Stories by Peter Sayer

Amazon opens competition for new headquarters location

Amazon.com is inviting North American cities to bid to host its second headquarters

Intel gets second chance to appeal US$1.25B antitrust fine

The European Union's highest court has given Intel another chance to appeal a massive fine imposed in a 2009 antitrust ruling.

This drone could help inspect flooded infrastructure

A drone on show at IFA in Berlin would need no authorization from the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority to play its part in relief efforts in Houston, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey.

How to listen to music safely on a bike

Wearing headphones while cycling can be dangerous, even illegal. Instead, you can use a Bluetooth bicycle helmet or wearable speaker to listen to music or traffic directions safely while riding.

Motorola X4: Four times the Bluetooth audio

Lenovo's new Motorola X4 smartphone is half the price of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S8, but does at least one thing twice as well: stream audio to multiple Bluetooth speakers or headphones.

Neato Robotics adds more smarts to its vacuum cleaners

Neato Robotics has doubled the storage in its latest robot vacuum cleaner, the Botvac D7 Connected, and given owners new ways to interact with it.

UK seeks to limit Brexit effect on personal data flows

With a new round of Brexit negotiations beginning Monday, the U.K. is seeking to ensure that businesses sending personal information to or through the UK are not left stranded when the country leaves the EU.

IBM wants to make blockchain good enough to eat

After addressing information security in its cloud-based, permissioned blockchain, IBM is now turning to food security.

Symantec sells its problem SSL unit to DigiCert for US$1B

Symantec has found a way to make a dispute with Google over the validity of its TLS and SSL website certificates go away -- and get paid almost US$1 billion in the process.

EU court must rule how forgetful Google should be

Just how forgetful must Google be when applying the "right to be forgotten" created by a 2014 European Union court ruling?

Qualcomm opens European front in patent war with Apple

Qualcomm has asked two German courts to suspend sales of iPhones, alleging they infringe on its patents, while four Apple contractors from which Qualcomm had sought patent license fees have filed antitrust complaints against the chip vendor.

Bluetooth devices could soon have mesh networking capabilities

Bluetooth is about to get some significant new mesh networking capabilities -- and the best bit is, you may not need new hardware to benefit from them.