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CES: Getting a bit dull
| January 7, 2013 | Posted by Elliot Davies under technology |
Tomorrow, the crown jewel of all the technology industry’s expos will open its doors for the 46th year running. The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is huge: in 2012 a record 153,000 people descended on Las Vegas to cross-examine 3,100 exhibitors. In 2013 the tradeshow will be spread over four massive venues, including one of the largest convention centres in the world. And the media presence will be bigger than ever – The Verge, this year’s official technology news partner for CES, is sending more than 60 people alone and promising non-stop video coverage, live blogs from every major announcement, and a breaking-news show every 90 minutes for the duration of the four-day event. The allure of CES is obvious:… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| September 16, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Welcome back to TSR on tech! After a few weeks of R&R we’re back and ready to bring you all the latest tech news – and just in the nick of time! This week we’ve scooped up announcements about the iPhone 5, Lumia 920 and Wii U (yes, seriously), as well as plenty of hirings and firings and, naturally, the odd lawsuit. Let’s go! Business Yahoo! is set to sell back half of its 40% stake in Alibaba, the Chinese internet and e-commerce giant. The sale, due to close next week, will be worth $4.5bn after tax – money that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!’s CEO, will likely spend on acquiring a startup or three to bring some fresh faces and ideas to… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| August 12, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
A truly thrilling week for technology this week: let’s face it, it was all about NASA’s Curiosity landing on Mars. Rest assured that we’ve got plenty of that below, but other things did happen too – after all, there has to be some reason for that imperious picture of Marissa Mayer – and so we’ve also got the latest on everything from Apple v Samsung in San Jose to Mat Honan’s frankly epic hacking, to the Ouya (you’ll find out) to the latest gossip from Iran’s Supreme Leader. All this and more; what are you waiting for? Business Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!’s new CEO, has continued her purge of the senior staff and executives at the company. First to go this week… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Lots of exciting business news this week, though even the multitude of earnings calls was overshadowed by the announcement that Google’s Marissa Mayer has taken over as CEO at Yahoo!, quite possibly providing the listing company with a strong chance to re-invent itself. Elsewhere, Microsoft has managed to find its way into quite a few stories and Valve is finally bringing the Steam platform to Linux. Read on! Business The biggest news this week was by far the sudden and unexpected appointment of Marissa Mayer to be Yahoo!’s next CEO, taking by surprise everyone who had assumed Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO, would get the job permanently. Mayer, who had previously worked at Google for 13 years, said: “I am honored… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| July 15, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Welcome back to TSR on tech! This week we’ve got all sorts of exciting news, from the sudden sale of Digg right through to a nuclear-powered underwater deep-sea Chinese mining station. Quite seriously. Plus there’s everything in between: funding for GitHub, funding from Bing, patent settlements, activity from Anonymous, announcements about the next two major operating systems, and much more. Read on! Business Digg, the social news site that was once valued at $175mn and was seen as one of the main drivers of internet traffic, has been sold to Betaworks, a technology development company, for just $500,000 plus equity. The site fell from favour after a series of missteps in the way it engaged its community, and since its… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 24, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It seemed as though nobody wanted to follow Microsoft’s Monday announcement of its new Surface tablet, resulting in an unusually slow news week – or so they would have you believe. Never fear, for we have dug deep to bring you all the best tech stories that didn’t make the headlines: we’ve got employees breaking ranks at Google, good news on ACTA, Julian Assange causing havoc as usual, and Larry Ellison buying a Hawaiian island. And if you’re lucky, we might also mention Natwest’s “small” banking issues and have a quick look at the Surface after all. Business Yahoo! has hired Michael Barratt, a well-known advertising executive currently working for Google, to be its chief of revenue from July. The move signals… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 10, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s been a fairly slow week for those of us not frantically predicting what Apple will (or most likely won’t) change in iOS 6, which is due to be announced on Monday at WWDC. But the tech world never really grinds to a halt, and so we’ll still be taking a look at layoffs at HP and Olympus, wheelings and dealings in various courtrooms, Google’s 3D maps, Toshiba’s laptop with a 21:9 display ratio, and how you can get your very own Iron Throne. All this and more, below. Business Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, has announced that the company will be laying off 27,000 employees, or 8% of the company’s workforce, by October 2014. The cuts are expected to… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 3, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
For once it has been a generally positive week in tech, with good news on ACTA (i.e. bad news for ACTA) and an outcome to the Google-Oracle Java suit that will have developers everywhere cheering. There are also some nice announcements from Facebook, a slight increase in momentum for Do Not Track, exciting event announcements from Apple and Google, and several product launches and releases. The news might not be so good if you’ve invested in Facebook or RIM, or if your name is Julian Assange, but at least you’re not a mayor who has just been arrested by the FBI. Business Facebook’s foray into the public market is looking less and less like the grand success Mark Zuckerberg &… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It has been a most unusual week in the tech world, with neither news about Apple nor any more mind-numbing patent lawsuits. Instead we’ve got some exciting intrigue at Yahoo! – did he alter it or didn’t he? – along with good news on ACTA, bad news about The Pirate Bay (sort of), several announcements from Facebook, and a couple of highly amusing computer glitches. Read about all this, and more, below. Business The headlines this week were that Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo!, is being accused of falsifying his academic record. Thompson’s official Yahoo! profile (included as part of regulatory filings submitted to the SEC), as well as his official bio from his previous job at eBay, stated that… more
Who cares about finding X anyway?
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by Rosie Watterson under satire |
I spend a lot of my time watching television programmes I frankly can’t stand. And it was during one of these masochistic sprees that I found myself watching a quasi-news programme on maths. As if this wasn’t bad enough, there was a 20 minute piece on the importance of algebra: a concept that is against everything I believe in. I’ve always been under the impression that algebra was a mere instrument to keep me in full time education for five years longer than necessary. Even the mathematicians among you have to agree that teaching an arty-music-oriented-historian the importance of X was a waste of time; Mrs Best certainly didn’t slave over her degree to teach the likes of me. And I… more
