increase prices and put US behind in 5G race
Huawei's Eric Xu told CNBC that blocking the company's 5G networking products will increase prices and make it harder for the US to become No. 1 in 5G. However, it has been a huge benefit to the two Scandinavian suppliers: Ericsson and Nokia.
Apple is no longer worth a trillion after tech stocks take a beating
Apple was widely applauded for becoming the first American company to break the trillion dollar barrier. However, its value has slumped to $839bn for a variety of reasons, though other technology stocks have also suffered in a stock market reversal.
Black Friday prices are not necessarily the lowest in the UK, Which? reports
Which? tracked the prices of 94 selected tech products at four major UK retailers for six months before and six months after last year's Black Friday, and found that most were available cheaper at other times of the year. There certainly are Black Friday bargains for careful buyers, but you might get a better deal in the January sales.
American Link flight simulators win Britain's top computer conservation award
Virtual Reality began in Binghamton with Link flight simulators, and the local TechWorks museum has won the Computer Conservation Society's Tony Sale Award for restoring three very different simulators from a bellows-mounted WWII Link to an all-digital Super GAT trainer from the 1980s.
Meet iBubble, the world's first intelligent, autonomous, wireless underwater drone
French start-up Notilo Plus claims it has launched the world's first intelligent, autonomous, wireless (not tethered) underwater drone. It can follow and film one or more divers, but it could also be used to inspect hulls or underwater infrastructure, or monitor wildlife.
The market changes as Sony's mirrorless cameras are threatened by new models from Nikon and Canon
Expect a significant change in the camera landscape as new full-frame mirrorless cameras from Nikon, Canon and -- next year -- Panasonic threaten the Sony Alphas that have dominated the market for the past five years.
Asus NovaGo ARM-powered Windows 10 laptop finally goes on sale in the UK
An innovative Windows laptop first announced in December 2017 is now, at long last, available to British buyers. But will the NovaGo's 22-hour battery life and always-on LTE connection be enough to open many wallets?
Vivaldi browsers adds synchronisation and speed in the upgrade to version 2.0
The most configurable "power user" web browser just got a lot better with the launch of version 2.0. The main attraction is synchronisation with end-to-end encryption, but long-term users may also enjoy dramatically faster start-up speeds.
Twitter brings back chronological timelines
Some Twitter users have complained about seeing "the best" tweets in a Facebook-style timeline and want to return to the old days when they were in chronological order. Twitter now offers that option, and plans to make it easier to switch between the two views..
Thin-and-light ThinkPad P1 pitches for the portable workstation market
Lenovo's new ThinkPad P1 workstation is certified to run programs like ArcGIS, AutoCAD and Catia, but the ability to pack 64GB of memory and 2TB of storage into an ultraportable form factor should give it wider appeal.
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