Technology

Bloomberg Servers make the modern internet possible. Millions of these workhorse computers hum away in remote data centers of Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp running websites, sending information to smartphone apps and crunching data for cloud-based software programs. Privacy Labs Inc, a startup based near Microsoft headquarters ...

Bloomberg Lam Research Corp. will be the first semiconductor equipment maker to report earnings and Wall Street is cautious. Lower spending from makers of memory chips due to elevated inventories has reduced estimates for equipment sales next year and a recovery isn’t likely until the second half of 2019, according ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co. overtook Apple Inc. in August to become the second-biggest seller of smartphones globally, with just Samsung Electronics Co. left to beat. And it revealed the Mate 20 Pro—a flagship device to rival the iPhone Xs Max and Galaxy Note 9.All three devices share similarly large screens, ...

Bloomberg The airline and automotive industries are abuzz with talk of driver-less travel and electric propulsion, so much so that they might seem to be the pacesetters in transport technology. Yet train manufacturers around the world are introducing innovations that may be years away for cars and planes. Rail chiefs ...

Bloomberg Google showed off a pair of new Pixel phones, a tablet computer, and a speaker with a screen in a deluge of new products aimed at competing with the latest gadgets from other big tech rivals. The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones offer significant upgrades to prior ...

Bloomberg Robot cars make for annoying drivers. Relative to human motorists, the driverless vehicles now undergoing testing on public roads are overly cautious, maddeningly slow, and prone to abrupt halts or bizarre paralysis caused by bikers, joggers, crosswalks or anything else that doesn’t fit within the neat confines of binary ...

Bloomberg In the race to start the world’s first driving business without human drivers, everyone is chasing Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo. The Google sibling has cleared the way to beat its nearest rivals, General Motors Co. and a couple of other players, by at least a year to introduce driverless cars ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Dell unveiled new updates to its award winning XPS family and Inspiron 2-in-1 portfolio, GITEX Shopper Autumn 2018 — the largest consumer technology event in the Middle East — continuing its commitment to thoughtful design and innovation. In line with this, Dell also showcased its newly ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Linksys, celebrating thirty years of networking and WiFi innovation for the home and business, announced Middle East regional launch of Linksys Cloud Manager, a cloud-hosted WiFi Management Platform purpose-built for small business environments that reduces costs and increases operational efficiencies, in the United Arab Emirates. The ...

Bloomberg Aston Martin has confirmed plans to build a hybrid supercar code-named “003.” It’s the third high-performance, mid-engine car the private equity- and Kuwaiti-owned company will have built in recent years, following the $2.6 million Aston Martin Valkyrie and Valkyrie AMR Pro (called “001” and “002,” respectively) that debuted in ...