Nicole Kobie
Latest articles by Nicole Kobie
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GCHQ warns against Windows 7 for email, banking
By Nicole Kobie published
News Windows 7 shouldn't be used for sensitive tasks once it hits end of life, says the NCSC
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Apple reports record services revenue
By Nicole Kobie published
News Apple says App Store has earned developers $155 billion since 2008, with a quarter of that coming in 2019 alone
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Twitter to trial reply blocking tools
By Nicole Kobie published
News The company's own product manager is concerned the move could encourage the spread of disinformation
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Facebook exec calls Cambridge Analytica scandal a "non event"
By Nicole Kobie published
News Andrew Bosworth has popped up with another controversial internal memo, this time looking back at media criticism in 2019
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Google adds partners to real-time translation tools
By Nicole Kobie published
News Systems integrators will help hotels, airports and more use Google Assistant for real-time translation
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Ofcom tweaks broadband rules to "supercharge" fibre
By Nicole Kobie published
News Regulator wants to speed up fibre rollout while encouraging broadband competition
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Samsung's "artificial humans" are avatars for chatbots
By Nicole Kobie published
News Samsung's Star Labs show off Neon avatars for virtual and voice interfaces
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Intel shows off Tiger Lake, bending laptops at CES
By Nicole Kobie published
News Intel reveals a few more details about its design road map, including what next-gen laptops may look like
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HP awarded $439m in long-running price-fixing case
By Nicole Kobie published
News Quanta told to pay HP for optical drive price fixing
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London Stock Exchange outage investigated as possible cyber attack
By Nicole Kobie published
News LSE maintains August downtime was the result of a software glitch
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HP Elite Dragonfly boasts built-in Tile tracker and 5G support
By Nicole Kobie published
News CES 2020 reveals two-in-one business laptop with a tracking device so you can't lose it
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Virtual reality is dead. Long live VR
By Nicole Kobie published
In-depth Samsung, Google and the BBC have all dropped smartphone-based VR headset projects. Can the technology survive?
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US pushes for homegrown 5G to solve Huawei woes
By Nicole Kobie published
News Report suggests Pentagon wants US companies to create an open-source version of 5G
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Twitter issues emergency security patch for Android
By Nicole Kobie published
News Android users told to update app after discovery of serious vulnerability
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EE joins TfL trial of 4G on the Underground
By Nicole Kobie published
News EE joins O2 in trial to offer mobile services on part of the Jubilee Line in London from March 2020
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Google is getting worse as it does more
By Nicole Kobie published
Opinion Search is Google’s heart, but the algorithms that run it are clearly struggling to keep up with the web
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EU-US data transfer tools used by Facebook ruled legal
By Nicole Kobie published
News Seven-year legal battle set to end after EU adviser decides standard contractual clauses are adequate
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Avast and AVG extensions pulled from Chrome
By Nicole Kobie published
News Avast and AVG once again criticised for excessive data collection in security and shopping browser extensions
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Amazon, Apple and Google join forces on voice for smart homes
By Nicole Kobie published
News Voice assistants from rivals will work across smart home devices thanks to working group from Zigbee Alliance
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Mac Pro a "masterclass in repairability"
By Nicole Kobie published
News Apple's latest desktop computer has won praise from iFixit for how easy it is to repair
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Facebook apps dominated this decade's mobile market
By Nicole Kobie published
News App Annie stats reveal Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were the most downloaded apps of the past decade
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Google Cloud gains fresh security partners and tools
By Nicole Kobie published
News McAfee among new additions to partnerships that help secure Google Cloud
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Intel spends $2bn on Habana Labs in AI data centre push
By Nicole Kobie published
News Chip maker continues its focus on AI acquisitions with purchase of Israeli Habana Labs