Google has denied it broke its promises on using children’s personal data, after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) accused it of collecting and storing data from children using its products at school.
Telecoms regulator, Ofcom has said that six million homes could be suffering from slow broadband speeds as a result of putting up Christmas lights, placing Wi-Fi hubs close to microwaves, or near lamps or by installing baby alarms.
With traditional banks adopting digital services and digital-only providers, like Atom and Fidor, pressuring the big players, who will win the battle of the banks in 2016? John Rakowski, director of technology strategy at AppDynamics, argues that, as consumers start to engage with their banks mostly via apps and online services, organisations will have to … [Read more…]
Following the success of last year’s Christmas Shopper Simulator, UK retailer GAME has launched a sequel to its popular sim game.
Online advertising has expanded from a nascent industry into a powerhouse over the past decade and a half. It now generates over a million jobs in the EU-28 economy, and contributes more than € 100 billion of gross value added (GVA).
Disney has teamed up with Google to launch a new virtual reality experience on Google Cardboard, ahead of the premiere of ‘Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens ‘in Cinemas next month.
2016 will see the rise of the organic tech industry, machines will monitor employee performance and the ‘zettabyte era’ will begin as the world will churn out more than a trillion gigabytes, according to new predictions from The Economist.
IBM has launched a retail app powered by its AI tool Watson to help make the holiday season easier for shoppers.
Microsoft has pulled the plug on its failed music service, Zune, officially ending the war with Apple’s iPod that it lost nearly a decade ago anyway.
US police pulled over one of Google’s self-driving cars this week for driving slowly, but there was no traffic infraction.