Month: February 2020
HP bids to block Xerox takeover with huge shareholder windfall
HP has announced an aggressive share buyback plan, in a bid to ward off a hostile takeover approach from rival printing company Xerox worth $35 billion. The company will repurchase up to $16 billion worth of shares over three years, diverting all free cash flow to share buybacks unless it…
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The best Apple rumor right now is Gmail
Apple rumors have heated up in the past week, following the usual spring tradition. Apple doesn’t always have a keynote in the first quarter of the year, but when it does it’s a good time for it to update or announce products that aren’t necessarily central to its business. But…
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How to Use Airtable, Trello, and Other Apps to Fix Your Life
WIRED staffers on using Airtable for wedding planning, hacking Google Sheets to make playlists, and furthering their career goals on a dating app. Source
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Firefox turns controversial new encryption on by default in the US
Starting today, Mozilla will turn on by default DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Firefox users in the US, the company has announced. DoH is a new standard that encrypts a part of your internet traffic that’s typically sent over an unencrypted plain text connection, and which could allow others to…
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Intel targets 5G base stations with new Atom chip
Intel has strengthened its bid to be a dominant player in the 5G infrastructure market with the launch of its first base station chip alongside a number of other products that aim to extend its reach from core to edge. Although Intel abandoned its bid to design 5G modems for…
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Vodafone has extended its Unlimited plans to include mobile broadband
Vodafone is spreading the data love across its mobile broadband range. You can now get an unlimited data plan for the likes of tablets, data SIMs, mobile Wi-Fi and, of course, dongles. Mobile broadband is an area where lots of data is used, especially in the case of dongles. From…
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