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Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

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Bill Gates’s trilogy of memoirs, including his first two decades of his life, from 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. Once a snotty brat whom everyone loved to hate, now grown up into a beloved elder statesman. Gates Foundation, focuses on unsexy but critical technologies such as malaria nets, “effective altruism”.  His early childhood in the suburbs of Seattle with a lawyer father and a schoolteacher mother. He was fascinated by his grandmother’s skill at card games around the family dining table. Eight-year-old Gates … Continue reading Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

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Google’s search dominance under UK watchdog investigation

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Google accounts for 90 per cent of all UK web searches – the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking whether it is using that dominant position to harm competition or choice for users. CMA, the UK’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation to find out if Google has too much power in online search. The CMA says it wants to ensure the tech giant is “delivering good outcomes for people and businesses” and that there is a “level playing field” for rivals. Google says it will cooperate with the investigation but has warned against what it calls “overly prescriptive … Continue reading Google’s search dominance under UK watchdog investigation

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Global web of power

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This is the untold story of the mysterious Chinese telecom company that shook the world from the coast of southern China, eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades  since its founding in 1987 in Shenzhen, shaping one of the world’s most powerful technological empires without anyone noticing. But December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the international spotlight. In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter  and former China correspondent Eva Dou, writes an authoritative and remarkable portrait of Huawei’s … Continue reading Global web of power

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Apple has agreed to pay £77m to settle a court case

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Apple has agreed to pay £77m ($95m) to settle a court case aIleging some of its devices were listening to people without their permission. The tech giant was accused of eavesdropping on its customers through its virtual assistant Siri, as the claimants also allege voice recordings were shared with advertisers. Apple’s lawyers say they will confirm they have permanently deleted individual Siri audio recordings collected by Apple prior to October 2019. The tech firm denies any wrongdoing, as well as claims that it “recorded, disclosed to third parties, or failed to delete conversations recorded as the result of a “Siri … Continue reading Apple has agreed to pay £77m to settle a court case

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Electric vertical takeoff taxi to be launched in India

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Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft explores more about sustainable mobility solutions in Bangaluru (Bangalore) India’s Silicon Valley and a major IT HUB, where 80% of all the global IT giants have their offices in Bangaluru. Bangaluru’s economic contribution is a lot. The city boasts a GDP of $110 billion. The city’s GDP makes up over 87% of Karnataka’s total GDP. The Bangalore IT hub contributes the most (34% to 40%) of the total IT exports of India. Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has partnered with Sarla Aviations named after Sarla Thakaral India’s first woman pilot to launch electric flying taxis, offering a 19-minute trip to … Continue reading Electric vertical takeoff taxi to be launched in India

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Royal Mail £3.6bn takeover approved by the UK Government

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Daniel Kretinsky (49), Czech low-key billionaire entrepreneur, whose net worth is £6bn, is the new owner of Royal Mail, the historic British company, after the £3.6bn takeover sale of its parent firm was approved by the UK Government. His EO Group is ready to make Royal Mail successful. His investments are in Eustream, Central and Eastern European energy via a labyrinthine structure of companies, which transports Russian Gas via pipelines that run through Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.  He build up well-known brands through Vesa Equity Investment, a private firm which is Luxembourg, also holds big stakes in Sainsbury’s … Continue reading Royal Mail £3.6bn takeover approved by the UK Government

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The Largest Sting operation

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This is cat-and-mouse sting story of a vast FBI operation revealing how the criminal underworld has become an globalized economy in its own right one that can’t be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries. In 2018 many of the world’s most sophisticated criminals began using Anom, a supposedly secure encrypted communications app. Little did they know Anom was a front company run by the FBI. Dark Wire highlights the devious lengths to which law enforcement agencies will go to ensnare criminals. But they go too far? Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary … Continue reading The Largest Sting operation

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Electrical vertical take-off taxi dreams crashed as cash runs short

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Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city. The company ran several demonstration flight although it never happened commercially. While missing that deadline, Volocopter was seeking fresh investment to keep the firm going, as talks to borrow ¢100m (£83m)  from the government evaporated in April. Now hopes are pinned on China’s Geely, which is in talks to take over 85 per cent stake in Volocopter in return for $95m of funding, which could mean future manufacture would be moved to China. Volocopter and dozens of there companies around the world developing an … Continue reading Electrical vertical take-off taxi dreams crashed as cash runs short

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Shoe-String budget for Moon and Mars expedition

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How does India keep the cost down to reach the Moon and Mars? Last year India became the first country in the world to land near the previously-unexplored lunar south pole. India’s space projects have only an approval of £2.1bn (Rs 227bn). Their next historic mission to the Moon and sending an orbiter to Venus, and build the  first phase of India’s maiden space station and development of a new reusable heavy-lifting rocket to launch satellites. Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Moon, Mars and Solar mission costs only $74m on the Mars orbiter Mangalyaan and $75m on Chandrayaan-3. Nasa’s Maven … Continue reading Shoe-String budget for Moon and Mars expedition

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Apple is sued

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Apple is accused of trapping and ripping off and locking 40m iCloud British customers into its iCloud service and charging them outrageous prices according to consumer group Which? Who has launched a legal action that could result in a £3bn pay out if it is successful, with the average customer getting around £70. However, Apple rejected the suggestion its practices are anti-competitive, saying users are not required to use iCloud, it said many customers relay on third-party cheaper alternatives  and insists it “ works hard to make data transfer as easy as possible. Facebook, Google, gaming giant Steam and the UK’s … Continue reading Apple is sued