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Meanie EU is punishing us for being clever moans Google
Published in Mobiles


Nothing to do with being an evil monopoly

Search engine outfit Google has moaned to Europe’s top court that the big mean European Commission was punishing it for being innovative.

UK cloud services market not working
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 10:04

UK cloud services market not working


Not enough competition, says CMA

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that competition in the UK cloud services market is not working as effectively as it should, potentially costing UK businesses hundreds of millions of pounds annually.

VD Vance says Big Tech has too much power
Published in News
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 11:34

VD Vance says Big Tech has too much power


Things might not be so sweet for Tech oligarchs under Trump

Despite much brownnosing and cash handed over to Donald Trump, it seems that things might not go so well for the Big Tech oligarchs during this third term.

Microsoft was in the middle of the Gaza Conflict.
Published in News


Flogged cloud and AI to the IDF

A leaked document from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files acquired from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary show that the software king of the world has been deeply involved in the Gaza conflict.

Trump rushes to protect US tech monopolies
Published in News
Friday, 24 January 2025 08:18

Trump rushes to protect US tech monopolies


Slams EU “taxes”

US President Donald Trump blasted European Union regulators for targeting Apple, Alphabet's Google and Meta, describing their cases against American companies as "a form of taxation."

CMA has another pop at Google and Apple
Published in News
Friday, 24 January 2025 07:29

CMA has another pop at Google and Apple


Playing monoply with their app stores

Britain’s competition watchdog has Apple and Google in its sights once again, launching fresh investigations into the tech giants’ mobile ecosystems under powerful new rules designed to curb digital market abuses.

Google did evil with the IDF in Gaza
Published in News
Thursday, 23 January 2025 09:45

Google did evil with the IDF in Gaza


AI services rushed to compete with Amazon

Google collaborated with the Israeli military in the immediate aftermath of its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Social notworking sites pledge to crack down on hate speech
Published in News


At least in the EU

While social notworking sites are frantically trying to reassure Trump’s government that they will be allowing a return to the good old days where fake news and bullying were allowed, they are doing the opposite in the EU.

Google claims its AI dogfood sped up internal migrations
Published in AI


Up to 50 per cent

Google claims that its own dog fooding of AI has been really good for its internal code migrations.

Google back to digital fingerprinting
Published in News
Sunday, 12 January 2025 22:06

Google back to digital fingerprinting


Watchdog's outraged bark 

Search engine outfit Google is bringing back "digital fingerprinting" in five weeks which means it is back to spying on users to make big bucks from advertising.