Siri spirals into chaos
Voice assistant flounders while rivals sprint into the future
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s 13-year-old digital dunce Siri is proving more useless than ever, infuriating users while other tech firms surge ahead with bleeding-edge AI chatbots.
AI, big data and cloud dominate hiring trends
GlobalData data report
According to the latest beancounters at GlobalData, the global job market experienced a 1.4 per cent year-over-year (YoY) growth in 2024, with AI, big data, and cloud computing emerging as key drivers of hiring trends.
Microsoft antitrust case killed Windows phone
Gates claims he was distracted
Software King of the World Sir William Gates III has suggested that Windows could have been the world’s dominant mobile operating system had it not been for the antitrust case the US Justice Department brought against Microsoft.
Robots to steal 20 million factory jobs by 2030
Poor humans will be exterminated
Robots are expected to take over some 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030, extending a trend of worsening social inequality while increasing total economic production, a new study shows.
Qualcomm to cut 1500 jobs
Massive reconstruction
Qualcomm promised its shareholders it would cut its operating cost by a billion dollars and the only way to really do that is to let some people go. Projects that didn’t bring the company the expected results might vanish and unfortunately some people will get the dreaded pink slip.
Cook softer than Jobs on porn
No problem looking at porn on an iPhone
Apple CEO Tim Cook appears to have changed the company's mind about using an iPhone to look at pornography.
Apple's success was because Jobs had problems
He hated being outsmugged by Microsoft so he stole its tablet
The messiah of the fruity cargo-cult, Steve Jobs, apparently was only interested in hacking off a single Microsoft executive when he stole the idea for the tablet and the smartphone.
Never mind the Mexicans - Trump should fear the Robots
Economics experts warn
While the US government is making hay blaming foreigners for coming to the US and stealing jobs, it should be more worried about robots.
US tech jobs axed last year
96,017 jobs cut in 2016
Layoffs at computer, electronics, and telecommunications companies rose by 21 percent last year.
Notebooks set to return as tablets die
So much for game changing
Notebooks, which had been written off by the Tame Apple Press after Steve Jobs showed off his tablets, are now back.