Posts Tagged by Wikileaks
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
| December 18, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Quite a mix of stories this week, from the expected (Zynga’s IPO) to the amusing (is Nicholas Sarkozy such a fan of the Beach Boys that he has resorted to stealing their music?) to the crazy (Apple’s legal documents being sold for how much?). We’ve also got a lot of news on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning in the courts, developments with SOPA, and many other things besides. So, read on to find out all about the latest and greatest tech news, and I’ll see you in two weeks time – even technology needs a Christmas break! Business As we reported it would a couple of weeks ago, Farmville maker Zynga this week held its IPO to become a publicly traded… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| December 4, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Well, after a quiet week last week, the usual pre-Christmas lull seems to have evaporated as we’ve suddenly been flooded with news from all quadrants of the map! We’ve got Zynga heading for an IPO, the most money ever spent online in the US in a single day, the Carrier IQ scandal, printers bursting into flames, WikiLeaks returning from the dead, GCHQ failing to impress anyone, YouTube’s redesign, an angry Effin Irishwoman – and is that the Higgs boson? You’ll just have to read on to find out. Business Zynga, the mobile gaming company which makes Words with Friends (similar to Scrabble) and Farmville, is set to announce its IPO this month and begin trading on the stock market with the… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| November 27, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Welcome back to your summary of the latest and greatest technology news! We’ve got it all this week – HP’s earnings, GNM’s assets sale, some news at last on Bradley Manning, the smallest desktop PC ever (maybe), the launch of the MSL, and much more besides. So, let’s dive in and catch up. Business In its earnings call this week HP yet again beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts, for the 26th time in the past 27 quarters. However, it was only by four cents, with earnings per share of $1.17 vs the analysts’ consensus of $1.13. The company reported sales of $32.3bn, also ahead of consensus, but it’s worth noting that HP’s shares have dropped more than 36% since… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| November 6, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
A slower week for technology which, unfortunately for some companies, also saw a slowing in profits. Nevertheless, we still take a look at some exciting new products and marvel at Forbes’ latest list of rich and powerful people, so let’s dive in: Business Apple may only own 4.2% of the global handset market, but that hasn’t stopped the company capturing a crazy 52% of the handset market’s profits for Q3 2011. Analysts went on to suggest that Apple could do even better for Q4, with around 60% of profits despite its tiny market share. Sony, on the other hand, is not doing so well, having reported a net loss of ¥27bn for this quarter, compared with a profit of ¥31.1bn… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s certainly been a varied week – first HP did a U-turn, then Newsstand turned out to be incredibly popular and Netflix announced it’s going to come and conquer the UK market. And that’s only business news! We also saw the return of the hacking which had been happily absent from the news recently, the gaming requirements for Skyrim, a fancy new BlackBerry phone, problems at WikiLeaks and the sad passing of celebrated computer scientist John McCarthy. All that and more, below. Business The new CEO at HP, Meg Whitman, has made her first big splash at the company by announcing that it will not be selling off its PC business after all. Whitman said: “HP objectively evaluated the strategic,… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| September 4, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
The technology news making headlines this last week was WikiLeaks’ release of the US embassy cables without redactions, but there have been plenty of other goings-on in the technology world too. Over at TechCrunch, editor Michael Arrington resigned, and British police have made a whole swathe of arrests of suspected hackers. Facebook has been making some changes, and we seem to have confirmation of an upcoming Amazon tablet. Finally, we take a look at Samsung’s next phone, the world’s largest hard drive (it’s big), and how BA are using the iPad. Enjoy! Business Michael Arrington, editor of popular tech blog TechCrunch, resigned this week in favour of returning to his venture capital roots. Arrington originally started TechCrunch to write about start-up… more
What is the impact of blogging?
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by Joe Towse under lifestyle, technology |
There is no denying that the cultural phenomenon that is blogging has a big impact on the world. Indeed, many news stories, memes, and artistic efforts either air their head via this medium, or are exposed to the wider world by it. Although WikiLeaks is the organisation that has hit headlines recently for exposure of information, blogs over the years have had at least an equal, if not greater, impact, although perhaps not quite on such a global scale. However, if one goes over to Blogger and hits the ‘Next Blog’ button (I’m unsure if there’s a WordPress equivalent), the product will generally be either a manga fansite (not that I have a problem with those per se, it’s just… more
