Month: November 2024

Missbrauch der Marktmacht: So soll Amazon hohe Preise bei anderen Händlern verursachen

Interne Unterlagen und Schilderungen von Insidern zeigen, wie Amazon dem Handel schadet. Für Kunden führe das zu unnötig hohen Preisen auch bei anderen Händlern, heißt es. (Amazon, Onlineshop)

Interne Unterlagen und Schilderungen von Insidern zeigen, wie Amazon dem Handel schadet. Für Kunden führe das zu unnötig hohen Preisen auch bei anderen Händlern, heißt es. (Amazon, Onlineshop)

Microsoft president asks Trump to “push harder” against Russian hacks

Brad Smith wants US to take a tougher approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks.

Microsoft’s president has called on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyber attacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks targeting US government officials and election campaigns.

Brad Smith, who is also the Big Tech company’s vice chair and top legal officer, told the Financial Times that cyber security “deserves to be a more prominent issue of international relations” and appealed to the US president-elect to send a “strong message.”

“I hope that the Trump administration will push harder against nation-state cyber attacks, especially from Russia and China and Iran,” Smith said. “We should not tolerate the level of attacks that we are seeing today.”

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Google seems to have called it quits on making its own Android tablets—again

Reports have the Pixel Tablet 2—or maybe 3?—being canceled over sales concerns.

Depending on which Android-focused site you believe, either a third Pixel Tablet was apparently in the works at Google and canceled, as Android Headlines reported, or the second one, as Android Authority has it. Either way, there was reportedly a team at Google working on the next flagship Pixel-branded tablet, and now, seemingly due to profitability concerns, that work is over. At least until, maybe, a third Pixel Tablet in the future.

The Pixel Tablet, released last fall, was generally regarded as Google's second re-entry into the tablet market that the iPad all but owns. As such, it sought to distinguish itself from Apple's slab by launching with a home-friendly dock and speaker cradle, taking on the appearance of a big smart home display when docked to it.

While there are no public sales figures, the device has not kick-started a resurgence of interest in Android tablets beyond the steady sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire devices based on a Google-less fork of Android. Google will likely continue to support and promote Android tablets for other manufacturers and now has its own Pixel Fold devices occupying that middle space between phone and tablet forms.

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