Month: September 2016
Manchester City FC launches app for Samsung Gear VR headset
Manchester City Football Club has launched a virtual reality (VR) app called CityVR for the Samsung Gear VR headset that allows fans to watch highlights and matches from specific camera angles and get...
Trainline creates open source platform to let developers test apps in AWS
Trainline has built an open source platform for developers to deploy and manage individual apps and environments in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. The company employs 150 developers who...
iOS 10: Security firm Zerodium offers $1.5m for zero-days in Apple platform
Security company Zerodium has upped the amount of cash on offer for the discovery of a zero-day bug in Apple iOS, taking it from $500,000 to $1.5m. The firm explained that it has raised the bounty because...
Salesforce wants EU investigation into Microsoft’s $26.2bn LinkedIn buy
Salesforce has urged European Union regulators to investigate antitrust concerns relating to Microsoft's $26.2bn acquisition of professional social network LinkedIn. Microsoft had hoped to get EU approval...
Microsoft creates artificial intelligence division with Bing and Cortana teams
Microsoft has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) division that merges several teams into one as AI continues to grow in importance for the big tech companies. The Microsoft AI and Research Group...
Singapore’s merged IT and media agency is up and running
ICO probes Yahoo over huge data breach
Elizabeth Denham, the new Information Commissioner, has revealed that the ICO has questioned Yahoo about its huge data breach, and is looking to probe WhatsApp and other Facebook-owned companies about...
Brexit has thrown ICO plans into flux, admits information commissioner
Google to open London Cloud Platform region as service reaches a billion users
Google has announced that it will open a London region of the Google Cloud Platform service in 2017. The London location will be one of eight to come online next year as part of investment by Google...