Why Are Apple And Epic Going To Court Over Fortnite Currency?
By: The Guardian May 2, 2021 Apple and Epic Games will go head to head in court in front of a US federal judge on Monday, the latest stage in the Fortnite maker’s campaign to break open the iPhone’s walled garden. The feud has been growing since last August, when Epic set in motion a […]
Apple Accused of Breaking EU Law Over App Store Sales Fees
By: The Guardian April 30, 2021 Apple has been accused of breaking EU law by charging high fees and setting unfair rules on those selling their products in its App Store, resulting typically in a 30% price hike for paying customers. Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, said the preliminary view was […]
Apple Rolls Out Major New Privacy Protections For iPhones And iPads
By: NPR April 26, 2021 Starting Monday, iPhone and iPad users will have a simple but powerful new way to control how their data is used. With Apple’s latest software update, iOS 14.5, iPhone and iPad users will now encounter pop-ups in the apps they use, asking whether the user wants to allow […]
Walmart Sidelines Robots to Cater to Pandemic Shopping Trends: Report
By: Fox Business April 21, 2021 Retail giant Walmart is doing away with some of its automated technology that was designed to make the online ordering and pickup process easier for customers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The retailer is shifting away from using its pickup towers, which allowed customers who ordered online to […]
Amazon Is Opening A London Hair Salon To Test AR And Other Retail Technologies
By: Tech Crunch April 20, 2021 Amazon announced this morning it’s opening Amazon Salon, the retailer’s first hair salon and a place where Amazon aims to test new technologies with the general public. The salon will occupy over 1,500 sq. ft on Brushfield Street in London’s Spitalfields, where Amazon says it will initially be trialing the […]
UK Government Orders Investigation Into Nvidia’s $40bn Arm Takeover
By: Guardian April 19, 2021 Culture secretary cites competition and national security concerns over Cambridge-based chip designer The UK government has stepped in to order an investigation of Nvidia’s $40bn takeover of the Cambridge-based chip designer Arm, citing potential national security concerns. Oliver Dowden, the UK culture secretary, has written to the Competition […]
US sanctions Chinese Computer Makers in widening Tech Fight
By: Fox Business April 9, 2021 The latest penalties block access to U.S. technology for researchers and manufacturers that build supercomputers used by the Chinese military The Biden administration has added seven Chinese supercomputer research labs and manufacturers to a U.S. export blacklist in a spreading conflict with Beijing over technology and security. The measure announced […]
Supreme Court Sides with Facebook in Text Message Dispute
By: abcnews April 2, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Facebook in a lawsuit over unwanted text notifications it sent, rejecting a claim that the messages violated the federal ban on robocalls. The high court’s ruling for the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant was unanimous. Democratic lawmakers […]
Microsoft Wins $21B Army Contract To Supply HoloLens Augmented Reality Headsets
By: Fox Business March 31, 2021 The Pentagon awarded a long-term contract to Microsoft to build more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets for the U.S. Army, officials said on Wednesday. Microsoft will produce Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets equipped with its HoloLens technology. The contract is worth up to $21.88 billion over a 10-year period, according […]