Which? urges telecoms firms to scrap mid-contract broadband price hikes
Which? is calling on telecoms firms to halt any plans to press ahead with ‘unconscionable’ broadband and mobile price hikes in April, even after the industry regulator found the practice harms consumers and set out proposals to ban it. Ofcom recently proposed a ban on the practice of inflation-linked mid-contract price rises, saying that they…
Data privacy: shopping and food delivery apps track most data
Shopping and food delivery apps, notably Amazon Shopping and Wish, are most data-hungry. Amazon Shopping collects most data points in its category, Wish leads in linking and tracking user data. On average, shopping and delivery apps collect 21 out of 32 possible data points. Facebook and Instagram top the list of privacy-invasive apps, collecting…
The Impact of Facilitating Cutting-Edge Technology in Corporate Communications
As digital transformation has become the norm in the business world, companies are rapidly adopting advanced technologies to enhance and expedite internal communication. Employee communication software and platforms evidently stand out in this transformation, as they play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the way businesses interact and operate within an increasingly digital corporate environment. The…
Apple announces Vision Pro Headset launch date, Asus unveils smart glasses
Apple has announced its long-awaited Vision Pro headset will go on sale on 2 February in the United States. US customers have been given the option to pre-order the $3,499 (£2,749) mixed-reality device from mid-January, though no date has been set for a UK launch. It is the first major new product to be released…
CES2024: VW announces in car ChatGPT
Cerence Chat Pro will be available in the new Golf At CES 2024, the world's leading electronics trade fair held in Las Vegas, Volkswagen will unveil its first vehicles with integrated ChatGPT. Soon customers will have seamless access to the constantly growing artificial intelligence database in all Volkswagen models equipped with…
Samsung profit falls by more than third, LG unveils transparent telly
Technology giant Samsung Electronics says it is likely to see its profits for the last three months of 2023 fall by more than a third. The decline is much worse than analysts expected and comes as global demand for consumer electronics remains weak. South Korea-based Samsung is the world's largest maker of memory chips, smartphones…
Record growth in ultra-rapid EV chargers, Zapmap report shows
Zapmap, the UK’s leading charge point mapping service, has published new year-end figures for EV charge point installations in 2023. Record growth in the number of ultra-rapid chargers and high-power charging hubs opening across the country to support EV drivers on longer journeys is the defining characteristic of the year. What's more, the new 2023…
Apple pays out over ‘slowing down iPhones’ admission, Rolls-Royce EV helps boost sales
The payouts to US customers will be restricted to owners of the iPhone 6 Apple has begun making payments in a long-running class action lawsuit over claims it deliberately slowed down certain iPhones in the US. Complainants will receive a cut of a $500m (£394m) settlement which works out to around $92…
2023 was the worst year ever for online cyber attacks, report claims
UK firms experienced 720,252 online attacks each last year - the equivalent of one every 44 seconds. That's according to Beaming, an internet service provider for businesses. Beaming has analysed cyberattacks targeting thousands of UK-based businesses since the beginning of 2016 to understand their nature and origin better. Beaming’s latest analysis, published today, reveals that: UK…
Young people turn to AI therapist bots, 1 in 5 new cars are electric
Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin. These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people. It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot…
