Korea expert Robert Kelly says the ‘real concern’ for the Philippines is being on the flight path of North Korea’s missile tests MANILA, Philippines – Remember the dad whose children barged in during his live video interview with the BBC? The man now known as the “BBC dad” is Robert Kelly, a political science professor at Pusan National University in South Korea. Kelly, an expert on Korea, […]
By Jonathan Stempel | OMAHA, Neb. OMAHA, Neb. Warren Buffett on Saturday faulted Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) previous management for failing to take action immediately upon learning that its employees were signing up customers for bogus accounts, causing a national scandal. Buffett spoke at the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), which he chairs, and where he and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are fielding five […]
Running out of space on your iPhone or iPad? There’s a setting buried in iOS 10 that may put an end to this forever. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll show you something else you can do instead to take the strain off your storage. Must read: Better, faster, more reliable Wi-Fi in six easy steps The feature is called Optimize Storage and it is perfect for […]
Image: Sarah Tew/CNET After three years of hard work and very little in the way of system maintenance, my MacBook Pro was starting to feel tired. But all it took to bring a spring back into its step was 20 minutes and MacPaw’s CleanMyMac 3. Must read: iPhone 8: Here’s what we think we know about Apple’s 10th-anniversary iPhone I’m normally wary of “system cleanup utilities” because, […]
Many corporate leaders love BYOD, telling employees “Bring Your Own Device” to work, and with good reason. When employees use the device they’re most comfortable with to get their work done, they get more done faster. They will work from home, during their commute, and most any time they feel the need to. Beyond getting more and better work from their employees, employers eliminate investments in computing […]
By Jonathan Stempel | OMAHA, Neb. OMAHA, Neb. Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), the conglomerate run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, on Friday reported a 27 percent decline in first-quarter profit, and said a loss from insurance underwriting contributed to operating results that fell short of forecasts. The results were released one day before Berkshire’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, where Buffett, 86, and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie […]
In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, Google Home, right, sits on display near a Pixel phone following a product event, in San Francisco. Voice assistants such as Google Home, Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa have always been susceptible to accidental hijack. Burger King’s manipulation of Google Home illustrates the vulnerabilities intrinsic to voice assistants that can be targeted by brands, or worse, hackers. But the […]
It’s been two years since rumors about an “Apple car” first emerged. Not surprisingly, the notoriously secretive company hasn’t divulged any details about its plans. But if a car is on the horizon, Cupertino can’t stay quiet for too long. You can hide a smartphone in a lab, but it’s difficult to not have a public presence when developing a vehicle, which requires road testing, typically in […]
Alex Kipman, main inventor of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, reckons the smartphone’s time as the principal focus for innovation has passed. Gabriel Sama/CNET Apple’s iOS revenues are likely to reach $1 trillion this year, but the phone that’s driving Apple’s mobile business is a walking zombie, according to one Microsoft exec. The reign of the smartphone, championed by the 10-year-old iPhone, as the epicenter of innovation is over, […]
Google’s autosuggest feature lets you know, sometimes with spooky accuracy, what other people are looking for when conducting queries similar to yours. So, with Google’s help, we provide answers to a few of the most popular searches about Android. Can you use iTunes and FaceTime on Android? I combined these two Android-related questions, which are both at the top of Google’s auto-suggested list, based on their common […]
(Image: file photo) The UK government is planning to push greater surveillance powers that would force internet providers to monitor communications in near-realtime and install backdoor equipment to break encryption, according to a leaked document. A draft of the proposed new surveillance powers, leaked on Thursday, is part of a “targeted consultation” into the Investigatory Powers Act, brought into law last year, which critics called the “most […]
Spotify and a host of European internet businesses have called on Brussels to crack down on what they see as troubling practices by the likes of Apple and Google. Big internet platforms “can and do abuse their privileged position”, according to a letter signed by the chief executives of Spotify, music streaming rival Deezer and German start-up investor Rocket Internet among others. Although the letter to the […]
