
Blue light from smartphones does not make you blind
Another advert proved wrong
The Interwebs have been getting adverts from companies who claim that the blue light from smartphones make you blind and are offering drugs to fix "the problem".

Smartphones AP shipments slide
0.8 percent
Global smartphone AP shipments may show a 0.8 per cent on-year decline to reach 1.59 billion units in 2018.

Why the “post-PC” era never happened
Ever get the impression you have been lied to?
In 2007 Steve Jobs announced that humanity had entered the “post PC era” and that the world would be completely mobile.

UK people losing the power of speech
Much better to text
Britons are more attached to their mobile phones than ever before, but are not particularly interested in using them to talk.

HTC axes 1,500 people
Restructures business
Troubled Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has laid off 1,500 members of its staff as it continues to restructure its business.

Government pushes to ban smartphones in schools
Phoney war breaks out
A senior minister in Theresa May's fragile UK government said schools should ban the use of mobile phones.

ARM announces Cortex A76 for 7nm
Laptop class performance in 2019
Before we even start, we want to make clear that Cortex A76 - the successor of the flagship A75 today - is targeting both phones and laptops with a big focus and four times improvement in ML and AI performance.

Dr Peper claims smartphones more addictive than heroin
Harder to inject
Smartphones are more addictive than heroin and the world is falling to bits because kids are addicts, according to a new study.

US Justice Department has another go at cracking smartphones
Still wants to force tech companies to install backdoors to encryption
The US Department of Justice is refusing to give up on its plans to force tech companies to build tools into smartphones and other devices that would allow access to encrypted data in criminal investigations.

Gartner confirms smartphone sale's slide
Three year cycle is with us for ever
Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and reached the same conclusion as everyone else that the smartphone boom is over and people will only start replacing them once every three years instead of yearly.