By Edward Taylor and Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German carmakers BMW , Audi and Mercedes , will pay around 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to buy Nokia’s maps business, beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars. Germany’s three premium carmakers joined forces and will hold equal stakes in the business, known as HERE, clubbing together to keep the assets from
By Matthew Stock For people living in a house with more than one storey, stairlifts or home elevators are often a necessity of life as they get older and find it harder to get up and down the stairs. Normal stairlifts have the disadvantage of being a permanent and visible addition to a staircase, while traditional home elevators are bulky and often impractical for most homes. A company in England
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union competition authorities will decide by Sept. 4 whether to allow Dutch chipmaker NXP to acquire U.S. rival Freescale in a $11.8 billion deal. NXP sought EU approval last week, according to a filing on the European Commission site on Monday. The EU antitrust regulator can clear the deal unconditionally or demand concessions to allay competition concerns. It can also extend its review to a full-scale
China will restrict the export of drones and supercomputers from Aug. 15 to help protect national security out of fears such equipment could fall into the hands of militant groups, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday. While its technology lags behind the United States and Israel, the biggest vendors of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), China is attracting a growing list of foreign buyers including Nigeria, Pakistan and Egypt. Beijing
Hackers blocked part of the German federal prosecutor’s office, a spokeswoman said on Monday, but she could not give any details about the scope of the attack or the possible perpetrators. The attacks were claimed by a group demanding Berlin end support for the Ukrainian government, shortly before their leaders were to meet.
It’s only a month or so until the time of year when Apple traditionally launches new iPhones, and the rumours and leaks are starting to gather pace. For your perusal this weekend we have some shots of the iPhone 6S display rolling off the production line, courtesy of GeekBar. It’s not the most dramatic set of shots we’ve ever seen but it confirms that the iPhone 6S is going to
Introduction and market share This article was provided to TechRadar by Linux Format magazine. You can get the printed version here. So the latest iteration of Windows has now been unleashed, and as has become tradition at Linux Format, we pit the Redmond-ian OS mano-a-mano with Linux to determine the ultimate operating system. Of course, in reality this is comparing apples and oranges: One is a free codebase which can
It’s only a month or so until the time of year when Apple traditionally launches new iPhones, and the rumours and leaks are starting to gather pace. For your perusal this weekend we have some shots of the iPhone 6S display rolling off the production line, courtesy of GeekBar. It’s not the most dramatic set of shots we’ve ever seen but it confirms that the iPhone 6S is going to
It’s only a month or so until the time of year when Apple traditionally launches new iPhones, and the rumours and leaks are starting to gather pace. For your perusal this weekend we have some shots of the iPhone 6S display rolling off the production line, courtesy of GeekBar. It’s not the most dramatic set of shots we’ve ever seen but it confirms that the iPhone 6S is going to
Introduction and market share This article was provided to TechRadar by Linux Format magazine. You can get the printed version here. So the latest iteration of Windows has now been unleashed, and as has become tradition at Linux Format, we pit the Redmond-ian OS mano-a-mano with Linux to determine the ultimate operating system. Of course, in reality this is comparing apples and oranges: One is a free codebase which can
