Amazon investigated for exploiting the pandemic
Published in News


Odd pricing alledged

Amazon is being investigated by German authorities for allegedly abusing its market position during the coronavirus pandemic.

US Justice Department preparing to take on Big Tech
Published in News


Anti-trust investigations for everyone

The US Justice Department is moving “full-tilt” on its antitrust investigation of Google and other Big Tech platforms.

Amazon scout bots emerging from smoke filled garages
Published in Transportation


Home engineering

The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon, are being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle in their homes and garages.

Apple slashed its App Store fee for Amazon
Published in News


Mates rates

While the fruity cargo cult Apple is insisting that it needs to take a third of profits from app store developers, it is not above doing cosy deals with the likes of Amazon.

FCC approves Amazon’s Kuiper constellation
Published in News


Blotting out the sun

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon’s plans for its Kuiper constellation, which entails sending 3,236 satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth.

Big Tech spins its way through the halls of power
Published in News


As we predicted, it was a waste of time

The four big tech leaders spun their way through an antitrust panel in which they were so safe they could practically admit antitrust behaviour and get away with it.

Big Day for Big Tech
Published in News
Wednesday, 29 July 2020 10:15

Big Day for Big Tech


It is going to tell Congress what to do

It is a big day for the four biggest names in technology, they are going to show up in front of Congress which is pretty much in their pockets and answer tough questions like “how do you relax?”

Microsoft takes Minecraft off Amazon’s cloud
Published in Cloud


Stop supporting its rival

Microsoft will stop relying on Amazon to help it run the popular Minecraft video game.

Oracle parks its tanks on Amazon’s lawn
Published in Cloud

 
Installs its servers in enterprise customers’ premises

Oracle has announced a package for enterprise customers which it says will give them the full benefits of the company’s public cloud services while retaining all their data on-premise.

Amazon takes the coding out of coding
Published in News
Thursday, 25 June 2020 11:44

Amazon takes the coding out of coding


Honeycode allows mobile and web applications

Amazon has lifted the wrapper on its Honeycode managed service that allows users to build mobile and web applications without any programming.