Dave from AT&T stuck at home

India's outsourcing business and call centre networks for foreign companies are taking a bit of a hammering from the India lock-down.

My back stretcher has been delayed

Amazon will stop shipping non-essential products to consumers in Italy and France, the company said on Saturday, representing an escalation in the e-commerce giant’s response in regions hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

Rush to build virtual offices

With more employees working from home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, demand is surging for laptops and network peripherals as well as components along the supply chain such as chips, as companies rush to build virtual offices.

Good time to infiltrate corporations

Hackers will start taking advantage of people working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, according to insecurity experts.

But there will be a boom in memory chips

Samsung warned the coronavirus pandemic would hurt sales of smartphones and consumer electronics this year, while demand from data centres would fuel a recovery in memory chip markets.

Ignores medical advice and insists staff come to work because they "will be more effective"

A Charter Communications engineer dubbed the company's rules against working from home during the coronavirus pandemic "pointlessly reckless" and "socially irresponsible" before resigning rather than being forced to work in the office.

As it shuts down else where

Fruity cargo cult Apple has decided it is safe enough to open 42 of its branded retail temples to western consumer capitalism in China.

Fixed broken supply chain during coronavirus outbreak

3D printing had an immediate beneficial effect when a Northern Italian hospital needed a replacement valve for a reanimation device and the supply chain was completely borked.

Government and employers are still not allowed to spy on you

While Europe’s privacy rules do not create obstacles to taking action to curb the coronavirus epidemic the legislator's watchdogs have warned that mass tracking of people’s movements and contacts using smartphone location data is right out.

Robot Divine intelligence might have smited Church, Microsoft and IBM

An AI conference in the Vatican included high ranking clergy, executives from Microsoft and IBM and a bloke who had the coronavirus.