Robert Scammell
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6 Aug
Voi rolls out hundreds of e-scooters in Cambridge trial
Swedish e-scooter operator Voi will be rolling hundreds of its battery-powered scooters and bikes out on Cambridge roads as part of the UK’s e-scooter trials.
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5 Aug
80% of Fortune 500 firms invite email scams by spurning DMARC
Some 400 of the largest US companies are at risk of their email domain being hijacked by scammers because they have not implemented DMARC authentication, according to cybersecurity firm Agari.
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5 Aug
Disney+ nets 60 million subscribers in 9 months
Streaming service Disney+ now has 60.5 million subscribers worldwide as it continues to make ground on rival Netflix.
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4 Aug
Sony Q1 results: Profit slips but gaming demand soars in lockdown
Electronics and entertainment firm Sony reported operating income of 228.4bn yen ($2.15bn) in its Q1 results, a 1.1% decline from the year-ago period.
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3 Aug
Tech Report Weekly: TikTok braces for US clampdown, Uber posts earnings, Black Hat USA
Good morning and welcome to Tech Report Weekly 3 August.
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31 Jul
Amazon’s “blowout” Q2 results cement its pandemic dominance
Amazon has reported revenue of $88.9bn in its Q2 results, obliterating Wall Street expectations and cementing its pandemic dominance.
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30 Jul
CTO Talk: Q&A with Exasol’s Mathias Golombek
Mathias Golombek is the CTO of Exasol, an analytics database management software company headquartered in Germany.
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30 Jul
Big Tech CEOs grilled by Congress: Key moments from the historic antitrust meeting
For five hours on Wednesday, the four Big Tech CEOs of the world's most powerful companies faced a grilling from US lawmakers in Washington, in an unprecedented hearing over alleged anti-competitive practices at their companies.
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29 Jul
Compromised credentials lead to costliest data breaches: IBM report
Cyberattacks that leverage compromised company credentials such as email addresses and passwords cost businesses an average of $4.77m per data breach – nearly $1m more than the global average.
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27 Jul
Tech Report Weekly: Big Tech’s Q2 earnings, lift off to Mars, Virgin Galactic’s spaceship tour
Good morning and welcome to Tech Report Weekly 27 July.
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23 Jul
CTO Talk: Q&A with HCL Technologies’ Kalyan Kumar
Kalyan Kumar is the chief technology officer (CTO) and CVP of HCL Technologies, an Indian multinational IT services and consultancy company.
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23 Jul
Free market “failure” led to Huawei 5G dominance: Policy expert
Free market “failure” led to Chinese technology firm Huawei becoming the leading 5G player, a policy expert has told the UK’s Science and Technology Committee.
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22 Jul
UK’s Huawei evaluation centre faces “challenges” from US sanctions
The UK’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) faces “challenges” because of US sanctions on 5G equipment, culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said.
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22 Jul
E-scooter firms eyeing UK’s roads make sustainability commitment
Three European e-scooter firms looking to roll out rental scooters on Britain’s roads have committed to sustainability standards that include never demolishing an e-scooter and not relying on gig workers to maintain the fleet.
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21 Jul
IBM Q2 results: Revenue down but Big Blue weathers Covid-storm
Tech giant IBM reported mixed Q2 results in a quarter when the coronavirus pandemic was at its peak, with revenue standing at $18.12bn – down 5.4% year-on-year.
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21 Jul
Russian disinformation: Intelligence agencies not taking responsibility, Russia report finds
The responsibility for defending the UK’s democratic processes from Russian disinformation campaigns has been passed around like a “hot potato”, according to the Intelligence and Security Committee’s ‘Russia report’.
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20 Jul
UK’s coronavirus test and trace fails GDPR requirement
The Department of Health has conceded that it launched the UK’s coronavirus test and trace programme without submitting a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) – a requirement under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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20 Jul
SoftBank chooses Ericsson gear for standalone 5G network
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has chosen Swedish telecoms firm Ericsson to provide 5G equipment for its standalone 5G network.
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20 Jul
Tech Report Weekly: Big Tech’s earnings blockbuster, Covid’s disruption of digital, Microsoft Inspire
Good morning and welcome to the Tech Report Weekly 20 July.
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17 Jul
Netflix Q2 earnings: 10 million subscribers and a new co-CEO
Netflix added more than 10 million paying subscribers and posted revenue of $6.15bn for the second quarter of 2020.
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16 Jul
Twitter hack: The facts, theories and fallout of the Bitcoin heist
First they came for Elon Musk, then they came for Bill Gates.
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16 Jul
CTO Talk: Q&A with PragmatIC’s Richard Price
Dr Richard Price is the chief technology officer (CTO) of PragmatIC, a provider of ultra-low-cost flexible electronics.
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15 Jul
UK e-scooter trials: Firms ask for “parity” with e-bikes on insurance and licences
Representatives from micromobility firms have asked the UK government for e-scooters to be put on a level playing field with e-bikes when it comes to requiring a driving licence and motor insurance.
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14 Jul
Industry reacts to the UK’s Huawei 5G ban: From disappointment to relief
Six months after giving Huawei the green light to continue operating in the UK’s telecommunications network, the government has made a screeching U-turn and banned all new Huawei 5G technology from 2021.
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14 Jul
Huawei banned from UK 5G network starting 2021
The government has banned Chinese technology firm Huawei from providing telecommunications equipment to the UK’s mobile 5G network from the start of 2021.
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14 Jul
Welcome Chat: Fake messaging app steals sensitive mobile data
Security researchers have uncovered a fake mobile chat app that steals phone data and has ties to a long-running cyber espionage campaign in the Middle East.
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13 Jul
“Impossible” to strip Huawei from UK network by 2030: BT CEO
The chief executive of BT has said that it will be “impossible” to strip out Huawei equipment from the UK’s telecommunications network by 2030 and warned that a rushed reduction of the Chinese firm’s involvement could lead to “outages”.
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13 Jul
Coronavirus spells a 7.3% slump in global IT spend for 2020, says Gartner
The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic means global IT spending is projected to slump by 7.3% compared with 2019, according to research firm Gartner.
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13 Jul
Tech Report Weekly: High noon for Huawei, Netflix Q2 earnings, UK seeks e-waste solution
Good morning and welcome to Tech Report Weekly 13 July.
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10 Jul
Malicious coronavirus domains capitalise on reopening economies
Cybercriminals are known to adapt their scams to take advantage of the latest crisis and the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has been no different.