Google has agreed to pay €306 million in back taxes to Italy and Ireland to end a criminal investigation into whether the company avoided paying the full amount on its revenues for more than a decade, Italian tax officials confirmed on Thursday. The agreement resolves multiple disputes including a criminal probe that saw Milan prosecutors accuse Google of generating revenues of €1 billion in Italy and Ireland […]
We are currently in the thick of the iPhone rumor season, with various reports claiming different specifications for the premium iPhone 8. However, most reports agree that the iPhone 8 will be announced alongside the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus in September. An analyst seems to think otherwise, claiming that Apple will surprise us all by announcing the iPhone 8 a few months earlier than expected. […]
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal on Thursday signed a bill allowing guns on college campuses in the state, making it the 11th of the 50 U.S. states to do so. Since the 2007 shooting deaths of 32 people by a student at Virginia Tech, a university in southwestern Virginia, state legislatures have grappled with the question of allowing licensed gun owners to bring their weapons on college campuses. […]
(Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) More than two-dozen popular apps for iPhones and iPads are still leaking sensitive information, such as login details for their services, despite having months to roll out a fix. Earlier this year, Will Strafach set out to see which popular iPhone apps were vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, which allow attackers to intercept data as it’s being passed from a device to a server. Strafach, […]
Uber’s self-driving venture might not be doomed after all. Many have weighed in on Uber’s alleged intellectual property theft case, predicting that the upshot of this legal turmoil might be Uber retracting its self-driving efforts altogether. For those who don’t know, here’s a brief backgrounder of the situation: Google’s self-driving division, Waymo, accused Uber late February of stealing thousands of documents that it claims Uber used to […]
GENEVA The United States will shoot itself in the foot if it quits the Paris climate accord because China, India and Europe will snap up the best power sector jobs in future, U.N. Environment chief Erik Solheim said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce as early as next week whether he will take the United States out of the climate pact, having vowed […]
Some 2,000 integrated point-of-sale (POS) will be rolled out in more than 650 retail stores across Singapore, supporting various payment options including Samsung Pay and Apple Pay. Local payments services provider Network for Electronic Transfers of Singapore (Nets) and United Overseas Bank would install the terminals at retail brands under the Dairy Farm Singapore Group. A pilot involving the “unified POS systems” was carried out in November […]
Samsung’s Bixby is out to compete with other AI assistants in the market. Its cred? Rapping. In Korean, at least. A video posted online showed the Galaxy S8‘s much-hyped AI assistant with a female voice rapping. The three-minute clip of Bixby rap was also discovered to contain a shoutout to Apple Siri. Bixby was baked into the Galaxy S8 when it was launched on March 29, with the […]
Smartwatches such as the Apple Watch have been called a ‘revolution on the wrist’, but the operation of these devices is complicated, because the screen is small. Researchers have therefore developed a novel input method that expands the input space to the back of the hand and the 3-D space above the back of the hand wearing the watch. (via WSJ)
Intel has shuffled its executive ranks again, announcing that long-time executive Diane Bryant is stepping down from her role as GM of the Data Center Group (DCG). Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in an email to employees that Bryant would be stepping away for six to eight months to tend to a personal family matter. Navin Shenoy, formerly GM of the Client Computing Group (CCG), will be […]
By Nichola Saminather | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Asian stocks retreated on Thursday, taking their cues from a subdued session on Wall Street, while the dollar retained gains made after the Federal Reserve delivered a hawkish policy statement. At the end of its two-day meeting, the Fed kept its benchmark interest rate steady as expected, but downplayed weak first-quarter economic growth and emphasized the strength of the labor market, […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook (Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he remains enthusiastic about business opportunity in China, the world’s largest smartphone market, despite the company’s Greater China sales falling 14 percent year-on-year to $10.7 billion in the quarter ended April 1, from $12.5 billion in the same period last year. This figure was also down 34 percent from revenue of $16.2 billion recorded […]
