News and comment on what's happening in the technology industry, and the direction it's heading.
Apple became the first publicly traded American company to be worth $1 trillion when shares traded at $207.05. With new iPhones on the way, it could soon re-pass the milestone and stay there.
A report by UK MPs has rejected the idea that tech companies are merely platforms.
Microsoft's latest financial results show that it is now bigger than IBM has ever been -- but Google got there first.
SmartFrame Technologies Ltd has launched a system for publishing and monetizing images while making them harder to steal than standard jpegs. Some photographers are already using the system but it could have wider appeal for advertising, marketing and corporate use.
The British government's National Infrastructure Commission has called for 'full fibre' in the UK by 2033 while the UK has just fallen to 35th in the world's broadband speed table, behind 25 other European countries....
HRMC is fighting an online war against fake websites and phishing emails intended to defraud taxpayers in the UK, and it is asking the public to help...
The DCMS has appointed DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, CognitionX's Tabitha Goldstaub and Professor Dame Wendy Hall as advisers to help develop the AI industry in the UK...
Apple is within shouting distance of becoming the first American company with a market capitalization of $1 trillion, ahead of both Amazon and Alphabet (Google)....
PwC has just released its latest forecast for the UK's entertainment and media industries for 2018-2022. It's predicting that revenues will grow by £8 billion to a total of £76 billion....
The JEDI will have to wait a while longer for the award of the Pentagon's hotly-contested multi-billion "winner-take-all" cloud contract because the RFP has just been delayed....
Thanks to GDPR requests, I've deleted hundreds of emails and got off lots of mailing lists, which actually benefits the senders. Meanwhile, smart companies are using the new law to reduce the amount of data they keep and improve their business processes, according to an IBM survey
While EU organizations have been scrambling to meet the GDPR deadline, more than half their employees are not ready, according to a UK survey from Egress Software Technologies....
An obscure company in Groningen in the Netherlands is offering Ardea mini PCs that look different, and you can order your own, bespoke hand-painted design....
Now that Flexera has discontinued Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (PSI), users who want vulnerability management software to check and update third-party Windows programs are looking for alternatives. Here are two....
IBM is betting its future on growth in new businesses that it calls "strategic imperatives", but the 5 percent revenue growth in its latest quarter came from the 10 percent decline in the value of the US dollar
