Natasha Lomas
Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based out of London. She arrives after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic.com). At silicon she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms and networking, and IT skills issues, and has also freelanced for organisations including the Guardian and the BBC. Natasha studied English at Cambridge University, and also holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Russia To Pay Local Devs To Migrate Apps To Tizen, Sailfish
The Russian Federation is intending to support alternative mobile platforms, with a Minister promising grants for developers to migrate their apps from Android and iOS to the Samsung-led Tizen open source effort, and also Jolla’s Sailfish OS. Read More
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Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
As the number of connected devices — aka the Internet of Things, aka the sensornet — proliferates so too does the number of devices leaning on voice recognition technology as an interface to allow for hands free control. But the potential privacy intrusion of voice-activated services is massive. Read More
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First Ubuntu Phone Landing In Europe Shortly
A year after it revealed another attempt to muscle in on the smartphone market, Canonical’s first Ubuntu-based smartphone is due to go on sale in Europe in the coming weeks, it said today. The device will be sold for €169.90 (~$190) unlocked to any carrier network. Read More
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U.K. Court Says NSA-GCHQ Data-Sharing Was Illegal
A U.K. court has for the first time ruled that intelligence sharing activities between the NSA and the equivalent government intelligence agency in the U.K., GCHQ, were unlawful in the past on the grounds that they breached European human rights law. Read More
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Google Faces Fight In Europe On Search Delisting
Google’s digital policy pantomime on the theme of Europe’s so-called ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ (rtbf) ruling has delivered its final conclusions, with the publication of a report by the Google-appointed and Google-styled “Advisory Council”, following a series of Google-arranged public debates last year. Read More
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Russia’s Yandex Now Has A Parking App
Russia’s search and Internet services giant Yandex has launched a parking app for iOS and Android, called Yandex.Parking — initially in Moscow where traffic congestion (in)famously makes parking a particular headache. Read More
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Skills Marketplace Skillpages Acquired By Buyer-Focused Bark.com
Skillpages, an online marketplace for local skills founded back in 2010, has been acquired by a newer entrant to the space, Bark.com (born in 2012), which focuses on attacking the same problem from the other way round: i.e. pushing skill-seekers’ requests to providers, rather than providing a skills listing. Read More
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Sony Hack Has Cost Its Business $15M So Far
Last year’s large-scale cyber attack has had a specific financial cost to Sony’s business, detailed today as a line-item on its preliminary results for its third quarter, ending December. Read More
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HTC America Just Did This… Take A Bow Peter Chou
Being the plucky mobile underdog in the fiery caldera of the smartphone market means HTC absolutely has to do things differently to grab some attention. So that means bringing “the ruckus” to its marketing messages, as it puts it. Read More
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Tired of Tindering? Couplelizer Says Date More, Swipe Less
Couplelize is a debutante dating service that’s taking a slightly different approach vs the existing playing field in a bid to stand out. Specifically it’s aiming to accelerate the ‘going on a date’ component of dating, rather than building a business out of encouraging singles to spend their time vicariously checking people out and checking out who visited/liked… Read More
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Coursmos Gets $600K To Push Its Mobile-Friendly Micro-Courses At Corporates
Coursmos, an online learning startup out of Russia that began as a mobile app back in 2013 offering bite-sized, user-created micro-courses for the attention-deficit generation, has taken in a new tranche of seed funding to scale up and attack the b2b learning space. Read More
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Microsoft To Offer Windows 10 Free To Raspberry Pi Devs
Microsoft has announced it will be offering the latest version of its desktop OS, Windows 10, free to users of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer later this year — as it seeks to keep pace with, and remain relevant to, developments powering the Internet of Things (IoT). Read More
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Raspberry Pi 2 Arrives: 6x Faster, An “Entry-Level PC” For $35
Grab your screwdrivers, makers! There’s a new, more powerful Raspberry Pi in town… The just announced Pi 2, which goes on sale today, adds a quad-core chip and double the memory to support more intensive processing tasks. Read More
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This Search Engine Wants More Human Input
Does the ever-increasing volume of digital information demand a more powerful search interface? One that allows for more complex queries to be formulated, and supports instances where the information being sought out is not necessarily something the user is aware of when they begin tapping on the keyboard? Read More
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U.K. Telco BT Sets Out ‘500Mbps’ Broadband Plan By 2025
As the U.K.’s political parties sweat their policy wonks to come up with voter-friendly manifestos ahead of the General Election in May, incumbent telco BT has dropped a reminder that broadband upgrades will never be big enough nor fast enough for digital’s cutting edge unless politicians find the willpower and public money to chuck at future-proofing the problem. Read More
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AnalyticsMD Applies AI To Optimize The ER
AnalyticsMD, which is launching out of Y Combinator’s latest batch, is a startup tackling a difficult but very worthwhile problem: how to boost the operational efficiency of hospitals and improve patient care by helping staff make better choices about how resources are allocated. Its founders liken their product to an “air traffic controller for the hospital and healthcare… Read More
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Amazon’s Fire Phone Gets Another Drastic Price Cut: £99/$150 Off Contract In U.K.
Amazon continues to try to shift unsold inventory of its unpopular smartphone, the Fire Phone, by slashing the price-tag. It’s currently discounting a U.K. version of the device that’s on contract with the O2 carrier to £99, down from £399. Read More
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Hey, User! Do You Know What Your Apps Are Up To?
It’s International Data Privacy Day, not that most people would likely know that — or, some would argue, care. And therein lies the rub. Privacy, we are constantly told by those with their hands on the levers of power, is not something users are bothered about. Read More
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Europe Gets A Cyber Security Incubator
London’s crowded startup accelerator scene is getting a new addition. Not fintech-related, this time — rather the focus is cyber security. The Cyber London (CyLon for short) 12-week program, has been co-founded by Alex van Someren of VC firm Amadeus Capital Partners, along with Jonathan Luff and Grace Cassy, co-founders of strategic technology consultancy Epsilon Advisory Partners. Read More
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UK Regulator Sets Out Priorities For Growing The Internet Of Things
The U.K.’s telecoms regulator Ofcom has identified four areas it plans to prioritize in order to support the development of the Internet of Things, after taking input from various industry “stakeholders” last year. Read More
