TechEye

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• BT in bid for O2. And EE
• Apple fudges book cartel rulings
• PCs ruin family life
• Video calling has its day
• Government spyware threatens PCs

BT in bid for O2. And EE Posted: 24 Nov 2014 04:06 AM PST Giant telecomms firm BT confirmed it is in preliminary talks to buy O2 UK from Spanish giant Telefonica. That's something of an irony because BT spun off its Cellnet unit in 2002. It then renamed itself as O2 and sold itself to Telefonica for over £17 billion in 2005. more»

Apple fudges book cartel rulings Posted: 24 Nov 2014 03:54 AM PST The company which designer Jonathan Ive described a week or two back as built on integrity has finally agreed to cough up $450 million after it conspired with five publishers to hike the prices of e-books. On Friday, US district judge Denise Cole told Apple it must pay $40 million to as many as 23 million people if it lost a hearing that showed it was liable under antitrust laws. more»

PCs ruin family life Posted: 24 Nov 2014 03:43 AM PST Slow PCs mean people in the UK are wasting hours messing around with machines rather than doing more constructive things like cooking, going on a date, or even having a nap. Those are the results from memory company Crucial, which surveyed 1,148 people in the UK in November this year. more»

Video calling has its day Posted: 24 Nov 2014 03:33 AM PST Computer companies have been touting video calling as the perfect way to hold conference calls and important conferences since the 1990s, but now it seems it's all happening under their noses. A Gartner report said that over a third of people aged 18 or over now use their smartphones to make video calls. more»

Government spyware threatens PCs Posted: 24 Nov 2014 03:24 AM PST Anti-virus company Symantec said it has uncovered a clever piece of spyware that was probably designed by a Western government. The spyware, called Regin, has been around for about six years and is clever enough to steal your passwords, go onto your hard drive and resurrect deleted files, and take screenshots. more»

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