Category: Tech

26.1 updates to all Apple’s software now available

Trump has hnad the East Wing of the White House knocked down to make room for a huge Ballroom. It is being financed by:A combination of major U.S. corporations, high-profile billionaires, and tech innovators are providing financial support for the project: Media and other companies: Comcast (NBCUniversal’s parent), Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton also appear…

I have used many browsers over time and have found that none really stand out for me. However recently I discovered Perplexity’s Comet browser and it is superb. I suggest you give it a tryout and if you like it as much as I do it will become your default browser. It uses Perplexity’s AI…

ASs you will see from my recent reading on my Links page, I have been reading a great deal about the Chinese Tech giants recently and I have to say that I have been greatly inspired by Huawei, Xiaomi and Tencent. They are releasing amazing products which are noy that easy to come by unless…

US tech giants made a bargain last year: tens of millions of dollars to Trump’s presidential campaign in exchange for access to the president and policies that promoted their industry’s growth. If you count in Elon Musk, the number rises to hundreds of millions. However, Trump’s imposition of a new fee on a visa heavily…

Company Ownership Type Key Owners Publicly Listed? Key Characteristic Huawei Employee-Owned Employee ESOP (via Trade Union), Ren Zhengfei (<1%) No Unique, private ESOP model. Subject to much scrutiny. Xiaomi Public Shareholders Lei Jun (with super-voting rights), Institutional Investors Yes (HKEX) Conventional public company structure with founder control. OPPO Private Founders, Management, Duan Yongping (BBK) No Private,…

I have become fascinated by two Chinese companies – Huawei and Xiaomi – who are producing wonderful tech at great prices. Huawei has a triple fold phone which is out of reach for me financially but they have other fine phones. Since the U.S. blocked Huawei and Google’s Android was banned for them, they wrote…

Apple is not allowing the U.K.’s Daily Mail app in its News+ service. This is good news as the Daily Mail is the most poison news source in the U.K.

Which AI chatbot do you use? I started with ChatGPT and I have used it most of the time until I read Karen Hao’s book Empire of AI (see my Links page) and now I’m not sure if Sam Altman can be trusted so I looked at other LLMs. Specifically, they went to third world…

Which browser(s) do you use? Up until recently, I used Safari mostly but then I found it would not always work properly so I looked around. I tried Arc for a while which is different but I did not stick with it. Then I found Brave which blocks ads and did so on YouTube viewing.…

AirPods Pro 3 – includes Live translation £219 Apple Watch Series 11 £369 Apple Watch SE 3 £219 Apple Watch Ultra 3 £749 iPhone 17 £799 iPhone Air £999 – very thin iPhone Pro £1099 -unibody iPhone Pro Max £1199 – unibody

https://www.businessinsider.com/whos-who-tech-leaders-attended-dinner-white-house-altman-pichai-2025-9?op=1&cmdf=ai+meeting+TRump

I have been using the Apple ecosystem for a few years since abandoning Microsoft when Vista came out. I have a Macbook Air and an iPhone 13 at present and until recently had an iPad Pro M4 13 inch and an Apple Watch 10 both of which I sold to finance the building of an…

The U.S. Government tried to outlaw Huawei , the Chinese tech company, and its products from America and some European countries followed suit. Specifically, when building 5G where Huawei had deveopled the leading technology was banned because Huawei was accused of being associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CPP). Biden banned it and Trump continues…